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Buffalo Bills: Buffalo is one of the teams reportedly interested in acquiring QB Drew Henson from the Houston Texans, but that might not be on the only quarterback news in Buffalo. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports Sam Wyche, the offensive mastermind behind the explosive Bengals offenses of the early to mid-80s, is in consideration for the team's quarterbacks coach. Wyche has a penchant for teaching quarterbacks and he already has a relationship with new coach Mike Mularkey. Wyche gave Mularkey his first NFL coaching job when he was the head coach at Tampa Bay.

San Diego Chargers: The city of San Diego and the Chargers are at it again. Letters from the city have been sent in recent months to representatives of stadiums that want to lure away the Chargers, criticizing them about trying to work around the club's existing lease and threatening possible legal action against the recipients or "any third party which takes actions that damage the City." That struck a chord with the NFL, who responded with a letter of its own. "Your veiled threat to take legal action against the NFL is as unbecoming as it is unwarranted," NFL attorney Gregg H. Levy wrote in a two-page letter obtained by the Los Angeles Times. "The NFL not only has a long-standing and positive relationship with the City of San Diego, but also a policy of supporting stable team-community relationships."

Dallas Cowboys: The Cowboys want a new stadium and Dallas County wants them to have one. But the rub is finding the best way to raise the necessary funding. The county doesn't want to build a new stadium by raising taxes on local hotel visitors and the Cowboys don't want to build it by passing the cost onto their fan base. At a meeting Monday, commissioners expressed interest in taxing tickets, parking, locker rooms and luxury suites -- ways to perhaps minimize the countywide tax on hotel rooms proposed by the Cowboys. "My input from the community is that more of this cost should be picked up by the users," Commissioner Jim Jackson told the Dallas Morning News. But the Cowboys have talked about raising part of the $450 million stadium cost from a hotel and rental car tax. A 6 percent tax would be applied to rental car bills in Dallas County and a 3 percent tax would be applied to hotel bills. In the city of Dallas, it would be layered onto an existing hotel tax, increasing the total to 18 percent.

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