Albany,n.y.

She's 27, which means it took her 9 years from high school to get her degree. What has she been doing in the 9 years that usually take a person 4 to complete their degrees-obviously not working, otherwise she'd have some means of support and could have turned the right part time job into a full time one. Maybe the fact that she's 27, hasn't done much work since high school, lives at home with mommy, and just finished college screams out LOSER on job interviews. It is not the responsibility of a college to find employment for its graduates. It is the responsibility of the graduates to find their own job. I hope the judge throws out the case & fines her the legal fees-not that she can afford to pay them. However, if she found a lawyer to take this case, I hope that the lawyer has to pay the cost of this frivolous lawsuit.

Has the post office taken away any mailboxes near you? They removed the mail drop box down my block and I noticed another one removed in my neighborhood. It looks like a cost cutting move. I don't know if it's just a local thing or nationwide.

The difference is, is that when a QB busts, he sets the franchise back by years. Now he may not be the biggest bust, but he was one of the biggest busts, at the most important position on the field. The same can be said for Rob Johnson since he cost a 1st & 4th and wasted the Bills time, and to a lesser extent Drew Bledsoe, because he cost a #1 and only lasted 3 years. Every time the Bills have found a starter post-Jim Kelly, he's set the franchise backwards and wasted not only the years he played, but others as well. If the Bills hadn't invested in JP in 2004, they would have chosen Cutler in 2006. If Edwards doesn't work out, then the franchise has again spun its wheels & lost valuable time. A QB bust is a franchise killer.

I'll watch the UFL IF they play. I'm concerned that the league is about 2 months away from playing & they don't have a schedule yet. They don't know the dates when & where they are playing & have not put single game seats on sale. All they have is a waiting list. They have very few players under contract. Now I know they're waiting for NFL cuts, but this lack of a schedule & ticket sales is a major red flag. I think it's no better than 50-50 that they play this year.

It all depends on what his play actually looks like on the field and not on a stat sheet. If he's running for his life but making plays when he can, then yes, it would rest on the O-line. If he plays like the 1st half of last year's Cleveland game, then it's on him & it's time to move on. If he plays like he did before the concussion, then get your playoff tickets & watch him be named to the Pro Bowl (which in my wildest dreams, no Bill is permitted to play in)

No, there are insane people who believe Bush was responsible for 9/11. Not a lot and since when does an insane person's beliefs have anything to do with political leanings-they're insane-in other words incompetent to make a rational decision. That describes people on all ends of the spectrum. The easiest way to shut up a 9/11 conspirator who says the planes didn't hit the Pentagon-Ask what they did to the people on the planes. None of them have the footballs to say what should be their logical(?) conclusion- that the government killed them all, including Olsen's wife. They know they'd immediately be put in the crackpot wing.

When I saw this woman screaming that Obama is from Kenya, not the USA all I could think of was she forgot to bring her sheet. When she said I want my country back, she should have had the guts to say what she was really thinking (...from that n*****). The birthers are nothing more than a bunch of raging racists without the balls to let their true agenda be seen in front of the camera. I don't know if Rush is actually a racist or just plays to the racists because it puts more money in his pocket, but if you want to hear racist BS on mainstream radio, Rush doesn't disappoint. His nonsense got him fired by ESPN, but he knows the racists are a part of his base & keeps them happy.

Great comeback. If you're too STUPID to understand analogies I can't discuss things with you. So instead I'll state this clearly. You have the intellect of a 5 year old, and that is NOT an analogy.

They can still waive him with an injury settlement. He'll get more $ than if he had stayed healthy & just been cut. If they put him on IR, then it means they think he may have a future.

So say JP lights it up like Hamdan NFLE 2006-what's the NFL going to offer? A back up spot If you are right than JP is even dumber than you!

