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One difference is that the Pats generally take lineman high in the draft and skilled players later. The Bills, especially lately, take skilled players high and lineman later.

I can't imagine there's reason to have surgery if there isn't a break or a ligament tear of some kind. It's just a matter of where the injury was, how quickly it heals, and how much it limits RP from catching the ball as to when he comes back. The 'good' thing is that it shouldn't limit his conditioning. Hell, put a red jersey on him and let him practice - just keep the ball away.

I could be wrong, but I believe you can only hear the music channels online.

Willis does best when the Bills are up by 15-21 points (6.1 YPC). I recommend the Bills lead by that many points in every game.

Someone wanted to know what a typical 3rd rounder was. Those links provide it for recent years where you can get a feel for it. No opinion was made. Settle down. It's amazing how uptight so many of you are.

2002 Draft - Round 3 2001 Draft - Round 3 2000 Draft - Round 3 1999 Draft - Round 3

Yeah, Cleveland is the exact market the NBA wants Lebron in. I think the more interesting thing, that no one mentioned, is that it's going to be a serpentine draft.

Exactly. People that get upset by things like this are too insecure with their own opinions.

Well, Travis Henry won't be leaving as a 1300+ yard back. He'll have two years of low production (unless Willis gets hurt). What's the specific criteria for determining compensation? Is it salary? Stats?

I think he's borderline at best. * He went to the Pro Bowl 7 times. Good, but not great. To go to the Pro Bowl you just have to be a top 8 WR (more or less). * He had just *5* seasons with 70 or more receptions (and two of those seasons were 71). * Look at the receptions each year: 48 53 57 71 88 71 81 65 52 90 24 66 60 63 52 10. That doesn't say HOFer to me. * He had just one season with 10 TDs, and never any more than that. In only 4 seasons did he average half a TD/game. * Career YPC - 13.9 yards - nothing special for his time. * Top 10 leaders (rank in parenthesis): -- Receptions: 5 (8, 2, 10, 5, 6) -- Yards: 3 (5, 6, 5) -- TDs: 4 (6, 6, 5, 8) So out of receptions, yards, and TDs - the measuring sticks of WRs - Reed was in the elite (top 3) once in his career. There's two things that Reed has going for him - 1. He played on one of the dominating offensive teams of his era; and 2. He had a very good player for a very long time and rarely was injured, which allowed him to accumulate a lot of stats. Art Monk is actually a pretty good statistical comp for Reed - someone that played a long time but rarely was among the elite WRs in the league, and Monk's having a pretty tough time getting in. I don't see why Reed is any different. It essentially boils down to how low you want to lower the bar for entry into the HOF. I prefer the highest standards myself, so if I were to vote I'd vote no. And just for the record, among Bills from this period I would have Levy, Kelly, Thomas, Bruce, and Tasker in the HOF.

Let's see....NO team would give the Bills a 3rd round pick for Henry this year. But the Eagles will give one next year, and then also trade their All Pro kicker for a kicker most people here can't get rid of fast enough? Yeah, I could see the Eagles doing that. Maybe if you include Sam Aiken the Eagles will also throw a 1st round pick in the deal. I hear they need a WR.

Purple. I've always wondered why 'smurfs', a term from the 80s, is still being used to describe smaller WRs.

It'd be nice to see a list of all the UDFAs so far to go up with the threads of the players drafted.

I think we'll find out after the draft that there's something more with Hawthorne that isn't public. It doesn't make sense that every team would pass on him this many times.

The Bills must have felt Brown was better as they took Preston.... I'll trust the scouts & McNally on this one.

Unless he's a felon I'd like to see the trigger pulled here. Must be time for a commercial!

Yeah, gotta watch out for those hardcore drugs like marijuana.

Anttaj Hawthorne is still out there. I think Scott Young out of BYU will be the choice.

I enjoy Kirwan on the radio by far more than any other analyst.

Go Canes!

They cheat. I believe it's from cap issues several years ago.

8 picks to go. I have a feeling the next pick will be somebody that most people would have been happy with in round 2.

Having 3 good receivers doesn't mean you can't be smash mouth. I seem to remember the Bills having success at one time running the ball in a 3 WR formation.

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Evan Mathis and Elton Brown are both still out there on offense at guard. Anttaj Hawthorne is still there at DT.