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Great work? Yeah, this thread is right up there with the offensive lineman stats - greatly...stupid.

OK, Mitchell is 55. Didn't he wear 59 last year? And I suppose Maybin wore 59 at Penn. State, and Pat Thomas would not give it up to him? I thought scrubs who own numbers of star free agents or number one draft picks earn money by selling the numbers to the real players?? What's wrong with Thomas, doesn't he want to make a few bucks before he gets cut this August?

Isn't Kawika's #59?? Who exactly is "Thomas", and who is trying to get him to "budge."?

Funny line, but unfair to the kid so early, don't you think?

Even more hilarious that the St. Louis Rams have a SB trophy.

Please post a link proving that statement.

Hillarious. the St. Louis Rams may only end up being in existence for 15 or 16 years, and even they have a SB Championship to remember.

Don't forget the Cavs losing to Orlando this year in the Conference Finals. Cleveland only has maybe two more seasons to win an NBA title with the King before he bolts to NY or LA as a free agent.

Henderson? The Inner Circle had the cap space to sign Albert Haynesworth at 12:01 AM the first day of free agency. I bet he would have been more of an impact player then T.O., huh? The Bills are done bringing in more players. Like the coach from Hoosiers told the crowd who started chanting for Jimmy Chitwood, the star player who was "holding out" for personal reasons..."This is your team. I would hope you would like us for who we are, not who we are not."

You must be joking right? The 2004 team started out 3-6-0, then went on a 6 game winning streak, putting themselves in position to make the playoffs with a win at home against the Steelers, who ended up resting all of their starters. You tell me seriously, that Belicheck would not have coached the team to a win in that game, just that one game, against the Steelers back ups at home with a possible playoff spot on the line?? Fast forward to just last season. Belicheck is the Bills coach, and they are sitting at 5-1-0 after 6 weeks. You tell me seriously, that he would have allowed his team to fall apart the last 10 weeks like DJ with his calm demeaner allowed. All of that crap about Belichick only winning because of Tom Brady went down the tubes last season, as he won 11 games with a back up QB with zero experience starting in the NFL.

Of course we would. Next question?

Travis, Henery the 8th he is, Henery the 8th he is he is, he had sex with every girl in town, they got pregnant every time they got down, now he's the 8th old man named Henery, Travis Henery the 8th he is!

Carlton Bailey was rated in the top 10 inside linebackers? No kidding. Those years were "my time" as a Bills fan, season tickets, tailgating, road trips, etc etc. I never remember Bailey being rated that highly amoung his peers. He did make the play of the game in the AFC Championship against the tough Denver Broncos in Buffalo in 1991-92. Picked off a screen pass, swated Elway away like a fly, and strolled into the end zone for the only TD of the game for the Bills!

All right, there you go accusing another poster of "just playing Madden" and knowing nothing about football again. What's up with this Madden mocking, Alpha? Maybe you are the big Madden player here, eh? Come on be honest, your real goal in life is to play on that Madden reality show right? What is wrong with having more top 10 players at their positions then the next team, by the way? I bet the Steelers had more players in the top 10 of their positions then say....the Lions, last year. Does that mean "I know nothing about football" too? In fact, I would be willing to bet that the 12 playoff teams from last year, had more top 10 players of their positions then the next 12 teams that missed the playoffs, overall. Of course I'm too lazy to do the research. But common sense does dictate that the teams with the most talent, usually win more games then the teams with less talent.

Well that's terrific. I just hope Shawn is studying his 2000 page playbook, or he might have to stand on the sidelines in the "Hardy spot" all season. But it's nice to see Turk-ey allowing him to play on the what....4th team, blocking for Omon? Lucky Nelson made that block, or Turk-ey might have put him on the practice squad 4 months early!

