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If you watch his videos, his throws have no zip on them. The ball almost looks like it's in slow motion. He was just a game manager for teams with great defense and a great running game.

After seeing the Seahawks' dominate defense dismantle the Broncos high octane offense, I think there's the chance that a "copycat" league drafting defense pushes Watkins to the Bills. There will be some defensive prospects that will rise into the top 10. It happens every year like it did last year with Dion Jordan and Ezekiel Ansah. You add in the 3 QBs and teams that don't want WRs like the Falcons and Watkins dropping to the Bills becomes a more real possibility.

I think that there's a good chance either Watkins or Mack will be there at the Bills #9 pick and I'm good with either one of them. However, seeing how the Seahawks have made building a great defense cool again, I don't think he makes it to the Bills and gets picked by the Falcons or Bucs. If both are gone, then I see the Bills will picking WR Kelvin Benjamin who I believe will be a prospect who's stock will soar after the combine and pro day. He's a better prospect than Mike Evans IMO.

IMO, there was a very noticeable difference in intensity between the two teams. Yes, it turns out the Seahawks were the much better team, but you could tell from the start that the Broncos were not ready for the fight they were going to get from the Seahawks. This Superbowl will serve as a very good recent example for what can happen to a team that comes from a soft conference and doesn't come to play at it's highest and most intense level. The AFC is very soft again like it was in the 80's.

This is not news. Mack has always been in the top 5-10 range. At least from all of the draft blogs and pundits I've read and seen since the season was over.

Like Timmy G, you guys are proponents of using the #9 overall pick on this challenger (aka Derek Carr). What's the harm in that?... 1. Not picking Watkins, Benjamin or Ebron for EJ to throw to, or... 2. Not picking a top tackle or guard to blow holes open for Jackson and Spiller, and protect Manuel in the passing game, or... 3. Not picking a monster LB like Mack and potentially turning our defense from a very good one to a great one.

I think it's much harder finding a true #1 receiver in rounds 2nd-7th than it is finding quality offensive lineman there. Also, I see no truly viable #1 receiver in the 2014 free agent WR list. Boldin's too old for this team and Decker is a #2 guy IMO. I really think that Kelvin Benjamin's stock will rise the next few months and he very well could end up being the Bills pick at #9. The dude is nearly the perfect NFL #1 WR specimen...6'5", athletic, knows how to go up and catch jump balls, and the kicker is that he's a former team mate of Manuel having caught 4 TD passes from him in his sophomore year. Yes, he's raw and drops some balls. But if he wasn't flawed he'd go in the top 5 picks of the draft.

I think you guys are living in a dream world. I'm amazed, but I guess Tim Graham does have a pulse on what many Bills fans want. IMO there is zero chance that the Bills are picking a QB in the 1st round. I think the Bills are trying to emulate the Giants and Steelers franchises, two very successful organizations that do things by the book. They aren't franchises that throw stuff and on the wall and hope somethings sticks.

You guys never talk about specific players. I gave you a specific player based on the reality of this coming draft. His name is Derek Carr. I'm not passing over a premier talent to pick Derek Carr and watch him go sit on the bench in 2014. That would be insane. As for waiting on EJ Manuel, that's what normal and successful NFL organizations do. They draft a 1st round QB they feel will eventually become their franchise QB and then they support and develop him for more than one year. So yes, it's ok to wait 3 years on EJ Manuel.

So now Derek Carr is in the conversation? IMO, if the Bills picked Derek Carr at #9, the Bills franchise would implode. Why? Because the Buffalo Bills players would no longer feel like laying their bodies on the line for an organization that they would feel has no clue and no confidence in what they're doing. Picking Derek Carr at #9 would most certainly do this.

Stevie played the slot WR position. TJ Graham took over Stevie's spot at the #1 wide out position. That has to be the weakest starting spot that must be filled.

People also tend to forget that Manuel had a rookie NFL head coach and a rookie NFL offensive coordinator coming from SU, not exactly an elite college program. I'm expecting a huge improvement in Manuel in year two as long as they can get a real #1 WR and a TE in this coming draft.

