Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

There was one article I read that stated that Levitre if left at guard could be one of the best in football, that sounded much better than just "OK" That was kind of the core of the article, dismissing the idea of moving him to tackle as if left at guard could be great.

I agree, I think you have two strong, likely to become above average guards, maybe even top 10 within 2 seasons. You have a center who can hold his own and I'll give Nix the benefit of the doubt in the right tackle he signed. Likely he will be serviceable and do OK. That leaves LT. Hopefully between Wang, Bell, and Meredith, one of them can prove to be better than average. It may be Wang, but not likely this year. Meredith seems better suited for the right side but may be OK on the left. If the tight end position also improves at blocking, another potential improvement there too. While LT is typically the most important spot on the line, if your other 4 spots all produce above average results, you can live with one position a bit weaker than you'd like.

I would alter that statement a bit as follows: Gailey is a guy with a proven history of taking chicken crap and turning it into chicken salad but to date has not been able to turn it into Chicken Marsala. He's working on the recipe and given the time, he may succeed. The problem he's had to date is most of the customers don't want to give the time to perfect it. Persoanlly I prefer a good steak!

Born NYC area 1955 Moved to Rochester 1976 Moved to Wilmington NC 2008

Well yeah, as in the what was it maybe 8 games last year he was with the Bill's he got to play in one. That's all he's ever started. Some coming in mid season with a conservative coach and a totally screwed up offense, he wasn't given much of a chance. I'm not saying BB is the guy, but he certainly is the least known of what you may or may not have. Yes he can be worse or he could be better. But you're assuming the glass is half empty based on nothing you or anyone has seen of him. So as a rookie he wasn't able to beat out Rogers whom in hindsight has turned out much better than ever thought. At the time I'm sure the reason GB picked Brohm was they weren't all that confident in Rogers yet otherwise why use another high draft pick on a QB. But Rogers proved him wrong, so BB got demoted. Well apparently he didn't handle his demotion very well and that caused him to fall all the way to #3 QB. OK you can fault him for that, but at the end of the day does it matter as unless you're number 1 you're not going to play anyway unless someone is hurt. So other than seeing him in a little bit of pre-season games, there isn't anyone who knows anything about what he can or can't do. And Gary Marangi certainly didn't have the "pedigree" coming into the NFL that BB has. Granted you have to live up to it but if he plays we'll all find out. It's easy to say he won't work out as there are many more failures than sucesses for NFL QB's. But anyone who claims to know he doesn't have "IT" in truth knows nothing as if you really were as smart as you think, you wouldn't be posting on some message board.

The entire NFL was wrong about him to begin with as most thought fairly high about him. So he got beat out by the 3rd stringer, then sounds like kind of sulked and went downhill. Stranger things have happened. The NFL hasn't seen enough of him to decide. It's not to say that other teams also didn't want him. A tthe time he stated, he was interested in going to the Bills becasue he felt he had a good shot at playing. Maybe Indy or NO wanted him, if so he likely would have said no thanks will stay on the Pakcers practice squard. Then along comes Buffalo and he bolts. At this point no idea who does or doesan't think much about him.

OH, Based on the title, I thought this trhead was about the England-USA world cup game Go USA!!

If you're 50, you ain't recovering from that type of injury in 5 minutes! If you are, I want to meet your trainer.

Johnson's a keeper. Then we'll have a Wang on offense and a Johnson a defense. You can never have too many pricks on a team!

As you age, you'll find it takes longer to recover from these types of "injuries"

Is it my imagination or are the Bills signing their picks earlier this year. June 4th and two already signed?? Seems betterthan lately. I'd assume RB is heavily involved in that part, maybe because he's not doing other things, he has more time to work on getting the picks signed.

You may not have bought into it, but history says very few repeat. Maybe the year after they get back to SB once they realize they need to drain their fat heads.

In any of the four Super Bowls if you switched coaches I think the Bills would have won. That being said, I do think Marv's much more laid back "Club Marv" allowed them to come back every year. JJ or BP would have burnt everyone out once thye won the first. I'd even go as far to say if the Bills had won the first agaisnt the Giants, they never would have repeated. It's always tough to repeat as hard to keep the players focused. Marv allowed the players freedom, but if they had won it all the extra jolt of publicity would have been too much to overcome. There'd be player sightings reported every night at 2:00am in the bars, etc. and Marv likely would have more allowed that.

