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Agreed. If he wasn't related to Jim Kelly there'd be no discussion of him anywhere.

That's a fact. A WR to apply pressure to the defense's deep zone across from Watkins is of tremendous importance. It not only keeps defenses from keying on Watkins, it also takes pressure off the run game. There's no reliable player like that on the roster now, but there needs to be. It's the team's number one need right now, although the defensive secondary is damn close.

I'm seeing 2nd/3rd round on CBS. That's much more reasonable to me. I'm not even thinking of him at 44 though. He's not even a guy I'd be excited about in round 3 of this draft. Yes. I see a 4-3 DE. Someone might try to convert him to a 3-4 OLB, but that's a huge projection. YSU DE to NFL 3-4 OLB is an incredible change and jump forward. You're probably the only one on the planet wanting to see that. Well, you, Gronk, Brady, Belichick, Kraft, etc.

Definitely agree. Finding that elusive FQB would sure go a long way.

Those are some accurate reasons, but Whaley has blame too. He hasn't been better than fair at his job and it's real tough to go from talking about how you're building a quality team to needing a full rebuild in two seasons. He'd also have to explain why he backed the hiring of a coach (McD) that is going to require a revamp on both sides of the ball. No, it's a very short walk from "this team needs to completely rebuild" to "time to get a new GM". Whaley would have been playing very short odds with that tack.

Whaley couldn't exactly tell the Pegulas that the roster needed blown up, could he? "I was against the Rex hire and that's the reason we haven't won." is the way he had to sell them on retianing him. "Our HC sucked and our roster sucks." just would've gotten him thrown out alongside Rex. I was in favor of a tank and rebuild, but Whaley can't do that at this point in his tenure here.

Can't argue with the positions addressed.

Probably hoping to get his money in FA next year. I wouldn't blame the Bills if they had insisted on a multi year deal.

Gilmore wasn't overpaid. Spotrac calculated his fair market value at 5 years, $73.3M. He took a 5 year, $65M deal to join the Cheatriots.http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/new-england-patriots/stephon-gilmore-9820/market-value/ I thought Woods was probably overpaid, but Spotrac calculated his FMV to be 4 years, $32.2M. He got 5 years, $34M. It doesn't look like he was overpaid either. http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/new-england-patriots/stephon-gilmore-9820/market-value/ We don't even know what Brown's contract is. Kinda hard to make a call on that until the numbers are in. Spotrac has his FMV at 4 years, $18M. We will see on that.

Sonofabitch.......this is more complex than I could've imagined.

While I'm not lobbying for a WR at 10, I don't see how WR isn't a screaming need. Right now the Bills have the oft-(and currently-) injured Watkins, some JAGs and hope. It's a position that should be 3 deep at minimum in today's NFL so I'm incredibly concerned with the current WR corps. And if your rationale is that Taylor can't get the ball out to the WRs anyway, then you've hit upon a totally different problem.

I doubt they really exist. That's fair. It also covers the gyro and pita debates.

I'd say WR and DB corps are both incredibly thin. LB isn't as bad as either of those though. Obviously, your point stands. Projecting a WR to the Bills at 10 is just looking at a team need matching up with likely player availability at that point. The top notch DB prospects will likely be gone by 10 and Williams and/or Davis will likely be there. I'm not enamored with Williams though. I'd rather Hooker or Adams be the pick, but they will be long gone unless Adams has worse injury concerns than are public. I don't know that CBs are valued highly enough in McD's defense for the Bills to take one at 10. McD does need a stud LB for his defense though. If he thinks there is one available at 10 I see that being the pick.

Fantastically done.

I would not.

The players who are the best or are great values would fetch the most. That's not really who a team should be looking to trade though. Players who are about to fall off production-wise and become poor values contract-wise, players who don't fit the new scheme or players that are likely to leave soon are the best candidates for trade. Kyle is one that would make sense. A Super Bowl contender might need a DT at some point and be glad to get a quality one year rental. He's almost certainly going to retire or move on after 2017 anyway. Ragland might not be a good scheme fit and he'd be cheap so he'd have some value. There are obviously other players that would fetch more than either of these two, but they wouldn't really make sense to trade.

QB, S, CB, RT, WR & best value of S/CB/TE/DT

It is in line with the traditional draft value chart, but teams rarely give up such a high quantity of picks for a single pick. It just screams that the writer said "The Bills have a bunch of needs and I've got a lot of players I like, so I'll just engineer a trade that'll make it all happen."

Especially when teams need to have 3 starting CBs and a 4th who is at least competent due to the heavy passing in today's NFL. Nickel is the new base defense. I really don't see it happening. I expect one or two CBs to get drafted by the Bills, but not with 10. McD's Cover 3 doesn't need elite talent at CB to be effective. I'm not a Peppers fan. He just looks like a guy who did well in college, but doesn't really have a home in the NFL. Not big enough to be a LBer and not good enough in coverage to be a safety or even a LB/S hybrid. He's exactly the opposite of what you'd want for that.

So.........you're just figuring out that most fans have unrealistically high assessments of their teams' off-season moves? Well okay then.

I'd like to personally thank the Bills for making McD the voice of the franchise. He has been handling it well since getting here. Whaley was brutal in that capacity.

It's about winning. It worked in baseball in that it made the A's competitive with large market teams. They got close several times. Then the large market team, Boston, implemented the same system and won the WS. Then pretty much every team copied them and uses its own variant of it. So now using "Moneyball" analytics is standard practice in baseball so you don't hear anything about teams gaining an advantage with it, but they're all doing it.

I agree with this in general. I'm staying put and turning in the card if someone like Hooker, Adams, Davis or Allen falls to 10. My only concern would be if something is significantly medically wrong with Allen. I think the Bills might trade out if it's Lattimore that falls though. As much as I like him, he's got injury concerns of his own and I doubt that CBs are all that highly valued in McD's defense. It's a deep CB draft too. A guy who can play bail in Cover 3 can be found later.

Grew up in Cleveland and spent my whole life between there and Columbus. Moved to B-lo 5 years ago this summer. I'm 48 now and I'll always root for my Cleveland teams and Ohio State, even the Blue Jackets a little athough I'm not a huge hockey fan. We are definitely a football family. My wife grew up in Pennsylvania and is a Steelers and Penguins fan. My son follows me rooting for Cleveland teams, but my daughter keeps switching allegiances for football. We all root for the Buckeyes and the Cavs, but when we moved we decided to all root for our new home's teams too. I always had good feelings for Buffalo's teams anyway. The Kelly era Bills were so much fun to watch, I loved watching Hasek play for the Sabres and the Bisons were the Indians AAA team for a long, long time. Plus there was definitely a simpatico feeling for the two cities' droughts. So I'm not sure what I did past life to wind up rooting for the Browns AND the Bills, but I'm pretty sure it was a lot worse than what you did.

Washington's color rush unis are garish. That's one I'll give to Snyder. Don't blame him at all.