Albany,n.y.

Buh Bye. Road games are a beyotch.

Sal is on NOW Edit: Sal just had a great 1st segment with Ryan Fitzpatrick's high school coach. They talked about Fitz's leadership and how he was interested in a good education when he chose Harvard. Next up the Cincy game talk, then baseball completes the hour before WGR goes to HS football at noon.

I think the most amazing thing was how many posters thought we were going to cut Fitzpatrick before last season-this was AFTER he had come in and was the QB responsible for 5 of the 6 2009 victories. By that point, he had proven to be the most consistent WINNING QB on the team. Most of the cut Fitzpatrick brigade used the old "Ralph is Cheap" stuff and thought just because he was the highest paid QB on the roster going into 2010, the Bills were going to cut him & save $. It was as if what he showed in 2009 wasn't enough. Now I must admit, I still viewed him as a top notch backup on a Super Bowl contender, like Frank Reich, but so far he's exceeded my expectations-which is great. I'd rather be proven wrong by him winning a Super Bowl as the starter than be right.

That still doesn't make Tebow the better QB just because Levi is home & he isn't. It's much easier to send a 7th round pick home than a 1st a year later. It's only a matter of time before Tebow switches to TE or joins Levi in fron of the TV on Sundays.

When Denver drafted Tebow, it was one of the worst 1st round picks of all time. The best thing Tebow can do is change positions to TE & hope for the best. Just another example of how over his head Josh McDaniels was and how insane the higher ups were to listen to him. When a team jettisons a highly drafted QB on his 1st contract, and gets virtually nothing in return, it's usually a very bad sign. The Broncos have used a 2010 1st round pick & will get a 2012 5th rounder at best-in other words, if he's let go, Denver considers him a bust at QB & it's a fire sale. Tebow is quickly becoming the Aaron Maybin of QBs. Let's get real here before people start throwing out names of other traded QBs: Favre was a second round pick traded for a 1st round pick 1 year later, Young was a special USFL draft pick traded for a 2nd & a 4th round pick, hardly the fire sale you'll see on Tebow.

He's 18 for 33, 54.5 % on FG attempts >/= 50 yards.

Only Drew Bledsoe throws it out of bounds on 4th down, and only a dumb DB catches it deeper downfield on 4th down.

He has a show of his own on Saturday morning.

This thread is about disliking Wilfork, not liking him.

I heard it'd because he's always talking, like a Senator would do during a filibuster.

Because no matter how cheap Ralph gets, Mike Brown makes Ralph look like a guy who is making it rain 24/7. Marvin Lewis accepts Brown as his boss and vice versa. A good coach would never go to Cincinnati under Mike Brown & a good owner would spend whatever it takes to get Lewis out of town.

It's the fans of other teams who don't want to see the Red Sox in the playoffs. It gets kinda ridiculous in Boston when you go to a game vs Detroit and the street vendor with the biggest line is selling Yankees Suck tee shirts. The Red Sox missing the playoffs is especially sweet to Yankees fans because we hate their fans more than the team itself, and it's so sweet knowing how much they are suffering. In reality, the Red Sox players & management are nowhere near as unlikeable as the Patriots guys, but the fans are just as obnoxious, because for the most part, they're the same people.

I went to a SF Giants game last year & there was something very similar on the streets of San Francisco as we went from the stadium to our car which was parked a few blocks away. Unfortunately, I was with my sister & her grandkids, so I couldn't sample the product.

I'm in the 1st row of the 2nd tier of the endzone. Nobody is in front of me & I prefer to sit. However, when the people in the row behind me start banging on the backs of our seats & I'm getting vibrated, I stand up. Now last week the people behind me were already standing, but if someone ever told me to sit down, my answer would be- When your row stops banging on the back of our seats & bangs on their own seatbacks, I won't need to stand.

Jim Rome is on fire-he started his program playing a song-We All Love The Red Sox-and he keeps playing it over & over again. Now he's talking about their epic choke.

