Albany,n.y.

Great analysis! The only thing I can disagree on is that 2 #1 picks helps to get Luck. Unless Luck totally collapses this year, no team with the #1 pick would trade his rights away. The only way to get Luck is to have the #1 pick when the 2011 season ends.

In recent times, most Presidents are in over their heads when they get in. The only Presidents who weren't were the last two who served as VPs-GHW Bush & Nixon. People hate the guy, but Nixon was one of the most qualified Presidents going into office. Once one gets into the oval office, their whole perspective changes. They are given information that as a candidate, they never could have dreamed of. Anyone who votes for a President without the realization that he cannot change things as much as he's saying he will is being very naive.

You're so far off base here, you're not even in the stadium. Trump is acting like a fool because he thinks he's smarter than anyone else & believes the Republican primary voters are dumb-so he's taking on an issue that too many of them falsely believe in. First to address your 1st statement. The story is a non story because his step grandmother was interviewed through a translator and later in the interview KEPT TELLING THE INTERVIEWER THAT THE INTERPRETER GOT IT WRONG AND HE WAS BORN IN HAWAII. She repeated this multiple times, but Trump prefers to use the "edited version" of the interview rather than the entire interview-a common practice among dishonest politicians. http://blackhistory.com/cgi-bin/blog.cgi?blog_id=200413&cid=10 I don't know how old you are, but in most cases, you can't get an original copy of your birth certificate if it was long ago. I, like Trump, was born in NYC. When I was a teenager, my parents gave me a copy that looks just like the one Trump produced of his own with signatures etc. However, back in the 1950s they didn't have official stamps on the birth certificates & last year I was worried whether it was good enough for official things. So I sent away to NYC to get one that I thought would be more official looking & guess what- they sent me one that looks nothing like the original. it looks a lot like the one that Obama has produced. The birthers don't understand the fact that there are so many people born, that the original documents just aren't available, they have long ago transferred files to computers & will only give you what Obama has produced. Trump is being totally ignorant-not everyone has a copy of their original birth certificate. The more broken up your family is and the more they move, the less likely your parents will give you a copy. Good for Donald he came from a complete family-many Americans can't say the same thing & never were given their birth certificate. Trump outright lies about there being no serial # on the birth certificate Obama has produced, it is just redacted in the version presented. Finally, the birthers ignore the fact that Obama's Hawaiian birth was reported in a local paper based on hospital records. Since Obama would be a citizen even if he was born outside the USA, the only possible reason why anyone would falsely put a birth announcement, with the hospital's consent, in the newspaper is that the week of his birth, they decided he would need to falsify his birth place to be eligible for the presidency. This is ridiculous thinking & has to be in the tinfoil hat category. Trump is a snakeoil salesman with this birther stuff & to even give his talk any credibility mean you're at least considering buying some snake oil-WAKE UP!

Soprano

Andy Rooney is 92 and still has all his marbles http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Andy-Rooney-at-92-Why-would-I-retire-1329726.php

They should have never used the save on Casey, it was needed tonight.

I can't see the Bills gambling on either Newton or Gabbert. They just have too many question marks to draft at #3. It looks like defense with a slight possibility of o-line if they trade down. If they draft a QB at #3, they're nuts.

Ralph is fine, he can afford to have a doctor in his house like the old man in Being There. You can't compare a multi-millionaire of the same age with an average guy.

I'm too old not to, but I always take some tp & wipe the seat just to make sure it's clean. Obvious the guy who got glued to the seat didn't look at it before he sat down.

If the draft is illegal then so is any employer telling an employee where he has to work within that company. The NFL teams are franchisees within what is technically the same corporation-the NFL. They compete on the field, not economically against each other. If the draft is illegal, then so is revenue sharing. These players, by choosing to play in the NFL, agree to abide by the choices of their employers. If they choose not to join their drafting team they have several options-sign with the CFL, UFL etc or stay away from football for a year and get redrafted. They also have the option of getting a real job if they don't want to work for the NFL. If the draft was illegal, why did the courts rule that Maurice Clarett must be permitted to enter the draft as one did several years ago? How can a judge make the league engage in an illegal activity, as he did by forcing Clarett into the draft?

