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1. Sign Steve Johnson - This is a must - we can't afford to have another huge hole on this team. 2. Get rid of George Edwards. Give Wannstadt the keys to the defense. 3. Either Trade Fred Jackson for a number one pick or give him an extension. It must be a number one pick if we lose this player. But if we can get another number 1 pick we could potentially get either Blackman or Alshon Jeffery and still use the other true first round pick on a LB. 4. Draft two pass rushing outside LB's in the first three picks of the draft. The Merriman experiment is over. 5. Use CJ more as a slot receiver to get him on the field. Do we really need Brad Smith and Roscoe Parrish if Chan can't utilize them effectively? Parrish is always hurt don't resign him. 6. Get Dwayne Bowe as a free agent if we don't draft a true starting receiver. 7. Stop resigning players that always get hurt (parrish, merriman, bell, Mcgee). They are useless if they end up on IR every year. 8. Give Levitre an extension. He is durable and can play everywhere on the line. This guy is invaluable. He is our most important offensive lineman. 9. Resign Chandler and Scott. 10. Pick either a 3/4 or 4/3 defense and stick with it. The hybrid doesn't work. The amount of blown assignments switching back and forth is mind boggling.

15. Lock Down CB - We have none now.

Jags have a new owner and he says they will not leave Jacksonville. This puts the Bills in more contention to move to LA. The Jags were one of the teams that could potentially move to LA. Now that they are not moving that leaves the Bills and the Vikings as they most likely to move to LA.

Apparently Nix has rejected Steve Johnson's last contract proposal. What happens if we don't sign this guy. That puts us in a situation where we will need two starting WR next year along with major starters needed at LB, DE and at CB. Not to mention that they seriously need more depth at almost every position. If they don't fill some needs during free agency and resign some of there key players, this team is two or three drafts from contending. Gailey says they need 10-12 starters and they may need a few more if they don't sign some of their key free agents. Then you couple that with the fact the Cuomo won't commit any money to improving the stadium and this team looks done. Three straight blacked out home games this year along with two or three years more of rebuilding. More black out games to occur in the next two years based on this lousy product and this team looks primed for a move to Toronto or LA.

Looks as if the Bills will be drafting another top 10 pick in next April's draft. It might even be a top 6 pick since I think they will lose all their remaining games and end up 5-11. I think the Dolphins will end up with a better record then the Bills by the end of the year. It's quite obvious that they need a pass rushing LB or DE immediately. Not a lot of great pass rushers in this coming draft though. I am absolutely sick to my stomach that Maybin has 6 sacks and has several more than any other player on the Bills. This just goes to show you that these coaches have no clue how to use their players. I can't believe that Gailey and Nix get positive approval ratings. What the hell have they accomplished? There are so many holes on this team and I don't see where they plugged any this year. Why does Buffalo always have the most injuries? Why are these players so dam soft like the Buffalo Sabres and UB Bulls football teams. These teams have no heart and that is the most disturbing issue of all. Sorry to rant but this is the only way I can feel better after another week of Buffalo sports failures.

I got a lot of flack when I wrote about this topic back on October 26, 2011, but a lot of what I said was correct. We should never have given Fitzpatrick that contract extension in the middle of the season. It's Dick Jauron all over again. Why is this front office so stupid??? I got a lot flack about the Sabres also, but this team has no grit and no chemistry. The Bruins game bares that out. Thanks god the UB Bulls beat Akron. I think that is the only thing weve had to cheer about in about a month.

Please tell me where I'm wrong? Am I being unreasonable to assume this after 10 years of absolute futility?

Could it get any worse. Maybin has three sacks for the Jets and Buffalo has what 4. Unbelievable. This could only happen to the Bills. Watch Maybin sack Fitzy in two weeks after the bye. The Jets are going to kill us after having a bye week off before they play us. Why give the Jets any more reasons to kick our ass. I think we are going to be eating crow in two weeks.

