Albany,n.y.

We've got 56 people in our pool, and 26 picked NE. I almost picked the Bills over NE, but went safer & picked NFC Champ Seattle to beat Detroit. Another hot pick in our pool is Arizona. When has Arizona ever been a safe pick in a suicide pool?

If Mularkey had called Ralph & Marv's bluff, I'm almost certain that after a period of re-evaluation, Marv would have fired Mularkey even if he hadn't resigned. I can't see any way that Mularkey could still be coaching this team after what has come out about last year's nonsense. ...and if Miami does well and Mularkey joins Gregg Williams as a hot assistant coach, any team that is even thinking of hiring the guy as a head coach should just read all the quotes and come to their senses. My football fantasy is that Saban gets mad at Huizenga, quits & Mularkey is named head coach of the Dolphins.

When I first moved to Albany in 1988, I took a portable TV out Rt 20 until I got Utica in for the Bears game at 1:00 and then went to the thruway rest stop 60 miles west for a 4:00 game against Seattle-ate at the Burger King at halftime. Then I found out they had games on sattelites in bars.

The good news is that unless they do something really crazy, the Bills-Dolphins game next week will be on in Albany because Jets-NE is the 4:15 game of the CBS doubleheader.

After Sunday you can change Red Sox to Patriots

From his interview on BB.com on TBD front page: Like coach says, we’re not going to come out with crazy stuff, we just have to be smarter and sharper. On the team being different this year Yeah, it’s a lot different. Not to say the last two years were bad. (We have) different types of players. It’s a different team and locker room with a different attitude, you’ve been in there. If things don’t go right, it’s not going to be like last year with guys getting on each other. Verdict: Mike Mularkey guilty of crazy call coaching and coaching a divided locker room.

It's official: Jets @ Tennessee on WRGB. F' them! NFL Football NY Jets @ Tennessee

The last time I looked Nick Saban was Miami's HC, not Mularkey. Mularkey will be kept in check by Saban-he will not have free reign to ruin Miami like he did with the Bills.

In other words: The Patriots are ripe for the picking.

But we're close enough to NE to (hopefully) give the station the option of taking the Bills/NE game. Tennessee & the Jets won't combine for 8 wins this season-it's a horrible game to televise anywhere. Last year the station took a Patriot game or 2 over both the Jets & the Bills, so I have hope for this Sunday.

No news yet on the website: Change the date to Sunday for the latest. http://www.wrgb.com/programming.shtml

I think Pennington will be among the inactives most weeks. I hope his parents don't lose their enthusiasm for watching Bills games during what is basically his redshirt season.

That's because religion and its followers think their brand has a monopoly on morality. I believe that it's perfectly logical to have morality without religion. The deeply religious don't understand this because half of them have bought a bill of goods that tells them people are inherently bad, when a non religious, high moraled person generally believes people are inherently good. Logic says you don't kill or hurt other people. A lot of people think you need a comandment from God to figure that out. I believe you don't.

You can take the player out of Cincinnati, but you can't take the Bengals out of the player.

Nobody complained when Chuck Knox brought in just about every ex-Ram he could get to come to Buffalo and turned the team around. So Jauron kept a guy who performed for him in the past in favor of a guy who never played a regular season game and the best he could do was land on TB's practice squad, when 3 other guys were claimed off waivers. I give Jauron the benefit of the doubt on this one.

I wonder if Wendell Hunter declined a spot. I thought they were high enough on him to at least have a spot on the PS for him.

9-7. I have Indy winning it all over Carolina in the Super Bowl. Worst teams: Tennessee & Cleveland. Edit: here's my entire NFL: AFC NFC NE 13-3 PHI 13-3 MIA 12-4 NYG 10-6 BUF 9-7 DAL 8-8 NYJ 6-10 WAS 5-11 CIN 11-5 CHI 13-3 BAL 10-6 DET 4-12 PIT 10-6 MIN 4-12 CLE 1-15 GB 4-12 IND 14-2 CAR 13-3 JAC 7-9 ATL 10-6 HOU 4-12 TB 9-7 TEN 1-15 NO 3-13 DEN 11-5 SEA 12-4 SD 8-8 STL 7-9 KC 7-9 ARI 6-10 OAK 3-13 SF 5-11 PLAYOFFS: AFC: CIN OVER MIA NFC: PHIL OVER NYG DEN OVER BAL SEA OVER ATL CIN OVER NE CHI OVER SEA IND OVER DEN CAR OVER PHIL IND OVER CIN CAR OVER CHI SUPER BOWL: INDIANAPOLIS 30 CAROLINA 24

