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Not the issue, the real question is how long will we have him before he is snapped up to be a head coach somewhere else? Look no further than the quote from Rex Ryan today "It won't be long and he'll get his own opportunity to be a head coach"

Just to clear something up for everyone, there is absolutely no chance we tag Levitre. For franchise tags for offensive lineman they are all lumped into on position of offensive line. Thus, in taking the top salaries for the position to determine the tag, it would be the avg salary of the top 10 left tackles. This would be absurdly overspending for a guard.

Annnnnd three pages later I got the answer I was looking for. Thanks JW

Does anyone know why Jim Tressel was at the Bills game today? I saw pictures from the game and the night before of him, Jim Kelly, and Dabo Swinney but haven't been able to figure out why.

I still think my ideal scenario is the dolphins moving up to three to take tannehil, vikings drop to 8. Bills move up to 7 (Jacksonville is said to be looking to move back), we take Kalil. Can't imagine we give up more then a 4th to move up three spots

If you insist on comparing him to another white LB, he's without question closer to Zach Thomas or even Urlacher

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putting up 350 is great but with footwork, accuracy, and staring down recievers good luck throwing for 100 on sundays, mallet is further along then 5th yr sr locker but at 6'7" with limited pocket presence he's still a project, not awful, but not nearly on ryan or staffords level as far as nfl readiness, dont kid yourselves

Played for wake. Beat stanford last year and honestly then we gameplanned for Gerhart. Even though Wake is VERY young on D this year Luck is killing it right now. Wake is young but talented and he has played very well. Mallet and Locker both looked awful today and are far more of a project than Luck without question, I still am not sure either of the three are strong enough right now to come in and be effective on our team. Though for a rs soph, Luck looks very good, and with a hc like harbough, he will be prepared. Make no mistake, Wake is young, but Luck is by far the better prospect of the three and will seperate himself by the end of the year

Unfortunatly both may be projects, I'd take Luck over the other two right now but theres a good chance he doesnt enter the draft, just a rs sophmore. Would not be suprised AT ALL if bills pass on a QB and take an LT and use one more draft and fa class to rebuild before sticking a rookie qb in there to get crushed. Everyone is complaining all ready but people need to realize this isnt going to be a one year fix. We've waited 10, just be happy it looks like we wont have to wait 10 more

sadly a legitimate worry but I just don't see it. Seen a lot of C.J. in 4 years in the ACC and everybody loved this guy other than on gameday. Classy kid, always has been. Plus he's already gotten a pretty good rundown of what he's walking into since he and Naaman have been real close ever since he got here. Nix got a good one, the trend of highly drafted rb's that wind up bashing buffalo stops here, no question

agreed all the way around, especially with that last point. I just meant despite the absurdly unwarranted hype, they showed enough at times last year, especially on defense, to be in the playoff conversation as he suggested

Agreed, and though I don't think the dolphins are quite there yet and I think the super bowl aspirations are too high for a Sanchez led team, I don't see how a team that went to the AFC championship last year and has since brought in some strong free agents and returned arguably their 2nd best defensive player from injury in Kris Jenkins is not a playoff caliber team. And while the Pats have certainly taken some hits on an already questionable defense through injuries, Brady being in his 2nd season back from a knee injury and a now healthy welker to go with an emerging edelman and contract year moss is a dangerous combination, making it tough to rule them out as a potential division winner. I think the point of his statement is that the bills, while starting to build some young talent and appearing as though they finally have legitimate coaching, are looking up at three teams that have both a solid foundation and some stars sprinkled in, a recipe for success that we are finally on the path toward following. Fortunately for us IMO, by the time we are a legitimate deep playoff threat, Brady will be on his way out and the already aging jets will be scrambling to replace all these free agents they tried to bring in at the middle/end of their productive years, leaving us with a division ripe to be taken over for years to come, and it appears that we finally have a management team in place that sees that...

http://www.nfl.com/fantasy/story/09000d5d81a61fbb/article/bringing-a-little-hope-to-the-perennially-hopeless?module=HP_spotlight ...pretty honest/accurate assesment, addresses the reality of the current situation with the reasonable hope the new regime has instilled going forward "Bills (6-10 in '09) Rounding things out, I have to deal with my Bills, a team that more than one pundit believes will be lucky to win one game this year. I don't agree, but that doesn't mean I'm willing to walk this construction site without a hard hat on. The case for: Look, I do not believe this is a team that's going to have a winning season, so I won't even play that game. It is year one of our third or fourth consecutive five-year plan re-boot. Expectations may have been starved for a decade, but the only sane plan is to wipe the slate clean. In that spirit, I think they are doing it right, starting with GM Buddy Nix, who knows talent when he sees it. We haven't had one of these guys around in a long time. Trust me, when your player of the decade is your punter, someone in your personnel department needs to borrow some of Mel Kiper's hair mousse. Nix was right to draft C.J. Spiller despite RB not being a position of need; the kid is electric and our superstar cupboard is completely bare. It's not win now, it's win someday, I love the pick. Ditto the originally disturbing choice of Chan Gailey -- I had no idea how horrible the Bills offensive schemes were in recent years until I watched Gailey's stuff. Even under the vanilla cloak of preseason football schemes, he made things happen. He even got Trent Edwards to uncork some long balls, and by God, Lee Evans looks like he has a pulse again. The case against: All good stuff, but nothing close to a winning season. For starters, every other team in the AFC East is playoff-caliber and got better. We simply don't win games against our divisional opponents anymore, which makes this Sunday's home game against Miami interesting -- it's our best shot at a home win in the first four weeks of the season because the Fins aren't good at the Ralph, and Miami at home is a special day to the 12th man in my home town. Please forgive me an impulsive outburst of season-opening exuberance -- back to reality: Our tackles are still scary, we have yet to prove we can stop the run, our QB needs to have a major renaissance to even present as a starter in the NFL, and our special teams have been messy. Nope, we are still looking for some big pieces of the puzzle -- NFL.com's Mike Lombardi evaluated the elite players on every team, and the Bills essentially had none. I say Spiller changes that, and in three years Nix and company will make it right again. Now if we could just get anyone in Toronto to wear a Bills jersey…"