korab rules

With the new CBA and profit sharing model, there is less incentive to move teams from small markets than ever before. Trading a known market that supports the team like they are perennial superbowl champs when they haven't made the playoffs in a decade for a city that couldn't care less about football and has lost multiple NFL franchises more times than I can count is an unnecessary risk. I am less worried about the Bills now than ever before, even though Ralph could keel over any day.

You sure it wasn't the head jock scrubber in the locker room sharing it on his facebook account? I wouldn't put it past Russ Brandon to start this rumor so he can sell more tickets.

too bad the mods shut it down - things were just getting interesting! Hard to beat the entertainment value of a good internet meltdown!

Taro is a glutton for punishment - trying to talk sense to those people is like beating your head against the wall.

Will wolford, wasn't it? Fina was more than just serviceable. Who was it before wolfed, Jim Ritcher?

All those people who have referred to me as an insensitive ass may be right - I didn't feel a thing.

Nothing here to disagree with other than your prognostications on our record and your hope that Fitz' accuracy will improve when the bullets are real. If the line doesn't start blocking better I think his accuracy may get worse - he will be running for his life. As for our record? I'm thinking 3-13. Moorman is our MVP again this year.

Sounds like drunken, off hand bar room talk. I would be shocked to hear he said such a thing.

I recall one wildcat play - A run by smith for a yard or two. That won't help. I don't much care for the wildcat - its a gadget. They need to get better at running fundamental plays - if we are relying on gadget plays to develop offense, then we are going nowhere (I know, we are going nowhere anyway). I, too, would like to see Brad Smith play some at WR. We are paying the guy a lot of money to be a gadget player seeing only 10-15 plays per game. I don't care about the Lee Evans trade - they want to see what we have in our young WR's. Evans is on the downhill side of his career, and his presence or absence wouldn't have had any significant impact on the Bills' season. I'll take the 4th, even though it is next to nothing. I think Nix/Gailey believe Spiller can play a traditional RB role. If he can't they had no business drafting a scatback/gadget player that high. You want to use him in a Reggie Bush role? Fine - then pick up one of the tiny waterbug receiver/RB's out there and line him up wherever you want knowing that the first defensive player who lays a hand on him is going to put him on the ground. The difference between them and Bush or Spiller is marginal. Ask the Saints what they think about drafting a gadget player that high - Houston was lampooned at the time for choosing Williams over Bush, but who is laughing now? Williams has had a much more productive career than Bush, who can't even stay on the field anymore. Luck does still have a year of eligibility after this year. He red shirted his freshman year. He stayed in this year because he wanted to get his degree and because his coach was supposed to come back. His coach ended up leaving, and Luck will, too. The chances of an injury or poor play harming his draft stock or even his career are too great for him to stay another year. I have NEVER heard anyone even suggest that Luck may not want to go to ANY team. Please provide a link if you have it. I think Luck is much, much too smart to say something like that. This kid is smart, from a smart family, and handles himself like a pro. Saying something like that is dumb and would only hurt him.

That pre-season game was an embarrassment, and probably a harbinger of the season to come. The O-line couldn't block anyone, 30 year old undrafted Fred Jackson is still better than 1st round pick Spiller, Fitz was consistently throwing balls 3 feet behind his intended targets, our defensive backfield was carved up, and our defensive line, although much bigger than last year, still has trouble stopping the run. And this was against the second worst team in football last year. Its going to be a long season. I am looking forward to watching Stanford games this year, and hoping that the Bills can somehow suck bad enough to draft Luck.

I smoked a cheap long fill Thompson cigars special while drinking blue light out of cans on my neighbors deck last night. Not exactly a connoisseur's dream evening, but it all tasted damn good under a beautiful late summer sky.

Its sad that so many of us care so little about the bills any more. I want to care, I just can't afford the mental energy it costs and the inevitable letdown when they screw it up again. I think Fitz is going to be fitz again, and that won't be good. We are an injury or two away from being a bottom 5 defense again, and our offensive line is still a mess. We are three weeks away from the season opener and we still don't know who our starting line will be. The disfunction is unbelievable and unacceptable. They are barely a professional team, and yet they are several steps ahead of where they were when Jauron left. Ralph's meddling in the front office and refusal to hire (or keep) anyone who knows what they are doing have hamstrung this franchise for all but two brief periods of competence over the last 50 years.

