RuntheDamnBall

You're right, but they were able to afford (a relatively cheaper) T.O. and Evans in the same year. If it's Blackmon or Jeffery (as long as they are not reaching for him), I won't mind.

This team botched winnable games against the Jets and Dolphins. 3-3 in the division makes this a .500 team, which would have looked a lot better. I hope we can see them healthy and putting in a full game's focus every week next year.

$$$. I'm not saying the Bills will offer him enough, but that'd be the reason, especially if the Saints have a lot of salary obligations to balance. Colston is the business. I'd love to have him here.

He brings it upon himself. No one asked him to be drafted where he was, and that's not his fault, but a real man can just go and do his work and let it speak for himself. If he spent half of the time spent running his mouth on technique instead, he'd be an All Pro. I'm not just talking about this, but about the Twitter fights, the guarantees, the contract whining. The guy won a lottery ticket with a #8 pick and a spot on a playoff team, and he's acting like a dumped girlfriend. Shut up and play. No one's sorry for you.

While I'm not advocating a one-trick pony, we need some kind of deep threat to at least keep defenses honest. A quick, big target to get downfield fast will help open up the short game and the run game as well. Limiting ourselves to one dimension because of our QB is foolish.

Can't this dicknose just be happy that Buffalo did what no one else would, as in pay him first-round money? I defended him through plenty of the petty squabbles with Twitter, etc, but taking this time when his team has a great opportunity ahead of him to slam the Bills proves to me that he is a thin-skinned loser. I hope San Fran gets their asses handed to them, and that Whitner gets torched by a TE as usual.

Class act as always!

Not Meister Brau? I heard that's what they serve Hitler down there.

That was my question, but I don't watch enough of the rest of the league to know.

I had the same exact thought.

I don't doubt it, I'd just like to look at how they use their backs effectively and see what kinds of plays work out of those formations.

I don't watch other teams faithfully enough to know: which teams out there reliably run two-back sets?

He was dominating in his time and definitely wasn't one of those guys you hated (like Zach Thomas, for example) - only that you hated to play against him. Great player on the wrong team!

Of course, but SJ is the best we have, our de facto #1. Letting him go and picking up someone to equal his production amounts to running in place. We should pay SJ based on his production, which is the best the team has and at least in the conversation for Top 15 in the league. Then, we should still be looking for better players. I'd be ecstatic if another player comes to the Bills via draft or trade to make Stevie #2.

But but but Stevie is the worst of those 9 WRs!* *Just trying to same some numbskull the time.

...especially now that the increase in earning potential is not so vast between the bottom and the top of the first round. The NFL has rather inadvertently made it more likely that a first-round-graded underclassman will leave, if he has no interest in staying in school. How that explains Luck and Barkley's choices to stay - well, Luck did slot into the absolute #1 spot instead of a year competing with the likes of Newton. Barkley may well do the same with a good-great year next season. They may also just be more interested in staying in school to begin with. Remember when Tony Mandarich became a foundation of Green Bay's OL for a decade, and the many Pro Bowls that "can't miss" Mike Williams made?

Because 2 celebration penalties = killing dogs and running and an illegal betting operation tied to the killing of said dogs? Good god, I think we're done here.

So the cutoff on this arbitrary insight into how the bills never keep all the diamonds in the rough that they uncover is the 7th round, then? Got the memo. The book isn't, as you say, closed on KW but I'm sure they are not cutting one of their best defensive players, so explain what you're getting at, please...

Well said, my man.

Just like they let late rounder Kyle Williams walk, right?

Is Jeffery really gettable in R2? Everything I've read has indicated otherwise.

I imagine it's possible that Stevie thinks he should get 7.5MM per, and that the Bills are not necessarily going to have a problem with that number, but that guaranteed money is very much an issue at work here. Both parties could believe he deserves an average of $7.5MM per, with Stevie thinking 5/$40MM including a $25MM signing bonus, while the Bills think 6/$42MM with $10MM up front is about right. These figures are pulled from thin air, mind you, but upfront money has got to be at issue here. That's money that goes immediately to the player, and while it works to the advantage of the team in terms of NFL accounting (spreading over the length of the contract to reduce salary cap hit), a big bonus hits the team hard and they've already doled one out to Fitz if I'm not mistaken. It's one thing that makes me nervous, no doubt, should this reach the stage where another team can make an offer.

I think the combination of these two is totally lost on everyone. If people knew how hurt the guy was, as in, had to feel what he was feeling and then try to put up the kind of performance he did on the football field, they might have some perspective. Most of us would be crying through the whole game. He is a fantastic team player and has made very few excuses notwithstanding the FB post, and excuses and blame in the face of shortcomings are what really characterizes someone as a prima donna. Stevie does not do that on gameday.

Who do the Pats have who really stretches the field? Edelman? Branch?

If you look at how the Patriots stopped Manning, and how the Giants stopped Brady, it was with pressure, lots of it, and great (or felonious) coverage. The Bills need those pieces to complement an offense that improved, regardless of the naysayers. When they don't have to come back from a sizable deficit most weeks, Fitz can probably get the job done. I think play calling and the absence of Stevie sunk their lead in Week 17, and it wasn't simply due to Fitz's shortcomings. RGIII would be a lovely piece, but if he comes at the expense of a pass rush for another season, I'm not sure I'm for it. Hopefully they can both address the future at QB and the present in the defensive front. Too late. GQ Magazine has already offered a box of Rolexes and cologne samples for the rights to Sanchez. Buffalo misses the boat again.