colin

x-actly if justice has a good shot at being a 10 year nfl starter then him at 8 is no reach at all. we could have justice/peters gandy whoever/preston villarial/preston peters/justice as our line, much better in at least 3 places from the start of last year. we could also call them the justice league

i'd be happy with a solid OT and OG in round 1, or perhaps DT and OG, or whatever (assuming a trade down) there are about 4 Gs, 2 Cs, 3-5 OTs, 6 DEs, and 2-5 DTs worth taking at some point in the first 50 picks or so. if we trade down and get more picks i'll be happy. we don't have to get bunkley and whoever, but if we get a quality guy with each i'd be thrilled

we are enamoured with the ppl who we are familiar with, but no matter who it is i like the idea of trading down and getting the best bigman available with each pick in the 1st round. we could grap Safety/LB as well as more big men in the 2nd and 3rd too.

huff would be graded as high or higher than taylor. huff is the highest rated DB in the draft, he can be a corner or safety in the NFL. 8 is in no way a reach for the top DB. i'd rather we trade down and pick up bunk, a top rated interior Dlineman, an o tackle, etc.

they still have staff held over from the old regime and have access to all the tape they need. modrak will have a well formed opinion of JP. they may well have seen something in nall to think he is a better prospect than losman. marv and jouron might be new in their current roles, but plenty of other people have been around for a while will tell marv and co all they need. gms and scouts can watch ncaa players on tape and project their quality with great accuracy (sure there are busts, but there not many 5th round guys who are of the quality of 1st round guys and teams can see this). just because we as fans think we might not have seen concrete evidence to say that jp will never be good does not mean that he ever will be good, or that there aren't other players who are better prospects as the bills QB. jp losman is also somewhat frail for an NFL QB and has been hurt several times (school, last year, 2 years ago). all he has going for him is his speed, 2 or 3 good quarters and hope.

the point that this post and many other posts that espouse "we can't cut jp because WE don't know if he is good or not" misses is that while WE the fans might not know, it is very possible that team managment does know. if he is sloppy in practice, doesn't understand the plays, has filled is teamates with doubt, shows no signs of learning, or just doesn't show a strong enough interest in improving the things he isn't good at then the management knows all they need to about him. it might take a while to really determin if a QB is good, and that means lots of games, it can be determined if he isn't good much much faster. a few starts and 2 years in the organization is plenty of time to pull the plug on a guy.

TKO SPIKES = COMEBACK PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2006

no no, they did. the put a bit of a wrinkle in by keeping an LB over smith which worked very well (check the stat line, the bills might have done the best job on smoith all year). came down to the wire and that is who gave up the go ahead TD

over huff no less?!!?!?!?!? these guys suck so much they might put hoover out of a job

i personaly like the your an idiot the best. as far as the interior line, we need AT LEAST 1 more bigman who can play, but i think we should be able to grab 2 in the draft. with the LBs healthy and our secondary intact (along with our high motor ends) i'm not that worried about our D. we had grey who IMO was never a good DC and we upgraded over him to a guy with a scheme that fits us better, AND we have near the talent that we had when we were 2 in the NFL. i think back to the carolina game where we ran a BASIC BASIC cover 2 D and nearly shut down the panthers inspite of our O sucking eggs and givng them the ball back all day. i think (sadly) o line will continue to be the biggest problem, but could well be better than it has been in a while late in the year if we have some new young guys

now i deserve to be tarred and feathered for a post saying something besides "TEH OLINE YOUR GHEY IF YOU DON'T BANG THE O LINE DRUM AND THE OLINE DRUM ONLY! GET R DONE MARV" but we had a bad line in 02 and a great overall O because of our weapons (and QB play too, but let's pretend we have that now). if we have a chance of super chargin our weapons with a guy like walker, and even perhaps with a vernon davis in the draft (or merc lewis in the 2nd?) it might be the best move to make now. we do need o line (and some D line) but adding the best young talent to our team possible would really put us on the path of being a strong team for a while. i think we need big men, but we need great players in every position and if we have a shot at one we should take it.

