Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Wow, my last job I got a bigger signing bonus than the punter.

I think there may be better younger cheaper options.

An interesting way t ohold the draft owuld be all 32 teams enter a lcked down room with no communication to the outside. When they have completed drafting, white smoke then rises and each team releases their list of players, but no order of who was taken when is ever given. Would be interesting to compare the results of a systme like thta agasint the current method where every team is too much under the microscope and it's totally disected as to what they did. I think teams would be more gutsy.

As the 2nd posted stated we need an impact player. Drafting a tackle to me doesn't do that as we have what looks to be a very good LT in Glenn and RT isn't terrible by no means prior to injury. Assuming the Bills resign AL, you don't need five all-pros on the line. In fact getting five all-pros on O-line likely is at the loss of improving another position line LB. Put that much effort on O-line and other areas will suffer. Here's one question I'd throw out, someone else posted this a couple weeks back, if you could get a 1st and 2nd rounder for CJ Spiller, would you trade him? CJ likely is one of the top five most exciting offense players in the league and I do think with better coaching and usage, will even be better, but seeing the RB from the Redskins, believe he was 5th round pick run for 1500 yards does somewhat prove that RB is one of the easiest positions to find talent in the draft and the one area rookies can quickly adapt to and excel. I'm not sold on it either way, making the trade or not and wouldn't be upset either way either.

I can't believe how thin he looks for a former O-lineman. But that was back with thy tended to all be smaller I suppose.

Not sure if true over wild card weekend, but recall in past year,s the NFL highly frowns on teams making coaching announcements over the weekend while playoff games are going on. They want all the attention on the games and no distractions. Thought the gag order came out more in later rounds, but may be the same this weekend too??

By no means am I a Buddy hater like some, but you're pushing it on many of the things you label as successes: Dareus is a cog?? He may well turn out that way, but based on what we all saw this year, that's a huge stretch. Same can be said for calling Gilmore a stud. I do think he has a better chance of being a stud than flub based on what he's shown as done more good things than bad, but a big stretch at this point calling him a stud. Her certainly looks real good on the Cordy Glenn pick. I will also grant you that Brooks does look like the 2nd best CB on the team, but you conveniently don't mention that BN used a second on Arron Williams who has looked anything but good. Nix has done a decent job, but wouldn't give him glowing marks, maybe slightly below average and I'm probably being a bit generousness there. Of the last three drafts, I can think of four players he's drafted that may become studs, Spiller, Dareus, Gilmore, and Glenn. As for the rest, even the worse GM in the league will hit on some depth picks. Four studs in three years doesn't earn the grade of fine.

I think Williams may be done due to it appears he was the guy naming names in the whole Bountygate thing. Could be wrong but seemed the NFL's whole case was based around him "coming clean" If that is the case, then doubt players would want to play for him or even for him to hire assistants as again appeared he kind of threw them under the bus. Maybe I'm completely off base here, but if I'm not, then hes done.

And Oregon's record the four years prior was 36-15 so essentially Kelly improved the Ducks winning % from .705 to .868, not bad but had a pretty good starting point. Marrone went from .240 (believe it was 10-31 prior) to ,500. To me that's pretty impressive too and did it at a school that football really isn't even the biggest story. What did Kelly do prior to coaching at Oregon, he was OC at powerhouse New Hampshire, wow!! The big thing about Kelly to me isn't his record as much as the style of offense he runs. One which is highly questionable how well it will work in the NFL. Marrone tended to run a pro-style offense in SU. Kelly could be the most controversial college coach to go to the NFL of all time, makes Spurrier look like Vince Lombardi as far as fitting in. He may be the next greatest coach of all time, but I'd give him a better chance of being fired in four years, or an even higher likelihood of pulling a Spurrier/Saban/Holtz was it and quitting to return to college.

Yes but people here are much smarter than anyone who covers the NFL full time for a living. Haven't you figured that out yet??

Actually he's been "The Bull" for a number of years now

She said the same thing about me too, but the link appears to have expired so can't post it. But she did say it!!

Often they will sit out a year, then if next year no HC positions coming their way, they take a coordinator position. Can't see it happening this year. I would like the Hugh Jackson for OC though. He was rumored to come if Lovie was HC, maybe he'd still come?? But likely someone that Marrone has ties too.

Oregon was turned around before Kelly got there. He's got all the attention due to his gimmicky offense. Will that work in the NFL, many doubters. The difference I see between Kelly and Marrone are Kelly had huge success with a style that may not translate well to the NFL. and has got the program elevated higher than when he started to a national ranking. Marrone elevated a program from nothing to decent and has experience in the NFL in a more conventional setting. Yes but Spurrier was never in the NFL prior to that, had no idea what he was getting into. He was more interested in playing golf. Was Saban in the NFL, can't reall??

