San Jose Bills Fan

If your avatar would give that poor football a break, I might take what you have to say more seriously. One of the better avatars on the board I have to say.

Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it!

To add a thought, the best way to make a player want to stay with the team is to build a winning program. There's a possibility that Byrd is somewhat predisposed to leaving the Bills after this season BUT that he's open-minded and taking a wait-and-see approach. Eight months from now after a 9-7 season where the Bills went 6-2 in the second half of the season and showed substantial improvement, there would be an increased likelihood of Byrd signing a long term deal with the club, IMO. Only in that scenario might he even entertain a hometown discount.

Quit kidding around. Both of us were dead serious.

The people dismissing a Byrd trade need to understand this point and also the possibility that Byrd might not want to remain with the Bills. Is he likely to accept a "hometown discount?" I doubt it. Will he take the Levitre route and go highest bidder? It's certainly possible. Do the Bills want to make him the highest-paid safety in the NFL based on a multi-year contract? That is the question.

(Twenty minutes later) Jets: "Okay, final offer. You take Sanchez and we give you Revis, a first, and a third." Tampa: "We'll get back to you on that."

Nice job by Damond. I tried posting his one-round mock draft at NFL Draft Zone which has the Bills trading down twice and picking up two additional 2nds and two additional 5ths but I got this message: You have entered a link to a website that the administrator does not allow links to

To the fairly popular suggestion that the Niners would be interested in Byrd in a trade, keep in mind that the Niners opted not to pay one of their own star safeties, Dashon Goldson who left as a free agent and signed a 5-year, $41.25 million contract ($22 million guaranteed) with Tampa Bay. Goldson, like Byrd is also one of the NFL's top safeties (the only safety Donte Whitner rated ahead of Byrd) and the Niners saw fit to let him walk. I'd be very skeptical that the Niners would have an interest in Byrd considering it would cost them a huge contract and two high draft picks. The other team being bandied about, the Dallas Cowboys, are in salary cap hell partly due to an unfair penalty assessed to them by the NFL. I understand the discussion about the trading of Byrd but I'm not sure that a trade market exists for him.

I stand corrected. Sorry for doubting you.

AND, EJ is Bruce Smith's Godson.

For all we know he was valiantly struggling to stay awake, showing the character and competitiveness of a great quarterback. And here I thought he was lax!

Fair points. But for whatever the reasons, taking Aaron Williams one pick ahead of Dalton and two picks ahead of Kaepernick AND trading up to take TJ Graham when many were expecting him to take Russell Wilson are the defining moments of Nix's tenure here. It's almost like he was afraid to pull the trigger when the QB was right in his sights.

Good post. (BTW, what if he appeared on Pawn Stars trying to sell a 1962 Roman Gabriel rookie card wearing open-toed sandals, cut off shorts and a wife beater?)

Well also how do we know that Pettine cut him? Pettine might have had some input but seeing as Rex is a DC by trade, I'm thinking it was mostly his call.

Show me one post of yours where you said this previous to the findings.

Well the Jets draft at #9 and it's looking more and more like they'll be part of the QB derby.

Yeah I shouldn't really pass judgement because like I said, I only saw the excerpt and I don't watch Gruden's QB Camp so I don't know how Nassib compares to the others in that forum. Didn't want to be so brutally tough on the kid but I was very startled by what I saw.

I don't need entertainment and sexiness from a QB but his performance in the 3+ minute excerpt I saw was very disappointing. The guy's a QB right? He's supposed to command the huddle and the locker room? Does he always have bad posture and act like a 3rd string tight end or only when he's on TV? Absolutely. But Nassib's complete lack of presence was startling to say the least. He's still my 3rd QB in this class but I hope he's not the one giving the pre-game pep talks.

Good stuff Damond. Thanks!

More money and the belief in himself that he would be successful anywhere he went?

Ah, the conspiracy theory. I'm not buying it though, dog. There's no reason Nassib wouldn't want to be coveted by as many teams as possible. There's no reason why he'd want to put all his eggs in one basket.

I agree that it's not a reason to not take the best player available if he plays defense. I still maintain though that taking a defensive player at #8 regardless of it being the right thing to do is still an implicit admission of poor drafting. Especially when piled on top of the free agent signings of Mario Williams and Mark Anderson. Investing 2 first rounders, 2 second rounders, 2 third rounders, a 4th rounder and two high-priced free agents on defense in 3 years time is probably supposed to mean that you have a good defense that shouldn't have to spend another first round pick on defense.

Happy Hour, Drew? You sound like Hank Kimball from Green Acres (one of my favorite characters).

I disagree with you guys. I hated that he was slouching in his chair and almost mumbling his responses. A person with self-awareness is cognizant of the ways a person might negatively view him and tries to mitigate that. Granted you could make an argument that not caring is a good character trait but I didn't like it at all. I know he's just a kid but there are really only 32 of these jobs in the world and I would want my guy to have a real bearing about himself. I'll watch it again but I didn't like his comportment at all.

Dowtin is a bit smallish but these are OUTSTANDING measurables: An excellent athlete, the 6'2", 230-pound Dowtin recorded a 4.56-second 40-yard dash, a 38-inch vertical jump and a 10'2" broad jump at his pro day workout last spring. He finished his rookie season as a member of Philadelphia's practice squad, and was only released yesterday; clearly, Pettine wanted this kid in town. He's the same size as Jonathan Vilma but Dowtin has better measurables. Vilma at the combine: Combine 4.65 40 Yard Dash 37 Inch Vertical 23 Bench Reps 6.67 Three-Cone Drill 4.20 Short Shuttle 10-foot-1 Broad Jump