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If the Bills are going to continue to attempt a 3-4 or a hybrid, Ryan Kerigan probably belongs on the list. He looks like a game changing OLB.

Shawn merri will take far too much for the bills to sign relative to his likely worth. Is give him around a 90 percent chance of being completely done.

I like Mallet, and think that he could be a franchise Qb if he was allowed to learn behind Fitz for a year or so. But I don'treally want to see him taken this high (3) as like all qbs he has a high bust potential. I also get nervous that watching him a number of times this year, he's somewhat a product of his offense. In the Alabama or Lsu game (i forget which) he was knocked out and his backup came in and looked just as good, which is often a bad sign. Right now the Bills are drafting 6th and failing any upset wins by them or teams in the top 5 that's where they'll be come draft day. At 6th Mallet would be less of a reach as likely the top QB, DE, and DT would all be off the board and taking any of the OTs would be a big reach, and trading down is never really that easy to do. Additionally, the Bills couldn't trade too far down and still hope to get him as I don't see mallet, or whoever is deemed the 2nd best Qb in this class, lasting too far into the teens, given all the teams with Qb issues. Min, Sea, Cin, Ari, Was, Car, Cle?, Mia?, SF?. I'd also say if there was an OLB on the board with Clay Matthews potential they should just grab him and maybe go for a guy like Locker in the 2nd.

Wow, are you a PR guy for Donte? 1. Bars in Mia close at 4am, accident was before 7am...not exactly getting up the morning after, just as likely to be driving home from an after party set up. 2. Donte blew a .134, unless you're a tremendous alcoholic, you know your fighting off more than an innocent case of the sleepies. 3. Donte's only residual test was positive for weed. Also illegal. 4. Yes his friends and friendly reporters are how fast to point out he plead guilty as proof of how great he is, but strategically it made the most sense. Going to trial, won't only make the family "feel bad" it will make him look awful. Rich millionaire driving bentley home after a night of drinking kills immigrant worker running to catch his bus home, and had nearly twice the legal bac AND tested positive for weed. I know you and others talk about how he "would have won that case" but finding sympathetic jurors in a city with a jury pool made up largely of poor migrants might not go so hot. In fact I'd bet on a fairly quick guilty once it went to the jury, and a lot of liberal judges in Mia won't be any more sympathetic. Second, he has an NFL career he is nearing the end of. Fighting the case which would take over a year, during which time he wouldn't be allowed to play, and afterwards facing still more of a ban if he lost PLUS POSSIBLY 20 YEARS IN PRISON. Dude paid a family off and got a guaranteed 30 days and limited his suspension to only a single season by making this trade. So he's a great guy for "ownning up" to his crime by spending 30 days in jail to avoid the possibility of 20 years in prison. Is it too late to give him the Walter payton award?

Byrd had a great year last year. But his stat line was a little deceiving. A lot of his picks were on gross over throws. In college he had a number of picks so I figured he just had a nose for the ball and that would continue this year. The reality is though he has 0 picks in 14 games this year, and when you watch him play he is taking horrible angles in pass defense and seems to only be looking for the tackle not the ball. Watch the next two games, you'll see how he doesn't keep his head up to locate the ball in the air. He also spends far too much time with his back to the Qb for a centerfield. This could be schematic, and if so DC Edwards is to blame, but right now Bryd is basically playing SS from the FS. And for what it's worth, Wilson is no slouch in the INT department. Last year Wilson had 4 ints and 2 sacks. In more limited playing time this year, Wilson has still managed 2 INTs.

Solid explaination of the suspension.

Here's my idea, get Hollywood involved. Right after the kickoff, on the jumbotrons, show a cgi video of Kyle Williams banging gisselle, make it dirty, make tom cry. Throw him off his game. Make him 16-2. Welcome to buffalo Tom.

So why if he's such a great guy was he suspended for an entire season? Goddell just hates good guys?

The front office needs to get their shxx together and draft an OT before the 5th round. Ralph couldn't smooth a silk sheet if he had a hot date...argh I lost me train of thought. On with the feats of strength. For my feat I offer sticking by the Bills for over 20 years in 7 states and on 3 different continents.