Yes I am a HATER of dumb@sses, not of JP. Right now I'd have to say you're vying for the king of the dumb@sses, with your response. See let me explain a few things-I didn't compare the UFL to 5 year olds-I compared JP in the UFL with an adult (probably with no football skills, like me) playing with a bunch of kids, my statement said just because you (the adult) plays well vs the kids, don't go thinking you can play in the NFL. If JP plays ok in the UFL (see Hamdan NFLE) it means nothing. In other words, minor league stats don't equal NFL jobs. As far as my 2nd use of the 5 year olds in the post, it was a carryover-ever watch something where something referred to 20 minutes earlier is brought back for comedic effect? After watching the 5 year sitcom of JP at QB, that's what I was doing. You have to be pretty STUPID to think I was actually comparing adult minor leaguers to 5 year old kids. As far as the # of coaches. The NUMBER has to increase by at least 2 if JP's so called "plan" works out. If he's been screwed by the # the Bills had, exactly how is more inconsistency in 2 more entirely brand new systems going to "unscrew" JP? Your premise that JP CHOSE to to play in a minor league rather than accept a back up job in the NFL is absurd, especially since you believe having multiple coaches screwed him. It would make a lot more sense for him to learn a system and show a team something in exhibition games & practice than going to a SIX GAME league. If they do have any exhibitions (they haven't even announced their regular season schedule yet & it's getting kind of late) I doubt they'll have enough structure to help JP settle into the system he'll be using for an entire six game schedule. If JP was seriously trying to develop his game, which after 5 NFL bust seasons is pretty much a lost cause (look at the history of busts & see how many, if any developed their game after 5 years-especially in the salary cap era), he'd have gone to the CFL where they play a lot more than 6 games. The UFL season is not much more than the NFL exhibition season-JP will play 1 more regular season game than the Bills play preseason games. The bottom line is if JP could have signed anywhere other than the UFL, he should have or would have. Should have if there was a chance, would have if (a big if) after stupidly shunning backup offers, the only place left was the UFL.

The Bills didn't play in the NFL until the 1970 season. Therefore, Harris did not become the 1st black NFL QB to start a season opener in 1969, nor was Briscoe the 1st to start a modern era NFL game. They both attained these milestones in the AFL. The AFL deserves the credit for helping to bring football into the 20th century, the NFL had nothing to do with Harris or Briscoe until the 1970 merger.

This thread, headed by the original post is a classic example of why some people have labled me & others "JP haters". Guess what, we're not JP haters, we're stupidity haters. I have nothing against JP other than he wasn't good enough to play in the NFL and retarded the Bills progress. However, I have a huge problem with posts like the opening one. Here are my points: 32 NFL teams determined that they have better, cheaper, smarter, whatever better QBs on their roster than JP. That's 0 for 32. The worst teams in the league passed on JP because they felt someone else in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd string spots gave their team a better chance than JP. JP signed with a minor league team. Just because he's coached by a former NFL head coach-who was subsequently let go as an offensive coordinator by one of his closest friends and couldn't get a real shot at another NFL HC spot-it doesn't make the level of competition anywhere near the NFL level. It's a 4 team league that's going to be filled by rejects. If JP plays well, it proves nothing. It's like one of you going out and asking to play in your 5 year old's game. If you play well, you better not start dreaming of an NFL career. Speaking of minor leagues, Gibran Hamdan played so well in NFL Europa that he was the MVP in 2006. That year he completed 63% of his passes and had 12/3 tds /ints. After his MVP season he then got waived by 3 more teams and eventually landed on the Bills. The main reason he's been able to stick with the Bills is because he's best buds with the starting QB and helps him out on the sidelines. If he was as distant with Edwards on the sidelines as JP was last year, he wouldn't have been invited back. Just look at what the Bills did early on in free agency-they didn't ever think of Hamdan as a possible #2, they went out & signed another QB for #2. Point: Minor league stats don't mean a lot when it comes to NFL teams evaluating players. The more JP Losman played, the worse he got. It's no coincidence that he had his best year in the middle of the one year he was a full time starter. JP got in some decent games against some bad teams & his supporters were all claiming he turned the corner. Once D coordinators got some film on the guy, his career was over. He had one good play in the 2006 season finale and was bad the rest of the game. The original post is typical of all the nonsense we've seen from the JP die hards over the years. The nuts jobs have subjected us to these gems over the years: JP has had too many coaches, systems etc-guess what-he's now in another new system, coaching staff etc. Do we even know who his QB coach will be? The only thing we do know is if the guy's a UFL QB coach, no NFL team wanted him. So I guess they'll have anothe built in excuse if he doesn't dominate the 5 year olds. JP was screwed because the coaches didn't like him. Mularkey realized early that he wasn't going to win with JP. His entire locker room was torn up by veterans demanding JP be replaced. He chose Holcomb in an attempt to win & all the JP fans went nuts & because the subsequent QBs don't have the gun JP has (which is NEVER a guarantee of NFL success) keep labeling his fellow QBs "noodle arms". When Jauron came in and gave JP the job , mainly because there were no other competent QBs on the roster (the Nall signing didn't pan out & they were stuck with JP), he & his staff soon realized something was missing. They looked at JP, rightfully so, as a guy who you're always looking to replace-sort of like Keith Ellison at the QB position. Finally the dumbest conspiracy theory came from the JP fans: In 2007 the Bills chose not to play JP because it would increase his salary by millions for the 2008 season. This one was so crazy-they never understood that if JP had met the incentives he would have been waived. There was no way the Bills were going to pay him $5 million as a backup. A similar conspiracy was the Bills didn't want JP to be in the position to demand a long term $60-70 million contract. That, when they had already figured out JP was never going to justify ever demanding big $.

