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Actually Ruud WAS a Number 1. I still lean toward Flowers even if he did get on the field. At least he's got to be the biggest reach ever -- Maybin may turn out to be the biggest bust but he was projected as a first-rounder. But then there's Phil Dokes . . .

Hey, fun's fun but you're talking Reuben Gant/Erik Flowers territory now. Not that you may not be right.

+++++++++++ yes yes YES.

Per Mark Gaughan: Against Jacksonville, the Bills had 20 second-down snaps, and 12 went for zero yards or worse. Just an amazing statistic. I don't think I've ever read something like this.

You can say that again.

"He'll have viable information to give them," said Lee Evans. "That's just how it is sometimes. It happens across the league. When we went to Green Bay, (Brian) Brohm knew some things." So that's how we were able to handle the Packers so easily -- oh wait...

So we're still going to root for the guy?

"Getting Brohm some snaps figures to happen should there be another lopsided game in the future." -- Chris Brown Geez, what are the chances?

is that where I work people talk about the Giants on Monday mornings. I will plant myself in front of the TV Sunday afternoon for one of the only two games I'll get to see this year without playing keepaway from the NFL Internet cops. At some point as the defense is getting chewed up I'll ask myself why I'm wasting a nice day (that's the local weather forecast) watching this travesty. And Sunday night I'll root for the Bears.

Yeah, I think we should all spend the rest of the day beating up the Front Office and each other about the handling of Levi Brown because the feelings of the third string or practice squad QB is the biggest single issue facing this team now and hereafter for all time to come. The call wasn't awkward at all. "Levi, we told you we only need three QB's. There's an opening at #3. Do you want it or not?"

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Shanahan's already won it. Don't you guys read Peter King or watch ESPN?

. . . so I guess the answer to my original question was "no, he hasn't signed with anyone else"?

I would've bet in April after the draft that he was our PS QB, but he seems to have vanished. Maybe we don't need a 4th QB, but has anyone seen Brown show up on anybody else's PS? Thanks in advance.

Hardy will be in someone's training camp next year because he's tall and has some speed. But he won't make the team.

OK, just found the release at buffalobills.com Urbik? A guy inactive for all 16 games who then got cut by a team that needs interior linemen? I wouldn't plan to make him an instant starter. Martin's not an All-Pro but he's an upgrade. And Bell and Roosevelt are on the PS, which is good news. Thanks. I must be getting blind.

Who'a Urbik and where do you seen he was signed?

For some reason when I was watching the video I flashed back to Willis McGahee. The man was utterly unlistenable-to. So there appears to be at least one wide-range upgrade in the personnel department: the Bills now seem to sign guys with at least half a brain.

You're absolutely right about mental makeup (like Yogi Berra said in a different context: "90% of this game is half mental"), but I can imagine another scout spinning this the opposite way -- that he loves Ducasse for his competitiveness and refusal to lose, etc.

Oops. "Throw," not "through." But my point is, as has been said, I just don't see the arm strength to be a significant NFL QB in places like Buffalo or Cleveland. And he'd have to get lucky (like maybe a Todd Collins) to stick around more than a few years as a backup when taller, stronger, cheaper (because they're younger) guys come into the league every year.

... there was some interest here in drafting him. Per Lopez on SI.com: Colt McCoy, the Texas golden boy and college football's all-time winningest quarterback, seems to have avoided the NFL chopping block. Or maybe not. McCoy's disappointing preseason has led to his name surfacing as one that could fall victim to roster cuts. Browns coach Eric Mangini recently offered an endorsement, sort of, for McCoy. He said the decision has not been made and offensive coordinator Eric Mangini [so it says on SI.com] has kept four quarterbacks before. When it comes to NFL roster cuts, though, nothing ever is certain and keeping four QBs is very unlikely. ....................... Colt McCoy, QB, Browns Mangini's endorsement was not exactly definitive. With Jake Delhomme penciled in as the starter and Seneca Wallace having a good preseason, McCoy is locked in a battle for the No. 3 spot with Brett Ratliff. It seems highly unlikely the Browns would actually pull the trigger on cutting a third-round draft pick like McCoy, who is younger than Ratliff and could develop slowly. Still, there's a sense the Browns feel McCoy is in over his head and not the physical talent they believed him to be. And this is before he has to through in a snowstorm or a November wind off the lake.

and Houston Oilers. For that matter, the Cleveland Rams.

+1. Which is WHY it can look like a 2 or 3 year plan.

God I want to have some hope for this team.

I live in NJ so I have limited sources of info. I know EPSN/national media-type guys are saying it's a long holdout, etc., but they never know what's going on with teams like Buffalo. Have the Bills said anything lately? Or Spiller's agent? Thanks for serious replies.