FightinIrishBills

Well considering the SEC has been the strongest conference in the country for the majority of the past decade, I don't feel remotely bad having them pick up players from the South.

Chad Henne soiled himself, although reportedly it had nothing to do with the Bills game.

Do you like it fresh or do you bottle it and then chill it? I'm curious how someone so pessimistic over not signing an out of shape slob takes the pee in their Cheerios in the morning.

Elmwood Village man!

The lockout is probably the biggest factor here. Yeah, Fitz and Co. worked together in the off-season, but it's nothing like training camp and live practices. Besides, defenses nearly always look good early on because defense really isn't as complex as calling offensive plays--generally, defenses can get away with just going full speed ahead at the QB. By the way, where have you heard that the offense is looking all that bad? Everything I've seen/heard is that the Bills offense is looking explosive. The sky isn't falling yet, Chicken Little.

I like it a lot. All upside. If he's camp fodder then at least Chan is trying to plug as many athletic receivers as possible into his spread system. Fitzy must be salivating at his potential receiving corps.

Um, no. She looks WAYYYY too much like Ralph for my taste (check the eyes and the mouth).

With the exception of Aaron Wiliams out of Texas (which is more West), all of the Bills 2011 draft picks came from the South.

Don't think anyone posted about this. How hypocritical. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/08/rumors-fly-of-a-complete-nfl-shutdown/

Me too. For me it was the name; I had a similar feeling when I found out JJ Watt was a white guy.

On a human, non-Bills fan level (hopefully being human and being a Bills fan aren't mutually exclusive ), good for him. Hopefully it clicks for him and he can make it in the NFL...he's definitely got the size.

John, I heartily disagree with you on this point. The job of scouts is to provide information to the GMs and coaches about these upcoming players, and the brass make judgment calls based on their research. The front office then uses the evidence given to them by their scouts to make decisions about best player available, best fit for the team, etc. If the evidence from the scouting department is poor or incomplete, then the team won't be getting the player they thought they were buying into. Good scouts should be the backbone of a team.

Bingo. Even if JP was limited in his on-field time due to injury his rookie year, he still had time to ride the bench, learn the playbook, and develop a greater awareness of the NFL game. Maybe he needed another year to develop, but his output after his sophomore season warranted only a very cautious optimism at best. Quite frankly, you needed better performance out of a guy worth 2 years of first round picks, and JP, while showing flashes, never exhibited the ability to be a solid starter, let alone a franchise QB. Mularkey knew that JP never had the ability and tried to win in spite of him.

Do you think that Mularkey would have a job for long (not that he did here in Buffalo, but work with me here) if he didn't try to utilize the guy that cost the Bills two first round picks? There was a lot of pressure in the organization to get JP to play, and, with what he cost, rightly so. Unfortunately he was a dud from the beginning and Mularkey knew it. Letting him flounder from week to week wasn't going to inspire his confidence one bit. He wasn't prepared to start so early (if ever) and cost Mularkey his job, as well as setting back the franchise for many years.

I don't buy it. Mularkey's done a hell of a job throughout his career as an offensive coordinator wiht both the Steelers and the Falcons. The QB controversy was ugly, but I'm inclined to err on the side of Mularkey recognizing that JP was a complete waste rather than JP failing because Mularkey poorly coached him.

This fetishizing of the Patriots is getting ludicrous. As a bunch of posters prior have said, you draft the best player who fits your system. If you believe that you can get a player that you value highly at 48, then it makes sense to trade out of the 34th pick. However, if you grade the quality of talent available to you at 48 to be significantly less valuable as both a player and to your team's needs then the talent available at 34, then you can't pass that up. Everything the Bills do isn't always wrong. Everything the Patriots do isn't always right. More picks means better odds of finding solid players, but the more marginal quality of the talent as you move down reduces your odds of finding a good or elite player when you trade away from the higher picks. The Bills don't need contributors, they need big-time playmakers. By having whiffed on so many first round picks over the years, the Bills have a bunch of role-players but no elite grade talent. Bill Simmons would say that 1 dollar is better than 4 quarters (though he's talking about the NBA, I still think it's valid here). Contrary to the belief of a good deal of Bills' fans, the team isn't that far away from being good again. But in order to get back into the fold of good (let alone playoff) teams, the team need to grab high-end talent when it can and plug in solid role players around them. Those role players start looking really good when big-time playmakers open up the game.

We already had the T.O. circus, we don't need the Ocho carnival.

There is no way the Bills are picking first overall next year. Take that to the bank.

Agreed. I like the guy's size. I like his story. But there's a reason he was a 7th rounder. Not saying that he can't grow into something great, but come on, we just drafted Marcell freakin' Dareus and all the excitement is about our last round pick?

Osama bin Laden gets killed and your reaction is to post something negative about the Bills draft. Either you're trolling or you just need a little bit more good cheer in your life, sunshine.

And to think--The Nazis almost won World War II!

This is just unreal. You have to be trolling.

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I've heard of him!

Just because the Pats do it doesn't mean we have to/should.