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Marvin Lewis is available ?

His case against the NFL is over: https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-colin-kaepernick-withdraws-collusion-case-nfl-190149703.html In a stunning move that strongly indicates a financial settlement between Colin Kaepernick and the NFL, Yahoo Sports has learned the quarterback has withdrawn his collusion complaint against the league and will take no further action in his case. While sources declined to offer specifics for Kaepernick’s decision, Yahoo Sports was told on prior occasions that Kaepernick would only withdraw his complaint if a lucrative financial settlement was reached between the quarterback and the NFL.

I wouldn't say he's failed miserably with the 5 QBs drafted. Has he failed? Yes, but 3 of those 5 were just 7th round flyers. I don't think you can count a 7th rounder, including one Mr. Irrelevant, as a failure. Nobody is counting on a 7th round QB to turn a franchise around, all those 3 7th rounders were, were shots at a dart board. The fact that one actually started a season & is still in the NFL is beating the odds. Now his 2 higher picks were failures, especially trading up in the 1st round to draft Lynch, but there are a lot of GMs who have blown 1st rounders on QBs and survived. Osweiller has performed like a lot of 2nd round QBs, drafted to develop, left the team as an overrated free agent and proved not to be the answer. Considering that around 70% of the starting QBs in the NFL today are former 1st round picks, I don't hold a non 1st round QB pick as a failure. So IMO, Elway really failed only once, not 5 times. Where Elway blew it was last year. He was sitting at 5 and decided against drafting a QB. He could have easily traded up & aced out the Jets if he wanted a top QB in a top QB draft. If the Bills were right on Allen, or even Arizona on Rosen, then Elway blew it taking Chubb. Also, no matter how he did it, Elway got the Broncos to 2 AFC titles including a championship. If we had a GM who came in, beat NE twice in AFC championship games & brought the Lombardi Trophy to Buffalo, we'd be erecting a statue of him at 1 Bills Drive & not picking on him for 7th round flyers.

He's not Buddy Nix-drafting a QB because he "has to". In a bad QB draft where any decent QB will be gone by the time he picks and in no mood to trade up in this class what else is he supposed to do? The smart thing is to do what Buddy should have-have a veteran start this season & wait until next year. If Elway really likes someone next year, then draft him, otherwise if Flacco works out he sticks with him, if not, major tank in 2020 for Lawrence.

I think he'll end up close to home. If Washington has any interest he'll sign there to start for at least this season. Otherwise, it's back to Baltimore as a backup.

I'm saying not all GMs are interested in drafting & developing a QB because they realize every year on the job could be their last. They'd rather go for the quick fix with a proven veteran and win more games than develop the next guy's QB. Elway's experience with Manning compared with Osweiller & Lynch puts him in the mindset that a veteran is a much better way to go. It's like the Bills during Ralph's years. The team never had any success with rookie head coaches. The most successful coaches in Bills history were retreads. Both wall of fame coaches were in the league before they came here. You go with what has worked before, even if the guy isn't as talented as the last guy who succeeded.

Why should he? The last time he brought in a veteran he won 2 AFC championships including winning Super Bowl 50. Watching NFL TV, Ian Rappaport says around a 4th for Flacco. Will work out a new contract with Denver. He's questioning what they'll do with Keenum.

I expect him to tackle Patrick Mahomes on 4th down in the final minute of the AFC Championship game & send the Bills to Super Bowl LIV.

If Arizona picks Murray #1, it will be worse than when Josh McDaniels picked Tim Tebow and Kingsbury's tenure in Arizona will be just as short as McDaniels' time in Denver.

One thing the OP has forgotten: At the time of the trade from Oakland to Chicago, the Bills were thinking they could have one of the worst teams in the NFL, while the Bears were thinking they could be a playoff contender with Mack. What that means is the Bears believed they'd be offering the Raiders lower 1st round picks. The Bills, on the other hand had serious deficiencies on offense & couldn't afford to risk what could be a top 5 pick, maybe even the #1 pick this year & another 1st rounder next year to get Mack. As it turned out the Bears were who they thought they were & ended up in the playoffs, the Bills actually overachieved to get 6 wins and the 9th pick. If the Bills had ended up with a top 5 pick or the top pick they would have been in a great spot to trade down for some serious picks, at 9 not so much. So now the risk doesn't appear to be as severe, but at the time of the trade, the idea of giving up this year's #1 was viewed as too much for any one player who would do nothing to fill the serious voids on offense.

