Albany,n.y.

The NCAA just revoked all future college eligibility.

He picked off Peterman & ran it back for a TD on the 1st play of practice.

The preseason game is on channel 23 live next Thursday. With the next 2 games live on NFL Network & Fox, if they show the 8/30 game on ch 23 it will be the 1st time that I know of where all 4 Bills preseason games will be available on live TV in Albany.

Retired-I've been a bum for 8 years now.

It's not idiotic if the 3rd stringer is on the practice squad. Peterman is an ideal candidate for that. It also isn't idiotic if your 3rd guy in camp isn't good enough to ever trust in a real game. If you find out in camp you only have 2 NFL caliber QBs on your team, you don't keep the 3rd guy.

I'll be there.

Kizer was never very good & never will be. He was starting because he was on a team that was horrible and didn't have a viable NFL starting QB on the roster, so they threw him in knowing if he was really bad they would be able to draft another QB in a QB rich draft and if by some miracle, he vastly exceeded expectations, they would be set at QB. He didn't and was bad enough that he was jettisoned for a low pick without even considering keeping him and developing him further as a backup. Nobody ruined Kizer because there was nothing to ruin.

I've never believed you can ruin a QB by playing him. The exceptions are guys whose careers are altered by injury. However, what is a team supposed to do, wait until they find a way to make it impossible to get injured? If he's the best QB you have, or is close to the best, you play him. As I see this roster, there's no way Peterman or McCarron are a lot better than Allen. The Bills are not winning more than a game or 2 extra keeping Allen on the bench. Play Allen and let him learn on the job so that the Bills can contend for a championship in 2019. They have a much better chance to win it all with Allen having a year of on field experience under his belt than having him sit in 2018 and still have growing pains in 2019 when a game he loses due to growing pains keeps the Bills from a division title or getting an extra home playoff game. Look at the next season's records of the teams that started a highly rated rookie QB, there are a lot of leaps forward in his 2nd season with the rookie year on the field out of the way.

You're right, it's delusional to think that the best a rookie QB would do is go 10-6. Let's look at the 2008 Baltimore Ravens. The previous year they were 5-11. In the off season, they lost Jonathan Ogden from the O line. They had a rookie 1st round QB they traded up for, but he was from a small school (Delaware) and was never expected to start when camp opened. Well, there were some injuries and Joe Flacco ended up starting from opening day one. The team didn't go 10-6, they went 11-5 with the small school rookie QB & made it all the way to the AFC Championship game. Simply put, compared with Peterman & McCarron, Allen gives us the best chance of winning, rookie or not.

The Cleveland game on 8/17 is live on NFL Network.

Last year I used mobile tickets for the 1st time. I had to use a mobile ticket after I bought the Chargers game tickets on StubHub!, I put it into my phone using a PDF file. PDF was the easiest way to put it on my phone. If you're having any problems with other methods, StubHub! will send you the tickets in a PDF file. I wonder what this new policy is doing to bus companies that provide a bus & ticket. I went to the website of an Albany area bus company that does bus trips to sporting events & noticed that they were not offering any trips to Bills home games for the 1st time in many years. The company gives you your printed ticket as you board the bus. I'm guessing it wasn't worth the company's time to try to get tickets to fans via cell phones.

Murph & Tasker are talking about the problems & are not happy with the problems. Fortunately, it's working fine right now, but yesterday worked at the beginning of the show before problems started. Josh Allen will be on at around 12:25.

I have a great story from that game. I was in the upper deck pretty close to where the FG attempt was taking place. Back then, I used to bring a little TV with me to the games because there weren't any replays on the scoreboard. Right before the FG attempt I said to my friend next to me "They have to block it & run it back for a touchdown". Then right before the interception I said something like "time for an interception" . After both plays happened the guy sitting in front of us asked me if my TV was showing the future. There was also an incident when the Bills were losing in the game, I got so frustrated and yelled out at the top of my lungs "Where's the f'n defense" I got a lot of angry looks from the fans in my section & had to apologize.