Hate to say it, but I think both the Bills and Sabres may not make the playoffs. After good starts both teams appear to be reeling. Sabres: Any team that loses back to back games to Tampa Bay does not warrant a playoff appearance. That is absolutely unacceptable. Couple that with the pathetic performance against Carolina at home and I see no playoffs. This team has not scored more than 4 goals in a game since game two. They have yet to win at home. They look way over rated. All that money given away and I see a team that has not improved from last year. Bills: With Merriman gone, Williams perhaps done for the year and Bell struggling with a shoulder problem coupled with a defense that can't sack the quarterback, stop the run or stop the pass how does this team make the playoffs? I for one do not give Fitzpatrick a new contract yet. Let him play out the season. I am still not convinced he can lead this team to the playoffs let alone a super bowl. His interceptions have led to two losses already. The last time we gave somebody a new contract mid season after a good start (Jauron) was an epic failure the rest of the year and beyond. Great job signing Merriman to a two year contract. What a waste. We will pay him nearly 10 million dollars for one sack and nine tackles. That's nearly as bad as Maybin. Don't get me wrong, I hope I'm wrong and just sour and pissed off about Buffalo sports performing pathetically the last two weeks. But things don't look good. If the Bills lose this week, they are done and will not make the playoffs.

Four games and he has been basically invisable in all of them. This guy was a beast for the first two preseason games and now he is as fragile and unproductive as his last three years. As far as I'm concerned he has yet to earn a dime of his recent contract signing. If he has to be treated like a pansy all year for fear he is going to hurt himself then get him off the field. Football is not for pansies. What happened to all the hype about "I'm back". Watch out for "Lights out". Well as far as I'm concerned his light is as dim as ever. Perhaps somebody should light something under his candyass to get him going. Zero tackles today and no sacks in one of the biggest games of the regular season. Give me a break!!!! Sorry to vent but we need this guy to perform. Believe me I'm as excited as can be about our start but we have 13 more games and I'm very concerned that this team will collapse unless we start putting some pressure on the Quarterback. I remember the 5-1 start in 2008 and we ended up 7-9. Without Brady's four thrown picks, the Bills get blown out today.

Don't know about you but I was looking at our new 53 man roster and here is what I come up with. QB's - Do be honest with you Thigpen is no better than Edwards, and Smith may be an upgrade on Brown: Slight Upgrade OL - I see no improvement here: No Change TE: - I see no improvement here: NO Change RB's - I see no Improvement here: No Change WR's - We got worse with the Evans trade: Downgrade Overall the offense is not really any better than last year on paper. DL: With Dareas we have an upgrade. LB's: If Merriman and Bennett can stay healthy this is an upgrade. DB's: Slight upgrade with Aaron Williams. ST's: With kick offs basically eliminating kick returns this may be a downgrade. We have some good returners but they no longer mean anything with the new rules. However, we struggled last year tackling: No Change Overall Defense should improve with the upgrades at DL and LB. Depth is better overall. Problem is I don't see the defense staying healthy throughout the year with all these fragile upgrades. We sit here on pins and needles just waiting for Merriman and Bennett to get hurt. Offensively, I see no real improvement on paper unless the offensive line improves. With the lack of a WR that can stretch the field with the loss of Evans, I don't see this offense improving on last year. The addition of Brad Smith offsets the loss of Evans. Based on the defense being better I see this team winning 6 games this year. Overall: we should be able to improve on sacks and stopping the run. This should result in more interceptions.

You are absolutely right. Great term. As a fan I'm in panic mode that we have made another hiring mistake with Nix and Gailey as year two of another continuous disaster begins.

These offensive line changes this late in the preseason, remind me of Dick Jauron's changing of offensive coordinators early in his last season. As a fan I new this offensive line was doomed from the start just like we knew the offense was going to be futile when Dick Jauron kept changing offensive coordinators during his last season as coach. When you start tinkering, the message being sent is they have no clue how to improve and are running out of answers. Don't get me wrong, I think Gailey needs to get his best five linemen on the field, but the message being sent is we are going to be clueless for several games until we get it right. By then the season is gone and another year without the playoffs is another reality. The question I ask is, last year we had each of these offensive line players except for Hairston and a hurt Wang. Why didn't we get the right combination of offensive lineman figured out last year? Why are we tinkering again with the same list of offensive linemen? Why is there no continuity with this group? Why didn't we go out and make personnel changes if it didn't work last year? Why are we going through this experiment again? This front office and coaching staff looks like a bunch of bumbling idiots again. You add the stupid Evans trade and the way we are treating Fred Jackson, and the embarrassment just continues to escalate.

