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Sign Spikes and Landry if you can fit them under this years cap. Landry provides a good veteran option at safety while adding depth in case of injury. Spikes provides depth at LB and a powerful force in the run game on early downs. Both guys would help the depth of the defense in areas where they need it. Why the hell would you throw away two quality veteran players for a late round pick?

10-6 and they make the wildcard.

The starters only really play in 2 of the games. In game 1 they maybe play two series and in game 4 they don't play. It's arbitrary to think that cutting back on 2 pre-season games would mean starters would play that much less. Having those two extra games doesn't bother me, it's filler but a lot of the fringe players could use the playing time to make the team or practice squad. It also gives coaches more time to examine the deeper parts of the roster.

Teams are built along the lines. Investing in the O-line is always a good idea. So drafting two with the first two picks would be a solid move. Unnecessary to do based on need but overall it's not a bad strategy.

CB Makes sense. In the 2010 draft coming off of a huge off season when the Jets signed Cromartie, traded for Holmes, signed LT, and signed Jason Taylor to complement a team that already made a good run in the playoffs with a top Defense and Special teams, and some talent on offense, Rex and the Jets had a middle late first round pick and they drafted Kyle Wilson a CB at a time when they were pretty good at CB. Rex loves to go man to man a lot and he needs good CB's. Also McKelvin and Graham aren't that young so adding a good young corner would be prudent providing those guys fall off or the younger CB's like Robey, Brooks, and Crockwell don't develop

Contract year, Glenn knows a good year gets him paid.

Rex's system was perfect for LaRon Landry. Two shut down corners made is so that Landry could roam free having to do much less in coverage. Landry flourished in that role because it maximized his free roam ability and minimized how inconsistent he can be in coverage.

Why wouldn't you be allowed to do that? They allow teams to bring in all sorts of stuff for the bench.

Yes but if you lose Suh and 3 other players and you sign 4 players to much smaller contracts then you don't get any compensatory picks. The Bills got nothing for losing Byrd because of the amount of players we signed to smaller contracts. The system has no context, it's a stupid numbers game that factors nothing else than players in players out.

I think he is not going to be a Hall of Famer but he will be one of those borderline guys. 3 Super Bowl appearances was one of the best receivers from 07 to 12 solid stats to go along with his whole career. But he didn't produce the longevity needed to push him info the Hall of Fame.

Big deal they could probably just have awnings on the bench.

The Eagles are playing Madden style GM in real life. Love it.

The NFL's compensatory picks calculation is horrendously retarded. The fact that the Lions losing a player like Suh carries the same weight as them signing a player to a 1 year 4 million dollar deal shows what's wrong with the system. There is no context in the NFL's system. They need to switch to a system that factors in size of contracts, more so money in money out. The Bills front office should lobby to change the system as the Pats*, Steelers, and Ravens all seem to know how to benefit from the system.

I forgot about Cockrell, I was mainly thinking of bringing in a corner in the late rounds to compete with Brooks but Brooks and Cockrell should be plenty of competition

I wouldn't mind drafting a corner in round 5. The team goes 4 deep at corner with Gilmore, Graham, McKelvin, and Robey which is good but teams do need a 5th corner to achieve maximum depth (With how often teams play 3 and 4 corner sets). Brooks isn't a bad 5th corner but I think drafting on late isn't a bad way to spend a pick.

Ryan puts his corners in a lot of man coverage without much safety and linebacker coverage. He basically dials up the pressure with very exotic blitzes and then has his corners lock down one on one. It's why Revis and Chromartie were so important to his defenses.

Defense could use some depth. I would be happy if the team could sign both Spikes and Landry with the remaining 4+ million in cap space. Having a vet option at SS and a physical force at MLB would round out the D nicely. The the team can use the draft to build up the offense.

Shady and Clay out the backfield along with Sammy and Woods split wide with Harvin in the slot would make for a very versatile talent team. Clay can block as a fullback so having Clay in the backfield doesn't dial it in as a pass. But you have two players that could legit catch the ball out the backfield and then having 3 wideouts all of whom you have to account for spread out the field. Only question is will the O-line and QB hold up.

Well they weren't going to fire Marrone after just one season. So it's kind of a moot point. Still I think having Schwartz with last years defense was better than Pettine, Pettine's scheme was very aggressive but it also resulted in huge running lanes as players were shooting gaps and over pursuing.

Harvin needs to stay healthy. He is a versatile potentially explosive offensive weapon. But his main issues has always been staying on the field and being an issue in the locker room.

Only thing is he is very limited. He hasn't played well against better defense esp in the playoffs. Granted I think the trade market for him would be very good but it's not exactly the best option.

Context of stats is very important. When your defense is really good and your offense is limited it's going to lead to more conservative calls.

Unless they had a QB on a rookie deal they wouldn't have the same roster if they were paying 20+ million to a QB. It would be very hard to pay the big bucks along the D-line and at other positions if the team had to have a huge cap hit from a franchise QB. So everything is relative.

Right now this team needs a guard badly and could use upgrades at other positions. Trading down to pick up extra picks in the mid rounds isn't a bad idea if there isn't a highly coveted player of need there. But in the mid second round you aren't going to trade down and get too many other picks other than a 3rd rounder or lower.

I don't know if EJ will develop into a top 10 franchise QB but I don't know why he can't develop into a solid game manager. He has solid tools, some experience, and doesn't need to do all that much to make it work.