Albany,n.y.

Unfortunately, I've had some rough times physically the last 2 months and won't be there. I'm hoping to be better in a couple of months and make the next one.

The only way I'd feel better with Peterman starting is if he's starting for the new Arenaball team in Albany.

Here's a funny story from when he a a first year free agent after spending his rookie year on the 49ers practice squad: At the beginning of the 1991 season my friend Petrino was making jokes about a white guy being named Odell. I had no idea what he was talking about since i knew Odell Haggins is black. On one trip back to Albany from a Bills game I asked him what he was talking about. He then described the guy he though was Odell Haggins. At the next Thruway rest stop I went to the trunk & pulled out my Gameday program and showed him what Odell Haggins looked like, then he looked at the other pictures of the 1991 Bills in the program. It turned out he had seen a video interview with Phil Hansen on TV and the station had erroneously put Odell Haggins name in the captioning of Hansen's interview. The entire time Petrino thought Phil Hansen was Odell Haggins. Another thing I remember about Haggins' time with the Bills was a story from camp that appeared in a newspaper story I read. Odell and another player got into a fight. The reporter wrote that it was over someone taking his pudding. To this day I don't know if that was a joke because the 2 guys involved were big men, or whether the reporter was being serious and he really got into a fight over pudding.

I'm going to the Raiders game Sunday, so I'll see both Lynch's this week. Was at the Peterman disaster last Sunday-maybe P. Lynch will be worse.

Yep. But I didn't have LAX as a choice because my friends who I'm going to the game with live in Orange County & picked me up at the airport. The Bills didn't have any friends pick them up at LAX.

They had an easier trip than I did. Started in Albany on a 10:50 AM flight, land in Baltimore, stay on the plane, land in Chicago, stay on the plane, land in Las Vegas get off the plane, wait almost 3 hours in Las Vegas for flight to John Wayne airport in Orange County, arrive at airport around 9PM PST. 13+ hours traveling. Next stop: bandbox stadium Sunday.

I'll be there in Sec 125 row X with a college friend & his wife who live in Orange County. I'll be missing the Albany area lunch on Friday because I'll be on the plane to So Cal. Can't make the tailgate.

They also passed on Trubisky, who may also end up a special QB. The 1st responsibility of any GM is to get a good to franchise QB. This is especially true if you have 2 straight years with top 2 picks and other 1st round picks and wait until the 2nd & 3rd rounds to draft QBs when top guys are staring you in the face. It looks like the decision makers in Cleveland went to the Buddy Nix school of management: when a quality QB is available, pass on him & hope for the best.

Relocation-except if they moved to Albany,then I'd get seasons.

He's 41 years old, he's been working his way up. You make it sound like it was when we hired 70 year old Buddy Nix for his 1st GM job. There's a huge difference between a 41 year old 1st time GM & a 70 year old 1st time GM. Same strange reasoning about our 43 year old head coach. If we had hired 34 year old Beane & 36 year old McDermott the year we hired 70 year old Nix as GM & 58 year old Gailey you would have called Ralph senile for hiring kids.

If you demanded a #1 for a guy with an injury history, on the final year of his contract, and on record as wanting to be paid mega-bucks on his next contract, anyone on the other end of the phone would have laughed at you & then told you to get lost. Here were the Bills options after they decided, before Beane got here, not to pick up the 5th season making Sammy an unrestricted free agent at the end of this season: 1) Keep Watkins for 1 more year & lose him for nothing, because in all probability they know they'll be in the same spot they are as this year-signing too many free agents in 2018 to be eligible for comp picks. So getting a 2nd rounder and a starting CB for a year who will be a lot easier to sign than Sammy made the deal pretty good. 2) Keep Watkins for this season, franchise him & either pay him a huge 2018 salary to have him for 1 more year, or try to trade him, in which case the trading partner will either have him for 1 year or have to re-sign him to a mega bucks contract. Considering any team trading for him would be faced with the same restrictions teams faced this year, you'd be lucky to get what Beane got this year. 3) Trade Watkins before the season and get what we got for him, which appears to be the best option. 4) Trade Watkins and get significantly less than E.J Gaines and a #2 pick in 2018. 5) Demand a #1 pick for Watkins and become the laughingstock of the league. Then, when you're stuck with Watkins, see other options 1 & 2,

If you're really old school, then Peterman shouldn't start for another 4 years.

One of the reasons the Chargers aren't filling the stadium is because they made no effort to sell individual game tickets. Up until August 31st, the Chargers were only selling season tickets. It was only when they had a few scattered seats left did they make any attempt to sell the individual games. After buying the Bills game through Stubhub! last spring, I received an e-mail from the Chargers on 8/31 telling me the team was just releasing individual game tickets. Worse yet, most of the tickets left were priced higher than the season tickets, which means that you can usually find comparable seats cheaper on the secondary market than directly from the team through Ticketmaster. The Chargers average ticket price is almost double what the Rams are charging. There's no way fans are going to see the 0-4 Chargers at double the price of the 3-1 Rams. It looks like most of the season ticket holders are selling their tickets on the secondary market and the buyers are more often fans of the opponent.

Intercepted, what a surprise.

