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The one thing going for Palmer in Cincinnati was that he had a great group of WRs and TEs. Even their 3rd WR was a star.

That is 30 drafts ago! And if I remember there were 4 QBs picked in that draft too!! Patterson is a 1-year wonder. Nix prefers seasoned starters...Patterson will not be in a Bills uniform, not after being severely burned by the Maybin pick

The big question is: Does the Jets and Bills have their hopes pinned on the same QB ? This will be a fascinating draft to watch. Can't wait until Thursday Night (Sorry, Friday morning for me!!!)

And next year we have to probably pony up for Wood and Spiller. May be Nix won't be drafting in 2014! The reason the trade happened (for the Jets) because they need to come out of cap jail and they couldn't afford 15M a year for Reevis (at least against their salary cap). May be next year, when Sanchez comes off the books, but Revis did not want to wait until next year. For Byrd, it is simply a regular situation and the Bills need to deal with it appropriately. The biggest thing would be is: Does Byrd want to play for this organization for this coaching staff. If answer is 'yes' then re-sign him else, we ship him to the highest bidder. +1. And if teams wanted a starting safety, they could have signed Ed Reed in Free Agency (or have Polamalu for a draft pick).

This! +1

This is exactly what Nix thought during the past two drafts and it cost him Kaepernick, Dalton and Wilson. A guard is not a game changer. A QB is. +1. The talk that there are no franchise QBs in this draft is nonsense. If you go back to draft history you will find every QB having their own weakness, but the good ones being able to overcome that. This year is no different.

The Ravens gambled on a similar reach with Flacco five seasons ago and traded up to get him. If you like a QB and are sure that he will be gone at #41 (when you pick second), you don't wait. You simply make that pick at #8. The chance of getting another player at #8 and succeeding with him is the same as getting the QB.

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There were also many questioning (including myself) the Spiller pick....Spiller is a superstar and this team lacks super stars.

And I think that is why neither Wilson nor Kaepernick would have succeeded here, because Gailey would never have put them in a position to succeed running the cottails of Fitz! Time will tell. He is the best of the lot. Will he be successful in the NFL? Who Know!

The Bills also picked Dareus @ #3, Spiller at 9

I believe, ever since they put in the rookie salary cap, there has been a big number of draft day trades on the 1st round... Here is link to 2012 draft info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_NFL_Draft There were 7 trades for 1st round swaps on Day 1. Similarly, there were 5 trades in the 1st round on Day 1 in 2011 (Which was the first year of the Rookie Salary Cap). This will be a trend and I expect there will be a similar # of draft day trades on day 1.

Agree. The Bills do not have many picks to fill all the holes and also would not want to give up next years 1st Rd. They will pick their QB in Rd 1 and most likely it will be Barkley.

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+1. Barkley all the way. When you have the chance to draft a possible franchise QB, you have to take a shot at it. None of these QBs will be available at #41.

Why ? If we are 1-11 going into those 4 games, why do those games matter. I think in the NFL every game is a defining game. +1

Why wouldn't you. The team has only 6 draft picks and hence using two (or more) picks to trade up means they have less players to draft to fill holes. I would rather stay put, pick the QB of choice with Rd1 and then use the remaining 5 picks to address the rest.

And neither did we in any of those three years and still passed on them too.

+1. When you are part of a winning program, such things are so simple and easy.

And so would Patterson

And the draft could be misleading if they went offense all the way in the 1st 3-4 rounds!! Are a huge smokescreen!

Then so be it!

The problem is that it is simply hard to evaluate. Losman and Edwards were given difficult tasks by changing OC every year. They were simply not going to be consistent. To make it worse, the team did not field a good defense, a young QB's best friend!.....We will never know how good these guys could have been if the team had a coaching staff that was consistent for a few years.

I think with the way rookie salary caps are established, it is fairly easy in today's NFL to take QBs in the 1st round in back-to-back years. That is why I think Cleveland will be part of the QB Derby this year. They can deal with a Weeden as a bust.

Nassib is not lasting till the 3rd round when there are at least 5 QB needy teams ahead of us in each round of the draft (Jax, Oakland, Cleveland, Arizona, Jets)