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Truly - if you worry what the media thinks then that fits with the entirety of the post. The media, as Buddy Nix is often pointing out, knows nothing about how the NFL really operates. Go look on any of the best NFL rosters and you'll see players who are probowlers, or close to it, who came from nowhere, were F.A.'s, or were low round draft picks. As for Gailey - he has a losing record with Buffalo, but the method Nix has used in building the team has been methodical, but slow. Nix hasn't really put much into this team but defensive draft picks until this year, using the first two years to judge the talent already on this team. However, Gailey performed well in Dallas, and has a good record with offenses and with QB's. Wannstedt has a lot going for him as a D.C. Part of this team's charm and appeal to fans is that many of the players were overlooked elsewhere. They had to come to Buffalo to get a fair shot - but once they did, some of them - not all of them - ended up being worthy of playing. Really, the difference between these players, the starters and second stringers, is often so little that an uneducated eye would not notice it. Add to that one player might play good in one system and not another, and you have a Bills team that is, I think, full of a good mix of high round selections, veterans, and many young, hungry, talented guys. Sure, there are unknowns and no-names, but when they go out and win 10 or 11 games this year, that post is going to look awfully deliberately biased.

In Chris Brown's recent fan friday (in case you don't know, Chris Brown is Buffalo Bill's media, writer, team reporter) he claims Carrington is currently a DE in Wanny's scheme, but who could kick in on obvious passing downs, much like the Giants have done with their rotation and pressure packages. So, Gilbert might not have Carrington to compete with. I say, if the kid has it, and he shows even a little high end potential, they'll probably decide to keep him over another player who might be more refined, but also more defined, in a limited potential way. Here's the link to the fan friday: http://blogs.buffalobills.com/2012/05/25/fan-friday-5-25/

As much as this season could come down to Fitz's play, we now have a backup who could contribute also to winning or losing more, which is another set of shoulders to put our hopes on. I'd like to say that Gailey has a lot to do with this season, as well. The point I am suggesting is this: Sure, Fitz could play poorly and lose games for us, and put us out of contention, or Vince could come in and do the same - but, there are, in my opinion, enough weapons, now, on this team, that Gailey should have more than just a couple ways to play these guys as this season unfolds. I contend that our schedule looks softer now than we've seen it in a long time. That's good luck for us, as our team is better looking now than it has been in perhaps 10 to even 20 years. HOWEVER - when it comes to our offense, I think, unless the players really go out and play up to their potential, as a whole team and for most of the season, we'll see defenses figuring us out and that will make it hard to watch - Fitz trying to force balls to recievers not open, and pass after pass when the talented RB's are there to be had. No - I'd like to see Fitz in more of a game manager situation, where we utilize our young O-line and our two excellent RB's, and keep our defense fresh, eat up the clock, and run the ball. Pass off the run. THEN, switch to the 4 WR sets and the passing when we can make a lot out of it. I'm saying with our schedule and with our team, we should be able to win 10 or 11 games this year - and I say we could do it easily if our defense is hot and we make running the ball our 1st offensive priority. I remember cleveland beat the Patriots a few years back when Mangini was there. Their strategy? Come out after halftime with a totally different game plan, so the time New England spent adjusting was for nought. It worked. Gailey should have a plan B and a plan C, AND BE WILLING TO SWITCH, and I think this team should easily make a wild-card, if not take the division.

I think you start with a definition of rivalry. A rival is someone or thing that stands in your way, that you must overcome, and that has an extra, personal, element. Most seasons in the past ten years it would be the Patriots. Years past, in the old glory days of the Bills, the Dolphins, with Marino, were a threat to beat us to the top of the division. Now, though, it is the Patriots who own that seat, and it is through them we must go. All that that team signifies - it's dominance of us, it's dominance over the league in general - for us to become what we want, which is a powerhouse, superbowl contender, we must have our division, and to get there we must get through New England. And, besides all that, the Patriots have made the Bills look like a college team for the better part of a decade. They have gone out of their way to lift their noses at the Bills, and to act as if getting beaten by the Bills is humiliating. We need to get to the point where we can smack that team, take their best hit back, and continue to pummel them to submition. The Patriots are our Rival.

