Albany,n.y.

We've seen a lot of anti-Fitzpatrick posts in the year he's been here, but of all the QBs, Fitzpatrick is the only one who is a sure thing to be on the opening day roster. Let's review each QBs competition & what each has to do to make the team. Fitzpatrick-He's competing for 2 jobs, starter & #2. If he loses the starting job to either Edwards or Brohm, he's a lock for #2 and a roster spot. The reasons are: He has proven he can come in and win games when called upon. Last season, with no O-line and not much other talent around him, he was the QB who played the most in 5 of the team's 6 wins. He may not be the most accurate QB around, but he's smart & has guts (remember the Fewell comment after a win). He's also the perfect #2 as he can not only come in to win games, but he can be content on the sidelines and not be a distraction as he waits his turn. On a talented team he'd be as valuable as Frank Reich was in the Super Bowl era. Finally, he's the only QB from last season who is signed beyond 2010. Edwards-His best chance is to win the starting job, otherwise he's in jeopardy of getting jettisoned. He has to battle both Fitzpatrick & Brohm for the #1 job. If he loses to Fitzpatrick, he has a decent shot of making the team as #2, since he has starting experience & will not be a total unknown if forced to start for a few weeks. If he loses the starting job to Brohm, then Edwards will not be on the team. He's not going to be #2 behind Brohm-Fitzpatrick is much better suited for that job since the Bills know Fitzpatrick can win games with virtually no O-line in front of him, something Edwards hasn't done. He's not in competition for the 3rd spot, for a rebuilding team, that's designed for a developmental QB who is not eligible for free agency at the end of the season. Brohm-Like Edwards, Brohm's best shot is to win the #1 spot, otherwise he's in big trouble. Obviously he's on the roster if he grabs the starter's job, but he has to beat out both Edwards & Fitzpatrick, easier said than done. Both Edwards & Fitzpatrick have shown ability in real NFL games, something Brohm does not have on his resume. Now let's say he can't win the top spot, then he's probably toast. Your #2 is typically a veteran who has started in the past, or a relatively new high draft choice who you chose as your QB of the future. It is not usually a guy in his 3rd year who has started 1 game and the team has no idea what he can do in season. The reason he can win the starter's job but not #2 is because the Bills can gamble on giving him the starter's job, knowing if he fails they can put the guy who was at the helm 5 of 6 wins in 2009 back in there. They're not going into the fall with Fitzpatrick starting & two guys with one NFL start as his backups. Now lets say he isn't #1 or #2, then he's in the battle of his life against Levi Brown, that does not bode well for Brohm. Brohm has to be good enough to start, otherwise he's going up against Buddy's draft pick for the developmental job, a battle he's likely to lose. Brown-After Fitzpatrick, he's the most likely to be on the roster next September. 1st off he's the Nix/Gailey pick and will be given every chance to make the team as a developmental player. His battle is either against nobody if Brohm is the starter or against Brohm for 3rd string if Brohm can't beat out both Fitzpatrick & Edwards for #1. Just like the Brohm supporters use the excuse that he wasn't picked up on waivers when GB cut him because the other teams liked their late round rookies after a full camp, that same situation works in Brown's potential battle with Brohm. If the Bills have a whole camp into Brown & he shows anything, they're not going to waive the guy. Some people think you can just put a late rounder on the practice squad. It's not that simple, you have to be willing to waive him 1st and if the Bills are as high on Brown as it appears they are, they're not waiving him. Now if comes to camp & shows nothing, then he's a wasted pick & will be waived anyway.

No, you missed the point-by drafting Levi Brown, the Bills are saying that the one developmental QB job is open. That developmental job is held by Brohm. If they had drafted Clausen, it would have meant that they were looking to replace Edwards or Fitzpatrick. If it hasn't dawned on you that Brown is competing against Brohm & only Brohm, then there's no use trying to explain anything else to you. I'll just wait until Brown beats out Brohm & wait to see your post that you don't understand how the Bills could have cut Brohm when you saw him play so well at Louisville.

The won after that game, so how did they quit?

He sucks! (even though they haven't made the pick yet.)

So when the Bills cut him in September, will you be calling Nix & Gailey fools? You think you know, but you don't know. Jamarcus Russell was highly touted out of college & he's on his way out of the league. Stop thinking that Saturday translates to Sunday-it doesn't because over 90% of the guys they're putting up those college stats against will never play a down in the NFL.

Wang is not starting. If he does, we're in HUGE trouble.

Here's what you better brace yourself for: If we draft a QB in the next two rounds, your boy Brohm is going to get cut unless he really lights it up in camp. Brohm is nothing but a longshot the Bills took a flyer on, there's only room for 1 project at 3rd string & Brohm is going to be the odd man out unless the rookie bombs. Take off those Brohm blinders & look at it realistically-Edwards & Fitzpatrick have experience & the Bills are not about to name a project over both of these guys. The only way Brohm stays is if we get a veteran to replae Edwards & then Brohm stays on as the developmental guy. Big deal-you liked him in college-plenty of guys played well enough to have teams draft them in the top 5 based on their college careers & flamed out in the NFL. Brohm's days at Louisville are over & his days at Buffalo are near an end.

Because they don't have to. Lynch & Campbell have been replaced already. Baltimore didn't trade for a pro-bowler or draft a LT in the 1st round. Oher can stay at RT & Gaither still starts.

Because he's trying to drive up the puny price that another team would give the Bills for Lynch-there is no such agenda when talking about a player drafted by another team. Ask a salesman sometime about talking up the commodity you're trying to unload. In Lynch's case Buddy has a used car to sell that has been recalled once & has already gone out of control & ran over someone. Buddy's going to have to put on a lot of that Southern charm to unload this lemon.

