Brandon

It sounds like Marv is quite confident that this player will not be a top 10 pick unless they select him at 8 and that they could trade down and still get him. My guess is that the player they're talking about is someone that we haven't even discussed. In no particular order, a few possibilities should the Bills trade down include: 1) WR Chad Jackson, Florida 2_ WR Santonio Holmes, Ohio State No, it wouldn't be a popular choice after the Parrish pick a year ago, but aside from Lee Evans, what do the Bills really have at WR or even TE? Practically nothing. And no, having 10 more guys that can't play on the roster doesn't help much. At the very latest, I think we will have a new WR (or perhaps a recieving TE) by about noon next Sunday. 3) OG Davin Joseph, Oklahoma I think he's a better fit very late in R1, but the Bills did draft Ruben Brown with the 14th overall pick in 1994, so there is a chance Marv might take a G this high. We certainly need one. 4) DE Mathias Kiwanuka, Boston College Kiwanuka was a borderline top 10 pick until his stock started dropping in late January (and I'm not sure why he dropped). I think Kiwanuka will still be a top 25 pick. The Bills have a major need for a top tier pass rusher in this defensive scheme, a need that I believe is being vastly underrated by some of the fans and media. Kiwanuka would immediately upgrade their pass rush and I believe would be a solid fit with the Bills as an eventual or possibly even immediate starter at LDE. 5) OLB Chad Greenway, Iowa 6) OLB DeMeco Ryans, Alabama Spikes is coming off a career threatening injury and Posey has a year left on his contract. Crowell played reasonably well in replacement of Spikes a year ago, but it wouldn't be the worst idea for the Bills to select a top OLB prospect in this draft. 7) DT Gabe Watson, Michigan If you want a R1 DT, Watson might actually be the best choice. Yes, he has a reputation as an underachiever in college (so does Ngata), but he has about as much talent as Ngata or Bunkley, has no injury history, and will probably be available a dozen picks lower in the draft.

1) Houston--Reggie Bush 2) New Orleans--D'Brickashaw Ferguson 3) Tennessee--Vince Young 4) NY Jets--Matt Leinart 5) Green Bay--Mario Williams 6) San Francisco--Michael Huff 7) Oakland--Jay Cutler 8) Buffalo--AJ Hawk 9) Detroit--Winston Justice 10) Arizona--Vernon Davis While I don't expect any trades in the top 4, there will could be a significant change in the draft order of the 5th-10th picks if the above scenario occurs. In particular, I think there is a very good chance the Bills could trade for the Packers 5th pick. This would allow the Bills to draft Mario Williams should he be available and the Packers should still get AJ Hawk at 8 (or GB could draft Williams, wait to see if the Bills can draft AJ Hawk, and work out a deal to trade the two players later). If not, I think the Bills will trade out of the top 10. Oakland might also attempt to trade their pick to a team needing a QB.

Tavaris Jackson of Alabama State

Yes, it was a 3-4.

I think he's played fairly well, to be honest. He might not be good enough to be a #2 CB, but as a 3rd, he's not bad at all. The Bills could certainly do worse.

Coming off a 5-11 season, there aren't too many picks that don't make sense for the Bills at 8. This is a bad team with a lot of needs. My own opinion is that Ngata is a notch below that elite group of 8 at the top of the draft. I would not pass up Vernon Davis, AJ Hawk or even Michael Huff for Ngata at 8. And yes, I do believe at least one of those three players will be on the board when we pick at 8. Reaching for need in the top 10 results in picks like Mike Williams. I agreed with that pick at the time, even though I thought he was more of a mid 1st rounder. That was a lesson learned the hard way.

I don't know that they disliked Rashaun Woods so much as the fact that he's been horrible. He's caught only 7 passes in his first two seasons. Myself, I think the 49ers will draft Michael Huff.

That may be true, but the Bills still have nine more picks, including three on the first day. Its not an all-or-nothing situation. A good example is at OG, where the Bills might be able to take the first OG off the board at 42. If there's an elite player at a lesser need position available at 8, the Bills CAN afford to pick him.

Who do I least want the Bills to select in round 1???

I'm glad that they appear to be targeting a quality OG prospect in this draft. They've been needing at least one for a couple of years now. Although I wouldn't be too upset if they select Huff, I'm not a big fan of drafting a S at 8. This looks like a very good draft for safeties and the Bills could probably wait at least a round and get a good one. I'd expect there to be quite a few more names on this list by the 29th.

