Albany,n.y.

Widen the gap on the goal post and make it retroactive to Super Bowl XXV.

I think the Mohawk overflowed onto the Thruway. It was pretty high on Tuesday when we drove out.

I was viewing some Hydroelectric plants & the owner's office is in Liverpool. We drove there & then the tax rep drove us all over. We went as far as Hydraulic Race in Lockport & found out the Thruway was closed while we were on our way back to Liverpool.

I heard it the day Sam Adams left the stadium after being told by Mularkey he was among the inactives. He or his agent went to the media and said Mularkey told him that the active guys could help the team more than him. I have no link at this time, just my memory listening to the radio, but if I get one I'll edit the post. Edit: Here it is Friction between Adams, Mularkey is a personal thing, says player's agent Leo Roth Staff writer (November 28, 2005) — ORCHARD PARK — An ongoing personality conflict between Buffalo Bills Pro Bowl defensive tackle Sam Adams and coach Mike Mularkey has boiled over, agent Angelo Wright said late Sunday night. That was the reason Adams was ruled inactive and was not on the sidelines for Sunday's home game against Carolina. Mularkey said the reason Adams didn't play was medical — Adams has battled knee and ankle problems recently — but Wright said the real reason is personal. "This guy doesn't like Sam Adams and that's fine," Wright said. "You don't have to like him to play him. Sam wants to play. He likes Buffalo. But you got a coach there who doesn't like him personally and he's doing everything he can to make it look like it's the player. He's making Sam the distraction." Jay Glazer, the Fox sideline reporter who worked the game, said on air that Adams told him before leaving the stadium that Mularkey said he wasn't playing Sunday and that the team had a better chance to win without him. http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/p.../511280340/1021

What exactly have the Bills done to be a laughing stock other than rate players higher on their draft board than Mel Kiper & his cronies, have an owner force the issue of small market teams before the final agreement is written and force out the most incompetent coach in Bills history***? I don't think the Bills have done one thing this offseason to be considered a laughingstock by any INTELLIGENT reporter. The guys bagging on the Bills in the media are the true laughingstocks. ***-Mike Mularkey- a guy who made Harvey Johnson, Hank Bullough, Gregg Williams and others look adequate compared with his bufoonery both on the field and in the locker room (alienating vets like telling Sam adams guys who couldn't hold his jock were better off in the starting lineup than him).

Took 5 hours to get from Liverpool to Albany.

If members of the administration weren't responsible for blowing a CIA agent's cover out of nothing but spite, their anger might have more credibility.

Marv used to eat meat until he saw what it did to Mike Williams.

Here's something I posted on Ourlads board a few days ago in response to someone dissing the Bills: The Bills season all depends on the QB play. If they get decent or better QB play, they'll be one of the league's biggest surprise teams. The secondary has the opportunity to be one of the league's best for the next few years. If Triplett & the reformed D line come through as expected, the D will be solid. Add a return to form by Spikes, and the D can be downright dominant. The Bills are loaded at receiver depth, although they don't know the order after Evans, there's enough talent that will shake out in camp to have a solid receiver corps. Willis McGahee is in much better shape than last year, and won't quit on the season due to incompetent coaching that caused him to go into a funk the 2nd half of last season. While the O line has been maligned, the center & LG have been upgraded and holdover 2nd year player Duke Preston has potential to replace any of the 3 interior linemen should any one of them falter. TE's have been upgraded since last year, when the position may have been at its weakest since 1984. So, it all comes down to the QB. If Losman can improve, as many QBs do improve dramatically in their 2nd year as a starter, or if Craig Nall is set to become the next Jake Delhomme this team will be a helluva lot better than most anticipate. On the other hand, if Losman plays like last year, Nall proves to be nothing and Holcomb plays like Holcomb, 6 wins will be the maximum. One reason I have some optimism is because this team was poorly coached last season. I can state without any equivocation that Mike Mularkey had no business being a head coach and over his head is an understatement. Just getting adequate coaching would improve the team dramatically.

I didn't like Everett coming out of college and I was disappointed when the Bills drafted him. I viewed him as a "Looks like Tarzan, Plays like Jane" type who was drafted on physical potential rather than on field production. His game was very raw & I viewed him as a Lonnie Johnson type pick-a TE who didn't do that much in college & was expected by the Bills to be a better player as a pro than as a collegian, because the team felt he was underutilized in college. I hate picks like that because they seldom make better pros. Meanwhile the worst thing that can happen is Cieslak gets cut and we didn't waste a 3rd rounder like we did with Everett, when Everett gets cut. Everett will probably be given benefit of the doubt & make this year's team, but he'll go down with Lonnie Johnson as a pretty worthless TE for his Bills career. Once again, just my opinion, but drafting him on his physical potential was another TD mistake. Speaking of TD, I find it funny that so many people think TD was such a bum, but think he made a good pick with Everett-a raw, injury prone, underproductive collegian.

