Albany,n.y.

He's in the UFL with Omaha.

No need for changes this week, it's a road game. No intitial changes at QB for the Jets. I think they know the 1st winnable game is home vs Jacksonville. So, what will happen is Edwards will start vs the Jets and with the Jets D, our OL & Trent's injury history, Gailey will let nature take it's course. As a result, Fitzpatrick will start the Jacksonville game.

I agree. That's why on January 2nd, if a loss at the Jets clinches the #1 pick, I'll be rooting for the Jets. While I understand the players want to win & will be trying, I don't understand the fans who want to feel good with victory 2 or 3 of the season when in the long run it could cost the team the impact player they so desperately need to start turning things around. There was a thread where someone listed the #1 pick QBs since 1970, I did the math & 6 of 18 (33%) ended up winning the Super Bowl at least once. 4 of the 18 (22%) won the Super Bowl more than once.

Jauron had a pretty good group of assistants. Cantavolos, Cross, & Sanders were retained by Gailey and using the preseason positions for Fewell (NYG) & Van Pelt (TB), those 2 plus April(Phil), Kugler (Pit), Studesville (Den) Brown(SF) & Tolbert (Car) all got comparable jobs with other teams. Matt Sheldon got a lesser job with Minnesota & Jauron is DB coach in Philadelphia. That's 12 guys still in the NFL. That staff was not as bad as the people who think Gailey & his staff was an instant upgrade guaranteed to produce more victories believed. Fewell, who was coaching for his life did everything he thought possible to win. In the process, he decided that Fitzpatrick was his best QB to try to win games with. 1st he benched Edwards, then after Brohm played in Atlanta & some wanted Fewell to see more by starting Brohm against Indy, Fewell was more concerned with winning & went back to Fitz. Maybe Perry knew something that Gailey is just finding out-Fitzpatrick is the best QB of the group.

33% of those QBs have won at least 1 Super Bowl, 22% have won multiple Super Bowls. Another (Bledsoe) played in one & was on the bench for another after contributing to the team getting there in the AFC Championship game. If the right QB is available at #1 you take him. Unfortunately the next great one may be Luck. If Luck stays & we draft the wrong guy this year, we won't be able to take Luck a year later, unless we really have the stones to say Luck is so much better that we jettison the guy we take this year.

The guy has never thrown a TD pass since college & he's had three exhibition seasons & 1 NFL start. Everything you say about him is from your dreams. If he was half the player you think he is wouldn't the 3 coaching staffs that have rejected him as anything but a 3rd stringer & the GMs who all let him sail through waivers last September have noticed all the things you dream of at night? You make him sound like Bill Brasky, when he's closer to Billy Jo Hobert.

Anyone who picked us to have a winning record: What were you thinking?

Schobel took it with him into retirement.

"Chan Gailey & his staff are such an upgrade over Jauron & his we can't possibly win fewer than 6 games"

No 1st rounder in 2005. IF we hadn't traded up for JP & waited another year for the QB of the future, Rodgers would have fallen to us.

If GB offers a 3rd for Lynch, take it. No way we get a 1st.

Let's put Brohm in and guarantee 0-16. At least with Fitz we can win once in a while. If they try to play Brohm the rest of the year, Gailey will get fired. I can see trying Brohm for 2-3 weeks until he Marangis his way out of the NFL. Just say NO to Brohm!

I've seen worse. I was at the 1985 Bills @ Jets game. Bills up 3-0 early, lost 42-3. 2nd game of the season too.

Go to the Bills website & read the depth chart. It's there in black & white. Just because Trent sucks doesn't make No TD Brohm any better. He sucks worse than Trent-let that sink in -pretty sad isn't it.

Fitzpatrick is ahead of Brohm on the depth chart. Brohm sucks, give it up already. If they do anything, the Bills should cut Brohm & bring in someone who can actually start a game & get a touchdown. Brohm=no touhdowns. The guy has NEVER thrown a TD pass even though he's played against guys in exhibition games who are now directing traffic in the parking lot.

The game is on in Albany, but my fear is if it gets out of hand, they'll switch to another game, so I'm keeping this thread in mind.

For pregame, I prefer 97 Rock. More analysis, fewer phone calls, less whining about how bad the team is etc. For postgame, I want to hear the coach & QB press conference, but then I do not want to hear all the guys in the locker room being interviewed, so I'll switch to WGR until the locker room stuff ends on WGRF. WGR's postgame stuff lasts longer, so eventually I end up back on WGR55 by the end of the day. Pretty soon, when they change the clocks, if I'm at the game I'll lose WGR sooner since I can't switch to another station further east & still get postgame coverage. Today I'm home listening to the pregame & postgame on the internet. The local Albany station doesn't do much pregame & doesn't do any postgame so on days like today, it's all internet pre & post game for me.

