I agree with you. Unfortunately the Bills had too many holes to fill and they had to start from the Defense. It will probably take another draft to address the OL. Remember they are also up against the Salary cap.
The rushing stats were on higher because of TT and Shady. When Shady went down, this team struggled to run the football.
It does. In the recent past, very few (or none) late round QBs have been successful. (It doesn't mean that top round pick all have been successful; they are just saying that if you pick in early rounds, the chance of success is better)
The Bills also have the option of putting the Franchise tag and then evaluating Tyrod one more year. The Bills hold all the cards...And if they do pick a QB in this draft, then it puts pressure on Tyrod to not skip any activities.
Sort of like the feelings we had for Trend Edwards...
Edwards was supposed to be accurate (He was accurate, but he was also Captain Checkdown), but could make the deep throws (He rarely did). ....
And we tried to trade up to the JAX spot and they rejected our trade and instead took Reggie Williams, WR.....who was out of the league in a few years.....
And the most injured QB with expectations set on him to turn it around every off season. He got his $60M rookie contract deal and now this insane $36M deal with the Eagles...The rich keep getting richer.
It is also possible Leodis signs back with the Bills if he does not get any offers in FA. He is definitely better than our current backups. Just couldn't pay him starter money
The bills have invested heavily on that DL and the FA signing of McCoy and Clay last year. They will have to pare it somewhere and they will be going after at the DL position:
Mario might be the biggest cut (possibly)
Kyle Williams may not be re-signed
Clay roster bonus will be restructured and converted to a regular bonus
The Kicker might get cut
Why not give credit to that Denver defense. They rattled Tom Brady and won....They did the same with Cam in SB50. May be if Cam's WR's latch on to those passes, they win because they could have resulted in TDs. The game is far more closer than it appears on the stats sheet.