Ozymandius

I'm certainly no defender of the Bills but your entire line of thinking is wrong. The Bills will suck this season no matter how good or bad this draft is. New coaches, new systems, roster devoid of talent = suckitude. This draft is not about the 2010 season. Smart teams don't draft for the upcoming season, especially not rebuilding teams. This draft and all drafts should be about winning the Super Bowl three or four years down the line and that means getting as many explosive talents onto the roster as possible.

We added a potentially explosive wideout with size to the team. This pick may not payoff this year, but two, three years from now, we could be saying 4th-round steal. Love this kind of high-upside pick.

This was a good pick. On the second day, err, third day of the draft, all you want are prospects with high upside and Easley easily qualifies as such. He might bust but he might also be another TO; you can't get rich without taking risks. From that standpoint, this was probably a better pick than Troup in Round 2.

Troup had a nice East/West shrine week http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_co...hrine-game.html http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/story/1...hrine-practices http://nwe.scout.com/2/939126.html http://www.nepatriotsdraft.com/2010/01/shr...nd-fallers.html

Man, I have an awful feeling we're going to regret not taking Gronkowski and allowing the Patriots to get him. He's a Western NY boy, too. I'll give Troup a shot. Don't have any other choice in the matter. But I wanted Gronkowski there under the same BPA principle that we used to pick Spiller.

I have to admit, I was way off on Clausen. I've been insisting for weeks now that all the negatives we've been hearing about him were just smokescreens but apparently teams do have some concerns about him, at least enough to not make him a top 25 (and counting) pick and enough to have him fall behind Tebow even. I'd been hoping for Clausen at #9 but apparently he would've been overvalued at that spot. Looking at the list of players drafted after #9, Spiller does appear to be BPA.

I like Spiller ahead of the questionable OTs (Bulaga, Davis, etc) but I'm not sure I like the pick on its own merit. I suppose let's see how it plays out. I hope he stays healthy, can run between the tackles some and is more like Chris Johnson than Reggie Bush.

It would be just like us to draft a scatback at #9.

I don't think we have that much talent either way, 3-4 or 4-3. It's all moot. We hired 3-4 coaches, so 3-4 it will be.

The comparison b/w Favre and McNabb would be more apt if McNabb were even half the QB that Favre is. The notion that McNabb is going to exact his "revenge" on the Eagles have Philly fans everywhere snickering. Not that the fans are always right but I do trust the fanbase in this kind of situation. You spend 11 years rooting for a player and you know his every weakness. Right now, the vast majority of Eagles fans are unbelievably thrilled that McNabb is gone, and that means something to me.

I actually do not believe this report that the Bills were interested and offered an extension, and I'd be a little disappointed if it were actually true. McNabb is probably going to get hit in the second game of the season and be out all year or something similar. And when he's on the field, he'll be misfiring passes left and right. This is such a non-story, only many people don't realize it yet. An old, injury-prone, inaccurate QB gets traded? Yawn.

This is the correct viewpoint, I think. Donovan McNabb sucks and this trade to a division rival proves it. He's going to have an awful 2010.

Well, I think he has zero good years left, not 2-3. I guess we'll see how it plays out.

Don't rule anything out, sure. Give him a chance to compete and prove himself, sure. But keep expectations low. All Brohm has been up to this point in his career is a practice squad level player. Can that change? Sure. But organizations need to plan contingencies and hold appropriate levels of expectation for their players. You can't plan around a practice squad player becoming a starting QB in this league.

If he truthfully isn't interested in Clausen, why would he announce that and reduce possible trade value to teams that ARE interested in Clausen? I have to agree. It's a lie.

Because McNabb sucks. Even if he didn't, what does an old, injury-prone QB do for the Bills? The QB reps for this team should go to a young, talented player. Build for the future.

I'm not a fan of Tebow as an NFL prospect (other than as a goal-line QB), but this post was awesome. You make a very good point, imo.

Our talent sucks. But the reasons we haven't been active in free agency are: (1) We have a new regime in charge. When you have a new coaching staff, those guys have to establish themselves and it's more comfortable for them to build through the draft and get fresh, young players that they can indoctrinate into their new systems. You really don't want to be paying big bucks to free agents that have received other coaching in the league and have their own ideas about what is the right way to do things and will have lots of money and might not listen. It'll be hard enough for the coaching staff to win over the veteran incumbents on the team. We'll need to add a few more hungry, mindless soldiers (i.e. young draftees that want to make it in the league) to help out with the chemistry. (2) Along the same lines, generally speaking, it's better to build through the draft than through free agency anyway. Free agency is better utilized when a team is further along the development cycle and you only need one or two good players to get over the hump. When your team is basically starting from scratch and mostly devoid of talent, you want to draft well and build out the core first. If the team drafts well and the drafted core develops, then maybe two or three seasons from now, the franchise will arrive at the "hump" moment and it'll make sense to bring in free agents. Free agency will not save this team. The Bills need to start drafting well, period. (3) Our recent free agent acquisitions like Derrick Dockery have sucked. This makes the owner and the front office more hesitant to pull the trigger. All in all, I'm satisfied with the Bills not spending money on free agents this offseason (nor did I expect them to). It's not the right time and it's better to focus on the draft with the new regime in place and the need to build a young obedient core.

Don't be fooled by these smoke screens. We just witnessed the Year of the QB in the NFL and people think Clausen is going in the second round? Teams will be falling all over each other trying to trade into the top 10 to grab him. Bradford, too.

Smoke screen. I'll happily field bets on whether Clausen goes top 10 in the draft.

lol, nice

I don't think GB will keep Kampman but I don't expect the Bills to be active on the free agent market, either. I think they'll focus on building through the draft in the early stages of this new regime.

No offense but this post is laughable. You will "support them" until they don't draft a QB in April. That's been the subtext to all your "support" since the hirings took place. (But it's not like you will even wait until April 22nd to turn your back on them. Once you hear a draft rumor that doesn't point to a QB, they will lose your "support.") I actually mostly agree with you, though. I like Nix a lot and I think getting a QB should be a priority, if possible. But I hate Gailey and think he'll suck until proven otherwise.

We DO have two sixth round picks and a seventh.

I actually like Tebow a lot personally, just not as a 1st or 2nd round pick. He'd be a good goalline QB.