thewildrabbit

It doesn't... seems like the Bills have had far more injuries since Jones left, not to mention some of the linemen that are huge and get pushed around by smaller players.

I have several concerns over the Bills running the "no huddle". First,where is Rusty Jones now? The Bills strength and conditioning trainer who had the players so well conditioned that they could go to Florida in September where the temperatures and humidity were so high that the heat was sweltering the Bills players out performed the dolphins because they were in better condition. That 90's Bills team could go up and down the field no problem,this current team will be gasping for breath after the first 6 plays,that is if they don't injure something in that time. One of Jim Kelly's greatest assets was his ability to run the two minute drill,he worked under "mouse' Davis in the USFL and ran the "Run and Shoot" offense. So running the no huddle was not that big of a deal for him. Plus the fact that he had started calling his own plays. The offense was ready because they already had some "CONTINUITY". Most of the players running that no huddle offense that started in 1989 had been playing on the team for a few years and were already an explosive offense. Trent Edwards might have the ability to call his own plays,read defenses on the fly and call plays 2 or 3 at a time,who knows. But the guys still has a ton to learn from what I've seen,he will be entering his 3rd pro season and If I'm not mistaken Bill Walsh stated it usually takes 4 years of playing to fully develop a QB,so this might be putting even more pressure on a young QB still learning the ropes. What helped make that no huddle offense so great for the Bills was Thurman Thomas and that amazing running game,plus the "spread" offense and "counter trey' blocking scheme the O line used to open holes. The last few years the Bills have had one of the biggest O lines in the game and it seemed like they couldn't open a can of tuna much less a big hole for Marshawn Lynch. Zone blocking sucks!!! It looks like Lynch is getting hit at the line of scrimmage and carrying defensive players 3-5 yards before he would go down. Not to mention the fact that Edwards never had time to throw deep, even his own OC stated that fact. Now the team traded away their best pass blocker and are installing two rookies on the line and then expects to run a high powered offense, uh huh sure... The Bills do have some talent on offense this season no question, I'd rather see them trying to establish a better running game and setup the pass using more play action then the constant shotgun formations I know they will use, it might help keep Edwards off the IR.

The Bills upgraded the interior of their O line in the draft and free agency because of Kris Jenkins and the other NT's in the AFC East. It must have been very embarrassing for Jauron to see both guards and the center try to block the guy in that first Jet game and utterly fail, yea he beat triple blocking on him. They lost their best O linemen in Peters,who was amazing when he had a full camp and Dockery who was good but not worth his price tag. It was paying Dockery and Walker the big money that made Peters upset and demand more $$. So after trading Peters and drafting some new guards and some player shifting the Bills feel they will have an adequate line this season. If this years offensive play calls are anything like last season that line needs to have improved,if not it will be very difficult to have Trent Edwards stay healthy,or any QB the Bills field for that matter. So yea, the Bills might have found a gem in Nelson, I'm just hoping Edwards stays healthy long enough to get some passes his way.

Uh huh ,it is going in a circular direction... down the ceramic convenience.

Is that you...Turk Schonert?

It figures you would look at the stats posted and only see what you want to see, it is no wonder it makes no sense to you, let me clarify it some. The first two years Freeney played he only started 3 games, in all four years he started 22 games out of 39 and had 34 sacks. The last two years of his playing he 13 sacks in 7 starts in 2000, and 17.5 in 12 starts in 2001 Freeney is not a bad run defender,it is the Tampa2 defense that is weak against the run and only performed better once Bob Sanders returned from his injury. Another reason I dislike the Tampa 2 and the undersized players it utilizes to work it. If Maybin has double digit sacks anytime soon,yea it was a "great" pick. Looking at how little Maybin has actually played and the garbage sacks he acquired against poor teams tells me he has more chance to be a total bust then boom. I only hope I'm wrong as I want him to succeed and want to see him kill Tom Brady. My fear is that the bills will get an opponent 3rd and 5 and put Maybin in the game and the opposing team runs right at him for big gains.

