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Yep. I believe in the past they actually called every team when it was their turn in a particular round. Now each team submits an e-mail stating the round they'd take him and the highest pick (as you said, based on the April draft order) gets him.

Lynch's incident last summer, which was what Joma and I were discussing, has been discussed ad nauseum. Hope that helps.

As I said, this has been discussed ad nauseum. Do a search on it.

There's a reason Medicaid and Medicare are unsustainable. Imagine the entire health insurance system being run like them!

Not on my end. I said my piece.

We've been over this a million times before you arrived. There is no evidence he was drunk, knew he hit the woman and thus left intentionally the scene. Much as some simps would like you to believe otherwise, there is nothing to support those claims. Hence the traffic ticket he got was appropriate. As for the gun charge, no one would get charged with a felony for a first-time charge of having an unregistered, loaded gun locked in a box in the trunk of a car. And the defense would be Brandon Marshall got his suspension reduced from 3 games to 1 for good behavior, and Tank Johnson, who was tagged twice with guns before getting suspended, was also offered a 2 game reduction if he stayed out of trouble (which he didn't).

First criminal charge.

I'll wager he comes back.

Is it just me, or is she just not that hot?

TO earns his keep even while he's "destroying" teams. Look at 2005 (before getting suspended) and last year. I think franchising him is the best option. Do it for 2 years and that's 3 years with the Bills and probably takes him to the twilight of his career.

Eat the rich.

I know you were trying to say it, but that 50M or so who are currently uninsured are the worst abusers of the above. Estimating costs at $1T doesn't even come close to what it will actually end up costing us all.

I'd be curious to learn what Bell benches now, a year into the S&C program. But there is no guaranteed on any rookie OT being able to handle LT immediately, even Jason Smith. I didn't like Oher, and he project to RT anyway. Ideally Bell gets some PT in late-game blowouts, with Fitz in at QB.

Yep. Forget the blocking and load-up on the "skill position" players.

Wait, you think that the Bills didn't plan on potentially trading Peters and thus didn't keep any options open? At least as far as the draft goes? Doubtful at best. And all of the rookie OT's drafted this year haven't played one NFL snap yet. But Bell has had a year to learn the playbook, be in an NFL strength and conditioning program, and get acclimated to the NFL. That puts him further ahead than any rookie. And he has great size and bloodlines. What he lacks is experience.

They haven't required good blocking in the past, why should this year be any different?

Yay for labor peace!

So losing Greer, a guy who missed over a third of the season last year and who was going to be replaced in the starting lineup anyway, will lead to the defense being no better, yet it will take a step backwards ( ), and Schobel coming back, Ellison getting starting reps throughout, and the addition of Sanders mean nothing? As for Peters looking better, Mike Gandy was the starting LT for the Cards, and the Bills dumped him in favor of Peters. Obviously he was adequate enough at LT for them, and the Bills have talent on the order of the Cardinals now.

I agree.

How do you figure the Bills have taken a step back on the defensive side of the ball? Who did they lose, outside of Greer, who missed 6 games last year and with the Bills adding more DB's, and Crowell, who didn't play at all? They'll get Schobel back, Ellison will get a full off-season and training camp as the starter (instead of being thrust into the role just days before the season starts), they have great depth now in the secondary, added a 1st round pass-rusher, and have a new DL coach. Even on offense, again using my worst-case scenario, the Bills have Butler and Walker at their old positions, have Hangman at center, a promising rookie starting at LG, and Chambers or Bell at LT, with some help. They lost Peters at LT, and he surrendered 12 sacks while not giving a damn for most of the season. The addition of TO and Rhodes are huge and help the O-line out a lot.

Hangman is a proven veteran. And certainly more proven than a rookie. And I was going by the premise that Butler proves to be unable to handle RT during the season, which is too far along to move Wood to LG. It wouldn't be ideal, to be sure, to have a 1st rounder sit on the bench, but neither is having Butler fail at RT.

Johnson will have to wait until next year, when Josh Reed will likely be allowed to move on after his contract expires. Or for injury to the top-3 guys (knock on wood).

I'll let you know how much (little) your crystal ball is worth after the season is over.

Well, that would have been a better reply. But the problem is that Wood and Levitre are strictly interior guys, and if Butler struggles at RT, the Bills would want to move him inside, back to RG. That would leave 2 interior positions for the rookies. And since the Bills love Hangman and he's a proven veteran, they're not going to start a rookie over him (at least not this year) at center. So that leaves just LG. And since Levitre is being groomed for that position and Wood is being groomed at RG, moving Wood to a new position wouldn't make the most sense. That's not to say they wouldn't consider it and that it wouldn't work.