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He can't, it might hurt ticket sales in Cincinnati.

They'd already have 2 wins if Marvin knew about the light air in Denver. Marvin went for it on 4th down, with his rookie QB, late in the game when a 53 yard FG would have given the Bengals the lead. Any coach who is playing a game in Denver and doesn't adjust his kicking decisions accordingly should be fired before the team's next trip to Denver. He cost me $44 and bragging rights that week in my football pool, so I was not happy as I listened to the game that evening driving home from the Bills/Raiders game. I'm counting on the Bills to avenge my loss.

The safest picks seem to be the Bays. I'm taking Green Bay over Denver, but one could easily survive using Tampa Bay over Indianapolis. At this point of the season and only 3 teams used, there is no reason to take a road team. If the game was at the Ralph, I'd be all over the Bills, but with many teams available, I'll stick with home teams for now. However, this is the last week before byes start and reduce the games and teams available. Sooner or later I'm going to have to pick a road team. By the way, to me, week 10 looks like the toughest one this year, but key injuries could change that and that week has no byes.

You must be very young and missed Van Miller in his prime.

Anyone who saw the extra security lining up near the end of the game should realize that the Bills will never again let a mob of fans on the field after the game. When the goalposts came down, there was no danger of anyone getting on the field. I don't know why they did it, but it had nothing to do with a fear of fans running on the field to tear them down. At that point fans were either still in there seats or headed to the exits. Nobody in the stands was headed towards the field, with the possible exception of the players' kids. Back in the 1980s the team didn't seem to mind it. In fact, the fans would take part of the goalposts up to Ralph & he enjoyed it. Unfortunately, that was before the 1991 debacle of fans cutting up pieces of the turf, 9/11/01 and NFL mandates of security that were unimaginable 20-30 years ago. Even in baseball, where fans used to storm the field when their team won the pennant and/or World Series, the field has become impenetrabe for mobs of fans after the game. We live in very different times in terms of stadium security than we did in the 1980s and before then.

Channel 6 is making sure everyone knows the Bills/Bengals game is on Sunday. They led off the sports with the story after rumors started that they were showing Pittsburgh/Houston & have it on their website: http://www.cbs6albany.com/articles/sunday-1288121-game-bills.html

This week's Pro Football Weekly has Fitzpatrick taking up most of the cover titled "Comeback Kids" with a small picture of Matt Stafford that states "The surprising Bills and Lions remain undefeated after securing come-from-behind wins in week three" http://www.profootballweekly.com/pfw-online/

Different networks, so they may do it differently, but it can be changed if the Jets aren't involved that week (see below). Since WRGB committed themselves to the Jets several years ago, when they went as far as showing Jets preseason games that year, the Jets have top priority at WRGB. There's nothing we can do to change it. A couple of years ago, WRGB was going to show a game that didn't involve the Jets, Giants, Pats or Bills when a Bills game was scheduled & we complained so much, with help from a reporter at the Schenectady Gazzette, that WRGB caved & showed the Bills-so while the network does assign games, the local station is permitted to file an appeal & get the game changed. However, if they don't get the pressure, they'll just trot out the excuse-The Network made me do it. I've posted this before, but the good news is, at least this year, the schedule, thanks to Jets night games & doubleheaders, gives us a lot of games on home TV that do not conflict with the Jets, Giants, & even the Patriots, which everyone in Albany knows get the lowest priority of the 4 teams at least until the Bills season is totally down the drain & December Bills games are considered meaningless to the network suits. So here is what the rest of the season looks like on Albany TV: 10/2 @ Cincinnati: Yes! No competition 10/9 Philadelphia: No, Giants will be televised 10/16@Giants: Yes! 10/30 Washington (Toronto): Yes! No competition This game is on FOX, who only have 1 game & won't go head to head with the Giants on CBS at 1. 11/6 Jets: Yes! 11/13 @Dallas: Yes! No competition 11/20 @Miami: Yes! No competition 11/27 @ Jets: Yes! 12/4 Tenessee: No, Jets will be televised 12/11 @ San Diego: Yes! No competition 12/18 @ Miami: Yes! No competition 12/24 Denver: Maybe, only competition is NE/Mia 1/1 @ New England: No, Jets will be televised From the beginning of the season, it looks like we'll get 10 or 11 games on home TV. Better yet, if you go to the home games like I do, the only sure road game that won't be on home TV is the last game @ NE. Edit: One more thing-When WNYT & NBC had the AFC contract, the Bills were major contenders & the Jets usually stunk, but we had a secret weapon. One of the guys running things at WNYT was a Buffalo native & a Fredonia grad.

I can guarantee you, there will never be fans tearing down the goal posts again. If somehow a big enough group got on the field, they'd teargas you before you got to the goal posts, although I doubt that a large group could ever get on the field again.

Thanks, that will put us alone in 1st place after the Raiders win on Sunday. For the cover of SI: No doubt, if we win it will be Fitzpatrick.

More likely-You're not very good salesman.

Here's a ridiculous quote from Ann Coulter: Fifty-nine percent of Americans now believe that an innocent man has been executed in the last five years. There is more credible evidence that space aliens have walked among us than that an innocent person has been executed in this country in the past 60 years, much less the past five years. Considering the number of people who have had convictions overturned by DNA evidence as the science has improved, only a complete crackpot would think that no innocent people have been executed in the past 60 years.