Care to provide a more accurate published account?

Seeing how he's played this year I think he'd be a good option to replace Donte at SS and let Wilson play FS. Id rather keep Donte, but if they can't, Byrd seems better closer to the line of scrimage and Wilson appears to be a more consistent ballhawk.

For an in state kid who spends four years there, the free stuff they give them totals around $80k. Now take a guy like Pryor, if he helps get his school to two BCS bowl games and two non bcs bowl games, he and his teammates help bring over $40,000,000 in money to the school. That's about $500k per player on the roster, or split up between the starters only that comes to about $2,000,000.

I know who Ed is. Mentioned it to highlight how Scum shouldn't get the award as it craps on his name. sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Five-ways-to-look-at-the-Donte-Stallworth-sente?urn=nfl-170659

Is.....Donte Stallworth. For the courage to rise above "haters" and just do his thing Donte is truly deserving. A lot of players would have had a difficult time coping with murdering someone while drunk and driving around south beach...heck non NFL players would still be in jail....but not Donte. He came back big time and showed tremendous "courage" on the pup list for 10 weeks then amazing 2 catches for 82 yards. He joins the illustrious Mike Vick who won last year's Ed Block award in Philly. So from what I gather from who receives this award, Ed Block must have been a real A-hole.

So your screen name isn't a joke I guess. If you are trying to say you're better off beating teams in your own conference, you're right. If you're trying to say losing games to the other conference does anything but help you draft position and compromise your playoff chances, you clearly have eaten so many crayons that one has lodged deep in your brain.

I can't figure out why moving KW to DE isn't the obvious move to the Bills coaching staff. Troup was drafted to play NT, if he can't find someone wo can. Next year the front seven should be: LDE: K. Williams, D. Edwards NT: T. Troup, FA or Draft Pick RDE: N. Fairley (draft 6th overall), A. Carington OLB: A. Moats, A. Maybin ILB: P. Poz, R. Torbor ILB: A. Davis OLB: C. Kelsay With the LBs supplemented VIA draft and free agency. A dream scenario would be to be able to add an impact OLB in the second round and or a high impact starter like David Harris in FA, but I won't hold my breath. More likely a good DE from the Bills first pick is all we can count on in the form of an instant upgrade to this defense.

I'd love to see Whitner back at a reasonable price, but this guy has been a fairly large disappointment up until this year, which surprise surprise, was his contract year. Good teams on tight budgets, like the steelers avoid overpaying for contract year players. I hope the Bills Pittsburgh-infused front office functions similarly.

I would like to see a giant paper mache of fitz's head with a corn silk beard as the new mascot.

Amen.

I think DE or OLB is the biggest need, but I would love to see them add a big OT and solidify the line once and for all. You add Carimi to levitre at LG, Wood at C, Ubrick at RG and whoever fills the other OT position from the tackles that are currently on the roster and a what has been a weak spot for years becomes a strength. A lot of people (and I fear the Bills FO) will look at how the line has improved this year and think it doesn't need to be addressed VIA a high draft pick. But using at least their 2nd round pick to shore up incredibly suspect OT play, especially in the run game, could really unleash this offense and help get Spiller on track. If that happens, the Bills could have the type of offense that allows them a chance to compete with the Pats and Jets.

Of course a big difference between Chan releasing Trent and Shanahan sitting Mcnabb is that Chan didn't trade multiple high draft picks for Trent this year and oversee him receiving a contract extension FOUR WEEKS AGO. I know the Skins structured the deal in a way they can still easily ditch him this off-season, but Shanahan, aka pocket napoleon, seems to be on tilt. He's getting a pass for now based on his previous success, but if they do about the same next year as they did this year, more people will start talking about how he never won a playoff game after Elway left. I first started questioning the genius of shanny when he shipped out Campbell. I wanted the Bills to trade for the guy, but figured once Shanahan got down there, there was no way he'd let him go. Seeing how he's done in Oak, I still wish the Bills had traded for Campbell as he was certainly worth the low future draft pick. And Shanahan is the worlds biggest moron if he is expecting to get more out of Rex gross.

