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^This. 'Nuff said. It took a young promising player to land another promising player at a position of greater need. Foligno has played more like what we wanted out of Kassian to this point anyway. Good luck to Zack in Vancouver. That's all I got to say about it. I just don't see the point in comparing them after every game. GO SABRES!!!

Landry was let go a couple months before the 1989 draft. By then, the team had been sold to Jerrah, Jimmy was hired, and they made Aikman their first pick ever. It's a good bet that Landry and Schramm would have taken Aikman anyway, though. GO SABRES!!!

Of course not. And he won't be. But as a rookie, especially for a young rookie playing in Ruff's system, he must show a commitment to the defensive zone and all that entails. Everyone knows he's gifted offensively and we should all be encouraged by his willingness to pay attention to his D-zone responsibilities. And with Leino and Ott as his wings, he's gonna flourish offensively against lesser talented third line opponents. Much like Roy, Vanek, and Afinogenov did back in '06. Unless he falls apart completely in the next three games, I think he's a lock to make the big club. GO SABRES!!!

Have an OReO. GO SABRES!!!

Yep. Won't matter one bit without better players. There might be varying degrees of putting players position to succeed as well as the ability to motiviate players, but coaches can do little to make an untalented player more talented at the pro level. Our guys, particularly on the defensive side of the ball, are lacking in talent in several key areas. At least one or more players at each level of the defense, particularly LB and in the secondary. Indeed, I'd say we are only set at 3 DL positions, 1 CB, and 1 FS (if he stays). The rest are in need of serious upgrades and that's more than half the defense. That's not to say that we can't judge how well a coach is doing in making them play to their best capabilities, as limited as that is. Until we DO get better talent in more places, I'll have to be content with just hoping the other team knows it's been in a fight more often than not. GO BILLS!!!

One can be a disciplinarian without being a dick. Gregg Williams was the epitome of being a dick. I'm thinking Marrone will indeed meet with some resistance from some vets on the team. And, like Marv and Co. did when they took over, there will be a purging process a la Jones, Devlin, Smerlas, etc. I accept that as just part of jettisoning some ties to a losing culture and the need to establish his own agenda. While underwhelmed with the choice, I've got to see him in action before I can get a feel one way or the other. Will be watching his staff hires intently. Those will be his first chance to impress me. Then I'll need at least a full season to form a better opinion overall. GO BILLS!!!

People are going to be changing their tune after this season when Leino, like so many FAs in so many sports have done historically, rebounds from his pressure-filled first year with his new team and the stresses of adapting to a new environment and has a great year. Yes. That Ville Leino. GO SABRES!!!

Thanks for the link. Nice stuff. Why is it I cringe every time I hear the phrase, "when motivated?" GO SABRES!!!

This bodes well for an 18 year old now facing much older, physically mature players. If he becomes one of those players that's just hard to play against on a nightly basis, he's gonna help us for years to come. GO SABRES!!!

Johnny Goalie! GO SABRES!!!

Thanks folks. One of the things I appreciate about this place. Ask a question and often times people care enough to answer it. And IIRC, the Katrina relief bill was just as crammed with pork. It may be unseemly, but that's how we have to do things sometimes in order to do the most good.

I'd like to know who the 67 Republicans were that saw fit to vote against even today's Sandy Relief package. This is some unprecedented behavior in how we have always acted in the face of natural disasters. They should be ashamed.

So Christie doesn't stand for anything?

You deign to insist that the good barrister should curb his verbosity? Why, that would contradict his very genetic code. Indeed, it may have negative health impacts. I would urge 11 to embellish with the full breadth of the entire English language (and Latin if needed for any legal terms) at his disposal.

Yes. Major brain cramp on my part. The party seems to pull the candidate far right much more than the candidate pulls the party towards the center. My concern is Christie would have to go way right to gain nomination and then dance back left to get votes. It doesn't play well usually.

I'd like to believe this but after seeing how far Romney had to lean left to get the nomination, I'm not sure a candidate is the one doing the pulling.

I'll ask those who follow these things more closely, but has there ever been an IIHF World Junior Championship with so many Sabres prospects impressing in such conspicuous ways? GO SABRES!!!

I'll ask again: what's the difference between the pork approved for Katrina and the pork that House Republicans are so up in arms about this time?

Can someone please tell me why the House Republicans won't vote for the Hurricane Sandy relief funding? Is it just a question of the pork-related items contained in the bill the Senate put forth? I don't get it. There were BILLIONS of pork dollars involved in the Katrina bill and Republicans had no problem with that then. What's different now?

I wonder what the dollar velocity of a couple trillion dollars would look like. That's a LOT of bathrooms.

I don't think he was behind it so much as he agreed with RW who was really pissed after the Donahoe fiasco, the one and only time RW ever gave free reign to somebody else. Ralph needed someone he could trust and Marv fit the bill. The TO signing was his brainchild entirely, though. GO BILLS!!!

If Littman and Overdorf don't interfere and Brandon is smart enough to defer to better football minds when it comes to coaches and other personnel decisions, it just may work. We could finally have an autonomous operation working out of One Bills Drive. GO BILLS!!!

Agreed 100%. Gailey and Fitz are the types of guys you route for just want to see do well. It would be so much easier to part with them if that wasn't the case. My hope is that Fitz ends up in his backyard in Arizona as a backup to some rookie they draft. I think he'd be a great mentor given his knowledge of the game. As for Chan, I hope he takes some time off just to decompress. You just know the losing ate him up inside. GO BILLS!!!

Fitz has indeed played his last game in Buffalo. I just don't see how he can he brought back with any shred of credibility going forward. His contract is not an albatross to prevent it either. That said, I would be even more ecstatic if we replaced 5 players on our defense. GO BILLS!!! That may be true about Brandon, but he's nothing if not pragmatic. Somebody over on the Wall posted that Fitz has just two wins against winning teams. I'm not sure if that's true but the point is that the vast majority of the fan base has lost faith in the most important position on the team. Cohesiveness or not, that can't be ignored when there has been no indication of improvement by Fitz. GO BILLS!!!

Statistically, maybe. But it was obvious to me he was fighting the throws much of the year. Moot point anyway. He's played his last game as a Bill. GO BILLS!!!