Kipers Hair

The next owner of the Bills will be a weathy Arabian or Chinamen - laugh if you wish, but as they seek ways to deploy their monies and gain familiarity with Western culture, they will realize that the NFL is the wealthiest gentlemen's club in the planet. The next closest league would be the English Premier league, and there are already a handful of Arabian and Russian owners and the Chinese just missed on their recent attempt at Liverpool. It may not be the Bills, but foreign ownership will start to creep up in the NFL - there is no issue with cash (satisfying the Jerry Jones' of the world) and it will satisfy the NFL's want to expand globally. I target the Bills for this reality as our ownership is amongst the leagues most precarious given RW's age...

For the reasons you cite, I am elevating him to total hero status and further hating on the Mike Williams selection. Mack'in it out with some broad on a boat and getting away with getting out of practice and we are treating him like an arch-villian? Please

I am not saying I would or would not take Newton at three, but name the person in the draft who has no issues? Bowers - bit of a one year wonder...Paterson - some argue too big to be a fluid shut down corner....Green - suspended 4 games, might be too lean for his size...Fairly - a bit flabby, takes plays off...blah blah blah...Roll the dice hope for the best...

Knowing Mr Golisano's ownership style (it's all a business transaction only), this would result in 2 things (1) the Bills stay and (2) the Bills suck. Said, it begs the question - if you know the Bills will be perennial jokes (3 wins give or take a season), would you rather have them stay and suffer failure or let them leave? Personally, I do not think the NFL would support a Golisano purchase as the competition committee would nix it....

Aaron...that you? Need I point our Moats was a DE in collage and had to transition to unfamiliar waters? Talent rises up and you Mr Mabin, are not a "football player"...physical specimen perhaps, but a football player woudl at least play special teams with some success...

Evans and Luynch were need picks. Look, I am not a fan of the direction, but if he grades so much better, you have to take him, or get a ransom to trade out of the spot. Anyway, if he is so God-like and Spiller matures into a 3 down talent - maybe we can force some teams to become one dimensional and help our defense out? Just throwing darts....

The Buffalo Bills will take a hard look at Newton with the third overall choice. Bills head coach Chan Gailey supports Ryan Fitzpatrick as his leader moving forward. But Bills general manager Buddy Nix might not agree, and owner Ralph Wilson will make the final call. If Wilson demands a quarterback, then the Bills will draft a quarterback. The options would appear to be Newton or Missouri's Blaine Gabbert.

OMF-ingG - some of you people are nuts...how about he's only a kid who was rarely asked to do so - give him a chance....

He's an interesting proposition for the Bills as he is oddly the best solution to give Fitzpatrick the reigns for 2-3 more years while getting Newton up to speed on the pro game. That said, with all of our needs, I would not touch him until after we grab a solid defensive contributor - 2nd round would be good value.

He showed me enough to stay away in round 1 - the man CANNOT read a defense and is a 2-3 year NFL project.

The receiving corp in Philly is a lot better than ours - so I doubt they would work that out...unless of course you threw in a 1st rounder.

This is great news - when we go 2-14 next year - he's ours in 2012!

Let Stroud go, slide Williams to RE and get Fairley to play the middle.... But then again, we drafted Troup and Carrington, so I hate to say it, but I can see this front office taking the DB from LSU or trading down to gamble on a Cam Newton....

Run wild Beast Mode - remind us again why we needed Spiller with the 9 spot instead of someone like Baluga...or Saffold...Can't want to see Cam Newton in the 3 spot this coming draft!

Excuse me...after the past 10 years or so, nothing this organization does can shake me to my foundation thank you...

Only as many as we can and still retain the first pick overall...

Please sign him and waive Maybin....please let's put the man out of his misery....

Um - He can't play football for one. The measurables are one thing, but he simply cannot put it together.

A week off with the bye...and Maybin is a scratch...fantastic...I really with the NFL had a minor league thype thing so we could send Maybin there to at least play...somewhere!

Poz is a mediocre MLB at best - the equivalent of Kelsey at his position...why make the same mistake twice....

Excellent article, but a sad truth (for me st least), it just confirmed what I already thought to be going on. I am not sure there is any way the NCAA or the NFL can stem this - when there are millions at play, there will be guys trying to get an edge. Though - I completely disagree with the allegaitons against Mel...come on now....

Sorry, feeling a little salty today - A cursed day on any Bill's fan's calendar... Buffalo Bills first-round draft pick Aaron Maybin has signed a five-year deal after missing all of the team's training camp. ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter first reported the two sides had reached an agreement. The deal is worth as much as $25 million, ESPN.com's John Clayton reported. Guaranteed money and other contract terms were not immediately available. "Ecstatic, overjoyed, whatever you want to call it, that's me," said Maybin, who flew from Baltimore to Buffalo to sign the deal. "I've been smiling from ear to ear for the entire day, man, ever since I got off the plane." "Aaron's happy to be here and ready to go to work," Chafie Fields, Maybin's agent, said. The Bills are counting on Maybin, whom they drafted at No. 11 from Penn State, to shore up a defense that produced only 24 sacks last season -- tied for the fifth-fewest in the NFL. After sitting out his first year at Penn State as a redshirt freshman, Maybin entered the draft after two college seasons and without a full season as a starter. Though he played 13 games last season, Maybin didn't take over as a full-time starter until the fourth week. But he led the Big Ten with 12 sacks and was voted a first-team All-American. Maybin unveiled a new haircut in honor of the deal. Cut into the right side of his hair were two numbers: 58, the one he'll wear this season; and 78, in a tribute to former Bills defensive end Bruce Smith, who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame earlier this month. Cut into the left side of his hair was the Bills' logo of a running buffalo. Maybin laughed when asked whether the logo meant he won't require a helmet. "Hey man," Maybin said. "I'm a tough guy, but not that tough."

My God, where do I start - a top 5 then: 5. Getting Aaron Maybin to attend all the minicamps and training camp...Lord knows the last regime couldn't. 4. Taking Spiller ahead of more pressing needs...you'll see...you'll all see. 3. Managing to sell out the 1st two home games...how in the hell did they do that with the obvious failure we have in house? 2. Managing to avoid taking that waste Bryan Baluga, or God forbid, Anthony Davis. 1. Shrewdly tapping into the huge Chinese NFL merchandise buying market by drafting Ed Wang!

You always have to keep one or two sacrificial lambs in the stable. Silly man - shooting Maybin is reserved for the 2011 season ticket push...

Agreed - though I don't consider it as much a one up as I do a different chapter of the same book.