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Am liking the Aaorn Corp addition, this kid was Top 12 rated as a QB.

http://www.nepatriotsdraft.com/2012-nfl-undrafted-free-agents This is the best link to track all your undrafted freeagent sources. This is what they posted so far. Anyone has anything on these players please followup. Buffalo Bills (Bills UDFA Reaction) Delano Howell, SAF, Stanford http://www.nfldraftscout.com/ratings/dsprofile.php?pyid=83077&draftyear=2012&genpos=SS http://www.gostanford.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/howell_delano00.html Aaron Corp, QB, Richmond http://www.nfldraftscout.com/ratings/dsprofile.php?pyid=69451&draftyear=2012&genpos=QB'>http://www.nfldraftscout.com/ratings/dsprofile.php?pyid=69451&draftyear=2012&genpos=QB http://www.freep.com/article/20120421/SPORTS01/204210413/Could-Richmond-QB-Aaron-Corp-be-in-Lions-draft-crop- http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/04/25/2496640/aaron-corp-could-be-sleeper-at.html'>http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/04/25/2496640/aaron-corp-could-be-sleeper-at.html Nick Sukay, SAF, Penn State http://www.nfldraftscout.com/ratings/dsprofile.php?pyid=71984&draftyear=2012&genpos=SS http://www.gopsusports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/sukay_nick00.html Shawn Powell, P, FSU Ian Wild, SAF, Mercyhurst http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-Ian-Wild-58198 Chris Douglas, RB, Missouri St http://www.nfldraftscout.com/ratings/dsprofile.php?pyid=120644&draftyear=2012&genpos=RB http://www.missouristatebears.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/douglas_chris00.html Aaron Corp, QB, Richmond http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/04/25/2496640/aaron-corp-could-be-sleeper-at.html http://www.nfldraftscout.com/ratings/dsprofile.php?pyid=69451&draftyear=2012&genpos=QB Chris Hill, CB, Virginia Tech http://www.nfldraftscout.com/ratings/dsprofile.php?pyid=68981&draftyear=2012&genpos=CB http://virginiatech.rivals.com/cviewplayer.asp?Player=84806

Wow, The Bills scored 41 points and Fitzpatrick was the top rated QB with 4 TD's. Also 3 recievers had at least 4 catches for arounnd 60 yards, these were good numbers for Evans when he played the last two years. I believe Evans only had 1-100 yard game in his last 30 plus games. Don't miss him a bit. We had 4 wins last year with the mighty Lee Evans on this team. Did Lee Evans was out played by TO. Did Evans pull coverage for TO, I believe TO was double covered plenty of times. This love for a player who never had but really one good season makes no sense. The Bills didn't win enough with a number of players who Bills fans love. Bye Lee Evans, Donte Whitner, Paul Polusny, Marshawn Lynch, Trent Edwards and whoever else that is not here who never got more than 7 wins. You all were just not good enough! ask Thurman Thomas.

One thing that won't change also is eventually Evans won't play as hard. Coverage roles back to Bolden and Evans will have to pickup the slack. He will catch his 2-4 passes for under 80 yards. Baltimore will lose those games. If Evans was so good as a number one reciever than why was Buffalo always at the bottom of the league as a offense. Even with Losman tossing long passes, Buffalo never ranked high enough to get us more than 7 wins. Moulds and Flutie managed 11-5 and 10-6 records. Sorry, there is a reason Buffalo never became a winning team and Lee Evans is one of them, just not good enough. Add Polusny, Witner, Lynch and any number of players gone for the same reason.

Well if he said no player is safe then split time with Fitz, Jackson, Johnson, Wood, Williams and tell them there jobs are not safe! Then I will believe he is motivating through fear. Gailey singled out Levitre, said he did nothing wrong and Rienhart looked good in practice so they are spliting time. That is not a good reason to give a man with pride, respect counts! I have been a service engineer for 24 years on Xray equipment. The day my boss replaces me for no reason on a job will be the last day he gets my undying support and help. I can do enough work to keep my job, just won't offer myself to work 34 hrs straight to get a down 2mil dollar Cath Lab backup anymore, I don't owe that. If Gailey keeps this up I will guarantee Levitre will either request a trade or leave during freeagency! If he believes he is a starter then why wouldn't he leave.

