Albany,n.y.

The best part is that Al Davis & the Raiders still have the rights to Los Angeles & it won't be easy to move another team there, Bills included.

That's the Quarterbacks Coach's job.

It really doesn't matter how many coaches we've had, whatever way you want to define them. The bottom line is that with so many different interpretations on the number of coaches we've had, to get on Buddy Nix for his lack of certainty on the count is ridiculous. That was my point, not who is right or wrong in the count-because with the different ways to count them, there is no right or wrong answer among 4 or 5 choices.

Coaching isn't what did in Trent here. The beginning of the end was the hit in Arizona. After that he became a frightened QB who has never recovered. Trent was injury prone before that hit. That hit and subsequent injuries made him more scared-not the coaching. Now if he had the O-line the Jets have, he might have been a little more courageous, but each hit, and each injury reinforced the reasons that Trent played scared. The bottom line is the O-line and Trent's injury history is responsible, not our coaches. Some QBs can recover if they get a good line in front of them. At one point I thought Kerry Collins was never going to be the same after he got his jaw broken. Eventually he got behind a good line and had some success after he got over the fear. On the other hand, a guy like Ken O'Brien just got too shellshocked and eventually was out of the league without ever recovering his courage to play QB.

Everybody is different. Marv was coaching in his 70s, Ronald Reagan was President in his 70s, Ralph was in his 70s during the Bills Super Bowl years. You can't compare Marv, Ronnie, Ralph, Buddy or any individual 70 year old to the ones you know. They are probably retired-Buddy isn't. Buddy has gotten the double whammy around here by his detractors-he's either too old or he sounds too different to them.

Sure he did, every time JP would clean up a piece of litter, Edwards would drive by & throw two pieces of litter there to take it's place-as long as he didn't have to throw the litter more than 10 yards.

It's not 15, but it all depends on how you do the count. You can count as few as 16 counting Gailey, 17 if you add Pitts when Marv was out with prostate cancer, 19 if you count the two terms each of Saban & Johnson separately. Different men as Bills coaches: 1) Ramsey 2) Saban (twice) 3) Collier 4) Johnson (twice) 5) Rauch 6) Ringo 7) Knox 8) Stephenson 8) Bullough 10) Levy 11)Pitts 12) Phillips 13) Williams 14) Mularkey 15) Jauron 16) Fewell 17) Gailey By the way, the Steelers have had 6, not 4 since 1960: Parker, Nixon, Austin, Noll, Cowher, Tomlin.

I've never heard of a GM having to know how many coaches preceeded his latest hire. Do you prefer a guy who knows football or would you rather have a team historian who can tell you all the about the team's history & can't tell a 1st round talent from an undraftable free agent? Why are you the only one who thinks he came off as a goofball? It's not Buddy, it's you.

Because QBs who grew up in California have done so well in Buffalo.

There are so many people around here saying "bet on ..." and it's always something with less than a 50% chance of happening. I'd love to be a bookie and take those bets.

This is typical Ralph is cheap nonsense. They're not cutting the guy who is the perfect #2 for a guy in the last year of his contract-there are still people around the organization who experienced the disaster of JP waiting on the sidelines for his sentence in Buffalo to end & they won't let that happen again. Trent is going to have to do a lot to make the team. About the only way he stays is if we draft a guy who is so not ready the rookie ends up #3. There's no way Trent & Fitzpatrick are both on the roster unless one is starting, and Fitzpatrick is a lock to be back on this team next year.

Most likely QB situation: 1) New Guy 2) Fitzpatrick 3) Brohm Here's why: 3)Edwards is gone because he's done as the starter & you can't go from starter to #3 on the team you used to start for. Additionally, your #3 should be a cheap player without a lot of experience, but could develop into a #2 within a year or 2, a "project" -that's Brohm. 2) Fitzpatrick is the perfect #2, a smart guy with a good arm, who can fill in for several games & keep the team afloat, but not the answer at #1. If the new guy is a rookie 1st or 2nd round pick, Fitz can start the season & new guy eased in after the bye. 1) New Guy-If he's a veteran, like McNabb, he's entrenched at #1, no questions asked because that's what we'd be acquiring him for. If he's a rookie 1st or 2nd rounder, he starts if ready, otherwise he's #2 behind Fitz for the 1st part of the season.

Quinn has the same problem that Edwards has-he can't play any length of time without getting injured. You just can't rely on guys like that to be your starter. That's why Edwards will be gone or not be counted on to be here beyond this year & Quinn won't be brought in as his replacement.