I think it would be very easy to go back and look at how Buffalo missed on players they should have drafted, with the wisdom of knowing which players ended up worthy of the first round. But, the premise of the post - that Buffalo has wasted far too many top picks on two positions is valid; I will go further and say that as far as I am concerned, if an NFL team doesn't have a franchise QB, they should do anything they have to do to secure the best one they can get. That means, going back ten years, if Buffalo had to give up 2 or 3 first round picks to land Cam Newton, or Aaron Rodgers, or some great QB - then it would have been worth it, simply because without that QB there is little to build a team around. But, if you have the QB, you can do a lot of building in F.A. and in rounds 2 and after. Another point, and this is probably one of the two biggest issues causing Buffalo to be so bad these past years - they simply weren't that great at recognizing talent. You've got to see and recognize which players are worth the moves. Now, Buffalo seems pretty good at evaluating talent. I think Nix is fixing this team proper, and I think if Fitz is not great this year, or if V.Y. doesn't turn it around big time, then Nix's next move is to get that Franchise QB. Lastly, when it comes to the problem of the Bills - it was a certain cheapness in regard players. That did influence their contracts and drafting, no doubt. Not that they wouldn't spend money - it was more like, until just recently, they seemed to view their team as not quite good enough to really invest in.

I've been a Bills fan since I was just a child - all my life, more or less - so I'm not rooting for any Bills player to fail, and I'm not biased because of the path he's taken. In fact, I think Fred Jackson, who climbed up from even further down the ladder of obscurity, is one of the best 3 or 4 running backs in the entire NFL. When healthy I wouldn't trade Jackson for any other running back in the NFL. I am, however, critical of Fitzpatrick. He just has been far too inconsistent for me to have any confidence in his abilities to really win us games. He could be a game manager, but he just hasn't shown he can win games - regularly. Sure, he has streaks, but it always goes both ways with him. If he can fix his accuracy, then I think he will be our guy for a few more years. If he cannot, though, I think the Bills will look to make an upgrade. The Bills are saying what they have to say, and it is true that Fitz is their QB. Still, our H.C. and G.M. have the best interests of this organization in mind, and the contract they gave Fitz was enough to make him a mid paid QB, and secure him for a time, but it was not the kind of contract that forces them to keep him beyond this year. So, when they're looking around for a QB who could be good enough to himself be a franchise QB, and who could take over for Fitz should he falter again, Vince Young has the highest ceiling of the QB's available. They signed him for 2 reasons: as a true backup, and with the intention of helping him improve, and also with the hopes that they can improve him so much that they'll be forced to choose between Fitz and Young. For, if Young becomes really good, while Fitz falters, and they make the switch, they'll be in position to extend Young, and have a QB to win with - and still get a young QB next year to develop. In the end, the Young contract, being a year, is a prove it contract. Young wouldn't have been sitting at home this offseason had the Bills not signed him. He must have believed this was the best place to try to improve his career. The Bills are in win now mode - and nothing about Fitzpatrick's contract or place gives him room to play poorly and bring the team down. Young is a flyer on a QB who could have the talent to be much more than a backup. But, in the end, it is Fitz's job to lose. No matter how good Young might get this year (and I don't personally think he'll have a miraculous improvement; I do, however, think Gailey and Lee together could devise an offense in which Young could be really good) and here in Buffalo, he won't have the chance to show it unless Fitz does poorly or gets hurt.

Good Post! I believe that the only real purpose and goal of an NFL team should be greatness. This means not just going out there and putting together a team that can be competitive, or one that can win more than it loses, but, rather, the goal should be to assemble a team that embodies a philosophy, and that philosophy, when running smoothly and showing up on the field, should be dominant. You don't come up with coaching strategies, x's and o's, to attain mediocrity. So, in reply, I say the Bills need to get to a point where they string together, I'd say at least three years of consistent play that identifies their coaches philosophies and is DOMINANT - that means consistently having one of the best defenses, and consistently having an offense that can score - not streaky, up and down teams that show promise but fall prey to "injuries" or "inexperience" or "inconsistency" or even "bad coaching". - And, this team has to be one of the top teams in the conference, and, because of what happened to Buffalo in the early 1990's, it has to make it back to a Super Bowl and WIN it. Otherwise, no matter what happens, the team and it's coaches will be remembered as having tried to change a culture that was, and continued to be, that of losing. No one is going to bring up Baltimore or Philly as examples of great teams - except the Championship Baltimore team. You've got to achieve greatness to successfully "get there", and just because we're so accustomed to falling short does not mean you lower the bar - INSTEAD, FOR THAT VERY REASON, THE BAR SHOULD BE HELD HIGHER THAN EVER, AND NOTHING LESS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED A SUCCESS.

