Saint Doug

The 2013 draft was a very calculated draft, especially in terms of the QB. The GM's fate rests in the QBs they draft. It's not by accident that Whaley never officially drafted a QB during his tenure, especially since Nix made it very clear HE would draft a QB before he left. In effect, he has a nice get out if jail for free card, but in reality he absolutely had to onboard with the pick.

I'll go a step further and want to see the Bills add 2 more QBs less than 25. And I'm not talking about one in Round 2 and the other an UDFA. It would be great if the Bills could raid some teams PS for a raw but promising QB this year and draft one in the 2nd next year. Or, a 2nd and a 4th/5th. Play Orton for 1-2 more years and let the youngsters battle it out.

Winning cures all. You know we've been hearing that for 15 years, right? That, and Marrone isn't going to win anything. Let's keep it real now.

No one said he can't hire his own cronies. It's his team. As for thinking the Sabres weren't anything but a complete failure reveals how little you know about the recent history of the Sabres. Pegula came on board, hired Ted Black and Joe Battista as his "hockey people". They vetted Reiger, who then went on his FA shopping spree to produce one of the worst hockey teams in history of the sport. Yes, a record breaking historically bad team. Pegula panics, fires DR (but keeps Black and Battista, of all people) and offers the GM position to pay LaFontaine, a person with next to zero experience running a hockey team. PLF realizes this and declines, but in a stroke of brilliance hires Tim Murray. Now, explain to me exactly how Pegula bringing "hockey" people upon his new ownership benefited the Sabres. If anything, he owes what he has to PLF right now, who in an ironic twist bolted from the organization himself. Does this mean we'll no longer see Brandon in the War Room on draft day, nor hanging out in St John Fisher? That's too bad.

I read this a I'm thinking this must be some kind of dream. That part on how to best separate the business side from the football side? Pure genius. Then I kept going and saw how he did the same with the Sabres. And that was basically an epic fail. Unless he brings in someone like Holmgren or Parcells, people shouldn't think this article means anything more than Pegula is trying to pick his best cronies to install at One Bills Drive. He did it with the Sabres, he'll do it with the Bills.

We should also get a compensatory draft pick too. Just for the undo stress it caused.

May he be the first one let go by new ownership. Bye Jeff!

I still support EJ, even though I really don't know if he'll succeed. I just think he's too young to write-off. Remember when we drafted him and the Bills brass was describing him as a 3-4 year project? I guess they've changed their minds and are panicking due to the new ownership. If that's true, then it would make little sense to have EJ starting in a few weeks.

I disagree with some of the best WRs in the NFL part though. Plus, he'll be protected by a porous OL and have no legitimate RB besides a 34 year-old.

I just look at these photos and find it amazing me was playing organized football at the time. It's cool and all, but he looks just like some fat drunk bum. Just the type I would like to hang with.

The difference is the US govt is holding all the cards and the NFL isn't. If the NFL wants to continue having its favorable antitrust status, they'll need to play along.

Wouldn't it be ironic if the Colts cut him?

Has it ever happened this way though? Has a "QB of the future" been named starter for his 1st and 2nd seasons (excluding those who had to play due to injuries), benched for 1-2 years, and came back to be decent? The way I see it, once you anoint him the starter, it's kind of hard to go backwards.

This thread seems like a moot point now, with no QB to throw to our WRs and all...it wouldn't have actually mattered if we cut or kept Megatron at this point.

INteresting poINt. Maybe we do wIN a prize.

This is like stepping into a time warp. What does Aikman's 1st year have to do with anything? I'm assuming it's an EJ thread, but isn't EJ in his 2nd year?

I would love Chan as OC. Now that was an exciting offense, plus he is fairly good at guiding QB's to success.

People need to lay off EJ. He had one fairly poor outing against a team who also shut down Russell Wilson and company. His 2 other games were pretty good. Marrone and his coaching staff, otoh, were ill-prepared for last Sunday's game.

McCoy was never an OL coach and likely would never admit he knows more about OL coaching than D'Alessandris. You also read our HC is an OL guru and that doesn't look to be the truth.

Yep. Can't keep a guy around that could potentially show you up.

These are simple growing pains. EJ learns from this and starts next week. Plus, look how many years it took for Rivers to become a decent QB.

This is true. It is engrained in our society that a dog that has attacked is likely a pit bull. This is further fueled by media misreporting that will just insert that breed into their story to sell more papers or get more clicks. The truth is, it's very hard to determine breed more often than not: http://nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com/breed-identification-1/

Another horrible website. Dogs bite.org was created by Colleen Lynn, who was bitten by a pit bull while jogging in June 2007. As a highly biased source, you'll read all sorts of anecdotes on that website, but a dearth of facts. Here's Colleen's story: http://btoellner.typepad.com/kcdogblog/2010/03/the-truth-behind-dogsbiteorg.html What are you going to quote next, PETA? Here's another piece containing scientific facts: http://nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com/uploaded_files/tinymce/Schalke.pdf

Their "reputation" is a stereotype fuel by fear and the media. As for their attraction, you will never get a more loyal dog breed. They will run through a brick wall for you. Plus, they are incredibly smart. As for the liability...I can produce a list the length of my arm of liabilities professional athletes should avoid. Owning a dog (yes, it's just a dog) would be at the bottom of the list.