BuffaloRebound

Now that pre-draft visits are over, looks like Bills will choose from Geno, Mingo, Vaccaro, Dion Jordan, and Jarvis Jones at #8.

Surprised we haven't brought in Ansah for a visit. He could definitely be there at #8 if teams are wary of him appearing out of nowhere. Doesn't fit the Nix criteria of a high draft pick, but he's got All-Pro potential and I hope the organization isn't following the Nix blueprint anymore.

Gonna be hard to pass up a guy like Jarvis Jones at #8. His production in the SEC the last 2 years was ridiculous. Mario isn't an elite pass rusher. Defense could actually be pretty good with a double digit sack guy on the other side of Mario.

Good post. This is why Nix needs to be gone yesterday. He had 3 years to get a QB in the draft, but he and Gailey hitched their wagon to Fitzpatrick and insisted he was the man for the job. Nix should've been shown the door with Fitzpatrick. No way he should be in a decision-making role anymore.

Don't think it's a big deal. He either wants to stay here or he doesn't. Give him an offer too early and it just gives his agent more time to get more money from someone else.

I think we can eliminate possibility of any decent free agent WR or TE coming here with current QB situation. That $13m or so will probably buy a few starters on the defensive side of the ball. Would be nice to get a WR and QB with our first 2 picks in the draft.

So if I'm reading it right, looks like Bills have about $70m in cash expense for 2013. That leaves at least another $50m to spend if cash to cap is still being used.

I felt like I was watching a Bills game the way Whitner and the rest of the 49ers secondary were getting abused. Flacco was definitely targeting Whitner's man in the red zone. The guy plays hard and is a big hitter, but he can't cover anybody. He doesn't react to the ball in the air and has very short arms. He's the same player he was here, just surrounded by better players and a better organization.

Brady is a b#tch. That play made it even more enjoyable to see the Patriots lose. Almost as bad was Simms completely glossing it over when his producers kept showing replay after replay. Time for Simms to hang them up. Used to like him, but he has become the ultimate shill for stars like Brady. Way too close to the players. Collinsworth might be annoying at times but he's the best because he isn't afraid to call them as he sees them.

Wouldn't go near this guy in the draft. Circus will follow wherever he goes. He'll be a joke in the locker room too. Would be perfect with the Jets.

Fair enough, but better team store is at the bottom of the list of the things you mentioned that will improve the gameday experience and sell more tickets. Bigger and better concessions, bigger and better bathrooms, flat screens all over the concourse and in bathrooms so you don't miss any of game, history of the Bills exhibit would be cool, more kid friendly stuff (i.e. NFL experience type stuff). Better team store is a part of that, but I guess if I just negotiated public money for stadium improvements, I wouldn't include renderings of a shiny new team store if I was only releasing 5 pictures.

Couldn't agree more. Ridiculous that taxpayer money being used for the team to build a better store. For $200m, I expected to see more. Just 5 pictures, but I wouldn't have included the Bills store in the pictures if I were the Bills.

Even if Cleveland is the favorite, those are still decent odds he ends up in Buffalo.

We'd have to wait possibly until the Super Bowl to hire this guy, right? Unless someone in the organization has ties with him going back to childhood and could trust his word, no thanks. We'd be left with whomever no one else wanted if he screwed us over.

Not a fan of one of the re-treads like Lovie or Whisenhunt for the Bills. They might be good coaches, but just think they're gonna try to copy what they did before. Buffalo is a unique job and needs a coach who's gonna bring a unique approach to be successful here.

Bills got nothing to lose. Kelly is a swing for the fences. Oregon isn't the sexiest job and the guy's been to 4 straight BCS games. Seems like NFL is copying college game more than other way around.

I like the idea of a downtown stadium better than Niagara Falls. Unless we take it from Canada, they'll always have the better view of the Falls. NY side of the Falls should expand on the park aspect that it has. Love taking my kids to walk around goat island when I come back to WNY. Falls are a natural wonder, make the NY side a big national park with campgrounds and a few hotels.

I no longer live in WNY, but the fact that the Bills and Erie County politicians have already shot this down is ridiculous. $200m to improve RWS shouldn't even be on the table. Stop letting Ralph hold WNY hostage. A long term solution is needed. $200m isn't scaring any new owner from moving the team. I'm not saying it has to be this new proposal, but if you build a new stadium, it pretty much guarantees Bills will be here for next 40 years. $400m from NY state to guarantee Bills will be here for 40 years plus possibility of state-of-the-art stadium and all that comes with that (jobs, downtown revival, etc.) versus $200m to polish a turd that in no way deters Bills from moving is a pretty easy choice.

This sounds crazy at first, but I like that someone is thinking big. At the very worst, you get people talking about it and adjusting their opinions upward about what is possible instead of quibbling over $200m in improvements to an outdated stadium.

+1. I'd tell them that I see improvement but it's an uphill battle without a franchise QB. Gotta know who you are and what you're up against. With Ralph as the owner, we'll never have a better organization than the Pats, Steelers, Giants, and other winning franchises. Only thing that can over-come that is a franchise QB.

Nix and Gailey are an improvement, but it's painfully obvious we'll never be a contender without a legit franchise QB, especially the way Ralph runs the organization. Gailey is a good offensive coordinator and Nix is a good college scout, but you need more than that if you want to compete against organizations like the Pats.

How does a new ownership group even think of building a new stadium if Ralph is selling at least 1 game a year to Toronto? It's bad enough Ralph hasn't made a commitment to keep the Bills in WNY, but re-upping the deal with Toronto for another 5 years and for possibly more than 1 game a year makes it that harder to build a new stadium and keep bills here.

Could not agree more. Hard to get to the QB when the only thing QB has to do when he drops back is locate where McKelvin is and throw it to his man. Coverage was bad all around, but it started with McKelvin. Gave Sanchez a bunch of confidence knowing how easy it was to pick apart McKelvin.

WR's are the achilles heel of this team. Besides Johnson, no one is a threat to the defense. A bunch of guys who would be 4th and 5th WR's on other teams. Graham looks promising but can't rely on a rookie WR. What is the point of going 5 wide when 4 of the WR's can be singled covered and you can blitz the crap out of Fitz with an empty back-field?

What exactly is there to be pressing Schumer on? Changing the rules makes the G4 loan program a more attractive option for Ralph, helps keep the Bills in WNY, and saves the money of taxpayers which includes partisan d-bags on both sides. Ralph is the one who needs to be 'pressed'.