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Kellen Clemens will be 26 before training camp. He doesn't need "a few years" to develop. He's a bust. If the Jets are smart they'll go after Cutler.

Has anybody seen Maybin play at this new weight?? All we've seen is him run slow at it at the Combine and run fast at it at his Pro Day. Have you ever heard of anybody (except maybe Andre Smith) having a poor Pro Day? Those things are set up for the athletes to succeed. The combine is a level playing field and Maybin basically failed that test. Pass.

I don't mind the Toronto games. They bring in badly needed revenue and at once a year, why not? Other teams end up playing in London or elsewhere. I think it's good for the franchise. What I DON'T like is when we a) play a division rival (i.e. Miami) and b) play in November/December there. The weather is not only an advantage but part of the tradition in Buffalo. My best football experience was going to a Bills/Dolphins game in early December when it snowed about eight inches during the game (12/1/02). You can't put a price tag on that. Play Indy or play Tampa, it doesn't matter. But do it in September or October at the latest. Let us have our late-season home games at the Ralph.

True. But I don't think Keller would have been that high of a pick in a stronger class, IMO. Think '04 when Winslow, Chris Cooley, and Ben Watson were picked. We of course, picked...Tim Euhus (sigh).

I got a 44 on a "scaled-down" version. Where's my contract???

Even better. Yeah, didn't NYJ trade up for him?

Thomas Smith. Super athletic corner who had the worst hands I've ever seen. Scott Norwood. A great kicker repping the single bar facemask that got a raw deal after missing an extremely tough kick. Now he sells insurance or something and hides out. No love for the kickers. Mark Kelso. He proved that a white 5'10" 180 lb. 10th round draft pick could play in this league, and play at a high level. Bryce Paup. A pure terror rushing from the outside on our old 3-4. Carwell Gardner. If you're in the way, move! Sam Gash. Ditto. Travis Henry. Hasn't made the best decisions in life (who has?), but also got a raw deal from a fool of a GM who disregarded our needs and went with the sexy pick in McGahee. Darryl Talley. How can you not love the spider-man sleeves??

We are not getting Tyler Thigpen. End of discussion.

I second that. And I don't live anywhere close to Buffalo.

Actually, the TE class last year was notoriously weak. Dustin Keller was an undersized TE who couldn't block that went in the second round.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Brady has always had a strong arm. Did you see Super Bowl XLI? He threw it like 75 yards in the air at the end. It's not like he came into the league maxing out at 45 and added 30 yards of distance in a couple of years. How about the Cleveland game where Lee Evans was wide open downfield and Edwards was trying to thread the needle underneath? Family members have season tickets, they say that wasn't an anomaly. He looked good against the Chargers, but most of the games after the concussion he didn't look good at all. You need to be able to get hit and get right back up again.

If people flood Roger Goddell's mailbox with letters asking him to put corporate ownership on the table. Then 24 of the 32 owners would have to sign off on it. Highly unlikely, but I'm going to write my letter any day now. http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3534671 This has also been addressed...sorta: http://www.stadiumwall.com/index.php?showtopic=69624

If only shipping to the US wasn't $40+...

Sometimes, but not always. Alex Smith just restructured his deal to avoid getting cut, you can bet your ass he took a big pay cut.

That's what I thought at first too. Buffalo came into the offseason seventh(?) (http://www.askthecommish.com/salarycap/numbers.asp, http://moondogsports.com/2009/02/27/2009-n...ary-cap-status/) in the league in cap space behind Tampa. Owens is a $6.5M hit, Dockery being cut was a $5.4M hit, Hangartner will be less than $4M, Fitzpatrick is what, $2M? That's $16M, we came in $27M under the cap, so that's $10M-11M under the cap. At the #11 pick we won't have to spend a fortune on rookies, so we can still bring in a LG and/or OLB, but yeah, it is getting a little tight.

Well Brady never had arm strength issues, he just wasn't accurate downfield. When I watched him his first few years he would bomb it out and it would be overthrown or successfully defensed; he just couldn't put the right amount of power behind his throws. That's since changed, obviously. With Pennington, he never had a strong arm but that was made worse with shoulder surgery. Trent doesn't have the Cutler/J. George arm, but from what I've seen arm strength isn't the problem; skiddishness in the pocket is.

True, but you're forgetting that no one double-teams our DE's anyway.

I miss Tagliabue. This whole authoritarian Goddell administration blows. Of course if he takes steps to keep the Bills in Buffalo buy allowing an exception to the NFL's corporate ownership policy I'll be there first one singing his praises.

Why has it risen, exactly?? He put on all this weight and ran slow at the combine, so now his stock is higher?? All athletes run faster at their pro-day, it's a known fact. The guy won't be a successful 4-3 DE and we'd be wasting a pick with him.

I've watched him play. I saw him scare the crap out of Todd Pinkston, I saw him break T.O.'s ankle with a now-illegal "tackle," and I've watched dudes soar past him on post patterns. Is Whitner fast enough to play FS, by the way? I'm not so sure.

How the hell is $7.66M/year CHEAP for ANY LT??? After #1 overall pick Jake Long, NO LT makes that much!!! What are you talking about...??

Possibly, but it doesn't help our pass rush. But if he's really as good as you guys say he is - and I haven't really seen him so I can't say - then he sounds like he'd be a good value pick. Stupid Tom Donahoe for letting Pat Williams go We'd still need to address DE with our next pick (Ayers could be available in the second round - he might be worth that pick since he's definitely not worth the #11 overall) and trade for Scheffler or just pray Fine is better than the majority think he is.

Dude...Roy Williams is not a cover 2 safety. Cover 2 means the safeties get deep, that is the *worst* position to put him in. Even the LB's in a cover 2 have to get to their zones and be quick in coverage - he's more of a run stopping SS than anything. A real 'tweener. I guess he's good in certain situations but I doubt he'd want to a) come to Buffalo to b) get 10-15 plays/game. I'll take Ko Simpson and Whitner over Roy Williams. Byron Scott is a good situational SS too. I wouldn't mind exploring S in the draft though. That's more of a negative on Ellison than it is a positive on RW. I don't disagree with you totally, I just don't know that he can get off the blocks like a LB and actually tackle. Sure he can hit people, but can he wrap up? It's totally different playing LB than SS.

Okay, well NFL.com didn't report that, and I'm pretty sure they're official: TOP PERFORMERS DEFENSIVE LINEMEN Name Time Sidbury Jr., Lawrence 4.64 Barwin, Connor 4.66 Orakpo, Brian 4.70 Brown, Everette 4.73 Johnson, Michael 4.75 Sulak, Stryker 4.77 Brown, Cody 4.84 Butler, Victor 4.84 Veikune, David 4.87 Gilbert, Jarron 4.87 http://www.nfl.com/combine/top-performers