Why would anyone want to hike in Iraq, where they started?

Brett Favre was not a castoff. He was a highly touted QB who fell to the 2nd round because some teams were afraid of him medically due to an auto accident. He was a rookie who didn't play because his team had an established QB. Between the time he was drafted & the next draft, Ron Wolf, who when he was with the Jets ranked him as the best player in the 1991 draft and saw him picked 1 pick before the Jets 1st pick, which was in the 2nd round since they had used their #1 in the supplimental draft the year before, was hired as Green Bay's GM. With Favre not #1 on the depth chart in Atlanta, Wolf, now GM in GB, offered Atlanta Green Bay's 1st round pick and Favre was traded to GB for the 1st round pick 1 year after being selected in the 2nd round. A 2nd year player traded for a 1st round pick is not a castoff. Also, the Jets tried desperatly to trade up around the end of the 1st round to get Favre, but couldn't find anyone willing to trade with them & ended up taking Browning Nagle 1 pick after Favre.

Ok, but not great. There was a recent article on him & he still has physical effects from the injury that will never get him to 100%: http://www.buffalonews.com/spotlight/article550571.ece

Ask SD how much it hurt NE last week. Koppen got injured in the 1st game & NE didn't miss a beat that game or last week.

4-1 is always better than 3-2 after 5 games.

I read about that years ago & the 1st thing I thought of was that Marv should have done something to put an end to it after they started doing that. I would have rather had Marv take a 15 yard penalty for running on the field & arguing with the refs than have that continue. When the other team is cheating, the head coach has to do whatever it takes to let the refs know that he won't tolerate the non-calls. He must demand that the next time the ball is kicked, and every time thereafter, there's a delay of game penalty called on the offenders.

How many of you can remember when Ryan Fitzpatrick was a rookie 7th round pick who was forced into his 1st NFL game week 12 of the 2005 season? Was it a preview of the future? Unlike Bills QBs who embarrassed themselves when the Bills put them into their 1st NFL games, (remember Losman, Brohm and all the others who "just needed more time") Fitzpatick lit it up. Here is the link, followed by some highlights. http://scores.espn.go.com/nfl/recap?gameId=251127034 HOUSTON (AP) -- Playing in an NFL game was new to St. Louis Rams rookie quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick. Coming back from a 21-point deficit wasn't. It was over when ... Ryan Fitzpatrick threw a 56-yard touchdown pass to Kevin Curtis in overtime to give the Rams a 33-27 win. Game ball goes to ... Third-string QB Fitzpatrick, who came off the bench to see the first NFL action of his career and helped lead the Rams' comeback, going 19-of-30 for 310 yards and three touchdowns, including the game-winning toss in OT. ESPN's take ... The Rams stole a game today and it was amazing to watch the rookie get in there and do his thing. Receivers Torry Holt and Isaac Bruce put in work and made his day a lot easier, but they couldn't have done it without him. My hat's off to the Rams, because they easily could have let up and lost this game to the Texans but they refused to lose. The Texans shouldn't have lost this game, though. They have to learn to come through in the clutch. -- Eric Allen The Rams' third-stringer took over for injured backup Jamie Martin on Sunday and then threw a 56-yard touchdown pass to Kevin Curtis in overtime to cap an improbable comeback and give the Rams a 33-27 win over the Houston Texans. The seventh-round pick from Harvard stayed calm by thinking back to his freshman year and first college start when he rallied the Crimson from a 21-0 halftime deficit for a 31-21 win over Dartmouth. At the time it was the biggest comeback in Harvard's 128-year history. "I was actually thinking about that game," Fitzpatrick said. "The biggest thing when you're in those situations is you need to get everyone around you fired up." "I knew there was no way we were going to lose that game," Fitzpatrick said. "You sort of get that feeling out there, of invincibility, with the way the offense was playing late and the way the defense really stepped up." The Rams recovered from a horrible first half, with just 117 yards and six first downs, to gain 312 yards and 16 first downs in the second half. Fitzpatrick proved an able replacement after backup Martin left late in the first quarter with a blow to the head. He was 19-of-30 for 310 yards and three touchdowns in three quarters, despite being sacked five times. Fitzpatrick's performance is even more impressive considering that the Rams played the entire second half without Pro Bowl left tackle Orlando Pace, who left the game in the second quarter with a hamstring injury. "It was a great win playing a rookie secondary, a rookie quarterback and a makeshift offensive line," interim coach Joe Vitt said. "It wasn't pretty, but we got it done."

He's watching the Bills practice with the spycam he put in the last time he was in Orchard Park. I can't answer your question, but Belichick will be game planning based on what he sees the Bills doing in practice this week.

I checked his area with the binoculars a few times during the game and I didn't see Elvis at the game on Sunday. The chefs were there, but no Elvis. Has Elvis left the building?

I shave every day knowing that's what Fitzpatrick will be doing the day after he wins the Super Bowl.

If Albert Haynesworth is as good at kicking a football as he is other people's faces, they're all set.

Joel Murray also played Petey, the guy waiting with Alan at the DMV in Season 4 Episode 22: http://sharetv.org/shows/two_and_a_half_men/episodes/394464

There goes the contract extension.