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Would you move Graham to CB against Luck and Brady in first two weeks, or go with Darby, Brooks, or Butler?

Despite his later transgressions, I got to see Simpson running in his prime. Got to see that fantastic Bills defense in the 60's and Lamonica throwing for the Bills. Loved the receivers the Bills had in the early 70's(?) - Haven Moses, Marlin Briscoe, Bobby Chandler, and JD Hill, the Chuck Knox teams, and the 4 Super Bowl teams. That 2000-2010 decade was the only decade when the Bills didn't make any waves, but I attribute that in part to Wilson's aging.

Ouch. Forgot about that 2002 draft.

My handle kind of gives away the fact that I started following the team in 1964. So I've spent 50 years with the good and the bad, and I always return optimistic for the next season. Looking back on one of that particular draft might make you feel better about more recent drafts, even with a clunker or two in every draft.

Following up on a comment I made on another site, I vote for the 2000 draft as the worst draft in the Bills' history. What's your pick for the worst draft in Bills' history? Take a look at John Butler’s last draft, when he may have known he was leaving. This draft really hurt the Bills, given that the previous season was the last season the Bills made the playoffs. Round Pick Player Position College Notes 1 26 Erik Flowers DE Arizona State 2 58 Travares Tillman FS Georgia Tech 3 89 Corey Moore LB Virginia Tech 4 121 Avion Black WR Tennessee State 5 156 Sammy Morris RB Texas Tech 6 194 Leif Larsen DE UTEP 7 233 Drew Haddad WR Buffalo 7 251 DaShon Polk LB Arizona After this draft, with his contract due to expire in Feb. 2001, Butler refused to negotiate a new contract during the summer and fall, and was let go by Ralph Wilson before the end of the regular season in 2000.

Bills trade down a few picks and take WR Benjamin, reuniting him with Manuel, providing a badly needed red-zone threat, and picking up an extra pick..

With his high salary, and production-to-date, Pears looks like a goner next year, and Welch looked poor in pre-season. The Bills need to find at least two backup tackles for next year, and, depending upon Hairston's recovery prognosis, maybe a starter as well. Legursky has to be replaced in the starting line-up, if not altogether bumped from the team, opening up one-to-two more spots that need to be filled. With three-to-five spots to fill, the Bills have to keep churning the backup slots with the likes of Unga, McClain, and Asper, or they'll be spending the entire draft on one area of the team.

Seems like the general tenor of articles written about EJ about his college career indicate that he wants to stay in the pocket and throw the ball, not run it. I wonder if his temperment is getting in the way of him being a read-option quarterback, and whether he can adapt to that. I'm also not generally in favor of running QBs in the NFL, since that seems like a good way to shorten careers with leg injuries and repeated concussions. Is it worth mastering the read-option offense, or should the Bills be developing him in a different style of offense?

Legree, Dangerfield, Cross, Tipoti, Brian Smith (LB), Lindell, Sinkfield, Elliott, Brown, Sampson, Provo

There are already 16-17 players sidelined with nagging minor injuries. That just seemed higher than normal for training camp.

Living down by Philadelphia, there were some articles in local papers when Chip Kelly was first hired concerning how a heightened pace might lead to more injuries, simply by forcing the players to endure a significantly increased number of hits by running more plays over the course of the season. There is a difference between lining up fast to limit defensive substitutions, as distinguished from snapping the ball quickly. Also wondering whether the current rash of injuries this week might be exacerbated by the pace of running plays in training camp, without sufficient recovery time for the players' bodies day-to-day, as well as exposing them to an increased number of "thuds" per practice. Something to watch for over the next few years, both in training camp and in the season. Will this style ultimately prove counter-productive?

The team only dresses 7 on game day. If Legursky is one of the seven as a backup, he can't play tackle, only center and guard. Last year, Levitre could swing to tackle. This year one of the tackles, whether a starter or a backup, has to be able to swing to guard as well. But, as said above, Marrone has to be considering how to get Hairston in the lineup if he and Pears are two of the five best linemen. It doesn't have to be an indictment of Glenn as a tackle in order to move him to guard, if that resolves the issue of getting the five best linemen on the field as starters, or the best combination of players.

Antoine Caldwell, the Texans player many SBNation fans felt most deserved to lose his starting job at the Texans bye week last year. http://www.battleredblog.com/2012/10/26/3558532/houston-texans-bye-week-season-review