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Agreed. He can't have it both ways and quite frankly, it's not even possible. Coaches coach. They belong on the sideline and should just focus on that.

I like the change. It's good for the game.

Honk.

It's not a lack of interest in Cowher. His demands are just too high and a little unreasonable. He wants to run the show completely. He want to bring in all of his own people. On the sidelines and in the front office. Most teams either have a GM or want to hire their own, not have Cowher hire one.

Still Beastmode. That was one helluva run.

The player that needs to be cut the most is the same player who has needed to be cut the last three years. He's also the player we keep giving contract extensions to. Chris Kelsay.

I'm quite offended that a 7-9 team is in the playoffs. 74 yards.

Isn't he the guy who got banned for ruining the Tim Graham thread?

Lol. Or he could pull an Eli and refuse to play for them, forcing a trade to the Niners.

While many will argue Miller is a reach at #3, he's a very good football player and represents the very best this draft has to offer at the 3-4 OLB position. 17 sacks last year. 10 this year despite an injury early in the season. The Butkus award winner has a bright future.

A number of factors resulted in the Bills acquiring Green. Butler's sudden and unexpected retirement, the lack a good free agent tackles and the way the draft shaked out. Rather than start 6th round picks, they thought they'd try their hand with him. It didn't work and they promptly cut bait. I'm not annointing Whaley as the next great GM. But he's certainly worked his arse off to get to where he is and has been directly involved in the building and shaping a winning program.

He's a great coach who has rapidly turned around a bad program and groomed one of the better QB prospects. He's done well and is the hot name in coaching, and as such he is getting a lot of looks. What ego? His phone is ringing off the hook with teams offering him in excess of $7 million a season to coach. Also, teams with star QBs generally don't have ongoing head coaching searches.

Keeping with Ralph's "promotion from within theme", Whaley will succeed Nix as GM provided he isn't poached by another team. But Whaley knows what he's doing and I'm excited he's on our team, brainstorming with Nix, improving our team. He'll be an excellent and worthy GM when the time is right.

Total disaster. Embarrassing too. Keep your coach but make him twist in the wind, publicly recruit and flirt with other coaches, then keep your coach but not tell him you've kept him.

I'll be so relieved when a rookie cap is official. The players should get the same size slice of the pie they're getting now but they need to divert the outrageous rookie wages to the proven vets. Too many busts have set franchises back years and years. Glad it's coming to an end.

Was so long ago, I can't remember the exact date. Winter of 1993, my dad had seasons's tickets to the Sabres back when they played at The Aud. A seven-year-old lets_go_bills was at the game. During the 2nd intermission we went to the restaurant in the arena. Sure enough, Jim Kelly and Kent Hull were there too, enyoing food and drink. Our waitress asked me if I knew who that was, looking to Jimbo. Mortified, I didn't say a word. She handed me a card that said "Reserved" on it, those cards they put on table at restuarants. She told me Jim wanted to meet me. I looked to my dad for reasurance and he encouraged me to go say hi. Slowly, I walked over, clutching the card in my two hands. Jim and Kent looked at me. The sheer size of Kent terrified me. I was so scared and nervous. Kent told me to come on over and told me to say hi to Jim. Jim asked me what my name was and I told him. He said it was nice to meet me, shook my hand and signed his autograph on the card. I said bye and walked back to my dad. He thanked the waitress and we paid our tab, returning to watch the rest of the game.

I can definately see that happening. With Luck out, they may give Clausen a chance and give him a stud to throw to.

This impacts us at #3 though. There is no QB worthy of a top 5 pick IMO. What will Carolina do now? This is interesting. Although not shocked at his decision, I am a bit surprised seeing how his HC is flirting with coming to the NFL. Maybe Harbaugh is gonna stay at Stanford. Maybe Luck truly did want to complete his degree. Maybe his advisors told him the chance of a lockout is too great and he'd lose a year of football. Maybe he wants a nation championship or a Heisman. Interesting decision because he was far and away the top prospect and virtual lock for #1 overall.

Good. This means we may have a shot at him next year.

Bowers, Fairley and Miller. These three front seven defenders are all worthy IMO.

Thank you sir. I can't recall the last time we beat the Pats. Tom Brady is unbelievably good. He's the only thing that keeps them going. We need to draft defenders who can pressure him and stop him. All AFC South teams drafted pass rushers because of having to face Manning twice a year. We need to do the same to Brady. Then and only then will we beat the Pats.

Another sarcastic and uninformed Bills fans. Don't get me wrong here, I'm not naive enough to think that after five NFL seasons Ryan Fitzpatrick is suddenly going to become a franchise QB. Far from it. He's not the guy and never will be. He's a really good back up. But he's been serviceable under Gailey's tutelage. He's made the team fun to watch and we were better off with him in the lineup. He makes some errant throws and frustrating picks, but he also makes some pretty great plays. 1:1 TD to INT ratio? Check your facts. In 13 games: 23 TDs, 15 INTs and 3000 yards. Good for an 81 QB rating. I found that surprising. Don't you?

Please read my post carefully. I'll reiterate. Luck is the ONLY Franchise QB in this draft. And he may not even declare. If he does, he's not falling to us at #3. Won't happen. Trading up is too costly and also won't happen. That means Mallett, Locker and Newton remain. I am not sold on any of them and they are not worthy of the #3 pick. Fitz has been decent enought to the point where we can put off drafting a QB for another year and not have to reach or gamble on one this year. But don't get me wrong here. We still need a Franchise QB and getting one is the only way we can move forward and win a championship. QB is the most important position in football and it is a QB driven league. No doubt. But anyone who watched the Bills play this year knows that the worst part of our entire team was the defensive front-seven. They got gashed on the ground all God damn year. They barely ppressured QBs and generated poor sack numbers. This has to be fixed and this is the year to do it.

As great as players like Amukamara, Peterson and Green are, we don't need CBs and WRs. We need front-seven beasts. I'm talking about guys like Bowers, Fairley, Quinn, and Miller. Any one of these guys can contribute right away. We need to boost a porous run defense that ranked dead last this year and has been a major Achilles heel for this team for a number of years. Front-seven players are what we need and they are plentiful this year.

Yeah, I agree. Problem is, there's only one Franchise QB in this draft, and he may not even declare. Since Fitz has been good, we can put off drafting a QB for at least another year or two until there's one we really want. I'm not sold on Locker, Mallett or Newton.