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The Bills can upgrade their LB and TE real quick this year and I hope they spend their money there. It's a toss up between Miller and Lewis at TE. Either would be a coup for the Bills.

Unless Kolb can stop the run, I'm not interested in giving away draft picks for him. Fitzpatrick bought himself at least 2011.

1. The very best of the NFL takes on the very best of college football. 2. Move it back to the continental United States. New location every year. 3. Require teams to use certain play packages, as voted on by the fans. Defense can only use schemes from the 70s, offense from the 80s, etc. 4. Losing team pays the winning team. 5. Winning conference "wins" the coin flip for the next year Super Bowl.

Miller is not good at stopping the run and there is no getting around that. This is why I don't see the interest at selecting him at #3. This team needs to stop the run. There are excellent players to chose from that help with that.

My thoughts: There are two franchises, run by elderly owners that are in complete disarray, and neither of them are Buffalo. He won't coach this year. He'll probably have his pick of places next year.

Maybin does not have football smarts or intuition for the game, and that can't be taught. No team is going to be able to turn the lights on. For the hell of it however, I would have spent this offseason trying to see if he could be a TE.

It would be fun (or depressing) to compare Modrak's picks and the ones ultimately selected.

He might. The Jets have serious cap issues, and somebody is going to walk. They have the following players that are free agents: Shaun Ellis Steve Weatherford Brodney Pool Tony Richardson Braylon Edwards Wayne Hunter Trevor Pryce David Harris Robert Turner Nick Folk Antonio Cromartie Lance Laury Santonio Holmes Eric Smith Brad Smith James Ihedigbo Drew Coleman Kellen Clemens Marquice Cole Michael Turkovich Marcus Dixon They would also have to do a ton of unlikely contract restructuring to sign all those guys.

Get me David Harris, Zach Miller and Marcell Dareus. Harris is an absolute must have, and the top priority FA.

It's hard to get worked up over. This happens in a lot of NFL franchises. I do have a problem in promoting anyone having a "key role" in the Toronto series debacle.

Why would the Bills FO take a linebacker that high who's biggest liability is defending the run? Just doesn't make sense to me.

I hate that draft. Miller at #3? No way.

Ironically, this will probably be the reason why the Bills pass on Whitner. I can't envision the FO being pleased whatsoever with a member of the team wanting to box a member of the media. This is the sort of thing that breaks the camel's back. Not like I care. I'd rather George Wilson.

The signing of Reggie White put Green Bay on the map.

I sorta see the Bears/Packers vs. Jets Super Bowl akin to the 1987 Miami vs. Penn State "Good versus Evil" Fiesta Bowl Game.

Outstanding move. Love it.

There is a difference between being "cheap" and foolishly signing coaches to contracts that can paralyze you for years into the future. I've heard the "Wilson is cheap" argument for years, but started considering how the structure of the contract plays into it when I read an article where some players keep getting paid for decades into the future by their former teams solely based on how they set up the contract when they sighed with the team. We never know as fans if these "hot" coaches (Shanahan, Cowher) insist on some ridiculous deferred compensation clause where a team pays them literally for decades, or so much of the contract is guaranteed. Why, as an owner, would you want to pay an employee decades after he was last an employee for your company? Why would you submit to paying a guy the bulk of his salary years after he was lousy and only lasted on the job a year? This might extend to any coach you interview and hire. It's not always about the amount of money. We just never know if it's money=money between two contracts. I doubt it's that simple. If Wilson has avoided the big names because of things like that, I credit, not criticize him for keeping the team out of contract hell.

No deals to anybody in the AFC.

+1. Couldn't agree more.

I'd love to root for the Jets. They only have one SB appearance, ever. However, Rex Ryan and this particularly obnoxious team negates my sense of Super Bowl history. Go Steelers.

Only way he goes to Cleveland is to snipe the head coach position when and if Shurmur fails. Shurmur is a complete unknown. Gailey is not. The Bills are the best option if Wannstedt's desire is to be a head coach in the NFL again. Turn the Bills around, beat the Jets and/or Patriots, and you are all of a sudden "hot" name once again. The Browns have even less talent on defense than the Bills. All that being said, while I'd love Wannstedt as a hire, I'm intrigued by Mangini as our resident Jets/Patriots killer.

The playoffs show that anything is possible when you have 1)an elite defense and 2)you have a competent to outstanding TE. For the Bills, neither is impossible to fix this coming draft and FA. I think FAs on defense have more impact than on the offense.

My guess is that Jauron told the Eagles he only interviews for "open" positions out of respect for SM. The Eagles made the position open.

Let's not hit the panic button. I think Philly made the move to keep Jauron from taking the DC job for the Browns. All that being said, having watched the Eagles this year, being trapped in their market, the team needs defensive help, especially at linebacker. Regardless of who is coordinating it, good teams knew how to exploit that. The Eagles could not run the blitz packages you are accustomed to seeing due to the dearth of talent at the position. I feel Wannstedt will be with the Bills for 2011. I have a better feeling about it after SD filled their position internally.

I'd nominate Jeff Fisher. You don't stick around for nearly two decades as coach by being really bad at it.