He meant on the field.

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He's a locker room distraction & is one bad move away from a long suspension. More importantly-there's no place for him on the team, all he does if he's here is take some snaps away from Spiller/Jackson, gets 2 yards & then goes back to the bench & pouts. I'd trade him for anything I can get. Just remember: When we traded Travis Henry, it was for a pick in the draft after the season he was already gone. Nothing wrong with a 3rd or 4th next draft. If we end up with less, so be it. He's basically worthless to the Bills.

He's going-just might not be today or tomorrow. Washington hasn't unloaded Campbell either.

More likely the Bills wanted Tebow at their price (a 2nd rounder) and just weren't that concerned if someone else took him before them, because they have 8 more picks & don't plan on trading away any picks to move up. I get the same read from the Bills on the rest of the QBs left. If the guy is at the top of their board when they draft, and not before they draft, they'll take him, otherwise they'll draft the guy at the top of the board. Buddy Nix knows he won't turn this team around this draft & is drafting like a man who knows he has another draft next season to fill in the missing pieces. So, best player available is usually the best choice when you have a team with this many needs. You bring in your type of guys & jettison the underachievers that have helped create the losing mentality. Now you can't get rid of all the guys you want to in year 1, but you start by replacing the biggest losers. Looks like Marshawn Lynch is considered the biggest loser.

The NY Giants do the same thing every year & nobody gets on their case when they put in the card almost immediately after going on the clock.

The Bills wanted Spiller, they were not interested in trading the pick, so what difference does it make what SD was offering? Overall I'm against trade downs because you don't know who you're getting. I believe the team trading up always has the advantage because they know exactly who they're drafting & nobody can trade up & beat them out of their targeted guy once the trade is done.

Big difference. Owens wasn't running routes that a QB can checkdown and throw it to him. On the other hand, an elusive pass receiving RB coming out of the backfield is the perfect fit to get those checkdown throws & make something happen. By the end of the season, I wouldn't be surprised if 2 of the top 3 receivers on this team are Spiller & Jackson.

I agree. WGR is talking up the Bills trading up to get McCoy or Clausen, mainly McCoy, but McCoy does not fit the prototype Buffalo QB that Nix has described when answering questions in press conferences. There's a very good chance that any QB taken this draft will be looked at as our backup of the future & the guys with the franchise tags are in next year's draft, not this year's. So, what could easily happen is the Bills use a day 3 pick on either Campbell or a project while many on this board are screaming they missed Clausen, McCoy, Lefevour, Pike etc later tonight and early tomorrow. Then next year, when we do draft the QB of the future, all of the complaints will be forgotten. I expect OL, DL or WR with our 2nd pick, not QB.

Lynch has as much a chance of being on the opening day roster as you & I. He's so gone, there's no reason to ever mention the Bills & Marshawn in the present or future tense.

Someone who is not in this year's draft class. You don't pick 9th & just order up a franchise QB. It's not that simple. No matter who starts next year, he won't be the starter in 2011 or 2012. You can't take a team like the Bills with a roster full of guys who wouldn't be starting elsewhere and turn it around in 1 season. So if we don't get the QB this year & end up with a great one next year, what have we lost? This is not a good year for QBs. A franchise QB isn't there. Whether it's Edwards, Fitzpatrick, Brohm or Campbell, it really doesn't matter, he's just filling the spot for 2010 & then he'll join the ranks of Joe Dufek & Bruce Mathison who went from Bills starter to waivers in less than a year.

That makes sense for us, but if I'm in charge of things in Oakland, the last thing I'd want is Lynch back home with his posse. The trouble he would get into in the half season before Goodell banned him wouldn't be worth it. However, if Oakland is stupid enough to trade for Lynch, I'd do it.

The problem is, by the time we pick, there may be no QB worthy of selecting. So you go for the surer thing at another position & wait a year to find your potential franchise QB. This team has so many holes, it will be at least 2-3 years to fix the mess we have if you want to think Super Bowl contender & not just sneaking into the playoffs for a 1 & done. So we'll get some kind of caretaker, either from our own roster or a trade, muddle through the year & look again in year 2. Just remember, it wasn't until Kelly's 3rd year that we won the division & his 5th year before we made the Super Bowl.

Where would the Colts be if they had won a couple of more games the year they were bad enough to draft Peyton Manning at #1? Probably still floundering in the middle of the pack with all those other great Polian picks. The Colts fans were lucky that their team sucked badly enough that year. Meanwhile, that year we also had the 9th pick in the draft & needed a QB, so we traded it to Jacksonville for Rob Johnson.

On Thursday we will be drafting our 1st round pick. By the time we pick, the best players at our biggest positions of need, LT, QB & NT will be off the board. We'll have to settle for a 1st round talent who is not likely to be the impact player we need. Now, lets remember those meaningless games that we won late in the season-for all those who felt so good when we won them, now enjoy watching the best players go off the board by pick nine. My point is that this team sucks & when you suck it's better to lose those games in November & December if you have any hope of getting the type of player that can finally end the years of losing. Do you think we get all of those 4 AFC championships without Bruce Smith? Now let's fast forward to next December. Odds are pretty good we're not going to be in the playoff hunt. In fact odds are pretty good we'll be in position for a top 5 pick in the draft. When the home game against the Browns on December 12th is here, try to remember that empty feeling we're having this Thursday as Okung, Bradford, Suh, and the guys rated 2nd best at LT & DL go flying off the board long before pick 9. Now some of you will be rooting hard for win #3, 4 or 5 of the season, but please, don't get on the cases of the people like me who will be remembering this Thursday & would rather not experience the "good feeling" of seeing the Bills win their 4th game at the expense of losing out on a player who could be instrumental in turning this franchise around for the next decade.