In-A-Gadda-Levitre

so many trolls, so little time... dude, attendance-wise, the Bills were 10th in the NFL last year, averaging 70,128 per game, and they didn't count the Toronto game. So every other team (except Tampa Bay) had 8 home games, the Bills had 7 and still came in 10th! The stadium holds 73,967. According to your razor sharp mind, the Bills are going to tank at the box offfice in 2010 (or 2011, depending on the number of bong hits before lunch), getting less than half their attendance from last year?

It must suck to hate this team as much as you do. The FO, the owner, the players, and the coaches are all the scum of the earth in your view. Or maybe you just need anger management...

Pat Williams testifies that a Bills trainer told him Starcaps was legal since PW left the Bills after the 2004 season and Jones joined the Bears in 2005, who was it? How many "trainers" were on the team in those days? I have nothing but respect for Rusty Jones, I'm asking a legitimate question...

and DA apologizes...

good job, you explained it better than I did...

+1

agreed, it was a dumb answer and he should definitely take more responsibility for his play in general. I'm just saying that it had nothing to do with him (literally) being a fan of the team or not.

something tells me I'm gonna regret this... TE said “I’m not a Bills fan. I’m a football player. I’m a Bills player here so I can’t really answer that question.” He meant that his role is that of a player, not a fan. He didn't mean that he's no fan of the Bills!

actually this article sounds like he would enjoy the switch to OLB, but he admits doing it earlier in his career would have been better...

so, under your GM philosophy, you wait until you get two book-end DEs and a good LB corps, then you sign a good FA NT or draft 1 in the 1st two rounds? I'd say on this team, you do the opposite... Get a good NT and over the next two years you build your line and upgrade your LBs based on what happens with your roster in 2010.

aren't you on the Green Acres Cardinals Wall of Fame?

I thought it was Jon Corto

I just love this quote...

haha, you're welcome and thx...

it's here Lori

Chris Brown wrote this in February...

I said probably not ready or not as good at evaluating talent. The decision to jettison Peters, switch Walker to LT, then cut him, and go with Bell had nothing to do with the OL coach?

28 actually the problem is he's been on 6 teams (Bengals 2x) and supposedly punched Brady Quinn in the face during a weight room altercation. wait a minute, maybe that's not a problem....

ya John, he's billsfan=pain brother-in-arms, both raving loonies...

The Dean said it

It seems to me that we "lost the O-line" after McNally retired. Sean Kugler was probably not ready or simply not as good at evaluating talent. Clearly the injuries hurt, but the "reckless" decisions fall clearly on Mr. Kugler as the position coach. I wonder what Ray Brown thought about the choices made in the 2009 preseason...

Well, you're entitled to your opinion and you seem to think that getting a serious NT isn't that important. The fact that you choose a new RDE over a NT blows my mind. Whatever offense the Bills staff puts together will likely sit on the bench, because our defense will have trouble getting off the field. Its been said so many times - what good is a great QB if you can't protect him? Your grand plan of drafting a pretty good OT, starting him on the left, moving him to the right the next year/drafting a franchise QB, let him watch and learn, then start the next year/drafting a franchise LT, have him start... is all well and good, but sooo much can go wrong and then what? You still haven't addressed the interior of the DL. I still think we build the foundation with a starting LT and and hopefully a NT, maybe draft a QB in the later rounds (like John Skelton or Tebow), and then re-evaluate after the 2010 season. See what happens with your existing roster, how the CBA plays out and what the 2011 draft looks like.

I just read a Bleacher Report article on Skelton. I'd definitely take a chance on him in a late round.

where do you find the 2008 numbers? on another note, Geoff Hangartner is the worst center. Ouch!

I agree with the 1st two sentences and the focus on the next 2-3 years. It appears that there were a lot of people influenced that draft, like DJ and RW. Remember we thought we were set with Losman at QB, so Cutler is pretty much hindsight 20-20. There's a good article by John Clayton of all people that explains why teams like the Bills choose players like Donte Whitner in the 1st round. I'm not saying this is fact, just that it makes total sense given the some of the choices. Bottom line - a safety as the 8th player chosen overall costs way less than a QB. Yeah, McCargo turned out to be a bad choice, and Youbouty not much better. We did get Kyle Williams though! What bothers me most is that you want to get your franchise QB now and worry about protecting him later. Seems like a lot of "pretty good" QBs would improve this team behind a solid O-line, and beefing up the d-line would help win some games by making stops on 3rd down plays. The bolded part IMO is a ridiculous reason to draft a franchise QB in April. In theory, you might have a case, but there's not enough justification to pull the trigger this year when there's so many holes in other places that you can't just trade for or get a FA to fill. Maybe the biggest reason is that this year's draft is so strong in OL/DL and so-so in QBs.