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To anyone asking "is he a good football player?" or "is this anything more than a feel-good story?"... The answers are "yes" and "yes". He is fast. Like really, really fast. A 4.38 forty is bananas for a linebacker. He also had quality production at USF, and was unanimously cited as an excellent locker room guy, a guy who gets his teammates fired up and inspired to work hard. I'm not gonna go overboard and say they should draft him in the first few rounds, but if he's there in round 5, I'd take him 100%.

I think he'd be a great late-round pick. I DO agree that he's got the "DNA" that McDermott and Beane look for. I also think he could compete to start or at least provide quality depth at OLB.

Just wanted to chime in and say that I thought the booking for Wrestelmania was terrible. The Rousey match should have gone on last. Reigns-Lesnar as the curtain closer? Why? And why punt on giving Reigns the title AGAIN? Why bother with the whole Taker/Cena squash sequence? Why have both world champions retain the title at Wrestlemania, of all events? Why such a short allotment of time for the Tag Title matches? The lineup of matches was great. The booking stunk. Oh, and the Styles - Nakamura match was a huge disappointment. They hyped it as potentially one of the best WM matches of all time, and these guys certainly have the talent to have made that hype a reality. But boy oh boy, did they fall short. The heel turn for Shinsuke was great, and they're clearly planning on a long program for he and Styles. Hopefully the coming matches far exceed this one. One last thing...Finn Balor is being underused, in my opinion. His whole Jekyll and Hyde thing -- where sometimes he's a clean cut babyface and an LGBTQ advocate and sometimes he "brings out the demon" -- is awesome. He should be higher up the card. Can't wait to see Daniel Bryan mix it up with Nakamura, Balor, Owens/Zayn, etc in the coming months.

What do I care whether there is attention on Richie or not? I'm not a Bills employee. As far as I'm concerned, there's enough room in the world for ALL the crazy football players. And lately, there seem to be quite a few of them!

Good one!

35 years ago. I wonder if football has changed at all since then?

Tua, is that you?

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Lawson is going into a true make or break year. 2018 will decide whether he remains a Buffalo Bill for the long haul or whether he's looking for work in 2019. I'm rooting for the former (because a boost at EDGE would be a huge help) but banking on the latter. Meanwhile, the dude in my avatar pic is about to light it up and become an instant fan favorite.

My favorite part is where you provided no explanation or elaboration whatsoever and then proceeded to question everyone's football knowledge and insult them. Quality post. 10/10.

I don't hate Sammy. I just wish he had told everyone that he was a solar powered lizard person ahead of time, so we all could have been spared the hassle. And people in hell wish they had some ice water. What're ya gonna do?

Yeah. Overall, I'm glad the drought ended, because that was a HUGE albatross around the neck of this organization, BUT... I would be remiss not to mention the following: For years and years, the Bills were a very middling team. Never good enough to make the playoffs, never bad enough to get a top three draft pick. In 2017, they FINALLY decided to hit reset, trade away players for assets, and aggressively embrace a rebuild. And what happened? Well, they made the playoffs, of course! It's almost like they failed at failing. Again, I'm happy about the way things worked out, but it's hard not to feel like the ONE year they really NEEDED to do poorly so that they could get their long sought after shot at a franchise QB, they finally played well enough to end the drought. Go figure. You can't write this stuff!

I agree, and I really hope we do! As much as we need an inside linebacker and some corner and DT depth, I would be okay with focusing the draft solely on protecting/helping our new QB. Get a center, a guard, a WR, a RB...in short, give him every possible tool to help him succeed immediately. Yes, the defense will likely regress this year, but in terms of long term planning, it's more important to me that my rookie QB remains upright and doesn't get immediately pulverized into fine dust and develop David Carr-itis.

I know Sammy Watkins is no longer a Buffalo Bill, so I understand if this thread needs to be moved elsewhere, but....has anyone else seen what he's been posting on Twitter lately? I'm starting to have an idea of why McDermott and Beane thought he'd be better off anywhere BUT in Buffalo's locker room...

Yes. McDermott, Groy, and Miller collectively will decide the fate of our offensive line this coming season. McDermott could potentially unseat Mills. Groy could potentially be our new starting center. Miller could fill the void left by Incognito and re-assume his college position of left guard. The success or failure of these players in these positions will effectively determine the performance of the line and --- with it -- of our offense as a whole.