a lot of depth at LB in this year's draft. i say we grab big men, and a safety if one falls to us lower than we think he should be, and then a LB who also falls to us 8 or 9 picks (trading moulds, perhaps trading down) should get us 4 - 6 or so big men and about 3 other guys

why is moulds blamed for fathering kids out of wedlock? shouldn't the women involved be blamed for mothering children out of wedlock? they have the choice of preventing the pregnancy and failing that aborting it. call me a cynic, but i think the women who had little moulds' are making a whole lot more income from payments from eric for his children than from any other source.

nice use of colour!

as much as i hate unions, strikes, socialists, and needy people in general the french youth are probably better off with the socialism. since in the euro zone they can work any damn place they want, if they wanted work with the threat of being dismissed (or even something as simple as an employment contract) they could go to the UK or germany. these kids get a nice hand out to eff around and be idle if they are out of work, they get a nice cushy job for as long as they want if they manage to land one, and they get to go abroad and work if they actually want to succeed. an aside: it is funny how even tho the EU allows it the euros really don't move around in pursuit of better work. these people are not mobile

wow, they are really loading up to take a shot this year aren't they?

one thing that always angers me about these mock drafts is that we fricken lost to 3 of the teams picking ahead of us. badly

i'd say williams is a MUCH stronger prospect than Ngata. not that Ngata doesn't look solid, it is just that williams is a julius peppers type of talent. combine that with your point of the depth at DT (and that alone makes me happy to drop out of number 8 if williams is gone and ngata is there) and i'd jump all over williams and still think i can get solid DTs in the 2nd and 3rd

on a serious tip, jp showed the big upside he was drafted for (great speed with that long run in SD, ability to throw on the move, ability to launch deep accurate bombs to evans) but has not shown the simple basic things you expect from a starting QB. he can't rally the troops, seems to be flustered and out of control, throws passes miles high past open guys, misses obviously open guys, etc. as fans we might not be able to tell if this guy is going to do more of the great things or more of the bad things, but if the front office who is privy to his practice and meeting behaviour think he just might be a bust they prolly have enough data say so. it might take a lot of time to learn if a guy is solid, but you can often find out a dud pretty quickly

you really need to fix your sarcametor embarrassing really

YOUR a traitor!! u support terrorists!!

if JP or Nall can play better than JP/Kelly played last year (and that was pretty damn bad) and TKO is back and healthy then i'd say we are fo sho a better team. we might not win too many games (6 to 8 is prolly realistic) but we should have fewer blow out like we did against denver, new england, raiders, san diego, and the jests. with a little o line help and our new OC i think our O might move up about 10+ places, although it could do so and still be in the bottom half.

the jp question comes down to the current FO's evaluatin of him. if they think he is crap in practice, if they think he hasn't broken any bad habits, if they think he is too injury prone, or if they think he just isn't a quality player then they have good reason to ditch him. the fan's argument of he has only played 8 games only holds water if he has shown ability to play well in practice. if he hasn't then hey may well be a total bust and someone the bills have to replace

no if the new bills front office think JP is bad (and there are NFL scouts and what not that really don't think he will ever be good) then they need to make a change at the QB position. assuming they go somewhere else for the QB, if they think they can trade JP this year for a pick or player, it makes sense to eat the hit now. if they are certain that kelly will be the back up/starter and whoever they get in the draft is the new starter, then if they have the cap room (as in there are no more players they want to sign this year) it makes sense to cut him this year. why does it make sense to cut him this year even tho it costs more against this year's cap? because you pay now and have cap room later by doing so. if they keep him this year and cut him next year they will take a cap hit in 07, so any unused cap rom this year would be better used in cutting JP rather than just sitting on him and taking the cap hit next year. so while i still haven't said if i think the bills should or should not cut JP or draft a QB, they can if they want too and it wouldn't be that hard for them to do.

riter's show has always made me laugh my ass off. he is also a pretty honest fan IMO, he was always with beldsoe as a QB, gregg williams as a HC for a lot longer than most fans were. instead of just saying we suck, ditch them all i think he is an at least realistic i liked the coach too, but not his whole show, it got too tiring. i liked it when he gave his insights, which is what he does on the riter show. that is good local radio right there