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Putney Swope? You do realize than many of the people on this board weren't even born when Putney Swope came out & have no idea what you mean. For those of you who don't know, Putney Swope was a satirical movie about a black man who got elected to take over an ad agency because the guys in the boardroom couldn't vote for themselves and nobody thought anyone else would vote for the black guy, so they all voted for Swope. He then kicks just about all the whites out & runs the thing into the ground. I hardly think there is any comparison to the Obama nomination. I doubt it will end with Antonio Fargas setting the White House ablaze.

Mike Mularkey, Gregg Williams, Hank Bullough, Kay Stephenson, Jim Ringo, John Rauch, Harvey Johnson, Joe Collier, and Buster Ramsey all had good intentions. I don't believe it has made their terms as head coach of the Bills any easier to remember.

JP reminds me of Rob Johnson-always injured (3 of 4 seasons cut short by injuries), no pocket presence, no football intelligence. Meanwhile Edwards reminds me of a combination of Joe Montana (coolness under pressure) Dan Marino (quick release) and Tom Brady (intelligence).

He found out the women in Baltimore weren't as good as the women in Buffalo, and we know how he feels about the women in Buffalo. So he's in Miami trying to catch up to Travis Henry.

Why doesn't McCain submit his writing to the NY Post? I'm sure they'll be glad to print it & disparage Obama in the same paper.

JP gets injured too. 1st year-broken leg in training camp-he didn't need a game to get hurt. 2nd year-gets injured in his 9th start (game 13) & is inactive with injuries the next week & doesn't play in the final 2 games. Year 3-his 1 full season out of 4 -that's 25% healthy the entire season. Year 4-Gets injured in game 3 and loses starting job for 1st (of 2) time that season. So, before you get confident that JP will start a game, let him make it out of practice healthy & maybe, just maybe he'll start week 16 when the Bills decide to rest Edwards for the playoffs.

I'd love to see JP starting for the Jets or Dolphins. It won't happen in Miami since Parcells doesn't think JP is any good. So, say he ends up on the Jets -JP may come back to Buffalo and clean up the city after the Super Bowl Championship celebration wearing a Jet jersey-that's the only way he could ever haunt us.

Disclaimer: I used the scores provided in the player link posted above, I think they're right but have not independently verified them. Well, here's the problem with the nonsense that you've been spreading as your proof that JP puts more points up: Lets look at team points to show how truly dreadful JP was as a scoring QB last year. Against Cincinnati, the Bills scored 33 points. Aside from that one game, the TEAM never scored more than 14 points in the other 5 games that JP was the QB for the entire game. Are you happy with a guy who against every other team he played, except the dreadful Bengals D, the team couldn't muster more than 14 points? Cold fact, with JP playing the entire game, the Bills averaged 14.50 points per game, inflated by the 33 Bengals points-otherwise, in the other 5 games, JP led Bills averaged a meager 10.8 points. Subtracting the high & low games, elevates the point total to 12.75. The median points produced in the 6 JP exclusive games was 13.50 points. Meanwhile with Edwards taking all the snaps (8 games), the team averaged 18.125 points per game. The team scored 38 against the Dolphins (the same team JP led Bills could only muster 13 points against-I'll give you home vs road, but that much difference?) Take away the high and Trent exclusive Bills scored an average of 15.286 points-including the 0 in a friggin blizzard! Now subtract both low & high and Trent Bills average 17.83 points. The median points produced in 8 Trent exclusive games was 18 points. Well now lets see Trent's best three team led point totals: 38, 24, 21 =83 points. JP's: 33, 14, 14=61 points. The three worst are Trent: 17, 9, 0 =26 points. JP's 13, 10, 3 = the same 26 points. You can play with stats that show JP's offense may have put up more points, but the team clearly scores more with Trent Edwards playing than with JP playing. Have you ever considered that maybe the team scores more with Trent than JP is because even when he doesn't score, the fact that Trent keeps the team moving downfield helps set up the points scored by ST and D. You can try to subtract those points and I don't know if you even have a valid argument since I'm not going to look up how many strictly offensive points were generated each game, but the bottom line is Trent led Bills teams score more than JP led Bills teams and there's nothing you can twist to deny that fact. Oh and another thing, when you're more efficient as Edwards is, you don't get into the need to convert on 3rd down. Maybe JP was statistically better because he is more experienced at forcing 3rd downs.

The only choice that makes any sense.

It's good to see that most people are being realistic enough to realize there is no panacea going to be found in Washington.

