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It does say something about Byrds ability in runstopping support, but I think that he showed great improvement in that area as the season got on (specifically remember an absolute suicide over the top dive to stop the runningback on the line), he most certainly got more aggressive in that area. He has a nose for picks thats for sure and i'm pretty sure you don't simply loose that instinct. The pressure of being run on time and time again may have rustled him a little bit with the result being a bit more restless and therefor more reserved with regards to ball hawking but it may also explain the situations where he just gave up too much field making him late for tackles in some situations. I think he may turn out to be absolute elite if he applied his lessons learned from last year well.

Actually it was yungmack who made it sound like the al;l purpose yards were a positive, DreReed83 merely corrected me using/mixing up yards from scrimmage versus the all purpose yards. Edit: bottomline CJ has a lot to proof this year.

Ow man... I wish the lockout was done and we'd been having our OTA's. Solid analyses/opinion imho. Urbik could indeed be a diamond in the rough I liked him as well. With regards to CJ, I think thats a huge IF. He needs to be able to block in order to get RB/WR production or they need to put him in a hyrbid RB/WR role where you always put 3 receivers on the field, the point is that he should not be a play giveaway when put in.

Ok... But that is a terrible stat to use as it does not say anything about his quality as a RB or even total value to the team especially since it's in direct correlation with the number of attempts. Looking at his average of 23.0 he ranks 22nd out of 39 players who returned a kick last year classifying him as a below average kick returner. Given the fact that 1143 of his all purpose yards came from kick returns, I'd say that the stat is pretty meaningless and I'd stop throwing it around. He's been below average in receiving, running, kick returning. His punt return average of 14.6 is promising but also misleading because it's very dependent on field position, his 12 attemtps didnt qualify him for ranking though (20 att minimum, had he had 20 with 14.6 he would have ranked 8th). So even though he ranks 4th historically on all purpose yards for Bills rookies it's not saying anything other then that he was given a lot of opportunity, more so then other rookies historically. Also keep in mind that he fumbled 5 (!!!) times of which he lost 3, one oob and recovered only 1. No CJ did not have a good year, cant twist history to make it so that he did. Also if you look back at what Chris Johnson did in his rookie year (4.9 average) I'd almost say it's time to get worried, hopefully he'll show decent improvement this year.

Huh, he had 440 total yards; 283 rushing and 157 receiving. Fred had 1142 overall, 4.2 average rushing where as CJ had 3.8 rushing. Total for Fred and CJ adds to 1582, add Lynch and we'll prolly a little over 1600.

But please don't forget there will be errors made in their growth, some might even cost us a game or two. 2012 is where it's at, defense wise.

Sounds legit enough, the Bills-Toronto series is a flop so far. London makes sense as a destination for a NFL team as does LA, the London series have been sold out (100k seats) every game, timezone wise it fits perfectly (early EST game = normal game time in London), language is english, infrastructure experience is there from both NFL Europe and the International series. What I fail to understand is why move teams and not just add teams. Ow and Goodell gives absolutly nothing about fans, it's all about the money. When they folded NFL Europe they promised to give Germany one NFL game per year, which never happened. NFL Europe was BIG in Germany, Frankfurt Galaxy used to draw crowds bigger then soccer (57k last game, see youtube: ). Europe as a market is much smaller then anything in the US, for instance The Amsterdam Admirals drew 80% of it's crowd from the Amsterdam Area, cities like Rotterdam, Utrecht and The Hague had people interested in seeing American Football but refusing to go to Amsterdam due to their adversery against AJAX Amsterdam (soccer). Those cities are within a 100km radius of each other, a distance most of you most likely find a normal distance to drive to in order to get to the Bills. The operating loss of NFL Europe was only 10 million US$ per year, yet it delivered in training Front Office personell, Refs, Coaches and players whilst at the same time promoting the product NFL. To put that into perspective Goodell earns more then 10 million a year himself or say a player like Kurt Warner who was picked up by Al Luginbill and put under contract with the Rams due to Al Luginbill lobby-ing with the Rams to do so (he needed a contract with an NFL team in order for him to be allowed to have him play for the Amsterdam Admirals) was awarded a contract worth 54$ for 5 years coming straight out of NFL Europe. The only reason Goodell put an end to NFL Europe was because of a select group of whining owners (Jerry) and him wanting to show who the new boss on the block was (NFL Europe was PT his child). The 10 million loss could have easily handled by putting a 10% give back fee into the player contracts (prolly would have meant the league would have turned a profit of 20 million or more a year). Errr anyway.... i ranted off into NFL Europe frustration... Point is this, we had/have guys with tatooes, the works and the fanbase gave it their all, investment parties were interested in taking over NFL Europe from the NFL yet Goodell simply didnt care. And Goodell wont care about the Bills selling out their games if it means there can be more money made by relocating, Ralph cares but if Ralph isnt with us anymore there wont be any stopping Goodell.

My first thought was... wait... what... We get rid of Modrak and then rehire a Modrak clone? Guess we'll have to trust Buddy on this hire but it doesn't bode well.

Allthough I fully expected to see an immediant improvement, I also fully expect our D to make costly mistakes this year. It's almost an entire new unit.

please continue posting these links, much appreciatted! Edit: maybe you guys can lure Hamdan into a gig as well?

Anything can happen in a high stakes poker game...

I've seen that quote referenced in a thread elsewhere as well. IMHO it doesnt matter if Modrak pulled the trigger or not, he created the draft board, if you order the board with 1. reach 2. reach 3. gadget 4. good player the people pulling the trigger are bound to be making bad decisions because of the poor grading/ordering. That said why is it that the last two drafts with Nix involved have been much better, wasnt Modrak still making the boards? Or did Nix take over the board creation duty? Or was Nix able to read Modraks board as it should have been read and was he able to see through the projects/reaches/gadgets and skip to the good players?

Disolving and restarting the league would open the road for competition, and competition there will be then. Investors will jump for the opportunity to setup a new league, give the players what they want and sign 90% of all the big names.

A year late but the house has been cleaned completly now right?

If (IF) our defense manages to be around 5th overall then the offense will be much better by default too, simply because points on the board are of higher value then having to go in a put a TD on the board every other set set of downs.

If Luck is anything like he was this year, all of our picks.

Marcel the Trashman loves taking out the garbage

He's right, we need one thing, nothing else... The Lombardy Thropy!

Sure, but listen to what he says "should be competing for starting quarterback very soon"

FFS.... "The uploader has not made this video available in your country." Anyone have a working link of that vid?

Funny how we always complain about reaches and how over a third of the board wants to make the obvious (otherwise he would not have fallen this deep) gamble on DaQuan Bowers (yes that includes myself).

Hmmmm you do know this was allready posted before AND even reposted before (same page as this thread) plus you posted a restircted youtube vid (ie cant see it outside of the US. Ouside US link: http://www.cbssports...gs/TSX/2011_OLB Edit: hmm that comes out a bit more harsh then I meant it to be... blame it on me getting only 4 hours of sleep due to having watched the draft... :\

I'd rather have Brooks Reed both ayers and houston make the bust detector go whooop whoooop whoooooop, btw great overview of all olb prospects here: http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/prospectrankings/TSX/2011_OLB

i'd be happy with either Bowers, Houston or Mallet. Houston is the safest pick there and fills another need. However both Bowers and Mallet could work out as being awesome picks but both are a gamble.

That tweet is from march 29th... prolly was on his way to the first team that invited him over for a looksy Edit: sven233 caught it first or types faster