The Big Cat

I don't have "want" lists, I don't compile "my mock" drafts, but I do follow the process, and I gauge who's who, though I don't know why. It'll be who it's going to be, and three years after the fact we'll know if it worked out. A preordained knowledge of a selection's success--regardless of how much college football you watch or how many draft-mags you subscribe to--is an impossibility. But, in the thick of professional sports' longest offseason, with nothing but speculation to cling to, I digress. The continuity between Hackett, Nassib and Marone is enough for me to be 'okay' with the picking him to be our future QB with the 8th pick. Not thrilled, not pissed, just 'okay.' There are no consensus "franchise" quarterbacks in the entire draft, and if you look at our situation from 10,000 feet, it's not worth waiting for the right time and place to pick one this year, or any year--enter last year's universal resentment for the Colts to have both Manning and Luck available the years they picked first overalll. That simply doesn't happen. So go with the guy you already know and draft another one in the third or fourth, and another one every year until one pans out. The hit rate is so low, even for the guys 'everyone' clamors for, that Nassib is as good as any--at this point in time. Ad in the continuity, badda boom. But the 8th pick shouldn't be valued relative to other quarterbacks this year, and what ultimately leads me to the "Nassib is okay at 8" conclusion is that no other player is so can't-miss at no. 8, that the opportunity cost of passing on a familiar QB can be overcome. Since nobody can point to a position that requires help right away, and the one player who WILL be available and WILL have an immediate impact, might as well go with continuity. I think Nassib could be and should be the no. 8 pick.

I think you missed the cause for his ax grinding--it wasn't Fitz, it was the fact that he didn't get the callback he thought he deserved, so he grinded an ax--aka shared his unfiltered unsolicited opinion about Fitz. EDIT: unsolicited seemed loaded in hindsight

I mean, we are talking about this guy, right?

Exactly.

I don't have everyone's Fitz-stance cataloged, so if this doesn't apply to you, feel free to ignore. But yours is an easy statement to make when Metz's words serve to further the same Fitz-narrative you've championed all along.

It was more of a general statement than directed at you. Sorry, should have clarified. I would, however, argue that--relatively speaking*--they have not had difficulty selling tickets, hence Russy's promotion. *relative to market and on-field product

Sounds like he has an ax to grind. Didn't return calls to a guy asking to be hired back in an assistant's role? With everything else they had going on, with building out their new staff, I'll give them a pass. Plus, see: no. 1. A personnel decision based on ticket sales? When has this ever happened? Seriously though, fans can't have it both ways. They can't demand personnel decisions by holding their season tickets hostage and chastise the organization for making personnel changes they glean to have been influenced by marketability.

As much it pains me to say it: The Bills probably won't win the Super Bowl next year. So why isn't a stop-gap a viable solution? Particularly one who knows the defense, makes the calls and can provide some locker room/on-field hutzpah?

Does it change things that they also played on a team that made back-to-back AFC Championship visits less than five years ago?

Oh, Jesus. Care to take into consideration the number of pedestrians killed by cars NOT driven by people on weed? -or- The number of people driving on pot who DON'T kill pedestrians? Or is this all the evidence you need?

She won't be registered as a sex offender. Right.

This happened in Florida? Huh...

Even for a regular/heavy smoker, that's a lot.

LOLZ

You're not alone in this opinion. I just wonder what non-mediocre body of work you base it on.

That's from last year...

Goodbye Indy, hello Dallas.

That's all well and good, but from a personnel standpoint, it makes no sense to cut him before training camp. And it only makes sense to cut him DURING training camp if a rookie quarterback is as good or better.

Not the point. The argument was empirical, not philosophical.

And as I just replied, that $450K "savings" goes right out the window when you have to then bring in a replacement either through FA or the draft.

Okay, fair enough. But the $450K they save--will they be paying more or less than that to the man they'll HAVE to replace him with.

Ha--you prefer backward letters to backward words? Speaking of cryptic handles...

Yes, let's.

Guys, Fitz isn't going anywhere. Jeebus. It'll cost more to cut him than keep him.