I was thinking about the underclassmen who may declare for the draft since Luck is emerging as the best QB prospect. Here's their dilemma: If they come out this year, they are going into a season which may be delayed or worse. Do they want to waste their rookie year when they can go back to college & wait a year? Here's the problem if they wait-Chances are pretty good that because the draft is months before the season, the NFL couldn't incorporate anything to limit the big rookie contracts until the 2012 draft. So what is better-come out & not play, or come out & make sure you get the big $. Depending on the player, it could go either way. Most of us would take the money, but some may not want to lose time in their career development & are looking towards the future rather than short term money. Personally, I can't see the 2011 season getting washed away. The NFL is not the NHL. Also, the union is already starting to vote on decertification which means the NFL can't lock the players out.

He fixed the article about 1973 for the final copy. I can't wait for Jeff Garcia's debut in the UFL next week. For a developmental league they sure have a lot of washed up or never were QBs. The starting QBs are Garcia, Culpepper, Josh McCown, Tim Rattay & Brooks Bollinger.

I remember someone posted they wanted the Bills to get Culpepper in the offseason. This ones for you: http://www.courant.com/sports/football/hc-colonials-sacramento-0919-20100918,0,5092249.story On a side note, someone sent out a press release that this was the 1st professional football game since 1973 & this guy & another guy on the UFL website wrote that into the story. However, the UFL played there last year-I was there & the sportswriter who wrote this was there too. Can't this reporter, Paul Doyle, even remember something he attended last year?

It feels great. In the late 1980s & through most of the 90s there were plenty of games that we knew we were going to see a win upon entering the then Rich Stadium. It's only since the name was changed to Ralph Wilson stadium that that stopped.

Skorpan would give Ellison a run for his money.

We are because with our schedule, we will end up with the worst record. Here are the problem areas: QB: We have 1 decent career backup(Fitzpatrick) and 2 bums-bum #1 starts and bum #3 was lucky that Levi Brown was so bad that he was able to easily beat him out. OT: People can dream all they want but Bell is a long way from a decent LT & Green is worse than a guy we could pick up from the UFL. Backups are GB reject Meredith, who is the best of the guys on the bench; Wang, a rookie with a cast on his hand who hasn't played yet, and pick a guard to move if anyone else goes down. TE: Stupar, a guy we cut last year & Martin a guy the Dolphins cut. We're waiting for S.Nelson to save the day. DL: Starters 2 of 3 guys who are learning a new position and a couple of rookies. LB: With the Poz injury-1 guy plaing the position for the 1st time, 2 guys cut from other teams & now Ellison starting. Maybin-don't get me started! This group reminds me of the bad LBs of the mid 1980s. I remember the Bills picking up George Cumby off waivers and immediately penciling him into the starting lineup. This team is the worst Bills team, talent-wise, since 1984. I predicted 3-13 before the season started & I now think that's too high since one of the 3 wins I had was opening day. It's sad, but it's true. A lot of fans got delusional in the off season thinking that the coaching change would erase the lack of talent. By the time this season is over, some may view last year's staff as miracle workers getting 6 wins (5 + Indy giving us one) out of that team. I'm in it for the long haul, so if we're as bad as I think we are, I'll just laugh at the comedy and hope for better days in the future. In 1984 we were horrible, the 1985 draft brought Bruce Smith, Andre Reed, Frank Reich, all three were on 4 Super Bowl teams. Bad teams do get better after they bottom out. The reason we've been so bad is that we keep missing impact players by 3-5 picks then reach and get backups or busts instead of starters in the 1st round.

That never stopped them from coming during the Kelly years. We had Paup, Spielman, Early and others come here to play with a Super Bowl contender. Just like Miami in the NBA, NFL players want to play with guys who can team with them to get a championship. 4 of the 7 states with no income tax don't have NFL teams. The lower cost of living when buying homes & doing other things in WNY offsets their taxes enough that it's not a factor. So save that stuff for the political board, it has little to do with why players aren't coming here. When I sat in the stands on opening day the 1st thing I noticed was that our #1 picks from 2007, 2008 & 2009 all started the game on the bench.

He didn't even try for the Conservative party line in the primary. Now there are rumors he's trying to get Lazio to drop out & give him the line, even though Lazio won the primary. Since Paladino has no chance in the general election, it's as good a year as any to get him out of the Republicans' system. Maybe next time the Republican party, which didn't run a viable candidate against Spitzer 4 years ago, will finally wake up, remember how they were able to get Pataki elected for 12 years, and give the voters a real choice for Governor 4 years from now. I'm getting tired of State & local elections where one party conceeds the election to the other. When the Republican leadership originally picked Lazio they were giving up the election. Paladino will certainly run a much more vigorous campaign than Lazio would have, but his statements will make him unelectable. For example, he ran a commercial where he promised state cuts & then he promised to create jobs. Now that may play in other parts of the state, but anyone who knows the Albany area would have had enough sense to know that cutting the state workforce will do nothing but have a ripple effect on employment in this area that will only lead to job loss, not job creation. At least in Albany, state cuts mean more unemployment, not less.