When Maybin signed a 25mil/5year contract with 15mil guaranteed, that is when he was expected to build his body to play whatever position they needed him in. that is alot of money and he completely failed to do the most basic part of the agreement. Have your body be ready to practice and play. Not Maybin's fault his instincts and football smarts were not up to par, that is scouting. Maybin boosted his body weight to 250lbs for the combine. That was false advertising because he can't hold that weight. Maybin deserves critism here. Why is anyone standing up for him. Maybin has made 15 million dollars for 25 tackles in the NFL, YIKES!!!!!!

Now that is funny!!!! The problem is the way it was communicated. Even Levitre was scratching his head and questioning himself. http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/bills-nfl/article524702.ece Like I originally said all gailey had to do was say this was temporary for now and he was just building depth and getting a good look at Rienhart. There is no story or controversy if communcated properly!

The only really good way to get great players are through the draft or trade. A free agent is a cast off that the original team didn't want to pay.

With that philosphy then maybe Nix should demote Gailey for the day and let Dave W take over. Maybe Ralph promotes Whaley and demotes Nix for doing so bad at getting O-line talent. Maybe Pegula does a hostile take over of the Bills from Ralph ( actually rather like that idea! ) Here is hoping your boss comes into work tomorrow and motivates you real well by promoting someone below you into your job just to see if they can do better without really knowing! Terrell Davis for Denver ran behind one of the lightest o-lines in the NFL that year being out weighed average wise by almost 30lbs per man. All he did was get 2000 yards. All the team did was win the Superbowl. Being big means nothing, being good means everything. Levitre is a good lineman!!!!!!

Are you a family member? if not then you need to start "Fearing the Beer"! When you wake in the morning and see what you just txt last night you will be sorry. Also check your "Sent" email from work that none of them were sent to your boss or higher ups at the work place! Bad career move.

Glad Gailey and you are not my manager. Great way to motivate. What is the message?

The problem with this move is the explanation from Gailey. Gailey didn't say he was giving Levitre a rest, building depth, trying him somewhere else. Gailey also said Levitre did nothing wrong. There lies the problem, Levitre has been a soldier missing almost no games for the Bills. Besides that he has played Center, Tackle and Guard in games due to injuries for the Bills. He is a respected member of the Buffalo Bills team. So Gailey decides that Rienhart practices well and it is OK to share time with a established starter. This is just wrong the way Gailey is portraying this. This shows Levitre no respect and football players thrive on being respected. If we are lucky Levitre realizes he is getting paid well and sees this motivation to flat out win his job back. I personelly don't think he should have to but I am not the coach. But Gailey is flat out causing himself a problem here because no lineman is going to stick his neck out knowing if he has a bad day Gailey may take him out just because he likes how someone practices. The other real problem is somehow Urbik's playing bad but being big is rewarded. The messages being sent here on this issue out ways someone just trying to build competition. If that was the case all positions on the line would be up for challenge. Gailey has defintely chosen his center and LT. The more I think about this it STINKS!!!!!!!!!

Now this is sarcasm! There is no way the original thread was written trying to exploit a point. What was it that we have no deep receiver, Parrish, Easely and Davis all have top speed. Maybe it was Evans was a decent receiver so lets get rid of a decent QB, NOT. Maybe the writer just hates the Wildcat offense and is mad we got Smith, that can't be it because he made good point how productive it was in this weeks game. As I see it this blogger thinks the NFL is headed to the Wild Pistal/Wildcat run and gun type NFL. He actually likes this and wanted his point to come across. Personnelly I think he has no idea what he is talking about and was ranting about giving away the only true QB on the roster. Brilliant!!!!!!!