Guys like Tim Graham and a few posters here who agree with him just are simply not living in the real world. They like to talk about their theory of taking QBs in the first till the Bills find the franchise guy without providing any real names of who will be there when they pick. It's a big waste of time. Yes, we get it, they think EJ Manuel sucks and they want to pick a QB at #9 this year. Ok, specifically who would that be? Reality says that QB's name is Derek Carr. Because Bridgwater, Manziel and Bortles are long gone by #9. Ok, so drafting Derek Carr as EJ's competition is worth passing over Watkins, Robinson, Mack, Benjamin or Ebron? If the Bills did that then they would officially become the worst run franchise in the league overtaking the Browns.

The Bills currently have TJ Graham in the starting #1 WR position. That's just pathetic. The Bills need to give their 1st round QB pick a fighting chance for success in the passing game. While I have no problem with them picking Robinson or Mack at #9, I also think that picking Kelvin Benjamin (I think his stock goes way up and he'll be drafted ahead of Evans) in the 1st and a great TE prospect like Troy Niklas in the 2nd would do wonders in providing EJ Manuel a huge springboard for success in 2014. I see no other priority bigger than making sure Manuel has the weapons for success in 2014. They need to know THIS season what they have in Manuel. They have to get off this never ending QB merry-go-round once and for all. While EJ Manuel may never be an elite QB, he certainly has the capacity of reaching the same level of performance as recent non-elite Superbowl winning QBs like Wilson, Flacco, Eli Manning and Rothlisberger.

TSW is a much better place than it was during the Losman/Edwards/Jauron days. It's become much more enjoyable and the conversations are much more intelligent IMO. I don't wring my hands over who leaves or stays. As for Graham asking questions for the majority of Bills fans, I must be in the minority. I'm obviously living in denial giving my first round QB more than one season to prove himself.

It's not arrogance, it's defiance. I love how Manuel handled the agenda driven questions. He challenged the reporters to stop with the BS and tell him to his face that they think he's a bust after one season. In doing so, Manuel let Graham climb into his little dingy. The one which can hold the amount of football reporters who are willing to publicly go on record as to knowing EJ Manuel is a bust after one season. A "professional" reporter would ask in general whether he would be upset if the drafted another QB this year. By specifically mentioning the first round, these reporters were clearly looking for a confrontation. By Manuel asking the question of whether they think the Bills should draft a QB in the first round this year, he was able to let them show themselves how stupid these Buffalo News guys are. Only an idiot gives a first round QB only one year to prove he's the guy. Graham is an idiot. BTW, Manuel didn't have a rough rookie season, he had a very normal rookie QB season. Look at Eli Manning's stats if you want to see a rough rookie season.

Graham basically called him a bust to his face by flatly stating "I do" on whether he thinks the Bills should draft a QB in the first round of this draft. To me, having that opinion is pretty silly on a number of accounts. First off, the Bills at the #9 pick are in no position to draft any of the big three of this draft (Bridgwater, Manziel or Bortles). Secondly, EJ Manuel had a very typical rookie QB season where he showed good, bad and ugly. He had the very season everyone was predicting he would, but for some strange reason since he didn't have a "magical" rookie season like RGIII or Wilson then he's now considered a bust after one year by a reporter from the Buffalo News? Does Tim Graham know what Eli Manning looked like his rookie season?...LOL If I were Graham's editor I'd be embarrassed at his retort to Manuel since no sensible football fan would declare EJ Manuel a bust after only one season and any team picking a QB in the 1st round two years in a row is a loser franchise that doesn't know what they are doing. Graham and The Buffalo News look like losers in all this. EJ stayed classy and did nothing wrong IMO.

There's zero chance that Kelvin Benjamin makes it to the second round. The dude is a giant WR who knows how to go up and catch the ball. He will be a red zone nightmare in the NFL. A little raw yes, but there's at least a dozen teams that will roll the dice and take him before the Bills pick at #41. Here are the teams that I see as a landing spot for Benjamin before the Bills pick again... Rams, Steelers, Ravens, Jets, Eagles, Saints, Panthers, Patriots, Niners, Seahawks, Redskins, Raiders, Bucs, Jaguars, Vikings This might be out of the box thinking here but as of right now, I actually would be on board with taking Kelvin Benjamin at #9 and taking either A Seferian-Jenkins or Troy Niklas at #41. The Bills would get ripped of course for picking a supposed "reach", but I think those two huge 6'5"+ weapons would be an instant game changer for this offense and for EJ Manuel's progression into being a franchise QB. Manuel has already played with Benjamin at FSU and threw 4 TDs to him in his senior year so that's a big plus. Then go OL in the third and LB in the 4th.

