KOKBILLS

Kolb is Starter Material...Vick just played better when he got the shot...Andy Reed knows QB's...If he made Kolb the Starter and Traded McNabb with that in mind believe you and me Kolb can Start in the NFL...I'm not saying he's the next coming...But he's a Starter... Kolb's Started 6 Games in his career...He's 3-3 as a Starter but in his 3 Wins he had 6 TD's vs. 1 INT and Completed 72% of his Passes...He's certainly better than a few QB's Starting in the NFL right now...I'm not saying Philly will get a #1 for him but the word is that's what they want...I'm sure if Vick keeps playing well they'll take a 2nd Rounder...I think a 3rd for Kolb would be a steal, especially if you run the WCO...

Amen to that! I'd take Luck or Mallett and be thrilled about it!!! Literally ecstatic!

If the Bills end up with the 1st or 2nd Pick in the Draft AND Luck comes out I would not be surprised at all to see Buddy try and re-live the 04 Draft...Trade down a few spots, grab some extra Picks, and still end up with Mallett...Right now that would be my personal best-case-scenario...But a lot can change in 6 Months...

They'll trade Kolb more than likely...I can't see how they are going to be able to keep Kolb OK with being #2 for another Year...He can start for a whole bunch of NFL Teams today...They're going to back-up a Pick-up truck full of cash and dump it on Vick's driveway...The Eagles are going to want a bit for Kolb...A #1 for sure I imagine...Should be interesting...I would not be surprised to see Minnesota and San Fran go hard after Kolb...

Interesting...Look I'm not going to sit here and say Mallett is the most accurate QB in the world, but 67% completion while playing in the SEC is certainly not bad...I understand the whole completion % vs. accuracy argument floating around...But I gotta say...There is some SERIOUS over-Scouting going on around here concerning Mallett...It's the kind of stuff that happens every year with Prospects like Mallett who on the surface seem to good to be true... The questions with Mallett today are the same as they were yesterday and last year...Does he have the drive, dedication, and love for Football that will allow him to be a great NFL QB? Can he handle the distractions and is he mature enough? Those are all legit questions and concerns with Mallett...Athletically, arm-wise, accuracy...not so much...He's no less athletic than Tom Brady...In fact he's way MORE athletic than Brady was coming out...He's a more accurate QB coming out of the SEC than Eli was...Not that he's the most accurate, but he shows plenty of accuracy along with his crazy arm-strength to be the #1 overall Pick in just about any NFL Draft...It's the intangibles that are going to decide Mallett's ultimate Draft fate...Not accuracy...

You're over-generalizing on the Clausen vs. Luck comparison...There is none actually...OK they play the same position...But Luck will enter the NFL with a MUCH higher Grade and a heck of a lot more hype than Clausen could ever dream of. No matter when Luck comes out...There actually is not an Andrew Luck every Year because there is not a QB who most feel will go #1 Overall every Year...In fact a QB has been chosen #1 Overall 13 of the past 25 Years (In no certain order Couch, Bledsoe, Russell, Carr, George, A. Smith, Stafford, Palmer, Vick, Testeverde, Eli Manning, Aikman, and Peyton Manning) so it's about one every other Year...Russell is more of a fair comparison but he definitely did not have the intangibles that Luck is said to have...He did have a stronger arm though...Clausen was never considered a #1 Overall-type QB and certainly not after his Sophomore Year.. I know it may seem like splitting hairs...Just saying...

Final piece? So were the Manning Brothers the final piece in Indy and NY? What about Matt Ryan in Atlanta? Final Piece? Unless you Traded to get into the Top of the Draft did you not pretty much have to suck the Year before? If the QB's name is Luck or Mallett then absolutely, 100%, positively yes...I would spend whatever it took...That's what great Teams do...Were The Jets afraid to gamble with Favre after going 4-12? Were they then afraid to Trade up and grab the Rookie in the Top 10? Spending the money on the right QB should be the absolute last worry...And of coarse there is risk...There is always risk when you're trying to be excellent...I'll be the first one to say right here there is plenty of risk in taking a QB high...But sooner or later, if you have the opportunity, it's a risk you have to take if you want to be great...And you trust in your Coaches and Scouting Staff that you will be able to fill all the other holes... I swear...With some of the stuff I read around here it makes me wonder if certain Bills Fans are just plain scared of taking the chance at being better than good...There's no magic formula necessarily...But one thing is certin...It's a HELL of a lot easier to do with a great QB...And of coarse no one knows for certain if Luck or Mallett is going to be great...But at this point it's a chance The Bills HAVE to take if they want to spark this Franchise...I'm confident if they have that chance they will take it...And I'll commend them for doing so...Because if they do so they'll prove to me they are trying to be not just good, but great...

Agree 100%... And I think it should also be noted that Fitz should be just about a perfect back-up type for a young QB...He'll have a ton of experience, he's obviously smart enough and enough of a Team guy to really help a young Franchise guy...