4 of these guys won't make it. Smith, Wilson & Davis shouldn't expect to be in OP in September. Only 2 of 3 survive from Price, Aiken & Reed.

I have higher hopes for Brad Cieslak than I do for Kevin Everett, but that's just IMHO.

Why is everyone getting on the guy's case? He served his country in Korea, and never took his salary and donated it to charity. RIP Tuttle.

That wasn't snow, it was drizzling at the stadium.

It goes by win% of opponents, not division or conference record. I believe the Bills had the lowest opponents win% and therefore would have picked higher than the teams tied with them, they definitely would have drafted ahead of the Jets & would have been in position to draft D'Brick.

SI missed one of the biggest if not THE biggest collapse in sports-the 1964 Phillies. This team blew the pennant at the end of the season by losing most of their games at a time when they had just about wrapped up the NL pennant. I don't have the stats to show how bad it was, but to anyone following baseball in 1964, it was unimaginable. Gene Mauch, architect of another collapse, the 1986 Angels in the playoffs against the Buckner Red Sox, panicked in the final 2 weeks of the season and totally messed up his pitching rotation. The highlight was his spare rib sauce meltdown in the Philly locker room. The guys at SI who put this together must have been born after 1964. They also missed the 1978 Red Sox and of course the Dodgers meltdown the year "The Giants win the pennant" on the Bobby Thompson homerun in the playoff game.

I think the difference between looking at Moon's stats in a gimmick offense and actually watching the guy play would have the watcher saying Moon does not belong in the HOF. What I really couldn't stand about Moon's selection was that it was done to right some (bogus) myth that Moon was ignored by the NFL when he came out of college because of his race. The fact that Doug Williams was taken in the 1st round by Tampa Bay with the 17th overall pick (ironically acquired in a trade with Houston) the same year Moon was eligible for the draft and Warren Moon was not drafted because he signed with the CFL BEFORE the NFL draft should debunk that myth. Although he had a shorter career, I think Doug Williams was a better QB than Warren Moon. The difference was Williams didn't play in a gimmick offense, PO'd people by jumping to the USFL and was never afraid to speak his mind. I'd vote for Doug Williams for the HOF before Moon, but really, neither one is a HOFer. Williams also won a Super Bowl and never beat his wife!

Unless I'm feeling motivated to drive out the day of the game & the driving weather is good across the state, I'll be missing my 1st home game in 16 years on Christmas Eve. What a stupid schedule.

You can't compare the two games. No Moulds in the Losman game. Meathead suspended him, leaving JP with only 1 viable receiver & the Patriots able to tee off on JP.

Jaguars | Williams misses practice Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:08:51 -0700 Vito Stellino, of the Florida Times-Union, reports Jacksonville Jaguars OT Mike D. Williams missed practice Wednesday, June 21. He was absent for personal issues that didn't have anything to do with his weight loss program. He's off to see the Wizard to get a heart.

I hope you're happy now, check the title.

At least Flutie won games, helped the team get into the playoffs and was exciting to watch. In the end it turned out he was right all along-he should have started ever game that both he and Rob Johnson were healthy for (and that didn't leave many games for Rob anyway). Meanwhile, Holcomb does absolutely nothing for the good of the team by starting. He might have a good game once in a while like the Cincy game, which was taken over by Terrance McGee, not Holcomb, but most of the time he'll just disappoint. All Holcomb does is take time away from the team finding out if one of the younger QBs has what's needed to be a solid NFL starting QB. While I doubt Holcomb will be the starting QB in the Fairchild offense, I can't wait for the day he is out of Buffalo.

That's how I feel. If Leinart becomes the next Joe Montana and JP becomes the next Rob, Nall becomes the next Gale Gilbert & Holcomb becomes the next Holcomb, it was a bad choice-no matter how well Whitner performs at S. Likewise, if McCargo busts and Ngata or Bunkley is a multi year Pro Bowler, then I'd say it's a bad pick. If JP or Nall becomes a solid starter, McCargo outplays Ngata & Bunkley (Which I think he will over the length of their careers.) and Whitner is better than the guys taken below him at Bills positions of need, he's a good pick. The bottom line is what the other guys, both on the team and the guys drafted by other teams, do over the next few years.

If Losman or Nall emerges, the Bills will improve quite a bit and surprise a lot of people. If Holcomb emerges, it will be the biggest emergence since Rip Van Winkle. More likely, if Holcomb starts, the season will end up in the emergency ward catagory.

I can think of 3: 1) ATMs keyboards are mass produced without knowing which will be used for walk up & which ones will be used for driveup. 2) Blind people are allowed to sit in the passenger seat behind the driver and can use the machine from there. 3) Stevie Wonder went to the California DMV, spoke a foreign language and was immediately given a license.