Sisyphean Bills

Want more laughs? Google Smoot and the Vikings Sex Boat. "Successful" is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. (OK, yes, he was an average corner for 9 years. )

http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2013/01/25/fred-smoot-dui-urinate/1864083/

That's all fine. Mark Anderson is the model of inconsistency and a journeyman. He's had a couple standout years in terms of sacks and a lot more ho-hum campaigns. He's on his 4th team. The question then is whether Dion Jordan gives the Bills a better edge rusher than Anderson and when. And maybe even if. Still, I think he's a real athletic kid and does not simply get by on hustle and "a quick first step" (long may that line live in infamy) alone like Maybin did. PS: While I'm not banging the table for Jordan, I do see him as a highly probable upgrade to a JAG. I do have some concerns, but the kid is freakishly athletic and if developed right could even be dominant. Having a defense manned with guys that cannot run hasn't worked.

You can never have too many CBs, right Marv?

Like you say, you've got guys like Charles Haley and Aldon Smith and DeMarcus Ware all the way down to guys like Aaron Maybin and Vernon Gholston, so it can run the entire gamut. So it seems a bit contradictory to say both "I don't know" and "he's Maybin 2.0". It's OK to not be sold or to be convinced he's going to suck moose nuts, but how both?

This isn't the right thread for a QB debate, but I do want to clarify. This draft is comparatively very weak at the QB position. However, that does not mean that all of this year's QBs will never be any good. There may even be an Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady in this class who just needs the time and coaching to develop into an elite NFL QB, key being that it took them a little time to master their trade. No one knows at this point. But, if the Bills go this route, we should hope their talent evaluators finally get one right.

One could try to sell this result... or, admit that 4 is the least total number of reps overall at the combine for everyone that performed the BP. Demetrius Mooray sucked as well, but these 2 guys were the statistical tail of the curve. To put it in perspective, every single QB, RB and WR that tried did more reps. 4 is so low that the weaker end of the WR group had double the reps. But is he smart?

There irony (tragedy?) here is that the Bills might feel compelled to draft a QB in one of the worst draft classes at the position in quite some time and for no small part because they felt they could bide their time and wait for the perfect QB to fall to them because they had a good enough fill-in at the position already. Now the question is whether there is a complete cave in on Buddy's team building approach and the Bills throw a top pick at a QB to trot out someone in a uniform with a different name on his back on game day... (For instance, when people are talking about Nassib and Manuel maybe being another Fitzpatrick at the NFL level, what would they really be improving exactly?)

He read it on the internet.

You must not have seen Stephen Paea at his combine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNh0SgWe3rc More highlights. The negatives on him would be his shoulder (lost time this year with a bad shoulder), his size and whether he can develop enough of a power game at the NFL level to be an every down player. He has the speed game and has the ability to redirect and play under control, but I suspect the bad shoulder has set his strength game back.

Probably got some tips on how to bulk up for the combine from Mayhem. http://instantrimshot.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UwVrBRruEk Tall and lanky, but the guy has some speed for a DE. Also, he doesn't get pancaked against everyone not named Coastal Carolina. BTW, wasn't Von Miller supposed to be a Maybin-clone based on his size alone?

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000145194/article/damontre-moore-acknowledges-disappointing-combine

You forgot to mention short and undersized. #CombineMeasurablesOnly

http://sports.yahoo.com/video/sportsmin-nick-barnetts-ridiculous-ride-050000235.html

He looks really good running against air in that video. Would like to see him break some tackles. BTW, how many miles did he run for against the Sooners?

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000144303/article/disinformation-headlines-nfl-scouting-combine-talks Even if he can't catch a football, he and TJ Graham could race each other at practices.

http://nfl.si.com/20...outing-combine/

This is the age old traditional posturing pablum. Blame everything on the last guy fired while claiming without evidence that the guys still in the building that were involved were just innocent bystanders. Claim that an organization was run entirely by an ousted individual while the rest of the organization had to stand around, helplessly tied to the mast of the ship as it sailed through the horrors. In a word: scapegoating. But, even if one were to suspend their disbelief and accept your theory, what you are really saying is that the Bills management was on different pages, completely dysfunctional, and each member of management was taking the team in a different direction. Since Buddy was the boss, this theory leads directly to the conclusion that Nix is a bumbling incompetent as a leader who has no idea how to build and work with his staff. By the way, a GM hires a head coach of his own choosing precisely because he can relate and shares a common vision and feels like they can work together. The GM and HC discuss the coaching staff and the direction they want to go in. The GM and the entire coaching staff get together with scouting to discuss and evaluate players and specifically which players can help improve the team. And, yes, it is up to the coaching staff to observe every facet of practices and meetings and determine who makes and does not make the final roster.

They kept Tarvaris Jackson.

Party time! Seriously though, it is the time to rub elbows with other front office types and float ideas as to who is looking to do what and lay the groundwork for possible deals, etc. Of course, if you're content to just let the names peel off the board and block all incoming calls, then it's probably not very important to be there.

Well, the '09 draft class was one of the better ones in a long while. If you can ignore the Maybin pick anyway.

Did you notice the quote at the end? "You'd like to hit the opponent with a combination of him and Fred Jackson, where they get the ball 30 to 35 times a game receiving or carrying the ball. But to say 'We need to hand the ball off to C.J. 25 times a game, and it's going to be great,' I don't know if he could carry the ball that many times -- or would want to."

Do foot soldiers usually go out and tell the Gen. which are the 2 or 3 highest priority targets of a campaign?