I know some compared Arron Maybin to Dwight Freeney already, physically anyway. look at his college career. played 2 years at Penn St- Aaron Maybin: The guys started 12 games last season and had 12 sacks He had 2 sacks against Coastal Carolina and 2 against Temple where the scores were 45-3 and 45-14 ,sound like garbage sacks against gimp teams...Coastal Carolina YEAR TEAM TACK SOLO AST PD SACK FF REC INT YDS TD 2007 PSU 12 8 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 2008 PSU 49 30 19 0 12 1 0 0 0 0 Dwight Freeney:played 4 years with 51 game starts, Freeney had 17.5 sacks in his SENIOR year over 12 games The guy was a stud at Syracuse Year Team G GS Tackles TFL Sacks Forced Fumbles 1998 SYR 10 1 3 2 0 2 1999 SYR 10 2 19 5 3.5 1 2000 SYR 7 7 32 18 13 3 2001 SYR 12 12 50 26 17.5 8 Tot. SYR 39 22 104 51 34 14 This is almost a joke in comparing Maybin to Freeney, and the Joke is on Buffalo because Maybin couldn't play the run in college and he won't fair any better in the NFL against much bigger faster players.He was stoned over and over by TE's against the run.He has no moves and once a tackle got his hands on him it was over. How many millions does he get for playing only on third down? Talk about a project, I honestly don't get the hype over a first step if he can't do anything but try and out run the tackle. Smaller,faster tackles and good TE's will nullify his rush. I'm happy for all you Bills fans that think Maybin was the right choice over other DE's and a OT, I'm more of a realist and not so happy with the pick when the Bills could have taken Orakpo, Ayers or Oher with that #11...time will tell

I like Jauron ,in fact most people I know like him a bunch...as a person. As a head coach he stinks no question about it,comparing Dick Jauron to Bill Belichick is like comparing Albert Einstein to a high school dropout. One is a genius and the other is about average mentally, in terms of game planning. Can he motivate his players,yes. Does he know all the right things to say in terms of coaching, yes! Does he have the skills to out coach other teams NO! Jauron can't out game plan a high school football coach, go watch that Patriot game from last year and you will see the ineptitude. Defensively the Bills are pretty decent,even running an out dated scheme that every other NFL team has opted out of, and don't tell me Minnesota runs a Tampa 2 scheme because there is no way Pat and Kevin Williams would work in Buffalo's Defensive scheme. It might be a variation but it is no where near the same defense. It is the offense where Jauron falls on his face,utterly and completely. He hired a offensive coordinator with no previous experience and then lets him call what he wants. With Bill Belichick he trained Josh McDaniels to call the offensive plays for the Patriots and sets up the entire game plans for defense and offense. The Difference between Marv Levy and Dick Jauron is that Levy was secure enough with his own job to hire an ex head coach to run his offense. Ted Marchibroda built one of the best offenses in the NFL in the late 80's early 90's for Buffalo. Bottom line is Dick Jauron is a good defensive coordinator and a horrid head coach.The guy might be an Ivy league collage grad, but to bad he didn't learn enough to hire a good experienced offensive coordinator.

In regards to those posters who don't think that Left tackle protecting a right handed QB is the most important position on the O line...that is the QB's blindside and requires the best player to guard it. I have no doubt that Langston Walker can do a decent job at left tackle for the Bills, will he be anywhere near as good as Peters was when he had a full camp, heck no! I have serious doubts that Walker can do what Peters did because he simply doesn't have the athletic ability or the quick feet, Dwight Freeney type DE's will make him look foolish, wait and see. The O line will be shuffled around again this season with a new RT and guard / center, the result is, in all probability that Edwards will have less time to throw this season then last season, lets hope the Bills counter this with more running plays and passing plays that allow the QB to get rid of the ball in 3 seconds or under,otherwise Edwards won't make it past the Patriots opener.

Analysis: Pass rusher was undoubtedly the Bills' biggest need before they dealt Jason Peters, at which time it was thought that Buffalo would select the best offensive tackle on the board. Instead, Buffalo passed over Ole Miss' Michael Oher to take Maybin, who is a bit undersized but has good pass-rushing instincts. Then, at No. 28, the Bills again ignored the likes of Arizona's Eben Britton to select Wood, an interior lineman who few rated as a first- round talent. http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4228706 I think most everyone else on the planet would agree(other then Bills Fans) that after trading away the Bills best offensive lineman at the most important position on the line would have been the highest priority in the draft. But then... you have a defensive minded HC and a 2nd year OC and line coach who obviously are clueless to how important that LT position is in protecting the injury prone QB. My take is Jauron is really trying to get himself fired before his contract is up, will he still shoulder all the blame when Trent Edwards is on injured reserve?

