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he got his bell rung in his last playoff game and it was clear he was not the player he had been. He picked the appropriate time to retire. He was our greatest quarterback. Actually if you ever saw him break legs after an interception and if you knew that Paterno recruited him as a linebacker, having on the kick return game against Tennessee might not have been a bad idea.

Von Miller, OT Gabe Carimi,Derek Sherrod OT. Greg Romeus, DE Pittsburgh. I tried to get Stocker in there as my TE out of Tennessee, but our needs are too much on the lines and I suspect Wannstedt will go with Romeus in the third round.

roof is in the pudding. He had better put up a nine win season pretty darn soon. Guys with potential sitting on the bench and not performing on the field aren't going to get us there. Fix the areas where we are terrible and then improve areas where we are mediocre and keeping the players who are good. That's the ticket.

Wade Phillips himself has said that in retrospect that we would probably have won with Flutie. Of course we probably would have won with Marv Levy or Jim Kelly.

Years to develop? Keller, Whitten, Shockey, Gates, etc. I can't buy that part of the argument. Getting one who can run and pass block well and be a major receiver would be a HUGE lift to this offense.

FoR a terrific analysis of the start of WWI I'd recommend Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August. I agree with DC Tom that WWI was the primary cause of WWII. The way WWI was "resolvd" reverberates to this day in the Middle East and Central Asia.

That Oordt fellow looks interesting as a late round pick. I'd take a chance on him.

Slavery has more implications than you might think. The Southern economy was based on cotton, which relied on slavery, and repealing slavery would call for a fundamental shift and lowering of the (white) south's economic position. Expanding slavery was a commitment to this economic basis to new states, which the North resisted. The Civil War, like most modern war,has its base on a threat to a significant economic interests. The initial aggression took place at Fort Sumter, by the South. We really ought to get over it.

Didn't they kind of spell it out with the Declaration of Independence?

Actually we only have to draft linemen until we get a good line. There is a reason we haven't heard about these picks........THEY HAVEN'T PERFORMED ON THE FIELD!!! You guys remind me of what we say about how colled admission counselors make love...they sit on the side of the bed and tell you how great its going to be.

Actually that thought was running through Stevie's mind as he dropped that pass. He kind of took one for the team, knowing he would be ridiculed nationally, but willing to take the criticism for the sake of getting the third pick.

Add Luke Stocker of Tennessee to that list. This guy will be this year's Jason Whitten. I'm seeing him at the end of the second round, but if he makes it to three I'd go for him. We have too many other needs to go with him in the second, but he could be the answer to our problem, with the combination of size, speed to perhaps be an asset in the passing, pass-blocking and perhaps run-blocking game. He played in a mess at Tennessee and never got the chance to truly excel.

no matter the year, no matter the inclination, if there is a team watering at the mount for a Gabbert, a Von Miller, a Peterson or an AJ Green and their guy lasts for the first two picks, there is a good possibility they will come to us. I think that trade will be made on draft day with very little notice. I suspect there will be some very interesting phone calls between picks two and three.

Frankly I don't see us drafting a qb at all, and I think Nix has no intention. However, he shows no "interest" in a qb, teams that are considering trading up to get a qb (Newton, Gabbert) will have to take into account that Buddy might get one or the other of the only two top ten qb picks. I think no matter what he intends to do...something really stupid like picking a qb...or something smart like a trade down to end up with three or four extremely valuable players instead of two...the smart thing is to indicate he is very interested in a qb.

From wikipedia: Polian's skill as a GM was apparent as he "traded down" from the #3 slot in the first round to the #8 slot (linebacker Shane Conlan) while also acquiring the #36 slot, which he then traded to Tampa to select cornerback Nate Odomes. On October 31, 1987, Polian orchestrated one of the biggest trades in Bills history by acquiring linebacker Cornelius Bennett. In 1988, without the luxury of a first round pick, Polian drafted running back Thurman Thomas in the second round. Polian had expertly put the pieces together that would make the Bills a "championship caliber team," appearing in an NFL record four straight Super Bowls. Because of his accomplishments, Polian won the NFL Executive of the Year Award twice in 1988 and in 1991. Hmmm..traded down to get a linebacker and a defensive back out of a first round pick. Sounds like a way to get a winner. Now if we would only do that and get an defensive lineman and perhaps an outside linebacker.