Not the way he played & acted. He didn't want to be the Bills backup, he only wanted to start here. Sort of like when Favre didn't want to do anything to help Rodgers, only at least Favre was playing.

That's what I was thinking since at no time in Bills history has the team ever been able to entice the hot young assistant who is looking for his 1st head coaching job. If they wanted one Ralph was looking to lowball him. All 4 of the longest tenured HCs all coached in the league prior to their time in Buffalo. Knox was the only one who wasn't fired elsewhere.

Actually, it makes no sense to have games in February there. The only team even remotely north is in Utah. The league is not designed to be a major league. The cities you mention don't want minor league teams playing in the dead of winter. The AAF only has 2 teams in NFL cities for a good reason-they're trying to play in places without pro football. Putting teams in NFL cities is what will kill the new XFL. The only XFL city without an NFL team is St. Louis.

You can't be serious. Vlad was a healthy inactive every week by the end of the season and has no chance of being retained, especially with Castillo gone.

That's actually a pretty good wage for someone trying to hang on to a dream. It's got to be tons better than Arenaball salaries.

More likely scenario: Bills stay at 9 & take a WR or OL, then they will trade UP back into the 1st round to take whichever of the 2 positions they didn't take at 9. A much more likely scenario than Beane, who traded up twice last year in the 1st round, trading down and missing on a blue chipper at 9. So yes, the Bills will end up with 2 1st rounders.

Here it is: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/eagles-apparent-tag-and-trade-plan-for-nick-foles-would-violate-the-cba/ar-BBTgFI6?ocid=spartandhp

How many Josh Allens are there who play football? The Bills should just claim the rights to all of them.

Here's what it said under Polian's bio in the 1986 media guide while Hank Bullough was still the coach "Polian joined the Bills in August of 1984 after working 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 1978-82." The 1987 media guide had a very similar paragraph, changing the wording slightly to reflect Marv was now the Bills coach: "Polian joined the Bills in August, 1984 after working one year as player personnel director of the USFL Chicago Blitz. In Chicago, Polian worked closely with Buffalo's present head coach Marv Levy, who was coach of the Blitz at the time/ Polian's association with Levy goes back to 1976 when he was a U.S. scout for the Montreal Alouettes during Levy's tenure with the club. He later assisted Levy as a pro scout in Kansas City from 1978-82."

One game when Tampa played the Giants & the Giants were in victory formation he had his D linemen go over the line & tackle Eli Manning. He said afterwards that the game wasn't over. The Giants were smoking hot after he pulled that stunt. Right then I said he wasn't NFL head coaching material.

Before Spurrier went on to become one of the biggest names in college coaching he was the coach of the USFL's Tampa Bay Bandits. When the USFL folded I wanted the Bills to fire Hank Bullough & hire Spurrier. That was before I read the 1986 media guide where it stated in Bill Polian's bio his close ties with Marv Levy. Anyone who read that bio knew that it was only a matter of time before Marv was going to come in & replace Bullough. I wonder if Bullough ever read it & realized he was dead coach walking.

9+ years ago I went to a UFL game where he was the head coach of the NY Sentinels. The game was 11/12/09 and was played in Hartford Ct. One player from that game went back to the NFL and is still playing -Falcons K Matt Bryant. So, if I was crazy enough to go to a UFL game, you know I'll be watching Saturday night.

He was watching an old episode of SCTV and got inspired seeing them toss TVs out of windows at the start of each episode.

It's not always a smart move. In fact, it's a pretty dumb move when you trade away the rights to a franchise changing player. Give me a superstar over a bunch of bums every day. If you think trading up isn't smart than why have so many GMs traded up for their QBs the last 3 drafts? You think you're smarter than the majority of NFL GMs-GET REAL.

I'll make one prediction: Trade up from their 2nd pick either into the bottom of the 1st or top of the 2nd.