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Sounds like Seattle just drafted Aaron Maybin... 240lb speed rusher Bruce Irvin.

That's not too useful of a statistical analysis, as of course, a first rounder will be more successful than a later round player. A more apt analysis would compare to success rates of becoming a 3 year starter in the specific round, i.e. comparing a qb from round 6 to position players success from round 6. A late round pick is rarely expected to be very successful as it is, so a 5-16% qb success rate might not be that low, relatively. As long as you're not relying on the player to be a starter/contributor right away, which nobody should be. Yes, it would be idiotic of a team to draft an expected first year starter in the later rounds. It probably isn't that much greater of a risk to draft a qb at that stage, assuming you have adequate depth and ST/role players, which has not been the case for the Bills in a long time. And really, that gamble usually pays dividends as long as you can afford it (Like the Patsies/Packers with Cassel, Mallet, Flynn, etc). It did not work out for Levi Brown, but if the team trusts in Fitzy and we assume the team has sufficient depth (which I'm not sure it does), then a late round gamble on a project qb might be worthwhile.

The article talks about free agents that would normally have been deemed restricted free agents with less than 6 years experience, but now would be unrestricted without compensation. Braylon has 7.

The situation where he applies game theory is best illustrated by his draft strategies. Whether he gets the best players he could have is debatable, but he takes a long-term view and maximizes the continuing value of his draft picks.

This is the most embarrassing team that I can remember. It actually made me long for the Donahoe days where we had some excitement... and it's so bad that it's making me grow to appreciate Dick/Fewell more... how on earth were they almost competitive with essentially the same team??

all same for me except the Knicks. i feel almost like i should be obligated to root for the Clippers... mostly because they used to be the braves, but also that would kind of fit the spiritual futility...

as per Tim Graham's recent blog post... Sporting News Top 100 Players Interesting that there are more former bills (winfield, pwilliams) on the list than current bills (TO). Also of note, a certain "best OT in the league" is not on the list either...

big difference is that gilbride had experience, IIRC... both as a well-respected OC and then as a failed head coach. he just didn't have the personnel to match his schemes here and was unable to adjust...

that was a smart play... smart coach.

stream here... woohoo. go bills. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tml-live

man, maybin's got some clown feet... like sideshow bob. i thought they were just exaggerating about his size 15s in all those articles.

(in memory of the SJ = Larry Fitzgerald thread...) He jumps over an Escalade...

absolute worst thing they could possibly do is trade future #1s to move up in the draft.

yeah... and it's about 8 comments up...

The Poll humor... but oh so true. They must have a bills fan on staff...