We don't know who the Bills are targeting at 8. They may have no interest whatsoever in selecting Ngata. As long as the Bills get a 2nd round pick out of the deal, I have no problems at all with trading down with Philadelphia.

If you really want to get greedy with the Vikings draft picks, the value of their 17th, 48th, and 51st overall picks is roughly equivalent to our 8th overall pick and the 70th. That's four picks in the top 51.

I wouldn't give up much at all to trade up for Ferguson. Its not so much that he's not an excellent LT prospect. He is. I just think the OT need has been overrated. Gandy isn't great, but he's adequate. Peters isn't great, but he's shown a lot of improvement and more than enough talent to eventually move to LT. If anything, we may need a RT prospect and we can pick one of those up in the 2nd-4th round. The real problem up front on the OL is the LG/C/RG area. Again, you draft those in R2-4. I'd only trade up if it was for Mario Williams. With the Bills planning to play a cover 2 defense and the front four being totally inept at generating a pass rush on their own in recent years, the Bills have an enormous need for a quality pass rusher. They might get by with a situational pass rusher drafted in the 2nd or 3rd round, but if they can trade up at a reasonable price for the best DE prospect in this draft by far, I say go for it.

I really don't see the Saints drafting Mario Williams with two 1st round DEs on the roster. I believe they will select D'Brickashaw Ferguson. The team I'm concerned about would be the NY Jets. Their trade of John Abraham has opened up a hole on their roster at RDE and I can see them selecting him with the 4th overall pick. I think they'd either take him or AJ Hawk, but Williams would be my guess. So yes, I do think its a longshot. But if the Bills think he might last until the 5th pick and the Packers are shopping that pick, I would not at all be suprised to hear that the Bills are interested. Of course, the trade itself wouldn't actually happen until draft day if Williams happened to be on the board at 5.

I think they could certainly be one of them. The Bills need a significant upgrade to their pass rush and if they could trade up at a reasonable price and get Mario Williams, I don't think they'd hesitate to do it.

Actually, you were right. If the Vikings fail to match Seattle's offer, they will recieve Seattle's 3rd round pick. So, yes, they will have two 3rd round picks as well. Burleson is a restricted FA.

A blind monkey throwing darts at a list of names taped to a dartboard, perhaps?

I think trading JP Losman is a great idea. We need another top QB prospect to ruin and subsequently run out of town.

Normally I would agree, but in such a bad year for WRs in the draft and in FA, someone will be willing to pay a premium to guarantee that they get him. I think it will be the Eagles. They've got three 4th round picks to spare.

If the Bills just want a big run stuffing DT, they'd be better off trading down 15 picks or so and selecting Gabe Watson. He's just as talented as Ngata and while he's got a rep for being lazy in college, so did Ted Washington.

Enforcing such a rule would seem to be very difficult. Couldn't the Bills simply say that they believed their other WRs gave them a better chance to win? Yeah, we may all think its BS, but how do you prove it? You can't.

The Vikings might also be a good target for a trade. They have the 17th, 48th, and 51st overall picks. That would basically be equal to a trade of the Bills 8th pick and the 70th pick.

I doubt we get multiple picks since we signed 2 and lost 2, but Jennings and Williams were clearly better than what we signed and their total contract value was around $50M. We'll only get one pick, but it will be a good one, a 3rd.

Between that and his injury status, Walker has little to no trade value. I definitely would not be throwing 1st day draft picks at the Packers in order to trade for him. I think the real story may be some discussions of swapping first round picks between Green Bay and Buffalo and this is just part of that deal. That trade up probably wouldn't happen until Green Bay was on the clock, but it would probably put the Bills in position to draft either Williams or Ferguson. I think those are the two guys they really want in R1 and right now won't have a chance to draft either one.

Are the Packers offering a 5th round pick or a trade of the 8th pick to the 5th overall pick? Considering that most of us think the Bills are getting badly ripped off if its for a 5th round pick, maybe its being misreported? In the context of a trade up, it would seem to make more sense. The Bills would get: 5th overall pick Jevon Walker Green Bay gets: 8th overall pick Eric Moulds One 3rd round pick One 2007 4th round pick