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I kind of disagree with this. When I was growing up, Miami, Shula, and Marino were public enemy #1. That hate pales in comparison to the loathing I've developed for NE*, Brady, and Belichick. Honestly I don't think Miami cracks my top three anymore - NE*, Dallas, and Seattle are there for me now.

This is a ridiculous contract. He has never won a playoff game and has a career losing record as a starter. I wouldn't even consider him one of the elite quarterbacks in the league, let alone the guy that should be the highest paid.

Same group of people that think Peterman is the next Joe Montana...

I read TSW before I watched the first preseason game. Based on the comments here, I thought he had a stellar game. When I actually watched it, I was sorely disappointed. I'm not sure I understand the love for this guy. He looked like Jeff Tuel.

I don't understand the people who say that we were headed for a 7-9 or 8-8 season but now are looking at 4-12. Watkins is not worth 4 wins. Shady McCoy? Sure. But not Sammy. Taylor never made him a consistent target and Sammy was off the field way too often. I like the trade. They get a high second rounder for someone who was going to leave next year unless we used the franchise tag (in which case he becomes a malcontent).

I did some investigation into this last year. The big question to ask yourself is what exactly you want/need to power during an outage. For us, most of our major appliances (water heater, stovetop, fireplace) are natural gas, and don't require electricity to run. We'd lose the furnace, but our natural gas fireplace is more than capable of heating our house up. We basically determined that in an outage situation, we wanted the refrigerator and microwave in addition to a few other appliances like our TV, cable modem, lamps, etc. The key thing here is that you don't need to power all of these at one. This made the portable units a lot more appealing given the cost difference. The refrigerator, while a large consumer of electricity, doesn't have to run at the same time as the microwave. So you just plug in what you need at the moment, unplug what you don't, and manage it from there. If you want to get really fancy, you can hook it up with a transfer switch to your house's panel, and flick individual breakers on and off to manage usage. We ended up buying a Honda EU2000i and are very happy with the unit. The obvious advantage of the whole-home units is that you get instant-on backup power and unless there's a gas leak in the neighborhood which requires gas shutoff (not always a given here in earthquake country), you're golden. For us, the cost just didn't seem like it was worth it. The portable units, while less convenient, have the advantage of being able to travel with you for camping, in addition to being significantly cheaper and being able to operate after an earthquake. They can also be re-worked to run off of propane or natural gas, although the later would likely require you to seek out a pro.

I was so pissed after that Steelers game. I didn't think anything could top that... ... I never knew I could be so wrong.

I'd pick Bledsoe over Fitz easily. Probably over Tryod as well.

"Garbage" Fitzpatrick playing, but I'm cooking turkey necks? http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/19750735/vince-young-questions-why-ryan-fitzpatrick-job

One of those TSW epic threads... http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/23265-donahoe-is-the-son-of-satan/

Son of Satan! And he likes to drink babies' blood.

100% fine bringing him in on the veteran minimum. I don't think he will make the team, but if it means he can transition to a coaching role and mend fences with the team, I am fine with it. I'd be quite surprised if he has something left in the tank... but he's proven people wrong before. The worst case scenario is that he brings a little veteran leadership to the locker room.

Sunday, Sept 10 - Bills vs. Jets - WIN Sunday, Sept 17 - Bills @ Panthers - LOSS Sunday, Sept. 24 - Bills vs. Broncos - LOSS Sunday, Oct 1 - Bills @ Falcons - LOSS Sunday, Oct 8 - Bills @ Bengals - LOSS Sunday, Oct 22 - Bills vs. Buccaneers - WIN Sunday, Oct 29 - Bills vs. Raiders - LOSS Thursday, Nov 2 - Bills @ Jets - WIN Sunday, Nov 12 - Bills vs. Saints - WIN Sunday, Nov 19 - Bills @ Chargers - WIN Sunday, Nov 26 - Bills @ Chefs - LOSS Sunday, Dec 3 - Bills vs. Patriots* - LOSS Sunday, Dec 10 - Bills vs. Colts - LOSS Sunday, Dec 17 - Bills vs Fish - WIN Sunday, Dec 24 - Bills @ Patriots* - LOSS Sunday, Dec 31 - Bills @ Fish - LOSS 6-10... Sounds about right.