The good news is he thinks Levi Brown can still be a good player. The bad news is he is talking about Arizona's Levi Brown.

The auto accident was before his senior year. Are you referring to another injury?

Ever since you posted this when Scotty sings all I can do is think of his resemblence to Alfred E. Newman and laugh at him.

He's going to claim that he's innocent because the music was too loud to hear anything the officer was saying.

The answer is yes, because you can trade the lesser of the 2 QBs. It worked for Jimmy Johnson when he selected Troy Aikman & Steve Walsh in the same year and decided to keep Aikman & traded Walsh to NO. The problem is if the lesser is a bust & they keep him too long, then his trade value goes way down. Now if the bust is Gabbert-they better draft Luck.

Sounds like the owner of the house doesn't want them there & figured out a way to get them out.

Check again-Brohm isn't on any team.

Anyone who passed on drafting Matt Ryan and instead put the franchise in the hands of Chad Henne should be revising his rules.

Somebody didn't get his dose of "Chan's a genius who has done great work with Fitzpatrick and the offense" kool-aid.

No, there are not. Veteran backups who are solid sign with teams for only 1 of 3 reasons: 1)They think they can beat out the current starter 2)They are willing to be a backup on a Super Bowl contender 3)The team will pay them more than any other team. So, ask yourself which of those 3 possibilities applies to the Bills' available backup job and the answer is none of the above. Name one available solid QB who would want to come here to be Fitzpatrick's backup QB. That's why we have to draft a QB in the 1st 3 rounds and hope he develops into something. Also, assuming that the guy we draft this year doesn't wow the team, expect to see another QB drafted early next year too-especially since 2011 is the final year of Fitzpatrick's contract & unless he really lights it up & has a much higher win%, he's not going to get starter $ from the Bills to lock him up for the 3-6 year deal he'll be in line for in 2012.

Sure they're prepped. As a result, the scores don't mean a lot. I'd rather have a test that measures football intelligence. Right now the Wonderlic is highly skewed to favor people with a high math aptitude. That doesn't always translate to a football field.

Not if the guy who scored the 30 is like JP & his agent coached him up to the 30+. The Wonderlic scores are just too suspect to take at face value when agents get involved. JP's 14 was much more indicative than his 30+ score was. Now imagine if JP had been coached the 1st time & had never taken it before the coaching. That's what we're now seeing with a lot of the QBs & why I can never look at a Wonderlic score & attribute any real meaning to one.

For season ticket holders the Bills don't charge full price for exhibition games. My tickets have a $55 face value & I pay $48 per game. So if you do the math at $55 per regular season game, the exhibition games are approximately half price. Even for non-season ticket holders, they sell one exhibition game as kid's night at reduced prices. Now if there are no exhibition games & the season starts on time, we won't be paying anything for preseasons & I'll get a $48 credit for each exhibition game. That's what I'm hoping for.

In an ironic twist, the son of the editor of the NY Daily News turned himself in after a St Patrick's celebration this weekend got out of control. The News had written an editorial blasting the behavior of the students earlier in the week. http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Son-of-Daily-News-bigwig-busted-in-kegs-and-1170327.php

Pretty offensive for him commenting on your statement, which is really questionable. So you thought what Gailey did was amazing? Why? What did Gailey do with Fitzpatrick that was so amazingly different than what Fitzpatrick had done in the past when he started in 2009? Sure he improved on his stats a bit, but amazing? In order for Gailey to do something amazing with someone, you need a baseline to compare it to-that's just a fact. If you can't understand that then don't attack someone's reading comprehension because you don't understand there HAS TO BE A COMPARISON to prior achievements before a conclusion that Gailey did anything amazing with Fitz can be reached. If you're attacking his use of the word offense, you're just splitting hairs, because you included the offense in your statement.