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That is why we could certainly use Najee Harris or Travis Etienne in our backfield. There is your elite talent. Drafting guys like Singletary Moss and Epenesa aint cutting it when it comes down to it.

Najee Harris HAS to be in this conversation!

Wasn't it an achilles or a knee injury for Cowart down in Tampa on a wet rainy day that pretty much ended his career in 2000? I think we lost several guys on D in that game. That was too bad. Cowart was really good and had the potential to be a great player. I think losing that game pretty much sent our team spiraling downward and led to the start of the draught. I think the next week when we went to Indy Wade said we would not make the playoffs, and then we pretty much fell off a cliff.

WR is somewhat of a need. But not a huge need right now. Beasley and Sanders may have 2-3 solid to very good years left in them. Davis is young. And Hodgins maybe a beast. And there are guys coming out every year now that are very good wideouts. The college game is so different then it was even 10-15 years ago. Teams (except for the Maize and Blue, Wisconsin and Iowa) love to throw the ball all over the place. So there are many more higher end WR's to choose from every year then say in the 80's and 90's. I think that Beane will have a hard time not picking Najee Harris or Travis Etienne if they are there when we pick at 30.

Not a big fan of drafting O lineman (unless they are super special). Would rather sign youngish veterans who are more seasoned like Daryl Williams. Just one fans opinion.

I agree Ya Digg that the game is much different today then it was 25-30 years ago. Holacek was a thumper. Old school hard nosed traditional LB. Rogers was good in what he did also. Were they super athletic? Not really. However, they were very good (not great) playing their positions in that era. I don't think that Edmunds is good at playing his position in this era. I know I am hard on him. But when you are playing in the middle of your defense, you need to be if not a special player, at least pretty dam good. London Fletcher was that guy when he roamed the middle for the Rams Bills and Redskins. Not a HOF but a dam good anchor for the defense. I want Edmunds to be approaching that level this year, in the way he plays and leads. I would not give him the 5th year option. However, if he plays lights out (a big question mark) we can potentially sign him long term after the season. I think Beaner agrees w me. (time will tell)

If Edmunds was not a Buffalo Bill a good many of you on here would be saying "this guy suks!"

Me too Yolo. Barmore was a one man wrecking crew against Ohio State. (Made me happy.. Hate the Bucs being a Michigan Man) Didn't really pay attention to him other then that. Because watching Alabama last year it was all about their offense. I would be happy going any position but O line and QB (which we obviously will not draft) with our first pick.

Edmunds is nowhere near a $15 mill player. But Beane needs to decide whether Edmunds will make that jump this season to being that type of player in year 5. I hope he becomes that if the Bills pick up the 5th year option. But if I am the Bills I don't do it. If he were on the Bills of yesteryear, he would not have seen the field on the Super Bowl era teams. Or the teams of the late 90's when we had Sam Rogers, Sam Cowart John Holacek and Keith Newman. All had more game then Edmunds. I mean for you fans who remember the 90's era, is Edmunds even as good or better then say a Gabe Northern?

It is a huge need. No way any team should be going into an NFL conference championship game w Levi Wallace as one of your two starting boundary CB's. His athletic ability to cover in what is now a very heavy passing league is simply not good enuf, and probably will never be. He can't play press man coverage because he doesn't have the fast twitchiness needed. We improve our starting CB2, we improve our defense considerably.

The creed of the great Herm Edwards.

Agree CnC11. Go to a Nascar event in the South. Or a Sun Belt or SEC football game. Once you are inside you don't even need to wear a mask. Your Avatar rocks btw. LOL

Dam straight its a team game. And everyone needs to play at a relatively high level in the NFL for their team to play well. Oliver has underperformed to a degree. He hasn't sucked. But he has shown little to make anyone think he should have been drafted w the 9th pick. As for Morse and Edmunds, one is getting paid big bucks to play like a top 5 Center. The other was drafted w the 16th pick and looks like he belongs on a basketball court. Again, yes its a team game. But you don't need to be an apologist and make excuses for guys who are not playing up to the level of their contracts or draft position. Not sure where the narrative came from that our Guards were lousy last year. Yes Winters was trash. But I thought Boetger and Feliciano were very solid. I think Morse was the weakest of the 3. He wasn't terrible. But for what we are paying him and how he played w the Chiefs, I believe we should expect more from him. As for Edmunds, don't get me started. My opinion of his play is well known on this board.