Welcome back, I guess. Picking up right where you left off, I see. Not sure what any of that means, but whatever.

I would have bet a VERY large sum of money that Merriman was juicing agin, at least in the offseason since they weren't subject to testing. It's sad, but not expected. I think the Bills are going to suck big time. It hurts, because I really don't care anymore. I hope they bottom out and draft Luck first overall. I really don't see much changing under current ownership. There is commitment to winning. The purpose for the existence of the Buffalo Bills is not to win a Superbowl.

I am feeling the need for intelligent Bills discussion. Let's start things out with a doozie. Anyone feel like Merriman's comeback was too good to be true? Apparently, it was. Merriman busted with steroids.

You are talking about two separate cases. On the criminal case, she hit him and left the scene. I am not sure that leaving the scene requires knowledge - I believe it is a strict liability offense. She should spend a couple days in jail whether she was texting or not. If it was texting, she should spend a week in jail. This is my opinion only. In all likelihood, she will get nothing As for the civil case,cell phone records are a beautiful thing - they will tell the tale. Honestly, it doesn't matter if she was texting or drunk as the lord. If she hit him, she is liable for his damages. The hit and run portion is an added criminal charge, but again, it really doesn't mean much for purposes of the injury case. Hope he is resting comfortably.

check your PM's.

Wow. What a backdrop. I want to ride there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJrQzeYquQI

Don't have much interest in sport bikes - too old for that riding position. Give me low end torque over WOT horses - I am hardly ever at WOT. BMW's are great bikes - if I was going to get a second bike, a big BMW tourer would be high on the list. For the riding I do, my sportster is perfect. Fast and agile enough to hit the twisties with the move fast crowd, but comfortable enough for a lazy cruise. A bike just doesn't feel right unless it vibrates enough to make your palms numb and makes enough noise to let the cagers know you are beside them. You can't hear those BMW's coming until they are on top of you! On a long range trip that is probably a good thing.

Country riding, especially at night, can be just as dangerous as city driving. Cars have headlights, deer don't. At least cows have horns. Take those corners easy at night - you can't see the gravel until its too late. All that said, I love to ride at night, too! Take a sportster for a spin. My 1200 doesn't have crazy horsepower, but it has plenty of torque. There is nothing like the feeling you get when you twist the tail on an American V-Twin!

Amen. But I take issue with your statement that Harleys can't lean. Not all of them are too bloated to get out of their own way. Sportsters can get around pretty well!

Bikers who ride like idiots cull themselves out eventually - while they are perhaps the most visible member of the motorcycling community, they don't represent the whole. The greatest danger bikers face by far are stupid cagers. People in cars just don't see bikes. They turn in front of them, cut them off, run into the back of them and fail to give them the space to which they are entitled. When cagers do stupid things to other cagers, they all walk away. When cagers do stupid things to bikers, we get seriously hurt. Put down your cell phones and ipods and makeup and beer and french fries and news papers, shut up, and watch where the hell you are driving. Riding in city traffic is just asking for trouble. I try to avoid rush hour traffic whenever possible, but there are times when it is just too nice not to ride. I can't agree with the bolded part. The vast majority of bikers are safe and law abiding to a fault, and with good reason. The fact that they may speed sometimes doesn't make it OK for a cager to turn left in front of a biker and kill him. Bikers who lane split and do stupid things at intersections get what they get, but those situations are in the minority. What you hear time after time from all the 70 year old ladies who cut bikers off and killed them was "I never saw him".

I ride. Several other on the site do, too. I'd bet my last dollar the biker didn't t-bone the car, the stupid cager failed to yield to the bike and turned in front of him when he was so close there was nothing he could do. ###### happens. It's part of the risk you take when you get on. Take the MSF course, buy a bike, ride the hell out of it for a year. by the end of a full season, you will know whether its for you or not. And to all you cagers out there - look twice, save a life. If you kill me I will haunt your entire family for as long as you all live. I will start by yanking out your cable and twisting your satellite dishes during sabres games.

FWIW, I'm going to taste a whole bunch of beers this weekend. Probably all the same kind - at least 12 before trying something different. I won't be taking notes, and they probably won't be high end craft beers. I'm thinking something ice cold with a maple leaf on the cap will do the trick. Maybe I'll report back on what kind of hangover and/or gastrointestinal effects they induce. Cheers! :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: