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He never really seams to do much when it matters. He can go entire games without even any preasure it seems. Racks up stats against bad teams.

Uh, NO! Buffalo improved in spite of Bleadsloe being on the field, not because of him. Also, I don't recall WM slipping or tripping over him own feet on 3rd and 1.

Yes, and in addition, the right side is considered the strong side due to the TE playing outside of RT. Another blocker.

I'm too worried about the O-Line right now to worry about the D-Line. OOhhhh!!!

OK, I'll buy that. Do you think they'll redo his contract? I mean REALLY redo it.

www.NFL.com and the Panthers depth chart has him at left tackle.

OK, now it's there. How do I get text under the picture?

I tried a .gif and .jpg format, nothing?

Does this mean you have no thoughts?

I'm really complaining about not being able to move MW to left tackle, which is the position he is being paid for. Didn't need to do this before this year as we had Jonas Jennings. He is gone now.

You don't have a problem with a $ 9,000,000+ /year right tackle taking up 11% of the 2005 cap? I do.

I think 8-8 is also likely, however I think Carolina is probably a loss.

I agree, a disaster waiting to happen. As far as the intention when WM was drafted, some have said Bills mgnt. has never stated he was drafted to be a LT, and it was fan and media speculation. Yes, correct, and the reason why people have thought this: there is no tackle drafted in the top 10 over the last eight years that is playing right tackle. None. Except Mike Williams for the Buffalo Bills. I stopped examining each years top 10 selections at 1998. ===================================== 2004 1 San Diego Eli Manning QB Mississippi 2 Oakland Robert Gallery T Iowa Left Tackle 3 Arizona Larry Fitzgerald WR Pittsburgh 4 N.Y. Giants Philip Rivers QB North Carolina State 5 Washington Sean Taylor FS Miami 6 Cleveland Kellen Winslow TE Miami 7 Detroit Roy Williams WR Texas 8 Atlanta DeAngelo Hall CB Virginia Tech 9 Jacksonville Reggie Williams WR Washington 10 Houston Dunta Robinson CB South Carolina 2003 1 Cincinnati Carson Palmer QB Southern California 2 Detroit Charles Rogers WR Michigan State 3 Houston Andre Johnson WR Miami 4 N.Y. Jets Dewayne Robertson DT Kentucky 5 Dallas Terence Newman CB Kansas State 6 New Orleans Johnathan Sullivan DT Georgia 7 Jacksonville Byron Leftwich QB Marshall 8 Carolina Jordan Gross T Utah Left Tackle 9 Minnesota Kevin Williams DT Oklahoma State 10 Baltimore Terrell Suggs OLB Arizona State 2002 1 Houston David Carr QB Fresno State 2 Carolina Julius Peppers DE North Carolina 3 Detroit Joey Harrington QB Oregon 4 Buffalo Mike Williams T Texas Right Tackle (doh!) 5 San Diego Quentin Jammer CB Texas 6 Kansas City Ryan Sims DT North Carolina 7 Minnesota Bryant McKinnie T Miami Left Tackle 8 Dallas Roy Williams FS Oklahoma 9 Jacksonville John Henderson DT Tennessee 10 Cincinnati Levi Jones T Arizona State Left Tackle 2001 1 Atlanta Michael Vick QB Virginia Tech 2 Arizona Leonard Davis T Texas Left Tackle 3 Cleveland Gerard Warren DT Florida 4 Cincinnati Justin Smith DE Missouri 5 San Diego LaDainian Tomlinson RB Texas Christian 6 New England Richard Seymour DE Georgia 7 San Francisco Andre Carter DE California 8 Chicago David Terrell WR Michigan 9 Seattle Koren Robinson WR North Carolina State 10 Green Bay Jamal Reynolds DE Florida State 2000 1 Cleveland Courtney Brown DE Penn State 2 Washington LaVar Arrington OLB Penn State 3 Washington Chris Samuels T Alabama Left Tackle 4 Cincinnati Peter Warrick WR Florida State 5 Baltimore Jamal Lewis RB Tennessee 6 Philadelphia Corey Simon DT Florida State 7 Arizona Thomas Jones RB Virginia 8 Pittsburgh Plaxico Burress WR Michigan State 9 Chicago Brian Urlacher MLB New Mexico 10 Baltimore Travis Taylor WR Florida 1999 nada 1 Cleveland Tim Couch QB Kentucky 2 Philadelphia Donovan McNabb QB Syracuse 3 Cincinnati Akili Smith QB Oregon 4 Indianapolis Edgerrin James RB Miami 5 New Orleans Ricky Williams RB Texas 6 St. Louis Torry Holt WR North Carolina State 7 Washington Champ Bailey CB Georgia 8 Arizona David Boston WR Ohio State 9 Detroit Chris Claiborne OLB Southern California 10 Baltimore Chris McAlister CB Arizona 1998 1 Indianapolis Peyton Manning QB Tennessee 2 San Diego Ryan Leaf QB Washington State 3 Arizona Andre Wadsworth DE Florida State 4 Oakland Charles Woodson CB Michigan 5 Chicago Curtis Enis RB Penn State 6 St. Louis Grant Wistrom DE Nebraska 7 New Orleans Kyle Turley T San Diego State Left Tackle/Now Guard 8 Dallas Greg Ellis DE North Carolina 9 Jacksonville Fred Taylor RB Florida 10 Baltimore Duane Starks CB Miami 1997 1 St. Louis Orlando Pace T Ohio State Left Tackle 2 Oakland Darrell Russell DT Southern California 3 Seattle Shawn Springs CB Ohio State 4 Baltimore Peter Boulware OLB Florida State 5 Detroit Bryant Westbrook CB Texas 6 Seattle Walter Jones T Florida State Left Tackle 7 N.Y. Giants Ike Hilliard WR Florida 8 N.Y. Jets James Farrior ILB Virginia 9 Arizona Tommy Knight CB Iowa 10 New Orleans Chris Naeole G Colorado ========================================