Wow, not sure where this is coming from but Fitz is our most productive QB since Flutie. He had 23 TD's and 15 INT's in a partial year without being a starter in training camp. He completed 7-9 passes Saturday in 2 series, got our only points. Please stop sniffing the Elmers glue.

How many 1st round picks are busts. Lee was a fine player for the Bills for 7 years. The Bills needed to move on and create winners with the next batch of receivers. Evans only new losing and couldn't drive himself to "be better". Losing does that to you over time, not Evans fault but he couldn't change that with the Bills. The funny thing is I truly only remember one game that Lee really made a difference. It was against Houston when Losman tossed two 80 yard plus TD's to Evans for the win. I can remember these type of plays many times from Andre Reed and a few of them from Moulds. You can go back even further for guys like Butler, Lewis, Piccone, Lofton, Beebe and Dubieon dominated games. Butler broke his leg on a TD catch and ended his career that way. Last year Stevie Johnson and Parrish were better recievers. The Bills way over paid for Lee Evans at 8.5 mil/yr on the last contract for the production they got. What I really find weird is the percieved "leader" role Lee played. Every QB change was met with resistance from Lee, even Edwards being let go. The true leader on offense the last couple years has been Fred Jackson. Now it is Fitzpatrick as it should be. Lee's game was too one dimensional. He also couldn't block well or handle hand checks from aggressive CB's. As a second reciever for Baltimore he will be fine but the Bills didn't just lose a Pro-bowler. In alot of ways the Bills just got better, Stevie now is the number one reciever. Parrish will be two till Easley, Smith, Roosevelt or Davis comes to the front. Nelson and Jones are good role recievers but not number two types yet. Whoever ends up the second receiver will have better stats then Evans the past two years. Here's hoping Stevie gets a #1 receiver's extension and we all can move on. As a matter of fact I will bet when the season starts no one will miss Evans.

How many 1st round picks are busts. Lee was a fine player for the Bills for 7 years. The Bills needed to move on and create winners with the next batch of receivers. Evans only new losing and couldn't drive himself to "be better". Losing does that to you over time, not Evans fault but he couldn't change that with the Bills. The funny thing is I truly only remember one game that Lee really made a difference. It was against Houston when Losman tossed two 80 yard plus TD's to Evans for the win. I can remember these type of plays many times from Andre Reed and a few of them from Moulds. You can go back even further for guys like Butler, Lewis, Piccone and Dubieon dominated games. Butler broke his leg on a TD catch and ended his career that way. Last year Stevie Johnson and Parrish were better recievers. The Bills way over paid for Lee Evans at 8.5 mil/yr on the last contract for the production they got. What I really find weird is the percieved "leader" role Lee played. Every QB change was met with resistance from Lee, even Edwards being let go. The true leader on offense the last couple years has been Fred Jackson. Now it is Fitzpatrick as it should be. Lee's game was too one dimensional. He also couldn't block well or handle hand checks from aggressive CB's. As a second reciever for Baltimore he will be fine but the Bills didn't just lose a Pro-bowler. In alot of ways the Bills just got better, Stevie now is the number one reciever. Parrish will be two till Easley, Smith, Roosevelt or Davis comes to the front. Nelson and Jones are good role recievers but not number two types yet. Whoever ends up the second receiver will have better stats then Evans the past two years. Here's hoping Stevie gets a #1 receiver's extension and we all can move on. As a matter of fact I will bet when the season starts no one will miss Evans.

