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Pats had to do something with the Broncos going nuts. This was a good move. Damn.

Wow...guess they were biding their time. Wonder if they'll get Sproles next. Oops...didn't see the topic already started. Sorry Mods please delete.

Excellent. Please Kolb walk away. For your own good.

But of course, if / when Byrd gets a big contract Eugene will be a hero / genius who outfoxed the Bills again and will be hired by a bunch more rookies who will bolt first chance they can from the Bills.

+1 especially if he falls to the 3rd Round. Drafting a good RB as high as the 3rd might also make sense because Spiller is gone after this year. If the FO won't pay top bucks for the best DB on the team, no way are they going to shell out for 2nd best RB.

That's what Bennett said, but the fact is the Bears were offering a lot more according to reports.

I fear this contract shows just how grossly the Bills front office has misjudged the free agency market this year in their refusal to pay or franchise Byrd.

Not necessarily if they tag and trade him, especially if they settle for a 3rd etc. Also if players hate Buffalo because it's Buffalo it doesn't really matter what they do. Bills need to be like Pittsburgh draft well resign your own guys, play hardball and build a winner.

Is there a FA we could sign that other teams would badly want and would be easy to trade for a draft pick in a stocked draft this year?

Whaley is 100% onboard with the current blunder...that's the scary part. If he can't see the value of tagging and trading he doesn't belong in the NFL.

On the plus side at least the Bills didn't let Byrd walk for nothing. Oh, oops.

Yeah F him, but why are the Bills fing themselves? Franchise and trade him.

I just don't get this FO. They offered to pay him $10 million per the first three years but won't use to tag to pay him $8.4 million next year or possibly get something in trade. Like a second rounder in the deepest draft in years? What gives?

I think he's extremely athletic, but I see a guy that got pushed around a fair bit in the games I saw. He can be put on his butt by bull rushers and is a work in progress in pass pro in general. So right now it's hard to see him as an upgrade over Glenn at LT, and if you're going for a guy to be a mauler at RT, I think you'd want a guy with a little better track record in terms of toughness / durability. A guy who seems to struggle getting though a college schedule healthy is going to have a rough time in the pros.

I don't know about all his takes, but I think his OT Lewan analysis is spot on. I know some like that guy on this board but I'd hate to see the Bills take him in any part of the first round. In a draft with 10 plus great options for the Bills to grab one of, people are trying to sell themselves on an OT that screams bust.

I wholeheartedly believe that the Browns and Jags were created to make Bills Fans and Players feel better about themselves and their team...looks like the Fins have officially joined that list as well.

I get that approach....I just don't know if it works in the modern NFL. Seems like there are just as many busts at OT when picked high as WRs and other skilled positions, but unlike WRs far more stud OL are found much later than the top of the first round. When all the Bills need are a ROT and OG, taking at OT at 9 seems way overvalued. When teams (even the bills) can regularly pick up guys like Cordy Glenn in round 2, doesn't it make more sense to go for a guy like Watkins who can be the next CJ or AJ with their top pick? Who knows maybe I'm just scared by a draft history of second round picks like James Hardy and first round can't miss OL picks like Mike Williams. I do notice however that few playoff teams have OLs comprised of top 10 OTs. Tons of low first rounders and second rounders but not a lot of top 10. I think you make a HUGE mistake letting the depth / make up of the draft dictate who your top 10 pick is. Top ten pick in a draft like this has the chance to be an elite difference maker (any of the 9 spelled out by a previous poster qualify) taking a TE like Ebron who may not have the same potential just because he represents value at a position of greater scarcity is how you maximize the value you get in THIS draft only. Teams need to take the long view. Would you rather leave the draft with a guy like Calvin Johnson and some solid role players or a guy like Brandon Petigrew and another value guy like Robert Woods. The value is in the later from a one draft perspective, but successful teams would always aim for the former. When you're drafting low first round you should go for value based upon the board and what you are likely to get in other rounds, as your chance at an elite player is minimal and your odds of competing that year are clearly greater, but the goal of a top ten pick should be to get a guy that means you won't be a top ten pick again for awhile. Go big or go home.

+1. Evans has the potential to do for this Bills offense what Gronk does / did for the Pats.

Watching the combine and seeing how the big boards of various analysts are shaking out, it seems that the Bills will almost be guaranteed the opportunity to draft either Sammy Watkins or Mike Evans with their first pick. Both of these guys look like elite number ones that would give the Bills and awesome young WR corps for years. Is there anything the Bills could do better than create an awesome WR corps for EJ or whoever is the QB next with their top pick? Is there any player aside from a falling top 3 QB who has a greater potential to make a huge impact on the Bills? Or does the depth at WR in this draft and the Bills relative need at LB or OL dictate a different approach?

I wish there was a way to short the Broncos, cause there is no way they win the SB last year.

If two OTs go before the Bills pick at 9 that would mean a elite WR, LB or QB would almost certainly be available and they'd be morons not to grab one of them.

I like it, only one team gets a bye. I think that makes being the top team in the conference worth a fair bit more and makes the competition at the top more interesting during the regular season.

First, I hate how these threads become massive and are combined into one hodgepodge forcing those on a cell phone to click though multiple pages discussing different topics. On the Tim Graham front, it's always impressive to see a guy who is so thin skinned (witness how easy he was to upset on this board) being the first to really give it to a player. I understand if you're a straight shooter, that's something to be commended especially in the current media landscape. But Graham's comments read like something else. This is the same guy who bolted this board because he didn't like being questioned / challenged, yet he is the first to do it to EJ then write an article about it that he knows will get picked up nationally. I'm not saying I disagree with Graham's take, personally with the new rookie cap, I'd take a QB at the top of every draft (if they were good enough) until you had a franchise QB you could bank on, but I question his methods and motives. I'm sure Tim and his defenders will spin this as having the guts to say something to a QB that you are going to write in the paper the next day, but you can also say this is a report on a local paper desperate for national attention taking a shot at provoking a player during media week of the Super Bowl.

MySpace. Almost achieved greatness a while ago but now is largely forgotten.

How dare you exclude Billy Joe Hobert.