I'd love to see the Bills get a guy like this. They'd have to pay for it, but it isn't crazy to say the addition of a top FA like Harris, using the right first on a DE and a high second on an LB could help take a struggling 3-4 in to a solid unit that could become a strength.

Id love to see a return to the 4-3 and don't believe the personnel would be wasted. I think Carington works as a DE. Kelsey plus a draft pick at DE fills the other side. Dwan backs up, and Kyle, Johnson and Troup run a three man rotation at the DTs. Stroud and others get bus fare. Personally id love that DL with a top 5 DE added to the mix. We'd have a good DL that could help set the tone for the rest of the defense.

Whoa there tuff guy. You didn't put Spiller's numbers up because they were embarassing, or because they undercut your rant? Spiller's per carry is almost a yard better. That would seem to indicate that opportunity IS an issue. As for your HC talk, if you have a micro manager such as Chan who does everything including designs and calls the plays, his lack of time really can become an issue. Despite him being a HC and having other coaches (whose roles and abilities are limited, because Chan is very hands on) there are only so many hours in a day that he can work. Go to any high pressure office and you will witness such dynamics play out. Powerful micro managers often lead to situations where talent languishes. I don't think this will be a long term problem, but in his first season Chan is a little over his head. But heck let's ignore all that, declare him a bust, and flame anyone who disagrees.

I believe Spiller will be just fine and develop into a Reggie Bush like back. If the Bills were more desperate for RB help he would have had a better year as he'd get more touches. (Obviously this only underlines what an odd luxury pick an RB was.) Think of how jackson didn't hit his stride in the season till about 100 carries in, or how Jackson and Lynch usually take 5-10 carries a game to even get going. Right now Spiller is getting 2-5 carries and that's it. I think there is also another aspect of Spiller's development that people are missing. The time crunch Chan Gailey has been under. Coordinating plays and developing a player in a reggie bush like roll takes time and effort. Looking at the comments coming out of OBD when Spiller was drafted it seems that Chan was planning to spend tons of time with Spiller and integrate him into the offense in a Bush like or Harvin like manner. But that was when Chan didn't really seem to appreciate the mess he'd have on his hands QB wise. Instead of being able to focus on inegrating Spiller, Chan was working his rear off to try to prepare a QB to start for the Bills. He spent all preseason and the fist two games trying to make Edwards the guy, then had to completely retool and go to work on Fitz after he realized Edwards was a lost cause. As was talked about ad nauseum in the offseason, Chan is a hands on OC. He is in EVERY QB meeting, he lives with them, and he has head coaching duties to boot. Given all of this Chan really hasn't had the time to work with Spiller or worry about his development. This wouldn't be a big issue if Spiller was the typical plug and play back, or if the Bills didn't have Freddy (and Lynch at the start) and Spiller had the opportunity to learn on the field through voluminous opportunites. But Spiller as Chan envisions him is a different kind of back. And Chan spent the entrie preseason and weeks 1-5 of the regular season just trying to figure out who his QB was and bring them up to speed. Then Chan spent every waking moment trying to hold the team together and prevent a winless season. As things finally settled down a little, and he might have had time to better integrate Spiller, Spiller got hurt. Over the next 4 weeks Chan should finally have more time to work with Spiller, but with the OL now a complete disaster again due to a rash of injuries I wouldn't expect any back to excel in the Bills offense the rest of this year. And even when the line was healthy, Spiller's style was the worst posible paring with the Bills OL. Spiller is an outside runner...nothing wrong with that, but an outside runner needs OTs that can run block. Right now the Bills have 0 OTs who can effectively run block on sweeps or pitches. Freddy has success becuase he gets to run behind some of the better young interior linemen in the NFL. When Spiller gets a pitch or a sweep, he is running behind THE WORST OTs in the entire NFL. I don't defend drafting Spiller. I wanted Bulaga at the time, and it is clear the Bills desperately could have used a defensive player instead, but labeling Spiller a bust at this point is premature and ignorant of the totality of circumstances.