Mark80

Exactly. Whaley is actually doing a great job in my opinion. He traded back and got the QB they wanted in EJ (while adding Woods or Kiko can't remember which one), hasn't worked out so far for EJ. They brought in Orton, he retired. They brought in Lewis, Tuel, Flynn, Palmer, Kolb and others I'm surely forgetting. The point is, they are bringing in everyone and anyone to try and get it right. It's damn hard to find a great QB but Whaley has shown me that he willing to put in the work and effort to do it, it's just a matter of hitting on one of these guys. It's like you guys think that great QBs grow on trees or are easily acquired from other teams, they are not. The only guy that they missed on who would have been a great fit is Alex Smith, but who knows if he had any desire at all to even come here. I certainly would have rather gone to Andy Reid and the Chiefs over a struggling franchise with a new head coach with zero NFL experience and an ownership / future in limbo like we had at the time.

You may want to consider what the value of Beckham was at the time of the trade, not 8 months later when he far exceeded everyone's expectations for him. Some people are just unreal.

All I can say is when I watched NC State vs FSU in EJ and Glennon's last season, I was way more impressed with Glennon. Admittedly, I have not watched too many Bucs games to have an opinion on him in the NFL, but he does have a rocket arm.

You also have to know when to cut ties with something / someone that is not working. Hackett has his chance, two years with no improvement (and arguably a worse performance) is enough evidence for me. If he stays, I'll be far from thrilled. When i can sit on my couch and predict the Bills next offensive play over 50% of the time, there is a serious problem.

The Bills were definitely better than the Browns, Falcons, Giants, Saints, and Panthers. If you don't see how crappy the NFC South is, you shouldn't be making this list. They all finished below .500 and all got to play each other twice!

Noticed that monster in the Bowl game vs Miami. I was thinking, that dude has to be related to Art, he's gigantic. Forgot to look it up, now I know! If he progresses a little bit he and Kessler could be battling it out for #1 overall.

That's dated October 15th, most likely out of date at this point. Garrett Grayson has certainly played himself onto the list.

Arie has always been the better prospect of the two and he is a natural guard while Cyrus is a tackle that would have to learn a new position.

Cann would be nice but I can't see the #1 Guard making it to us. Funchess confuses me, some say he is a WR, some say he is a TE, I'm not sure where he fits and would be worried that he is an exclusively pass catching tight end, but the guy is enormous and had horrible, terrible, atrocious QB play throwing him the ball. I would be shocked and thrilled if he made it that far. I just don't see him getting out of 2. His injury was not a Lattimore / McGahee type of devastating knee injury but more a run of the mill, non-contact ACL tear which is very recoverable. So you want a guy that had a 58.5% completion percentage against the tough defenses in Conference USA??? No thank you.

I have a feeling he's going to creep back into the first round or very early 2nd. After a bit of a slow start to the season, he played quite nicely down the stretch this year except for his last game. I think he went from being overrated to underrated all in the course of one season. He is a much better QB coming out of college than EJ was, IMO, and has tremendous running ability. I wouldn't hate this at all if they liked him here.

Yeah, Arie Kouandjio.

Pick #50 - Clive Walford TE Miami.

He was actually well on his way to success in Cleveland until the day they announced they were moving to Baltimore and the team and fans both just gave up mid-season. There is a great documentary on it that the NFL network shows.

It is not an "excuse for a draft miscue." The guy said that it was clear that Beckham was the best prospect in the draft which is a blatantly false statement. So you are pointing to 1 coaches statement 7 months after the draft out of 32 teams and dozens, even hundreds of outsiders opinions? Gotcha.

What a crock of crap this is. Everyone, every single pundit, fan, personality, blogger, reporter, mock draft, everyone had Watkins ahead of Beckham as far as prospects go. To say "it is clear he was a better prospect coming out of college" is an absolutely ridiculous thing to say. I guess I really wouldn't expect anything less from you though. The only receiver that anyone even hinted at being thought of as higher than Watkins was Evans.

Terry specifically said in an interview that he was uncomfortable being the center of attention. He also stated that he hated taking questions from the media as the Sabres owner especially when he was constantly being asked about Ruff, Regier, Rolston, and LaFontaine and he consciously became less accessible to the media because of it. I chalk it up to those two things and those two things only.

Any good leader knows that you coach / manage to your teams strengths and try to alleviate their weaknesses. I think he's done that pretty well this year when you look at the big picture of the season and consider he's only a 2nd year coach.

No, I looked it up, it was the week before. He then had some arthroscopic surgery during the week to "clean it up" a little and then played the Conference Championship with the injury. Balls out. If it were during the same game it would actually be a lot easier to keep going. From my experience, that injury doesn't really hurt that much until the next day. That's when the swelling really sets in and the pain is excruciating. The day it happens it hurts a little bit and feels a bit weird / unsteady, but not nearly as bad as what is coming down the line.

I think Mike would disagree with you there.

I didn't remember that, but wow, that is impressive. I can't believe he could shuffle around in an NFL game without it buckling and causing further damage. Just dropping back in the pocket uses a lot of lateral movement. He must have been wearing one hell of a brace.

OR EJ Manuel has accuracy issues (which anyone who watches college football could have seen in his games at FSU) and Kyle Orton is Kyle Orton and playing to the exact same level he has played for his entire career. Marrone deserves to be here, Hackett will be replaced in the off season, take that to the bank.

Fixed it for you.

You know what that says to me? That we are way overdue to beat them there.

Russell Wilson belongs in the ACC, most of his years were at NC State. Alex Smith belongs in the Pac-12, Utah is there now. Dalton in the Big 12 as TCU plays there now.

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