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There is no question about it the Bills are in full rebuild mold. They are blowing it up and starting over. There are three teams with 5 picks to the Bills 6. One of them is New England. http://www.fftoolbox.com/nfl_draft/2013/nfl_draft_order_full.cfm. Every one has signed a lot more free agents than the Bills. As of now the bills are dead last in talent acquisition. Yes it could change before the draft but if 32 teams were horses in a race you would be cursing your bet on the Bills.

This looks like a move that would be a benefit in 2014 and not 2013.

1. From a talent prespective The Bills are in the bottom third. 2. In addition they have a net loss of players by a wide margin in the off season. 3. The Bills have only 6 draft picks. The Bills have more holes to fill on this roster than they did prior to the start of last season and they have lost more players than most teams via free agency. It figures that the Bills have a lot of job openings. The Bills look to be in the thick of the race for the number one pick in the draft next season.

San Francisco has 14 picks in next years draft. The Bills have 6. The Bills have lost a large number of players this year to free agency. They have brought in one. Yes the Bills have been so bad for so long that the undrafted do have better opportunities here there is no doubt about that. I agree the draft is number one. Vet free agency is number two. UDFA and FA in general should be number three priorities but given more attention than they are now.

We clearly have more opportunities for jobs than other teams do. I don't know that the scouts need to do anything different than they are doing now I do not think that identifying who they are is a problem. It seems that in the past few years the Bills have brought in a lower number of UDFA's to camp than other teams do. Also some of the name players at critical positions seem to go to other teams that are already loaded. I fall off my chair every time a UDFA picks a team like New England. Perhaps the Bills need to increase the bonus cash for these players.

The undrafted ones. Post the April draft there will be 100 or so quality athletes that go undrafted. Some of those players will go on to have long and outstanding careers in the NFL. Some of them will play in the pro bowl. The Buffalo Bills will have more opportunities for such athletes than 90% of the other teams in the league. The Bills leadership needs to start banging the drums now with the agents that influence these players to make the Bills the preferred destination for such players. This regime needs to have the most successful UDFA signings in Bills history this season. Out recruiting the competition should be among the top goals for the front office this season.

"An offensive guard like Warmack would earn a very high player grade. But he wouldn't earn as high a grade on the game changer dimension, because there aren't as many opportunities for an OG to be a game changer ..." I think the presence of CJ Spiller at RB could change the Impact of a player like Warmack. If you are in a position to run the ball for a TD no matter the D a player like Warmack becomes a much bigger factor.

BPA all the way. I would be tempted to draft for need if they were a contender and one or two players away. They are not a contender and worse than that they have lost ground to thier AFC rivals in the last three years. The talent level vrs the rest of the league and especially the AFC east needs dramatic improvement and it is going to take a long time (3-5 years) of getting better players than the competition at more positions than the competition has better players than they have. I know that is not a great sentence but it is the truth.

Don't hold your breath waiting for the Bills to sign a Free agent wide receiver worth the money. It's not going to happen. Top level Free Agent wide receivers go to teams who are 1. contenders, 2. have QB's who can actually get them the ball. The Bills are neither. In the rare case that a big name FA wr would come here it would be because no one else wants him or the Bills were willing to grossly over pay him. - Example the Owens case. The last time I can remember the Bills getting a free agent WR who was worth anything was James Lofton, that was when we had a future HOF QB.

I agree with everyone on this board 1. No QB's in this draft are worth a first round choice 2. Two QB's will be drafted in the first round of this draft. It is highly unlikely that either of the QB's drafted will ever win a Super Bowl.

I would draft Colin Klein late. Tell him we will give him a shot in the QB competition during mini camp. If he is not in the top three he gets converted to TE.

I cannot. I do know that Nix should be gone already.

My confidence level in Buddy Nix is at an all time low. The Fitz contract was a disaster and set the franchise back years. I do not want him deciding who the next QB is.

I originally voted yes but I am having second thoughts. I cannot believe that the Bills have as many holes to fill as they do. This team is going to have a lot of UDFA's and other teams castoffs playing key positions in next couple of years. The Bills franchise is the opposite of New England. It seems that the Bills are constantly scraping to fill holes and the good teams just reload with outstanding depth. It reminds me of what a guy once told me that if you redistributed all the wealth in the world within a generation most of it would be concentrated in a few hands again.

I completely agree anyone who watched these QB's knows that there is not a top 15 guy in the bunch. There are some outstanding WR's, LB's, D Lineman and O lineman as well. Truly gifted all pro types that the Bills would have to pass on the draft a QB. Heck there are even three TE that are going to start in the NFL for sure. The Bills need to go BPA at a position of need with the number one pick. Perhaps even the first two picks. And lord knows they have multiple needs. Next year there are some really interesting guys coming out at QB. They need a 3-5 year plan not a one year plan.

Nelson is a very good red zone receiver and short yardage receiver with excellent height. Perhaps the Bills are going to draft a TE high.

I do not like this we have no Quality TE to start the season. WR corps is depleated. Why any big time free agent WR would come to a program without a proven QB is beyond me. I would be shocked to seen a good free agent WR choose the Bills with the current QB situation no matter who they draft.

Keeping Fitz for another year makes sense from a football perspective. It's a PR nightmare though.

I was not impressed with his interview. I don't hate him just not particularly impressed. Not implessed with Geno Smith either. On the other hand I do like the way that EJ presents himself.

I am glad you wrote it because I was about to

NYS and expecially the NY metro area has gone off the deep end on disarming and prosecuting citizens. The irony is that some of the people who are pushing it the hardest ie: Bloomberg and Silver are people whose ancestors suffered the most when the Nazi's disarmed them prior to the most horrific act of genocide in human history. The British did the same thing in India after the American Revolution, they learned from history. If you are going to oppress people you had best disarm them.

This guy is screwed. In most states he did not commit a crime. Bowers will do a couple of years in prison, career gone. The anti gun nuts in NYC will lock him up and throw the key away.

Guys Richie Lucas was a number one draft choice before the leagues were merged there were less than half the number of teams that were drafting. He was also a Heisman nominee. You can't bust much bigger than he did.

Vick makes sense because the Bills exist for Ralph Wilson's pleasure and Ralph has gotten no pleasure watching the Bills lately. Vick puts them back in the spotlight. Ralph needs some fun and he needs it now.

I believe that Richie Lucas a QB from Penn State was the first, first rounder the Bills ever took. He was awful. I think that draft set the tone for most of those that followed.