I don't see anything wrong with a believer like Tebow being anti-abortion, especially after his mother chose to ignore medical opinions that he should be aborted. What's he supposed to think, that his mother should have aborted him? I'm sure most people whose mothers were recommended to abort them & didn't, regardless of their other beliefs, are anti-abortion. He can do whatever he wants as long as he stays within the law, and there has never been any question of him not being a totally law abiding citizen.

Here's the main problem with your premise: In his post-press conference interview on the Bills website, Gailey was asked when he would have the QBs evaluated, he said: Before the draft & somewhere during free agency. So if he plans on doing the evaluation before the draft, and there are no live practices before the draft and, as you state there's no film to study him, how is Gailey going to evaluate him? He's not going into camp on a wing & a prayer. He will base his decisions on the QBs before the draft & will decide whether he wants to go with either Fitzpatrick or Edwards or move on. Most likely he'll decide that Fitzpatrick is a viable #2 (as you predict), then he'll have to decide if Edwards is a lost cause or not. If he does see Edwards as a lost cause, the team will either acquire another team's QB before the 1st camp, or draft a guy on day 1. Any way you look at it, with the timetable established, Brohm is nothing more than an afterthought. Whatever the reason, the Bills decision makers don't view Brohm as a viable option to start next season. That's why Gailey only mentioned 2 and can make his evaluation before he ever gets to see Brohm on the field in front of him. Just like the rest of the pros who didn't bat an eye when he hit the waiver wire. One more thing: Gailey also said: After the first year. you have to be a pro. Brohm is going on his 3rd year and hasn't proven to anyone but his fans who liked his demeanor while putting 3 points on the board in Atlanta that he is ready to be a pro, nevermind starting. The more one hears what Gailey says, the less of a factor Brohm becomes.

Wake up! The talent evaluators in the NFL, not the fans, nnot me, have said through their actions he's a bust. Did it ever occur to the Brohm supporters that the only reason they tried to match the offer was because that late in the season they wanted a possible 3rd stringer who knew their system as an insurance policy & nothing more? As long as he was on their practice squad they had that insurance, but not if he left. If they were so high on Brohm, they would have exceeded our offer-they didn't. I don't have any "Miss Cleo" skills, what I have is the abilty to read. Read what Nix & Gailey said (hint:it's bolded)-Brohm is not a factor in their thinking about next season's QB.

Of all the things said by Nix & Gailey, one thing should jolt the people who think Brian Brohm is our QB of the future into reality: Gailey was noncommittal on the quarterback situation. He and Nix have discussed the status of Ryan Fitzpatrick and Trent Edwards, but Gailey said he needs time to study the players on film before making an honest evaluation of them. "I know both guys have had some success playing in the NFL, but they have not done it for a length of time with consistency," Gailey said. "Can they? We're going to decide that." Brohm was not mentioned, because that's how little he is regarded by the guys in charge. He was a 3rd stringer plucked off a practice squad after nobody else was even willing to claim him off waivers just 1 year after being a 2nd round pick. It's time to face reality, Brohm fans. He may be YOUR starting QB for 2010, but he will not be the Bills starting QB.

Brohm won't be on the Bills roster in a year-bank on that!

Wiki is only showing NFL. He coached a long time before 1991. He was the head coach of San Antonio in the USFL's last season in 1985. " Bates began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at his alma mater, Tennessee, in 1968. He later had stops at Southern Mississippi, Villanova, Kansas State, West Virginia and Texas Tech. After working for three seasons in the USFL with the San Antonio Gunslingers (for whom he was the head coach in 1985) and the Arizona Outlaws, Bates returned to the collegiate level at Tennessee in 1989 and then Florida in 1990." http://www.buccaneers.com/news/newsdetail.aspx?newsid=6922

Marty is like the girl who keeps turning you down when you ask her out, then gets PO'd when she sees you with another woman. All Marty had to do was say "I'm interested" when the Bills coaching job opened. Instead he insisted he was through coaching. WTF is his game?

Dick Jauron -Ralph is already paying him.

I would love to go back & look at the articles from the media folks 1st when we went in house & hired Polian & then when he brought his mentor, Marv Levy in as the head coach.

I travel to WNY, see friends, make a weekend out of it. Maybe the fact that I'm not in WNY and don't take it for granted helps. When the Bills win I'm entertained, when the Bills lose I laugh at them & I'm entertained. I don't know of any other form of sports entertainment that is as enjoyable as going to an NFL game. I even found a UFL game I went to entertaining. I just love going to football games.

Screw you, I'm renewing.