Albany,n.y.

Trent will never be champion of bad QBing by year's end because if he continues his bad play he will be benched by the week after the bye. Then Fitzpatrick will get his chance. If he can't win, we'll end the season with Brohm-who will show all his fans why the only QB he was better than is Levi Brown, a guy who can't even get a spot on a practice squad.

How can I be embarrassed? I've seen worse than this. I sat through games coached by Jim Ringo, Kay Stephenson, Hank Bullough, Gregg Williams etc coaching teams a lot worse than this. I've seen bad quarterbacking by guys named Marangi, Ferragamo, Mathison, Johnson, Losman & Edwards. Lou Saban/Jack Kemp, Chuck Knox/Joe Ferguson & Marv Levy/Jim Kelly were the abberations, what we're seeing now is the norm. A coach is only as good as his QB. The only QB on the roster who will be on an NFL roster in 3 years is Fitzpatrick, and all he is, is a decent #2.

Green Bay is going to be the darlings of every suicide pool player this week. I'd put GB in now in the one I'm in, but I picked San Diego & I have to wait on tonight's game before I put this upcoming week's pick in.

Except for this season where there is no cap, there has been a rookie salary cap for years. It's based on the number of draft choices & where you pick. Anyone who thinks there will be a radical change in rookie salaries for 2011 is wrong. The draft is in April. The anticipated negotiations aren't expected until camps open in July. If you think there will be a new rookie cap, much more restrictive than the old one, please explain why, when there will be no new contract with the union at the time of the draft, there will be one in 2011. More likely, 2011 will be the last year of high rookie salaries. It's 2012 when rookie salaries may be lower, not 2011.

Within 10 TDs at halftime, definitely!

Smith is on the San Francisco 49ers.

They don't. They just didn't think any QB in this year's draft could. They're not going to give up a potential top 10 pick. Now if the Bills start off 5-1, then they could think of making a trade, but the last 5-1 start ended up 7-9.

The loser is in for a long stretch before they get a victory. Miami may not win a game until November or December if they lose & the Bills might in a very similar situation.

My income is the same when I go to a game in NJ or NE as it is when I go to Buffalo. I just end paying more.

If you go this year to the Izod Center for a Nets game, you literally will be the only one there. The rest of the people will be in Newark. I went to a Nets game last year & there was virtually no traffic getting out of the sports complex. I don't plan on going to Newark, maybe Brooklyn one of these years.

St Louis over Arizona

He will triple last year's total!

Not a popular pick: I have us 3-13 with wins opening day vs Miami then wins vs Detroit & Cleveland. Here's my entire NFL: AFC East New England 9 7 NY Jets 8 8 Miami 6 10 Buffalo 3 13 AFC North Baltimore 12 4 Cincinnati 9 7 WC Cleveland 8 8 Pittsburgh 8 8 AFC South Houston 13 3 Indianapolis 11 5 WC Tennessee 8 8 Jacksonville 5 11 AFC West San Diego 13 3 Kansas City 7 9 Oakland 7 9 Denver 3 13 NFC East Dallas 10 6 Philadelphia 9 7 WC NY Giants 7 9 Washington 6 10 NFC North Green Bay 11 5 Minnesota 9 7 Chicago 7 9 Detroit 4 12 NFC South New Orleans 11 5 Atlanta 10 6 WC Tampa Bay 8 8 Carolina 7 9 NFC West St. Louis 8 8 San Francisco 7 9 Arizona 6 10 Seattle 6 10 Playoffs AFC Baltimore over Cincinnati New England over Indianapolis Houston over New England San Diego over Baltimore San Diego over Houston NFC Philadelphia over St. Louis Dallas over Atlanta Green Bay over Philadelphia New Orleans over Dallas Green Bay over New Orleans Super Bowl San Diego over Green Bay