The Buffalo Bills traded Pro Bowl left tackle Jason Peters a week before the draft and didn't select a tackle. You can look at this three ways: 1) the Bills are confident veteran Langston Walker and second-year project Demetrius Bell can handle the tackle positions; 2) they might be working on a trade for someone like Levi Jones after the Cincinnati Bengals drafted Andre Smith; or 3) Buffalo's front office doesn't know what it's doing. Buffalo went with Penn State defensive end Aaron Maybin, Louisville center Eric Wood, Oregon defensive back Jairus Byrd, Oregon State guard Andy Levitre, Southern Miss tight end Shawn Nelson, Oklahoma linebacker/safety Nic Harris, Southern California cornerback Cary Harris and West Virginia cornerback Ellis Lankster. Maybin and Wood can easily be justified as first-round choices. But the Bills are adding a variable to Wood's future by moving him to guard after he started 49 straight games as Louisville's center. What's with all the defensive backs? The Bills seemed to have their secondary penciled out heading into the draft: Terrence McGee and Leodis McKelvin or Drayton Florence at cornerback and Donte Whitner, Bryan Scott and George Wilson at safety. McKelvin was the 11th player chosen overall last year. He is expected to step in for Jabari Greer, a free agent who went to the New Orleans Saints. The Bills brought in Florence for help. Ashton Youboty and Reggie Corner also are on the roster. Whitner was the eighth overall pick in 2006. Within the next nine picks after the Bills selected Levitre, three tackles went off the board. The Minnesota Vikings took Oklahoma's Phil Loadholt. The New England Patriots drafted Houston's Sebastian Vollmer. The New York Giants chose Connecticut's Will Beatty. http://myespn.go.com/blogs/afceast Somehow I just don't visualize the O line being even close to what it was last year. TE had better learn to get that ball out of his hands by 2.5-3 seconds or he will be dust. DJ seemed really happy with Buffalo's draft... Bottom Line: Picked up some solid players, but their inability to find a left tackle to replace Peters could have terrible consequences for the offense.Grade: C+ http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4228706

Finish the rest of my post,which stated the most important area: My problem with this pick is the guy wasn't a good run stopper in college and will be even worse in the NFL, and will he need to develop for awhile,like 2-3 years. Tough to justify that #11 for a guy who only does one thing well,and that was in college against inferior players. Lets see how many sacks he gets in the NFL while battling 330 lb NFL tackles As bad as Buffalo's pass rush was last year the defense against the run was far worse,both Ayers and Arakpo would have stepped in and been an instant upgrade at stopping the run,plus they would have been decent pass rushers, at the very least better then Denny. The Bills seem almost in denial about how poor the run defense is, The Tampa2 is noted for allowing run gains because of the smaller / quicker penatrating D linemen vs the bigger run stuffers. Ask the Buccaneers about that 400 yard ground game the Panthers handed them last year while trying to make the playoffs, its the main reason the Tampa2 is dead in Tampa I know some of you are entirely excited about the Maybin pick and I'm happy for you, for myself I won't be happy until Jauron is fired and the Tampa2 defense finally dies with his departure.

Jauron doesn't care,he knows he signed a 3 year contract with an owner who is to cheap to fire him no matter how badly the team does record wise over that 3 year period. Clearly Jauron drafted not for immediate help, but for a solid team when his contract is about to expire. Anyone who thinks that any of the players the Bills selected in round one or two will step right in and play at a high level in the NFL is delusional!

Another thing to think about, when Maybin goes into the game on third down it would be my guess that the opposing team will run right at him until he learns how to stop the run.

If nothing else Jauron sticks with his crappy defensive scheme in the Tampa 2, and Maybin fits that scheme better then any other player as a DE. He does run the arc better then anyone else in the draft and has that elite speed. I just can't get over the fact they took Maybin over Orakpo and Robert Ayers. My problem with this pick is the guy wasn't a good run stopper in college and will be even worse in the NFL, and will he need to develop for awhile,like 2-3 years. Tough to justify that #11 for a guy who only does one thing well,and that was in college against inferior players. Lets see how many sacks he gets in the NFL while battling 330 lb NFL tackles

Here is a link to the article and King thinks its Tyson Jackson, which makes no sense at all because he isn't in anyone boards in the top ten. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writ...tml?eref=sircrc However the Patriots have been trying to upgrade the CB for years and are still looking. This years DB's are like the DT's in that there are only a few worth anything and it is my guess that they are after Malcom Jenkins, who the Packers are looking hard at. Its why they wanted to make a trade with the Jags who pick before GB. 1 Detroit Lions 0-16 2 St. Louis Rams 2-14 3 Kansas City Chiefs 2-14 4 Seattle Seahawks 4-12 5 Cleveland Browns 4-12 6 Cincinnati Bengals 4-11-1 7 Oakland Raiders 5-11 8 Jacksonville Jaguars 5-11 9 Green Bay Packer Think about it,if the Pats wanted Pettigrew then why wouldn't they try and make a deal with SF who picks right before the Bills. That makes more sense then going up 3 spots when they only need to go up one. Its Malcom Jenkins who is the 13th best player available, it could also be DE's #14 Tyson Jackson or #15 Robert Ayers.

