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LOL! Compared to last year, the O-line is "in shambles?" Adding a player like TO significantly improves the offense, because he'll draw coverage away from Evans, as well as the LOS. The Bills have been hindered for years without a true #2 WR, and the Bills now have a 1a and 1b WR. Peerless Price in 2006 was about the closest thing to a #2 WR the Bills have had since Moulds' last season in Buffalo.

The belief by some is that the Bills "screwed" Crowell last season by putting him on IR instead of letting him have the minor surgery and keeping him on the roster. Because he was obviously going to come back in 2 weeks, have a Pro Bowl season, not need the major surgery over the off-season, and then cash-in with a 5-year $35M contract.

The pieces are definitely there for it to be a top-5 offense.

TO is a great blocker as well. The running game should be pretty good this year.

Levi Jones is still on crutches. And his play declined markedly over the past few years.

Yep.

Everyone thinks they can draft better. Hell just look at Mel Kiper. There's a reason no one has EVER even offered to hire him as a GM/personnel man.

Russ Brandon said that the Bills offered Peters the largest contract in Bills' history. Lee Evan got a deal averaging over $9M/year. Reportedly he was looking for $11.5M/year. Do the math.

Andre Smith is the only guy who makes sense. Jason Smith was going to be a top-3 guy. Andre Smith had concerns so dropping might have been possible. But again I'm glad the Bungles took him and made the decision for the Bills. I see Mike Williams in the kid and drafting the kid with a higher pick than they got for Peters, while paying him close, would have been spinning their wheels. As for Butler being moved to RG as being proof of anything, Jonathan Ogden played OG his first few years in the league. And he was the 4th overall pick in 1996.

Yeah, everywhere else as him listed at 246#, where he's been at for the last several years. I'm wondering if rototimes has his most current weight.

You are overrating Crowell. Even if both sides weren't miffed at each other, there's no way the Bills were going to approach the $3M he was sorely overpaid by the Bucs, considering he gambled too much and usually ended-up losing, and since he still isn't 100% yet, 9 months after having surgery. BTW, I was looking at rototimes.com, and they have Crowell listed at 6'1" and 235#. With the Bills he was 246#.

If protection breaks down quickly, he'll see a lot of passes.

It has less to do with NFL knowledge than simple reading comprehension. How he can quote a piece that says the rookies are getting some reps with the 1st unit, and then say they're not getting any reps with the starting unit at all, is mind-boggling!

Federer is a good player, but he benefits from the weakest era of tennis in the modern era. Sampras in his prime would have wiped the walls with him.

Please stop with the erroneous generalizations. Most will tell you that letting Pat Williams go and cutting Ted Washington were mistakes, and some will say that letting Winfield go was a mistake. The rest however weren't. Look at Travis Henry now. The Bills obviously knew something was up when they cut him. Look at McGahee, who had 1 productive year after being traded, and now is a backup. The Bills got value for him when they could. Same goes for Peters, Walker, Spikes, and Holcomb (okay, he was a throw-in with the Spikes deal). They didn't with Clements, but neither did the Patriots* with Samuel, since teams aren't looking to trade high picks for franchise CB's.

Wes Welker, who people think is a great slot WR, is smaller than Reed. Welker is 5'9" 185# and Reed is 5'10" and 210#.

Last year Reed caught 14 passes on 3rd and converted 11 of them, and caught 1 pass on 4th down and converted it. And he missed 4 games. You can't easilyreplace a guy like that,. His blocking has already been discussed.

Felser reached badly trying to justify his premise that the Bills have been "miffed" with players they've let-go. They weren't miffed at anyone except Crowell and Peters, because of what they pulled . And they weren't miffed at Winfield, Clements, Pat Williams, or Ted Washington, and aren't miffed at Parrish at all, although he's probably miffed at them. Personally I think Winfield is a decent but not great CB and didn't have a problem with letting him go, especially since the Vikes gave him a $10M roster bonus and a huge contract for that time. And Clements was sorely overpaid. Letting Pat Williams go was a mistake, as was letting Ted Washington go, but neither was a case of the Bills being miffed, although Pat Williams had some choice words for Donahoe and Washington had some for Greggo. In Peters' case, he was miffed that the Bills didn't outright give him a huge contract raise after another 2 years in the league (after getting a huge contract raise after his first 2 years in the league). And the Bills were rightfully miffed at him and his pathetic performance last year. Crowell's situation isn't fully known, but since he needed major surgery on his knee, I can't believe for 1 second that the Bills advised him not to get surgery at all after the 2007 season. I think what happened is that he delayed having it because he knew it would knock him out for a long time (like it has so far) and damage his contract year 2008 season. But the pain was too much and he decided to have something done at the last second. And as I said in my other post, the Bills did him a favor at that point, putting him on IR, paying him his 2008 salary, and letting him have the surgery he really needed, so he could get that $3M contract from the Bucs.

Once again, Maybin is 2 years younger than Orakpo, and is where Orakpo was in college (i.e. coming off his redshirt sophomore season) and physically, 2 years ago. However he came off a season which was a LOT better than Orakpo's season as a true sophomore. Beyond that, he's said to have a great work ethic, doesn't take plays off, and best of all for you sticklers for choir boys, he's, well, a choir boy. I don't know how smart he is, but hearing him in interviews, he sounds intelligent.

Exactly. And if the guy they were targeting was Andre Smith, I'm glad the Bungles took him first and didn't make him an option for the Bills. The kid just has "bust" written all over him.

Good call. Another tard to ignore.

I think the comment about losing was mostly in relation to the Rams. The difference between going 9-7 and 7-9 and missing the playoffs in both cases is negligible. But I can see where believing that the Bears adding a seeming franchise QB (personally I think Cutler is overhyped, and he won't be throwing to the likes of Marshall, Royal, and Scheffler, much less have a genius OC like Shanahan) might mean more to him, as does the chance to play for a larger market and closer to home. In any case, I hope the Bills find someone better.

True, maybe a 1-year deal should have been offered. And maybe it was, but PT was serious about not liking being handed the starting job? I don't know, but that comment still sounds lame to me.

BB has found a friend.