DanInUticaTampa

As much as they say Whaley is in full control of football operations, I am pretty sure that is only 95% true. Russ obviously has input into football side, and Russ even said in Ralph's final days Ralph was talking about safties in the draft he liked, which suggests Ralph still gave input, even if it wasn't a deciding factor. If ralph were still alive, it wouldn't have surprised me if we wanted to be more conservative in not giving away a future first rounder, and Whaley and Russ taking his advice. I don't think that this move was very much a desperate attempt to "win now" because of an ownership change is looming. The fact they traded away stevie, the most accomplished receiver on the roster for future draft pick, suggest they are not mortaging the future like some claim. They are doing what is best for the football team. I don't think Ralph had much say in football operations leading up to his death, but he obvoiusly still gave his input. it wouldn't surprise me for him to knock down the watkins trade, especially if he went by Polian's model which was mostly conservative.

This team is a mixed bag as far as character goes, though I think there is more good character guys than bad. Fred, Kyle, wood, spiller, EJ, and others have strong good character. They don't have that winning nfl experience obviously. But good character leaders. There is def a character concern in a lot of the younger players though. I was worried about Alonso, but he seemed to have handled him self quite well his first year. A lot of the young players with character concerns haven't done anything bad since being drafted, darius being the exception The Mike Williams thing is the one that concerns me. I can't seem him as a bill more than a year. This is someone that is 10 times more stupid than darius

Hard for him to play well if he gets himself suspended. Or worse, hurts himself racing.

I can see the NFL trying to do that. Make extra money selling tickets to the away team. As die hard as nfl fans are, I can't see any of us but a ticket to watch a game on a jumbo tron, even if the tickets are super cheap

Stop saying that. you will scare the children! In all seriousness, if hackett can't scheme with watkins then he needs to go

I haven't seen it mentioned in any article yet. If they are going to have a bank soon to do the vetting process, then they must already know who is and is not going to bid for the team. Toronto being so quiet makes me nervous.

aaaaaaaand this is a sign I need to go to bed.

he will prob be higher next near moving to OLB

too bad we dont have a marshawn lynch type

You learn a lot from coming to these boards. Without this place, I would never know the value of trading mario for skelton, that bills lost every season because they don't care about winning, and defense is going to fall apart because we lost byrd. I need your help first. From your post, you are concerned that our number 1 receiver will get double coverage, and woods and williams will get single coverage? I don't see what concern you have there. From your first post, it sounds like your concern lies more into EJ, and not the receivers. Or maybe this whole thing just is nonsense. Either way, I am not worried about the receivers unless there is an injury. That unit is fine. more than fine.

I did at first honestly. But the next day when they traded Stevie for a future pick, that made me thinking they weren't selling out the future just to win now. They were doing what they honestly thought was best for the team. Whether they are right or not is a different story. But even with the loss of byrd, this offense and defense are much better than last year. Even with a tough schedule, 8-8 should be realistic. EJ would really have to suck for us not to move forward

I know people are saying here that lawson isn't good against the run, but I think he is pretty good against the run. as bad as the run defense was last year, it looked a lot worse whenever he was absent.

only stipulation to having the talent for years to come is that we have to re sign these players when their contracts come up. And we have quite a few coming up in the next few years.

If EJ doesn't pan out, we don't "need" our first rounder next year to replace him. If recent drafts with kapnernick, Dalton, Wilson, etc have taught us anything, there are decent qbs in the 2nd rounds, and It is no longer rare. I'm skeptical about the trade myself, but I don t see this cementing we can't draft a QB high next year.

I'm thinking that as well

Beat me to it

Whaley brought up that people will say he gets beat by smaller DEs, but they aren't worried because he won't be playing smaller DEs in the NFL

a lot of the talking heads were saying this on TV. That this trade means they are all in on EJ because they won't have a first next year to use on a QB if he turns out to be a bust this season. I am not as worried. sucks to lose a 1st rounder, but if this gets us to the playoffs, I will be happy with it.

I don't see Stevie going anywhere. No team is going to trade for him for more than a 6th rounder, if that. And bills won't give him up for that little. Stevie won't last past this season without taking a paycut though

It is a bold move. The deciding factor will be if the bills make the playoffs or not. If the bills don't make the playoffs this year, the trade will look terrible since we won't have a 1st rounder to get better later. If we make the playoffs, then this trade put us over the hump. People can make jokes all they want about not having a QB to throw the ball to. This is an elite receiving unit now. Watkins is a clear number 1, stevie, williams, and woods are very good number 2s at worst. Fitz could win more games with this group than he did previously, I am sure EJ will be much better this year, as long as he stays healthy. Hell, even our backups should be fine with these weapons. I say this pick alone realistically gives us 2-3 more wins putting us in the 8-8 and 9-7 range. Hopefully we reach a more optimistic result. If they use the rest of their picks to get the oline upgraded and fill some holes, I say this team has playoff potential. Our receivers are an elite unit now/

haha

gotta let the player live it up. YOLO, amirite?

its probably their old web guy who kept making mistake with postings on the official site!

it does sometimes. Though I wouldn't draft him.he is high risk/ high reward.

is their site down? it isnt working for me