The guy that nobody has on their boards in the top ten is Malcom Jenkins, IF NE is going after anyone in the first round its him.

Crabtree will fall to Buffalo at 11 and the Bills will select him They trade up from 28 to 20 to grab Pettigrew

There is a reason the guy is rated in the top 10-15 on many many boards. He played in a dominate running offense so his blocking skills are best in the draft. He can step in and give a team a solid player at a position it usually takes years to develop. See Greg Olsen and Vernon Davis who both have the speed and hands and were supposed to be the next Antonio Gates, but aren't there yet. He has long arms and soft hands and if you watched any film on him he rarely drops balls and catches everything even close to him. Granted he doesn't have supreme speed like Olsen and Davis but I'll bet he starts this next season and plays very well. If the Bills somehow get him I'd be happy,they haven't had a Blocking TE like him since Pete Metzelaars of the 90's SB teams Both Philly and Atlanta are desperate for a solid TE and will draft Pettigrew if he falls to them,perhaps not Atlanta now that they traded for Gonzalaz. After trading away Peters to Philly I feel the Bills will go OT if anyone decent is there at 11,or a DE again depending on who is there.

This guy has been discussed over and over in so many threads... I'll just say that one GM called him a one trick pony and that all he can do is rush the passer, IN COLLEGE and went on to state he wouldn't even draft him,period! Mostly because he stated he was to stiff in the hips and wouldn't make a good OLB. Who knows what will happen when he TRIES to run the arc on 330 LB NFL tackles and as of now all he can do is rush on third down in the NFL. He played in a rotation in college and was in only 2 out of every 3 plays He has bust written all over him,even more so then Aaron Maybin. Why should the Bills draft a guy that could take years to develop and even then never make it. Can you name me another FSU DE that has made it big in the NFL, I'm guessing no because most have been busts.

I don't understand why some are so worried about who the Bills will draft considering how many NEEDS they have. They traded their best OT and now want to trade a starting WR and DE.Then they dumped the only good starting blocking TE in Royal. I's suspect the Bills will select the best available player that fits their needs,it all depends on how the draft shakes out. When they selected Whitner they took the 59th best rated player to fill a need at safety,so i have no doubt they will draft for a need position again bscause they need to fill so many poitions and TE is one of them. It might even be CB Malcom Jenkins 1. Aaron Curry OLB 2. Jason Smith OT 3. Michael Crabtree WR 4. B.J. Raji DT *** 5. Eugene Monroe OT *** 6. Aaron Maybin DE *** 7. Matthew Stafford QB* 8. Mark Sanchez QB* 9. Brian Orakpo DE*** 10. Andre Smith OT*** 11. Jeremy Maclin WR** 12. Knowshon Moreno RB--- 13. Malcolm Jenkins CB** 14. Tyson Jackson DE 15. Robert Ayers DE*** 16. Chris Wells RB--- 17. Brandon Pettigrew***

I'll be shocked if he falls to the Bills at 11 and even more shocked if they were to take Maybin over him. The "rak"is the best DE in this years draft IMO, and Robert Ayers is next. If the Bills take either of those two I'd know they did well. What scares me is Maybin fits into that Tampa 2 scheme better then the other two and he is more of a boom or bust type player.

I can't believe some of the posters here think that because a player has a quick first step he will become a dominate pass rusher, holy cow get a grip willyas. When a team drafts a player with the 11th pick in the draft he better be able to do more then rush the passer or he is a one down player,that is 3rd down. Can he stop the run,cover the TE or RB if needed? Can he run the arc on a 330 lb NFL tackle with long arms? Guys like Maybin and Everette Brown are one trick pony's that have huge bust written all over them,they might be great in 2-3 years if developed properly. Then again maybe not, and it is taking a huge risk if he doesn't develop. He has the potential to be another Dwight Freeny and he does fit the profile for the prototype player for the Tampa 2 defensive end. Should the Bills select him they will be developing him for the next head coach because Maybin won't save Jauron's job this year.

Seriously the season depends on how well the Bills players play, if the O line can keep Edwards upright most of the games the Bills will have a solid chance to win. In regards to the TO drops,he played with an injured hand and avoided surgery to keep playing. Lets see how he does once the clock starts.

Why would he say anything that would give other teams an idea of who the Bills are going to draft, he would be very foolish to do so, and because he didn't come right out and tell everyone what the Bills will do on draft day...