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+ 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.

There's no way to overstate this. Maybe the one thing Kelly and RJ have in common is that they proved this simple point: not everyone who throws a nice spiral can play QB in Buffalo.

Simply put, you're right. Nix and Gailey -- and Whaley -- knew the Bills needed a lot of help in a lot of places. They were not one or two players away from winning the Super Bowl. They're building from the ground up. Reaching for a Jimmy Claussen or a Colt McCoy was going to leave them with a lot of the same needs next year and stuck with a high-round QB who wasn't what they really wanted anyway.

On the long passes downfield he has to slow up and wait for the ball, so he's already got his timing down with our QB's.

Seriously dude, you don't think she's hot? I know she's jailbait, but still . . . It's the "hot from behind" stuff that scares me when you're talking about a 16-year-old.

Jake Delhomme Remember, you asked a simple, straightforward question, just about arms and nothing else.

Thing is, Anshutz actually has a history of getting things done.

Kind of too bad, but no real surprises here.

Yeah, but how much do those tickets cost? Is anyone paying $100+ to see a high school game? With beer and parking and there are 2 or more of you, maybe $500 eight times a year (or maybe 9)? Let's get real about these comparisons. It's not a simple question of "football interest" -- of course there's more "football interest" in Buffalo than Jax or LA. It's money. Compare what the other three teams in the AFC East can collect (even MIA) to Buffalo. And consider this: Ralph's team has no debt service (that's another kind of "football interest" -- look at Dan Snyder and what the Jets are doing with PSL's). When he dies someone will buy the Bills for nine figures. Whoever that is will not sink all-cash into the team but will borrow some of the purchase money. Every NFL team buyer in at least a generation has done that so don't pretend it won't happen to the Bills franchise. So this cash-poor team in an unrich community will have to generate another eight figures a year of cash flow -- "another" meaning in addition to the cash flow it has now -- just to stay as cash-poor as it is today. I love the Bills but that's why I just don't understand how the team can stay in Buffalo after Ralph dies. UNLESS (a huge "unless") there's no place to move to that will offer the new owner a sweeter deal. Like Baltimore and St. Louis did to get the Browns and Rams. If San Antonio or OKC or Las Vegas or Portland or Anchorage or Beijing or Dusseldorf or Podunk wants to put up the cash . . .

hearing about athletes' "legacies." I don't give anywhere close to a crap about putting something in "its historical context" or "perspective" before it's even over. Just shut up and play.

And here I was just trying to be funny.

Actually, these sound more like his reasons for staying in Oakland.

"Running into people, . . . running past people, putting my hands on people, roughing people up a little bit, I missed that." I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin' . . .

Does this mean Colgate gets another shot at the Ivy League?

Oh hell, if it's that important to everybody, let me just put my beer down and I'll do it.

You're right about #16. Lamonica wore 12 here.

I remember really liking Bobby Burnett. This being Buffalo, the next year he tore up a knee and over time limped out of football. I thought Flores was 12. He was the throw-in to the Daryle Lamonica for Art Powell trade, along with Glenn Bass to the Raiders. That way each team got what it really wanted (Powell and Lamonica) plus a warm body to replace what it gave up (the Bills got a spare QB, Oakland got a spare WR). And this being Buffalo, Flores ended playing more than Powell, who was a complete bust. Lamonica went supernova for the Raiders. I don't remember Bass ever doing anything for them.

This is actually a cogent comment from someone who appears to have followed pro football from a time before the year Donte Whitner was drafted. I'm not sure people on this board know how to respond to something like this.

"We’re amongst him every day." . . . Not something I really want to visualize.

Same one we've been using for years: F***'g Bills

Huh? What? You've just destroyed all of my perceptions of reality.

Helping Ellis with his position change is the same position coach he had last season in Bob Sanders, who is now in charge of outside linebackers. Having a rapport with his position coach provides some measure of comfort as Ellis is confident Sanders will put him in situations where he can succeed. “He knows what I can do, what my strong points are and he can coach towards those,” said Ellis. Um, isn't that the same position coach who helped keep him glued to the bench last year? Wasn't that the situation where Sanders thought he could best succeed in '09?

One thing I think and hope it means is this message (and for Lynch too): we lost with you and we can lose without you. Show something or get out of the way for the next man up.