Albany,n.y.

I like the idea of having a punter who can kick in an emergency situation.

He already was a head coach in KC for 5 seasons and coached in the USFL & CFL, so anyone saying Marv Who wasn't paying attention. Also interesting was under Bill Polian's writeup in the 1986 media guide, before Marv was hired was the following: "Polian joined the Bills in August of 1984 after working for one year as player personnel director of the USFL Chicago Blitz. In Chicago, Polian was associated with head coach Marv Levy, with whom he had previously worked in both Montreal of the Canadian League, as a U.S. scout during the 1976-77 seasons and Kansas City, as a pro scout from 1978-1982." So if you had the 1986 media guide, you could have figured out that Polian was going to bring in Marv as soon as he had enough of an excuse to fire Hank Bullough.

Even more than just watching film, the people in the draft room have talked with the top prospects often spending hours interviewing a QB prospect before the draft. There are so called experts in the media who spend their time watching film, but have never met the player or spent any time asking him questions & properly judging the answers. Another aspect that the guys in the draft room have is access to medical reports. An example in this year's draft is Tua. The NFL people are going to know a lot more about his prognosis than any media member. If they're bad, he'll drop. If they are good he's top 10.

Jim Kelly didn't reach the Super Bowl until his 5th season with the Bills, the 8th season of his draft class. Kelly missed the 1983 season because his USFL contract started in 1984, so he was in his 7th professional season the 1st time he reached the Super Bowl.

40/1

He will if after winning the toss he throws the coin 300 yards.

I'd rather re-sign Waddle, keep Nsekhe and move Ford to guard ASAP. I don't look at film & I don't know if you do either, but Joe Buscaglia does some pretty intense film study and has said Ford belongs at guard, not tackle & I trust his opinion.

The problem is Ford has no business at RT. He may become a mainstay at G, but he doesn't have it at T. If you have access to The Athletic look at the grades they give each game. Ford has graded out well when playing guard, but is the lowest rated Bills player on the list of players who qualify for season long grades because he grades out so poorly when playing RT.

Wrong!!! Dawkins, Allen, Edmunds, Knox. Let me guess, you're an Allen hater. Front Office.

Don't need him if we don't punt & Hauschka puts all his kickoffs through the endzone.

Duke had more catches in one game than Foster had all season.

Not even close Foster played last week and did nothing on offense. Meanwhile Duke outplayed Foster in the same game.

Grier made a great case for Carolina bringing back Cam Newton.

Those tickets sold late (sometimes picked up for charity) to assure lifting of the blackout now go unsold since the end of the old blackout rules.

Luck is never coming back. His family is more important to him than the NFL.

Player & coach with the Bills.

I'll take Allen because Watson doesn't know the Bills playbook and at this stage would have 2 days to learn a new offense.

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I'm expecting a win, but I wouldn't bet on it. Houston is so erratic you never know if they'll play like champs or chumps until you see them on the field on gameday. If we lose I'll still see it as a step forward. Last year Baltimore got knocked out in the wild card round and this year they had the NFL's best record.

Allen wouldn't have fallen, Arizona really wanted him & he would have never made it to 12. The Bills didn't like Jackson as evidenced by the leaked draft board that had Rosen, Rudolph & Lauletta on it as the final 3 but no Jackson. Obviously, in hindsight even the biggest Allen homers (like me) will admit we shouldn't have traded the pick to KC & either drafted Mahomes or Watson. The problem is, by not firing Whaley immediately after the season & putting his replacement in there in January, the Bills were not prepared to draft a QB to be the face of the franchise in 2017. If you need to blame the Bills for not getting Mahomes or Watson, blame Pegula for not having a GM in place well before the 2017 draft. It was well known in the Buffalo media (or at least by Jerry Sullivan who said in April that Whaley was leaving) that Whaley was dead GM walking. Basically with the structure they had in place, they were not about to saddle the new GM with someone else's QB selection.

8 picks were 2019 only. The extra Ford pick was giving back the one we stole for AJ McCarron & the Knox pick was for our 4th & the 4th we got for Reggie Ragland. So I still think the 2019 draft was pretty amazing. The reality of the Allen trade is more complicated: Glenn to Cincinnati to move from 21 to 12 and then trading pick 12 along with our own 2nd pick & the 2nd we got from LAR to rent Watkins for a year. So technically it was 4 players, 3 actual draft picks-may turn out to be the steal of the draft. Edmunds was traded by taking the extra 1 we got from KC the year before & throwing in the 3rd we stole from Cleveland for their 1 year rental of Tyrod Taylor. With the exception of his last 3 picks in 2018, Beane has been great handling the draft. We drafted 2 players who look like keepers in the 7th round last year & found at least 1 more starter in the 2018 undrafted free agent class. Just think: in 3 of the 4 player trades you mentioned Beane moved a draft pick that he acquired by trading a player on the final year of his contract.

After reading the article I have to say Beane is killing it in the draft, hitting on mid-late rounders as well as the early guys. The mantle as top GM was vacated when Ozzie Newsome retired after the 2018 season (that is after his 2018 draft class made the 2019 Ravens the AFC best team based on the regular season record) and Beane is right up there reaching for the torch Ozzie left behind. The 2018 & 2019 draft classes are the type you look back on after a Super Bowl win and point to those drafts. We already have 4 starters from the 2019 draft (although Ford may end up at guard) and 3 other players with promise & a guy on IR who we'll see next year. Not bad for 8 picks.

It could be worse, imagine what a cluster it would be if they had drafted Josh Rosen #1.

Other father son possibilities: Dan Aykroyd, Rich Eisen Billy Crystal, horse trainer Chad Brown

He's Gilbride's son, same 1st name different middle name so he's not Jr. He's 40 years old, the ex-Bills OC is a lot older (obviously). Edit: I just found out his father, Kevin B. Gilbride is the head coach of NY in the XFL.