This is exactly why many of us have been calling for Russ' head. Regardless of what we are told about his lack of involvement with respect to hockey/football decisions, we don't believe it, and it seems that he does indeed have Terry and Kim's ear with respect to stuff like this.

Side note: I was wine tasting in Sonoma yesterday at a place called Imagery. One of the guys behind the counter sees my Bills hat and asks if I know who Doug Whaley is. I say "yes, he's our incompetent general manager". Turns out the guy knows him and is good friends with him. Showed me some texts about the draft with him and that he was feeling good about it. Of course I felt bad at the time that I called him incompetent. Now? Not really sure.

I don't understand why this didn't happen at the end of the season. Doing this now just gives me this feeling that the Pegulas don't know what they are doing. It is kind of bush league to fire your GM immediately after the draft unless it's for insubordination or something similar. If you trusted him enough to help select your head coach and put together a draft board, two of the most important parts of the job, what could have possibly changed between the end of the season and now?

I don't know if it is something about being 14 or what, but I too remember this game vividly. I was so pissed off and it was the domino that began my deep hatred for the Patriots and everything that organization stood for. As a naive kid I called NFL headquarters the day after and just bitched the man out who answered. I will give them credit in that at least in those days they listened although they denied the officials did anything wrong. IR was instituted the following year, I believe.

ESPN ruined ESPN. When SportsCenter was in its heyday during the '90s, it became more about the personalities (Kilborn, Olbermann, Patrick) than it did about the actual sports content. This then caused ESPN to shift a majority of their programming to focus on talking heads and their opinions. Add to that a very poor decision on their part to outbid themselves on a lot of these contracts. Take the NBA contract, for instance. Every subscriber to ESPN and TNT is paying $30 per year just to watch the NBA. The NFL deal is just as ridiculous - $1.9 BILLION per year for mediocre Monday night games with no playoff rights beyond a wild card game. Their stupid decisions are causing their business to fall apart. I dropped ESPN by moving to DirecTV's select package and couldn't be happier. If the Bills end up playing on Monday night this year, I will likely buy the next higher package for a month, and then proceed to drop it after that.

If flying to/from the west coast, Alaska is a great option.

I don't have a hard-and-fast rule. If I feel like drinking a beer or a glass of wine, I'll do it. I will rarely drink more than 2 beers in a sitting, usually just one. My liquor of choice tends to be rum... again I won't usually drink more than two. I'd say I would average about 2-3 days per week where I have a drink. Beer festivals are where things get interesting. We go to about 3 or 4 of those per year but with the oddly sized sample glass and wide variety of ABVs, it's hard to know how much alcohol you consume at them. My wife and I were with friends down in New Orleans this year for Mardi Gras. I got enough drinking out of that trip to last me quite some time... haven't had a drink since. When I drink too much, I will wake up in a sweat with my heart racing... it's an unpleasant enough feeling for me that I don't like to do it unless it's for a specific occasion.

At this point I don't see how he can do this without some sort of drug. No other NFL quarterback in history is even close to his level of performance at his age. If it's too good to be true, chances are it is.

At this point, why doesn't the team just buy a house and rent it out to the coach? They're never here more than 2 or 3 years...

It's been said before, but I think the game would be safer if they removed helmets from the game, except for maybe the quarterback. Players wouldn't launch themselves like that if they didn't have helmets.

100% agree with this. I honestly have no clue how competent the football operations side of this team is, but I can say from the last two weeks that the communications and media relations side is a hot mess. The word choice is just terrible and yes, it comes off as amateurish and gives the impression that they're annoyed with having to do the interview. "That's our business" type responses instead of, "We handle personnel issues internally, by policy" make me wonder who exactly is prepping him for these things. They are exactly the same response, but the former comes off as defensive while the later comes off as professional and polished. If Berchtold is the one who is inadequately prepping him like this... then yeah, he should be held to account.

I don't understand why he granted this interview. He comes across as angry and annoyed. In his answers it is clear he doesn't have patience for Tim Graham... he seems to like Wawrow so why not sit down with him?