Mark80

I'm not sure why so many of you are saying you would be there. I have no desire at all to go to a Super Bowl, much less one the Bills are playing in. You would be surrounded by fans of the other team and a bunch of corporate DBs who don't even really care about the game at all. I'd be at a small party with some friends and family. And I would not drink more than 4 beers so I could actually remember the experience. If we win, however, that drink intake immediately increases after the game is in the bag or over.

I'm not throwing in the towel on this guy yet. He obviously had his issues which led him to rehab, he's obviously immature, he's obviously lacking some work ethic. But he also obviously has a lot of talent and play making ability. If, and that's one big hell of an if, he can get his crap together and put in the time it actually takes to become a successful NFL QB, who's to really say that he can't turn his life around and do it? Hard, yeah, hard as hell to do, but he is still extremely young and, quite possibly, got the wake call he needed this off season. We all know the story about Chris Carter and his wake up call when he got kicked off the Eagles. With that being said, I would i no way want him leading the Bills and wouldn't give up anything for him right now. We have mature, hard working QBs on this team already. Guys that can be leaders of men. I'm just way too excited to see what any of our QBs can do with some competent coaching and some new toys on the offensive side of the ball.

The job of Goodell is to maximize revenues and profits of the owners and he is, in reality, quite excellent at it.

My oh my, a lot of you sure are petty regarding OBJ. Just because a lot of people believe he looks like best WR to come out of that 2014 draft class, doesn't mean you have to hate on the guy. Sammy is going to be great too, get over it if OBJ is seen as better at the moment. No reason to hate on the guy. The fact is, the guy is an amazing WR, the guy does have significant soccer skills as well, and the guy can throw down some amazing dunks, I'd say that's one hell of an all-around athlete.

I'll agree to disagree with you. I certainly am not going to change my opinion based on a website called "chatslang" and even further that point by saying it is a 3 star page with only 1 vote on it. I would say the term snitch or rat is more what you guys are talking about, but no one gives a crap about the English language anymore, not even most journalist, so what does it really matter? We all get the point.

That is not true at all. Narc it short for narcotics officer and is used to refer to someone who blows people in to the police for drug violations. Usually a low level user or dealer who turns in their dealer or supplier to save themselves.

What you did was not narcing, it was assisting the police. They can't be everywhere and truly depend on every day citizens to help inform them of crap like this. I wish more people would take the 5 minutes it takes of their time to call and report such things. Unfortunately, too many of us have the "it's none of my business" attitude and just drive on, while idiots like this continue to break the law and the expense of the rest of us. Victimless crimes, move on, potential for any sort of harm to others, call it in.

QBs taken in the 2nd that start right away are the exception, not the rule. And, the ones that do seem to be very early 2nd (like Dalton and Carr). I don't think the Bills will be taking a QB in round 2 regardless for reasons already pointed out above. I could, however, see one taken in 3-5. I think all this Lovelace talk is ridiculous BTW, he didn't even do well at a FCS school for crying out loud. People hear one report of his big hands or whatever and think he's going to be good...so funny.

It's very easy to say that a QB will not pan out, especially after the top guys are gone as virtually all of the will not be successful NFL QBs. The fact is, you have to keep taking chances until you hit on one. You point to Tony Romo? He was so well thought of that he went undrafted? For every guy you tell me had a lot of "buzz" I can point to guys like Case Keenum, or Colt Brennan that absolutely tore up college ball but did nothing in the NFL.

Hum. So 4,000 yards, 32 TDs against only 7 picks with a 64.3% completion rate isn't lighting up the conference? That seems pretty darn good to me. Also progressed every single year which shows me he can learn and develop. This guy has just as good of a shot to be something as Hundley and Petty do. It's all a crap shoot, especially after the first round, we just need to keep rolling those dice.

Cool man. Look at it how you want. But I implore you to find me a season where Bruce Smith had 78% of his sacks in 3 games against his weakest opponents. Or are you just another guy who takes every discussion to their extreme to make an invalid point too? And my argument doesn't need to prove that to you, the fact that he's been cut by 2 NFL teams and can't find a job besides dancing on tv should prove that to you. I was just saying that when the OP said he completely dominated in the SEC, that was an utterly false statement.

