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Summers just went into Beast Mode!

This drive aside, which was continued due to a horribly wrong PI call, our defense is looking pretty good. Ponder hasn't looked very comfortable yet tonight

Nice! The only thing is that you say "to my right, your left..." when Bear's on OUR right, his left.

I liked it for the most part, but I feel like there are a couple mistakes in there. Against the Patriots, Gilmore most likely won't be on Amendola. He may be our best corner and their best receiver, but Gilmore isn't a slot receiver. You normally put a small, shifty guy on slot corners. My guess is that he won't be covering him too much. Also, in week 10 against the Steelers, you give Roethlisberger too much credit. His style of play has lead to him being beat up and injured half way through the season, then he'll play through injury the second half of the season, showing a noticeable decline in play through that stretch. That entire team is getting old, too. I just don't see them keeping up with our fast-paced offense. I think we grind it out on them, and the only reason Gilmore might let a significant number of catches or yards would be because they're airing it out while trying to play catch-up.

I truly don't believe your "best-case scenario." There are games in there that have the potential to be winnable that you mark as sure-fire losses. The league is constantly evolving, and just because teams have been good in the past doesn't mean they will continue to be. The Panthers, Dolphins, Chiefs, Steelers, and Bucs games aren't automatic losses. I don't believe the hype about the Dolphins. People pick them as off-season favorites due to free agency pick-ups, but we all know how much effect being crowned the off-season champs has on the regular season. People hear the hype about Cam Newton and believe they're unbeatable, yet they haven't done too much even with him. The Bucs appear to be solidifying their defense, but their offense could be having a QB competition between Freeman and their rookie. The Steelers have been getting older and are on the decline. And the Chiefs were in last place last year. Yes, they had injuries, but then again, we do every year and no one gives us any slack for it. Why should we give it to them? Now, do I believe that all this will come about, that the Bills will do really well and go to the playoffs? Not a chance. I think they will go in the 4-6 wins range next year. All I'm saying is that it's the NFL. You don't know who's going to get injured, who's going to step up and start kicking @$$, who slumps or starts to drop off. You don't know who will happen to have a bad game one week. It's where the "any given Sunday" phrase comes from. Don't even pretend to know which games are winnable in a "best case scenario" and which are guaranteed losses. A best case scenario is ALWAYS 16-0 and a Super Bowl victory

I honestly don't see any team wasting a draft pick on any of these guys. Will some or all end up in camp somewhere? Probably, but I don't see anyone being drafted.

See, this is why I feel we need Bobby April back, not so much why we need Brian Morman. Brian Mormon in his prime, I'd be good with, too

#2, 12, and 18. I say 12 because the best place to watch Bills games (or any football games, whatsoever) in my town also happens to be a Steelers bar. I hate the Steelers. And it's worse, cause one of my friends is a Steelers fan, and we normally hang out there during games. So definitely a #12. #2 and #18 alternate, depending on where I am and who I'm with.

That's not that hard to understand. He's talking about the progression of going from the simplest fundamentals (such as 'throwing against air,' aka no defense) to trying to read the defense ("So the faster we can get to situations where 'is it zone, or is it pressure?'" where the single quotes denote what the QB has to get better at doing, figuring out what the defense is doing. That last part may cause trouble, but it is a problem with how it's written, not what Doug said). Finally, they progress to making game decisions, and getting faster at it, making it easier for the coaches to evaluate them. What's so difficult about this?

If Hard Knocks was something that could only be seen by Bills fans and not hurt the team in any way, I'd actually be interested in watching that show for once. However, even with that caveat, which is completely implausible, I'd still be against it. With all the rookies and young guys were relying on this year, it would be an added distraction that would take away from time spent learning the play book or practising. So no, I'm definitely against it.

Personally, I just don't understand how they can justify putting the Raiders ahead of ANYONE. That team is so devoid of talent... Also, how in the world do they justify putting the Super Bowl winning team at 8th? Until the season starts, they are the undisputed #1...

Seriously? You're already redoing the draft? We all want real football to start, but it's only been a couple days since the draft, give it a break. We had all those mock drafts before the draft that we can now mock, don't add your own to it.

