RealityCheck

I think you meant hoof in mouth.

Nice article. I don't know how the sack totals will play out, but I expect the front 7 to collapse and penetrate the pocket on a more consistent basis. In doing so I would expect them to disrupt the running game more often than not. I don't really care about sack totals so much as stopping teams from scoring points. I am definitely optimistic.

If the Bills had a real QB, losing any of the players of recent memory would mean very little. In light of that belief, the do over would be taking any of the QBs of recent memory that have won a Super Bowl. Without the right guy at QB, the Bills could have a 200,000,000.00 dollar salary cap and still field a team that can't get it done. Every year, good teams lose good players, getting the right QB and keeping them healthy and on the roster seems to matter the most. When I look at the players many lament not having on the roster, none of them happens to be a QB.

It's ironic. We can start threads criticizing players' focus on football based on internet snippets and a few pictures that take minutes to make, and then respond with hurt feeling when we ourselves are subjected to the same dynamic in a much smaller, more intimate forum of exchange. Now imagine this ordeal that you have just experienced, and tomorrow morning having Tim Graham make assertions in print about you so that all of your colleagues can be exposed. Not to mention the people who have never met you making their opinions known in other threads around cyberspace. In a way, you and Mario are going through a similar experience. I hope you can get your ring back too.

All I care about is what Mario does on game days. Outside of that, I couldn't care less. If he gets caught breaking any laws then that's between him and the bar association.

Until the pads go on, I don't see anyone that obviously qualifies outside of CJ and Stevie.

Shawangunk Day Care.

I concur with the OP. I think the game is in the bag. Brady will be slow to process seeing our players lined up in various spots while sending pressure from different angles. Offensively, as much as I can see our guys turning the ball over, I can also see some serious luck plays down the field given the teams athleticism at the skill positions. Summer time optimism shines bright. Go Bills!

I think that the minute the NFL finds a way to have you walk in the stadium, spend all of your money, and eat and drink without the use of your hands, that they will ban bringing your hands into the stadium. You'll have to leave them in your car.

It's good to see the Peters' hate is still alive and well at TBD. Is there any money in that? It seems to me that hate requires way to much energy to hold onto when money isn't on the line. For all you haters, I say keep it up if it works for you. Just remember that living in the past means you are already dead.

Some people are tragically naive. Violence is what holds the world of man together. Without it, there would be no peace.

Tebow sucks. Odds are good that he will continue to suck as a QB. Cool dude, but as an NFL qb, he never had it to begin with. The Bills defense had a field day against him. What else needs to be said?

I think that the Patriots will get roughed up in week one. Brady will get hit early and often and CJ will have over 250 all purpose yards.

Ticket prices and frozen wages alone will create a smaller venue catering more towards the press and people with real money. The TV money is already leveling off, which was foreseen years ago. Hence, the attempt to lock out the players and get some profit back. You add that to the black hole of debt that all revenues ultimately come from and you have a sport that will cut costs not because of greed, but because they have to. New stadiums are cost prohibitive and represent massive debt, while the trend towards renovations is a necessary and more palatable attempt to try and make money. In the end only so many teams can have franchise QBs and make the playoffs. That leaves most fans in a dilemma, do I keep paying to support a billion dollar loser when I could watch it at home? Technology will bring the game day experience to peoples living rooms in a far more cost effective manor than bringing them into a massive real estate venture in hopes that they'll keep coming back to be price gouged at the concessions. Only time will tell, but the NFL has serious financial challenges ahead that simply cannot be avoided. The future of new stadiums is one of them.

Optimism and pessimism are choices. To each his own.

I see no reason to hate on any of these picks. They are brand new pros with, at the very least, some exceptional tools who will be on our favorite team. I have no reason not to be optimistic. Today will be interesting! Do they get any big men for the trenches?

I am satisfied with day one. The trade down was smart, and they did not fool around with waiting till the second round to possibly lose the one guy that they obviously coveted as their top rated QB. If nothing else they were at least decisive.

Now that their board is close to being finished and have gotten some practices in, this speaks perhaps to finally accepting that LB is a serious need?

That notion is way overblown. Besides,even if that were true, he would only be a rookie for one year. If you are going to get a developmental player, he at least has some tools to work with.

At this point in time he will be good value. The man is not what he used to be, but he can still make plays. Sweet.

I am imagining a situation where the Bills are in Levi Brown territory but will make the pick in the 3rd or 4th. When the Jets traded up for Sanchez I was elated. They took a team that simply needed a QB as the last piece to put them over the top and chose poorly while losing multiple picks. I can't imagine any of these QBs on any current team winning a Super Bowl. Understand that as a fan whoever they pick will get my support. I just think that if you look at all of these guys as the developmental QBs that many think they are, perhaps they will pick a guy with some prototypical measurables and see who falls to them. Maybe the 2nd round would be a good spot to see who falls through. The first pick needs to be an immediate impact player, or at least that is the goal.

Perhaps this is a move to get a steroid guru into the mix. I want this team to use what the Patriots use.

Those 2 stats say less than nothing about his skeletal structure and relative build. The dude looks very small across the chest and shoulders, almost bird like with small deltoids, while having wide hips. From every angle and every picture he just looks weak and bird like even with shoulder pads. I have a hard time picturing him landing on a shoulder and not having it dislocated. Actually, his shoulders look like elbows.

Barkley just doesn't look like he has the frame to hold up in the NFL. He just looks frail to me.