billybob

My point is they seem to acquire players first then cut whoever- the Bills often cut then go looking- to use a chess analogy the Bills might be able to find good individual moves but NE is looking 5 or 6 moves ahead.

How I graded Butler at RG - Positives- Pretty good at pulling, pretty good at pass blocking the smaller quicker DTs Negatives- often got no movement on running plays, and got bull rusted into the pocket by the larger DTs. He might be a better RT than he was a guard - that was his college position and he has a more traditional OT build.

I think we are about 13mil under the cap before signing the rookies - I'm not sure how much cap we get back for letting Kelsay go maybe most of the 5.6 mil- but Peppers has control of any trade because he can refuse to do a new long term deal and no can afford a 16.7 mil cap hit- With a deal similar to Haynesworth the cap hit would be 7-8 mil-. Personally I'd love the deal because Peppers can play either end position so he could play with Schobel and Maybin, I think the asking price would be a 1 and a 3 at least.

. Because they replace the guy first then cut or trade him- instead of cutting people then looking around the table saying "now what"

This what I really know about Gelling- If the Bills are starting a bunch of people who have never played together or are playing new positions Bills fans will say that gelling is coach speak hogwash- if the Bills suck in 2009, Bills fans will say we'll get them in 2010 when our OL gells- yes it's all about the gelling everybody knows that.

Ever play basketball? - If you run with the same guys all the time- you can often beat better players who don't run together - because you know where you teammates want the ball, where to set picks, who needs help on defense, where to go for rebounds on your teammates shots, and so on- never played on the OL but I would imagine it's the same sort of thing there.

If Henderson was really on the trading block for a 4th I'd be all for that- Stroud, Henderson, Williams, McCargo, would be a good DT rotation- Spencer for hire didn't impress me, I liked Denny playing DT better than him- here's a question, what's the latest on Glenn Dorsey.

first year? 25-40 rec 250-400 yards 1-4 TDs with a big increase in his second year if he's good- basing this on Whitten, Olsen, Scheffler, Clark

My question about Maybin is that since he doesn't have natural lower body power- if he wants to excel he's going to have to do the work ie Squats, tractor tire flipping, hill running, car pushing, sandbag lifting, reverse hypers, and so on- the trouble is that most people hate that kind of work, they're fine with benches, pulldowns and curls, even ab work but most people hate the hard work needed to develop lower body functional strength- it isn't fun so only the very disciplined do it.

Dump the fullback- Fine, Nelson, Gains can be the inline TEs , Schouman and Travis McCall can be the H-backs

I'm not a huge Maybin fan but lets be serious for a second- this was a very weak draft, I had about 4 guys who seemed pretty solid (Curry, J Smith, E Monroe, and Raji)- the rest had flaws and concerns- Orakpo? is he maxed out? he seems stiff, got dominated at times in the run game. The best value might have been at CB or WR but that might have caused bloodshed.

He was never as good as his brother - his high-school coach always made him sit in the back of the bus and let his brother sit up front- when he confronted the coach the coach told him "a team should always put it's best foote forward"

The man has a lot of soul but I heard he can be a real heel sometimes maybe he's just callous

I think it was more the case that Pat and Ted were much heavier than their listed weights- Pat pushed 350 and Ted 400

Why would anyone compare Maybin with Bruce Smith they are nothing alike physically- DEs that are of similar builds would include Robert Mathis, Manny Lawson, Jevon Kearse and Maybe Richard Dent- I guess you could say both Smith and Maybin have very long arms and tremendous first step but Bruce had a much larger frame and immense lower body size and power.

If they look at him it's going to be at DE not OLB unless we are going to the 3-4

Just for fun 1a. Michael Jenkins FS/CB 1b. Eric Woods OG 2. Connor Barwin DE 3. Lawrence Sidbury DE 4a Vaughn Martin DT 4b Cornelius Ingram TE 5. Duke Robinson OG 6 Zach Follett OLB 7.Ricky Jean-Francois DT

May I say that Bell had that disturbing Bench total last year- not this year- by all reports he's been working hard on his strength for over a year- if he benches 20-25 reps now would you be happy.

1. Maybin - more upside in the long run than Orakpo but more downside too- Orakpo in the immediate future is the more complete player- This was not a great draft class for DEs and weak overall, the best talent at 11 was probably Jenkins or one of the WRs but I would have hurt myself screaming obscenities if we had taken one of them. 1b. Woods- very safe pick- little chance of being an all-pro but even less chance of being a bust 2a. Byrd- to me this is the genius or moron pick- if this guy is an Ed Reed clone or at least a poor man's Ed Reed we should throw flowers at the feet of the collected FO, if Byrd is average or worse then pitchforks an torches should march and heads be collected at 1Bills drive- there was a lot of talent out there when the Bills made this pick so pretty good doesn't cut it. 2b. Levitra - another pretty safe pick 4. Shawn Nelson -a highly rated player at an area of need- I'd say a no brainer 5. Nick Harris- Marcus Freeman was available and generally rated higher and was a OLB in college not a projection obviously Nick Harris was rated higher on the Bills board- in a year we will see how good that board is 6 and 7 anything the Bills get here is a bonus. Overall I say this draft depends on Maybin and Byrd if Maybin becomes Jason Taylor and Byrd becomes Ed Reed, then this will be a legendary draft, if Maybin is Eric flowers and Byrd nothing special, then you know pitchforks and torches!!!!

Levi Jones<Leroy Hill<John Henderson > Leroy Hill> Levi Jones

Robert Mathis or Manny Lawson

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disagree with Denny- better run defender and had more sacks last year, and can go to DT in an emergency

Mike is an intellectual bully but not half as smart as he thinks he is- his football knowledge is poor- his hockey and baseball knowledge is fair- he seems frustrated that this is mostly a two sport town- one of my problems is that Parker doesn't call him on his bullsh!t and seems to kiss his butt way too much - an a-hole enabler.

LT D Bell LG Woods C Hangartner RG Levitra RT Walker -starting 5 Chambers, Butler - dressed backups McKinney and Scott fighting for roster spot Joel Bell practice squad