RuntheDamnBall

I was comparing their situations more than their playing styles or abilities. I called Rex the poor man's Dilfer because both players pretty much backed into the Super Bowl and rode the coattails of good defensive squads. Dilfer at least made smart if limited decisions, though.

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If you watch the draft and Bradford and Clausen are gone, and the Bills select Tebow or McCoy at No. 9, and you don't throw a brick at the television, you have some of your own issues to resolve. If you think Clausen is the pick to make and he's there at No. 9, what you have is a difference of opinion. This is not a draft with prime QB talent. Deal with it!

"Who?"

Does Grossman's Super Bowl appearance even count? Talk about the poor man's Trent Dilfer.

Or maybe these idiots just think that the quality of the tackles available in the top 10, relative to what we have, is far superior to the quality of QBs likely available at #9, relative to what we have. But forgive me, you're correct. Anyone who disagrees with your personal opinion is an idiot. Carry on.

I only buy the notion that we've found ways to rationalize past hires and see the bright side or potential in them. That said, I agree that we have no idea of what Gailey is yet capable of with the current roster. If we can't chill out and see what happens, there's going to be no enjoyment of the season. Unfortunately, when we have a potentially good thing - being able to talk football all year with fellow fans through a message board - minutiae become magnified and patience becomes a lost art.

I'll buy that argument, but the fact is that Gailey took an NFL team that had gone 6-10 and made the playoffs with it the next two seasons. Compare to the following: Williams had no record of HC success. Jauron's was VERY limited. Mularkey might have had the best chance of the bunch but lost goodwill with the team and was not helped by Donahoe's management of the team. Perry Fewell was an interim guy and I don't think many people expected much from him. He was better than Jauron, which is like saying that zero is more than -1. Gailey has more to recommend him than did any of the other three or four prior Bills hires. He would have been Cowher's OC hire. I choose to give him a shot.

I meant winning career record. Jauron had a winning season in his career. Doesn't make him a winner.

Let's see, last Bills coach with a winning record... Wade? Last coach Bills hired who had a winning record? Chan deserves the benefit of the doubt.

Tebow gave a PC after his visit. He mentioned that one look at the Bills' offensive line made him wish he'd never been born.

Thanks much for answering. I've been a believer in his talent, but it sure sounds like he has some growing up to do. I remain hopeful that the right staff will be be able to help him do so, and that he'll take the initiative. He seems far too young to give up on and it'd be a shame if he forced the team to do so, but the clock would seem to be ticking.

My point was that their receiving corps was less impressive when their running game was at its peak and LT was at his best. The balance has simply shifted from Great TE+great ground game to Great TE+strong air attack with Jackson's emergence. Before this was basically a long string of mediocrity from the WR corps in San Diego, and an over-the-middle slasher would have helped. That's all I'm saying. I do agree with you that DJ and WW are different receivers altogether. But if you're saying that they wouldn't have been helped immeasurably by trading for Welker instead of drafting Craig Davis, I just disagree. That Welker has not been on a Super Bowl Champion is a bit of a straw-man argument. Nor has Randy Moss. Nor has Steve Smith. Nor has Jim Kelly. That doesn't mean that these kinds of players don't make their teams better. I think Tate's impact could equal the impact DJ, WW and other guys who are great at getting open have for their teams. You disagree; that's fine. I respect your football opinion.

Right, but Jackson really only emerged in 2008, his 6 TDs in '06 notwithstanding. I think no doubt has their WR corps improved over the past few years, but their bread and butter was Gates, Tomlinson, Turner/Sproles really until LT began to break down.

You may be right, but I still see Welker having success (not that I think they're entirely alike). The fact is, if you have enough weapons, you are going to expose some holes in the defense or find the seams. A WR who gets open and is not afraid to go over the middle is a great weapon. Cover him, Jackson's open. Cover them both, you're going to have to single cover Evans. No one else is open, Nelson should be able to release and pick up something.

That was the idea with James Hardy. It hasn't worked out yet but I don't want to write him off either. I see no reason to again draft the size guy over the playmaker. Shawn Nelson is another big target with potential. I don't know about you, but it's hard to name a premier receiver at SD over the past few years and I think their strategy has actually failed them on that front. They rode a great back, had great change of pace backs, and a great TE. OTOH, Tate gets open, period. I look at him and I see Steve Smith. Neither are prototypical, but Smith is among the best in the game. Gets open, wants the ball, does great things when it's in his hands. In fact, I believe SD with Smith might have won a Super Bowl by now. I think Tate has that potential.

