RuntheDamnBall

If we're going past, I loved watching Randall Cunningham, and had mad respect for Warren Moon.

I'm with you on a 3rd rounder (like Murray way more than McCarron, would also like Mettenberger). I don't know how we could characterize the team as "continuing to ignore the most important position on the field," though, when they have picked up something on the order of 7 QBs in the past year, including one that was a first rounder that they intend to develop. You may not like the approach / philosophy, but they have done anything but ignore it. I think Thad Lewis is probably as good as any backup-caliber draftee they could get this year (and I'd put McCarron in that company). I like Murray for long-term upside and as a hedge on EJ should he face continued injury troubles, or should he fail to progress.

I'm still glad that we're equating drafting Manziel with taking a big dump. Please keep this thread active.

I've had my eye on the Eagles' tackling dummies for a long time. Now is the moment to strike.

Arian Foster.

When you speak of the dead, you are really speaking in part to his/her family. Any way you slice it, "now that he's gone" is bad form. I'm sure that Kelly has someone dear to him, and it would set him off if a person referred to them in this way less than a day after death.

This. The notion that the outcome is uncertain and could favor Toronto is actually not news to anyone who follows the team or the league (and I'm dubious of the idea that Cathal Kelly does either). This is just crass opportunism the way he phrases it. It's doubly ironic when we celebrate Ralph's capacity to consider more than the bottom line (how his players loved him, what he brought to Buffalo) in an era where that kind of crass opportunism rules the day. C. Kelly sounds like a greedy distant grand-nephew excited to "get his" when his relative dies. Kelly is well within his rights to say what he's said. We're well within our rights to point out that what he's said lacks good taste, respect for the dead, and respect for those whose lives he touched, including the city of Buffalo.

Pretty neat throwback Thursday photo of Ralph from the Bills' social media today:

I am not sure it helps much to write Kelly and call him an a$$. No need to sink to his level, or lower. If you want to give him the business, so to speak, do so cleverly.

It definitely had the tone of "now that Ralph is out of the way," we can talk about getting this team up here. Have some respect.

They should have just done it anyway. There are precedents, such as the 5 CFL Roughriders franchises.

Cathal Kelly is just a total sh-- stirrer. Take all the things that people loathe about Graham and to a lesser extent Sully, combine them, and you've basically got Kelly. I used to actually like his baseball writing when he was more on the beat. Right now it seems he lives for saying dumb things about Buffalo and football, and writing about lesser sports.

I wonder if OBD would make a gesture like giving all profits from sales of JK jerseys to cancer research (or Hunter's Hope).

There's a vast difference between Scenario 1: drafting one QB in the first one season, then drafting a QB high in a subsequent year and Scenario 2: drafting two QBs in one year, separated by three rounds. Scenario 2 sets up a dynamic where the first QB selected is likely to be the starter. Scenario 1 exists solely to challenge the first QB picked or to succeed an older one, and has been a very, very rare scenario in the NFL. I mean, their coach got fired. That's a start, right?

This is a great idea.

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They're going to genetically combine them into "Shartley," one super-mediocre QB to rule them all.

In the abstract, I agree. I simply think that Sanchez has looked green and shaky himself of late. Is that the model you want, especially when the guy still wants to be a starter?

He played efficiently for a young QB with a terrific defense. He did not show any growth in his third, fourth or fifth seasons. What makes you so sure? EJ left three games with the lead this past season. Three games that his team proceeded to cough up in one way or another. Sanchez has looked like a lost puppy for some time now. The butt-fumble was in part hilarious because it exemplified what Sanchez had become - a guy in over his head who had been riding a strong team for awhile. Maybe Sanchez becomes a quality backup with a new situation and renewed purpose. A team looking to build for the future shouldn't really be investing in a guy like that, who mistakenly believes he is still a starter in this league. I don't believe in bringing him on because I don't trust NFL coaches to not fall in love with the idea of a veteran, even if his best days are long gone and came on the coattails of a dominant D.

I forgot how good he was at defense. Also, two fumbles in his last playoff game, and in two of those wins he completed 12 passes each. He really was not asked to do much. Granted, he was a rookie then. Which is why you look at the body of work (which shows zero playoff appearances, much less wins, since the 2010 season). The body of work shows steep and terrific decline and a lack of adjustments. The dude is complacent and thinks he's earned his shot, which couldn't be further from the truth. The great QBs never stop working.

It was classic "getting too cute" Donahoe. Looking to get value where the value is questionable. It's as if they thought "we could end up looking real smart, here!" Unfortunately, it was in the dawning days of the discovery that very good RBs can come from anywhere. This was a horrific draft, but Dallas Clark, Eric Steinbach, Asomugha, Boldin, Umenyiora, Jason Witten and Lance Briggs were all taken in the next three rounds. Hell, the Bills would have been better off drafting UNDRAFTED FREE AGENT Tony Romo with their #1 pick.

That word doesn't mean what you think it means.

TeByrd

Not in round one. He is not so "can't-miss" as to leave no questions, and the injury knocks the price down for everybody. Drafting McGahee was a dumb move, period, and doing so while his stock was down was worse. I am a fan of Murray but he can be had in R3, possibly later, even with the premium on QBs.