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This stinks. Soon the draft will be like the NBA playoffs, streched out over months to capture the 3 people who might not otherwise watch. Ridiculous.

I'm not saying the Bills must take a QB in the first round this year, but if they hope to get a Franchise QB, the first round one of these years is the best option. If I was running the draft and Clausen was somehow there at 9 (which he won't be) I'd grab him and take my chances. I wouldn't pick Bradford ever as he looks like the second coming of Chad Pennington with worse injury issues. Implicit in skipping a QB in the first is the idea that Buffalo could grab one later. Specifically most people say we can grab one in the second, but history proves this false. In the past 15 years only 1 sucessful qb has been taken in the second, Drew Brees, and he was taken at the top of the round. So who was the second most sucessfull qb? Tavaris Jackson. Meanwhile in that same time span the second has produced tons of great players at every othe position including OT. So while I don't think the Bills have to take a qb in the first, people better realize that if they don't we have as much chance of finding a good one in the second as we do of finding a Tom Brady in the 6th.

As a former prosecutor, and Bills fan, I've been considering the phenomenon you reference a lot and I believe it is more like battered wife syndrome. The husband (Ralph) comes home and wails on his wife (us) we call the cops tell our friends we're leaving that bastard, and say we want him dead. But a day later we're at his side begging for him to stay (in Buffalo) and saying maybe this time it will be better and we should give him another chance.

I'm going to stick by the Bills, but have campagne in the fridge for when Ralph kicks and the team gets an owner who isn't bent on becoming the Raiders East. In the mean time I'll be downing whisky till the draft.

Great news everyone, it's raining hammers!