One of my Facebook friends is on the far-right. He is calling for a boycott of the NFL. He posted a video of a guy burning a team uniform & hat. I looked closely at the video & noticed it was Ravens gear... So I replied that I could fully understand why, after the embarrassing 44-7 defeat by Jacksonville in London, a Baltimore fan would set fire to his Ravens gear.

The over/under should be 9 points.

Not including the 2017 draft: Total QBs drafted between 1967 & 2016: 565 #1 QB picks in the draft since the Super Bowl 22, number of other QB drafted during the past 51 years who were not the 1st pick-543 (565-22). Super Bowl winning #1 QB pick 6 (all of them multiple winners) 6/22 =27.27%, # of Super Bowls 51 Number won by #1 overall QB pick 14. 14/51 =27.45%. Number of QBs drafted since 1967 : 565. Number of Super Bowls won by one of these or an undrafted QB 37. 37/543= 6.81% . The real math shows the #1 pick who was a QB who has gone on to win the Super Bowl 27% (rounded down), The percentage of QBs not drafted #1 who have gone on to win a Super Bowl 7% (rounded up). If you want to see all the QBs drafted here they are: http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft?type=position

Real math works a little differently than what you stated. The odds of winning the Super Bowl without regard to talent level is 3.125% (1 out of 32). In 51 Super Bowls the math says each team should have won 1 or 2 of them. The Bills current Super Bowl win % is 0. Their Super Bowl appearance odds are 6.25%. The Bills are just slightly above that, appearing in 7.84% of all Super Bowls. However, 28% of all Super Bowls have been won by a QB who was a former #1 overall pick QB. Considering how many other QBs have been drafted who were not the number 1 overall pick, 28% far exceeds the expected statistical percentage of any given QB winning a Super Bowl. With 32 starters in the NFL, the odds of any given QB starting & winning a Super Bowl each year goes back to the 1 in 32 or 3.125%. To exceed that by more than 5 times shows how powerfully a team with a #1 overall QB increases their chances of fielding a Super Bowl champion.

I've been retired for 7 years now. Petrino just retired last month & 4 of us went down to Newburgh for his retirement party last Friday. I'm down to 1 home game a year-in Petrino's other seat (probably Denver) & a road game-this year it's going to be in LA on 11/19. It's good to see you're recovered & posting again-I kept track when your daughter posted about you.

From a statistical viewpoint, picking #1 greatly increases a teams chances of winning the Super Bowl or even making the Super Bowl down the line. About 28% of all Super Bowls have been won by a QB who was the number 1 pick of the entire draft (It was 30% the last time I ran the numbers, but Brady singlehandedly keeps bringing the number down). It's not just QBs, but they make the point the best. Imagine the Bills Super Bowl teams without Bruce Smith. Would they have been as good? Also, it obviously doesn't hurt the players attitude towards winning to suffer a bad season early in their careers. Guys like Reed, Smith & Talley went from AFC worst to eventually 1st & the reminder of being on the worst team in the NFL helped make them hate losing probably more than guys who have never been on a really bad team. Most of the guys on the bad teams were weeded out, just as most of this year's team won't be around for a Super Bowl. The bottom line is I'll take a 28% of winning the Super Bowl in a few years over the Bills current 0% if the team has to field a bad team with a very tough schedule for 1 more year.

I gave up my seasons in 2012 and cut down to about 2-3 Bills games a year. I now go to OTB on Sundays & watch the non home TV games there-I get a booth with my own TV & can turn the sound up, something I can't do at a sports bar. Lately I've been going to 1 home game and a road game. Last year I went to the opener in Baltimore because it was easier to fly in & out of Baltimore on the day of the game than drive to Buffalo from Albany. This year I'm going to one Bills home game (probably Denver) and the road game in LA vs the Chargers. I'll also go to a Raiders game when I'm out in California the week after the Bills game. At one point I went to every home regular season & playoff game from the middle of the 1990 season until they flexed the 2007 season game vs NE to night & I couldn't make it. After the streak ended I got freed from going to every game. I'm getting too old to do the almost 300 mile drive to & from Orchard Park for every game and I got sick of the long drive home after losing.

Here's a seating chart of season ticket prices. We both bought seats in the $1,350/season section. If one uses 10 games, then the price is set at $135/game. You got your seats at $3 over face-not bad! If you think preseason games are worthless, then the price rises to $168.75/game. http://www.chargers.com/tickets/seating-chart

Judging by how many replies saying the Chargers game & a 30,000 seat stadium it may well be a tough ticket. It scared me enough to buy 3 seats on Stubhub for $158-159 each. I'll be in section 125 row X. I'm staying in Santa Ana close to John Wayne airport & where my friends live so they can pick me up & take me to the game. I'm going to California for Thanksgiving & this game worked out perfectly-start in So. Cal, visit friends then head up to the Bay area for Thanksgiving. I'll probably catch the Raiders/Denver game on the 26th unless my family is boycotting the Raiders. If that's the case the 49ers are also home against the Seahawks, but it's a lot further away than the Raiders.

Thanks. I'll be there. My plane is supposed to get into BWI @ 8:50 AM so then all I have to do is get the light rail from the airport to downtown Baltimore.

I'm not going to the opener in Buffalo, but I'm going to the opener in Baltimore. Is there any tailgate planned in Baltimore?