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I was wondering if he's any relation to my 2nd Grade teacher from Grand Island, Linda Dobmeier. She taught my sister, brother, & me years ago and was the favorite teacher of all three of us. My sister still keeps in touch with her so I'm going to try and find out if Jim is related to Linda. That would be wild. Either way, I'm glad a local guy got the contract. Very cool. BTW, I noticed the blue endzones in the pic, too. My first thought was that must have to do with the uni changes but would they have let a bidder in on that? I doubt it. More likely, it's just his vision of how the field would look.

Sorry, Tip. Gotta give this a big hell no. WR is not a problem spot for this team and I don't want him anywhere near Buffalo. Let him take his tired act and diminishing skills elsewhere.

Beerball, logic has no place in this thread where the OP is concerned. He's proven that post after post after post and has no intention of giving you a straight answer as to who he would've taken at #3.

When the fug did I defend Ralph Wilson in this thread???! Way to try and deflect from your original premise because you can't support it. I tried being reasonable and respectful of your opinion but you just want to argue anything and everything whether salient to this thread or not...truly living up to the first part of your screen name, I see.

And hindsight is 20/20. Must be nice to look back and say "I told you so" without putting yourself out on a limb in advance. As has been stated numerous times by others in this thread, you've given no examples to support your position. Who did YOU want in those 51 years?? You're being argumentative for argument's sake and you clearly can't see the logic in anyone's position other than your own. Obviously, you're not relenting and just beating a dead horse now. Provide something other than hindsight GM-ing or move on...

This.

That's nice to hear and shining some positive light on the Bills is always welcomed but his is just like everyone else's, good or bad...an opinion. That said, it would be awesome if he turns out to be correct down the line. GO BILLS!!!

Agreed. But I'm sure that all the QB "experts" on this board and know-it-all-media types who are crucifying the Bills for not taking one this year are convinced that Gailey & Nix are unaware of this.

I don't have an issue with your original premise, per se. What I do have an issue with is making that point THIS year. I get it if they had passed on an Andrew Luck "can't miss" type but, come on, passing on Dareus at #3 for any of these crapshoots would've been insane. And while they may not have taken a QB first in 51 years, that also wasn't a realistic option all of those years either, was it? Not to mention that they hardly needed to draft a QB first during the heyday of Fergy and Kelly. If you don't get my point now, I guess you won't ever. That's fine. You're entitled to your opinion.

Ordinarily, I'd say say "no way" but provided the Bills staff is convinced he's the next Peyton Manning or Tom Brady and they're willing to spend on any quality free agents at positions of significant need since they wouldn't have any picks, I'd sign off on a "Ricky Williams" type trade. Luck may just be one of those once in a generation type prospects.

And who, exactly, was that "franchise QB" at #3? Gabbert? Locker?? Ponder??? Dalton???? EPIC FAIL.

Walterfootball. Yet another insignificant nation heard from... I don't think there's a Bills fan who wouldn't like to have a franchise QB but anyone thinking that the Bills were going to be a Super Bowl contender this year is seriously kidding themselves or just plain delusional. There was no concensus "can't miss" QB like Andrew Luck available at #3. Taking Gabbert over Dareus would have been nothing short of assinine. Fitz will be fine this year under Gailey while this coaching staff and front office try to fill some of the glaring holes on this team. While QB will eventually need to be addressed, it was NOT a glaring need on this team. With fewer positional needs to plug, I have no doubt that QB will be addressed after the '11 season. Building a solid foundation first is essential to any future QB's success. I think that foundation is rounding into shape nicely and I love this regime's approach vs. the prior dolts in charge. GO BILLS!!!

Oh Marcel, your muscles are soooooooooooo big...I'm as giddy as a school girl! May I have this next waltz?

Every other year I'd be excited. This year I couldn't care less.

I already experienced it with the Buffalo Braves.

I agree. I watched it and couldn't believe that it was an ESPN piece. Very objective, IMO. Even Mortensen wasn't his usual, snarky self towards the Bills. I don't know what the OP watched but I didn't see Dilfer cutting down the Bills. I saw him passionately advocating them drafting Cam Newton (with which I disagree). If anything, he put himself down by saying that you can't win without a franchise QB unless you have the defense he had with the Ravens when they won the Super Bowl. He doesn't think Fitz is a franchise QB and that Newton is. That remains to be seen but it wasn't a dig at the Bills.

Signing with Arizona or Buffalo does nothing to help the selfish, vindictive Favre stick it to Green Bay so this won't happen (thankfully, for the Bills). Not to mention, he'd have no interest in tutoring a young QB. Favre is all about Favre. I love how these pundits who know nothing about the Bills think that Buffalo HAS TO HAVE a QB. It really is laughable. Is the draft here yet?

Yes, Joe Ferguson was the QB and the color change was at his request. The rest of the division had white helmets and he felt a different color would cut down on his increasing INTs.

Moffitt was my choice. Keep up the good work, Astro.

No, no, and no. Did I mention 'no'?

Ha! Maybe this guy was wearing a Bills tee as a symbol of the punching bags they've been for the last decade plus.

They just showed it again during the Richmond/Vanderbilt game.

So I'm watching 'March Madness' on CBS and during a break of the Princeton/Kentucky game a commercial comes on for the movie 'Limitless' with Bradley Cooper and Robert DeNiro, which opens tomorrow. In one scene, Cooper is on what appears to be a subway platform and he fights two guys. One of the guys he hits has a beard and is wearing a blue ski cap. After Cooper throws a punch and this guy is hitting the deck, I could've sworn I saw a Bills logo on his shirt. I immediately hit the rewind on the DirecTV DVR remote and sure enough, it was! It's a fairly large logo on what appears to be a gray t-shirt. Nothing else. No words, just the charging Buffalo logo. They never show the front of the blue ski cap so I don't know whether or not it was a Bills hat...may have been. Anyway, was just wondering if anyone else caught that...I thought it was pretty cool. BTW, I've since watched clips for the movie online and can't find that particular scene.

I hope it's true but this article doesn't really say a helluva lot and seems more like speculation than fact, IMHO.