Isn't it ironic that in his first game with the Jets, Maybin gets a sack and a forced fumble. Don't get me wrong, Maybin did nothing for us in two years, but I would have given him one more year. Hell, I would have kept Lee Evans for another year. Just seems that a lot of players we give up on too early go on to have productive football careers.

McKelvin and Spiller are both busts. First round picks are supposed to be instant starters unless you are a QB which may take a year or two. Just like Maybin, if you don't provide an immediate impact my feeling is that you are a bust. This does not mean he is a bad player, but for his draft status in the first round they should be starters at a minimum. It looks as if McKelvin will never be a starter and Spiller is no where near as good as Jackson.

I guess I was late, just got home from work and didn't read through all the other posts. Man, I hope this steroids thing isn't true. This would be a huge blow.

I am concerned that this major news is a suspension for steroid use for Merriman. He was reportedly caught with steroids crossing the Canadian border about three weeks ago. I hope I am wrong but this would fit what Mr. Moran has been stating as big news.

I guess you haven't been reading the updates from camp. Hairston looks lost out there and can't handle rushers from the edge. He is a fourth round pick and is no better than Wang. I don't ever see him starting let alone by week 5.

We lose 27-10 and one of our young receivers gets hurt and is placed on IR (lost for the year). Our offensive line is horrible and allows 4 sacks and very little room for the running game. The only positive is that our undrafted free agent punter does well which leads him to make the roster over Moorman as another cost cutting move.

What is even worse about this trade is that Baltimore is quality playoff team. Therefore, this fourth round pick becomes a late fourth round pick. My question is could they have traded him to Arizona for a higher fourth round pick? I would have kept Evans for another year and perhaps he would have improved on his numbers from last year and been more valuable on the market for next year or perhaps later this season after some starter on another team gets hurt. We might have been able to get more for him if we dangled him before the trade deadline. As a Bills fan this tells me that they have no intention of making the playoffs this year and they have already given up on this season. I can't see how this helps this team especially if any of these younger WR's get hurt or prove they aren't pro material.

I heard just the opposite. I heard Wang owned Maybin in 1 on 1 drills.

I really have serious concerns with our offensive tackles. Bell is now hurt and out a for a few days, but if he goes down during the season we have no legitimate backups at LT. Hell all of our RT's are below average so it doesn't matter who we play there. I really hope our front office doesn't allow this year to be wasted because our offensive line can't get the job done. If the o-line doesn't do its job, all these skill players are a waste. The Bears game, we'll probably be starting Wang at LT. That really helps are first team offense get a good start in the preseason. Yikes.

If we take a QB in the first round, then this team does not improve and will be vying for the number one pick in the draft next year. Then the Bills will be looking at Stanford QB - Luck for next years pick. Then you have to trade your QB pick Newton or Gabbert for less. I don't see anybody giving the Bills a top five pick next year for either of these players because the rookie contracts will still be high (no rookie pay scale yet) and these two are not worth a top five pick. Newton and Gabbert are not franchise QB's - too much of a gamble. Don't take either of these guys. We need a guaranteed starter with the third pick. Not another QB with potential. We've done this for too long to get burned again (Spiller, Losman, Maybin, McCargo). We can't keep drafted players with upside and potential. We need starters.

