Albany,n.y.

This has to be one of the most absurd sentences ever posted on this board. It's called a scoop. Obviously Sal scooped all the others. I bet if some guy came from the future & gave you the Super Bowl score, you'd say-"So what's the big deal, everyone will know it in February. You're just telling me a score that would be eventually reported anyway."

Mort reported the same thing yesterday that Sal reported days before. I bet ESPN called it a Mort exclusive.

Jim Fassel will be the Raiders coach next year. His son & his QB are already there. JP was signed on Fassel's recommendation.

What the Redskins are doing is totally slapping the face of the rule. 1st they interview somebody to be GM to comply with the rule-someone we never heard about-was he even qualified or was he possibly a player's dad. Next they have to comply with the rule in order to bring Shanahan in next week, so they have already interviewed Jerry Gray. Gray doesn't feel insulted. 1) because it gets his name out there 2)because he's an idiot. There is one time the Rooney Rule that worked. The guy who invented it practiced what he preached. Rooney had two viable in house candidates he could have easily hired, given a token interview to Jerry Gray, hired either Whisenhunt or Grimm, who have helped turn around Arizona, won last year's Super Bowl, and nobody would have batted an eye. Instead the Rooneys took their own rule seriously, interviewed with an open mind, brought in a qualified candidate, hired the guy & won a Super Bowl with him. Right now, the only team I've seen that really used the Rooney Rule correctly was Pittsburgh. Other teams that have hired minority coaches would have hired the same guy without the Rooney Rule. Just like the Washingtons of the NFL will pick their guys before the process & then bring an idiot like Jerry Gray in for an interview. Just like the Bills had to interview John Guy, a guy who shouldn't be in the NFL in any capacity, and if they want a big name like Cowher, have to interview Perry Fewell before signing Cowher. Unless they're talking the salary part, there's no way Perry Fewell can out interview Cowher. All Cowher has to do is point to his Super Bowl ring & he's already got Perry beat.

That will work. I've never been able to drink much without getting sick, so I've never had a hangover because every time I got drunk I threw up. When you have my tolerance & throw up a few times without ever enjoying it, it ends your drinking days pretty quickly. Can you still get a hangover after barfing up the alcohol?

Depending on the strength of the local stations, you may need an antenna with an electic boost. I think that's what people might mean who refer to "digital antennas". I have a tv in my computer room that I don't have hooked up to cable. On some stations I have to turn the booster on my antenna up. Others come in fine without the boost. All high def broadcasts come in great.

Guy had to be interviewed to comply with the Rooney Rule. Now we can fire Guy once & for all.

For Gregg Williams it was the loss at home vs Houston, when someone on the Bills sideline (probably Gregg) accepted the penalty that gave Houston another down & time enough to keep the ball long enough for the clock to hit 0:00. If he had declined the penalty, we get the ball back before the end of the game. London Fletcher was on the field waving his hands to decline the penalty screaming something like no no no!

Sal has some very good sources. The source on this one is not inside the Bills' organization, but he has 100% confidence in his source. On other boards, he's broken the Lee Evans extension & the TO signing. Here's what he's saying (through his interpreter on the stream, they're trying to get him live). The team has a very stable organization, there is a succession plan in place which involves the team being kept in the family & not sold. With this stability, Cowher has had talks with the Bills and is interested in the job. This does not mean he's going to take it, but he's had ongoing talks.

Brohm's big time arm is no better than Fitzpatrick's. It looked like every long throw was off target. His arm is like a kicker who gets the distance but is either wide right or left. The only reason Brohm is intriguing is because we haven't seen enough of him yet. Give him a few games & the intrigue will be disgust-just like the other three QBs on the roster-brought to you by the dynamic duo of John Guy & Tom Modrak. That said, they are crazy if they don't start Brohm. Starting Fitzpatrick doesn't serve any purpose other than Perry Fewell trying to get another W on his resume against a team that doesn't care if they lose 40-0 this Sunday. They really need to see what Brohm can do in the elements since his 1st game was indoors.

Brohm looked better than Painter. Wooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

I agree. On the interception in the endzone, he had a step on the d-back. How was he supposed to break it up while anticpating the ball hitting him in stride? I think anyone who expected him top break that up must think he's a contortionist.

When Kelly, Thomas, Reed, Smith etc rested in our Super Bowl years, did you feel the same way? The worst part is this might cause us to win another meaningless game, resulting in a drop out of the top 10 in the draft. The best part is guys like me who travel long distances prefer 1:00 games so we can get home & go to work the next day.

