altruisticbillsfan

Brilliant!! You should inform the Bills management of your postulation that building a defense around rookies; before any of those other teams figures out that rookies make an immediate impact: That College/NFL transition is so easy--I can't think of any defensive players we drafted that turned out to be busts. Hey do you still have your Aaron Maybin jersey!!

It's sad we have to depend on rookies to improve our defense, when they are uh, Rookies... Good FA, well, yeah here we go again. Buffalo loves to sign players that have an extensive injury history and on their way out. Honestly, we missed out on good FAs and signed players that are just happy someone is still interested in them.

Really, really, really!! Have you seen Barkley under pressure? Probably not, cuz it's Bledsoe like (my appologizes if you are a Bledsoe fan)!

Yes, Right!! Now, tell me how many jobs have been lost in Buffalo since that Great 90s team? Remember, just like many poorly run organizations, weather or not the team produces the money is still coming in!

He is similar to the, "I can't cover for the life of me; cry me a river" Donte Whitner!!

I agree that it has been done too many times and that Andrew Luck would altogether avoid Buffalo, as he will have another year of eligibility at Stanford; but I guess the hyperbole is that Buffalo is giving all indication they will be drafting #1 overall. There's just not enough talent on the team and to avoid their offensive line issues like the plague, just shows the direction they are heading.

Several reasons why Buffalo has jumped on the Andrew Luck Sweepstakes: 2010 season Heisman Trophy Runner Up Maxwell Award Finalist Walter Camp Award Finalist Davey O'Brien Award Finalist Manning Award Finalist Second Team All America (AP, Walter Camp, SI.com, CBSSports.com) Orange Bowl MVP Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year First Team All Pac-10 Second Team Pac 10 All Academic Team Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Week, Nov. 8, 2010 & Nov. 22, 2010 2009 season Freshman All America (The Sporting News, CollegeFootballNews.com, Scout.com) Honorable Mention All Pac-10 First Team Pac-10 All Academic Team Records Pac 10 single season records Highest completion percentage (70.7%, 2010) Pac 10 career records Most career total offense per game (268.8 yards per game) Stanford single season records 2010 season: Most touchdown passes in a season (32) Most total offense in a season (3,791 yards) Highest passing efficiency rating (170.2) Highest completion percentage (70.7%) Most yards per pass attempt (9.0) Most rushing yards by a quarterback (453 yards) Stanford career records Most career yards per pass attempt (9.0 yards/attempt) Lowest career interception percentage (1.8%) Most career rushing yards by a quarterback (807 yards) **information taken directly from Wikipedia**

In 1975, a 4th overall draft pick ran for just over 600 yards and avg 3.5 per carry. In 1988, a second round pick ran for just over 800 yards, while avg. 4.3 ypc, and in 1990, a RB ran for over 900 yards, averging less than 4 ypc. It's true, a great degree of backs have success early; Earl Campbell, Barry Sanders, LT, recently, AP, CJ2k, Arian Foster surpased the 1,200 yard mark. It appears to be a predicate that early success, will predict future success. Even thoughs running backs that are wedded to a dud must find some way to transcend their teams' perpetual mediocrity and a play to the highest of levels, like the greats: Walter Payton, Thurman Thomas, and Emmitt Smith--oh, yeah the aforementioned running backs stats.

Proposed cuts: Defense--Chris Kelsay, Terrance McGee (trade), Drayton Florence, Dwan Edwards, Bryan Scott, Andra Davis, & Kirk Morrison. Offense: Cordaro Howard, Roscoe Parrish, Levi Brown, oh yeah, Fred Jackson (trade), Demetrius Bell, Ruvell Martin, Shawn Nelson, & Busted Davis. BTW: McCargo is not on the team!

Significant problems with the offensive line, especially in the run defense will prevent a winning season.

Top 15 is a good way to look at the situation, but in reality the Bills face an extremely difficult schedule and there are still very apparent issues facing the run defense that have not been corrected (based on the last game). The D Line is improved with Marcel; however, Kelsay is still on the team, allowing titanic size gaps in the defense. One other note, Moats the young and aggressive pass rusher has been pulled in to play inside line backer--perplexing and makes no sense.