So Gandy is the answer? Interesting. Then that's another reason I don't like Donahoe. You are coming off a 3-13 season, and you spend your # 4 overall on a right tackle? That's like saying, we can have anybody in the entire NFL draft with the exception of the first three picks, and we think a RT is: a) going to help us more than anybody else available. b) this right tackle is the best play available. Very wrong on both accounts, IMO. I don't think you take a chance on a guy that high when your team is horrible. And no, I don't believe there was no other team in the NFL past the first four would have traded up or we could have traded down with. The other things, they didn't say anything about drafting him to play LT? I wonder why that is?

Another angle I'm thinking of now: If you DON'T move Williams to LT, does this mean your started $1.25 mill./year LT is a better lineman than your $9-$10 mill./year right tackle? I think it absolutely does.

I hear you, just never really bought into the concept that you spend your # 4 overall pick on a right tackle. If so, that is even more bizarre. As far as having a hole, your are suggesting better to have a hole at LT than RT?

Started a seperate Left Tackle thread.

I am not a Tom Donahoe fan, if fact I don't like him. (as a GM, don't know the man) This probably started with some bizzare draft day moves and scolding fans for running GW out of town, but let's move on. Mike Williams was drafted # 4 overall to be starting left tackle, correct? Now, we really NEED a left tackle, and we don't have one. Williams is making $9-10 mill. a year at right tackle, and appears to be staying there. What does this mean about this draft pick and Mike Williams in general? I'd say we got hosed, and now the Bills are going to be exposed by this, as I think a good LT may be the only thing really keeping Buffalo from a wild-card spot.

LOL. Yeah, but who do you think is gonna be right about this one. A rookie QB playing well and getting his team to the playoffs, or a nobody (Gandy) lining up at LT and getting rookie killed? You can't run the ball every down.

When was the last time Salisbury was wright.

You forgot Bleadsloe getting nailed, again, recovered fumble being returned for a TD. I forget also. : ) It was almost funny. http://www.billsdaily.com/gameday/2004/ne/reviewgm1.shtml "The Bills were in this game with three minutes to go facing a 4th and 3 at the Patriots 17 and decided to go for it with the Patriots leading 24-17. This came after Travis Henry fell down again on 3rd and 1 with a huge hole in front of him. That was one of a tremendous amount of miscues and mistakes in this game but the biggest one in the game was about to come. Drew Bledsoe was sacked by johnny on the spot Tedy Bruschi and Richard Seymour returned it 68 yards for the game clinching score."

Did everyone see that Pat's work us last year?

Same here. I really don't know what they are going to do, I guess neither do the Bills, however Gandy is listed as starter. Pretty scary. And I don't think that they will be playing a lot of musical O-linemen though. Continuity would suffer, and how much better are any of these guys than another.

JP got his leg snapped running. Yes? Bleadsloe didn't move, couldn't move, but never really got hurt in Buffalo.

When QBs run, they usually get hurt, don't they?