bbfan54

If the Commissioner was consistently telling referees to skew games I think that by now people would know about. Too many people would be involved to cover that up. At some point some one would have squealed.

Unless you are Bret Favre

It would also be interesting to know how many QBs are picked in each round. Some rounds may have more QBs selected than others which makes it more likely that at least a few will be successful.

Don't they still have to interview a black candidate under the NFL's policies?

Alot of people might not like Kelsay and Denney but they would most likely be better next year than any rookie the bills could draft in the second round. Moreover, they still have Chris Ellis who they drafted last year in the third round. You really can't keep more than 5 DEs so you would have to cut Ellis and basically say he was a bust.

What about when the colts had the number 1 and 2 overall and selected Steve Emtman and Quentin Coryatt. Emtman was a total bust and Coryatt was mediocre. That has to be one of the worst drafts of all time

Maybe ralph wants the team to be bad so that fans stop going to games and he has an excuse to move the team out of buffalo like the movie "Major League".

Gibran Hamdan

Doesn't cash to cap also mean that all the signing bonus counts against year 1 because that is when it is paid. Moreover, if they made another signing like Dockery who had a $17 or 18 million signing bonus that in and of itself would cancel out about half of that.

Yeah if Trent Edwards had the greatest WR of all time and very good #2, the best OL in the league, and a great RB and FB like Montana did I'm sure he would be very good. Hopefully all that can fit under cash to cap.

Rod Marinelli will probably be available soon. I'm sure the bills could get him for real cheap.

The problem is the player can sign the offer sheet at any time and the contract is then guaranteed. If I was Greer as soon as they put the franchise tag on me I would sign the offer sheet and get the average salary of the top five CBs which is too much for a player of his talents.

Better Starting RBs (no particular order for any groups) 1. Adrian Peterson 2. Michael Turner 3. Clinton Portis 4. DeAngelo Williams 5. Steve Slaton 6. Brandon Jacobs 7. LaDainian Tomlinson 8. Frank Gore 9. Brian Westbrook 10. Steven Jackson 11. Marion Barber 12. Larry Johnson At Marshawn's Level Thomas Jones Chris Johnson Matt Forte Ryan Grant Ronnie Brown Slightly lower than Marshawn Derrick Ward Jamal Lewis Kevin Smith Justin Fargas Le'Ron McClain Jonathan Stewart Warrick Dunn LenDale White Maurice Jones-Drew Average starting RB would be the 16th best running back considering there are 32 teams. Given that at best he is slightly above average but not top 10 and definitely not top 5.

Can we please drop this notion that the Offensive coordinator is the one to blame every year for the poor offense. Look Kevin Gilbride won a super bowl ring as the giants offensive coordinator and the giants are doing very well this year also. Dan Henning is now OC in carolina and that team will be one of the top two teams in the NFC. Even Fairchild has improved the colorado state football team (they actually won a bowl game after only winning a total of 7 games the past two years combined).

Looking at the drafts of the short Levy era it looks like the bills under Levy were no better at talent evaluation. Donte Whitner Ohio State - Bad value for this pick John McCargo NC State - complete bust Ashton Youboty Ohio State - Average Ko Simpson South Carolina - Ok value for backup player Kyle Williams LSU - Good value here but still average player at best Brad Butler Virginia - Good value Keith Ellison Oregon St. - Decent value but below average starter Terrance Pennington New Mexico - Can't fault for missing 7th rounder Aaron Merz - Can't fault for missing 7th rounder Marshawn Lynch California - Poor value below averge starting RB (the easiest position to fill) Paul Posluszny Penn St. - Average player at best Trent Edwards Stanford - Decent value but will probably be marginal starter at best would be good backup Dwayne Wright Fresno St. - bust John Wendling Wyoming - bust (reminds me of Leif Larsen pick, has great physical attributes but not a real player) TE Derek Schouman Boise St. - Ok pick for this late DE C.J. Ah You Oklahoma - Can't fault for missing 7th rounder Moreover, the free agent signings of Dockery and Walker have not produced much for the amount paid. Overall a good GM has to find at least a one or two above average players in every draft and Levy did not do that.

The bills cannot sell out the luxury boxes and seats that it has in its stadiums now and a new stadium is not going to help. Fans don't come to see the stadium its the product on the field. Free agents don't come to a team because the stadium the team has it is the salary and chance of winning a championship. The reason why owners always want new stadiums is because it increases the team's value at the tax payer's expense.

I agree 150,000 seems way too high considering the population of Buffalo is just under 300,000

I think the Patriots and Jets are better than the bills and the Dolphins are about even with the Bills. The bills have not beat any team that will make the playoffs this year and I think the early wins were not that impressive. The Bills have to at least be the second best team in the AFC East to make the playoffs and in my opinion they are not now.

I think there are a couple of reasons the media types don't pay much attention to the bills. 1. They have no players at the most visible positions (QB, RB, WR) that stand out for good or bad. 2. They haven't made the playoffs for a long time so every automatically assumes at the beginning of the end that they are not that good. 3. They are in a small market. Radio and TV is a business and they have to appeal to the mass market therefore the smaller market teams are not going to be covered as much.

It looked like the Oline was finally going to start to be a strength and now with Peters holding out it looks like a liability again. The Crowell situation re-emphasizes the fact that this team is still thin at most positions and the bills are only a few injuries away from saying good bye to the playoffs.

Talking to Michigan fans they are not sorry to see him go. He could not break tackles and basically was helped tremedously by the strength of the OLine. They believe they have a better player to replace him.

I'll wait until the regular season before getting excited about the offense. It seems unlikely that the OC is the only problem considering people has been unhappy with all OCs since Ted Marchiboda. They can't all be that terrible. The players should take quite abit of the blame as well.

I think the difference between LJ and LT is that LJ is a pounding type running back while LT is going to try and run around you. The way LJ runs makes him much more prone to wearing down. Of course there are always exceptions to the every rule.

I would also say that it is a sign of a poor roster. Peters would not have made the roster of most of the teams when he first came into the league. I don't have the numbers but I would think that the bills have kept more UDFAs than most and, therefore, they will develop more starters from UDFAs. Nevertheless, the UDFAs are very raw and on a deep roster it is rarely justifable to keep players that will likely never develop into a servicable player. All teams have to deal with injuries where players you didn't expect are going to make it onto the field making all roster spots valuable. Moreover, you need those spots for special teams.

Say good bye Youboty.