If a team wants him a 3 or 4 is reasonable. If they don't pony up, they don't get him-it's that simple. I see a 6th is ahead in the poll-I'd keep him rather than take a 6th. When Houston drafted Henson, Casserly said 6th rounders only hit 10% of the time (looks like Drew H joined the 90%). I don't think you trade Holcomb for a 10% likelihood you get a player.

Moorman was a street free agent via NFL Europe, not an undrafted from college free agent. He spent 2 camps with Seattle & played 2 years in NFL Europe prior to signing with the Bills.

You can tell the really bad teams by the number of guys thet pick up on waivers. Good teams may claim a player now & then, but when you see multiple waiver pickups this time of year, you've got major problems. It's a better sign that teams are picking up our castoffs than the other way around. I remember in the mid 80s when we'd pick up a guy from the waiver wire & be plugging him right into the starting lineup. That's what 2-14 teams do. Tennessee will be among the 5 worst teams in the league this season.

That should say he PRACTICED in that offense for five years, under Saunders

I don't think it was $ related, although I still view Ralph as a cheapskate. I think what happened is that Mularkey realized he was being played by Marv. Everyone knew Mularkey would be toast with Marv, MM included. Marv wanted to coach again and saw a mid season Mularkey firing as his best way in. When Mularkey read the writing on the wall, he quit. Now Ralph Wilson stepped in, and told Marv -you're not coaching this team. So Marv & Ralph now have to hire a new coach. Imagine what happened when Marv interviewed Dick Jauron. It was like looking in a mirror, 25 years ago. Jauron has to be the one guy in the entire NFL who is most like Marv. How could Marv resist hiring the closest thing to himself? How could Ralph resist hiring a man who could end up being the next Marv Levy? Jauron reminds me so much of Marv as a coach it is scary. I really hope we get similar results with Jauron as we did with Levy, but lets win that February game at least once, please.

I've never bought into the TD hired weak coaches to control them theory. I think it's more likely 3 things: 1) Ralph didn't want to pay huge $ for a head coach 2) TD got burned by Marvin Lewis, partially due to reason #1. Lewis lost interest when he found out what Ralph was willing to pay for a rookie head coach. On top of that, Lewis was under the (wrong) assumption that he was going to get the Cleveland job and was really jolted when Cleveland hired Butch Davis. As a result, Lewis basically blew off the Bills, leaving TD to choose between John Fox and Gregg Williams-remember, we were late to hire because we were waiting on Lewis. Now once again this is my theory, but I believe Fox had no chance with Ralph, because even though they are technically rivals, Ralph & Al Davis are pretty tight. Ralph even bailed Davis out & helped save the Raiders in the early AFL days. John Fox pulled a John Rauch when he was D coach of the Raiders-he quit Al Davis in training camp because he got tired of his meddling. Ralph wanted no part of a guy who quit on Al Davis. So the Bills were left with Gregg Williams as the "Last Coach Standing" and coach disaster #1 took place. 3) When it was TD's turn to hire another head coach, he went the rookie route again because his ego still drove him to prove that he could find the next great head coach, plus he was limited by Ralph's rookie HC budget. However, this time he was fighting internal demons since his last choice bombed. So even though he was looking for greatness, he tempered his selection to avoid hiring someone he didn't know-like he'd done with Gregg. He chose old Pittsburgh croney Mike Mularkey and really believed he would straighten out Drew Bledsoe, but also hedged his bet by drafting a young QB for Mularkey and staff to work with if Bledsoe tanked. The problem here was Mularkey was just about as bad as Gregg Williams, and in the locker room wasn't even as good as Williams-who had his players' support right to the end. The Mularkey hiring doomed TD. This is why I don't buy into the weak coach theory and I never will.

The same way they resist putting waiver claims on the other 723 players recently released.

We still have to pay him an additional $875,000, using the data above. Why give him the money?