You can't play when you're on the practice squad. Now tell me why would Indy cut or IR anyone to activate Drew Willy off the practice squad? I hope your idea didn't come from listening to the WGR postgame show when whoever was doing it said the Colts might start Sorgi (who is on IR & can't possibly play) and then replace him with Drew Willy (who is also currently ineligible). It looks like Painter will start and Indy will be tanking the game-just like Polian used to do when he was one of us.

No way Mangini stays in Cleveland. Holmgren wants his own guy. Cable is most likely gone in Oakland with Fassel in. Dallas will go big name if they replace Wade, who of all the teams listed is most likely to keep their coach. The reason I don't see Fox here is because I think Ralph Wilson still holds it against him for quitting as Al Davis' DC in preseason years ago.

Only if they can bowl-plenty of lanes to practice on while awaiting your pink slip from 1 Bills Drive.

Although I don't have a lot of optimism about Brian Brohm, I still say give him the next 2 games as the starter-the entire games no matter what he does. Our coach obviously doesn't see it this way. He's still holding out hope that Fitzpatrick can play tomorrow. Also, by his actions it appears that unless Brohm lights it up if he does start on Sunday, Perry will put Fitz back out there as QB for the Indy game. This is following in the same chicken -s##t manner of his predecessors. A couple of seasons ago, Jauron kept Fred Jackson on the bench and kept letting the A-Train get his 2-3 yards per carry, until Thomas got injured and Jackson was finally given his chance. Then last season, instead of trying a healthy McKelvin, he put a McGee out there on 1 leg against Miami, resulting in Ted Ginn Jr. having a career day. Perry has continued in Jauron's footsteps keeping untried players on the bench and playing the veteran bums. This also reeks of Mike Mularkey's last days. Instead of giving his young QB at the time, J.P. Losman, a chance he clung to dear life to Kelly Holcomb, in a futile attempt to save his job by winning meaningless games. The way Perry Fewell has not only kept the young guys on the bench (even inactive in Hardy's case), but is not even willing to say the QB who has practiced all week is starting, shows that he is unfit to be anything other than an interim coach.

Perry Fewell is hoping for an entirely different Christmas miracle. He's still holding out hope that Ryan Fitzpatrick, the same QB he benched last week, will be ready to play on Sunday. I'm not sure why, because I haven't seen any practices, but it appears Fewell is scared to death of starting Brian Brohm.

I don't think our O-line is that badly in need of a lot of talent. Right now, if the guys come back you have Butler, Wood, Hangartner, Levitre and a new guy at LT-possibly a free agent with NFL experience. You also have some guys who are serviceable backups to come in for a few plays like Scott & Bell. It's the injuries that have robbed us of 40% of our starters-I'm not counting Bell as anything but a backup, that would be 60% to those who include him. Depending on who is available, I would take a QB in the 1st round-if our new GM views a guy as worthy, I'm sure not going to second guess him.

Mine went from $339 to $429. I'm with Allstate & they sent me a letter trying to explain why homeowner's insurance went up, but I don't remember what the letter said. I got the letter along with another one & I responded to the other & increased some things on my car insurance. When I called my agent she immediately started to ask if I was calling about the price increase, so she must have gotten a lot of calls about homeowner's insurance increases. I don't know if it's a local thing around Bethlehem or all over.

I just opened Kiper's 1998 Draft Report and it had Manning #1, not Leaf (who was #2). He had them both graded at 9.7 but he had Manning ahead of Leaf. So, you take what he says with such a huge grain of salt, you don't even know what he says.

Yes-Petrino drove so we got there later than when I drive, parked off California instead of the Stadium lot & went right into the stadium. Sorry we missed you-I'm driving to the Indy game, so I'll be at the tailgate-Petrino is still undecided.

When Trent went in I turned to Petrino and said: Remember when Rob Johnson came off the bench against Philly & immediately got injured? Trent will go in and get a concussion and be out for the season. Wrong end, right conclusion.

You missed an important part of my post you quoted no team is going to waive a 2nd rounder in hopes of sneaking him on a practice squad unless he's bad enough to clear waivers. Teams sneak undrafted & late round picks on the practice squads all the time. I'm sure you can find numerous players who were drafted in the 6th or 7th round or undrafted, waived, placed on the practice squad and had successful careers. Now try to find me some 2nd round picks who were waived & put on a practice squad and then went on to a successful career-it's unheard of. Do you truly think that John Guy has outsmarted 31 other teams? I don't.

I'm calling BS on that one. Come up with a link because I've found nothing of the sort in the rules. Why would there ever be a rule that the team that has a player on its practice squad cannot sign the player to a contract of whatever length & salary it wants? Way to make things up though and state them as facts.