It looks to me like Buffalo is going to have a hard time making the playoffs this year. I'd bet Nix and Gailey are thinking that they more or less have to win the division to get in. Sure, if they don't win the division they could still make the playoffs as a wildcard, but the only sure way of going is by winning the division, and everything they've done this offseason shows they are trying to win now - and they're building a team very similar to the Giants teams that have been able to handle the Patriots, at least defensively. If they don't win the division it likely means they're finishing with a record somewhere under 12 wins. Best case scenario there, 11 wins, would probably make the playoffs as a wildcard, but... consider these teams: Steelers, Bengals, Ravens, Chargers, and Broncos. There's a good chance all of those teams finish around 10 or 11 wins. My point is this - we're trying to win the division, and if we fail, it'll fall to luck and our record to get us in as a wildcard.

Nix appears able to find talent via the draft and in the open market, but Nix and Gailey appeared a little slow, all in all, in identifying the talents they inhereted from Jauron. Fred Jackson is a good example. It seems, at times, both Nix and Gailey have tried, at the expense of success, to force their systems or players, and only after prolonged failure give way to something else. Now, as it relates to Gailey and the offense - I think Nix just took this approach: he decided Gailey was good enough, as an O.C., to make it work with what he had, while the defense was being built. Defenses, in cold weather, carry teams better than offenses do. I think beginning next year we'll see a much greater attention paid to the offense. In fact, if Fitz falters this year, I suspect there will be real efforts made to obtain a 1st round QB, unless Vince Young, in that scenario, proves Franchise caliber.

I agree - I can't stand to think of Carrington getting axed, so I hope he's there and I also think we'll have another linebacker to work with; although, you might be correct simply because these linebackers are so interchangeable in this scheme. Most of these guys, in a pinch, could play any of the spots. And, if there is talent at CB, I think that trumps linebackers because we've got to take out the Patriots, and they're loaded with talent at WR, and the path to the Superbowl not only goes through this division first, but it also will go through some good passing teams. Good post - I expect it to be pretty accurate.

I also admire the optimism, however - I can't begin discussing how good the Bills are going to be this year, in any serious fashion, until they've at least played a few games. Who knows what will happen this year. If all things work out to the best of their respective potentials, then we might see a team that can be said to stand even with the greats of Bills history. But, I think if they were to be that kind of team they would have to beat a lot of good teams, and beat them convincingly, and finally, they'd have to win a superbowl. I'm not going to anoint this team as better than any we've had before if it doesn't get farther than any team we've had. Let's have this discussion in October, or November.

I wish you are right with that - I've been a big Carrington fan since his first year. I've just felt he hasn't been given much of a chance, and he seems like he'd make a great run-stuffing end who sometimes got in on a sack. We'll see, but he's the guy I think, more than any other of the 3-4 transition to the 4-3, who if we let him go would end up making it big somewhere else. I hope he proves himself worth the roster spot, and is given the chance.

Yes - this is the time of year when my mind fills with "what ifs" with the Bills. I sometimes, while at work, imagine how good they can be. Every year I am optimistic - partly because the organization is so good at selling hope, partly because its an increasing statistical probability that they will become good, and partly because they've been good at adding promising players who might work out - Owens, Merriman, Bledsoe all come to mind here. But this year feels different to me. For one, I am prone to being a realist of late with Buffalo. I know the season probably will hinge on injuries and the play of the QB, those two factors being the difference between an 8-8 season and a 12-4 season. Really, you take away Mario Williams and our defense looks not tremendously better than last year, save for the rookies and guys coming back from injury. But, the switch to the 4-3 allows the two very good DT's to work together, which should stifle the inside run and also allow each to gain penetration, something they already excel at considering their position. Add to that the group of pass rushers we've assembled, not excluding Merriman, because he could get there this year, and that D-line looks more formidable than even the Giants of recent years, and that line has just about single handedly been responsible for a super-bowl and another super season. Our secondary could be special, too - if the players we've aquired pan out. As for the linebackers - we've got guys of all shapes and sizes, and each looks to have potential. If Dave Wannstedt can't make this group of hungry talent one of the best defensive groups in the league, then he's lost something. I expect our D-line to have 3 pro-bowl players on it. I think we'll have one or two probowlers in the secondary, as well. I've rambled long enough here - and who knows how the paper team will play in September and beyond, but I am confident in my predictions because the guys I'm speaking of (K.Williams and Dareus, especially) played hard, tough, and had success without the supporting cast. These guys will only get better.