Whoever qb's this year has a poor offensive line and a less than adequate run game. George Allen used to say that "the future is now". The best way to turn the team around is to turn it around in the present by making the team better and better each year. In an era of free agency and limited shelf life for players you don't draft three years into the future. We have nine or ten excellent defensive linemen, our area of biggestneed right now and we should grab the best of them. We will be getting one of the best offensive tackles in the second round, might get lucky with an OLB in round three, and another defensive lineman or even offensive lineman or very good tight end in round four. I gaurantee you that we will have a better team going into next season with that draft I just described than a quarterback pick is going to get us. Fitz's offense was not terrible. It was middling in spite of no real tight end, a poor offensive line and less than stellar running. Is Fitz the guy for the long haul? I don't know, but he will do while we get a passable defense and good solid offensive line.

I picked the Redskins as the most likely move up candidate weeks ago and I'm not changing my mind now. They have a need at qb and receiver and it would be worth the move. They are also not averse to "paying top dollar" so that we should be able to make an interesting deal with them.

I'd be comfortable with Miller. I would rather see us go for a defensive lineman, but I can see where Miller fills a real need and he is one hell of an athlete.

uhhh...the best time to pick a quarterback with the third overall pick is.. When you have the worst defense in the league When you can't stop the run to get your offense on the field. When your offensive line can't protect the quarterback When your running game is less than adequate When you already have a quarterback who is performing pretty well in spite of the shortcomings listed above. Yup...go ahead thinking like that Buddy.

From your lips to God's ear. We would definitely get at least one of the defensive linemen we need, probably an outside linebacker, top tight end, offensive tackle, and possibly another defensive lineman in the first and second rounds. We would really turn the corner with a trade like that. I think it is kind of unlikely but not outside the realm of possibility. Boy that would be great!!!

what on earth is he thinking? This crop of quarterbacks is pretty slim by most people I've heard. Three in the first round would be my bet. I can't imagine these guys are going to let slip what they are planning to do or what they are hoping to do, and I think that is the best approach.

I'm not saying we turn over a coach afte every 2 seasons. I believe that a coach who takes over a team with seven wins should show a significant improvement after two seasons. Nine wins is not a stretch goal. I think you have to set realistic but stretch goals and expect them to be met. This "maybe four years" talk is just an excuse for doing nothing.

any coach who comes in and gets four losing seasons should be shown the door. I believe this crew took over a team with seven wins, in a very difficulty season where the head coach was fired in mid season, and the team was injury wracked. I would have expected an absolute minimum of seven wins and would have been disappointed with less than nine As to keeping them for another year, I'll accept that they changed the defensive system, but they've had more than a year to get the people to make that system work and now they have another draft to perfect it. Offensively they have the same problem they started with, a crap offensive line. They have this draft to fix it, or free agency or trade. Keeping them after two losing seasons would not be warranted.

I'm not basing a fan (I've been one since 1960...you? I'm basing my nine wins on whether Gailey and Nix are worth keeping. Gailey and Nix aren't the Buffalo Bills. They are two guys the Bills hired who have the obligation to turn this thing around. They should have gotten nine wins this year, and I'm okay with giving them a second year to show something.

Sounds like Kaepernick, Ponder and/or Dalton are three pretty good choices that might be available at 34 and we would be tempted to go for one of them. I would understand that pick but the better strategy would be to for the Defensive End, Tackle or Linebacker that we didn't take at 3. There is very serious defensive line talent in this draft and we'd be foolish not to take advantage of it.