Bob in STL

Better not to care what a sportswriter thinks. They are not scouts.

I picked 6 - meaning we can make a wildcard playoff birth with some good luck and some great coaching ---- like last year. If a few rookies and free agents step up and are solid starters we can move to 7, wont know until week 10 if that is true.

For the Sabres it has been consistently bad in fact. Downright deplorable hockey turning our arena into a morgue.

So to be a GM all you have to do is read magazines and internet articles? Your guessing on all of the playing we didn’t pick. Lets see in 3 years. I’m guessing that Edmunds is a Star, our 3rd rounder is is in the DL rotation as a solid starter, we pull a starter and a few key contributors out of the rest. So even if Allen is a bust,and yes a costly bust, the draft will grade ok. Part of of the problem with the Bills as a franchise is the unwillingness to draft qb’s. We need to draft them until we find one. Give Allen a chance.

Those were the correct facts. The NHL changed the percentages in the lottery, making it harder for the bottom team to win. The McDavid year we had a 20% (maybe slightly more) chance of winning, yesterday it was 18.5%. Also, they had three lottery picks yesterday, if the Sabres did not get picked in any of them then they drop to 4th. Fourth was the lowest possible slot and the odds were slightly greater than 50% that we would be at least 3rd.

Sabres tenor has been a series of avoidable blunders. Mistake 1. Keeping Riger and letting him sign Erhoff and Lieno to ridiculously stupid contracts. Reiger was better when Golasono curtailed his spending. We saw how stupid he could be with an open checkbook. Mistake 2. Firing Ruff and letting Reiger put an unqualified Rolston behind the bench. Ruff lost the team and Rolston certainly was not the guy to restore order. Reiger should have been fired first, and replaced by an experienced GM with an NHL track record who then decides Ruff’s fate. Mistake 3. Hiring an unqualified Pat LaFontaine, bringing in his buddies from Penn State, and creating a confusing organizational mess, leading to LaFontaine leaving and Murray running the mess and making it worse. mistake 4. Murray was a poor choice to rebuild a team. This is on LaFontaine but Terry P could not see the obvious problems. Murray never ran anything on his own. and made countless errors. He traded valuable assets and got very little in return and he did nothing to improve the farm team. Huge gaffs. Murray will never be an NHL GM.

Dahlin could be the Superstar defenseman we have never had. The Sabres have never had a Norris Troohy winning defenseman. I see see things looking up for both teams. All Terry needs to do is find good people to run the teams and get out of the way. Easy to say, apparently not that easy to do.

The only panic I see is you panicking as a fan. Why would Beane panic sitting on 6 picks in 3 rounds? The worse that could happen is you get 6 great prospects. That is all any draft pick is, a prospect. They refused to to pay a Kings ransom to move to 2, 4, 5,etc. They outbid AZ for Tampa’s pick and got Allen. Arizona got the consolation prize. They might be wrong about Allen, but there was no panic.

Great news. I hate to jump the gun ... Buffalo has never had a Norris Trophy Winner ... maybe someday.

Everyone is talking about Allen. I doubt he beats out McCarron in preseason. We shall see.

We found Matt Milano in the 5th round last year. We should be able to find a few good players with a 3, 4, and two 5’s.

I think they did fine. Well we get three picks in three rounds just like most teams. Getting 2 firsts in the top half of the first round is the kicker. Allen is a project like any qb, Edmunds will start and move all over the field. Third round will be G or WR or maybe BPA. Then we have 5 picks in the last 4 rounds to fill out some spots. It it would have been nice to draft 6 players in the first 3 rounds but we used the picks to get what we wanted and desperately needed.

None of the top 4 QBs is a slam dunk without concerns. We had a choice between Rosen and Allen and we took the one with a better arm. I am sure the meetings and interviews played a major part as well. We moved up to get him so there is something there we like. I think Beane and McDermott know much more than the fans on this board. For this season let Allen hold the clip board and learn the NFL game while working on his mechanics, then lets see what he has next season. That is all we can do.

Dont you know that the Bills should draft the player the fans like the most? It's the key to success.

I do not know if Allen was their last choice but they were moving up ahead of us at 12. I think if Beane sits and waits at 12 and Miami gets the last of the 4 QBs at 11 then this board would have gone crazy. We have Allen, he is a project, lets give him chance.

Wow. So Beane just read a few mock drafts and followed suit? Watkins would be gone anyway, Glenn would be hurt, and franchise qbs take draft capital when you make the playoffs despite having the worst roster in the league. Worst draft ever. Were you born when they drafted Maybin, Losman, Spiller, Mcgahee?

I prefer to wait until the play a few years but I say A for now. 1. They got aggressive and moved up to take Allen. Like him or not the Bills think he is a franchise qb and they went out and got him. Had they stayed at 12 Arizona would had got him and Rosen would have fallen to Miami. If that happened this place would have exploded. To get Allen and keep 22 was excellent. 2. Edwards is much more of a sure thing. He will start from day 1.

Seriously? You need to check into rehab buddy.

I think we finally have people running the show that know that know what they are doing. Both first rounders will be difference makers. Two cornerstones. Go Bills!!!

I just don’t know enough to even guess which QB will be the best. I am impressed with the linebacker. Whoa, this kid could be special.

Trade up only if your guy is there and do not overpay. I doubt that they like all four prospect equally. I doubt that all will be star players. I trust McBeane to know and I hope they don’t reach. Those picks could really bolster the team. Remember, we moved up to get Losman and traded our next years #1, the 20th pick. That great move led to missing Aaron Rogers the next year, he went at 24. McCarron has the reigns and even if he plays poorly he should get at least 12 games. There will be qb’s next year too.

This could happen, and we could getting a qb at 12, or 22. We could still get a better qb than a few of the top 4 prospects. As a group these guys are still unknown NFL players. With no trade we could get 6 very good players in 3 rounds. We could get the best QB next year. I think Beane will try to move up but you need a trade partner and you can’t desperately give up the farm to accomplish a goal that may turn out too risky. Sometimes you just play out the hand you have, if that is the case then find a great MLB, WR, and shore up the Trenches.

With such high demand on QBs I doubt it. The Jets gave up a lot and set the market.

Bills-Broncos trade is possible. Broncos might still get a top 10 player in their board from the 12 slot because it is doubtful they have 4 QBs rated that high.

No ... our offense sucks enough right now.