chris heff

Don't the Saints also have another big deal free agent?

I get that, but the fact remains that the Saints are $8 million over the cap.

The Saints would have to do some cutting and some renegotiating to even franchise Graham. Bills have the money, stranger things have happened, like Mario Williams for example, but I hear you.

I asked this in another thread but got no response. Is there anyway Jimmy Graham hits the free agent market? Saints are $8mil over cap. Graham would solve both the TE and big WR problem.

Mock drafts show four or five QBs going before the ninth pick. Would you rather they take the fifth or sixth QB or possibly the best LB, TE, or WR? After eight pick the remaining QBs are going to fall to second and third round.

I like the Mosley pick. The run D is not good, Sunday was painful. I don't know how I feel about the next two picks. Bills really need O line help. LG imperative and could use upgrade at RG, RT. I was looking at free agents, is there any way Jimmy Graham hits the market? Saints are about $8 mil over cap.

Not fixing the O-line. Not fixing run D.

IMO they need, LG, TE, RT, LB and WR in that order. I'd like a guard in free agency and draft one. I wouldn't be against taking a TE in the first round. Who is the best one?

Dear Rob's House, Check paragraph four. See what I mean.

Ok I'll play. This is harder than I thought but I'll say Vick in Philly.

Passive aggressive EJ thread?

The Bills took a TE with their first pick before, so this would not be ground breaking. In what may have have been the greatest first round of all time, the Bills took Tony Hunter with the 12th pick, a bust.

None of that is Byrd's fault. It is because Manuel is not a franchise QB. There I said it for you.

Exactly

Here is what I'm confused about, prior to this season there were a llot of people that wanted Kolb to start so EJ could watch and learn and the start eventually. I fail to see how what has transpired is any different. Manuel, like most rookie QBs showed some good and some bad. They are not going to give up on him based on ten games. The only way they draft a QB in this draft is if there is if in round three or latter there is a guy they just can't pass up.

Some random thoughts. My father had season tickets from these first year. One of my brothers friends was Pat McGroder, they went to St. Joe's together, his father was one of Ralph's original partners. They had a Lincoln Continental with the Bills Logo painted on the sides. I remember after a game at the Rock Pile, going to a smorgasbord at The Lord Amherst (I think) and meeting all the players. I got all their autographs on a football. I played with it so much all the autographs wore off. We use to go to the Goalpost restaurant on Egart Rd. It was owned by Glenn Bass and I can't remember who else. It all had such a small town feel, that team belonged to the community. What a great fan base it was and still is. First dumb move was trading Cookie, I was twelve and even I knew it was stupid.

The NFL is going to have difficulty popularizing the sport outside of the US and Canada. I knew the guy who was the first commissioner of the defunct North American Soccer League. He once told me that it takes three generations of kids playing a game, to make the sport popular. No one played little league soccer when I was a kid and very few high schools did. We are just now hitting the third generation of soccer players. Someone can correct me, but I don't believe many kids are playing football in Europe. With the concern about head injuries I find it unlikely they will start. I think European expansion is a fantasy. You want yhe Bills to stay in Buffalo? "Just win baby".

Things will fall apart if the Bills listen to some people on this board. Here is my wish list, through the draft or free agency, I think this is what they need. On offence, left guard, right tackle, tight end and a big wide receiver. This is a lot. I'd be happy with the first two. It is amazing how much better QBs look with a good running game and good protection. On defense, a line backer, a defensive tackle (run defense needs to be better), and sign Byrd. The last one probably won't happen, but this is where the Bills could create a hole were there shouldn't be one. I thnk at this point the Bills are better than both the Jets and Dolphins. Even if they lose to the Patriots they end up 3-3 in the division. When was the last time that happened? It's a start. Did anyone else watch Patriots, Ravens yesterday? The Ravens and for that matter the Giants are examples of what happens when you don't give good QBs a supporting cast. Very few QBs can over come not having talent around them. Brady happens to be one, but you could make the argument that he is the best to ever play the game. The Bills need to do everything they can to make EJ Manual successful before they start using high draft picks on another QB. Doing so would insure "something else will fall apart".

Ralph Wilson is responsible for the state of the Bills.

At the time I thought over paying Levitre was a bad idea, but in retrospect the lack of plan B is alarming. The Bills had to know they were drafting a QB and that the rookie QB would be starting at some point. Having a good o line that had played together was key. They should have paid Levitre. The protection has not been great and the run blocking has been bad. Manuel, as with all QBs, is much better with a running game. The line now needs a LG and a RT. I hope they can address at least one of these in free agency. What happened with Hairiston? It was a non football injury. Is he done?

I don't get the no QB coach.

I been saying this since preseason. You know when he doesn't aim? In the two minute drill.

Agree with you. Summers will continue to get way more touches than Choice, since Choice got cut two weeks ago.

After losing a power struggle to Cower, Donahoe was never going to let that happen again. That is why the two head coaches he hired were on no one else's radar. How about the press conference where he blamed the fans for having to fire Williams? Always a good idea to blame the customer.

Are you crazy? Red? Red is for Ferraris. British racing green is a Jag color. There is a blue one in the NY Museum of Modern Art.