Trader Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 I don't endorse taking Kaepernick with our 2nd round pick. I prefer Kyle Rudolph or DT/DE/OLB/ILB in round 2. My post was just to engage a dialogue on Kaepernick, whom is climbing many mock draft boards. I'm on the record as being a big Fitz endorser. I think he's got a good 4 to 6 seasons of production. If Kaepernick's stock is falling then why waste the time and interview talking to him? The interviews do not indicate that we will take one of the four. Remember there is no reason to interview either Ponder or McElroy because they were the South QB's at the Senior bowl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 It is still my belief that Nix and Gailey will look hard at all choices for QB before the draft. It is also my belief their first choice will be to select DT Dareus or OLB Miller with the first pick and in the second round they will hopefully select QB Ponder...or the best athlete available at other positions.. God knows the Bills need TALENT everywhere..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimer1960 Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 The Bills are short by their own admission 2 DEs (even in a 3-4 btw so I think they are blowing draft smoke here and will look to get 1 DE likely with their first pick). 2 LBs (this likely is true but my GUESS is that they only expect to get 1 it is to be hoped LB starter from this draft- yet you already are in roun2 and 1st rounders appear to be only slightly above 50/50 to be starters by the end of they year. The good news for us is that our second rounder will be about as high a pick as can be and we get the advantage of overnight negotiation to try to multiply this pick with a trade. This need is necessary because even devoting the first two picks to the D we are still likely a D player short of what we would love to see of contributors from this draft. By spending this high high second round pick on Kapwhathisname you do several things: 1. By definition in your post as we assign him the back-up role to him and we all know how Mr. Ralph hates to pay for someone to sit whether it be Wade whom he contractually agreed to pay even if he was sitting in his sons high school games or RJ whom he designated the starter after he gave him a guaranteed contract based on him dismantling and Indy team which had given up on the game. The boss will almost certainly chafe (if we are lucky silently) every time he signs the big check evem if the K-man is sitting for his own good. Further, a small but loud and whiny part of the fan base will be calling for the rookie to play every time Fitzy makes even a slight error. They will be egged on by WGR and Sully who will be happy to sell commercials and fill column inches by stoking the next QB controversy. If we spend a 2nd on a QB it remains ugly around here. 2. This essentially will be a declaration of no mas for the 2011 season by the Bills. They not only forgo using the #2 for an LB they desperately need to be even adequate against the run, but in doing so they put off by another round their search for a player and a half (RT and a swing guy they need on OL to have it be adequate. 3. We are also telling the team and Fitzy we are giving up on 2011. In fact, given the OL boot down in the draft we are not only demanding Fitzy survive with an undermanned OL, but if worse comes to worse it forces the K man into th line-up with an inadequate OL to protect him and him not having had the usual 2 years a Gailey failed vet QB has of seeing NFL Ds before he gets thrown to the wolves. I just do not see taking him so early as worth the cost and risk. You are assuming that there will be a good starting-caliber LB candidate to pick in round 2. I don't know that that is a good assumption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1B4IDie Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 You are assuming that there will be a good starting-caliber LB candidate to pick in round 2. I don't know that that is a good assumption. I don't know why you would assume there isn't with pick #34. Just kind of silly to say all the good linebackers are gone in the first 33 picks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisyphean Bills Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 http://www.buffalorumblings.com/2011/3/2/2024588/nfl-scouting-combine-bills-spoke-with-gabbert-newton-locker Gabbert, Newton, Locker, & Kaepernick. Thinking more & more that Kaepernick is our developmental guy - similar combine to newton, scrambler, tall, big, intelligent, smart. Maybe cutting Brohm is a smoke screen? - so we get our DL/LB we love with pick 3. And fall back on Kaepernick in round 2? Here's some additional thoughts Gabbert & Newton will be gone by #13 Minnesota. Locker by the end of round 1 leaving Kaepernick within our grasps. Being that a team can talk to 60 guys at the Combine these are the final 4 canidates for Fitzy's understudy in 2011. Unless I'm missing something this means we have to take a QB with one of our 1st 2 picks. Go Bills! One scout put it this way, "Kaepernick's footwork is atrocious." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloFan68 Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 Kaepernick is one of the more accurate QBs availabe this year. If you watched him this past year you will see that he didn't have much of a supporting cast on Offense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Hindsight Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 Dont expect a QB before the 4th round. Just a gut feeling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Linen Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 Wait, where did we cut Brohm? We didn't tender him....not same thing as cutting? See how the smoke screen is working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewildrabbit Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 They might have spoken to those four at the combine, but I'll bet its Ponder that gets the longest look Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsfan89 Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 Bills won't draft a QB in the first 3 rounds. If you put a better team around Fitz you can win. Fitz deserves another year his play has proved that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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