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By chance, my wife has a business trip scheduled for this week. She leaves Wednesday and returns Saturday night. Now that's what I call good planning.

I would just remember that if we trade down all the way to #31, then it's crystal clear to everyone that we'll be taking a QB at that spot. There are plenty of teams ahead of us in Round 2 that will know this and may just as readily jump ahead of us.

Yes, and yes.

I don't know...with only 6 picks and tons of needs, I can't see them giving another one away.

Nobody thinks we'll take Star? My money is on Barkley. I would not be unhappy with Nassib or Manuel.

I find it fascinating that so many people think we're taking a QB at #8, but we have no idea which one.

So synthesizing all that the various people are saying, we can conclude that this year's draft class probably has a few solid starting QBs in it, but nobody can really say which ones they are.

I think I'll go out on a limb here and say that if the Bills pick Landry at #8, this entire board will implode.

They weren't even just a bad defense. They were an historically bad defense. Almost unfathomably bad. And yeah, you heard me. An historically bad.

If the Jets deal Revis (or perhaps even if not), I wonder how likely the Jets would go for a CB at #9. If very likely, then perhaps Atlanta would switch with us to get ahead of the Jets.

Sweet, good work. Thanks for keeping us up to date on that.

5'9" 248lbs. Holy smokes.

I see what you did there.

But isn't that the point? Teams trading up with us aren't interested in who we are taking, but rather who the teams immediately after us are taking.

I'm excited to see what Bradham can do in this new defense. I think he did quite well for a rookie in the kind of defense (4-3) that he's not really built for. Pettine is going to set him loose. As for TJ, I have no real reason to expect it, other than I think he does have talent, speed, and a little more size than I was expecting. We'll see if the game starts to slow down for him a bit -- but I think he can turn into a decent outside guy if Hackett knows how to use him.

If Graham can get his act together this year (and I'm expecting him to), then this would have been a very good draft.

I'm really interested to see what happens this year -- I think it comes down to how many QBs are taken in picks 1-7. If none or one, I can see us trading down if there is a team like St. Louis or Minnesota looking to move up. I think Buddy really wants to get a seventh pick back if he can. I'd be happy with a 1st round pick in the late teens-early twenties, and an extra 2nd rounder. I think that would help us out a lot.

They may make it to the 2nd, but they won't make it to the Bills' pick.

Well, there's always Wikipedia. That gives you a list of all of the Bills seasons with their record and finish, and if you click on the individual year, it will give you a table with each game and its results. You can just cut and paste those into a spreadsheet. Is that what you wanted? EDIT: Make sure you click on the year in the "Team" column.

Holy crap. I had no idea.

Looks like that opening must have cost about $7.25 to make.

They had a retro red helmet with a white standing buffalo many years back (1994) for one of their initial "throwback" games. It was awful. You can see it here.

Probably not, which is why these situations can be difficult. Most surgeons understandably don't want to implant a foreign body into a site of ongoing infection, so it requires a lengthy treatment and recovery time.

He hasn't made too many other defenses look silly.

If he's received six weeks of antibiotics, then he almost certainly has an infection involving the plate/bone in his arm. It's very hard to eradicate infections with antibiotics alone when they involve foreign materials or objects like plates. If the plate has been in a while, we usually recommend removing the plate, treating with antibiotics, waiting, and then putting a new plate back in. My guess is they're trying to see if they can get away with not removing the plate, and hoping the infection clears with antibiotics. It's possible, but not the ideal approach. If that doesn't work (and there's a good chance of that), they'll have to remove the plate, treat again, and put it back in later.