Call me when Hester does retire, then that says something. Players seemed to love DJ and CG also, what's that buy you? Sounds like Lovie was a well liked guy, I'll give him that. Think I read the Bears only made playoffs once in past six years?? I'd have been fine if they had hired Lovie, but to say he was head and shoulders a better choice is laughable. To me this is similar to last season in Tampa, don't recall them having too many problems signing FA. I'm happier with DM than I would have been with Chip Kelly. Kelly is a huge gimmick. Yes but look where SU was before Marrone took over, there was a big improvement and typically it takes longer in college than the NFL to turn things around. Marrone improved SU where as you could argue both DJ and CG, were hired the team got worse.

Actually if there had been a choice between Great and OK would have selected that one. From the college ranks, I'd rather have him than Chip Kelly as Kelly is to much of a "gimmick" DM has both NFL experience and head coaching experience. The only other choice I may have liked slightly better was Lovie Smith, but even with him, there are things to worry about like the offense. The league is becoming more and more offensive minded so from that standpoint, this may be the better choice. McCoy was a hot name, but the two QB's he's had sucess with were Tebow and Peyton Manning, one total gimmick, the second, best QB in football. Horton, may have been good, but again these days offense may be the better choice.

All these guys, you need to give them at least three years for good or bad before you really say, this guy gets' it or not. There's a long line of players who had promising rookie years, but then tailed off. I'm not completely sold on Russell Wilson either for same reasons. Lets see how he looks in a couple of years. The thing that will likely hurt Wilson is there are now too many of these read option type QB's around so defenses will spend the time and effort to figure out how to stop it. If he were the only one and say you're NE who only see's him once every four years, how much effort are are you going toput into figuring him out. But now you have Wilson , RG3, Newton,, and even Tannerhill to a lesser degree. Also have A.C. Green didn't hurt him much either. Maybe he just had a bad day today, but lets see how he looks in a couple of years first. I think that's a big reason why Buddy didn't select someone like him, or Wilson this year. They were all viewed as marginally better than Fitz at best. Granted the way this season went for Fitz, it probably turned out to be more than marginal, but none of these guys were viewed as true franchise QB's either by BN.

With the small correction below, I'd agree about Tebow!!

So sounds like it's a weak draft for long snappers then??

And if RW were to die next month, the new owner would then continue to signing the checks to CG. CG likely will get a new gig somewhere so likely the cost to the Bill's will go down, but still will pay the difference. Here's a question so the Bill's or any team pays former coaches contract till they expire or they get a new gig, then they pay the difference between the what they were paid on their fired job and the new one. Likely a CG will come back as a position coach or maybe OC so will be likely be paid much less than he was making as the Bill's HC. What if his new job was say working for ESPN, are former teams only off the hook for $$ only if they get a new coaching job or is any income subtracted out? What is they go back to college coaching? I wonder if teams really do even pay any of this money or do teams take out "fired coach insurance" so to speak and that's how the money is paid. Likely some high premiums on those policies, but still may save teams money and the company could make money too.

First off, why would they even have the slightest interest in coming here?? Sometimes you'll see position coaches return to a team under a new head coach, but usually more time between "tours". And you don't hear comments "the Bill's need to fire their assistant DB coach", my point being with all the bad press and comments directed towards them, I really doubt they'd want to return. Beyond that, the reason they got the head coaching job was because they were often viewed as a good coordinator, well as HC they had input with the coordinators, CG was the OC even, how'd that work out? Often too these guys got the head coach job as they were the hot guy on some winning team, i.e. Greg Williams, Mike Mularkey; this year it's McCoy, Ariens, Kyle Shanahan, and maybe the guy on GB. So are they really good coordinators to start with or were did they just good because they were on a real good team? Don't know until you hire them as a HC, so now they fail and are fired. So now you want to re-hire them to a position that for all we know weren't even very good to start with. Makes no sense!!

Not surprising there are more Skins fans as for year they were the "local" team. Seems to me there are mnay more NC state fans around, you don't hear from them much as the teams is usually bad, but if they ever had a real good season, seems they'd be much more popular than UNC and Duke. Will be interesting this coming season for basketball as they are favored to win the ACC. I'm in Wilmington on the coast. It is nice living in a location where many people want to go on vacation to. Taxes are dirt cheap but on the coast homeowners insurance is sky high, I pay over $2500 a year. Good to hear about Wegmans! This summer I was in one up near DC and Baltimore, the place is amazing, was even nicer than the ones in Rochester. But not surprising as every time they build a new one it's the biggest one yet. My wwife always rags on me about spending time on this site as what good information do I learn. I can tell her I heard it on Two Bills Drive!!

Has there even been an acknowledgement by the Bill's that they plan to interview him? I read some column on WGR ranking the people, but unles I missed it, haven't heard the Bill's on talking to him

It's funny to mention that. I also live in Carolina, when you have a local team doing well it's hard not to get caught up in the emotion of it. About three years back was getting tired of the Bill's losing every year, The Panthers just finished that season with Jake D at QB and won something like was it 14 games and got knocked out in the first round by Az. The following season I figured what the heck, maybe I'll follow Carolina a lot more, games are on TV every week, articles in the paper, etc. So what happens, they win 2 games and are even worse than the Bill's.

But even with TC, he's coaching today, lets him walk away for a couple years and try and comeback, then it would eve nbe tougher.