Wrong. The current crew of Ralph and his Inner Circle did not sign Bledsoe, Dockery and Walker. Bledsoe was brought in by Tom Donahoe in a trade, not a free agent signing, and Dockery and Walker were signed by the Marv Levy brigade. So now we are back down to the great DT and the great WR in back to back years, that were signed by the inner circle of today. I guess I could agree that those two signings were pretty good. That's a start. But if the Bills have substantial room under the cap after their rookies are signed and some cash is set aside for injuries when training camp begins this year, you tell me why at least one or two more of those free agents that came in for visits were not signed? And Madden Football? Well, I did play a little bit about 5 years ago with my son. It was pretty cool, but I lost interest in it.

....TO, Stroud....and......um.......did I mention TO & Stroud yet?........let's see, they also really went after......um......last off season they signed up Stroud, and this off season they shocked the football world by signing TO, and they really wanted those two guys and got them. So, every off season the Bills REALLY want somebody, and they get them.....one every season. Like clockwork. Who cares if they interview and target and maybe even offer low-ball contracts to about 5 or 6 every off season that they could afford and would really help the team, right? They always get their ONE guy every off-season they REALLY want. Love our Inner Circle.

What a shock, another veteran player who visited OBD then signed with someone else. Reading that entire article in the link, the Bears organization seems light years ahead of the Inner Circle Jerks, read this: "...Pisa Tinoisamoa agreed to terms with the Bears on a one-year deal....It's the biggest news on a busy Friday at Halas Hall when the team announced defensive lineman Israel Idonije has signed a two-year extension and seven of the team's nine draft picks have come to terms on four-year contracts. " Wow. 7 of the Bears' 9 picks are signed. I'm sure the two unsigned are their top two picks, but still, it seems early for so many to be signed and ready to go. Ever since they stole Cutler from the new idiotic regime in Denver, the Bears have been on quite a roll this off season.

The hack is full of himself. How a writer from the Tonawanda Whatever could have an ego to fill up a top floor window-view office of the New York Times is beyond me. He wrote a whole article telling us he wrote an article with mistakes. Who really cares??

Very sound logic, and the experts seemed to agree with all of your points. But please answer one question: Did you and those experts see Miami going from 1-15-0 to AFC Champions in one season before last year at this time? And another pet peeve of mine, this "strength of schedule" logic. Let's use the Dolphins again: I bet every NFL fan of teams that had the Dolphins on their schedule before last season, marked off the Dolphins game or games as definite wins as they made their team's 2008 predictions. Yes sir, nothing "strong" about having those Dolphins on their schedules last season, right? Every single season since the era of total free agency and the salary cap began about 15 years ago, there are 2 to 4 teams that make big leaps in the standings from one season to the next, and in most of those cases, not a single "expert" predicted it to happen ahead of time. Buffalo has had a very interesting off season, and in everyone's opinion, a very good draft. I think they could very easily be one of those 2 to 4 teams that make a big leap in the standings. The easy "safe" prediction is for the Bills to spin their wheels and end up exactly where they ended up last season.

I gather that I could not possibly care less about what the Bills do in these OTA's.

Nice one, Tim, you got me: "(Editor's note: LW indicates each team's ranking last week -- in this case, in the 2008 Week 18 Power Rankings.)" If I would have taken a second to read that, I would have realized the records were from last season. However, 21st? Some of your members of that group were calling the Bills off-season one of the best in the NFL. And you all get together and predict the Bills to be just about as bad as last season?

And good luck with that!

Now there's a man with goals.

Gee, let's see, I would guess around....Number 21. How did I do? Here's the many experts that built this Power Ranking list: The rankings were determined by a poll of ESPN.com's NFL staff: writers John Clayton, Len Pasquarelli, Jeffri Chadiha, Tim Graham, Matt Mosley, James Walker, Kevin Seifert, Paul Kuharsky, Pat Yasinskas, Bill Williamson and Mike Sando, as well as our Scouts Inc. Insider Matt Williamson. Those 12 NFL deep- thinkers put their expertise together, and came up with the incredible, unbelievable, riveting, mind numbing, shocking prediction of..drum roll please.. 7-9-0 for the Buffalo Bills this season!!! Way to go out on a limb with that collective prediction, experts!