thewildrabbit

naa, we will know on draft day if they did OK or not. Just like the Donte Whitner / John McCargo year in 06...last years draft and Jauron's failure to address the left tackle position after they traded away Jason Peters. The FA's they brought in appear to be bandaids to me, still looking for that premier left tackle and really good right tackle. The fact that Donavon McNabb was offered a contract extension and turned down Buffalo is along the same lines as Shanahan and Cowher being sought after and they end up with Chan Gailey. I'm somewhat skeptical at this point, we will all know by the end of the month.

The guy has shown flashes... I hope they don't a waste draft pick on him,unless they get him really cheap.

Okie, I might have been wrong about that statement,won't be the first or last time either. Quote from http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=ArAr...nabbtrade040410 McNabb, who is in the final year of his deal, made this happen by making it clear he wasn't going anywhere else but Washington. When the Buffalo Bills expressed interest – and even were willing to give McNabb a contract extension – he passed on the offer. When the Oakland Raiders sniffed around and showed willingness to trade for the quarterback without an extension, McNabb indicated to the Eagles through his associates that he'd retire. "He has plenty of money," the source close to McNabb said. "He's not doing anything he doesn't want to do."

ummm no! Shanahan was the OC at SF when they won a super bowl, he learned the west coast offense the same place Andy Reid did, plus he took it to Denver and trained John Elway the WCO and won 2 super bowls there. The Eagles have run the west coast offense since Andy Reid got there and now the Redskins will run it under Mike Shanahan, if anything the rest of the team needs to get up to speed with Shanahan and McNabb. I'd be willing to bet the Redskins are in the playoffs next season and Andy Reid gets fired.

yea well, trading away the only the franchise QB that that Eagles have had the last 20+ years... the guy that took them to the playoffs last season ...seems pretty darn dumb to me also. The Eagles had better hope that Kolb plays like Tom Brady because trading him to a division rival is pretty much a huge slap in his face and will come back to bite them. I'd love to see the Skins take their division next year

Lets face facts here, McNabb is a top 10 "franchise" QB, and with a decent O line and team around him they are playoff contenders. The Bills didn't want him because they didn't want his 11 million dollar a year contract... So we now know the Redskins will draft an OT.

I agree with #1&3, and I disagree with #2, the QB position can't be judged properly with the type of line play they had last season. Considering the offensive ineptitude that surrounded the team under Dick Jauron... I'd say any hasty decisions on player personnel would be imprudent and unwise. Edwards still may have the ability to lead the team if he has the proper support around him.

Thanks for posting that, finally, a head coach with a decent understanding of an offense.

56 is around mid to late 2nd round... They could have drafted him in the second round and John McCargo in the 3rd, kinda sad the scouting department / coaching staff was so inept.

Tell that to Terrell Davis...

There was a quote recently in PFW by an anonymous head coach that went something like this: A great QB can make an average line look good, and if you don't have a great QB you had better have a damn good offensive line. The Bills have neither ATM, let's hope Nix and Gailey can change that.

What does that tell you about the intelligence of the coaching staff, head coach, offensive coordinator and O line coach. None of them had a clue about any of the O linemen abilities, year after year Jauron would mix and match hoping to get lucky and find a decent combination of players. At the very least he made some decent choices on Woods-Levitre-Hangartner, although you can usually find decent guards after round 2 and save those first two rounds to find the tackles. There is a reason the second highest paid players on teams behind the QB is the left tackle.The Buffalo Bills are trying to ignore that fact and plug in inexperienced inexpensive players that will never get the job done.

CJ Spiller might be a guy that Gailey was referring to when he said "waterbug". This pick reminds me of Reggie Bush, RB WR KR with the speed to break a long run every time he touches the ball. At 5'9"-195 and a 4.27 40...Cris Johnson / Felix Jones type that never missed a game A finalist for the Doak Walker Award, Spiller had 233 yards rushing in 20 attempts and scored a career high four touchdowns in the ACC Championship game against Georgia Tech on December 5. He now has 1,145 rushing yards this year and 445 receiving yards. He has 50 career touchdowns and needs just one to become Clemson's career leader. I have np at all with this pick as long as they address a LT at some point, doubtfull Bell emerges as a top left tackle this year.

SKOOBY?

Marv Levy had arguably the best GM in the NFL for last 25 years watching over the team, plus he hired a really great offensive coordinator. The thing is: Marv Levy speaks volumes about what a head coach should be. A great motivator, know the rules, manange the game and make the correct hires on his staff. He let his OC run the offense, his DC run the defense and since his background was in special teams, the Bills always had great special teams under Marv. Not to put down what Marv Levy has accomplished with the Buffalo Bills. I highly doubt he could have achieved what he did in Buffalo without Bill Polian, perhaps even Ted Marchibroda. That said, Chan Gailey knows his stuff on offense and will call plays, he will train his OC to takeover at some point. If Buddy Nix is even remotely as good as his background with the Chargers and AJ Smith indicates, the Bills should be in the playoffs in 2-3 years. Just my take.

Do you actually equate Brandon Graham with Bruce Smith? If the Bills were in the Detroit Lions position this year I'd have no problem with them taking a boy named Suh, or Gerald McCoy as they are about the only defensive players I'd take with a top ten pick. Reaching for needs on defense doesn't outweigh the dire needs on offense IMO, they need an premier left tackle-starting WR- and I wouldn't be upset to see them take CJ Spiller either.

