[Ok, let's say Fitz is an average starting QB in the NFL, what do y]

Losman seemed like a better option than an aging, tentative Bledsoe. Edwards seemed like a better option than Losman. Fiztpatrick seems like a better option than Edwards.

 

It doesn't mean that any of them are any good. They only appear good when compared with the crappy guy before them, not when compared with the rest of the league.

 

Draft the QB. It's no guarantee that he'll be the "main man" and successful, but it's practically guaranteed that the team will be unsuccessful without the main man. You have to try to get him.

 

Thats just not true. RF has been playing legitimately great this season, and not just by Bills standards. We're talking league wide, he has better numbers than anyone besides P. Manning. You insert anyone else in there and all the chemistry is gone, all the receivers might suck again, the line might suck again, etc etc.

 

It might be a good idea to take Luck as a 'best available,' very long term type of pick, similar to Spiller last year. You don't get a chance to draft these kinds of guys every year. But lets be realistic, RF has this job for as long as he keeps this up.

[The big boys afraid to play Boise St?]

On topic, the way I heard it, Boise had to one game to pencil in and both Va. Tech and Nebraska were offering. Va. Tech offered more money, and at the time was considered a more prestigious opponent.

[Ryan Fitzpatrick: Have the Buffalo Bills Found a Franchise Quarterback]

but lets not forget he threw two INT's that hurt the team.

 

Pardon my asking, but where exactly do you suggest we find a qb that never throws ints?

[Ryan Fitzpatrick: Have the Buffalo Bills Found a Franchise Quarterback]

I've been a fan of the Bills for fifteen years at least. I've been really following football for maybe seven or eight. Every year there are one or two college football players coming out that stand easily at the top of the list, guys that a team can build a unit around. Last year it was Suh.

Remember - going through a rebuild that takes a few years is something a team doesn't want to do every four or five years. If we have to hit rock bottom to build this thing up the right way, we should be aiming for a championship, to begin with, and then to remain that good.

 

Now, if we end up going into next year with the first pick, or top two or three, we should not be seeing that high a pick again for a long time. To be a great team - not just good, but great - we need a great QB. Fitz might be playing good, but he'll never be great. He looks like the perfect number 2 QB on a championship team, able to come in and win a game when needed, smart and capable of helping a young Qb read defenses. If we have the chance to grab a QB capable of being great, then we need to take it. Unless there is another player of need on Defense that is looking like a once in a generation prospect - and from what I've read it looks like the QB's are the talk of next year's draft.

 

The other direction - one I'm opposed to - is trading down. But, we won't, at least we shouldn't, have the chance to lock up a great Qb with a top pick for the forseeable future, so that is the way to go, IMO.

 

Its an interesting choice for sure. If he comes crashing back to earth then sure, draft Luck. But if not, what more could we possibly want? Hes #2 in passer rating for petes sake, and has obvious chemistry with our receivers. Chemistry doesn't grow on trees, you know. Anyways if he can keep doing that, then no joke, I say we draft all LB, DL, and OL next spring.