Peter

It actually is a pretty reasonable contract (by NFL standards) the way it is structured. The Bills easily could have done this.

I agree with you. One of the interesting things about the trade is that WM was traded to the Ravens. I remember when we played the Ravens, people were bitching and moaning about how many yards WM had in that game. I remember posting that the Ravens' game plan (just like those of many of our opponents in 2006) pure and simple was to stop WM. On many plays, the Ravens had only 3 defensive backs. In most of the games that we have played the past few years, opposing defenses had 8 or 9 men in the box specifically to try to stop our running game. Unfortunately, we did not make opposing defenses pay as often as we should have with our passing game. It is going to be very interesting to see what happens if we do not have a running game that opposing defenses respect. I really hope that the Bills have a plan to bring in an RB that opposing defenses respect -- otherwise JP is going to have an up hill battle.

I never realized what a great offensive line we had last year. I wonder why our off season has been spent trying to upgrade it.

I really hope so. Time will tell. I am a WM fan as well. It will be interesting to see how he does with the Ravens. It would have been nice to see him behind our new revamped line.

Put it on the wall with the Milloy, Adams, Williams, Moulds, Bledsoe, Spikes, Clements, Fletcher, Biron, and Dumont jerseys.

Jamal Lewis also was pretty productive for the Ravens.

I just figured out why Marv traded Willis and is so high on Fred Jackson. Fred went to Coe College.

We have more holes to fill than I thought.

Because WM is a good back.

Agreed.

They just said that he probably will visit next week.

According to Sirius NFL Radio, Dillon did not visit with the Bills as expected.

Updated report from PFT on the McGahee contract:

We shall see.

I would be very careful about paying too much for Turner. He may be great, but we really have not seen him play too much. I very much doubt that there is anyone out there willing to give SD a first for him. At this point, I cannot even say that I would give up a second or third. I just have not seen enough of him to make an evaluation.

He already has that.

Go to PFT if you want the link.

He really did not say a whole hell of a lot. Basically, he said that both teams got value. He wishes Willis well. The Bills have an RB who lead NFL Europe in all purpose yards. The Bills do not know which way they are going to go in the draft. Blah, blah, blah.

We can only hope.

You are correct that the third next year should be discounted. I also do not think that it is such a great deal for the Bills.

I can see the Bills doing what they did last year -- keeping our own first round pick and trading picks to get another first later in the round.

According to the draft value chart, we did not get much more than the Bears got for Jones: approximately 259 points v. 246 points. So if you think that the Bears were stupid . . . .

They swapped the 37th pick for the 63rd pick. Jones Trade

For what it is worth, the value of the McGahee deal according to the NFL draft value chart is approximately 259 points. That equates to the 66th pick in the draft. For comparison purposes, the value of the Thomas Jones deal was 246 points. *The above calculation presumes that the Ravens pick 29th in each round next year (based on this year's position). Of course, the value of the deal will fluctuate depending on how the Ravens do this coming year.