Ramius

Any current FA can be signed by anyone until March 4th. After that point, with no CBA and an expected lockout, there'd be no player movement.

Yup. I was gonna say to just pass on J.P. Locker.

I think that what it all comes down to is that all 3 guys bring things to the table, and depends on what price they are asking. I'm ok with Sanders on a Merriman type incentive based contract. However, if i need to spend 5-6 mil per season on one of these guys, the order i'd go would be Whitner, Atogwe, Sanders. I see Whitner and Atogwe as similar players, but Whitner is 4 years younger. Sanders is too injury prone to spend significant cash on.

Yes Buffalo can tender whitner, since he's got less than 6 seasons of experience. Tampa just tendered RFA offers to davin joseph, Trueblood, and Quincy Black. However, in all likelihood, the new CBA will render these RFA tags meaningless, at least to players with that much experience.

Yeah, i'm considering revising my stance on Russell. He's down the numbers by 6 to 3, and this time he's got 6 people that are targeting him. Prior to that, he had either really close numbers, or no one specifically targeting him (except the him vs Boston Rob showdown on the villains tribe). The 6 against him currently know his game, and seem to be strong together. I wouldn't be shocked ot see him voted off next, but even if that happened, he'd probably be the odds on favorite to return.

Not to mention that Gailey is likely much more involved in current Bills player analysis than collegiate scouting. I'm not saying the 2 don't cross over, but Nix and co. are more likely to be heavily invested in collegiate players while Gailey was probably more invested in end of the season reviews and "which of these 60-odd guys currently on my team do i want on my team next year."

Did the guy start off by saying, "Hi, this is Brian Brohm."?

Its 50 questions in 12 minutes. Its very easy to let some time slip away while reading and understanding the questions. You're talking about answering a question every 14 seconds. Simply reading each questions and all the answers twice could easily take 30 seconds. Boom, you're already down to answering only 25 of the 50 questions. Get stuck, accidentally spend a minute on a question (something not unrealistic at all), you're down to answering only 20 questions. My point about the test is that it doesn't in fact test intelligence, and most of you guys are foolish for ignoring all reports about Spiller, and then stating he's mentally retarded because he got a low wonderlic score. I also find it foolish that you bash him for scoring a 10, but you'd have no problem if he didn't even try and simply guessed at every question and scored a 20.

the test has no validity, because a score is easily skewed if an individual does or does not know how to take the test. You are assuming Spiller answered all 50 questions and got 40 wrong. There's nothing to even suggest this happened. You have 12 minutes to take the test. The large majority of players don't get through the entire test. Lets say Spiller got stuck on question 9 for an inordinate amount of time. Maybe he then only answered 12-15 questions. So right off the bat his max score would have been a 15. The wonderlic is one of the worst ways to measure intelligence, and very little credence should be given to results, be it low or high. Given my above example, are you really going to say that someone who randomly guesses at all 50 questions and scores a 15-20 is more intelligent than someone who gets 10/15 correct, but doesn't answer the remaining 35? The test is not testing intelligence, its simply testing how well someone can take that specific test.

Yet, by all accounts, from coaches to family/friends to scouts/draftniks, Spiller is intelligent. I'll take their word over some standardized test. Standardized tests, such as the SAT, etc, simply test your ability to take that particular test. They dont actually test for intelligence (unless you define intelligence as the ability to memorize word definitions) The simple fact that a player can be coached up to get a better score invalidates the test as an accurate measure of intelligence. Take Losman for example. He scored a 15 and then what, a 25 on the re-test? Are you guys honestly claiming he got that much more "intelligent" in the month or so between tests? I doubt it.

If you think the wonderlic has any application to real intelligence, then you're a lost cause.

How's their movie library compared to netflix?

There was nothing in that interview that sent up any red flags about him. His speaking is no better or worse than your average person you run into on a daily basis. The guy can play football at a high level, that's what matters.

Glad to see the Bills are in position to pass on top interior DL talent because a couple of people don't like the way he talked during an interview. Considering we have a board full of perfect orators, i'm surprised we have all of the mistakes we do in posts.

Since 2006, what Bills players have made any game-changing plays?

I still don't get all the Sanders love. The guy has played more than 6 games in a season just 2 times out of the 7 years he's been in the league.

I'd hope so, if for no other reason than to see how he handles the questions without an agent/school official in his ear. Spiller isn't dumb.

Nothing except what happens during the intreviews. None of the other measureables should affect the scouting done on a player based on his on field performance and production.

I've got no problem with people bashing Spiller for his lack of production on the field. There needs to be (and i believe there will be) vast improvement in year 2. What is disgusting is the people calling him a retard, learning disabled, shiftless, lazy, and a variety of things that are simply untrue, all because he didn't run for 1000 yards. This would be a non-topic if he had a good season, so its kinda sick that people will use this to go to such lengths to trash the kid even though it was nothing to do with his production on the field.

the McKelvin pick wasn't bad in a sense of where/when he was drafted. A lot of people were projecting him as a top 10 pick. If we needed a CB, i think McKelvin would have been a good pick. The bigger problem is that we should have simply re-signed Greer (who did not sign a very expensive contract) and not even had to draft McKelvin, and as you alluded to, we could have used that pick elsewhere.

Same problem here in NW Florida. We had the free center ice trial last week, was supposed to get the sunday sabres, but i got fed flyers-rangers on NBC instead, meaning there was no way to watch the sabers game. My buddy who has the center ice package was in the same boat and was pissed.

Faith in God is one thing. Faith in man is something completely different. again, i'm not arguing your faith in God. I probably share many similar beliefs. I'm arguing the fact that men were the ones to decide what got included and what didn't, most likely by how much $omeone lobbied to get their $tories included in the bible.

Loved: Moulds, Henry Jones WTF: Whitner. Like many here i figured (and hoped) Ngata was the obvious pick. Vomit: Maybin. Hated this pick from the get go. I hated it from the time the Bills started talking about him in '09.

For what we paid, it was a great signing. High reward potential, very little risk/loss if he doesn't pan out.

I simply don't see how it can be the divinely inspired word or God when it was men who decided which of the written books were more divine than others. Were the books/gospels that were excluded somehow less divinely inspired? What makes one person's account not as important as others? Not to mention that most of the bible stories/ideas are based on much much older texts.