Great post Rc2. If it wasn't for football most of these guys aren't going to college. That's just how it is. And the problem is that most of them are not smart enuf to realize the value of a free college education. The ones who do good for them. But along those lines, read the hype about college players in the draft articles. Every single one of them is absolutely diefied. They are all supposedly great prospects. Every pro workout is amazing. Every player should be a first round pick. The players are constantly fed how great they all are. Why is noone critical anymore? Give young people some reality. Just because they play college or pro ball, does not mean they are all great people or even very good football players. Set the bar higher of what's expected of people. Maybe things will change. But it starts at the top. And I will stop now, because any view that doesn't sit well w the mods on here will get you banned. There you go. From the voice of Paup. Over and out!

Alabama is planning on full capacity at Bryant-Denny Stadium this coming season. As is probably the rest of the SEC and Sun Belt Conferences teams. Maybe science is different down South. LOL

Hopefully he is a lot better then Winters who I thought was garbage. Long showed some game but his contract was too rich to stay around too long. Resigning Darryl Williams and Feliciano, and now signing Lamp Douglas and Hart as veteran competition, I don't see the need to draft any O lineman. Lets go defense and possibly RB TE and WR in the draft. Beane loves his veteran O lineman. He is an awesome GM.

Watching Teddy Bridgewater dink and dunk his way thru an NFL season is unbelievably painful. I thought he had some game with the Vikings until the terrible knee injury. But he is Trent Edwards w a tan.

I would trade Edmunds for a 3rd round pick at this point. Start by asking for a 2nd and settle on a 3rd, hopefully a high 3rd. Get rid of his mediocre play and his potentially high 5th year option. Don't sleep on Tyrell Adams. Edmunds needs competition for the starting position. Adams will hopefully give him that and then some.

That was AWESOME!! Brought me back to my childhood in the 1970's watching the NFL and This week in Pro Football w Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier. John Facenda did a lot of the narrating of the hilites. Him and Harry Kalas were tremendous. And the music is so classic. Football was almost mythical back then with the evil empire of the Raiders. The 70's was just raw brutality on the gridiron. The game is much different in the modern era. But for brutality violence and toughness that era can not be beat. (That music makes me think of all those big Raider victories with the Snake at QB. The Holy Roller, Ghost to the post, Sea of hands to name a few) Thanks for sharing that Chandler.

You make some good points especially the one arm thing... However, I just have not seen him dominate a whole lot over his 3 seasons. I was hoping w all the hype on him being this young phenom being drafted at age 20, that he would turn into a Bobby Wagner type player who just knocks the stuffing out of guys. I love the Bills and want every player to play lights out. I hope Edmunds can become that this season.

I just looked that up. Good call on that. I don't really remember much about the game. I was at the Bills-Redskins game in Washington in 2007 when we came back late on a great pass from Trent Edwards to Josh Reed, and Lindell hit the winning FG on the greyest day imaginable. Joe Gibbs was back coaching them and got a personal foul for calling two timeouts in a row for trying to ice Lindell. Moved the kick much closer. The Skins' fans were pissed after that game. What can I say. Old traditions and names die hard.

Gonna disagree with you on both. Pennington was no Hall Of Famer. Maybe on the Marshall Wall of Fame with Byron Leftwich and Randy Moss. But he never had a cannon. And Tua's arm is nothing special. Did you not watch him play last year for the Fish? Maybe its the offense Brian Flores has installed. But he sure reminded a lot of Trent Edwards with his dinking and dunking.

Would love some back up no name to come into training camp and challenge Edmunds for playing time and maybe even a starting spot. He is a weak link and must up his game this coming season. Everyone likes to say he is young. Well he is going into his 4th season. Time to man up or go play another sport.

I don't think we have lost to the Skins (and yes I still call them the Redskins) since the 1992 Super Bowl Debacle. I can see them coming in later in the year, on a cold grey windy day, and we knock the snot out of Fitz and the Redskins. And their defense was good but not as great as everyone was saying. Tyler Heinecke had a pretty good day against them last year at Fed Ex field. I put this one in the win column. We will be tough for anyone to beat us next season. And for many seasons to come.

Wasn't his sidekick Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart? Good god thats hilarious. I remember watching them in the 80's on WWE. LOL