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"Open" to trading him ought to mean telling Parker to shop him around for a 1st round pick. The only concession I'd be willing to give would be to offer back a 2015 pick, maybe as high as a 2nd, if the team failed to sign him to an extension in order to close the deal. Of course it's dreaming. Draft picks are so overvalued compared to what they were 20 years ago. But that's the only way to truly get equal value. Getting a 1st and then taking Hasean Clinton-Dix in the draft would make it truly a one for one swap.

I don't see the Bills winning any games until EJ comes back. With the number of top 10 worthy QB's in this draft, the chance to take one of them could be there. A lot of St Louis fans wish the Rams had taken RG3 to replace Bradford. But I think the Rams made the right choice then and the Bills should make the same if the situation comes up. What if the new guy fails to live up to the expectations? No, build around EJ.

We need another Gilmore. CB is going to be the position to watch this year in the college ranks. But if Manuel can keep developing, the foundation will be there, even if the secondary holds the team back.

I really wish Tuel had played against Washington like he did against Indianapolis. He didn't inspire a lot of confidence.

We have our QB. It is time to start rooting for wining actual games, not draft position.

There's a lot of opinion about Mario that he came to the Bills only because the other teams were smart enough to pass on him. These Bumbling Bills can't do anything right, so signing Mario must have been a mistake. This comes from not just from some fans but people being paid a salary to write about the team. I couldn't disagree more. When you consider the position he plays, his talent, his age, and that there weren't any draft picks given up to get him it was completely the right move.

Our new Defensive Coordinator was able to get a decent amount of production from Maybin. I can't wait to see what he can do with this defense.

Guard concerns me the most. I don't know what the plan is there.

Narwocki called Newton a high-risk, high-reward player. He didn't say he was a certain bust. Nix was supposedly planning on taking him if he were available. I see Smith as a similar player. Which is why the signing of Kolb was of such a benefit - any QB the Bills draft gets time to time to develop.

I can't understand why free agents aren't lining up to join the Bills. The team is so loaded with talent it would be an upset if they don't go to the AFC Championship Game. And that quarterback situation! What a dream scenario for any wide receiver!

The mid eighties were far worse. The Bills had a record number of road losses. Due to the blackout restrictions, the road games were the only ones shown. A lot of Bills fans went through an entire 3 year period of not seeing even 1 single win.

I hate to see him go, but he got a Derrick Dockery contract. He'd be near the top of the list for potential salary cap cuts down the line. Who really knows what conversations were held with him and his agent a year or more ago? What figures were exchanged if any? Without that we don't truly know how serious they were about locking him up.

For argument's sake let say their strategy is to take Geno Smith if he's available and if he's not the plan is to strengthen the OL and wait until round 2 for a QB. If so, I think they'd take Joeckel, Fisher, then Johnson before Warmack. Even if Warmack ends up being a Hall of Fame OG he isn't going to make as much of an impact as a dominant OT would.

This is easy to say, but very difficult to have everything fall in place. Last year at this time it looked like Barkley would be the top pick in 2013. Plus you need another GM foolish enough to give up a future 1st round pick (too bad Tom Donahoe doesn't still have a GM job on another team).

I hope he gets as many chances as John McCargo did. Cutting him is foolish.

And he actually managed to get some production out of him.

This was the real stuning part of the article: "After charting out Nassib in five games we consider him to be the best quarterback in the 2013 NFL Draft and worth drafting with the first overall pick." The first overall pick? I haven't seen him as a 1st round pick anywhere else.

It couldn't possibly be that teams were favoring offense-oriented coaches, most of which happened to be white. No, it had to be racism that prevented African-American coaches from getting hited.

The Bills have done a lot better than I expected (but my expectations were extremely low). There wasn't a sense that the Bills couldn't get anyone to come and coach this team like there was the last time. It's very suprising, in a positive way, that everything has come together so quickly. Marrone had other opportunities and chose to come to Buffalo. Marrone's resume is just what they needed, too, an offensive-sided coach with head coaching experience. I like it that he brought Hackett with him. Pettine is a great choice for DC. It's impossible to know exactly how things will turn out, good or bad, but I just have a better feeling about the direction the team is headed than I did a few weeks ago.

We're going to go 0-16 for sure now. Marrone clearly doesn't know what he's doing. Brandon better get on the phone and hire Gailey back before it's too late and someone snatches hm up.

Of all the canidates I knew the least about Marrone. Reading through this thread has been really depressing. But how can anyone say he's definely worse than all the others? What coordiators were each canidate going to bring in? Lovie Smith could have been the best choice, with the right OC, but he could also end up being Dick Jauron 2. If they knew they were out on Chip Kelly, I can't say that this was a terrible choice until I hear some more details.

I've lived in the Chicago area since 2001, the first year Jauron coached the Bears. Jauron's offenses stunk in Chicago and they stunk in Buffalo. I absolutely did not want Jauron to coach the Bills when they were looking for a coach at the time he was hired. Lovie had a little bit better sucess than Jauron, but the Bears under him were still the same good defense no offense team. The organization had got to get a coach who brings a good coordinator with him on the side of the ball that isn't his specialty this time. I'm not opposed to Lovie. It depends on who else he brings.

I would have rather seen him go to AZ, where he could try to resurrect Kolb's career, which would then take them out of the running for a new QB.

I bet the Bills end up being the last team to hire a new coach. There's no reason to think that there won't be more of the same.

At this point I think it would be far better to start with the highest rated defense player in the 1st, then trade back up into the 20's using a 2nd and 3rd round pick.