Sisyphean Bills

"If"? The Bills already did this. They were trend setters on the "get a low-cost batch of coaches to reduce expenses for the possible lockout" concept.

George Edwards was defensive coordinator of the Washington Redskins in 2003. http://www.buffalobills.com/news/article-3/Bills-name-Edwards-defensive-coordinator/d4bc880d-7f2e-48a2-8cc4-74e731938c0e Dave Wannstedt has been a coordinator or head coach since 1986. 25 years > 2 years.

Speaking of fantasies, the negative premise is that the trade did NOT happen. Whether you chose to start threads to argue that good trades are never possible or that good trades are always possible, the argument is equally invalid with no other evidence than "the trade did NOT take place." Linking or reporting information, such as a reporter asking someone directly and the answer that comes out of their mouth, is actually not a negative premise or a fantasy. There is some degree of bashing, but not every word about the Bills dealings in the media is unsupported, baseless bashing simply because fans don't want it to be true.

Let's see if Peterson or Green has the better combine.

This is really bad news. It's clearly the NFL's way of picking on the Bills and not letting them load up on picks in Modrak's Wheelhouse. The bastards. If the Bills could trade down and get all the 7th round picks, The Genius would surely find 3 or 5 little Dutch boys to plug some holes in the lineup and maybe even a special teams player or two.

The interesting thing is that Gailey was very supportive of his staff in his year end PC, but now they are looking at a fairly high-profile guy to come in and coach the defense. Interesting. Maybe Buddy Nix woke up from his nap? At least it's not like Donahoe, who hired a "defensive genius" as his head coach, and then turned around and hired a defensive consultant to fix the defense.

Ralph isn't perfect, but he was right about this. Voting for the last CBA because the outgoing Tagliabue said (in effect) "It's all good!" turned out to be a bonehead way to run billion dollar franchises.

I'm trying to resolve how this fits with the fact that picking third in the draft is a position of absolute power.

Donte will look good in orange.

He's legit.

Best case scenario is that Spiller is another "slow transition" skills player like Eric Moulds was. Of course, Moulds got to learn slowly on a team with copious proven, veteran talent, while Spiller is at the distinct disadvantage of running behind a line of young guys, castoffs and guys that were driving a beer truck 3 days before the game.

Andrew Luck at 12?

I've met people from Nowhere. This guy is from even further out than that.

Wouldn't he need to understand it before he could draw a meaningful conclusion of any sort?

Guess he didn't get the memo that it's all about the haircut.

Cut him some slack. He can't remember the names of all his children.

It's not that we don't need a pass rusher (and many other things); but, on the other hand, if teams can run on you all day long does having a pass rusher really matter as much?

Maybe the problem has never been all about the running backs.

By the way, screw the scheme. Get great players and a coach with enough neurons that he can design a scheme around what he has.

Paul Allen was an executive at Microsoft and is now the owner of the Seahawks and Portland Trialblazers. He is not affiliated with Nike. Nike has put a lot of money and resources into Oregon (some of it, such as the new Nike emblazoned uniforms each week, are transparently self-serving), but Auburn actually had more than double the operating budget for their football team.

Fairley is a freak with great speed for a DT, which was totally disrupting Oregon's timing, to say the least, in their run game. BTW, Fairley wasn't always unblocked, but when they did try to block him he was often off the block in a heartbeat. He was very well prepared and had a monster game.

Why I posted his record in Philly was because it is lackluster. There is the McNabb pick, of course. But, other than that it's a bunch of backups, busts, and role players. The same sort of players that the Bills have collected on his watch and which the Modrak apologists seem to want to give him praise for finding. Like I posted earlier, maybe he is The Genius, but if that is the case there was no one listening to him in Philadelphia, Donahoe didn't listen to him, Levy didn't listen to him, Brandon didn't seem to listen to him, and we can't say Buddy's first draft was a ginormous success story either. When can we say these results are at least a trend if not typical and representative?

Once again, it should be pointed out that somebody has to play the games. It simply is not a feather in anyone's cap that the picks are so terrible in the first few rounds year after year that the Bills are forced to start UDFAs and guys plucked off of taxi squads across the league. Every team has role players that are young, cheap, and play and aren't 1st rounders. Every single team. Why is the fact the Bills rely more heavily on these sorts of players than other teams considered a hallmark of a "solid" to "superior" college scouting department? It isn't. Here is what Modrak did before he got himself fired in Philadelphia 2001 - Philadelphia Eagles 1 25 Freddie Mitchell WR UCLA 2 55 Quinton Caver LB Arkansas 3 63 Derrick Burgess DE Mississippi 4 121 Correll Buckhalter RB Nebraska 5 147 Tony Stewart TE Penn State 5 155 A.J. Feeley QB Oregon 2000 - Philadelphia Eagles 1 6 Corey Simon DT Florida State 2 36 Todd Pinkston WR Southern Mississippi 2 61 Bobbie Williams G Arkansas 4 99 Gari Scott WR Michigan State 6 171 Thomas Hamner RB Minnesota 6 178 John Frank -- Utah 6 192 John Romero -- California 1999 - Philadelphia Eagles 1 2 Donovan McNabb QB Syracuse 2 35 Barry Gardner OLB Northwestern 3 64 Doug Brzezinski G Boston College 4 97 John Welbourn T California 4 128 Damon Moore SS Ohio State 4 130 Na Brown WR North Carolina 6 172 Cecil Martin FB Wisconsin 6 201 Troy Smith WR East Carolina 7 208 Jed Weaver TE Oregon 7 251 Pernell Davis DT Alabama-Birmingham

Well, if the Bills draft a CB in this draft, it ought to be evident which recipe Nix is copying.

Here's a hypothetical. Let's say Modrak really is The Genius at player evaluation and has correctly identified and graded every superstar player available for the Bills picks over the last 10 years. In other words, if the Bills had listened, they'd have drafted 60 to 70 excellent to dominant players. Yet, given the results, one would have to surmise that no one in the Bills front office ever listens to The Genius, the ultimate talent evaluator who's draft board is never wrong. What does that tell you? Why would a team pay The Genius and then when it comes down to making the final decisions flat out ignore him? Why would The Genius continue to work in such a situation anyway? Why wouldn't he go out and drum up another job where they actually took him for something other than a joke? I mean it would be like getting dunked and given a swirly every year by your boss.