Stevie wants DHB (Update - goes to Colts)

[Best Player Available]

He sucks anyway. Big deal.

I guess an average of 39 yards a game means nothing anymore. How can anyone forget the look on HIS face when Al drafted him that high!

[Cash]

Never should've been drafted as high as he was, but DHB is a real NFL receiver with excellent speed and size. Right now we have 1 real NFL receiver on the roster, 2 if you count Graham. And unless you really stretch and count Easley, we don't have anyone who's both big and fast. Not saying we needed to get DHB per se, but I would've been happy if the Bills had signed him. I would like to see them sign a real NFL receiver or two at some point. We only have 2, maybe 3, draft picks that can be counted on to produce viable players this year. (I.e., starters or regular rotation players, like a #3 receiver for example.) You have to have 5 skill position players on the field on every play. Here are all of our current skill position players:

 

Spiller

Jackson

Choice

 

Stevie

Graham

Brad Smith

Easley

Kevin Elliot

Chris Hogan

 

Mike Caussin

Lee Smith

Joe Sawyer

(Chandler isn't on the list yet because he won't be ready to start the season, and there's no guarantee he'll be effective when he comes back anyway)

 

Considering that in most sets, only 1 of the RBs will be on the field, we are in especially rough shape. Four of the non-RBs will need to be starters, and probably an additional 3 will need to be regular rotation players (every team runs some 2-TE and 4-WR sets). I only see guy on the non-RB list that should be a starter in the NFL, and maybe 2-3 additional rotation players at best. So we just need to add 3 extra starters at the skill positions, plus a potential franchise QB, plus a starting LG.

 

At this point, I really think the Bills are planning on bringing in 20-30 UDFAs and winding up with at least a half dozen playing regular snaps, including 1-2 at WR. Which is kind of odd, since the Bills just decided to let go 2 former UDFA WRs in Jones and Nelson.

[CodeMonkey]

Great job of recruiting your pals Stevie ! Can't they hire Merriman to be their chief recruiter

I assume you are just mad because you can't put this on SJ.

Go to a team with a young Peyton Manning and has a chance to do good things soon or a team with Kolb or Nassib and little to no chance of good things for a few years at least, Pretty easy decision for everyone I would think.

[Leelee Phoenix]

I'm glad we avoided the DHB bullet.

[Kelly the Dog]

I'm glad we avoided the DHB bullet.

I wanted him only because we suck there right now, and I wouldn't have minded him as a #3 or #4 guy, even though he would have got some snaps in a two WR set. That said, it seems to me that the Bills brass just didn't want any part of him, considering that he was out there for a long time, he expressed an interest in us, Stevie did his lobbying, and he didn't sign for all that much, as well as being a 3-4 WR on the Colts.

 

Right or wrong, the Bills just didn't want him it seems to me.

[KD in CA]

I guess an average of 39 yards a game means nothing anymore. How can anyone forget the look on HIS face when Al drafted him that high!

 

Yup; even DHB had a "WTF are you thinking?!?" expression.

[Leelee Phoenix]

I'd like to bring in Brandon Lloyd for cheap. He'd fill the speed WR role for the short term. He's a flake like Stevie, they'd probably get along. And I'd like Ramses Barden for the slot, a better version of David Nelson.