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The wonderlic tells nothing more or less than a player's ability to take the wonderlic. Attempting to relate it to anything in the real world is the definition of stupidity.

AJ Green scored a 10 on the wonderlic. Julio Jones a 15. Andre Johnson a 14. Megatron a 23. Roddy White a 4. Percy Harvin a 12.Vincent Jackson a 33. There doesn't seem to be much correlation between wonderlic and on-field ability/success.

yeah i'll take a second team as well

The problem is that its essentially impossible to get a franchise QB after roughly pick 35.

They were talking with EJ today or yesterday down here, and asked him about Gruden's QB camp. What i found most interesting is that EJ insinuated that Gruden said some completely different things to him on camera than he did off camera. It didn't seem like anything too serious, and he wasn't accusing Gruden of falsehoods, but he seemed to imply that Gruden played some things up for TV.

Thank you. the article was garbage, because it included factual inaccurracies (there some blatant falsehoods in there), and the writer had barely anything good to say about EJ. If you're going to write an article about a QB, its tough to take the "writer" seriously when they essentially refuse to state any positives that a player has and they just spend 1,000 words denigrating him. Smacks of an axe to grind.

I'll take Tampa as usual

You also have to take into account the number of picks spent on offense vs defense. In the top 3 rounds of Buddy's 3 drafts, He's only selected 3 offensive players, and all 3 of them start (Spiller, Glenn, Graham). So what does that say?

The best comment i heard was that they should rename the rule that kept Tiger in the tournament the "Nielsen Rule." There are 3 asinine rules here that need to be changed from that whole snafu: 1) TV viewers calling in infractions is complete crap. If an official didn't catch it, tough ****. 2) There should be a statue of limitations on assessing a penalty, be it the tee shot for the next hole, or the end of the round. But you should not be able to assess a penalty at some unlimited time in the future. This leads to 3... 3) Once a decision is handed down, it should stand. The officials should not be allowed to make a decision, then go home and eat, sleep on it, fight with their wife, and then re-visit the instance and change their mind, as happened in this case. As much as i love golf, their idiotic rules causes the PGA and USGA to make asses out of themselves on an increasingly more often basis.

If a panhandler asks you for money, you should be legally be allowed to take one free shot at them, be it fists, 2x4, tire iron, etc. !@#$ing scum of the earth.

I'd bet almost anything that the Bills don't draft any OL before round 5.

On the positive side of some scouting reports, McKelvin should benefit from an above average corpora cavernosa.

Great post. I've been thinking along the same lines. A lot of people act like the Bills have a small fraction of the picks of the rest of the league. We're missing a single pick, and its in the lowest round. SF with their 13? picks is extremely abnormal. Also, since the missing pick is a 7th rounder, there's no difference in the player quality between a 6th, a 7th, and a UDFA. We're really not missing out on anything we couldn't bring in as a UDFA. Any trade involving moving back into round 1 is going to include a couple of high picks, like a 2nd and a 3rd, or a 1st/2nd next year. A missing 7th rounder is not going to make or break moving up from 41 to the upper 20s.

Who exactly were the Bills supposed to bring in at QB (to this point) in the offseason? If they come out of the draft without a QB, then yes, there's a real problem and i'll be just as miffed as you. But if the plan was to draft the future guy all along, how can you bash them for not upgrading the QB position when 1) no significant upgrades were available through FA, and 2) the draft hasn't occured yet?

The Bills have had 23/30 pre-draft visits completed. The fact that there's yet to be a single OL make a visit tells me they probably aren't going to use a pick on the selection in round 1 or 2. If i had to bet, i'd say that we're looking at a QB/WR or WR/QB in rounds 1 and 2.

Yeah. Parcells, belicheat and the giants played a good chunk of SB XXV with only 2 DL, in a 2-4-5 alignment. The biggest problem is exactly what happened in that game. Thurman averaged roughly 45 yards per carry. (Ok, not quite, but he did pile up right near 9 ypc for the game on 15 carries).

There's absolutely no way of stating this as a fact. They're definitely in a bit of an odd situation. Even if Nassib did grade out the highest of all QBs according to their scouting reports, until he proved that he was good, the perspective of the pick would be that he was nothing more than a lazy homer pick because he was the "coach's boy" in college. Fair or unfair, that's going to be what it looks like if they draft Nassib.

kicks ass. That's all. That team is historically bad. The 'stros strikeout at an absolutely stupefying rate. I guess the race to 120 losses is on between Houston and Miami, who combine for a payroll of about $35,000.

I'll agree with everything in that article, pros and cons. Well written, and a great summary, both positive and negative, of EJ. As i've said all along, *I* think all of his are coachable and correctable at the next level. He'll have to stop doing the patented "EJ Spin" when he gets into trouble however. Sometimes, when facing pressure, he'll spin out of the pocket instead of sprinting out. It's gotten him into some trouble here (and also some excellent results), but in the NFL, you can't afford to spin and take your eyes away from downfield while leaving the pocket. And he's gotta get past his inconsistency. My girlfriend is against the Bills drafting EJ, because, as she put it, "I've listened to you yell at EJ for 2 years on saturday, i don't want to hear you yelling him on sunday now for the next few years."

I was just speaking in hypotheticals. I do want a QB at #8, preferrably Geno or EJ. I want nothing to do with Nassib, but am so scared these guys are going to make the lazy homer pick and take him at #8.

An offensive playmaker is not a "luxury." Its a necessity in today's pass-oriented NFL. Everything is second to getting a good QB, obviously, but the days of "build a superstar OL to win" are long gone. The Bills have a decent OL, good enough to win with. What we don't have is a QB, or anyone in the passing game that scares opposing teams outside of Stevie.

Fair enough. I actually do want us to take a QB at #8 (just not Nassib), because QB is priority #1 until you have a good one. I would not want to pass on a QB for Austin. However, hypothetically, lets assume the Bills plan on trading back up into late round 1 to grab a QB, then Austin would be in a short list of players i'd be ok with taking at #8. Adding a playmaker in the passing game, when that's how you win in the current NFL, is NOT a mistake.

I don't understand this line of thinking. Both of you obviously think Austin is going to do well in the NFL, but don't think its wise for the Bills to take him? Why would he be a great pick for a playoff team, but a bad pick for a worse team? Bad teams need good players, especially now when the NFL offenses are run like flag football teams. Our current passing game features Stevie and ...? Austin could step right in and add an additional dimension to the offense.

I love it when people completely make up bold faced lies. Tavon Austin never missed a game in college. Played in every game for 4 years. Yet you claim he "gets hurt a lot."

Sounds like its more of a case of how much he's asking for (at his age) than just simply that he's 36.