Wow - Some Pass Rusher Scouting Reports by ForeignArrow on Jan 26, 2011 4:01 PM EST 9 COMMENTS EMAIL PRINT This year's top pass rushing prospects... a deep draft for DE/OLB's Von Miller - as much as I hate player comparisons, Von Miller compares very well to Aaron Maybin. Ultra quick off the snap, good agility, but utterly awful at the physical aspects of the game. Engaging, disengaging, fagettaboutit. I wouldn't even draft Von Miller in the 1st round based on his lack of size AND strength. Speed will get you sacks in college... but alone will not get you sacks in the NFL. Da'Quan Bowers - after looking into Bowers I came away pretty unimpressed. He was smart to come out after getting 15.5 sacks, because the likelihood of him following that up is very low. He holds his ground against the run well, but isn't that good at getting off blocks to make tackles and pursue. Pass rush is limited, usually gets coverage sacks or takes advantage of a QB that gets happy feet. Many of the plays he made were due to his sheer physical advantage, as with Von Miller, that won't cut it in the NFL. Bowers will likely need a couple of seasons to develop some pass rush moves and learn how and when to disengage blocks. But that goes for most DL. Either way he's not a particularly good fit for Buffalo's 34, he absolutely cannot play in coverage and is not exactly best suited for the 5-tech, either. I think his measurables will be a disappointment to most people when the combine/pro days come around. Robert Quinn - Absolutely could not find many flaws in his game. He played a little high sometimes against the run, but it didn't seem to matter. He's one of those players that's almost impossible to block. He consistently split double teams, set the edge on perimeter running plays, and almost never failed to at least make the QB know he was coming. He thoroughly beat Blake Costanzo of Boston College, considered a top OL prospect, in spite of TE help throughout the game. His athleticism is unmatched for a player his size. He can make the play on the QB no matter where he is in the pocket, finishing his sacks. He showed a variety of pass rush: speed, swim, change-up, bull. He showed good instincts against the run, not too hasty to crash inside and lose contain. No doubt in my mind he can drop back in coverage, it's more of an issue of him getting used to it. The big concern with him is he's been out of football for a year. That will have to be dealt with in the pre-draft stuff. Aldon Smith - This is a guy who is dubbed as a classic raw high-ceiling prospect. I don't know how I feel about that. He's not a good combatant for a guy who plays in the trenches. He's rangy, quick, and agile... but not elite at any of them. He lacks strength to "set the edge" against the run. Another classic speed-rusher with no ability to power thru an OT or TE. He got around a lot of OT in college, but he was often side-stepped by QB's and he didn't have the agility finish those sacks. Akeem Ayers - Here's a player a lot of people are high on. He looks good on paper: nice size at 6'4" @ +250 lbs. When you watch him play, though, he is very easily blocked. He makes plays by avoiding blocks, which is one strategy. But, to be a complete player in the NFL, in particular an OLB in a 34, you need to be more physical. He lacks strength to incorporate power moves into his pass rush, something he was good at, but was by no means a world-beater. IMO he projects more to a true OLB in a 43 defense. He simply isn't good enough at mixing it up with O-linemen to consistently play with his hand on the ground. I also question his demeanor: he doesn't have that tenacious or aggressive demeanor I want in my front 7. Justin Houston - This is a guy that will probably climb draft-boards throughout the process. His athleticism and size (6'3" @ 260 lbs) are phenomenal. He is Mr. Versatility. He played DE and OLB almost equally as much for the Dawgs. His speed rush off the edge is devastating. He needs to expand that, but he showed potential to do so because he's good at hand-to-hand combat and has phenomenal balance. Of all of these pass rushers, he is the surest one to project to OLB in the 34, simply because he actually played OLB with 3 down linemen in some of Georgia's fronts. And he actually looks smooth in coverage, but doesn't have a lot of experience in man coverage. He holds up well against the run, always scrapping and his instincts funnel him to the ball. His biggest area for improvement would be taking on blocks but keeping track of the ball, as he likes to beat the block and then relocate the ball. In the NFL, the play would already be by him. He's not worthy of Buffalo's top pick, but if Buffalo found themselves somehow after that with Houston on the board, it's a no-brainer. Bottom Line: The only player to live up to any of their hype SO FAR was Robert Quinn. He and Justin Houston are the only ones that could probably contribute to the Bills right away and warrant a high selection. If the Bills plan on getting a developmental guy, then they should do it in later rounds. Only teams with established starters at most positions should be taking developmental players in the 1st round. I would say Quinn is as good as any prospect out there, although he lacks as much the fan-fare that comes with a name like AJ Green or Patrick Peterson, or even a Nick Fairley.

1. All QB's in this years draft are huge risks and none are worthy of the third pick in the draft. 2. This team does not improve unless they improve defensive talent to stop the run. First three picks in the draft should go towards DT, DE, LB. 3. Luck, Terelle Pryor, Landry Jones, Barkley, and several other QB's will be available in 2012. Some of these QB's have better pro potential. 4. Fitzpatrick is in his prime, give him another full year with this offense and these upcoming receivers. 5. Improvement from Spiller, young receivers and getting Parrish and Easley back from injury will help Fitzpatrick. 6. Concentrate in FA on finding a RT, TE and a back up QB.