The article in today's Buffalo News, posted on the main page says Kelly retired in 1998. Twice they reference 1998, even referring to the Bills wanting to start Todd Collins. Why can't the local paper get their facts straight? Kelly retired early 1997, Todd Collins got waived in 1998-the 1st year of the Flutie-Johnson QB controversy. Not only poor writing, but poor editing as well.

Leonard Burton, the trade was a total loss for both teams.

They also make great subs.

The easiest way to assure no 2nd trade is to make sure Favre has signed a restructured contract with enough signing bonus $ that trading him would cause a big cap hit.

If that's true, the Bucs were Tampa-ring and will be losing a pick or two & get fined. I doubt those reports are true since most of this stuff is done with the agent, not the player talking with the tampering club. Stuff like this goes on, but not player & team brass.

It hasn't made many newscasts. Luke Kruytbosch, the track announcer who has been at Churchill Downs and was the caller of the Kentucky Derby for the last 10 years died at age of 47. http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/horse/news/story?id=3487272 Edit: Here's the Buffalo News article which calls him a former Buffalo resident: http://www.buffalonews.com/135/story/392152.html

Amen, bro.

My 1st paragraph refers to the fact that Tom Donahoe brought in guys like Bledsoe, Milloy, etc for the quick fix and didn't make the playoffs because he really had no long term plan. He saw a veteran & jumped up and got him. His most ridiculous move was restructuring Bledsoe in his final season instead of not picking up his option. He chose not to make him an in season lame duck, which as it turned out he was anyway. Also, when you get the I want to win now mindset & choose the wrong guy, like Leon Hess did with Kotite, you go backwards, not forwards. I believe Favre is the wrong guy. I firmly believe that Edwards will outplay Favre this season & will be shocked if he doesn't. After a couple of bad seasons, Favre squeezed the lemon dry last year and my guess is he has little left, sort of like Joe Namath and Johnny Unitas at the end. One more thing-Bob Matthews is always like the kid in a candy store-he always wants the name without much deep thinking on the subject. He wanted Shockey earlier this winter and has echoed the thoughts of Coach Dickerson whenever a name becomes available. I take today's article with a grain of salt.

I have the Gameday programs from every Bills regular season & playoff home game since the game I missed in 1990. This includes, of course, the comeback game. Last year I missed the Patriots game & had someone get me the program. I've already sold the 49ers game ticket with the contingency that they get me a program. I was very disappointed when they stopped selling the real programs and switched to the little free ones, but I've adjusted to them. I also have all 4 Super Bowl programs in plastic with my ticket stubs. The interesting thing about the Super Bowl programs is that for Super Bowl XXV, there were 2 different programs distributed. One had the 4 teams in the conference championship games without a recap of the conference championship game and the one sold at the stadium the day of the game had just the Giants & Bills, with the championship game recaps included.

Sounds like the guys at ESPN who think that Tom Donahoe was a great GM because he wanted to win now. I remember an owner firing a young head coach (who it turned out was better suited for college) when he said "I want to win now" after he fired Pete Carroll and brought in his "win now" coach, Rich Kotite. We haven't made the playoffs in years because of that "win now" philosophy. Now when we're actually ready to both win now & in the forseeable future, some of you want to throw it all away for a shot at one or 2 years of Brett Favre at age 39 and maybe 40-an age where a guy can fall off the face of the football map a few games into the season. I can't change your minds now, so all I can say is watch Edwards & Favre for the next 2 seasons and you'll understand why wanting Favre is a mistake and you'll all be grateful that Favre didn't end up a Bill.

Because you'll screw up the salary cap so badly you'll have no $ left to re-sign Evans, make Peters happy, extend other young players, and be able to afford your top rookies without releasing some players. Not to mention that you're not letting the team grow together with Edwards. This team can make the playoffs this year and the Super Bowl next year without Favre. Why bring him in and risk him playing this year, while the team may need one more free agent & draft class to reach the top, then pull the same crap he's done in Green Bay & "retire" again? Plus, do you really think GB is going to release him with no strings? It's not going to happen-they'll want compensation-further weakening the Bills long term goals. I agree-Just say no!

Thanks for clarifying.

About the only good thing I can think of in bringing Favre in is that JP would be gone within 24 hours.

What does this mean? The Broncos won 2 Super Bowls in Elway's last two seasons, then Elway announced his retirement because he said his body couldn't take another season. Are you saying the Broncos pressured Elway, who by his own admission couldn't handle another season? Or are you saying that they were pressuring him before those 2 Super Bowl championship seasons and by not listening to them Elway proved them wrong? Please elaborate and show some factual data to back up the statement.

Like they screwed up the entire team & salary cap structure, that's how I'd feel. If Favre comes back this year, I guarantee Edwards will have a better season.