Buckeye Eric

Yep, that sums it up perfectly. The only thing worse is when fans give out grades.

There is no way that anyone can properly grade this year's draft. It takes about 3 years, at least! Case in point: Kiper from 2003: Ravens (graded A+) DE Terrell Suggs (a decent player, 2003 ROY and 2004 Pro Bowl) QB Boller (has struggled. Ravens are talking about picking up McNair), RB Musa Smith (no yards last year), DE Johnson (has 1.5 career sacks), FB Mughelli (no career yards) DT Franklin (1 career sack), T Pashos (7 career starts, all last year), S Sapp (cut), TE Smith (cut), C Mabry (cut), S Sanders (cut) Unless drafting one player that everyone expects to be good gives a team an "A". No rocket science there!

One has to be careful of making such judements. Remember that as a college player Bruce Smith was fat, slow and never worked out. Many did not feel he should have been drafted as high as he was....

There are some of us that have been saying this on this board for years

If the Bills draft a TE in the first round I will be shocked. There is a greater chance that they trade the pick.

Or getting the dogs off their scent.

The same should go for people who post to this board.

Be careful not to confuse rumor and speculation with facts. Unless you are in the locker room it is impossible to make the assertion the team hated him. The entire offensive was bad. JP did not make the offensive look bad, the offensive made JP look bad. The only thing that made Holcomb look good and the offensive under him (and the word "good" is a stretch0 was his 10 years of experience.

I would be very surprised if the Bills took a TE in the 8th spot. I would be more surprised if they do not trade the spot if a DL is not there.

If one would look into the FOXSports archives I bet there was an article bashing the Rams years for signing a guy that had been bagging groceries and playing in the arena league.

Maybe they were expecting Farve not to last as long as he did? 1992 9th Ty Detmer 1993 5th Mark Brunell 1998 6th Matt Hasselbeck 1999 4th Aaron Brooks 2002 5th Craig Nall ??

This was probably meant to be sarcastic response. However, the free agent whining we are hearing from Bills fans is the same that we heard from Sabres fans about Darcy last summer.

I would offer him a contract simply to force Arizonia to spend money.

Stay away from anyone named Williams

TO=locker room cancer He is a character but lacks character and does not fit into Marv's philosophy

The #8 is a landmark pick for ML. Taking a TE in the 1st when the lines are a mess would be public relations suicide.

ML would never hear the end of it if he took a TE with the 8th position with the OL and DL in the shape they are in.

Bruce DID want Moulds money and why the RAMS let him go. So why bother letting Moulds go to begin if you are considering paying someone else the same? I would not spend FA $ or a high draft choice on a WR. Behind the Bills OL even a Jerry Rice in his prime would look like Josh Reed. I say put all the resources in the lines.

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Complements of <a href = "http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=pasquarelli_len&id=2352890">Len Pasquarelli</a> In the simplest terms, cash over cap is essentially the difference between a team's true payroll and the NFL salary cap in a given season. Many of the league's high-revenue teams, but certainly not all of them, have a considerable advantage over the clubs occupying the low-revenue rungs in terms of cash over cap. To understand the concept of cash over cap, one must understand that the salary cap is just a bookkeeping number, one that can be massaged by amortizing signing bonuses and with other mechanisms. The cap has never been indicative of a team's payroll. The Washington Redskins, believed to be the highest revenue producing machine in the league, have had payrolls well over $100 million the last few seasons, even though the highest salary cap level ever was in 2005, at $85.5 million. For the fans who can't get their heads around how this works, here's a simple example: Let's say the Redskins signed an unrestricted free agent to a five-year deal that includes a signing bonus of $10 million and a base salary of $1 million for the first season of the contract. In salary cap terms, the Redskins are charged only $3 million, arrived at by prorating the signing bonus over five years and then adding the base salary. But in real dollars expended, or payroll, that player cost the Redskins $11 million for the first year. That's a difference of $8 million between what the player was actually paid and what his cap charge was for the initial season of the contract. Multiply that example by several player acquisitions, prominent free agents or high-round draft choices, and the total cash over cap is considerable.

I wonder what their total would be without Jack Abramoff filling the suites.

There will be more cuts before signings.

Some are of the mindset that money equals respect

I see no scenerio in which the Bills draft a QB in the first 3 or 4 rounds.

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