Albany,n.y.

Leaving the off field stuff out of it, 3 years of virtual inactivity have killed his game. You're not getting Michael Vick of 2006 and earlier, you'd be getting 2010 Michael Vick, a guy who sat out the 2007 and 2008 seasons and languished on the bench in 2009. That's not rust, it's almost mummification. There are much better options than hoping Vick can return to the player he was 4 or more years earlier.

You've been told wrong. Best evidence: 3 teams games are on the radio, Giants, Jets and BILLS. The Patriots are not broadcast on any local radio station. If there was enough of a demand, someone would be broadcasting Patriots' games. The Jets get broadcast 1st, then the Bills. I can't remember many, or more than a handful of NE games that have ever been shown over Bills games in the 22 years I've been here. In fact, years ago, when NBC had the AFC, they used to hold votes between the Bills & Jets via telephone to pick the games. The Bills won most of these. NE wasn't even given as a choice. The voting stopped when CBS got the AFC, but whenever a Bills game is on the air, and they're not in competition with the Jets, the station knows that they have to show the Bills or get hit with a ton of calls. Last year they tried to show a different game & we bugged the station so much they caved & put on the Bills. We broadcast only to parts of western New England that are far from Foxborough.

1st round QBs have won a much higher percentage of Super Bowls than any other round, even though there have been 6 to 11+ more rounds in drafts. 21 of 43 Super Bowls have been won with a 1st round QB. On a statistical basis, your best chance of winning a Super Bowl, by round selected is clearly the 1st round, where almost half the winners have come from. In order for your statement to be valid, the Super Bowl winning QBs would be equally spaced over all rounds, that simply isn't the case. A more reasonable conclusion would be: 1st round QBs are a gamble, only about half succeed. However, the success rate drops as the round of the draft drops, so your best chance of getting a QB who is going to lead you to a championship is still the 1st round.

Your response really doesn't make a lot of sense. What does "Did you feel the same way when the other QB got roasted ?" mean? Did I feel both QBs lost their job due to their own inabilities to play in the NFL-absolutely. I wasn't commenting on either's "roasting". I was pointing out that the excuses made for JP's inability to play in the NFL won't be repeated with Edwards. Why? Because somehow JP fans were in love with JP, so much that he's not even in the league and they're warning us he's coming back to haunt us. When Edwards is off the team & possibly out of the league, I don't expect any warnings he'll be back to make us rue the day we let him go. The reality-both were failures in Buffalo and neither one will ever do anything to make us miss him with another NFL team. When each lost his starting job, it was based on how poorly he played. So I guess I did feel the same way-I felt JP lost his starting job on merit as did Trent. I'm a Bills fan, I'm moving on. JP fans haven't moved on , even a year later.

Our line this Sunday will feature two players waived this season (one re-signed by the Bills); a player waived last season before the start of his team's 0-16 season; a rookie, who is the best offensive lineman left on the team & a lunchpail journeyman. When (if ever) was the last time we picked a guy up who had been waived earlier in the month & put him right into the starting lineup on the O-line? The last guy I remember this happening with is in 1986 when we picked up LB George Cumby on waivers & he was promptly named a starter. Next year we might be able to say-remember the game where we started 3 guys on the offensive line who are out of the league now? I hope we never see this bad on O-line again, it took 50 years to get this bad a bunch together.

Miami @ Bills is on in Albany this week, they've been advertising it on the Oak-Dal broadcast on Ch 6.

10) He just needs more time. 9) If he ever gets good coaching... 8) The coaches screwed him. 7) We'll be able to get a 1st round pick for him, at worst a 2nd round pick. 6) How could he ever play well behind that line? 5) He has the potential to be a top 10 QB. 4) His 1st season as a starter was better than Jim Kelly's, just look at the stats. 3) Let's bring him back. 2) He felt starting in the UFL was better for him than being a backup in the NFL. 1) He's not in the NFL this season, but he'll be back and he will light it up and haunt us for years. So far, we former Edwards fans have been a heck of a lot more rational than the fans of his predecessor. That's because we were always Bills fans first, not Trent fans. We didn't fall in love with the guy like his predecessor's fans did. When he proved not to be the answer, we were prepared to move on. Trent is done as a Bill. I could care less what he does with his next NFL team, if he gets another NFL team. If he "lights it up" on some Sunday, more power to him, it certainly won't haunt any of us. Basically, he played his way off the team, it wasn't anyone else's fault but his own, just like the guy before him.

The only QB to lead the Bills to a league championship was from California. John Elway & Tom Brady are from California. Just because we've haven't hit on the last 3 bums from California doesn't mean they're all bad.

When is Edwards going to PLAY against the Bills? Unless Fitzpatrick goes down, Edwards may never start another game again. Unless he follows in JP's footsteps & ends up in the UFL.

Brain fart, corrected

Most of the time we get the game over the Patriots, because there are more Bills' fans in the area. The NFL makes sure the Giants & Jets never play at the same time. Due to blackout rules, they're not on the same network, since one team usually is home. Also, since each team has a maximum of only 2 games per year on the other team's network, it's pretty easy to work the network thing out. Obviously, since they're in the same stadium, you can never schedule them for home games on the same day. This year has been an abberation due to a holiday (Yom Kippur) & the World Series in Philadelphia. The original schedules had those two games at different times. The Jets asked the league to change the time for Yom Kippur and the Eagles did the same for the World Series since many of the parking lots service both stadiums.

