yungmack

Couple of thoughts: First up, I'd be fine with this draft even though none of these players are on my "likely"list. It's a good group though, and your reasoning is solid.I especially like Kaufusi. Second: If Joseph is picked at 19, I think the fans are going to go nuts. And the talking heads are going to beat the hell out of Whaley. I think he will bring back memories of Donte Whitner, a perfectly fine player who was vilified for being picked too soon, at least according to a vocal contingent of Bills fans. Finally, you kept saying "Rex really likes..." or similar as if he is making the picks. I really don't think Whaley is going to put his future and his reputation on the line by ceding that power to Rex like they did in NY because - beside Rex being nuts - I believe Whaley is looking beyond this season and is ambivalent about Rex after this season. Someone I trust says the atmosphere around OBD has grown noticeably chilly where Rex is concerned in the wake of his highly publicized backing of Trump. It seems to have escaped Rex's notice that Trump is notoriously anti-immigrant, anti-women and fairly sketchy about non-whites. Had he used his brain, Rex mght have noticed that one of the Bills owners is an immigrant woman of Korean descent and that the other owner is her husband. I'm told that was something of a last straw and that he is on the thinnest of ice. He has been strangely MIA since the Trump rally. No interviews with Chris Brown/John Murphy, no appearances on the networks, no pressers with the local media, at least that I'm aware of. And he's a guy who's an addict for attention. Who knows? Maybe it's all off-season nonsense. BTW,my source about this is not with the Bills and isn't even a resident of New York. Not even much of a football fan. Might be buying a place on Canandaigua Lake though, near the Wegmans.

I like this except for Reed.

At the moment it seems like Tyrod is set as starter & EJ is the backup so any QB taken later in the draft is slotted for 3rd string, with hopes he will somehow develop into a steal. Of all the non-"star" QBs likely to be around in, say, the 4th round, the one I hope is still available, and the one I hope the Bills choose, is Kevin Hogan. The two biggest knocks on him are arm strength and delivery. The latter can be corrected while the former is, IMO, overrated. On his plus side, he played a complicated pro-style offense at Stanford (in fact, he played Greg Roman's offense) against high-level competition and did so with success. He has size, toughness, intelligence and talent. Seems to me he would be very much worth a pick.

It appears you undervalue what it takes to play at an NFL level. And in the case of Glenn and Gilmore, they play at a high level. You don't just cavalierly get rid of them and pick "a couple of guys" fresh out of college. And when it comes to the O line, the quality increases by playing together over a long period of time.

Funny stuff.

I called him delusional for the last paragraph, that the Bills fan are really in his corner and believe he's a great coach. He should check in here for a couple of hours.

I suspect you haven't watched Hogan very much. Living in Los Angeles, I've seen him a ton of times. I don't regard him as a franchise QB but he's head and shoulders better than Hackenberg, Cook and McCarron. It's not even close. I haven't seen enough of Prescott to give an opinion.

I believe many fans of a specific team suffer from "over focus." They watch everything about their team, keep up with what's going on, and in general know a great deal about their faves. However, relatively few fans devote much serious attention to other teams and form their opinions based largely upon the random highlights that show up in the media, or because their team plays them. This leads to a syndrome well-known around here where our guys are often seen as lacking this or that ability while a similar player from another team is over-valued in our opinions. The "grass is always greener" thing. Now, I don't mean to sound like a smart ass but I wonder if you watch the other QBs in this league with the attention to detail over the length of the entire season that you appear to give to TT Because I believe if you did that you'd find he is much better than many of them. Does he have flaws and are there areas for improvement? Absolutely. But then, can you name a single QB that can't be said about? For myself, I'd rather have Tyrod than about 25 of the other QBs in the league, and out of the other 7, at least 4 of them are aging out anyway.

Talk about delusional.

I don't hear anything about the kid out of Oregon. If you're adding a QB to back up TT, someone like him would seem to make more sense than Hogan. If you take Hogan, who plays "pro style," then you're probably thinking about him as a future starter, and I don't believe he'd be much more than mediocre in the NFL.

The key phrase is "with the 2014 Jim Schwartz defense." The Wrex D of 2015 was abysmal. Will the 2016 D be better? Considering that Wrex seems to be stubbornly doubling down on his "my way or the highway" approach (which some commentators consider out of date in the current style of NFL play), plus bringing in brother Boob whose record ain't stellar, the departure of several D players in part because "they didn't fit the scheme" (some call that rebuilding tho it's weird to rebuild what was a top D before the Wrexer came to town), Wrex's strange ongoing negativity towards Preston Brown who, only a year prior, was considered such a smart, talented player that the Bills traded Kiko and handed the D quarterbacking to him, and uncertainty about how he intends to use Dareus and Kyle. I went to the first Bills training camp at Seymour Knox's polo field in 1960 and have been following the Bills ever since. This team is far from the worst of all time; in fact, it's one of the better ones from the front office thru scouting to personnel. The fly in the ointment remains the big mouthed head coach who reminds me of no one as much as Joel Collier, a previous "genius" who, having OJ as his top pick, proceeded to use him as decoy! That bullheadedness led to his firing and to the return of Lou Saban (still the greatest coach in Bills history). So there's hope.

Short answer: Yes.

Thanks for all you've contributed. I really looked forward to your postgame posts. All the best to you going forward.

And that, mi amgo, is the one lessn that truly matters.

Care to mention a couple of those "violations"?

Except it's not. Population continues to grow, as do new business start-ups, state budget is running a surplus and there seems to be no problem signing athletes, executives, researchers, scientists, professors, actors, or anyone else. I wish your mistake was correct; life might be a whole lot nicer if a few miillion people moved out.

You're forgetting bro Bob...God, 2017 can't get here fast enough.

...Just his recent history...

"Bad system fit" is another way of saying Rex sux.

Ray Guy too.

Did you notice the dateline? Dunne actually went to Phoenix and spent time with RI. Imagine that. Sullivan, et al, are said to be stunned. They thought their job was just to go to press conferences then pontificate. And never, ever spend actual one on one time with players. True. But they can announce they've come to terms. Teams were doing it all last week.

Franchising Glenn will take a lot of dough and I think that's what's impacting RI's negotiations, considering the entire cap situation the Bills are in. If OBD can get Glenn into a long term contract, that should free up enough money for RI so long as he and his agents remain rational.

But I do like clowns. I mean, I like you. (cue the seltzer bottle). Now why not go massage your toes, Mrs. Ryan.

Did you watch the interview? The guy belongs with Ringling Brothers.

And get off your lawn while he's at it?