Albany,n.y.

I agree & disagree. Yes, I believe that you can't chase picks and overreach for a franchise QB. I didn't see any worth it this year. I totally disagree with the good QB theory. I could care less if the Bills win 10 games a year for the next 10 years and never sniff the Super Bowl-that's what your good QB gets you. I want the team to win the Super Bowl. 8 of the last 10 Super Bowl winners were QB'd by a franchise QB, 9 if you count Eli Manning. Even the majority of Super Bowl losers the past decade were QB'd by a franchise QB. You don't reach, but you also don't stay satisfied with Fitzpatrick for the next decade either. We will need a franchise QB sooner or later if we want to get in & win a Super Bowl. Good QBs make the playoffs & exit early. Great QBs win championships.

Mallett 2011 = Clausen 2010 Get over it Mallett heads, odds are Belichick didn't outsmart everyone in the league this time.

We'll probably sign that FA from the Giants-Jamon Meredith

Right again

Well, you're halfway to the ledge right now. The mentality that you have to keep drafting DBs continues. Next up another DB or another RB.

More like Carolina got the crap sandwich in the 2nd round last year & realizes it.

If Steve Serby is right in his analysis, we should be glad Blane Gabbert wasn't our pick. Here's Serby's take: 10. JAGUARS Blaine Gabbert, QB, Missouri: Apparently Mike Shanahan wasn’t intoxicated by watching a 6-foot-5 QB running a spread offense as Captain Checkdown. http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/more_sports/first_round_analysis_c8XE4ma9puvCgzAilmFXWN

What if they believe nobody available is better than Fitz & there is no franchise guy out there to develop? The best thing to do is go with what you have, bring in a backup QB for this season without the idea of grooming him into your future starter, and get the franchise QB when one with a lot more potential than the bums out there in 2011 becomes available. It might take years, because drafting a guy wishing he's a franchise QB doesn't make him one. We all heard the cries for Clausen last year at #9 because we didn't have a franchise QB & so far passing on him looks like the right decision. You can only acquire guys who are available and there are years when nobody is available better that what you've already got. Getting one of the Smiths or Clausen is no better than the Brohm folly was. That's especially true of A.Smith & Clausen. No QB in the modern era who was drafted high & jettisoned, with the exception of Kerry Collins who was let go due to a drinking problem at the time of his release, has ever amounted to anything much with any subsequent team he landed with. All those 1st & 2nd round busts never became the guy with a change in scenery.

That can change quickly if we draft a corner and safety with our 2 picks tonight.

TO & Chad old, going, going, gone. Yes, they needed a receiver.

I don't buy it. Nevergiveup > ESPN

This draft will haunt us for years-because there will be so many 1st round QB busts that the Negative Nancys will warn us against ever drafting a QB using this year as evidence of the danger of 1st round QBs. This year's draft will be a textbook example of QB reaches. It is not the norm to have this many reaches just because teams have voids at QB. None of these 4 guys should have been 1st round picks. If any more get drafted we could see an 0 for 5 or 0 for 6 QB hit in the 2011 draft. I'm glad all these potential 2nd round Bills mistakes are off the board.

Trent Edwards was better than Jamarcus Russell the year Russell went #1. Did it really matter?

We draft the 5th best player at #3. A couple of years ago we drafted the real "Mr. Irrelevant" with the 11th pick in the draft.

I thought they reached it earlier today when they had reports from the 1st 5 draft cities-Except Buffalo. Now they have Dr. Phil talking about the effects of a kid receiving a multi-million $ contract.

I got up around 8 this morning & put WGR on -they had Hamilton talking hockey-off it went. Then Schopp gets on the air today & says he hasn't talked much about the draft until today. Today is the 1st time I put WGR on in months. Since I don't give a rat's @ss about hockey, it looks like I would have wasted my time if I had tuned in before today. I was listening to Sirius earlier today & wanted more of a local flavor to the draft & switched at 3, only to get hockey talk in the middle of the program. Right now I've got WGR on the computer & ESPN on the tv in the same room. I'll be listening to Sirius tomorrow until 3 & then hope for the best when I turn on WGR.

We also traded for the guy picked #2 in the same draft & paid him big $. I wish all these Ralph is cheap posts cloaked in other words would just stop. If you want to post a Ralph is cheap post & list all the cheap things he's done, fine just do it. Here, I'll get it started-The only NFL owner in the modern era to lose the #1 pick in the draft to the CFL-Ralph is cheap!

I imagine he's said the same thing about his son Chris. Nothing wrong with smokin a little weed while driving, or playing QB.

Two of the Bils best trade ups were O-line. Wolford & Levitre

Trading up back into the 1st round for an OT is OK, but if they trade up for Ponder, Mallett, or Kaepernick, Buddy should be fired.

Here's my reply to Hplarrm: There was ample evidence that Rob Johnson had a fatal flaw in his game-he held on to the ball too long. That evidence was available BEFORE the Bills traded for him. While I was eventually swayed by the company line, my 1st impression of RJ was it was a bad deal. All I had to do was look at his pro stats & college scouting reports to post my 1st reaction to the proposed trade. I put up a post titled "Rob Johnson-The Sacked Man" The sack to pass ratio he had was too glaring to ignore. He was not "injury prone" per se, he held on to the ball too long & got sacked too much. Anyone, no matter how durable cannot survive in the NFL playing QB the way he did without getting injured sooner or later. The Bills scouts blew it by ignoring his fatal flaw & while paying a market value, the market value was too high for a prudent team. Unfortunately, looking at all the squandered 1st rounders since the glory days, it is quite evident the Bills do not rank among the smarter scouting departments and front offices in the NFL. If a rank amateur like me could spot the flaw in Johnson's game before the trade, the Bills management was beyond incompetent to trade a 1 & 4 for Johnson. It wasn't bad luck, it was lack of due diligence. I have a lot less criticism for the Bledsoe trade because he had had success with NE before the trade and it was done to give Gregg Williams a fighting chance to make it as a head coach in the league.

I predict the Bills will get the right guy at QB when they have a draft where the right guy is available where they're picking. Personally, I don't think there is a right guy available in this year's draft. It has happened before, when no QB in the entire draft was worth anything yet teams still reached based on the logic that they had to draft a QB. It's the same logic that had (some) people screaming for Clausen at #9 last year, when Bradford was the only 1st round QB out there (sorry Tebow/Denver reaching for him fans). Most times a team reaches out of desperation, it ends badly. If you think we'll find gold at QB in the 2nd round, we've never found QB gold in the 2nd round of the NFL draft. These are the fab 4 we've taken in the 2nd, and these guys were taken when there were fewer teams and 2nd rounders were closer to the top than today: Todd Collins, Matt Kofler, Gene Bradley, Dennis Shaw.

So what happens if Denver picks Miller?

The worst part is when Leodis got home, Chan Gailey was spray painting obscene messages on his lawn.

Von Miller Christian Ponder D J Williams