obie_wan

If playing time in the 1st year is your criteria, then WR is the wrong choice. Almost all rookie WRs take a while to acclimate to teh Pro game and very few make an impact before year 3 - especailly ones drafted as WR#2. The real need for a pick at #11 is for an impact playmaker. A DE that rushes the passer is such a player. Even while adjusting to the Pro game, he can make an impact on passing downs in a rotation. Bills can get their WR#2 in 2nd round with Earl Bennett or Jordy Nelson - both of whom will probably out produce the Wrs taken in the first round.

if he wa so healthy- maybe he should have been proving it by running at the combine. he is damaged goods and the bills would be ill advised to pick him at #11 But they like injured players, so this is probably a slam dunk.

I agree

Bills need a playmaker at LB.

Kelly will never have a true clean bill of health. He has bad knees. They may heal enough in the short term for him to run fast in shorts - but his long term health is such a risk that does not justify wasting a pick on a player who may have great games but will spend a lot of time in the trainers room with chroninc knee problems. Take a healthy Earl Bennett in the 2nd round.

yeah- the alternative is much better. Trent gets hurt and we loe all of our games wth a scrub at QB good plan!

A backup that turns into the most important position on the field with one injury. Letting JP go for nothing next year is a better play than trading him for a bag of hockey pucks now. If the Bills were serious about trading him, they should have been much more aggressive in getting his replacement BEFORE they create ANOTHER needless hole to file.

so what re-tread do the Bills obtain as their backup QB? Losman will not be traded except for a high #2 that the Bills can use on a QB. there are no better backup QB options than JP - so the Bills should keep him

do it like the Pats do and mike all of your defensive players that can actually use the info - especially the LBs

The bolded statement is a direct contradiction of your objective of managing downs and distance. If teams will stack to stop the run on 1st and 2nd downs - the Bills would be stupid (as they were in the past) to not throw the ball on those downs on ocassion -especially down the seam and on slant patterns. The type of pass plays that JP had difficulty with and the Bills avoided to cut down the mistakes.

You miss one huge addition by subtraction. Jim McNally He may have been a legend in his earlier years - but his OL blocking schemes with the Bills were convoluted at best. Did they run a zone blocking or not? Nobody knew and the run blocking showed it. The Bills will reap huge benefits this year with a coordinated run and pass scheme that takes advantage of the bulk of the OL in the run game. Consistent conversion of 3rd downs will make the offense much more efficient with the current personnel.

with all those reductions, they probably can get that Walsh guy and a few of his buddies on the cheap

Bills may have depth and a lot of backups but they are severely lacking in front line playmakers and difference makers that teams have to gameplan around. When teaams consistently block your top pass rusher with a single guy, you know the fear factor is quite low.

they should consider Rivers if he is available since they do need playmakers Crow3ell would make a fine backup

More important predictor of success is points per passing attempt. This correlates to the efficiency of the offense in scoring points on big plays. It's not just the yards that are piled up but the points that are scored. Teams traditional pass to score but run to control the clock and win. http://mule.he.net/~budsport/pub/ks2-feature04.php Killer Stat II's Strong Link to Winning If you want to predict divisional leaders, Points per Pass Attempt does the best job. Divisional winners, by definition, always make the playoffs. And once in the playoffs, any team can reach the Super Bowl. The graphs below show the close relationship between points per pass and winning margin.

I'd say Ross Tucker has a heavily inflated sense of his ability as an OL. The logic goes - since he's not worth a whole lot and he's as good as these high riced guys (except for a play or two) how can they be paid multi- millions. Well - the flaw with his logic is Ross is not very good. Good OL players make your RBs and QB look a lot better.

as long as he can lock onto the DE in front of him just dont ask him to make a live blitz adustment

Chris Williams from Vanderbilt scored in the 30s. He could be a better option as a legitimate LT

your value chart left off Earl Bennett who will fill the WR#2 role just fine- with upside to boot.

A one handed WR is better than a WR with bad knees everyday of the week (except Sundays)

Too bad he didn;t decide to volunteer a few years ago the Bills could have used the extra time to develop a coordianted OL approach to run and pass blocking

my bad the players voted for Kelsey (non-starter) and Crowell as defensive captains. The guys evaluating the talent had nothing to do with the selections. So if the opportunity to draft an impact playmaker at LB I don;t think the front office will be too concerned over who the players picked as captain last year.

Stupid is what it would be to blindly draft an inferior player solely by need when other better playmakers at harder to fill positions are also available. Especailly when WRs capable of filling the #2 WR slot will be available in the 2nd round

They can make him ST captain to keep you happy he was appointed defensive captain by default. How many defensive starters had less experience and were not injured?

agree with the plan Earl Bennett in round 2 is better than Sweed or Kelly in round 1. Even Bubba Caldwell could be a better pro than Sweed or Kelly.