Albany,n.y.

Keep up the good work. I hope you were well compensated for your work last January. If it weren't for you Mike Mularkey might still be our head coach. I also imagine you've financed your kids college education with all those trips you made to the Donahoe house the last 5 years.

Just for the record, the Bills have given up or used the following year's 1st round picks on a QB: 1998 (trade for RJ) 2002 (trade for Bledsoe) 2004 (traded up for JP) Therefore, the Bills used #1s 2 years apart on a QB and it can even be stated that they used back to back #1s since the #1 for Bledsoe was 2003's and JP was drafted in the 1st round in 2004 (with some 2004 picks & 2005's #1). So just because you spent a #1 a couple of years ago on a QB, it doesn't mean you don't do it again a short time later. The short timeframe between 1st round QB picks, in history, include when the Baltimore Colts spent back to back picks on QBs-in 1982 (Art Schlichter) and 1983 (John Elway), with neither one lasting long with the team due to a gambling addiction and elway's refusal to play in Baltimore. In 1989 Dallas spent 2 1st round picks on QBs, making both their (own) 1989 & 1990 picks QBs. Troy Aikman was a 1st rounder in 1989 & Steve Walsh was a supplemental 1st round pick-giving Dallas 2 rookie 1st round QBs in 1989-So much for Jimmy Johnson's draft genius tag (although he later hoodwinked NO into giving up a #1 for Walsh. In 1965 the Jets had both Joe Namath & Heisman winner John Huarte as rookie QBs. Now all this was done before the salary cap, but the bottom line is you better find a quality QB by whatever means necessary, otherwise your franchise is not going to be a Super Bowl contender.

For everyone's sake, I hope JP works out, if he does then everything is fine. However, if he doesn't (which better not happen), then we've done worse than "delay our rebuilding to the 2008 season at best". I'm happy with the Whitner pick, but if JP fails-which I hope & think will not happen-not drafting Cutler will have set us back even further. As a result, Marv has shown that he has faith in JP. Marv is in charge & it's his job to make the tough decision-he made it and he better be right. I found it interesting that Marv made it quite clear that Leinart was never considered an option and the team obviously had Cutler rated a lot higher.

No matter how good Whitner becomes, the pick rests with how good JP becomes. If JP lives up to expectations, Whitner was the right pick, period. If JP doesn't & Cutler does, then Whitner was the wrong pick-it's that simple (now that Marv is on record saying if the choice was between Leinart & Cutler, it would have been Cutler*). QB is a much more valuable position to fill than safety, but if you have a good to great starting QB, then drafting a safety is acceptable. *-Source: Marv on WHAM Tuesday night.

I don't understand why some of us get offended by ratings & predictions of pea-brained journalists who haven't seen 1% of the Bills games we've seen. I just think that the person writing the article is a moron who doesn't have the professionalism to do his job correctly. If a guy is going to be paid to write about the NFL, unless he's viewing tapes of every game before making his ratings, I believe he is as bad as a theif because his is not properly doing his job, while getting paid for an inferior product. If his employer is OK with that, then the best thing to do is blame the employer because in the end, the employer is responsible for the rubbish. So, the conclusion is don't do anything that would aid Docsports,com financially. If this is the guy's hobby & he just is posting like us, with no compensation, then it really doesn't matter what he thinks. Just another doofus with a computer (like the rest of us)

Thank's Pope. Now my people are not #1 on the Muslim hit parade.

Yes, the Yankees confirmed they will be wearing them.

So, if the Jets sign him, will we have to put up with the 3rd Sign Michael Haynes thread of the season when they release him? Maybe it would be better if the Bills were the next team to sign & cut him just to stop these threads. The only thing I fear is that if we sign & cut him we'll get the "Why did we cut Haynes" or "Bring back Michael Haynes" threads

Ralph has it spread all over a king sized bed & is rolling around in it.

No they couldn't. PUP is reserved for guys who come to camp injured. Players who practiced & played in preseason before injury are not eligible for PUP.

Thanks for the clarification. I'm sure the Bills knew all the ramifications. I think their main goal in this is sending Vincent on his way when he's healthy enough to join another team because they want to give him an opportunity to get more playing time than he'd get here. They realize that by the time he comes back, Vincent would be a reserve and Vincent probably indicated to them he preferred to be let go. A lot of media types are enjoting their age jokes on Marv & Ralph. Whoever is making the personnel decisions, Marv, Modrak etc, they did a great job in this draft and the organization is well aware of the NFL rules-a lot more aware than the writers who criticize them.

Sounds like another 1st round bust named Mike.

There was a sign that was hanging on one of the walls before the game, but security made them take it down: "Bo knows the Raiders suck"

This article & Brad reading it on WGR got me so riled up last night I first e-mailed Brad and then called him. Summing up my thoughts: Vincent wasn't on the injury report on opening day, therefore he was fit to play before the game started, so why does Florio think he should have been cut before the game, when the main reason he was in effect cut occurred during the game-reaggravating an injury that wasn't even reportable for the game before it started. Marv would have had to be Nostradamus to know that Vincent would get hurt. Ko Simpson had never played in a regular season game, and even if they were high on him, they didn't know if he was ready to start over Vincent. As for Peter's "hoping it's not true" WTF do you hope is not true? That Marv didn't have Nostradamus like foresight that Vincent would get injured in game 1? Florio is a jerk for writing an article that is flawed by an illogical premise that Marv Levy is supposed to see the future before it happens and base his cuts on his visions. Before Florio writes again, I'd advise him to either take or retake Logic 101 because his whole premise is illogical. And for Peter, I'd say wake up and don't be a Florio lemming.

The Saints already cut him this week. So Jreed82 is advocating a guy who got cut by one team, picked up by another & got cut after 1 week in the season. No Thanks!

The best part is that all the other games look like blowouts, so by the 4th quarter, 90% of the nation may be switched to Bills/Miami, unless we're up by 30.

V chip alert for language and the gayest character seen on TSW.

I still haven't received it yet.

Ellison was our 7th pick, picked in the 6th round. Which could make him the Tom Brady of linebackers.

The best sign I ever saw was when I was watching the AFL Championship game on TV KC @ Buffalo to go to Super Bowl I. It said "Bills in Super Bowl, Chiefs in soup bowl" and had a big bowl of soup drawn. I forget if they had Chief players floating in there, but I remember they drew steam coming from the soup bowl. Years later, when I heard that the 1st Super Bowl wasn't called Super Bowl, I remembered the sign & went to the Buffalo library, found the Courier Express on microfilm and found multiple references to the fact the Chiefs and Packers were going to play in the "Super Bowl".

I've seen enough Jets games in the Herman Edwards era to know that he is nothing but a rah rah guy who can't coach for s##t. If Herman Edwards ever is employed by the Bills, I'm jumping out a window.

What are the media jerks who said we had a bad draft saying now?

Sarcasm in title noted.

He must be waived when healthy, WGR interviewed Hub Arkish & he says if he's claimed he goes to the team, otherwise he's free to sign with anyone, the Bills included.

He's gone. They're not going to keep him around because he wants to play & has been ultra careful today to say all the right things, to make sure the Bills release him without any bridges burned-heck in a year or 2 he might return as a coach or coach in training-but for now he wants to play and the Bills will not stand in his way. They've already decided they like what they've seen in Ko Simpson, otherwise they would have cut a guy like Aaron Merz & put him on the PS instead of Stith and then re-signed Leonhard if they felt they needed a healthy body at S. I doubt the league is hovering over the waiver wire hoping to claim Aaron Merz.