I think, without a doubt, Fred Jackson would've been a pro-bowler last year had he not been injured. So, if he remains healthy, and gets as much action, I say he could be a probowler. I also think Levitre can be a probowl Guard, and Wood a probowl Center - if he stays healthy. As for defense, I think Dareus is going to be a Probowler. I think Mario should also be, benefitting from the two DT's playing beside him. And, I agree, there should be a secondary player in the Probowl conversation with all the pressure we'll be having. Byrd seems a likely candidate. That ends up being Jackson, Wood, Levitre, Dareus, Williams, and Byrd. Hopeful, but not too far-fetched.

There is no end to my excitement when I think about the Bills defense this year. There are a lot of talented teams - SanFran, Pittsburgh, Houston, Baltimore - but this defense, on paper, and being a fan and knowing the kind of talent we have where other people might not recognize the names yet, gets me thinking we could very well not only have one of the best defenses ever assembled by the Buffalo Bills, but one of the top 3 defenses in the NFL, period! A lot of this hangs on injuries, and on players playing to their potential - and all sorts of "ifs", but when I look over the squad, there is only really a linebacker spot or two that I am unsure of, and now that we have the two rookies to add to what we had, I feel like we might already have our answers there. But, looking at the D-lineup of Mario, Dareus, Williams, and Anderson/Merriman/Kelsay, with rotational guys like Carringon, Edwards, Troupe, Heard - we have a group that could be better than the Giants had during their scary run. Brady has got to be very nervous about this team. K.Williams and Dareus, each alone, were hard to cover and could get to the QB regularly. Put those two together - and then having Mario and perhaps Merriman on the other side! It's crazy to think how tough this line could be. The linebackers could be good. We haven't seen what Sheppard can do with the right offseason, experience, etc. But, we do know he played well under much less favorable circumstances. Barnett is looking great, and a legitimate starter. The last spot could be filled well with Merriman, or Bradham, or Morrison - we don't know, but I think the rating of this defense, between say 1 and 10 in the NFL this year, will hang on how well the linebackers play, because I think the secondary is going to be practically just as talented a group as the D-line. Our safeties are very good. Not just good, but excellent. Byrd, with the right setting, can be a monster at taking away the ball, and he's improved his tackling. Wilson and Searcy are both talented and bring different things to the table, but neither is a weak spot. Our CB's are better looking now (on paper) than I ever remember them - ever, in my 20 or so years of watching Bills football. If Gilmore turns out as good as his draft status, we've got Gilmore, Aaron Williams, two stud CB's. Rogers looked really good last year. Brooks, I think, could have 1st round talnet, and I believe will be the biggest surprise of this draft. McKelvin is still there, and his physical talents are as good as anyone's. It's always been the mental part of the game that has deterred him. If Wanny can limit the difficulty of his assignments and let McKelvin play on instinct, he might surprise us this year, too. McGee is a mentor/fall back option, and a good one at that. So, although I didn't line them up, I just think between the absolute STUDS we have putting pressure on the QB (I consider us having the potential to have 4 PROBOWLERS!!! attacking the QB AT ONE TIME - Mario, Merriman, Dareus, K.Williams - that's insane!) and the young talent in the secondary, this defense could be great.

I know there are only a few players on this defense I'd hate to see us lose in the transition from 3-4 to 4-3: Moats, who I think could still show something, and especially Carrington. To me, Carrington looks like the kind of player - and Moats, to a lesser extent - who, if we cut them, would be snatched up by a team like Pittsburgh, Green Bay, Houston, or the Jets - a team with a solid D-Coordinator, and they'd go on to 8 year careers as really good starters. I just think they need a Coordinator who knows how to use their talents; I hope that ends up being Wannstedt.

This could be a perfect place for Vince Young - it is low key enough for him to focus on football. The expectations aren't as high as they were in Philly, and he doesn't have a bunch of PrimaDonna's surrounding him - he has a bunch of hard working football players. If he can just take this as a break from the madness and hoopla of fame and settle into anonymous work (yeah, I know the media is still here - but, if he does well here, stays quiet, plays good when he's given the chance, people here will embrace him) he should find Buffalo is a good resting spot/stop for him this year. About that one year contract, though. That is the only thing that is a bit of a head scratcher for me. One year contracts almost always are attached to players who want a chance to prove themsleves before settling on a middle or low end long term contract. It is the kind of contract a player signs when they expect they're going to show the world how good they are, and then be in demand again. Sitting on the bench in Buffalo is the exact opposite of that. So, either Buffalo only wanted him for a year - and were willing to pay him 2 million, with options for more, to potentially sit on the bench - or, they had to accept the one year contract; and if it were Vince insisting on the one year deal, then it seems he believes, for whatever reason, that he'll have a chance to improve the perception the league currently has of him. Odd.

