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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.

"Also Wednesday, starting linebacker Paul Posluszny said he will be limited at the start of camp after having groin surgery two weeks ago. Posluszny described the procedure as minor after he was hurt during the team’s offseason minicamps." You run out of jokes about this. Why can't this guy stay on the field?

One huge variable that could be a tremendous "better": health. Jauron's teams always seemed to run out of bodies. A lot of your "sames" could become clear "betters" if the expected starters could make it through the season. I also think going from LOL embarassment to so-so on offense via the upgraded coaching supervision could be a large better, personnel aside. Having said that, it's hard to figure in how much better the compeititon will be, who gets the breaks (like, I don't think much of Mark Sanchez but he can't possibly throw as many INT's vs. the Bills in '10 as he did in the NY win in '09, can he?), how motivated the competition will be (like, do the Bears and Packers treat us as an off-week or do they smell fresh meat)? I think they'll be better in observable ways but they may not win any more games.

Booker Edgerson

And I still don't know what a Tusker is.

Thanks John. It feels like the Bills are ahead of most teams. Is that true or am I just not noticing when other guys sign?

+ 1 except I'm really skeptical of Sanchez. There's nothing special about his arm and he's surprisingly short. He's not Drew Brees.

Why does everyone forget that the Jets backed into the playoffs when the stars all lined up the right way and the Colts tanked against them? Meanwhile they cut their leading rusher (Jones) in favor of moody and deteriorating LT; this reminds me of when OJ played out the string with the 49ers at the end. Their defense will be good (with two games a year vs.the Bills, its stats SHOULD be good) but they should starting getting burned for excessive blitzing when Cromartie turns back into -- well, Cromartie.

I've heard him on ESPN Radio and I thought he was a pretty weak analyst anyway. Like most talking heads he's familiar with the teams that are on TV all the time and knows nothing about the other half of the league so he makes it up or echoes Street & Smith. His connection to the Bills? See the second half of the second sentence above. I've heard him rip the Bills based on his third-hand knowledge.