1) 1st off, the Bills kept Nick Mike-Mayer, not Herrera. Mike-Mayer kicked in the 1st 2 games of the season & got cut. Herrera was signed after Mike-Mayer was cut. Also, back in those days it was pretty easy to stash players on IR. If the team wanted to play hardball they could have put him on IR instead of cutting him. 2) It was the Bills who drafted CJ Spiller while Lynch was still on the team-this devalued his trade value. Even though he now takes the high road & says it was mutual, the Bills fired the 1st salvo drafting Spiller & in effect, telling Lynch he was no longer wanted. 4) What is usually overlooked is that when the Bills drafted Kelly, Joe Ferguson was still entrenched as the starter. Back in those days, rookie QBs were redshirted. Kelly wanted to play, not sit on the bench. At the time Kelly signed with the USFL, it was A) For a lot more money & B) Before anyone knew that Fergy's play would fall off the face of the earth in 1983. 5) It wasn't the cold as much as money. Cribbs had a great rookie year & was disgruntled by his pay. When the opportunity came around he jumped to the USFL. Now, when he came back, he was a real jerk. I remember him taking tape & making it like prison bars on his locker to symbolize that he was a prisoner in Buffalo. The Bills traded him to SF because he was too much of a locker room distraction. 6) This was a classic example of Ralph being a cheapskate. Nobody in the history of the NFL draft ever lost the #1 overall pick to the CFL. This was the beginning of the end for Chuck Knox, who was quite angry at Ralph for his cheap ways. 8 The Bills wanted a quality player in Bennett. Yes, I've heard rumors that Bell was hated, so really, it was addition by subtraction, and the next year they drafted Thurman Thomas. 9) Reggie was traded because he didn't fit into the Bills plans with the new coaching staff. He did not abandon the Bills. The Bills made the decision and Knox saw him as still valuable when the Bills didn't. 10) Knox left because Ralph wouldn't pay him or his players. He should not be listed as a traitor. How can anybody talk traitors & not include Mike Mularkey, who quit as coach before Marrone, or John Rauch, who on July 11, 1971 went on the radio & trashed former Bills players Paul Maguire & Ron McDole, then as camp began quit as coach because he couldn't get along with Ralph after Ralph told him he was going to publicly defend the 2 ex-Bills Rauch had trashed 9 days earlier.

It was always known as the Super Bowl. Read the attached front page of the Courier Express the day after the game. It says Chiefs Romp 31-7 Kansas City Team Gains Super Bowl

I'm 64. Now all you kids-get off my lawn!

So that's why Jones got benched at Ohio St. and then fell to the 4th round & we couldn't get anything more than a late rounder for him a year later. Jones fell all the way to pick 139, last pick of the 4th round, while Allen was pick 7 of the draft, all because one was black & one was white-yeah, right. You forgot to mention one guy was 2nd string in college & one was a starter.

I have dial up modems beat. I got my intro to the internet on WebTV. All I had to do was hook a box up to my TV & phone line and get the internet without a computer. I would get home & immediately dial up my WebTV to listen to WGR & Coach Dickerson. I didn't get a home computer until 2002. I couldn't print anything with WebTV, but I was able to do my version of printing: I could videotape the internet, One time someone put out a lot of good draft info on their site & I videotaped pages of draft info & then froze each page as I read it off the TV/VCR. Getting back to the disadvantages of dial up. One time on the day of the NFL draft my parents tried to call me and couldn't get me because my line was busy all day. The next day they called & I told them I was on the internet all day because they were conducting the NFL draft.

The whole league isn't doing it. I bought a ticket to the season opener in Baltimore from the Ravens website through Ticketmaster & they mailed me my ticket in April. I have a hard ticket for the game.

Canadian ballet. Make sure you bring a passport or enhanced license.

I always use Gary Marangi as a warning of be careful what you wish for. For years every time Fergy made a mistake I'd hear "We want Marangi" After we got Marangi on the field the fans couldn't wait for the season to end. The amazing part was they just kept sending Marangi out there every week the rest of the season so he got the number of attempts to qualify as the worst ever. They would have been better off bringing some other guy with NFL experience in off the street and starting him.

If you haven't learned by now that the national media knows nothing about the Bills compared with us Bills fans, you haven't been paying much attention. Here's some other news you might not be aware of: It's the same for every other team in the league. The guys who cover the entire league don't have the time to know the minutia that goes on with each team in the league. If you want to hear guys who know the Bills better, listen to the local radio stations. No matter how bad the WGR guys get sometimes, they still know 1,000 times more about the Bills than the guys on NFL Radio.

Why would anyone criticize someone for honoring the late great comedian Henny Youngman? I remember him doing Fort Erie commercials on the radio when I lived in Buffalo.

When Roscoe Parrish fumbled the ball, I was so happy because it meant no overtime. I always stay until the game ends & I just wanted to go home already by then & a scoreless overtime would have just been more torture. I just didn't care if it cost the Bills the game, I just wanted to head home-It was a long 5 hour drive that I wanted to start ASAP.

Even though I'm not a fan of Peterman, I could see him starting since AJ, from what I've heard & read, wasn't good in mini-camp and was the 3rd best QB on the field. In order: Peterman, Allen (with few 1st team reps) & McCarron. Now unless Peterman is lighting it up, I expect to see Allen starting no later than after the bye, which this year is on November 18th.