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Oddly enough if you look at the Bills Pro Shop and see the Jerseys they have available, Wire is one of the 11 current Bills that they have home replicas for. For that matter so is Josh Reed.

You're right that it doesn't mean that the bone was sticking out of the skin but it does mean that the skin was broken. The fracture you're talking about it called a Comminuted Fracture.

How does one play football with a bone sticking out of their hand?

Some kind of support? You want stats that say he was bad? There is more to being a S than simply nabbing a handful of INTs in a season and calling it a good season. Vincent was late getting over consistently last year. Multiple times a game he'd arrive much too late to a sideline pattern or not be in position when a WR broke free over the middle. Milloy played poorly last year but at least he had the injury excuse. Vincent was supposed to be a guy that excelled in coverage as the FS spot but he reacts much too slowly to what's happening on the field (or perhaps he reads it too slowly but whatever it is he's out of position all the time). So no, I can't give you cold hard stats that say, "look at this, he sucks" but if you watch the games you can consistently see that both safeties struggled last year.

You can defend any picks with this line of defense. If the Bills had the first choice in the draft and they chose Whitner would you say the same thing? People would be calling it a "huge reach" and you could come back with this defense. Would you? Or would you be pissed that the Bills reached for him? If you wouldn't defend Whitner with the first pick of the draft then you also believe in getting "value" out of the picks. If the Bills had the first pick in the draft and absolutely had to have Whitner wouldn't you want them to trade down and pick up more picks in the process? Wouldn't there be a chance that he'd be gone by then because "nobody knows" if someone would take him before the Bills got a chance? We're talking about the same thing here the above is just an extreme example but it does illustrate that just about everybody has some concept of "value" in these drafts.

Exactly what I've been saying. The Bills lost value because they fell in love with a few players. A team with this many holes can't afford to fall in love with specific players.

What exactly is this supposed to prove? That the "experts" aren't right all the time? Umm, okay, I think we can all agree on that. Obviously the team's GMs aren't correct all the time as your examples also demonstrate. So, despite that the GMs "know more than the fans" they can also be wrong.

If you're going to tout the 3rd round pick as a "steal" because he had a "1st round grade" then you have to criticize the first two picks as huge reaches. It's called consistency. You can't say that the draftnicks don't know what they're talking about for the first two guys and then turn around and use their grades to call the 3rd pick a "steal".

You realize if the Bills won the east Mort would give the credit to TD and his past player personel decisions.

That's a great analogy...except that RJ was a physical specimen with a 10 cent head and Leinart lacks some physical skills but his decision making is top notch. That being said I didn’t want to see the Bills select Leinart. I think Leinart will be a fine QB but he wasn't a good fit considering the Bills many needs.

If he answered that you might have to beat him so severally that he'd have to drink his meals through a straw the rest of his life...and you'd be ecstatic about it.

I think you'll see them both on the field more often than you think. Probably not on short yardage or obvious running plays but on 2nd and 3rd and long I'd imagine they'll be lined up together.

That looks like a good draft but at some point Arizona is going to have to stop opposing teams from scoring. Denny Green thinks he's putting together a fantasy football team.

Lacrosse team, get it right.

While you are absolutely correct this is also the same line that people have used the last 5 years to defend bad drafts. While TD certainly knows more about football than any of us it didn't prevent those people who bashed the drafts in years past from being correct. Just knowing more than the fans who are criticizing doesn’t mean the draft is a good one. As someone on ESPN said early, "the great thing about the draft is that everybody has an opinion and NOBODY is wrong, at least on draft day."

He's the guy that ultimately calls the shots when it comes to football operations. He's the guy that decided to go with the “consensus idea” so when the "consensus" makes these picks he's still the guy that has to answer for it.

I'm curious what the Bills are saving all this cap room for? How is Nate "too expensive" when the Bills are in the neighborhood of 9 million under the cap?

Walt "Bend But Don't Break" Cory was forcing teams to go 3 and out?

If the Bills are looking to make a run next year (which is the realistic time-table) the smart move would have been to address the OL this year. That way they had a year of seasoning before they were expected to be productive. The way this has panned out we have to hope for a super sleeper tomorrow or hope that by some miracle quality OL hit FA next year and we're able to outbid the rest of the league for them. I don't mind the Youboty pick in terms of value but damn this team needs some quality OL. This seems like the same strategy TD used for the OL which got us nowhere. At some point you have to pony up and spend high round draft picks on the OL.

Just out of curiousity how can you use the guru rankings to defend a pick now and say they don't know what they're talking about with the first few picks?

While I wouldn't have been happy with this pick in the first round, or even early second, but he would be a solid round 3 pick even with his injury history.

I would hope that there aren't many people that believe their opinions to be facts.

Nobody is arguing that they weren't old and on the decline. My point is that these holes were created by the new regime. There was no rush to replace those guys with 1st-rounders this year. They could have used later picks to groom behind them or let the draft come to them in the early rounds and still gotten players to replace them this year. If the latter happened they could have then cut Milloy and Adams after the draft. If they didn't find early picks to replace them then they could groom some other players behind those guys or found their replacements next year. There was absolutely no hurry to rid the team of them.

You are being just as presumptuous as I am so give yourself an eye-roll too.

Is this like "Love it or Leave it"? Somehow criticizing your team equates to not loving them? I'd think it's just the opposite; those that sit there complacently don't care enough to form an opinion.