There are actually many other sides, owners, NFL Branding, players, coaches, cable stations, media members, lawyers, etc... and then the fans. We actually matter the most but often given the least amount of respect. As fans, collectively we have the most money. Unfortunately we are not represented as a group and therefore have no power. This whole fiasco would be over if we did. As far as the Collective Bargining agreement, owners voted out of it during 2009 season. This enacted a last year to the agreement which kicked in a uncapped season for 2010. That agreement in 2006 turned out as Ralph Wilson and the Browns owner said to be too heavily weighted in favor of revenue to the players, ~60% with 1 billion off the top. I do side with the owners because they bring us the NFL to our cities, it is their choice. If you don't believe this ask Cleveland, Oakland and LA. Everybody says without the players there would be no NFL, that statement goes for any group involved with the NFL. Fortunately if everyone of these NFL players walked away and never played again, don't you think the NFL could still field a team. That was proven in 1987 with the scab games and guess what, we fans loved it. We had fat over weight guys hitting people and we cheered. Many of us wanted certain players to become part of our clubs when the strike ended, our Bills beat the Giants at home. The game was crazy. Now take away all 32 owners and it would take a lomg time before the NFL would ever be able to play again and it might not be in your city. No one is irreplaceable but truely the players would be the easiest since their salaries are very appealable to people. With that kind of money, noone sees the pain! This is when true NFL fans get connected for the year with their teams. Players move so much it takes a little while to get a feel for your team. Alot of time and maybe money is invested as a true fan. It is much more enjoyable if you understand who your team is before the NFL kicks off in September. I have great hobbies for the summer; boating, fishing, MLB and watching the Buffalo Bills training camps plus preseason games! What the players make in cash salary collectively for the year is more than what the owners bring in for owning those franchises collectively. There are probably a few owners who by thenselves do better because of their stadiums but as a whole that is not the case. This is logic because the money starts at the bottom and flows up to the top. The bottom is us fans. We supply the revenue either in tickets, merchandise, products bought for advertising, NFL package, etc... If fans collctivelly didn't have more money none of this works in a Capitalist society. Where is our power?

That is a I am not worthy icon. Just meaning I am below owners and players in ranking, like my opinion really matters.

NFL players are millionares! Collectively they have more cash money then the owners unless the owners sell their franchises. The owners have put up with players salaries escalating at 100 percentiles not even close to inflation rates. Who are they kidding when they say the Union decertified, maybe by legal court papers but they are still represented by the same lawyers and NFLPA agents. There are a group of players who think they are more special then anyone else and it shows. I say to the owners trash the whole year and see how they behave and negotiate next year!!!!!!!!!!!!

An NFL franchise is a business usually owned by 1 business individual. It is setup to share TV revenue/ticket revenue with players. Owners make extra monies with stadiums and players make extra monies with advertisers. The better the talent of the player the more revenue he gets, the better market the owner is in or business man the owner is will increase his teams revenue. Free agency insures the player, if lucky to be in league after 4-5 years, the ability to maximize their potential earnings not based from draft position. Guess what, the owners are setup so they have to spend a certain amount of money to look competitive. Last I checked it is the star players salaries and rookie compensation of first round picks against the average player that is underpaid. Do those average players risk anything less than the well paid stars. A first round pick in the top ten rounds averages 5 years for 25 million. Alot of these players never bring that revenue return to the owners or fans. As far as I am concern the players are at fault because they aren't even fairly compensating themselves more equally with the money available, the rich get richer even for them. What a owner makes is up to the NFL franchising and the individual owners. The NFL League is a trust that makes sure it maximizes individual owners investments make money. Yes it uses human beings to do this just like any others business except the fact they pay really well for the most part. The NFL needs to make sure for the future of the game that there are owners who anti up their money to buy franchises. The going rate is 700- to 1 billion dollars. Now if the bigger chunk of money goes to the players than how do you convince a potential owner to cough up $800 million for our Bills. If the profits aren't there that will never happen. The NFL is protecting the league and under the current business model the individual owners need to show substantial profits to sell their franchises later. Maybe this model needs to change because of the tax money these franchises get from their cities and states. I believe since I am a fan that the teams should be owned by the cities with fees paid to the states. Let Buffalo decide how good a team they want and how much they want to pay and how well they will compensate a player. Yes you need a governing body so The NFL League office stays to represent the teams as a whole and drive revenue from media sources as a whole. Current owners get compensated by stocks that are sold for each franchise. I would buy Bills stock, players can to if they wish to business in.