You went to sleep too early. From around 10:30 to around midnight last night, it may have been the most exciting 1.5 hours in baseball. The only game that wasn't exciting was the Cardinals blowout of the Astros. In the remaining 3 games, with each wild card contending team needing to win, all 3 of the subsequent winning teams went into the 9th behind by 1 run. In the 2 AL games, the team that was behind had 2 outs, nobody on & trailed by a run when they were down to their last out. So in Tampa, the Mgr pinch hits with a guy who is batting 119 & hasn't had a home run in months. He's down to his last strike & homers to tie the game & send it to extra innings. Meanwhile in Baltimore the Orioles get 2 quick outs & are down to their last batter. They have NOTHING to play for, yet the last batter doubles, the following player doubles, tying the game, & then the next batter gets a hit to win it. The players and fans in Tampa go wild when the game in Baltimore ends (in spite of the fact the scoreboard took about 2 minutes to post the final from Baltimore even though 90% of the people in the stadium already knew it). Then moments after the final score from Baltimore is posted in Tampa, Longoria, who earlier had a 3 run homer to cap the 6 run 8th inning, lines the ball to the only place where there is a low enough fence for it to go out as a home run. The announcers could have borrowed some of Van's material because the most appropriate line after those events is "Do you believe it!"

I can't wait to listen to Jim Rome at noon today. I was listening a couple of days ago & he was very funny talking about how it's better for the Sox to complete their choke and not make it to postseason. The Curse of the Bambino is back! Babe Ruth began his major league career with the Boston Red Sox and ended his major league career with the Boston Braves. Also, Ruth a native of Baltimore Maryland, started his professional career with the then minor league Baltimore Orioles. The current version of the Baltimore Orioles scored 2 runs with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th Wednesday to end the 2011 Red Sox season.

Anyone think Brady lost a bet when he flippantly said "Cut my hair? I'll cut my hair when we lose to the Buffalo Bills and not before."

Ed (PA.) Hello Mort. C'mon Mort give us your feelings towards the New Bills.Thanks Ed Chris Mortensen (11:30 AM) Ed. they're fun to watch and easy to root for. The "reject" team - few people gave Chan Gailey any respect when he has one of the most impressive coaching resumes in the NFL. Ryan Fitzpatrick and Stevie Johnson, 7th rounders. Fred Jackson, undrafted. Bunch of guys like that. The problem is sustainability and franchise stability. It's something the late great GM John Butler worried about and expressed to me when he left for San Diego. Will the Bills do what's necessary to keep the core players as they build going forward? And don't panic if things hit a few bumps. In the meantime, enjoy the moment. Lot of people around the league are rooting for them and the Lions. http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/40443/

I have a friend who, upon hearing the Southern accents of Nix & Gailey, wrote off any chance of their succeeding and immediately e-mailed me this story to back up his point. I admit, after seeing nothing like what I'm seeing now in preseason, along with last year's 4-12, I was a skeptic, but Buddy & Chan are winning me over based on results where it counts-On The Field.

One of the main problems of the 2 year Levy GM era was drafting players of questionable character on the field, off the field, or both. Look at the 1st round picks during those 2 years Donte Whitner -arrested for domestic violence & and participating in a near riot; John McCargo-a no talent underachiever; and Marshawn Lynch-rap sheet includes hit & run, illegal gun posession while smoking dope with his posse in a car & a league suspension. Now with all 3 1st round picks jettisoned along with Brandon slug 1st round pick Aaron Maybin Jet-tisoned, the team is winning. Addition by subtraction.

Geography. After the 2 NJ teams, the following teams are closer to NYC than the Bills: Eagles, Patriots, Ravens, Redskins & even the Steelers. That makes 7 teams in closer proximity to NFL fans in NYC than the Buffalo Bills. When I lived in Suffolk County, Long Island in the 1980s, I was able to go to the mall & buy Philadelphia Eagles tickets at either Ticketron or Ticketmaster. When I went to the Bills/Eagles game in 1987, I bought my ticket at a mall on LI. They were not selling tickets to Bills games.

It's not official until Thursday. How do they know someone is not going to come along & buy a block of 20,000-30,000 tickets?

He's already on the practice squad & will probably be called up at some point since the only TEs left are Chandler & Lee Smith. If they don't want to promote him, the next injury at a deeper position means either Martin returns or some other TE comes in off waiver street.

That's how I saw it, but I wasn't sure whether they were going to call pass interference & put the ball at the 1 or were just going to give the Patriots a 5 yard illegal contact penalty. Fortunately, they gave us the big one. The DB clearly got in front of Nelson & blocked his forward movement. Any way they ruled it, there was no way the interception was going to stand up.