colin

i've been wondering the same thing too. have heard some trade down ideas with us getting the bunk and an interior guy like mangold or max gilles. that is prolly the best value, but if we nab bunk and a guy like watson (or similar DT) we'd be laughing.

no, he doesn't have the rep that taylor had, but the reason is that reed was blowing up in the NFL when taylor was coming out of a very exciting miami program. huff was far and away the best player on the texas D. the biggest thing is huff can hit and cover well AND has a nose for the ball and knows the game. if he is in your D you can do all kinds of things with him which makes him more like reed than roy williams or taylor. the positive thing is roy or taylor can be used against you if they have to get depth and are far from the line, huff is perhaps at his best out there. davis is prolly a better prospect at TE than huff is at DB, but both are much better at their positions than many other prospects are at theirs

aj looks a whole lot better than speilman did in school

hahaha the issue as i see it is that we as bills fans have become a bit too obsessed with "franchise LTs". the issue is LTs and other olinemen are not that great of athletes. you can see at the combine they are the fattest and can't ever lift as much as the dline or the LBs. they are also the slowest and can't do any of the drills as well. the problem is quality athletes (there are a few) who play LT are very rare. so with supply and demand as it is their price is just very high, inspite of the fact that they might not have the impact on your team that their cost implies. the same also applies to corners, they are rare and as such are expensive. the as an individual can have a very large impact, but they will also get burned for big plays. the opposite applies to running backs, there are so many top guys like edge and alexander can't get traded for a 2nd rounder. so while we need a much better Oline, we don't necessarily need allstar guys at any one position. we need a unit that plays well, which of coure means we need quality, but top dollar tackles don't imply a great Offense (baltimore comes to mind). there is also a large risk with high pick tackles, they are big giant slow guys who in many cases don't workout in the NFL (although d'brick might have the opposite problem, he might be too weak). anyway, we need the best team we can get and a guy like d'brick might be worth moving up for (inspite of all i wrote above) but if the fall off to the next guy is that far, we are better off taking the best guy at the #8 spot if we can't trade down.

huff really does grade like a sean taylor, ed reed, and roy williams in many people eyes. when you see what palimalou does for pitts, he is not a bad value at 8. i agree with the general sentitment that we NEED to upgrade our lines, but if we can do that in FA and later rounds (we should be able to get QUALITY young OT, OG, and DTs in the 2nd and 3rd rounds as well is in FA).

xactly if we get some guys for the lines in FA i'd be happy with davis. davis blocks too.

they wouldn't take it because they think they can get more. i think they'll settle on 57 or 58. i'm hoping some kind of veteran resigning rule and rookie pool comes out soon

i don't think you can call the NFL communist or not free market because of their cap and draft. the NFL teams are franchises in one business. they agree to terms and conditions and vote on them as a group, but they are still private enterprise and as such are still "capitalist".

new orleans would do this if a) they were not in love with any of the top QBs this year b) were huge on JP's potential c) MOST IMPORTANTLY have a big cap concern. the cap savings they'd have for going from #2 to JP and number 8 is big. they'd also get what they feel is a qb who can play now, and a good player at #8.

hmm if we have an uncapped year in 07 do you think ralph might just decide to spend some money to finally win it all and dump a ton of cash in FA? we spent a lot of money before the cap was in place back in the early 90s, if he really wants to win it all he might jus buy a trophy...

we ditched a back up Olineman, a slow SS who could not hit all year (injury), and a freelancing DT from the worst run D we have ever had. we also lost a TE who did nothing. i agree losing a bunch of starters is a big change, but we can replace them with some quality guys and be better than last year in short order.

you know, there is an outside chance we make our own 34 cover 2 type d. blitzing and zone blitzing would be great because we can send just 4 or 5 and confuse the blockers (like how pitts does and we used to years ago). just having a 3-4 wrinkle would be good as well. i think aaron could play DE in the 3-4, but he would be targetted on a lot of running plays. it all depends on who we sign, but i think we will get 2 or 3 new DTs (through FA and the draf) and along with edwards coming back will really improve us in the middle

guys, don't look soley at this years cap figure. cutting those old guys and m williams means we have plenty of room for long term contracts. we can sign all kinds of players if we want to.

that guy would be a slam dunk in the 2nd! if he was there in the 3rd i'd be all over him.

the sandiego story has me thinking we should get vernon davis

normally i'd yell no to a TE, but i think there is a chance we can take davis and make it work. if we get a tackle and a C/G in FA, then unless d'brick is sitting there we really don't have a guy worth taking that high on the o line. if williams isn't there then the question is: do we jump all over ngata? well, if we have the same Dline coming into the draft (with no one else to sign just sitting there) then yeah we take him. if we grab 1 or 2 of the 5 or 6 DTs in FA this year that would really improve the bills, then a guy like davis might just make us a much better team. moulds will be gone. with evans and parrish out there stretching things a tight end who is a deep threat will take a ton of pressure off of JP. davis can also block, so we can run and pass out of similar formations, something we really haven't been able to do since 02

we lost a couple of upper mid level to lower top level vets on D and went from 2 to terrible (pat williams and edwards), losing spikes put in the hurt locker but i am assuming he will be back (perhaps not week 1 at full speed, but he will get there). so we should be able to add a few guys to our D and get them back up to very solid. now we still need youth and we are dying for a few quality big men, but if we grab one of the better DTs in FA (maybe even 2), 2 solid Oline players, and cut moulds (money to pay for everyone) then we can absolutely draft davis and still spend the rest of our picks on 1 D lineman 2-3 olinemen a safety an LB a cover corner (nickle/dime guy) so who we take in round one depends on who we get in FA. if we land a DT and some OL help, adding a player like davis will really help our young qb and add a dimension that has been lacking from our O for some time

he did, he got 35ish. he is plenty strong

i could see him with san diego if they cut mcCardel i could also see Bmore or jacksonville going after him. phily is still the front runner

i don't think he is worth that much. i have got to assume someone will pay less, the jests can't afford him for one year and thus might cut him if no one pays up, so why pay big when he might just hit the market? if you trade you still have to negotiate a deal

didn't jp play behind in him in school?

isn't that the guy who's ancestors were royalty and got offed by ida amin? a guy like that prolly has a really different mindset and IMO DEs who get mad sacks and cause disruption are often their own man (bruce and reggie, hayly, even howie wrong were all different than a typical baller)

i saw the footage of the reps on TV. they were quick but not really sloppy and he didn't really bridge or get too much of a bounce. in the probowl the NFL guys do half reps, in the combine they have to lock them all out. this guy with 44 had a fairly narrow grip and did 44 reps with VERY long arms. at 308, thick and very lean for a DT, along with being a good player from a big time school he might be the kind of guy who would really rush the passer well from the middle. miami used to have those two tackles (bowens and that other guy, can't remember his name) who were strong as oxes and not super sloppy. they could both stuff the pile and play 1 gap or get up field. i like this kid, perticulalry if we are in a cover 2 with some decent secondary

after cutting eric and mike, and if london restructures/maybe milloy too we have plenty of cap space now and in the future. we should keep nate and sign bently and at least 2 more big men in FA (DT, DE, OG, OT whatever). that and a good draft will make this team better than it was last year.

yeah, he did bad on the road against miami, new england, and cincy. also, you've looked at every other DE in the NFL and have determined that they all sacks against quality OTs and got there in one second, and are good against the run, and never mess up. you're pretty sharp, are you a rocket scientist?