Similar story. Friend at work is a Cowboys fan and a relentless ballbuster/trash talker. Never stops. Any time he has started in on me about "The Bills Suck!" or "the draft won't do enough to make the Bills good!", I am able to say "remind me again, which of our teams watched the playoffs from the couch last year?". Of course, he's able to come back with "remind me which of our teams dropped 50 points on the other in a Super Bowl?"...so the Bills still have some major work to do in order to give us fans more ammo! The best for me has been occasionally seeing graphics pop up on screen talking about the longest playoff droughts in North American sports. Having the Bills' name no longer be on that list is so, so gratifying!

You hear Beane and McDermott talk about the "DNA" they want their players to have. I don't know exactly what that "DNA" is, but I DO know that Dez Bryant doesn't have it.

Not sure that I think this is a very realistic draft, but I used FanSpeak and the most recent NDT Scouting board. I'm obviously biased because I did the drafting, but the below draft would be an absolute miracle to me. No trades: 12: R1P12 QB SAM DARNOLD USC 22: R1P22 LB LEIGHTON VANDER ESCH BOISE STATE 53: R2P21 WR DANTE PETTIS WASHINGTON 56: R2P24 C BILLY PRICE OHIO STATE 65: R3P1 RB RASHAAD PENNY SAN DIEGO STATE 96: R3P32 OT KOLTON MILLER UCLA 121: R4P21 DL HARRISON PHILLIPS STANFORD 166: R5P29 DL RJ MCINTOSH MIAMI 187: R6P13 LB DORIAN O'DANIEL CLEMSON

I just can't seem to bring myself to panic until at least June. Then, if things still don't look good, I'll start to panic. There are just too many currently unknowable variables to be filled in between now and then for me to spend much mental energy on it.

I read (and agree with) this article, and thought I'd share. http://www.wgr550.com/articles/opinion/capaccio-despite-roster-holes-bills-still-need-be-aggressive-qb CAPACCIO: Despite roster holes, Bills still need to be aggressive for QB The team won't be in this position again with draft capital SAL CAPACCIO APRIL 10, 2018 - 10:58 PM First, it was Eric Wood retiring. Now Richie Incognito. Seven free agents have left for other teams, including starting middle linebacker Preston Brown, with no apparent successor in his place yet on the roster. There are certainly question marks hanging over Zay Jones’ head after his bizarre incident in Los Angeles. The Bills came into this off-season with several holes to fill. They still have plenty of them, both short-term and long-term. Yet no matter who’s retired or left, nor how many positions seem to have a need either at the starting spot or depth behind him; no matter the age or contractual situation of anyone, if their plan was to draft their franchise quarterback of the future later this month - and I believe it has been since last year’s draft - general manager Brandon Beane and head coach Sean McDermott shouldn’t waiver for one second and should stick with that plan.... -- click the link for more --

It never really began. Time is a flat circle.

Dawkins - rookie - Groy/rookie - Ducasse/Miller - Mills/McDermott That's how I see it right now. I think they add rooks at LG and C and give Miller a chance to win the RG spot in camp. Here's hoping McDermott's a diamond on the rough. They liked him enough to stash him on the active roster the second half of last year without him ever playing a snap.

I just don't know any more, Meanie. The year we "won the offseason" with Rex, we were terrible. Then last year, I (a relentlessly, masochistically optimistic Bills fan) told my wife "I think the Bills will be really bad this year. Maybe 4-12 bad". (She didn't care and couldn't even pretend that she did, but that's a story for another day). Lo and behold, the Bills broke the drought. The only thing I know any more is that I don't know. Get me a QB, a good head coach, and a defense, and let's see what happens. I believe we have one of the three, and luckily, he is largely the architect of one of the other of those three. Now we just need the third part. Regardless of the degree to which we may have "lost the offseason", if we get that third part, we're in business. Or not. I don't know.

I won't quibble with much of what you said, but I DO count Trent Murphy as a significant addressing of the Edge/DE need, especially in a year in which that position is weak in the draft.

I mean...did you see how much better our roster was under Rex Ryan? How many games did we win those years? Do you see us getting 9+ wins with McCarron or Peterman at QB?