Albany,n.y.

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.

Darrick Holmes was traded for a 4th when he was in the last year of his contract. Lynch is worth at least that if not more as soon as a contender has a RB go down & Lynch is proven to back to 100% physically. I think it's only a matter of time before one of our veteran backs gets traded & Bell is promoted to the roster.

If Gailey wins 3 or 4 does that make Jauron/Fewell geniuses? Our schedule is much tougher than last season, we have one proven WR and no TEs. Spiller can't do it all by himself.

#1 next year?

The only thing I'm surprised at is the number of people here who couldn't see Fitz was always going to be here & be no worse than #2 QB on the depth chart.

Do you mean Lake Bell, the actress who has been on Boston Legal & most recently How To Make It in America?

The map shows Albany getting the Bills game. For me it doesn't matter because I'll be at the game

How's Graham Harrell doing? Cut more times than Nicole & Ron.

The teams who watched the tape of Thursday's game were surprised the guy was even drafted, and the Bills, after watching the tapes were pissed that they drafted him. Anyone who questions the Bills judgement just has to look at Brown's performance in the Lions game. He Marangi'd any chance he had. When he calms down he should try to get himself to the UFL before there are no jobs left there either. Brohm has been there throughout camp and did enough to make the team. Why bring in Smith? LeFevour was claimed on waivers by the Cincinnati Bengals, so he's not available.

Claimed by the Bengals, from KFFL: Bengals | Dan LeFevour claimed Comment (0) Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:21:54 -0400 The Cincinnati Bengals have announced they have claimed free-agent QB Dan LeFevour (Bengals) off waivers. Read more: http://www.kffl.com/hotw/NFL?page=1#ixzz0yhNrlsdU

These guys all get a shot with free agency. A good example is Shaun Hill, who is now Detroit's #2. He was on the bench in Minnesota & got his chance after he left for SF. Besana actually got his shot in the USFL after the Bills let him go, he was the starting QB for the Oakland Invaders the 1st 2 years of the league, but in the 3rd & final year, the Invaders merged with the Michigan Panthers and Besana ended up backing up Bobby Hebert.

The open competition was in mini-camp, it was for the coaches & players involved, it was not changed during preseason and it was not for the fans to see their favorite QB play with the starters. People seem to forget that when Chan arrived, Ryan Fitzpatrick was #1 on the depth chart, not Trent Edwards. Edwards showed enough in mini-camp to get the edge on the depth chart, Levi Brown showed the least & was dropped from any further consideration once camp opened. The order didn't change in camp & preseason, mainly because Edwards continued to outplay all the other guys, as confirmed by our camp visitors who posted their observations here. Edwards earned the right to start every preseason game, Brohm did not-it's as simple as that. Also if Trent goes down or sucks, Fitzpatrick will get 1st crack at starting, not Brohm.

I think virtually every QB gets his chance sooner or later. That's because teams are always looking to get maximum value out of their backups. While the hit rate isn't that great on traded QBs, it's no worse than a mid 1st round QB. We have the Robs, but we also get the Schaubs and Brunells who have productive careers after being traded away from the team that they were backups on. Brady would have taken over for Bledsoe sooner or later because he was their best QB in camp in 2001. Between preseason & practice, all QBs get enough of a look that sooner or later their talent is recognized. Likewise, guys like Gary Marangi eventually get the opportunity to show how bad they are & are quickly out of the league as soon as they are exposed.

Parcells is a great head coach, he's not coaching the Dolphins. He'll be in the HOF for his coaching, not his front office abilities. White was one of the stupidest draft picks last year. Who spends a 2nd rounder on a QB whose only ability is to run a wildcat offense? Wildcat offenses work better with a RB who can hit an occasional throw, not a wildcat QB. Ronnie Brown was already their wildcat QB, it was a totally wasted pick.

Bingo! Ever since Brohm got here there has been a group that has been clamoring for him to become the starter. I also think that many, obviously not all, were the same ones telling us "JP got screwed" back in 2007. Some of the rest are guys who liked him in college & think his college game can equate in the same way to the NFL. All this time they've spun things like a top. They've made more excuses why he is so much better than he actually is. The Trent haters are bad enough, but the worst ones are the anti-Fitzpatrick crowd who have been insisting all offseason Fitzpatrick would get cut, which when you look at the way he won with little last season, defied all logic. The majority of the Fitz is getting cut crowd broke into 2 groups-the Ralph is too cheap for the #2 QB to be the highest paid, by far, QB on the roster & the Fitz isn't pretty enough on the field group. Now from my posts, some would consider me anti-Brohm, but in reality it's his fanatics who are driving me crazy, not Brohm himself. All Brohm has done since he got here is work hard & try-I have nothing against that. Here's what I think is a fair assessment of Brohm: He's nowhere nearly as good as his fans think he is. Right now he's 3rd string for a reason, Fitzpatrick & Edwards are better NFL QBs today than Brian Brohm. Can Brohm improve? Maybe, but no QB drafted as highly as Brohm who was cut in his 1st contract has ever amounted to much, so the odds are against him. His biggest strength is his ability to stand in & hit short passes-sort of a poor man's Trent Edwards. His biggest weakness, one I haven't seen discussed by his fans-He is too inconsistant on his sidelines passes, the longer the throw the more inaccurate he gets. It appears that he does not have a good feel for what it takes to keep the ball inbounds. Too many sidelines passes are too far out of bounds for the receiver to get a pass completion that counts.

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http://www.profootballweekly.com/2010/09/04/uninspiring-presence-brings-leinart-down-in-desert Sound Familiar? His reluctance to throw the deep ball and tendency to instead settle for check-downs became a bright red flag that was impossible for Whisenhunt to ignore.

It's not the money! The reason none of these veteran players will come here is because they can choose which team to sign with & at this point in their careers, they want to sign with a contender, not a rebuilding team. Another reason from the Bills side and once again it's not about the money: why sign a stopgap veteran during a rebuilding year when you need to develop young players? IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BILLS BEING CHEAP!!!!!!