silvermike

And it's a crying shame!

It all depends on special teams. Although nobody bats an eye at keeping 6 WRs, from a position that likely only gets about 25 touches per game.

McCargo is a 3-technique DT, same as Larry Tripplett, as opposed to a 1-Tech NT, which is currently Kyle Williams' territory. Its's like saying we don't need a TE because we have Lee Evans.

This is easy to figure out: The national media watches a lot of University of Miami games. They watch no Bills games. That's why they don't know anythign about Willis McGahee.

I mean, it can be both things. He's probably going to be better for Baltimore than Jamal Lewis would be. Therefore, it's a good trade for them, who's desperately trying to win before the window closes on Steve McNair and Ray Lewis. He's also a misfit/discontent in Buffalo, whose not worth it anymore and the team needs a fresh start.

Relax, dude. Feeley ranked 13th among kickers last year - 84% ain't what it used to be. He's behind Rian Lindell, and didn't hit one from past 50 yards.

I think it's possible for Willis to have a decent career and still have been a bust for the Bills. When we drafted him, we had an RB on the roster who had just had back-to-back 1300 yard seasons. Willis was competing directly with that: It wasn't a case of the Bills needing to get first-round value for a running back (which would be the case this year), they needed to get first round pick + Travis Henry value, which they didn't. What I think makes the pick so dreadful is that Henry+1st round value is really an impossible standard to set. How many RBs in the league would you trade a 1300 yard back and a first round pick for? LaDainian might be the only one.

I think, at a bare minimum, he'd have to be demonstrably better than Travis Henry not to be a bust. He wasn't. So yes, he is a bust.

Change first round to first day, and just about all this stuff applies to Maurice Clarett.

TJ Duckett is terrible - a third-string running back in two different cities. Nobody's even bringing him in - he'd be lucky to have a contract in September. And why does it matter if he was a first round pick? That was ages ago.

Garbage? Last year we got no fewer than FOUR starters after that pick (Simpson, Williams, Ellison, and Pennington). I think getting Starks would be a good use of it, but still, it's a solid pick.

The Jets didn't trade their 2nd (25), but the one they had acquired previously from the Redskins (forget from what). So that was at the top of the round.

Sounds fair. Thomas Jones is more established, McGahee has more potential (ish).

Touche.

In the league or on the Packers? I mean, it was 11 years ago. Who's left from the '96 Bills?

Tipster - unless I'm confusing him for someone, repeatedly called Willis by the wrong name. It was a specific YOU there.

Since when do you say McGahee instead of 'MaGahee'?

He's well into his thirties. I think that'd be a bandaid on a unit we need to be improving year-to-year.

The best part about the Welker move is that it marginally improves the Pats while dramatically worsening the Dolphins' offense. Without McMichael, their only remaining pass catcher is Chris Chambers, who is by FAR the wrost wide receiver in the league. I'm not sure what everyone makes of football outsiders' stats, but here you go: http://footballoutsiders.com/stats/wr.php Look down. Way down. Yeah. DPAR may be a statistic you can argue with, but 'passes' is objective: The number of balls thrown Chambers' way. 153. Tops in the league. Catch percentage? 39%. Over 60% of the time you throw to Chambers, it bounced off the turf. You can blame some of that on Joey, of course, but then what about Booker (61% completed) and Welker (67%).

You KNOW the answer to your question when someone says "I heard it on the radio" and you ask for a link. Don't act like a 4th grader.

I don't think that Dick Jauron controls the offseason depth chart on the website. I think that's just sort of thrown together.

Punctuate. You'll live longer.

So, leaving aside even the Bills and the Jets, you're going to take a team with a rookie HC whose previous experience had the bonus of the best RB and TE in recent memory, Cleo Lemon, a terrible WR corps of Chambers and Booker, no established TE, not a single offensive lineman who even qualifies as average any more, and a defense on the downturn bandaided with Joey Porter, and put them in serious competition with that Patriots?

http://www.nfl.com/teams/depthcharts/MIA Other than Ronnie Brown, who do you fear in that lineup? And remember that some of those players have been cut since then.

Which I think is relatively likely, considering I think that Quinn has to be on the board for the Bears to jump and make this all feasible. Also, we're getting stiffed slightly on the draft value chart, but it seems like an awful lot to ask the Bears to throw in another pick - if we held a hard line, maybe we could swap their 3rd for our 4th or something.