Trade down with 1st pick (3rd over all), get later 1st and 3rd pick. Use our 2nd and new 3rd pick to trade up into later part of 1st. Then I would draft QB and best DE or ILB available. Third pick I would go with RT.

Let me start by saying that I am not threatening not to be a Bills fan if there is a lockout. I grew up in Buffalo so it is in my very being. What I am saying is I will care less about the NFL as a whole if they lock out. I will stop following the league and pay attention only to my team. Today we wake up to see Brady, Bree's and Manning will be plaintiffs for the players in a anti-trust suit representing the players after de-certification. Come On Man!!!! Who are they kidding. The top paid players in the NFL will go up against their bosses and tell them they are unfair and breaking labor rules. I say go ahead and lock the players out because I would love to see this happen. I bet none of those guys will have free passes during training camp anymore. This whole argument isn't about fair business, it is about huge egos and lawyers who are feeding both sides crap to make alot more money. I feel sorry for no one but the little man who may not have their $10/hr job soon because of this. The NFL owners and players are all making me sick! If I thought this was about protecting the retired players, medical benefits, 16 or 18 games, rookie salary caps it would be different. This is just plain egos and money. I am definitely against any players union demanding any money out of these owners. They can't help spending money on players, they need stars. It is in their best interest to do this. No one is forcing the Red Sox and Yankees to spend over the limit, they want to win. Personally I think there should be no cap, no free agency till a player hits 8 years in the league unless their salary is in the bottom 40% at their position after 5 years. You can add 6 years with restricted free agency for any player in the bottom 75% pay at their position. Each team has to spend at least 60% of the TV revenue on players, scouting departments, and coaches. I hate that teams lose players that are well played after 4-5 years, if they aren't well paid they probably aren't that good. If the rich teams want to spend huge dollars on 8 plus years players let them do it. I would add that all contracts are guaranteed for the first 8 years of their career if signed. Good teams stay good and economically good because they pay less for rookies (drafted later). Having good coaches and scouting departments would mean more if free agency was a bit later in a players career. Players would make sure they only sign if they have good contracts to start because they will be with their teams for a while. The NFL worked great before free agency hit, they should back things up again.

I enjoyed everyones opinion. It is obvious most of us believe the issue with the Bills is drafting. I want a LT or Pass rushing Lineman with first pick. That is the bang for the buck for the Bills. Forget the 4th pick with Williams. That was a fluke for him to miss' he was decent as a RT (not for 8mil/yr). Thanks everyone and lets see where this goes without LUCK!!!!!!!

1. Fire Edwards and get new DC. 2. Fire Tom Modrak 3. Don't draft any players who haven't played at least 2 years of college ball. 4. Get stud Left Tackle and move Bell to Right Tackle. 5. Move Woods to Center 6. Either Urbik gets RG or find a new one. Hargartner backsup C/Guard. 7. Start Jackson from beginning but use Spiller on 3rd down and to spell Jackson more. Commit to the run more! 8. Find run stuffing middle linebacker. 9. Find a tightend, how about Fenner from Stanford. 10. FIND A PASS RUSHER!!!! Obviously we need a QB for the future but Fitz starts next year. We are set at NT but need DE's. We are set at OL if Merriman is OK and use Moats more. We have our starters at all other defensive positions, could use better backup safeties. This team needs better backups everywhere.

See, beer can help people think better! Great comment, wish I had said it. Edwards isn't good enough, this defense digressed under his watch. We add talent, yes we get better, but we still won't maximize the potential. If Levy had made a change at DC instead of keeping Walt Corey I believe, with the right coordinator, we would have won a Superbowl. We never had a top defense with that team and all its talent and Pro-bowlers.