Yes - I was going to write, we can't know for sure just how much influence Nix had, but we do know what happened to the franchise when he arrived, it's climb, and what has happened to it since he left - a steady decline; conversely, we know that since Buddy arrived in Buffalo as the GM, the Bills have slowly risen, not as much in wins as in talent, and this team looks ready to win 10 games this year. If it does, he'll have had a 4, 6, and 10 win season climb in years 1-3, and one would assume the Bills, being a young, talented team, with a very nice structure in place, would be ready to get better still, and stay good, for a number of years. Nice job looking into that. I have nothing bad to say about what Nix has done. He simplifies football to making it played by big men who run fast and who are smart enough to learn, and who have decent characters. If the players play well they are rewarded. It's an easy approach that people can jump on board with. Now we just have to start really winning. I believe it is coming.

I could see Thigpen getting cut, simply because he's making too much money to be a third string QB, especially when the Bills have said they want to develop a QB - and if Tanney, for instance, or Corp?, show any promise during these camps, and if Vince Young shows he can pick up things enough to be a reliable number 2 QB, I definitely see Thigpen getting cut - unless he shows a bunch of improvement. Thinking about it for just a few minutes, it seems the Bills will have Fitz to run the traditional offense, but when Brad Smith comes in to run the wildcat, which he will, especially with Lee as the QB coach, it makes sense to have Vince Young as another option, because he's so athletic, and is very much a threat to pass it as well as run it. Vince Young - playing competently - with Fred Jackson and Spiller in the backfield, running a sort of wildcat formation, could cause real dilemmas, I'd think, because Vince Young can pass it so much better than Brad Smith could. Now, this is all just rare specialty formations - I can't see the Bills risking running Young often in that type scenario, but occasionally... I just think he would make for a better match, and certainly more upside, than Thigpen. That's my take. Fitz, Young, and Tanney (unless Thigpen shows a ton of improvement and really shows he can go out on the field and hurt teams - in which case Fitz, Young, Thigpen, with Tanney of the PS)

I believe I remember hearing Nix mention, right after the draft, that he planned on Glenn starting at left tackle - that he'd have to earn it - but, that Nix and Gailey considered him 1st round talent, and they didn't draft him to be a backup. So, yeah, in the Bill's eyes, Cordy Glenn is supposed to show enough talent to unseat Hairston, who will either become the backup/swing tackle, or will then move to RT. Either way, with Hairston at RT or with him as swing, that would make our line much, much better. I really believe Nix has the pieces in place for this O-line to be dominant right now - as is, they just need time to gel.

I think it is very premature to worry about that. We haven't seen this defense work yet. And, Dareus is a beast. He could be a 3-4 nose if he played around 340, and I think that is close to where he was last year, so you add to that K. Williams, both in the middle, and you're going to see a bunch of run plays stuffed before the linebackers even get involved. Sure, there will be plays where the DT's get maneuvered out of plays, and running backs hit the hole, but I think we just have to wait and see what Sheppard is like before we make any judgments at all about him. He was a rookie last year without much of an offseason, and he improved throughout the year, AND he played in a different defense that was by all accounts horrible at the D-line level. I'm thinking our defense this year is going to be in the top 10 in the NFL, and I think if the rookies play more mature than their years we could be better still.

I will not be satisfied with merely making the playoffs or being relevant again. The Bills have to become good enough to go to the SuperBowl. That is what it is all about - and Nix and Gailey are on the same page with that. However, considering what type of team Nix inherited, and the constraints that were there or appeared to be there - the Bills have seemed to make very obvious gradual steps in the right direction since Nix took over. This will be year three, and I think to date he has succeeded in totally replacing a weak, shallow (depth-wise) team, with a bigger, fast, talented, and now competitively deep team. We're no longer going to be run over or overlooked. In his third year he's managed to elevate the players - across the board this is a good team, now - with a lot hangin on the QB position, but after last year he had to give Fitz a chance. One thing Nix has been doing that deserves a lot of credit - he's been signing most of the players to average or below average contracts, and he's managed to make it so that the Bills can get rid of players - like Fitz - without being committed to them long-term, if the need arises. So, he's done an excellent job with that, and if the QB position turns out to be in need of an upgrade, it'll be next year's top pick. The coaching is better. Players will want to come here now - at least, big names will not balk at coming to Buffalo. You couldn't have turned this mess of a team around, a few years ago, any quicker than he has, without having done it the wrong way. This team is in good shape salary-cap wise, it is full of young players, and it is only going to get better for the quite foreseeable future. And, he's already got his replacement (Whaley) on board and learning, who is considered a talent and a very wise selection as a young up-and-comer; and the transition will not disrupt the team's identity. This team - if you ask me - is in an ideal place right now. There aren't many better looking teams, when it comes to being set up for success for the near future. All we're lacking is a unanimous franchise QB. I'll take this team, right now, and be happy with it, and I can't remember it being better off since the beginning of the 90's.