The fact of the matter is most people simply do not care. They don't care if he's gay, they don't care if he's bi, they don't care if he's straight, they don't care if he's black, they don't care if he's white, they don't care if he rich, they don't care if he's poor. They don't. What they do care about is a player who is so self-centered that after he made his announcement he signed up to do a reality show. They also care about the interviews with this insignificant player being shoved down our throats just because he is a gay man, which, as I stated earlier, most of us don't care about. While this guy should have been training his butt off, he was off doing self-promotions, not trying to be the best football player he could be and making a team. Now he's doing dancing with the stars while he should be concentrating on making a team if it meant so much to him. And, most of all, they care about his talent level and it's just not there to be an NFL player. A small DE who runs a 5.00 40 speed (down from the rookie combine in the veteran combine) who tallied most of his stats in college versus the weakest competition he faced. I'm sorry, but that ain't gonna cut it in this league. As I said earlier, if he had not come out you would have never even known his name, and definitely would have never heard it again after he won the SEC DPOY award.

Yep, there it is! Thanks.

Last year the season started September 4th. What makes you think it won't start September 3rd this year? I was assuming week 1 Sunday was September 6th this year. You may, indeed, be correct though as Labor Day is September 7th. Man, that's a late start to the season.

Not unless you made the Jag game week 8 and the bye week 9. October 25th is week 8. Wow, I see a lot of people here have it as week 7. You guys may want to re-do your math and not depend on some idiot reporter on jaguars.com for your info. Now I get a share of the winnings or a ticket to one game if you win! Update: I am an idiot and am completely wrong. Please ignore all my posts for at least 3 days as my punishment.

The only "developmental" ones that are worth taking as shot on are going to be gone in round 2 or 3. Specifically, Petty, Grayson, and Hundley (who I think made some nice improvements from the second month of the season on last year). I don't think any of the truly late round guys are worth it in this draft at all. I'd rather try to hit on an OLineman and some depth.

Apparently all the NFL decision makers do. There is a huge difference between dominating crap college football teams and being an effective NFL player. I'm sorry, but you need to lose your Mizzou homer goggles on this one. And, as far as your "get off" comment, well, with great restraint I'm going to leave that one alone this time.

I'm sorry but this is flat out not true at all. Yes he won the defensive player of the year in the SEC, but it was really all smoke in mirrors. In his senior year he had 11.5 sacks. 9 of those (3 each) came against Arkansas St (not SEC), Vanderbilt (perennially one of the worst SEC teams) and Florida (who have had the worst Florida teams in the last 30 years the past few seasons). That leaves a whopping 2.5 sacks in the other 11 games, not very impressive at all. Not to mention his first three seasons he only had 7 combined. Finally, you have to remember that teams were also protecting more against Kony Early who is much more significant presence. Sam is knows only as a pass rusher, and he's not even that great at that when you break it down. The fact is, if he were a heterosexual man you would have never heard his name again after he won the SEC award.

If you've got the cash and you've got the cap room (for the players) then why not spend it? As has been proven over and over again, cap issues rarely occur anymore with the big bump it gets every year and the ability to re-structure deals. The only person on that list that I think we may have overspent on is Clay, but we have the ability to eat up that extra cash so I'm fine with it (not to mention we took him away from a division rival).

This dude thinks his post from January 15th of THIS YEAR was the first time this was brought up? My lord. Some people certainly do have a "the world revolves around me" perspective, don't they?

My assumption: There are less third and short opportunities because of the focus on penalties on the defense. Namely, illegal contact and defensive holding coupled with roughing the passer and defenseless receiver calls which have been the focus of the refs over the past few years. Not only do these all provide automatic first downs, but they also provide a more open passing game to convert longer plays (also taking away more third and short plays). As far as the passing plays remaining static, you have to look at it as a percentage of total plays, not just as a number. 35% of the plays were run plays in 2009, in 2014 it was down to 26%. That's a significant decrease (and subsequent increase in passing) in running plays as a ratio.

I was going to write the exact same post. Thanks for saving me a minute or two.

We have one of the best owners in the league right now. Super rich and willing to spend it, doesn't run the team like a dictator, has input on all decisions but is willing to listen and defer to others opinions when it makes sense, humble and down to earth, emotional, and doesn't need or want to be the face of our franchise to feed his ego. Not to mention what he has done and is doing for the city as a whole. To say we got lucky that he bought the Bills and the Sabres is a huge understatement. Thanks Terry and Kim, we are stoked!

My god, did you ever even watch this guy play? He's terrible. You just think he's good because he has a cool, southern name.

I am not in favor at all of any QB that cannot throw over 60% completion in the FCS college ball during his senior year. Additionally, he regressed quite significantly from Junior to Senior year. Quite simply, that completion % at that level is not a good indication of success for an NFL QB.