He's a ball hawk in a mid college program. He may work out and be great as many pro bowlere come from small time programs. But right now is very unknown. It's not like he was a star for all four years and showed improvment either each season. I hope it odes work out, but at this point, who knows.

I nfairness the reporter isn't a typicla Bill's beat reporter, I believe he typically cover HS sports.

Then we can call him "Bad, Bad, Levi Brown......" (and if you don't get it, you're too young) On second thought, we may call him that regardless!!

And add to the mix going with the no-huddle approach wit ha relatively new QB. The Bills overall are a young team. Unless you think the people they've picked the past couple of drafts are all busts, you have to assume they will get better based purely on getting more experience. The difference between the 2009 Bills and a playoff team isn't that great. A little improvement can be the difference. Not saying they could win the Super Bowl, but 8-8 with some improvement isn't that far away. I think our strengths are running backs, secondary and special teams. Weakness, QB, WR, and O-line. However even the O-line I think the interior is solid, assuming Woods is back and it may take to mid season or so until he's back to where he was. The O-line is one player away from being good, and I'm not certain that one player isn't on the roster right now. The other unknown area is their front 7 just due to all the changes being made.

If he's cut, there is no contract. What ever he agress to is what he'll get. Likely will be less than his current contract as stats showing how much he got beat will be argued, but ultimately he'll go to a combination of the highest bidder with some consideration to best fit for himself, and a little bit of location.

OK it might happen, but at best you may get one low first rounder for the two of them if you're lucky, nothing more. So that leaves three picks i nthe first two rounds, and as mentioned you now also need to get a WR in addition to a left tackle and nose tackle and outside LB. So you're no further ahead oyther than you dumped some high salaries.

I can't help but wonder if Jackson playing out of the position he was used to playing all year affected him in ways you wouldn't think and caused him to have fumbleitis. Kris Joesph aslo played very poor the last two games, maybe because he's use to coming in off the bench?? AO not being in the middle likely have opened up the zone just a little bit, but enough to make a difference in Bulters ability t ofind ope nshots JB appears to play and coach and undisiplined style. How true that really is unknown. I do think though if JB was a real tough coach, many of the players he normally gets wouldn't go there. They like the ability to be free on offense, so you can't easily have it both ways. I don't think Harris and Devo left as much as SU pushed them out the door. Likely they told Devo, enough of your yearly police encounters, you had your 4 years, you did graduate (God only knows how) It's time you go elsewhere and scare some other cities women and children. Harris I'm sure was told, you can come back, but you won't be starting, so he chose to leave. BTW, anyone else see a picture of Devo's gf, man is she ugly! WOW!!

That's nice, but you need alot more than that to succeed in the NFL. It's easy in Florida when surrounded by many more Parade All americans than the teams they face. Tebow is a very risky pick, he could become great, but all signs based on similar players says he fails. The one thing that sperates very good NFL QB's apart is arm strength. Anyone with eve na marginal strong arm has no place in Buffalo.

Totally agree. Look how well Ryan Leaf and Rick Miner turned out to name a couple. Was Akili Smith a top pick also?

As far as taking best player vs. taking a player by position, at #9 there is an aledged "can't miss player" available for every position.

Not that I'm saying I'm in favor of the trade, but putting McNabb behind a weak line with one receiver does make them better. As a defense, you have to respect McNabb, where as a guy like Edwards, you can just blitz the kitchen sink at him and your success rate will be high enough to be worth it. Trying that behind McNabb, the odds are he'll make you pay for that stratagy too often for it to be worthwhile. If the line were to improve hecould become real sucessful as would anyone in that situation. If they could get him for less than a 2nd rounder, then may be worthwhile. One of your early round picks you were going to use on a offenseive lineman, you may be able to get away with a lesser skilled player with McNabb back there.

Actually I totally agree. With the increased speed of the game and players getting bigger every year, I think we need a "Stepford quarterback"! It's the only answer for the future for many teams.