If Marcus Easley stays healthy, and is ready to play - I think he has the physical skill set to be a terror at WR - and would be the type of WR we all wanted the Bills to end up with in this years draft, which is to say, tall, fast, and powerful. He is as big as some tight ends, or linebackers - and he's fast. If he can run the routes and catch, he looks to be the Bills most talented WR. Otherwise, I'll say Byrd, Aaron Williams, and I'm hoping this QB, Alex Tanney, turns out to be a real gem. I like what I've seen and read of him.

As for that YouTube video not having anything to do with NFL QB'ing, I'd like to add - a display of passing accuracy, as well as just an overall comfort with putting a football where he wants it, and the display of being able to pass a ball accurately some 50 yards or more - that is a nice plus. Accuracy. Now, you could dismiss all of it if he were a poor QB. But, he also happened to break some Div.III records along the way, suggesting that he not only could do it in practice, but he was a good QB on the field. The question, as far as I'm concerned, is can he understand the playbook and plays, and can he make progressions, and can he get quickly acclimated to an increase in speed. Because, this kid's got the physical attributes. He is the one player of this UDFA class I'm going to be watching closely. I don't see any reason why a kid from a Div.III school couldn't come in and do well - it isn't as if he tried out for bigger colleges, throwing to better athletes, and wasn't capable. He was never given the chance. Now he's got it - and I think he's going to do well. He's my darkhorse pick to make the team and to be our developmental QB, and backup.

As I've said, I'm super excited about the Bills roster, pretty much across the board, now. The additions of Tank and Bradham at LB have infused enough talent at the position to put my concern there to rest, and the secondary, I think, has now been increased to the level of a strength. The defense, as a whole, is set to be good, now, for quite some time. The offensive line is now set, I think, and only has to wait out the development of the guys on the roster already to see us having one of the better lines in the NFL. The RB's are great. The WR's - another concern I had, could be solved now, too, if Easley comes back and stays back, and if Graham turns out to capably play the position they drafted him for. Really, the only spot on the team where there will be a major question mark, IMO, is QB. Fitzpatrick is definitely being given notice, I think, by Nix and Gailey. They've got their years numbered if they can't start winning, and they've pretty much shown that they are putting this season on Fitz. Either he can lead them to the playoffs and be CONSISTENT, or he'll be dumped and replaced. Prior to the draft I thought they'd definitely have his replacement ready, in case he fails early this year, and I was pretty worried after the draft that they would stake this whole season on his play - and, I think it could come down to that, too. At least, the QB position could tank an otherwise ready team - but, now we've finally got some young QB's with POTENTIAL! No more Thigpen types, please! The additions of the two UDFA QB's will give the Bills some HOPE, at least, that they have a young QB to develop, and one who has some skills and could lead this team if Fitz falters. I know, Tanney and Corp? don't evoke name recognition and confidence, but I believe one of those two QB's really have the Bills excited that they might have found that "Diamond in the rough, Brady-type QB", and I think it is Tanney. So, although we'll have to wait and see with all of them, Fitz and the QB position is the one spot still very, very close to the brink of possible disaster for us. The other spots on the roster are now full of either proven talent, or young college kids ready to make names for themselves. I'll say it again - this draft, to me, looks like the best draft I can ever remember seeing in Buffalo. I think we'll end up with seven starters/major contributors from the draft/UDFA process, and I think that'll be by next year's end. I only hope Fitz can pull it together and keep it consistent, or that one of the young guys has something not a lot of people expected - talent enough to play QB in the NFL. (I'm going to be pushing for Tanney until he proves he's not capable. His stats and that Youtube accuracy are just too good to overlook, and reminds me a lot of F. Jackson).