Right...Okey doke... Of the last 9 Super Bowl winners only the Tampa Bay Bucs were not built around a QB...Big Ben, Eli and Peyton were all Top 10 Picks...Where would New Orleans or The Patsies be without Brees or Brady? How many Teams would have been more than happy to give a Top 10 Pick for either Brady or Brees had they known what type of QB's and leaders they would turn out to be...Half of the NFL Network is touting Atlanta as the best Team in the NFC...The same Falcons built around QB Matt Ryan...The Ravens bounced back into Title contention after they Drafted Flacco even though their Defense is no where near as good as it used to be...The Packers saved the future of their Franchise by Drafting Aaron Rodgers when everyone else passed on him... The premise that good NFL Teams are not built around QB's is a joke...Sure you still have to support those good QB's with solid Defenses, a decent O-Line, and good skill position players...But it all gets easier when you get the star QB...Ryan Fitzpatrick is a solid Player, but no where near a great QB...If Luck comes out and The Bills Pick #1 Overall they will Draft Luck...Period end of story...If they feel any other QB is a Franchise QB and they are still around when The Bills Pick, they will pick that QB...It's all but a done deal...The only questions now are where will they Pick and who will Pick ahead of them that may take a QB...No matter what the odds are still against the Bills getting a 1st round QB purely because Luck likely stays in. But you can write this one in pen, if The Bills get the chance they will take the Franchise QB in the 1st Round...And they would be right to do so...

Right because that's all the NFL Draft is...The equivalent of picking a name out of a hat despite the millions of dollars spent on Scouting and Player evaluation every year...The fact is Teams that Scout and Draft well have a definitive advantage in the NFL...Now I'll give you the fact that The Bills have not been one of those Teams lately...But Drafting well in the Top 5 can catapult a Team...Look at the Falcons before they Drafted Matt Ryan...Think Ryan's not worth every penny they paid him so far?

Right cause that's gonna happen... I'd rather have the #1 Overall Pick...May not be popular, but it's EXACTLY what this Team needs...Leverage...

The 4th Quarter vs. Alabama killed Mallett this year...But to his credit he brushed it off and went forward positively...Take out that 4th Quarter alone vs. Alabama and Mallett is in the running for the Heisman no question...But I think he needed that letdown to mature a bit more...The last INT he threw in that Game was pure laziness...And I doubt you'll see that from him any more...He's still a work in progress, but his upside is limitless if he's willing to put the work in...And that's really the only question with Mallett...It's not how good he could be cause he's already got everything he needs physically to be great in the NFL...It's how good he wants to be and how hard he's willing to work to get there once money is not an issue in his life...How much does he love Football?...How much does he love the X's and O's?...How obsessed is he with being the best? How much Film work is he willing to do to be the best?...Etc, etc... Excellent Post Brandon and what I've been saying around here for weeks now... Watch this Arkansas Team Folks...Just go back and watch the Games this year...This IS NOT a Team on par with Alabama and Auburn in overall talent but Mallett has elevated this Team with his presence and it's as clear as day...Just watch them and tell me you can't see it...It's tangible... Newton is a HUGE risk up top (Top 5-10) but I think in the end he could be a better version of Vince Young...And I have NO idea what that ends up being...But nonetheless...

OK...Soapbox is firmly in place...Stepping up...Now... Outside of non-football type of influences, ie...positive drug test, etc...There is absolutely, positively no possible way Ryan Mallett will last until Round #2...If he does what he's done so far over the next few weeks he's going to have the 2 year SEC Resume...Then he's going to have Workouts and Interviews...When he throws the Ball in front of Scouts and GM's they are going to collectively drool...His arm has been compared to a Rocket-Launcher...And we all know how NFL Scouts react to arms like that...He's had 2 years under Petrino, so as long as he's polite enough he'll be able to answer football questions at the white-board...Then they are going to ask College Head Coaches about him and guys like Darth Visor and Saban are going to sing his praises...I'm assuming that opposing Coaches are going to sing his praises true enough, but I have little doubt based on the way he played (in general) vs. those Teams...I'm going to go ahead and assume all these things work out satisfactorily for Mallett because until Draft Day he will have a certain amount of control over his destiny...If these factors do work out for him, Mallett does not get out of the Top 10 in any NFL Draft...Ever...WAY too much upside...Granted he may be a boom or bust type in some ways when you're talking about a Top 5 Pick in the Draft...But I think most NFL scouts are going to see Mallett as Joe Flacco with a stronger arm on the Downside and a more accurate, more athletic Drew Bledsoe on the upside...And when you're looking for a Franchise QB that's definitely good enough to use a Top 10 Pick on... Ok...getting down now...

