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I'm not including guys like Maurice-Jones Drew or Jonathan Stewart who have performed at a very high level in the league. Fred wasn't good last year. That is a fact. He is 32 years old and coming off of injury. Sorry, he is not, by any means, a top-ten back.

Bridgewater and Boyd may look good enough to force a team like the Jets, Jaguars, Eagles, or Browns to draft a Q.B. if one of them end up with the top pick.

Just like in Green Bay, the fact that there is relatively little to do in the Buffalo area makes it a better location, in some ways, for NFL players. Many players come into the league immature and unaware of how to deal with going from poverty to relatively great wealth. Having fewer distractions during the season,for young players, is a great thing for performance on the field; I suspect that is a huge part of the reason that Green Bay has stayed so successful.

I do occasionally see posters (not you) citing the safe, relatively inexpensive quality suburbs in the Buffalo area as being a draw for players. The fact is that every other NFL city has similar suburbs available who want to live outside of the metropolitan area. Unless a player is from the Buffalo area or really wants to be under the radar, it's very hard for me to find a single reason that players would find Buffalo to be a superior option, until we start winning.

FJ is a top-ten BACKUP running back. The idea that he, at 32 years old and coming off of a mediocre season, is a top ten back is laughable. A few players who are far better than FJ: 1) Adrian Peterson 2) Jamaal Charles 3)C.J. Spiller 4) Chris Johnson 5) Marshawn Lynch 6) Arian Foster 7) Ray Rice 8)Doug Martin 9) Alfred Morris 10)Stevan Ridley 11) Frank Gore 12)Matt Forte 13) Lesean McCoy Fred will likely be an asset this year, but, I think, many other backups will surpass him. Gio Bernard and some of the other rookies coming in this year will be better, for one, not to mention many of the very good backups like Bryce Brown and Bernard Pierce. Only a Bills fan would claim that Fred Jackson is currently a top ten back. He was an absolute stud in 2011, but, last year, fumbled, couldn't get many first downs, couldn't catch many passes well, and had a low Y.P.C.; it is ridiculous to claim that he is a top-ten back.

It's great that your move is so promising for you, and for many others. However, from the perspective of a professional athlete, there are plenty of places with nice, and usually nicer, suburbs than the Buffalo area. In the New York tri-state area alone, you have wealthy suburban parts of northern New Jersey, Westchester, and Connecticut (Greenwich isn't far) for professional athletes who prefer a surburban feel. For football players, one could live in a place like Alpine or Saddle River, NJ and commute to the stadium. The same is true of other markets smaller than NYC. Bloomfield Hills, along with some of other suburbs of Detroit, is one of the nicest places in the entire country, even though Detroit proper is a failed city. Oakland has the entire S.F. bay area. Jacksonville has a weather advantage over Buffalo. Quite frankly, there are very few positives for wealthy, young professional athletes in Buffalo over other cities. I do believe that, like Green Bay, the Bills can be a draw for free agents, but let's not delude ourselves and pretend that Buffalo has any major advantages over other cities. That's without even getting into the absurdly high N.Y.S. property and income taxes.

The last thread you started (link below) claimed that E.J. Manuel picked the jersey #1 when he was drafted. At this point, it's clear that you are simply a troll. http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/159710-manuel-should-never-be-1/#entry2852120

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000223061/article/mario-williams-leaves-bills-camp-to-have-foot-evaluated

Try Hendrick's, if you haven't already.

No Buffalo players are on the list. Charles Johnson and Tyson Jackson are the "starting" defensive ends. http://www.grantland...t-contracts-nfl Edit: I forgot the link. The only Buffalo reference from the article is as follows: "System Guy Out of System: A player's teammates and fit within a system can drastically distort his value before moving to a new organization. Too many teams have bought high on a second or third weapon in a good passing attack, only to find that the player in question — let's say his name rhymes with Deerless Dice — doesn't fare so well as the primary receiver in an offense with an inferior quarterback."

I would be furious, if I were a Stanford student or alumnus, that someone like Sherman might graduate with the same degree as I would. Stanford should be ashamed of the quality of their "student-athletes."

http://deadspin.com/rookie-ryan-swope-retires-from-nfl-for-now-thanks-to-917847377 Hopefully Swope can make a recovery and contribute, if he chooses to play football again. For those of you complaining about the fact that the Bills did not draft Swope, it looks like they had good reason not to.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/preview12/story/_/id/8295463/espn-experts-nfl-predictions-2012 NoSaint, quite a few ESPN writers, and others, had the Bills as a wild card team.

The Blue Jays haven't made the playoffs for nineteen seasons.

The point is that the author (and likely other NFL "experts") are as high on Bradham's potential as Bills fans are. That's a great thing.

http://insider.espn....inebackers-2016 No other Buffalo linebacker makes the list. He's one of ten players that "just missed" the cut, placing him in the top twenty in writer Field Yates' list. This makes me optimistic about Bradham's future; it's not just Bills fans who are high on Bradham's potential.

Let's assume that the only charge Hernandez is booked on is obstruction of justice. He's suspended four games. Do the Patriots and Hernandez appeal the suspension until Gronk is healthy, or have Hernandez sit the first four games of the year?

I go to Brown and live right off of Thayer Street, where the following incident occurred: SI.com obtained a Providence police report that detailed an incident in which police found a gun disposed under a car after a Jets fan confronted Hernandez at 2:26 a.m. on May 18 on Thayer Street in Providence. The report stated: "Brown Police observed a black male, heavy set wearing a stripped (sic) shirt, discard (sic) a firearm under a vehicle in front of the Karta Bar." There's no evidence the gun belonged to Hernandez. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nfl/news/20130620/aaron-hernandez-new-details/#ixzz2WmDArHSq There is a ton of crime, including assaults and gun incidents, at night. Many of the assaults on and robberies of Brown students and others in the community go unreported by the Brown and Providence Police Departments. I'm not surprised that the above incident slid under the radar.

The past tense is "leapt," or "leaped," sir. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/leap

"Lept" is not a word.

I don't disagree, but the gap is equally cultural and financial. Football is almost, if not as expensive as, hockey. Unlike hockey, though, urban regions are used to playing the sport in middle school and high school, where they often have some equipment available. Hockey, though, is generally played in rural or suburban areas, sometimes at the expense of football. We're finally seeing the positive results of soccer's becoming more popular and accessible throughout the country. The U.S. men's national team isn't great, but we do have good players throughout Europe. There is plenty of work to be done, as we are still behind teams like Mexico, some African teams, and small, mediocre European nations like Croatia, but the domestic talent pipeline is improving.

Tuel is probably a practice squad player when we have future cut-downs. I'm sure the team has been fairly happy with him, but Manuel and Kolb's progress is almost certainly the reason Tarvaris Jackson was cut.

That's true of most teams' fourth-sixth wide receivers. It's unlikely that they will all develop, and Smith is a proven solid wideout/returner; there is no reason to keep Easley over him, for example. As for the depth chart, I think Justin Rogers and either Moats or Dowtin get cut.

McGahee was a risk, sure, but he was a first round pick. Plenty of other teams would have taken him in the second round, or later in the first. If he were an undrafted free agent whom we paid for and rehabilitated for a year, I would agree, but he was a fairly coveted player.

Brady is a Super Bowl-winning QB on a team in our division. Asking how the league perceived him in 2000 is a perfectly relevant question to a Buffalo Bills board. Threads about, say, the AFC East rivals' offseasons, or players, are valuable discussions.