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The 1st 2 paragraphs say it was a rumor and it turned out to be false...

I think they'll move Vick, let McNabb start for 2 more years, then hand over the reins to Kolb. It would take some creative contract negotiations next year to make it happen, but they can afford to wait and see what happens with the CBA.

IMO, the bolded part is wrong and many posters don't understand this. The Bills contact the player's agent and they decline to interview, for a bunch of reasons that make sense to them.

he's not on the trading block, Gailey made that clear before

interesting quote in Allen Wilson's article about Chan Gailey's comments during an AFC coaches breakfast. If George is a backup, at least for now, does that mean Donte is the starting SS?

While that's a possibility, it's more about anticipating how the organization is perceived by its customers (the fans), the media and the league itself. Maybe that means "yeah, they'd misunderstand it anyways and bash us for photoshopping the pic, but that's better than the scoreboard/punt pic" or "even though it's a great shot of the scoreboard, people might get all emotional about punting from our endzone or how terrible that Browns game was, so let's use a pic that's not as good but displays the team when they were making a great play." Or my personal favorite..."this is a great idea (to use the scoreboard in a way that personalizes the message to season ticket holders), but the potential bad messages make it too risky and let's think about a better way." You might not think it's important or worth fretting over, but here is a team that's under attack on a regular basis, and needs to be very, very careful about its image.

fixed As pointed out in the other thread, is that a pretty easy Photoshop exercise could have extracted the scoreboard from the background, and then they could have used it in a creative way.

that was Nix'd a few days ago

ok, thanks, got it. If anyone else is interested, it was a mention in his Andra Davis article

ya, that's what I thought too, but the newest MG chat is from 3/12 and there's no mention of mitchell playing olb. maybe it's a chat from today and they haven't uploaded to their site.

Does anyone have the source? I looked a while and couldn't find it.

this is my last reply, because it has nothing to do with Jacoby Ford. nobody, I repeat, nobody repeats the exact same response, word for word like you. yes, there's way too many tebow, QB 1st round, no, OL 1st round, and all that, but they aren't clones... ADD: except maybe Deep Voice

maybe, but copy & paste more than 2 times is obnoxious

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you're right on the money with this one BillsVet. I've said before that Berchtold and the Bill's approach to MarCom is unprofessional and makes the team look like amateurs. It's going to be interesting to see if Buddy Nix and co have an affect on that or not.

what he said...

the problem is that nobody except the Bills FO knows the answer to that question. it 'might' be a long, exhaustive list because you'll never know who turned them down for an in-person interview.

Well, decent is a pretty subjective term, so you're entitled to your opinion. The reason for bringing up the Browns and Skins is that there are other teams who (probably) can't answer that question yet either. The point is still that it's mid-March and a lot can happen before the 1st regular season game. Maybe consider giving the new head coach a couple months to decide whether his starting QB is on the roster or not.

ask Eric Mangini or Mike Shanahan who their starting QB is, they both have two decent 1s

I was being sarcastic, but stand by my opinion. To say we don't have a starting QB before the draft and 1st OTA have begun, is silly. I expect better from Clark Judge. If we were in late July, he'd have a point.

gee, it's March and the Bills don't know who their starting QB is, with a new coaching staff and revamped FO. We're doomed!

I didn't mean you at all. You reported it accurately from beginning to end. Schefter said "reached agreement" and it was reported as "signed" by some. I was referring to people like Ed Kilgore, WGR, and Gregg Rosenthal from PFT that posted stories with titles like Bills Sign DE Dwan Edwards 13 hours ago.

Regardless of your opinion of Pat Moran, he was the only one (besides Schefter of course) who understood what was really happening. He actually talked to Schefter, got the straight scoop and reported it correctly. Some of the more professional journalists didn't read Schefter's tweet for what it was and misrepresented the story. I'd say Pat Moran gets kudos for this one.

ok, Jamison Hensley, Raven's beat reporter, says it's a done deal true story?

recent articles by JW and Mark Gaughan quote the HC as saying Whitner is not being actively offered as a part of a trade... and CG also said there's an open competition for QB with the 3 names already on the roster and another to be added by some means (draft, FA, trade, etc.) and said there was nothing new to report on the Schobel situation