I was looking at the parking cost at stadium lots & realized that it's not just the tickets that are low priced in Orchard Park. Parking starts at $25 per game, but it's even lower for season ticket holders. If one goes to every game, using the coupons, counting the exhibition game the 8 games cost $140. That's 7 games x $20 + the free parking game, that equals $17.50 per game. If you're like me & give your preseason tickets away, it goes down to $17.14 per game (6 games X $20 =$120 for the season). So for $120 I get a full season of parking. Now some games I'll go with others who will park in cheaper lots, so the cost will be even lower. Now let's contrast that to the 2 other teams in the division that are a day drive from Buffalo (for me they're closer to drive to than the Bills are). Jets: Season ticket holders $250 for the season. If you pay individually per game $45. Patriots (I couldn't find season ticket prices for parking) $40 per game. When I go to NE this season for the Bills game, I'm going to pay $50 to park in a private lot because the stadium lots are too difficult to get out of. The private lots near the stadium charge more because they're so much easier to get out of. The last 2 times I went I got burried deep in the lot & it took forever to get out the 1st time. The second time the Bills sucked so badly I was disgusted and I couldn't stand the prospect of an hour or so in their lot so I didn't wait until the end to leave, and got out without the wait. I didn't go to Monday night last year. Considering the private lots that are cheaper & the real cost of parking, parking at the Bills games is relatively cheap.

He wasn't considered a bust with the Patriots. He was the Patriots starting QB from the time he got there until he was injured in 1975. He started every game his 1st 4 seasons in the NFL. When Grogan performed well after Plunkett was injured in 1975 he was shipped to SF for 4 draft choices 3 firsts and a second-hardly what a team would pay to get a bust. The problems he had were with the 49ers and he got cut after starting for 2 seasons. When the Raiders picked him up in 1978 he didn't play that season & had a very hot & cold career the rest of the way.

I'm going to that game. I'm doing an NFL weekend doubleheader with the Bills on Sunday & the Jets/Ravens on Monday night. I got a bus trip for $139 out of Albany. The bus company has seasons in the upper deck where there are no seat licenses. I'm leaving right after the Bills game so I can get home Sunday night & not have to worry about something going wrong Monday. I wanted to see the new stadium & I figured I'd pick a game that does not conflict with a Bills game.

This game is one of the Bills' best opportunities of getting a win. Home against a traditionally slow starting team that is all banged up and got whipped the last time they came here. I still can't see too many wins, but this one I put in the W column.

If stadiums were paid for the same way one would pay to construct an ordinary commercial piece of real estate, they wouldn't run into these problems. You don't take a 50 year mortgage on a building with an economic life of 25-30 years. You tie the loan to projected revenues from that building, not a separate building. It's just simple economics, no banker would give a construction loan to someone who doesn't have a projected revenue to pay for the loan and wouldn't extend the loan beyond the building's viability. If you build a stadium where the revenue pays for the debt within a reasonable time frame you don't get a demolished stadium with debt remaining.

I hope that was a lame attempt at sarcasm.

Keeping his options open. He may still hope to get another NFL job.

When they build a new stadium & demolish the Ralph. Nobody's getting on the field anymore. The last time the goalposts came down, fans started cutting up the turf & the team decided that enough was enough.

Is beating out Levi Brown much better? I went back & forth on that one, depending on what I heard about Brown, but I was always adamant that Fitz wouldn't be cut & would be no worse than 2nd string.

1)Are you ever going to run out of excuses defending Brohm? I bet 20 years after he's out of the league, which will be about 21-22 years from now, someone will find you at the end of a bar still making excuses for the guy. 2)Troy Smith is on the SF 49ers: http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=nfp-20100907_49ers_sign_troy_smith_cut_nate_davis

Years ago the Texans drafted Drew Henson in the 6th round with the hopes of trading him for something better down the road. Casserly said when they did this that a 6th rounder has about a 10% chance of making it, so it wasn't much of a gamble. Now I don't know if Casserly just pulled that 10% out of the air or if he was stating it based on actual statistics.

It's the only time I've ever been on the field.