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ALLEN PARK — Caleb Campbell’s pro football career is on hold — at least temporarily.

Each Friday Buffalobills.com lead journalist Chris Brown will answer a handful of popular questions that he receives in his inbox from Bills Backers to stay in touch with the fans throughout the offseason. If you have a question you’d like to have answered in Fan Friday just e-mail Chris at Askchris@bills.nfl.net. Here’s the latest installment.

Orchard Park, NY - The Buffalo Bills announced Thursday they have sold 54,200 season tickets for the upcoming season. This season ticket total ranks as the third highest in team history. The highest season ticket total in franchise history is 57,132 in 1992 and the second highest total in team history is 54,604 in 1991.

It’s been eight long years since Buffalo last appeared in a playoff game. The Bills are eager to end the drought to the point where Donte Whitner has publicly guaranteed that his team will capture one of the AFC’s six playoff berths this season.

The Buffalo Bills announced Tuesday that tickets will be available beginning Friday, July 25, at 9:00 a.m. for the Bills Verizon Wireless Training Camp night practice on Monday, August 11 at St. John Fisher College in Rochester. This night practice is sponsored by Allstate Insurance and the tickets are complimentary.

Last year this was a difficult question as well. With Marshawn Lynch and Paul Posluszny poised to claim starting roles at very productive positions both offensively and defensively it wasn’t easy to determine which player would provide the greater impact. Unfortunately Posluszny’s broken arm in week three changed things. But entering 2008 determining which rookie will make the biggest splash is just as tough with some big time talent at the top of Buffalo’s draft board.

Linebacker Alvin Bowen, Buffalo’s fifth-round draft pick, signed on Wednesday, a day before Bills players were to report for the start of training camp. Selected 147th overall out of Iowa State, Bowen was a three-year starter and an All-Big 12 Conference first-team selection in both his junior and senior seasons.

Considering the Saints finished 26th in total yards allowed and 30th against the pass during their 7-9 season in 2007, most of the attention will be on the defensive side of the ball when training camp gets under way next week.

After all, major improvement on defense will be a key if the Saints expect to have a chance at returning to the playoffs. But on the other side of the line of scrimmage, the wide receivers will get their share of scrutiny as well.

Not that there’s anything wrong with the Saints passing game after they finished third in the league a year ago, but who contributes after starters Marques Colston and David Patten will be the real question.

Robert Meachem, a first-round draft pick in 2007, was inactive for all 16 games a year ago after having…

Jerry Jones has spoken with his checkbook.

The recent signing of safety Ken Hamlin for six years and $39 million concludes the richest offseason in Cowboys history. During the spree, Jones has inked five players to contract extensions totaling more than $211 million, including tackle Flozell Adams, running back Marion Barber, cornerback Terence Newman, receiver Terrell Owens and Hamlin.

That number includes $58 million in signing bonuses alone. Yes, Jones has done his part—providing a talented and well-paid roster.

Now he wants results. He doesn’t just want to win a playoff game for the first time since 1996, he wants to win a Super Bowl.

Watching the Giants win only stoked the fire, and Jones is convinced the time is now for the Cowboys.

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The Lito Sheppard situation just got a whole lot more interesting. With the start of training camp just days away, the unhappy cornerback has fired his longtime agents Lamont Smith and Peter Schaffer and replaced them with—drum roll, please—Drew Rosenhaus.

The oft-injured Sheppard is unhappy with his contract, which still has four years to run and will earn him just $2 million this season, a paltry sum compared to many of the league’s other top cornerbacks. He has asked to be traded, but so far, the team has not received an offer that has been to their liking.

Sheppard and Sheldon Brown have been the Eagles’ starting cornerbacks for the last four seasons. But Sheppard’s starting left corner job was handed to Asante Samuel when he signed a seven-year, $56…