JP is certainly in the right circumstance. Playing in a 4 team minor league with & against a bunch of NFL rejects. If he plays well what has he proven other than that he can suceed in the minor leagues? Gibran Hamdan played well in the minors & can't get a sniff beyond NFL 3rd stringer. At this point, NFL Europe was a superior league to the UFL.

A few seasons ago at the home opener, the guy doing the Bills' pregame show on WGR was amazed when a couple walked by with the man wearing an Erik Flowers jersey & the woman wearing a Hines Ward jersey.

For $7 million I would maintain a monk like silence.

That opening day ticket is huge. I don't know where I'm going to carry it at the tailgate party. I usually just put the ticket in my wallet, but this one won't fit.

That's a very poor comparison. Rose was banned because baseball has a rule that states you can't be a participant in major league baseball & bet on baseball. It is posted in every locker room. Although I've never been in an NFL locker room, I'm pretty sure there are no signs posted on the walls stating that one cannot finance a dog fighting operation, bet on fights and kill dogs. Baseball has posted the equivalent of a no trespassing sign (for betting on baseball)in their locker rooms. PS- Rose the player should be in the Hall of Fame unless someone can show he bet on baseball as a player. If he had been elected to the Hall of Fame as a player & then kicked out as a manager, would they have kicked him out of the HOF? If Rose had never managed, they would have had no grounds for banning him as a private citizen betting on games. "Rose he knows he's such a credit to the game..." -Billy Joel.

Do you know why thousands of companies don't want to hire convicted felons? It's because they don't want a repeat of the criminal activities at their place of business. So what is Vick going to do, hold dog fights in the dead of night at the stadium of the team he plays with? The odds of Vick being involved in any criminal activities at an NFL stadium are pretty darn slim. Whether he could have played the last two years or not, Vick has already lost 2 years of a very finite career. To ban him any longer would be the longest ban other than a lifetime ban. The legal system has released him from jail, if he messes up, he'll go back. He should be reinstated and then we can see which team is stupid or desperate enough to hire him. Odds are much higher it will be the Dolphins than the Bills.

I don't smoke marijuana, but I know plenty of people who do and have no problems with it. You might be surprised at the amount of people who smoke marijuana. I was amazed at how many of my co-workers who do and lead very normal lives. It's hardly as dangerous as you make it out to be. Some grow their own and never deal with the criminals who are selling it. Also, many of your so called criminals are pretty harmless and would never get into any life & death battle with the law enforcement people. It's more at the much higher level of the sellers (like organized crime & big players) where lives are endangered than the local drug dealer who sells the average joe some weed. Also, if you decriminalize it, your arguments against it go away. So isn't it simpler to decriminalize it, tax it & do away with all the reasons you state why it's dangerous?

If this clown knew anything about what went on in our secondary last year when Ted Ginn Jr. was beating McGee, "our #1 corner" when McGee was playing on one leg while our coaching staff refused to put McKelvin in, he'd understand why nobody here can take him seriously.

Rae Carruth & Travis Henry will both attempt breakouts this season.

I always read the fine print.

We had a heavy thunderstorm here a few minutes ago & it messed up the digital signals. There was breakup & the stations that didn't need the booster used on the antenna in order to receive them, needed the booster & still broke up slightly. I guess they haven't quite mastered a thunderstorm around Albany yet.

Because he wasn't eligible for an earlier draft & you can't sign a player who has never been eligible. If you could, then there would be no need for a supplemental draft or underclassmen declaring for the regular draft. Imagine if an underclassman declared he was quitting college right after the April draft. Under your question, the best underclassmen would make themselves free agents after the draft by quitting school & then would get to pick their teams & drive up salaries with bidding wars. There's regular & rookie cap effects to consider as well. As long as there's a draft, there will always be a supplemental draft to prevent players from going from school to the NFL without giving teams a shot at drafting them.