Dawgg

Year after year, Donte has distinguished himself with his rhetoric more than his play. It's time that he shut his trap and make plays, for once in his career. Given that this is his contract year, I think we'll see a much-improved player in 2010. I have a hard time the Bills will pay for him given the safety depth on the roster, so enjoy your last year of Lil Donte.

Here are my predictions: 1. Chris Kelsay wins Defensive Player of the Year. 2. Trent Edwards wins MVP (for both regular season and Super Bowl)

Hey everyone! How's it going? It has been a while!

He wanted to compel the Bill to release him. When he realized they weren't going to budge, he has begrudgingly come back to stake his claim to $8M. Can't blame him for that!

My sources tell me it was Jauron.

The Titans essentially gave Lendale White away for free. They were able to move up 7 spots in 4th and 6th rounds... aside from that, no extra picks, nothing of tangible value for a running back that was chosen among the Top 40 picks in the draft. This team doesn't have any business giving away it's valuable players for free. Lynch is a punk, yes - but his value is at about the lowest it can possibly be right now. The Bills have all the leverage here and control him for 3 more years. They're better off keeping him on the roster for next year and hope he plays his butt off to earn his way out of town. Another plausible scenario is to wait until training camp when some desperate team loses their starting RB to an injury. Either way, it makes no sense for a team as weak as this one to just give away a decent player. That would be straight out of the Marv Levy School of GM.

I think it's even stupider to feel the need to "wait and see" to assess a move in which the team is spending $3M per year on a player who: 1. Is 34 years old. 2. One of the most penalty-prone tackles the NFL has to offer. 3. Received no interest on the open market and could have been had for much cheaper (see: Peerless Price). It's yet another typical Bills signing that fits right in with the likes of Tutan Reyes, Melvin Fowler, Derrick Dockery, and Langston Walker.

LOL like Marshawn and Donte!

Where was the good?

Except when the team chose a WR over him after Pat Williams departed.

If a potential Pro Bowl QB falls to your lap, of course you take him. But if not, you don't just settle for your 2nd or 3rd choice of a QB and hope he works (see: Losman, JP)

It depends on how you define luxury. You define luxury as a pick that wasn't in need. Others define luxury as a selection that was made DESPITE far more pressing needs. Yes, safety was a need. But this was a team that was rebuilding and still reeling from the loss of Pat Williams. When you have your choice of blue-chip DT's in the Top 10 you don't pick that safety unless he has the potential to be a gamechanger... Whitner wasn't a game changer in college and there was no way he was suddenly going to develop into that as a pro. This is not about being a "chubby chaser," it's about basic common sense. I know you threw all your chips in when the Bills selected Whitner. You even bought his jersey. But it's time to let go, now bro. He has been a disappointment and the end of the day, those who lauded the Whitner pick were (once again) proven wrong. That said, I don't necessarily agree with trading him... I doubt he'd command a significant pick in return and might as well keep him on the roster as a 3rd safety.

... says he, who got called out by the best poster on this board

Pretty much...

Thank you Badol. Couldn't have said it better myself.

I simply said the Bears got the better end of the draft-day deal. Never said Dvoracek is the second-coming, that's your imagination. You, on the other hand, thought McCargo was the real deal. The Matt Millen of TBD at his best.

No doubt about it but you take value every day of the week and twice on Sunday. If the QB of the future is there and they are confident that he's the guy, sure take him. But you don't take a QB for the sake of taking a QB. Claussen will get murdered behind this O-Line. There is not only weakness at the tackle position, there's absolutely no depth. Good tackles don't become free agents. We have to spend premium draft picks on the tackle position. If they take some tackles, build up the line, and find a QB in next year's draft it would make far more sense than reaching on a QB now.

Those who understand football have been pointing this out for years. On the other end of the spectrum, folks like C. Biscuit loved the McCargo pick.

If anyone is embarrassing, it's you, who one poster accurately called the "Matt Millen of TBD"

http://www.bizoffootball.com/index.php?opt...s&Itemid=53 In 2008, he was rated the most powerful agent, not just in football, but in all of sports. Anyone who knows the industry knows that Condon is the top agent in football. He has a ton of pull and rarely loses out on a big payday. Agreed... but I don't think Condon wouldn't take him on if he didn't think Whitner would get paid.

Apparently the individual who wrote the above quoted post does not realize that Condon is far more influential and powerful than Rosenhaus. And it's not even close.

Someone will pay him. When you are represented by Condon, you get paid. After all, someone needs to make his ferrari payments!

He's looking to get $paid$ Let's hope Buddy Nix is smart and stays out of the bidding.

Yeah that was a video of Donte Whitner getting run over by Sammy Morris. I think the Bills need to build through the draft and make solid selections... players who have produced day in and day out, not the likes of John McCargo and Whitner.

Yes, let's devote half our salary cap to the WR position. Makes a lot of sense!!!