DanInUticaTampa

The main thing I disagreed with was Brohm being a bust. He hasn't been given a real chance yet to be labled a bust.

I think if Levi Brown is ever going to start an NFL game, it will be in his second year at least. Unless there is some miracle that happens. I have hope for Brohm, just because he is a high draft pick who hasn't really had a lot of playing time. So .... maybe some hope for him. I think i do expect though. Whoever the QB is this season, we are going to see them handing the ball off an a lot.

And then there was that time we drafted a 1st round RB when we already had a productive 2nd round RB on the roster.... and all this happened in the past nine years . I mean, I know buffalo has wind and needs a good run game and all.... but it gets a little crazy. If Nix and Whaley weren't brought in as a "new front office" I would be pretty much upset as everyone else who is pissed. Since this is the first year they are in control, I can just shrug my shoulders and just hope for the best and talk myself into thinking they are just cleaning up the mess the others left behind. But that is really just thinking to get me to watch next season, especially in case there is a one year hiatus for the nfl in 2011.

I think this coaching staff should have a good idea after preseason how far along Brohm is and whether or not to start him, or if he could replace edwards if he regresses. I don't think gaily is a genius of an offensive mind, but he is probably the best offensive mind we have had in a long time. So I am hoping he will handle the QB situation well and get the most out of whichever one he starts. So even without a big change at QB (or LT for that matter), I expect noticable improvement at the QB position. Though it will probably still suck and we stick to running the hell out of the ball.

haha, I have to admit, I got a few good chuckles out of the article. The main point he seems to make is, Spillar isn't going to be a great fantasy player..... and I don't give a damn about the fantasy nonesense. What matters is if what he does actually helps the team win or not.

It isn't that he can't make those throws (maybe), but he won't even try

Ill be a place kicker and they only have to pay me a $200 a game and $100 to show up to each practice. I will save them millions! We just wont be getting any field goals. But the extra points will be a lock.

If we had like some super duper magical coach of QBs like gruden or mcdanials, I say he would be worth a cheap contract. But...... I would rather have players that we don't have to force to work.

Well, since this happened a long time ago and nothing else has happened since, or made the news. I assume he hasnt caused any trouble.... I don't see any other issues unless they happened to him when he was like 15, which is ridiculous when players are doing much worse things as adults. If he had any legal trouble, the media would have found it. And any other social issues would have came out as well, since the national sports media is scrutinizing the whole thing.

I was thinking the same thing. Didn't we already know about Hernandez's drug test fail?

because he has only had one year of playing time before suffering an injury, has had time to learn routes, recieved a lot of tips and help from owens, he is young so he has a lot of potential, or how about all those other good stuff? Or how about young recievers usually have their best seasons after 2 or 3 years of development? take your pick. He isn't a sure thing of course. But there is plenty of upside.

I think he is trying to upgrade the team at any positition he can.

we are rollin now! we are getting closer to our 53 man roster!

Well, I didn't hear any team trying to get buffalo's spot. I don't think any team coveted him enough to move up to get him. There were reports of things like the eagles trying to move up as far as 12 and other teams and whatever. But no mention of the bills. I just don't think it was a real option unless they didn't want to get the value.

What if trading back wasn't an option? Because I don't think it was a real option. I don't think any teams were interested in the 9th pick, especially since most teams were targeting the mid round picks more, according to reports. Also, I think spillar fills the need at WR more than Dez. We don't have a QB that can utilize a WR who takes a lot of times more than a year to develop. Spillar will probably become the number 1 recieving target or at least one of them. SPillar isn't just a running back, but a reciever as well. If spillar can help with the passing game a lot, wont that fill your dire need to up the passing game?

Also, I don't think they could have gotten value for trading down. All the reports for people trading up didn't seem to want the 9th pick.

Try telling that to tom brady and his crappy defense Or how about the jests where QB was their weakest position? The jests could win if they had Edwards as their QB. All he has to do is hand it off to the running backs and let the defense to its thing. And every now and then he can check down if he wants.

i mean, I don't love the pick either. I would have rather have grabbed a player like Ghram who could pass rush or something or maybe a player like morgan. Hell, I think Mcclain would be a bill if the raiders didn't take him. But this thread isn't to discuss whether this pick was good or not. There are other threads to complain about this pick and why putting money into the position is wrong, how the backfield is over crowded, he is a luxury pick, RBs are easy to replace, etc. This thread was mainly to comment on a highligh reel. Not to crusade against the pick and the rebuilding process in general.

how about the year before when they were the number 1 seed?

Wel, yeah, you did say that. You said his speed was just like the rest of the nfl. no one was talking about the speed of BC, GT, and UVA players. That goes without saying that the average college player on those teams is slower than the average nfl player. but saying his speed is "just like the rest of the NFL" is saying his speed is just average, which is nonesense.

I don't know about jackson being over-rated. He isn't elite like some RBs, but he is a solid starter and he is even better in a two back system. Plus he threw a TD pass that was better than most of the ones thrown by our QBs!

Is his speed really that average for the nfl?

Well...... first off, who are these damn good players that Nix cut? Second.... I believe our two biggest weaknesses would have been LT and NT. You can argue QB, but there weren't really any in this draft that would be instant starters except maybe bradford. We got our NT in the second round. And as for LT, we didn't get a high pick at LT, but we did get a mid pick. Is that position fix? probably not. But it isn't like he ignored it and didn't address it. And 3rd.... I don't think HE is the one who picked the 3-4 scheme. I believe it was the coaches. If this team sucks this year (probably) it isn't going to be all on Nix. It is going to be because the team has been screwed over by two regimes over a decade, we are in a tough division, we need at least one more year of rebuilding, and young players are still developing.

I just don't see maybin starting at OLB. At best, he is brought in on 3rd down only.

He was picked by the ravens and I think it was a later round like 6 or 7