Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

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.

If the long term plan is still to move Woods to center, then while this this may help short term would hurt long term. So I'd not be in favor of it. On the other hand if you want to sign a tackle, go for it as there isn't necessarily one ready to step in right now.

The other problem is future picks are worth less than current years. So to trade for another teams say second round pick, you'd likely need to give up maybe your first from the following year, plus maybe a 4th and 5th from this year. You'd quickly run out of picks. If you look at the draft pick value charts, they say deduct one pounds worth of points for a future year. So next years 1st rounder is worth what this years 2nd rounder is worth.

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Nothing really shocking there. Right from the beginning it seemed that his role was everything excluding talent type issues. Maybe if there was a split amounfg the others he's be a deciding vote. He never claimed to be a football wizz, and I don't even think he wanted to make these choices. No reason to rip him for it as he was never put in the position to make these choices.

You know I really don't get this Mr Smithers stuff. What has RB done to earn that title. The guy is sharp, without even knowing you I'm certain much sharper than you, I and mostly every poster here combined. Is he qualified ot evaluate NFL talent? No, but did he, or did he leave that to TM, DJ, and JG. I think he did great as a GM in everything he was asked ot do, which I'm assuming was little with evaluating talent.

Who is this guy? Does he regually cover the Bills? Home and away? Had some great advise, do buy tickets, watch them on TV, well first off half the games will be blacked out. But only for a couple years as once they move to another city, then all the games could be covered on TV. Even Sully with all his being negative, I don't recall him encouraging people to not follow the team. The Bills have made some good solid moves, they just didn't work out, like Hiring TD. At the time, everyone thought it was great move by RW.

Good point, I forgot that Marty was fired by KC. Oh did you mean Chan?? I can understand you complaining maybe about not signing Cowler, if Alan Iverson was a Bill's fan he's be saying "we're talking about Marty"! Give me a break here!

Well you're right there. Marv made the decisions to allow DJ to make some of the choices. I' don't believe a word of this RW making picks stuff. OK very often three scouts may say lets draft Joe, three others say lets draft Fred, no one can decide and then RW says I like Fred, so they draft Fred. To me that highly means RW is making the picks but the pres sand some here like to say RW is making the picks. I highly doubt the majority of the scouts are coming and and saying pick Bob, and RW says the hell with all of you, I'm drafting Bill. Everyone claims RW is cheap, if that were the case, then RW could save a tone of money by getting rid of all the scouts if he's making the picks anyway.

I'd disagree with you on that point. I think backups make good coaches as they spend much more time on the sideline talking to the coaches. Starters often have everything come to them too easily to understand what someone who is struggling is going through. That being said, I think AVP problem was thrown in as OC a week before season started, compounding that with all of his training as a coach was under a weak staff to start with. If he had stayed as QB coach a couple more years with a good OC, he likely would have been fine. Wil lbe interesting to see how he does next year.

There was a lot more to it than that. Polian has as much stated that he was somewhat at fault with their falling out too. He was young and wasn't going to let anyone tell him what to do. Polien didn't get along with many besides the treasurer. Yeah I'll sort of give you this one, though with the comment that it's never been proved. However at the time I felt it wasn't a bad move. The first year Flutie was here, he played lights out, the second year, we won in spite of Flutie, though you'd never know that if you listened to his press conferences as everything that went wrong was always someone elses fault. I think he was one of the biggest "me" guys out there. RW may have said "let's start Johnson", but I'm certain the rest of the staff also agreed. There was talk at the time how some felt Flutie was the weak link of the offesne as he didn't have a strong enough arm to make it through the playoffs. Yes he hired Marv but then unfortunately he let Marv make the decisions, that was the problem. We may have been better off if RW was making the personal decisions. I agree that RW has made some questionable decisions and he often has made things thinking too much about the $$. But HE has made the choices, not someone else. So if we do draft Tebow which I hopee not as all he is is a gimmick guy, it will be becasue RW wants to not based on what Kelly or Thurman want. If you want to make the overall point that RW is calling the shots, OK, wouldn't call you crazy for that, but to suggest it's Kelly leave you deservedly open to all the name calling that comes your way.

You have to wonder, are people really this stupid, or do they just do so people like me, right now, repond to these idiotic threads. If so, it's working!

So how were TO's stats this year? My point is with the weak QB and O-line play we had this aseason anyone looks bad. I doubt Marshall would have looked any better.

True though in the past I've seen voting totally change from year to year. So no gurantees next year follows same pattern from what I've seen.