It really was! Donte Whitner was the 56th rated player on the board and they took him at the #9 pick, the Saints took Roman Harper in the 2nd with the 43rd pick that year. They coulda had-Jay Cutler-Haloti Ngata-Antonio Cromartie-Davin Joseph-DeAngelo Willams-Nick Mangold-Joseph Addai and countless others like Brandon Marshall-Elvis Dumervil-Owen Daniels... The Colts took Antoine Bethea in the 6th round Not to mention, good thing they traded up to get John McCargo at 26 in the first round... The amount of ineptitude and incompetence of the Jauron era Bills almost reached Matt Millen proportions.Good thing RW fired Polian...

Lets face facts, the Bills hired a less expensive version of Bill Cowher and Mike Shanahan. He has previous NFL head coaching experience and is clearly someone Buddy Nix feels he can trust. Only time will tell if he can become a winner in Buffalo, considering his foes in the AFC East he certainly has his work cut out for him. I'm just happy as hell that the Bills finally hired a head coach with NFL experience and an offensive background, although it took ten years. The only thing that still really bothers me is that there appears that nobody at OBD, owner / FO that had enough NFL acumen to realize just how inept Dick Jauron was from the start, and did the Bills just hire the offensive version of the same thing?

Even if what you state is true and the Bills don't need a premier LT (Which I still think they do as bandaids don't work) they could still go WR as they now have no slot receiver or anyone opposite Lee Evans. Plus ML is wearing out his welcome in Bflo fast, and might be gone by the time pre season starts. I wouldn't be against a WR-RB-OT in any combination of the three as the first 3 picks. Shoot, I wouldn't even mind if they traded up in the first after the #9 pick to the top 20 to tab Tim Tebow, as long as they get a quality OL-WR-RB with #9. The offense has sucked long enough in Buffalo, time for a change!

What don't you guys get about being 25th or WORSE on offense for 10 years? I honestly could shiv two gits about the defense at this point, Jauron drafted mostly defense his entire 4 years with Buffalo and they were near LAST against the run every year, and the defense still stunk! This time every year the "defensive screw brains" come out and clamor for DE's-LB's-DB's and every year they get drafted and every year the team sucks on defense. Didn't you guys watch the offense struggle all year, and the QB's fail all year...it made me wanna You defensive clowns got your wish last season with Aaron Maybin, how do you like him? The entire world was puzzled by the Maybin pick when they needed a OT, cept Jauron and his crew of dimwits. If this team drafts defense with that first pick at #9, then it shows me the mentality has not changed for the Bills and they will continue to be last in the AFC East.

The thing is... I think lots of the teams ahead of the Bills are going to select a tackle St Louis-QB Sam Bradford Detroit-DT Ndamukong Sue Tampa Bay-DT Gerald McCoy Washington-O Tackle-Russell Okung Kansas City-O Tackle Trent Williams Seattle-O Tackle-Brian Bulaga Cleveland-Jimmy Clausen Oakland-O Tackle-Bruce Campbell Buffalo... My only fear is that if the top tackles are gone at #9 they draft a defensive player.

Mostly they want to learn the college system and work at perfecting that before they even start thinking of the pros. Kids are recruited out of high school and if they throw sidearm with a long delivery it doesn't matter If they can get the ball from point A to point B and the team wins games. Why would most coaches want to screw around adjusting technique if the kid is good enough to win for them. The coaches will tell them that there are NFL camps or trainers they can attend after the final year of college and before the draft, just like Tim Tebow is attending. Most NFL teams want a guy who has played in a pro style offense in college, like Mark Sanchez from USC. But then look at Matt Leinart who is taking forever to develop. Anyway, Trent Edwards should do much better with Chan Gailey as his head coach / OC, the guy knows enough to setup a proper offense and help the young QB's correct mistakes.

After opening day last season we all got a surprise as TE played a really good game at NE... and his biggest hater on the boards wrote a long letter of apology to the posters here stating he was wrong about TE being bad. As the season progressed and O line injuries occurred and TE regressed badly. Then everyone started clamoring for Fitz to save the season because now TE sucked. The coaches put in Fitz and he looked good for a few games and then regressed badly and fans wanted to see what Brohm could do because Fitz sucked... Guess what, Brohm sucked even worse. What do all these QB's have in common... they couldn't do it alone, by themselves, without a decent offense supporting them. The only thing we know for certain is most QB's can't win without decent support. Understand that the scheme stunk, the coaches stunk, the game plans stunk, the play calling stunk, the O line stunk. The coaches were so horrid they couldn't figure out how to get TO the ball... There is a reason RW crap canned the entire coaching staff and hired an offensive mind. Ten years of being 25th or worse on offense finally made RW look to an offensive head coach with experience. The Bills were near last in the NFL against the run AGAIN last season, year after year the same crap. The Bills can't stop the run, should they just cut all the LB's and D linemen and start over with new players?

Jim Otto-Dave Casper-Gene Upshaw-Howie Long-Ray Guy-Lester Hayes...yea

I've read somewhere that the Bills only have one QB with a first round grade, Bradford. Tebow seems to be the front runner with Kelly's blessings, but the guy will need a year or so to develop as a pocket QB. I just don't see the guy effective in the NFL running a wildcat/option offense simply because he can't compete as a top RB. Not as fast or elusive as Michael Vick, Vince Young. The guy has shown tremendous heart and desire to win and succeed as a QB, Mike Mayock is sold on him and that is good enough for me.