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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.

He had some pretty good receivers in 2016 who left & flourished in the NFC West. So no, you can't argue that the Bills failed to give him a supporting cast just because his 3 top WRs, who he turned into mush, were gone in 2017.

Obviously he was talking about what we had to give up vs what the Redskins gave up. To move up to 7 he Bills gave up pick 12 (which includes 1st moving up by trading Glenn) and picks 53 & 56 (which was for letting the Rams have Watkins for a year & the Bills got the pick & Gaines for a year). Meanwhile to move up to 2, the Redskins gave up 6, pick 39 in 2012, their 1st in 2013 (22nd) and their 1st in 2014 (#2 overall) Just the fact that the Bills didn't give up any other #1s except pick 12 proves it was a much safer trade than what Washington did. It's not even close, they gave up 3 #1s, one of which turned out to be the 2nd pick of the draft (which the Rams wasted on a bust, Greg Robinson).

I would think that in the hopefully unlikely chance that Allen is a bust, Beane would understand it quickly enough to take another swing at getting a QB. Not double down like Whaley did, trading away way too much in hopes that he can turn around a bad QB pick like EJ was. There were some QBs available the year after EJ was drafted like Carr, Garoppolo & Bridgewater. If Whaley had shown any ability to see how bad EJ was after a year here, he could have corrected Nix's error. If Allen fails & Beane sees it quickly enough, he gets a 2nd shot. To me that means if Allen isn't showing enough, Beane would be wise to spend a 1st or 2nd on another QB in next year's draft. Unconventional going after a QB a year after trading up & drafting one, sure, but better to hedge the bet than put all your eggs in the Allen basket if he hasn't shown enough to be entrenched as the 2019 starter. It's not like teams haven't hedged on the franchise QB bet before. Many years ago the Jets had 2 rookie QBs in camp, Joe Namath & Heisman winner John Huarte. More recently in 1989 the Cowboys drafted Troy Aikman #1 overall, then spent a #1 in the supplemental draft on Steve Walsh. Eventually they recouped the #1 by trading Walsh to the Saints when Aikman proved to be the franchise QB they were looking for. Other hedges have included Washington trading a ton to St.Louis for RGIII at pick #2 overall, then taking Cousins in the 4th round. The Redskins also hedged when they drafted Heath Schuler & Gus Frerrotte in the same draft. In both cases the #1 pick bombed & the other guy ended up starting.

I'm going to Disney World.

Whaley had little or nothing to do with finding Poyer. The man who pushed hardest was Bobby Babich, the Bills safeties coach: https://buffalonews.com/2017/09/22/inside-bills-jordan-poyer-got-buffalo-came/ “Yes! Absolutely,” Bills assistant defensive backs coach Bobby Babich says when asked whether he thought Poyer would be this good, this fast with a new team. “People don’t understand the amount of work that Jordan Poyer puts in and the time he spends. He’s absolutely relentless.” Babich is the main reason Poyer is in Buffalo. Having spent two-plus years with him in Cleveland, he saw firsthand a star in the making. Poyer just needed the right opportunity, Babich believed, and he would take the NFL by storm. That’s why, with the Bills needing help at safety as free agency approached this past March, Babich campaigned hard for Poyer. “I brought his name up to all the people who are above me and said, ‘hey, this is a guy we need to take a look at,’ ” Babich said. “Everybody that was involved in the decision looked at the tape that he did have, listened to my input, and we ended up with Jordan.” Even as a 34-year-old assistant DBs coach, Babich said there was “zero hesitation” on his part to push so hard for his bosses to sign Poyer.

I can't imagine Jackson getting fired in the middle of the season after letting him go 0-16 after 1-15. He makes it through 16 more games before the axe falls. It's either Koetter or Joseph, with Koetter as the favorite.

The pick we got from Houston was used to draft Kyle Williams.

I really expected a Peter Pan link. When EJ Manuel announced his plan where one could buy stock in his career, that's what I said.

In the early days of internet radio broadcasts I didn't have a computer yet, so I got WebTV so that when I got home I could listen to The Coach's daily show on WGR. During his time on the radio the Bills went from an AFC dynasty to a non-playoff team. I thought he was pretty funny & a catharsis for the bad play on the field. He's much funnier to listen to when the team is in decline than when (hopefully) they are on the rise. If you're going to propose a podcast with Dickerson, might as well go all the way & have Jerry Sullivan join him. Back in the day, I used to go to every Bills home game. One time I was driving back to Albany with Petrino & we called Coach up after a late season game (I think it was Donahoe's last home game) where it had snowed & I had security come down because right below our seats was the roof of the indoor seats & I wrote "Fire Mularkey" in the snow and they made me erase it. Coach asked if I had written it in yellow. Another memory of the Coach is when a caller said something he really liked, he adopted it as if he was the originator. After a Bills loss a caller phoned in & called a play "4th & stupid". Soon afterwards the Coach used that phrase often, as if he was the one who originally said it.

They trained together with Jordan Palmer and became good friends. They are the future of the AFC East, Brady will be just a memory as the Patriots take their rightful place in the AFC East cellar for the next decade after Brady hangs them up.

They like him enough to keep him on the practice squad. He may be on the opening day roster, but don't be surprised if Derek Anderson shows up in Buffalo around 9/10 or shortly thereafter when they can sign a veteran & not guarantee the contract.

I still have a yellowed copy of the final paper the Courier Express ever printed on 9/19/1982, since I was living in Buffalo then. When I was in school at Fredonia the Courier would come in around 2 AM at the all night donut place at the D&F plaza. I often waited to get the paper there. I also remember the days in NYC when I could get a Daily News next day edition early in the evening before headed back to LI on the Long Island Railroad. Now I wake up to the morning edition of the Albany Times Union delivered to my computer. Newspapers are going to be on-line only eventually. Why get a hard copy for $2/day when I can get the same thing subscribing on-line for $1/week. The paper saves printing & delivery costs & I save over $50/month reading it on-line.