WhitewalkerInPhilly

I'm a big Fred Jackson fan. And to be honest I think the man has earned the starting job, and I think we are going to get some good years out of him. That said, I think Spiller really matured last season and I think in the long run he will be our guy.

I don't see this at all. The only person in the draft that I would consider anywhere even close to an even deal would be Kalil at pick three. And given that the Vikes already have Adrian Peterson I don't see them making that. Then I should bring up the point thay while I like Spiller, and that he made huge strides last season he is not ready. I want Fred to keep mentoring him for at least another year.

No. He's so much cheaper

Apparently he is none too pleased about going to thrid string. The Jets got him for 1.25 M this year and he passed up chances earlier. Could save cap room going for him instead of Thigpen.

That's good to hear, because I've been thinking about this. I am also pretty sure that Dwan is getting cut with the influx of new talent better suited for the 4-3.

I disagree with the "true #1 receiver" bit. I think Stevie is our main man for a while. I also am pretty sure that Moats is going to make it. He played well when at outside linebacker and now we have ample reason to put him there.

I don't think Byrd is going to go back to his wonderful crazy INT season. That said, even though he didn't put up crazy numbers the last two years I agree that his play has been solid and improving. I don't think that he will get those same numbers but with the new pass rush I think he could shine again.

Bell. Full stop. Pretty much every other problem we have can be worked on in the draft IMHO, and I would really like to see this shored up beforehand.

With TE's becoming more popular, this may be a good, low key signing. I'm happy to see us quietly resigning our players at a decent price.

Smith also had his competition sign with someone else. But I think we can consider Bell having fewer offers than Peyton Manning.

Make no doubt, I reaaaalllllly hope we do too. But the Bills have made their offer and Bell has declined to counter. The man is shopping around free agency and I wouldn't be surprised if he finds a taker.

I don't know...I kind of fall into the "Andy Levitre did a bang up job at LT" camp. Not to say that no one can do better, but barring us somehow taking Kalil I don't anyone to immediately draft to be an impact. Of course, if Buddy fills this in FA I may begin to suspect he can walk on water.

I'm not saying their bad. But I think that we are concentrating our resources on the Defensive Ends and Tackles.

Wouldn't be surprised if Miami tries to get an earlier pick for Tannehill and has him holding a clipboard for the one year contract they have with Garrard.

I think we've seen an interesting point made. I don't think anyone here would contend that we have an elite LB or CB corps. Oh Barnett was a steal and I'm happy to have him, but the D-line seems to be the place where we are trying to minmax everything. The general idea seems to be that if we pressure the line enough, our opponents are going to have to pull TE's or WR's to block for their pass schemes, which reduces the pressure on our CB and LB corps and stops people from running straight up the middle like they did last year. If they can pull this off, using K. Williams and Dareus in the middle with backup from Carrington with M. Williams and a rotation of Kelsay, Anderson and Merriman I think we can have quite a defensive front.

Why not? I feel like we could use a CB. If we get into a trade with someone for later in the first round I would have zero qualms with getting him, but that sums up a lot of players.

Levitre. I mean, I would love both but it looks like we might lose Bell and I don't think we can afford to lose any more O-line players.

Yeah...I'm a Parish fan, but I can't remember a season where he wasn't hurt.

I don't know about anyone else, but I can see tebow going to Miami. Smith has had his FA competition snatched up by Denver and Miami needs to build from the ground up anyway. Whether or not this would be a good thing for us I can't say.

Geez. I hope he can make some whine with those sour grapes. See what I did there?

I'm more interested in how this would effect the QB jockeying in the draft. If the Phins are going to sign a FA in Smith, that leaves Seattle open to take Flynn. Now, that pretty much drops the big competition for Tannehill, which destroys leverage for the Bills to trade down to help someone get him. That said, if Nix wants him, Tannehill would likely be a lot more open for the taking.

Ok, good. I was worried for a moment that this wasn't sarcasm. That said, while I agree that we need someone to replace Bell if he leaves and our depth needs serious work, I don't know if this translates into a 1st round draft pick. Certainly some picks somewhere, but the O-line we have did better than anyone expected last year. Part of it was doubtless part of the style of offense we played, but they didn't do half bad.

...yeah, technically he is QB/WR. We've just been using him as a wildcat QB.

I think you're mostly on the mark here. I would disagree with you on our CB situation though. I think that we're somewhat overrated since teams could gouge us in the running game. When we played elite teams they carved up our secondary, and even our DE's greatest success (the Pats the first time) was still allowing record numbers for their receivers.

With all this talk about possibly getting a WR in the draft to be Stevie's number 2, has anyone else thought that we should stop dicking around and make Smith the man? We know he can make plays, like that spectacular deflection touchdown catch against the Jets and from what I remember when we played him in the position he did well. I'm not saying that I don't like him in the wildcat. I think he's good at using it to pick up third and short, but why can't we let him do both?