Jerry Jabber

Here's where I think the problem is. Evans signed a 4 year $37.25 million dollar extension with the Bills. http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/baltimore-ravens/lee-evans/ Evans first year of that deal, he made $11,730,770, the second year $5,400,000, third & fourth years $ 3,275,000 with $3,000,000 bonuses each year. It seems Johnson's camp wants somewhere around $7-8 million a year, but the Bills would rather pay a lower yearly salary, but give bonuses to compensate. The two sides are suppose to meet this week (I believe) in Indy, so hopefully they can hammer out the details and resign Johnson.

I think it's very possible. I would love to see Jackson get 20-25 carries a game, with Spiller getting 10-15. I think with that amount of carries per game, it gives both RB's the best opportunity to be effective. With having only 1 RB get the majority of the carries, and the other only getting a handful, the RB with the less carries is always going to be ineffective, as we saw this past year when Jackson was the starter & Spiller was the backup, and again when Spiller was the starter and Choice was the backup.

Thanks for pointing that out. Now, all of us shouldn't be shocked if the Bills draft a TE in the first round. Granted, TE is a need, but pass rushers are the more important ones. But, the Cryptkeeper runs the show, so be prepared for a TE.

Not surprised with the Spiller pick, especially with the horrible picks from the previous 10 years. Don't get me wrong, Spiller is a very good player and could possibly turn out to be an elite RB in the league. There were rumors that the Bills were trying to trade back into the 1st round to get NT Dan Williams. At that time, with so many holes on the team, if there were teams willing to trade up to get the #10 pick from the Bills, the Bills should have done it, that way that had extra picks and have gotten a need (NT) in the process. The Pats have been doing a great job at that over the years.

In 2010, almost everyone scratched their heads when the Bills picked CJ Spiller in the first round, considering the enormous amount of holes on the team. But, was this pick ordered by Ralph Wilson? The article below states how Ralph feels the team need excitement: http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Ralph-Wilson-on-Tim-Tebow-Denver-panicked.html "The Denver Broncos gave up a lot to acquire former Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow, the much debated University of Florida quarterback. They traded their second-round, third-round and fourth-round picks to the Baltimore Ravens to obtain the 25th overall pick to land Tebow. In the opinion of Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson, it was a mistake. "Denver panicked,' Wilson said. "He's a good player but we had no interest in taking Tebow. We were not moving up to take Tebow." Bills general manager Buddy Nix and Wilson both denied that the Bills were interested in moving up to try to get Tebow. Wilson is thrilled with the acquisition of speedy Clemson running back C.J. Spiller. “I agree with Jon Gruden, I think he was the best player in the draft,’’ Wilson said. “We’ve been dull for 10 years … no excitement. We’ve got to create some excitement.’’ There have been rumors that Marv & Jauron wanted Revis, but Ralph wanted Lynch. Also, Eric Moulds stated the decision to put Rob Johnson in over Doug Flutie in the playoffs came "from upstairs" (meaning Ralph). My questions are, is Ralph ordering his management to choose certain players & draft picks? If so, is Ralph hurting the team by doing this?

Glad to hear proposals are being sent by both parties. I'd imagine Johnson will sign by the end of the month.

Happy Birthday Jim!!

You're absolutely right!! I'd rather the Bills go out and get proven talent for the secondary, instead of using high draft picks on the backfield. The pass rush sucks and it has sucked for years now. The Bills need DE's & OLB's that can rush the passer, can set the edge so the RB can't blow by everyone, and are good in run support.

Glad AVP landed on his feet. I heard him on Shredd & Ragan a few weeks ago saying he was at the Senior Bowl, basically talking to everyone trying to land a job.

Boldin & their TE Pitta are good weapons. Torrey Smith showed flashes this past year that he can be a player, but the Ravens need another option at WR and a better kicker. IMO, the Pats got lucky beating the Ravens, but sometimes that's what you need.

If the 1st round pick isn't a DE or OLB, I'd rather it be spent on a LT.

My Great-Grandfather served in WWI and died in 1983. It's sad hearing that there are no more WWI vets around. I always found this story from WWI to be very interesting: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2011/12/peace-on-the-western-front-goodwill-in-no-mans-land-the-story-of-the-world-war-i-christmas-truce/

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I agree about the coordinators as well. The Pats have not won the Superbowl since Weiss & Crennel left. I also believe Pioli & Dimitroff are better judges of talent than Belichek. Also, the Pats have not had a good run game since Dillon left.

There are a bunch of factors, including Spygate you could use. When the Pats won their 3 superbowls they had: Romeo Crennel as their DC Charlie Weiss as their OC Scott Pioli as their GM Thomas Dimitroff as their Asst. GM Corey Dillon as their RB IMO, those are all important factors on why the Pats haven't been as successful.

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Damn, took a while for that to post!

Metallica or Ozzy for halftime.

I'd rather see a band actually perform live instead of lip-syncing. Plus, I'd rather see a 30 something Fergy move around, than a 54 year Madonna moving around on the ground.

This halftime show is one of the worst I've ever seen. It's painfully obvious Madonna is lip-syncing this. Plus, the music sucks!!!

As of right now, the Bills have 9 draft picks for the upcoming draft. According to Chris Brown from buffalobills.com, the Lynch trade could bring the Bills a 5th rounder, plus with the loss of Posluszny, the Bills could get a compensatory pick (making it 10 total picks): "The Bills got a fourth-round pick in this years draft for Lee Evans from Baltimore. As for the Lynch trade it was a conditional sixth-round pick that could become a fifth-round pick. From what I understand the chances are good that it will be a fifth-round pick, but because it is a conditional agreement, those conditions agreed upon by the two clubs must be confirmed by the league as being satisfied. That has yet to happen. Additional information here

I agree. The Bills have wasted too many 1st round draft picks on RB's & CB's, and let good defensive players like Pat Williams, London Fletcher and Takeo Spikes go.

I wrote this pretty much bashing the organization as a whole for the past 10 years. Even though the last time the Bills had a great defense was under Donahoe (by bringing in Sam Adams, Takeo Spikes and London Fletcher), he failed to resign Pat Williams and let Dick LeBeau go. I would have loved it if the Bills kept LeBeau as their DC. Marv Levy hired Jauron and let Jauron have his way with the defense the Bills ran and most of the draft picks. The Tampon 2 defense sucked. Smaller, faster players on defense only work in warm weather cities or cities with domes. Levy got rid of Fletcher & Spikes, drafted Whitner over Ngata. Jauron sold the Bills FO on Maybin, and Brandon drafted Maybin over Orakpo/Matthews/Oher. While Boss Hogg & Cooter have been working on the interior of the D-line (because they sucked against the run), they have failed to address the pass rush (as of yet). The Merriman experiment has been failing miserably so far. I expect the Bills to add 2 pass rushers, but IMO, that is not going to be enough.

+2. Even Boss Hogg stated "You should draft 1 or 2 corners every year". Wrong philosophy IMO. If you have a great pass rush, then you don't need to have a great secondary. If the opposing QB has all day long in the pocket to make a pass, eventually someone on offense will get open (as we've seen from the Bills for years now).

Kyle Williams had surgery to remove a bone spur (that he played through his entire college career) that was cutting into his achillies tendon. It's not like he ruptured his achillies or had similar problems like Merriman has.