This sucks, I really wanted Ertz and Hunter in this round, and they go 2/3

Has anyone ever seen anything detailing each teams cumulative preparation day difference each year? The Bills this year, play three teams coming off a bye, and play three teams coming off of a Thursday night game so that they have 10 days to prepare instead of 3. The Bills play the Falcons after their bye, but the Falcons are one of the teams that play a Thursday night game the week before, so that's only 4 days extra to prepare for the Falcons. We have 3 extra days to prepare for the Bengals (the Browns and Bills play on the previous Thursday so there's no net gain or loss against the Browns). That's plus 7. However, we also have -21 from the three teams coming off byes, and -6 from the other two teams playing the Thursday night before they play us. That's a cumulative total of 20 extra days that our opponents get to prepare and rest up for us that we don't also have. I looked at it last year, and found a net loss there as well. The Patriots, on the other hand, have extra days against the Bucs (+3, Thursday night game), Panthers (+7, bye) and Ravens (+1, Ravens coming off Monday night), while they have a loss against the Broncos (-1, coming off Monday night game). That's a net gain of +10. Is anyone else pissed off bye this lack of parity and blatant favoritism?

I went to the Jags home opener against the Bills about 5 years back, and my girlfriend at the time and I were both wearing Bills jerseys and hats. We got some good-natured heckling and repeatedly told to "go back to Canada," but other than that, it was all good.

The bolded word is the problem with what you're proposing. Guards don't have nearly the impact that almost any other position does. If you want a game changer, than you don't pick a guard. You can get a very good guard with only slightly lower talent and ability for a lot cheaper later in the draft. Picking up a guard at 8 would be the definition of stupidity. It does not help us in the slightest.

I'm pretty sure the goal for the Redskins is to have a fast mobile QB to replicate an RG3 offense while RG3 is injured, then drop White once RG3 comes back unless White shows a lot more than he has in the past. White's goal is to play well enough that SOMEONE (maybe not the Redskins) likes him enough to put him on a roster for the season

It's simple. You pay the people who perform and are difference makers. All else are expendable and replaceable. Doesn't matter the position, doesn't matter if you're already stacked at that position, you pay the difference makers and find ways to get them on the field. The 49ers did it with Navarro Bowman, paying a second MLB huge dollars, even though they were already giving large amounts of money to Willis at the same position, and they find ways to get both of them on the field. The salary cap is not increasing very much, if at all, yet the amount that the best players are paid keeps increasing. It's got to the point where if you have $10 million to spend on two positions, you take a guy worth $9 million/year, and one worth $1 million/year, not two guys each worth $5 million. In summary, it DOES NOT MATTER what position we pick, as long as we pick a genuine game-changer, and pay them to stay around when their contract comes up. Levitre was good, but he simply wasn't a game-changer, and so he's gone. If the Bills want to compete in this league, they have to stop filling every hole with someone worth a few million a year, and find those incredible players that are worth the $10 million or so a year, pay them, keep them around as the core of the team, and fill in around them with young, cheap talent or cheap replaceable parts. It's how you win in this league.

Kai Forbath (Kicker for the Redskins) has to go on this list Also, if you want to throw in stupid names from Madden, you can go with a guy named Aaron Aaron, another with the last name St. Saint, and finally, a CB with the last name Ladyman

I'm gonna laugh when no QBs go in the first round

None, their going to save the cash and carry it over to next year when they might actually have a chance of doing anything with their season

How come I get the feeling this year will end up being like the 2010 draft? We pass up a QB in the first round, people start yelling to trade up or pick one in the second, and they don't, then this year's Jimmy Clauson goes a few picks later. We get back on the clock in the third round, and all the QBs that people have been saying we need to pick in the first round are still there in the 3rd...

People on here seem to think that it's unlikely that the Bills will move up in the draft, as the Bills have so many holes and only 6 picks with which to fill them, not to mention the fact that the QB class next year should be better than it next year, so trading next years picks would be a horrible idea as well. Therefore, the Bills should just hope that Geno Smith should fall to them. However, three teams traded within or into the top 6 picks last year on Draft Day, not including the redskins epic trade up for RG3 that happened before the draft. Is no one else worried that if Geno starts to drop to us, some other team will trade in front of us for him? Teams flat out know that we're going to take a QB this year, probably in one of the first two rounds. Is no one else worried about the Jets moving in front of us? The Titans, if they're unsure of Jake Locker? Or possibly a team that currently is set at QB, but is looking towards the future?

He reminds me of Blaine Gabbert

I've seen it called in many games. It's just never been on such a big stage or so obviously a fumble since Brady's tuck rule. I think we even benefited from it once this past year.