If you blew this team up, what 7 players would you keep?

[tennesseeboy]

Why are you making me keep 7?

[Cotton Fitzsimmons]

Why are you making me keep 7?

 

You MUST keep 7... for that is the rules of the game!

[Cotton Fitzsimmons]

We need to start a campaign for McCargo!!!

 

Ye Ol' Cotton will give everyone who votes for McCargo a crisp new $5.00!

 

BOOYA!

[Cotton Fitzsimmons]

Chris Kelsay and T.O. bring it up the REAR so far...

[lets_go_bills]

Byrd, Wood, Evans, Jackson, Levitre, Posluszny, and Stroud were my choices.

[tennesseeboy]

byrd wood levitre kyle williams, mckelvin, moorman, jackson

[iinii]

I would only keep two players; Moorman and Stroud. The rest of this crew are too entrenched in a culture of losing. Get rid of all the losers!!!

this comes from someone going by that vaunted defensive player flowers

[Thirty Year Fan]

I think the problem with the list is that you have too many rookies from this year's class. Everyone drafted in this past year is most likely going to survive a regime change (or at least all of the top guys - Maybin, Byrd, Wood, and Levitre), so I don't think they're valid players to put on the list. I also don't see how you build anything around a punter or kicker, so though they might stay, you aren't really building anything with them.

 

Outside of them you have about 11 players that are worth consideration:

 

Evans

Lynch

Edwards

Jackson

McGee

Poz

Whitner

Stroud

Schobel

McKelvin

Williams

 

And maybe in a stretch:

 

Kelsey

Reed

 

Of all of the above 13 players, all the players I'd like to see stay are primarily on defense. I'd bet that Evans and the RBs at least would make it through a regime change however.

 

The more I look at these types of posts, the more I am starting to realize that I kind of like the defense and would really like it with a little more talent.

Kelsey and Reed are the poster boys of this ten year exile from the playoffs try hard tow the company line get long term deals have 2 or 3 good games a year. Playoffs are a pipe dream with most of this roster.

[Cotton Fitzsimmons]

Kelsey and Reed are the poster boys of this ten year exile from the playoffs try hard tow the company line get long term deals have 2 or 3 good games a year. Playoffs are a pipe dream with most of this roster.

 

Marcus Stroud embodies playoff football.

 

Brian Moorman is the personification of playoff football.

[stuckincincy]

Why are you making me keep 7?

 

Kelley Washington update, tenny...

 

http://www.nfl.com/players/kelleywashingto...le?id=WAS400893

[toddgurley]

Let the RECORD state: 1 vote for McKelvin... 1 vote for Kyle Williams!

 

 

Yup, they should be on there.

[High Mark]

I like Jackson and all, but do you all realise how easy it is to replace a RB. When limited to 7, there are more important positions.

[Fewell733]

this is tricky since it depends on what kind of coaches you bring in and also who's is under contract for how long. 7 isn't a big enough number since we've got guys we just drafted who are under contracts for 4 to 5 more seasons who will mostly be around (especially the guys in the secondary).

 

Not counting the guys we drafted the last two years who I would automatically keep I'd try and hold together:

 

Stroud, Kyle Williams, Poz, Whitner, McGee, Schobel (still our only DE worth much of anything and makes the mediocre guys behind him better), and Lee Evans

[Dante]

I kept

 

Levitre

Wood

Byrd

Moorman

McGee

McKelvin

 

Only 6 I know but, it's all I wanted

[ChasBB]

Hey Cotton, do you work for Fox News? You'd be a perfect fit for filtering out the candidates before we even get to hear them debate (just like Fox didn't invite Ron Paul to the debates effectively deciding who we get to vote for before each candidate could even get a fair hearing).

 

You've done the same. Include the entire roster and let us decide who we want instead of filtering the list like this.

[Orton's Arm]

Andy Levitre

Eric Wood

Aaron Maybin

Leodis McKelvin

Jairius Byrd

Lee Evans

Donte Whitner

 

 

I like Stroud but I don't think he has many years left.

That's almost exactly what I chose--except that I took McGee instead of Whitner. Obviously, if you're rebuilding a team, the bias should be in favor of younger players--which would make Whitner a better move than McGee. But maybe neither guy is the answer for that seventh slot. Possibly, we should select a write-in player like like Nelson, Corner, or McKelvin.

[billsfan89]

You're going to build your front 7 around an undersized situational D lineman??

 

How is that a better plan than we have now?

 

Its a long term outlook DE's take 2-3 years to develop and Maybin if he can get stronger might have what it takes to be a 10 sack a year guy. In a 4-3 you need pass rushing DE's and Maybin by the time this team is legitimately trying to compete might have fulfilled his potential.

 

Also if you are going for 3-4 Maybin might be able to convert to OLB. So its not that next year I see Maybin as a guy to build off of but as a guy with a lot of potential that could be a key part of the D the season after next at a position that is important to a front 7.

[BillsFan74]

Left off McKelvin, not sure if intentional or not

 

I vote McKelvin as well.

[YOOOOOO]

Lynch, Byrd, Wood, Evans, Whitner, McKelvin, Levitre

[mob16151]

This was a tough question. I voted to keep LeVitre and Wood first of all. They're young and thier solid building blocks for an O line. I voted to keep Lee Evans as I believe at the very worst he's a solid complimentary player. Marshawn Lynch was the next player I kept. Lynch got the nod for me over Jackson because of age and the fact he's a more physical runner. Jairus Byrd was next and IMO was the easiest guy for me to choose due to his age,production and potential. I then voted to keep Aaron Maybin. If I was the GM I personally wouldn't give up on a rookie 1st draft pick. It just wouldn't make sense financially or from a talent aspect.(At least talent wise in regards to looking towards the future.) And the final pick for me came down to either McGee or Stroud. I went with Stroud simply because it's easier to find cornerbacks then Defensive Lineman.