While you may prefer that, I think that if everyone maintained decorum sports would become a little more boring. Look at history, Muhammad Ali is the grand master of the trash talking athlete. As long as you can back it up, then I think it's fine to talk if that's who you truly are and you're not faking it. It's now long been a part of American sports. Sherman is going to get his humble pie eventually and that is part of the fun fabric of the tale of the trash talker. Imagine if Deion Sanders wasn't a trash talker, wouldn't the games he was in during his career be more boring because of that? I think so. While I'm an "old school" guy, I can somewhat appreciate and accept the passion and antics of the trash talkers as long as they back it up and they don't go "over the line" with what they say.

It's very early in the draft season. I could definitely see the very tall and gifted Kelvin Benjamin jumping the tall and lumbering Mike Evans on the supposed "draft boards" and eventually becoming a consideration at #9. If he tears it up at the combine then he may even be picked before the Bills at #9. WRs with his size and potential talent are so rare. You've got Green and Megatron, that's about it. Right now, I would take Benjamin over Evans (not sure about the #9 spot yet) based on what I've seen on video. Evans looks like a TE playing WR while Benjamin looks like a true WR. I've heard that Benjamin hasn't been playing football for that long of a time, so that makes me think he still has huge upside above what he's shown at FSU. I picked Watkins in the poll btw. If he's there pick him, he's ready to go from day one.

The Seahawks and Niners were both "Buffalo Bills" teams of the NFC a few short years ago, until they turned it around and they became really good teams. Given how really good our young defense is looking, I don't see how you can make a statement like that. The Bills look like the Seahawks and Niners of a few years ago, a team with a lot of young defensive talent that is on the verge of becoming relevant if they can get it right on offense. I think the Bills go heavy on offense in the draft and FA to put very good players around EJ Manuel so that there will be no excuses for him to not be successful. I see the Bills mirroring Chip Kelly's offense in Philly and as long as he stays healthy Manuel will look just as good as Nick Foles in his second year. As for Kaep and Wilson, both guys looked very shaky yesterday. They're very good, but they are not the next Brady and Manning, they are new school QBs who are skilled athletes playing the QB position. IMO they'll struggle to have the consistency in level of play as the classic "drop back" QBs.

While I would love for the Bills to get a great TE, I think that I'm more leaning towards wanting the top offensive line in the NFL instead. Or at least attempting something like that. Jackson and Spiller have been taking too big of hits IMO. I want them to stay healthy and be given lots of big holes to run through. As for the WRs, I'd replace Graham with Stevie Johnson and use Spiller and Goodwin as the slot receivers with Woods at the other WR spot of course. With a mauling line and speed guys like Spiller and Goodwin just outside being used for quick passes in space and for reverses/fake reverses close to the line of scrimmage, I could see a very productive and exciting Chip Kelly type of offense. As for needing a guy with a lot of height, I think that is a potential recipe for disaster. You only go after guys with enough height and who you think will be very good at the NFL level. Evans and Benjamin seem like they have rather high bust potential to me. One guy pouts like a baby (I see NFL CBs being able to get in his head) and the other guy drops too many passes. I think there will be better WR prospects available in the 3rd and 4th round than those two.

This draft class is very deep with WRs. Best class ever? It certainly looks like it. I've been doing a some research and I'm seeing really good WRs that are ranked beyond the supposed "Top 20" WRs in this class. Right now, if Watkins isn't there then I'd have no problem with the Bills picking Robinson and then doubling up on the OL with a top OG in the second round. From there I'd take a top inside LB in the 3rd (should be one of the top ones there at that spot). Then I'd go WR in the 4th and 5th rounds and hope you hit on one of them becoming much better NFL WRs than questionable high pick guys like like Evans and Benjamin.

Montanta was never the same after that Jim Burt hit.

Elway and Marino belong in the conversation of whether they're among the greatest of the great QBs. In no way does Warner, Young or Kelly belong in that conversation.