The QB that our next coach will start isn't on the team. So, if a coach feels that the right guy will be available where we draft or is willing to trade up, or cooks up some trade to get a veteran, why would our current group of QBs deter him from coming? I'd think the QB situation on a lot of other teams, where if the new coach didn't like the guy and couldn't get rid of him due to cap constraints, would be a lot bigger detriment than a team that can cheaply jettison the guys they have. If a guy wants total control, he's going to get rid of a lot of players, QBs included.

They were talking about the Toyota recall of cars to fix a potential gas pedal sticking problem on NBC and played audio of a crash where the people died when the gas pedal stuck. Too bad that with multiple people in the car, nobody told the driver to put the car in neutal, where the gas pedal sticking can no longer accelerate the car. So if you ever get a sticking gas pedal, shift the car to neutral, especially if there's slower traffic around you. I drive a stick shift and one time the accelerator switch in the engine temporarily got stuck. The 1st thing I did was hit the clutch so the acceleration would stop. Since I was on the Thruway, going fast anyway, I was able to mix the clutch & break until I got to the rest stop. The engine was going at pretty good RPMs but a blown engine is preferable to a high speed crash. Somehow the problem stopped when I turned the car off & then back on, but I still took the car in a day or 2 later when I could get an appointment. Edit: Since I was fixing the spelling, I had an added thought: The real problem I see with the crash they showed was the 911 tape. The 911 operator is supposed to be trained to talk to people in emergency situations. The 911 operator should have immediately said-"put it in neutral and hit the breaks and if the breaks still don't work, use the emergency break." Instead all the 911 operator did is listen to the driver in passengers panic without giving the solution.

The Packers did that with Matt Hasselbeck his rookie year.

Great, the second coming of JP, albeit a smarter version.

I don't think we can draft Bobby April

QB in the 1st round, because you're not getting a good one in free agency. LB in the 2nd because we need at least 3 new ones next year, especially if switching to 3-4. TE in the 3rd. Outside of Nelson, who is still raw, and may or may not be any good, what TE on the roster would you ever expect to see starting in a Super Bowl for the Bills? LT will need to be addressed in FA, even if its a 1 or 2 year stopgap. Can't get the QB & LT in the same draft, would need 2 high #1s to accomplish that.

Polian was gone before the 1993 draft.

No way. If he signs within a week, the Blls get slapped with a Rooney Rule violation & the league voids the contract. That's why the premise of Shanahan taking over like Marv (Pre-Rooney rule) is absurd. The Bills have to play it this way-Fewell coaches out the season. He gets the interview as the current coach. The Bills then can hire Shanahan 2 days later. Now there's nothing to say the Bills can't reach a verbal agreement next week, everyone keeps quiet, Fewell gets interviewed at the end of the season, then Shanahan signs at the verbally agreed to terms. Or: Tony Dungy gets interviewed next week and signed. Dungy can take over next week.

Show me once where I have ever shown a bias against Lynch. Fact -he's been arrested twice. Fact-he ran down a woman in a hit and run. Fact-they found marijuana in his car when he was arrested for the gun, but couldn't prove who was smoking it. That's not adding things I think he did without foundation. You obviously don't know the story about his arrest in California, so here's a link so you can educate yourself, I'll even add the part about the dope afterwards so if you can immediately see what I'm talking about. It's not a bias-he's already been suspended 3 games & was in a car that reeked from dope. Now I really don't care who smokes dope, some of my closest friends & relatives smoke it, but they're not in professions where a failed drug test can get them suspended. In a league where the commissioner is cracking down on off field activities, a guy with Lynch's rap sheet should be on a very short leash- That's reality, not a bias. http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2009/02/18/marshaw...d-with-pot-too/ They (officers) knocked on the window of the car. Someone unrolled the window. They saw three people in the car and they could smell a strong odor - marijuana coming from the car. They had the occupants exit so they could further investigate to see if there was any marajuana in the car. What they found were four, not marajuana cigarettes - what they call blunts or swisher sweets that appeared to contain marijuana in them," says Tankenson. Tankenson says neither Lynch nor the other two individuals were charged with possession of marijuana because they could not determine who was smoking, or whom the cigarettes belonged to.

About 40 years ago there was an Alfred Hitchcock or a Twilight Zone episode where the guy had the same thing, only he cried and the tear saved him from that fate.

No need to let them score, just use your time outs.

No Brohm yet-the guy hasn't played a down in the NFL. He was inactive every game last year & has been on GB's practice squad this year. He's been with the team a few days. What makes you think he's ready to start? Just look at what Sanchez did today & tell us why you want to see that with Brohm.

I believe every UFL player becomes a free agent at the end of this week. So, if we can get by one more game, there have to be players available to replace some of the injured guys. These players will all be in game shape. They may not be very good, but at this point stopgaps are better than nothing.

You want CBS to give up their "last licks" of the Patriots, fat chance.