Charles Romes

Manziel is not seen as a high first rounder I don't think.

He's hosting open right now. Great announcer, original genuine style. Unlike the morning drive rock jocks they have now.

When we picked ot Mike Williams. I felt the front office was doing the right thing eschewing the glam pick stacking the lines and going with a guaranteed 10 year starter without off the field issues like Bryant McKinnie

I agree, except that you forgot to mention his ability to break off mid-move whatever flash pass rush move he was performing in order to stuff the run. When he played for the Bills I could not believe how dominant he was. I would wonder if anyone else was seeing what I was seeing and why the League was not stepping in an putting him in the Hall while he was still playing, He would single-handedly collapse and occupy the entire side of the Oline opposite of where he lined up play after play and this went on for more than a decade. When you watched the opposing QB walk to the line against the Bills his eyes would invariably be riveted to where Bruce was standing prior to each snap.

Has anyone actually seen Kolb play - He is about as anti-clutch as they come and he gets sacked all the time. Fitz was anti-clutch granted, but at least he didn't get sacked all the time.

Sounds like Marrone got this idea ("play like a Buffalo Bill") by watching HBO's Hard Knocks with the Jets that one year where Rex Ryan was telling everyone to "play like a New York Jet" - I would expect our coach to come up with some original ideas for motivating the players rather than stealing them from the Jets coach by watching a TV show all the fans have access to. I also thought Marrone went a little too far in calling attention to how great he was by citation to his little motivational victory at the press conference. I want Wins, I don't want coaches putting gold stars on themselves at press conferences. Thumbs down IMO.

I agree with the shaped like a circle comment. I saw his interview on the Bills site. Man, he just seems to be getting fatter and softer. He looks easy to push around. I don't think you can compete in today's NFL letting yourself go like that. Petrine should be screaming at him to not leave the weight room.

It was funny per the recent Elway to Marino 30 for 30 that a receptionist error 30 years ago also caused the bills to lose Kelly to the USFL.

Northern Pike

Maybe I'm the only one but I liked the pro bowl just the way it was. The badness of the football was actually helpful in terms of weaning you off the game before the long offseason. Checking in to see one or two bills helmets on the field was all I needed. With free agency and the draft there is plenty of interesting material to talk about. The network airing the game could make it into a free agency/draft show with the game as a backdrop.

Lame. QBs are trained to have their helmets mismatch the direction of their eyes so the side helmet camera will generate useless data. Unless you couple and resolve that data with retinal direction tracking data tracking the direction of the QBs eyes. Sounds like trestman is using dinosaur age technology.

I think you hit the nail on the head. For all his faults including weak arm fitz was hall of fame worthy in terms of getting rid if the ball and it certainly masked OL deficiencies.

The franchise has done nothing with high first rounders for more than a decade. So even if Manuel falls flat on his face its no different than other years. Lets go back a few years. Williams total bust, Maybin, total bust. Mckelvin, fifth round trade value, whitner, let walk. Dareus, teetering. Even Cj was a flop since we let a top 3 nfl back leave for a song. I don't understand where the pressure is.

Moulds never held the team hostage with salary demands and in his prime extended for significantly less than market so good players could be signed. We are taking about an all time great Bill.

I remember the wizard of oz getting panned on the flacco reach at about the same place in the draft. Flacco did not even play fbs and has become one of the greatest playoff QBs of all time.

Sometimes you strategically avoid imposing additiinal competition on your apparent starting QB. Like NE not signing a vet when Brady went down.

I love all these posts citing Rogers as part of a dominant WR corps. Reminiscent of the posts of 2011 listing Dareus,K. Williams, and.....JASPER as part of a dominant interior DL roster.

Cordy Glenn saved Nix's job.

Yeah it was a riot watching the team try to work in Parrish year after year until they finally gave up. Then chan tried for a few more years.

I'm surprised that you didn't say that the increased traffic resulting from Manuel pick blew up the board. The site went down when the pick came in.

Franchise in the balance. EJ. Please.

Rookie first rounders are cheap now. They have the best set of guards in the league now.

Tony "gonzales" Hunter in '83?

You need a big arm to succeed as the Bills QB. Period.

I don't think Manziel is capable of having a down year. In the games I have seen he has been on another level.