Mallett's a Poser huh? Cause he had a bad Quarter vs. Alabama? I'm pretty sure South Carolina, Georgia, Auburn, and Texas A&M Fans would differ with your expert analysis... There's so much nonsense in that Post I don't know where to start...And don't get me wrong I know Mallett is not perfect and I like the Murray Kid...But what his heart has to do with how good a QB Mallett will be in the NFL? What? And glaringly obvious Mallett is not "clutch?" To who? Was Murray clutch while his Team lost tonight? I don't get the logic here at all...Are you just a jealous Georgia Fan still licking his wounds from the Mallett led loss they gave the Bulldogs at Georgia early on this year? And Mallett's lurch-like physique had a 14 yd rushing TD today...His 4th rushing TD to go along with 24 Passing TD's this Season...As a Bills Fan I would warm up to Mallett a bit more if I was you...The chances of him becoming the next Buffalo Bills QB go up with every good performance he has....And he seems to have a good one every Saturday lately...I mean you can just hate him until he gets here and hate on him more next year when he's a struggling Rookie...You'll have that to look forward to...

SD was forced into that deal because Eli did not want to go there...The Bills could EASILY be forced into the same type of thing with Luck... Honestly, a few extra Picks and still coming away with Ryan Mallett would be fine by me...Especially if an extra #1 in 2012 was included in the package...

Right... The 3-4 is and epic fail because The Bills can't run it well in their 1st year transitioning to it... Meanwhile the Steelers, Chargers, Jets, and Ravens don't look too awful bad running the 3-4...I think it's got a lot more to do with personnel and who's Coaching it than the Defense itself... Just saying...

Seriously??? Well...Maybin certainly does not have to be too smart to get where he's got so far...There are plenty of idiot millionaires in Pro sports...Plenty...What got him those millions was what he was born with athletically...Not his brain...Which, based on those lyrics, is not exactly spewing out the smartest stuff I've ever read... I realize it's your thing to police the Player hating...But this is a case where Maybin gets EXACTLY what he deserves...Anyone with a half a brain would be FAR too embarrassed to have something like this out there for public consumption if they had the lack of Professional Production Maybin has had to this point...I mean...the lyrics would be brutally bad regardless...But at least if he was backing it up on the Field it would be impossible to give him a hard time about it... In this case I'd say don't hate the Player hater, hate the Player...But maybe that's just me...

Holy crap...I just got infinitely stupider for reading that...I'll never be the same...I think I'm calling in tomorrow...I'm too stupid to work anymore... That has to be the dumbest thing I've ever read...The fact that he can't even get on the field makes it almost unbelievable... Oh man...

Rarely, if ever, am I without words... After reading that I just thought... Oh Boy!

This is an interesting point...According to most of the "experts" Singletary is a gone for almost certain...It would really be a twist in this whole thing if Harbaugh got that job...That would be pretty awesome!!! Of coarse I'm a Michigan Fan too, and I would not mind seeing Harbaugh head that way either...

Further proof there is and active "We want the Bills to suck for another decade" campaign out there alive and well...

I don't know...You'll have to ask that question to Darth Visor or one of the other SEC HC's who Mallet has carved up... He's not without fault by any stretch...But anyone who feels (at this point of the evaluation process) that Mallett is not currently a consideration for a Top 5 NFL Draft Pick in 2011 should simply stick to observing a Sport that is a little easier to understand...Maybe something like checkers... A lot can change by April...Mallett could fall flat on his face or test positive for something...Who knows? But rest assured if Mallett finishes out the season strong, has decent workouts and interviews, he'll be a consideration for #1 overall...You can take that to the bank as well...

I wanted Cowher or Shanny and I wanted nothing to do with Fewell...I still feel the same way...He's a decent DC...Even better with good talent...I just don't think he's HC material yet...I will admit though that, at least right now, I'm not sure he would have been a worse choice than Gailey...We'll see how that whole thing plays out...

Or maybe after another Draft or two...

I doubt very much Mallett will be rated from 15-18 by the time April comes around...If he keeps up what he's doing now, interviews OK and has decent workouts throwing the Ball he'll be Rated in everyone's Top 10 bare minimum... Go ahead and re-do the 2004 Draft...Big Ben was rated right around where he went at #11 overall by most...But where would he go in the Re-Draft? Maybe #1 Overall? #2 or #3 for sure...I was just looking back at some Ratings before that 2004 Draft and Scott Wright from Draftcountdown had Big Ben Rated #4 Overall so good for him, but then he had Phillip Rivers Rated #22 Overall...So...Bottom line is simple...If you think Mallett is a Franchise QB, and Andrew Luck is either off the board or still at Stanford, you Draft him wherever you Pick...If you don't, you pass on him and take the best Defensive Lineman or OT you can get...It's really that simple... But like I said I doubt Mallett will be anything other than a Top 5 Pick by the time it's all said and done, assuming only that he keeps doing what he's doing...Which is completing 67% of his Passes while tearing up the best Conference in College Football week in and week out... 100% agree... While I like Mallett a lot, Luck is a no-brainer Pick if he comes out...His intangibles are off the Chart...