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I was just thinking the same thing. Do you think Keith Ellison would look out of place on this year's defense?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Buffalo_Bills_season#Final_roster
Look at our end-of-yeear LBs 2 years ago!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Buffalo_Bills_season#Final_roster
keith ellison may make an average safety in this year's roster. Sad when you look at the D line from two years ago and Aaron Maybin is on there...listed at 240lbs, but lucky to be 225.
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I remember coming into to last season, the FO braintrust wanted to get bigger. Watching yesterday's game and seeing beasts like Moats, Carrington, Merriman, Darius, Hairston, Urbik, Scott Chandler, and others made me realize that we are a heck of lot bigger than previous years. Even our receivers seem bigger. I think this is showing up in the form of physical dominance and is translated into wins. I'd just like to say it's nice seeing a vision start to play out for our team.
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It's a long season. I'll say they're on the brink after we beat them twice
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Continue building young talent....not get older. We are perilously thin on the O line, with our TEs, and could also use some more pass rush....too many areas that need addressing before getting an older CB
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I'll be watching from the Transit Center at Manas...Kyrgzy Republic. North of Afghanistan. It's the Armed Forces Network game of the week.
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I like this. In the tunnel until 0:13, then they come storming out.
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Yep, I saw that. It will be 2300hrs here in Kyrgzystan....gonna be a late night, but hopefully worth it
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I enjoy when people without access to "the plan" can so quickly bash it.
Let's for a second assume that Chans offense is going to be centered on a semi-mobile, smart qb with a minimal role for the tightend..... Rudolph and mallet wouldn't make much sense, eh? Now let's couple that with a defense moving from cover 2, to a 34.... If Marcell completed their line, they planned on sheppard a little early in the 3rd knowing they'd get him, and that perhaps mckelvin is not a guy they trust.... Suddenly your suggestion sounds pretty silly.
Value met need, and matched their evaluation and scheme- just before a big drop in talent. pull the trigger.
When value meets need for someone else, and you can find a better fit later, trade.
I venture the first scenario to be true.
I agree, it's all conjecture now with who they could've picked ...
The point is, I don't understand their self identified inflexibility when clearly are opportunities to be had...others teams do it and are often successful.
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They could have had Mallet in round 3, so him being there in the middle of round 2 clearly was not a guy they would have taken. So scratch him from the list.
They could have had Bowers but said the knee and the fact he wasnt a good fit for their D is why they were not going to take him...scratch him from your list.
They drafted Dareus in round 1 and also have KW and Troup...so scratch Paea from your list
They did not draft a OL until late in the draft yet had several chances at some in rounds 2 and 3...so you can probably scratch the two OL guys off your list.
Who knows where they had Rudolph on thier list.
They wanted a CB and Williams was a first rounder who slipped...the next best corner on the board was a big drop off...there was no way they were going to get a corner they liked by trading down, so they took the one they coveted.
OK, two solid prospect OTs and a QB, just scratched like that...hmmm. Even with Fitz, aren't these considered issues for the Bills? Funny thing is winning organizations took these guys. (Colts, Steelers, and Pats)
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Key word being "sometimes." More often than not, the higher draft picks have a higher success rate. If the lower picks had more success than the higher picks, then people would be fighting left and right to get those later picks.
well, take the premise that a higher pick increases your CHANCES of getting a successful player..shouldn't more pics do the same thing (increase your CHANCES for success)...especially considering how so many high draft picks flame out.
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Positions of need: Ryan Mallet, Kyle Rudolph, Daquan Bowers (DE), Stephen Paea(DT), Marcus Golbert (OT),Benjamin Ijalana (OT)
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We need top rate quality players, the earlier the pick the better the chance of getting a stand out player. To get more second rate/depth players makes no sense at all. The first three picks are players we needed and were taken at good value when we picked them. If Dareus and Miller were both off the board for the first pick then trading back would be an option.
in a perfect world a guy picked at 34 would be better than a guy picked at 40...but that's not the case. Otherwise Maybin would be pretty damn good. Sometimes good deals come along simply for trading down. Obviously, the farther you trade down, the better the deal should be. The Bills could've traded down to the bottom half of rd two and still had its pick of some high end guys.
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so you are baffled that we drafted arguably the best player in the draft, that fills the area of biggest need?
how about the CB...would you say that was our biggest need. we could've traded (according to the report), and possibly still picked up an impact ILB, OT, QB, or even another D lineman....plus the extra pick or two depending on the trade.
Yeah, the good teams are able to make those trades...Would you say the Bills are good?
no. I think it's one reason they've been bad for so long. they don't get enough value from their drafts. don't get me wrong, I like a number of their picks (Dareus and Sheppard). I would like to see them make more out of the draft...I don't think they are.