NGU: any word on the team's general opinion of Marshawn Lynch (both front office and locker room)? A lot of people indicate that his act is wearing thin at OBD, while others cite the need for a couple of talented backs. Would they move him if a substantial offer came about, or is that just too unlikely at a sell-low moment?

I think all TEs acquired by the Bills since Frigging Lonnie have legally changed their middle names to "Effing."

Nope. Jacksonville game, also 2006. I think Losman ended up a bust but basing your evidence on press conferences is a joke. How smart is Terry Bradshaw off the field? Losman was just one of a few QBs whose Buffalo careers have started out with some promise or upside, only to be put in a position to fail by the coaching staff and FO. Look at 2006 and you see potential. Look at 2007 and you see a coaching staff doing a 180 with regard to its approach to the QB. Edwards is another guy whose career is next to over thanks to the Bills' doings over the past decade +.

Trent Edwards definitely played with a touchdown ration.

Cam Thomas and Colt McCoy in RDs 3+4 would be amazing luck. It's completely laughable to believe that the stars would align for Buffalo as such. Perhaps the only way that could happen is if the Gods of Stupidity smiled on them for those first two picks in the mock. Eeek.

You've got to believe that the guy who falls to you at No. 9 is going to be at least top-15 quality if you're going to draft a QB that high. I just don't see the evidence that Clausen is enough of a winner, with a high enough ceiling, to pick him there. The past few drafts have shown that few college QBs come as ready for the NFL as Manning was. If you think Clausen is a Brees in the making, great. But be prepared for four years of growing up if that's the case. If we trade up for Bradford -- the only way we're getting him -- the brass better be DAMN SURE he is a top-5 QB in the making. Ryan and Flacco are early success stories, but Flacco was plugged into a team that had a lot of the pieces already. Ryan was probably one of the more can't-miss guys in years. Rodgers and to a much lesser extent Henne and Eli all showed that good teams often groom their QBs instead of throwing them into the fire. No mentor of the caliber that these guys enjoyed practices at One Bills Drive. The next QB we get will be expected to start quickly. I think the lamentable fact is that the Bills could have sat tight, "reached" a bit for Schaub in 2004, had some more picks to play with, and be enjoying right now the fruits of those decisions. Losman was the wild card in the relatively rich QB class of '04 -- perhaps the most upside, definitely the most risk. I was in love with the upside but it became pretty clear that everyone screaming that Schaub was the darkhorse was in fact right. Instead Donahoe had to gun for it... and this team has been sent into a tailspin of even more panicked and flashy decisions, with little value beyond a few nice parts and a world-class secondary. I'd look for that darkhorse in this draft -- the most Schaub-like QB we can find. Perhaps he doesn't exist, and perhaps the Bills system will yet again set up a promising QB for failure. We won't have the luxury of a league-average starter at the position to give him time to learn, but we can at the very least get on the right track without giving up the farm for a guy who will take awhile to succeed.

That was an Onion article, dude. Fake and fun news.

Free agency is over, the season has already started, and the Bills have already lost all 16 games here on Two Bills Drive.

You're off base on this one, Cincy. I don't care what the guy earns; no one is deserving of a response like that. To clap and cheer when a guy gets injured is completely classless, and it especially disgusts me when I see it from fellow fans of my own team. Anderson may not be bright to jeopardize potential future offers by badmouthing fans on the way out the door, but he has every right to be miffed at so-called fans of his former team. They bring a bad name to a generally proud and strong blue-collar fanbase. And before you lecture everyone about what these guys get paid, remember that they have zero job security and that in the NFL, a contract is only a contract for the team signing it, and for the signing bonus for the player. These guys sign themselves up for a potential lifetime of physical ailments just to entertain us. I don't think they deserve what they make in general terms, but the NFL is a business where the owners make money hand-over-fist, and players are expendable commodities. I recommend reading Stefan Fatsis' Three Seconds of Panic for some more perspective. One needs not be further reminded about Ted Johnson or Mike Webster or Andre Waters for a less popular view of what the NFL is really about. It's the work of a genuine idiot to celebrate injuries in the game given these potentially deadly consequences.