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Because maybe the value in getting an elite player like Dareus is far better than anything we could have gotten with the extra picks. I'm not sure why people think this team could be rebuilt through 1 or 2 drafts.
I don't think that it's a way to build thru one or two drafts. there is no such thing as a "sure fire" guy in the draft. even if they didn't trade away their 1st rdr, there was plenty of value later in the second they could've had...this team still needs depth, and skill at ILB, OLB, QB, and OT. If teams are offering a decent swap in the second round for example, there was still plenty of value left for them to drop down.
the good teams are able to make these trades.
Well, perhaps because they thought that the player that they were going to get without trading down was worth
more than the two later picks that they'd have gotten? Remember, for a team to offer a package of later picks for
one earlier pick, they must've felt that the one earlier pick was equivalent or better than the package of later
picks or they wouldn't have made the offer....
the problem is the bills have always like "their guy"...it's killed us when they've moved up for guys like Losman, McCargo, or reached for McGahee. this inflexibility doesn't pay off when there are smart opportunities to move down.
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every year we seem to miss keeping better players, be it Winfield, Clements, Peters, Jennings, McGahee, Schobel etc and on and on. Somewhere along this line we had better expect to not only draft good players,but have a strategy for keeping them. It isn't good enough that at the end we think they "don't want to" stay with the Bills. This is a real problem.
I agree and you can add London Fletcher, and Pat Williams to that list. Two guys people had issue with...some dinged Fletcher for not being an "attacking" LB...which I believe was more a result of not having the horses in front of him to eat blocks up. He was a solid player and we only replaced him with another ILB that is only as good as the linemen in front of him. Others dinged Williams saying he wasn't worth the money because had to rotate...look at how he's anchored Minnesota's DL with Kevin Williams.
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It baffles me why the Bills wouldn't trade down and get more value out of their pics. For a team that has so many holes, it would seem to be wise to get more pics and try to plug our more of our holes (QB, OL, LB, DT, etc...). I understand being confident in the guys you want, but winning teams are able to remain flexible enough to make the draft work to their advantage.
http://www.buffalorumblings.com/2011/5/5/2152950/buddy-nix-buffalo-bills-nfl-draft-2011
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I wonder what his numbers would look like if the actually generated some pressure on the QB or the front 7 was able to stop the run....
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It's not like Nix didn't draft Troup, Carrington, and Dareus to put next to Williams or anything. Our defensive line is probably our biggest strength right now.
To say DL is a strength is a complete stretch...We've got Williams and a highly touted rookie. The others haven't flashed or show much of anything yet. DL is THE primary reason the bills were 32 in run defense by a country mile
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they keep on drafting southerners to play in a a Cold Weather, Hard Nosed City
that's because that's where the best footballers are...
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I thought we were thin on O-line, QB, LB (addressed), TE, DT (addressed), but strong at defensive backfield...I really don't get some of these draft picks.
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I can't wait till we have a team with real football players instead of whiny bitches that twitter every time they get their precious feelings hurt. !@#$ you Whitner, you bust.
I love how B-Lo fans wanna blame Whitner for the Bills being a terrible team...one of the few guys that seems to give it his all by leaving it all on the field...guess people just want someone to kick for having an overall crappy organization to follow.
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Only in the south! Tards.
As somebody already pointed out, this isn't a southern thing...remember the Hamburg New Yorkers that vandalized Leodis McKelvin's yard last year.
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I like the idea of picking Quinn #3 and Jenkins in the 3rd. We need to add bulk, strength, and talent to the Defense. Quinn is a playmaker, has size, and is not a niche player like Maybin coming out of college. Quinn looks to me to be more like Orakpo. If Bills are ever going to make this D work, they need to be stacked at LB talent. Look at GB, NE, Bal, and Pittsburg...all of these are winning programs built around great defenses that rely heavily on great LB's. The front office knows this, but will they pull the trigger? We'll see.
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On the first INT, he saw a man coming right at him and did not unload fast enough.
I was flipping between the Saints game and the Bills. On a very similar play, Brees had a rusher completely free about to clobber him...instead of trying to throw thru the rusher like Brohm did, Brees, waited till the last second, juked left and up, and simply unloaded the ball. Some guys have spatial sense and some don't....my impression is Brohm just doesn't have it yet.
Revis and the Jets
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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In my opinion, this interview is more reason to not like Darelle Revis and the Jets. Mike Francesa claims Revis committed pass interference on B Marshall. Instead of simply disagreeing, or standing up for himself, Revis basically says unless you play football, you have no right to make judgments about things that happen on the field. It gets heated at the 4:30 mark.
http://web.yesnetwork.com/media/video.jsp?topic_id=5870056
I really hope the Bills destroy them.