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Exactly...How is Dareus not an A+?...On the NFL Network they were asking which of the players in this Draft would be in the Top 100 this time next year and Dareus was the 1st Player mentioned...It was a HUGE need for this Teams and a TON of Scouts had him #1 Overall...A B+ Grade??? Must be because The Bills Drafted him...

NO ONE is blaming Whitner for the TEAM being terrible...They are blaming Whitner for Whitner being terrible...There's a BIG, big difference there...And no he did not leave it all on the field...Unless you mean missed tackles and bad angles...He left a few of those out there...Off the Field he was clearly an outspoken Player who welcomed the attention and wanted to be known as the Leader of that Defense even though he rarely played like a Leader...Then on top of it all he wants to be paid like one of the best Safeties in the League??? I promise you I LOVE The Buffalo Bills and I normally defend their Players to an extreem...If someone said something negative about Freddie Jackson or Kyle Williams to me I'd probably deck em' But Donte? I'm done with that guy...It's not his fault he was Drafted 2 Rounds higher than he should have been...But I'm hoping it's time to move on from the Whitner era at SS for the Buffalo Bills...And I wish him all the luck in the world elsewhere...

Oh wait...

His best projection is to the Inside of a 3-4...He's not an OLB in the NFL... He's going to struggle Covering in the deep-half as well...But he should provide decent depth and competition at ILB... Scouting Report

Meh... I admit I rip a bit much on Lil' Donte...But he's never been the type to be humble since he's been here either...He's outspoken and he almost never backed it up with his play on the field...Maybe it is me, but Donte pretty much defines what I don't like about some Pro athletes...Plus he went to Ohio St and I'm a Michigan Fan... But I'll stop now...I wish Donte the best of luck...I just hope that luck comes on another NFL team...We'll see soon enough...

I don't even have a Twitter account so obviously you're not referring to me...There are idiots everywhere...It comes with the territory as a Pro Athlete...He invites it by having a Twitter Account...There are thousands of classy Bills Fans to every couple bad ones...If it bothered him that bad he would just cancel the account...I'm sure he's not a bad guy...He is however a bad SS...

You never know My Brother... Seriously though good to see your name pop up on Draft Day...I was wondering where You and Pete were when Mallett ran that 5.37... Talk to you soon My Friend...

Whatever...It's NFL Football not chess...Maybe we suck as Fans because we've had to watch a #8 Overall Pick underachieve, take bad angles, miss tackles, get juked out of his mind, blow coverages, and tweet garbage for so many years it's effected our equilibrium...

And furthermore he THINKS he's a great Football Player...

Buh bye Lil' Donte...

If so it's time for me to pop that Champagne Bottle I've had on ice I guess...

Guys he's a SS not a CB...His College HC is on NFL Network right now...He was praising the Kid...Mayock said he was a possibility to start at SS in the future...

We'll see...I'm not betting against NE and Belichick...And I was not talking about worrying like the losing sleep kind of worrying...I was talking about the fact that there seems to be some giggles going on in this thread about the Pick...And I could understand if Cincy Drafted him...But it's the Pats...And I'm not so sure... That's actually a very good point...

Really? Like Levi Brown last year? Come on...

There are plenty of Posters in this thread that I respect a lot, so I'm not going to say too much...But I am surprised there is not more concern about Mallett's upside knowing who just Drafted him...Remember...Belichick was NOT a Bledslow guy...His mentor was...He's the one that would not re-insert him as the Starter when he was healthy, and of coarse the one that Traded Bledslow...Belichick CLEARLY sees something in Mallett if the reports are true and he had Mallett the #1 QB on their Board...No matter what you think about Mallett, I would be a bit concerned knowing BB likes him THAT much...I mean...Sure I hope Mallett totally sucks now...But I am worried longterm...It's not like Belichick has gone easy on us over the past decade or so...

After a bunch of reports and rumors for weeks ESPN reported this on 4/27 Cannon has cancer It's treatable with over a 90% cure rate...But it's still cancer...

You know what...There are a TON of dumb Post here every day/week/year...But that has to rank in Top 100 dumb posts of all time at TSW... Just a little hint for you...Over-generalization gets you nowhere, proves nothing, does not make you smart or clever...It just makes you look like someone who cannot back up his opinion with facts so you're going to overgeneralize and TRY to belittle Folks so they back down...That will NEVER work on TSW...EVER...You will be challenged because there are some REAL smart Football minds around here regardless of the occasional idiot that pops in and out... So...Yes Ryan Fitzpatrick is < Jim Kelly... No Ryan Fitzpatrick does not suck...But he's also not a Franchise QB...Not even close up to this point...He's a career 12-23 QB as a Starter with a 73 lifetime QB rating... Dalton/Mallett/Kaepernick may or may not be better than Fitz...We'll see in a few years...Mallett and Kaepernick CLEARLY have a higher upside than Fitz...No one knows if they'll ever reach that upside...Jim Harbaugh and Bill Belichick are betting on the fact they will...Those 2 NFL HC's know more about Football than you do... The Bills STILL need a Franchise QB of the future, a FACT that their GM and HC FULLY admit...A FACT that several Folks around here understand...But we also understand the Dareus Pick and the lean towards Defense in this Draft...It does not change the fact that we don't feel like Fitz can be a consistent winning QB in the NFL...And if we're lucky, we're wrong...We'll see... Now you may return to over-generalize to your hearts content...

I know right... I absolutely LOVE Mayock...But he's not 100% Folks...None of these guys are...Even God himself...I mean Belichick ( ) gets it wrong sometime...And Mayock was not necessarily negative about Sheppard, he simply said he had him a Round later... The thing about Sheppard is, first and foremost, they had him at the Sr Bowl and he answered any questions they had about him going sideline to sideline...In fact it seems like, based on what Gailey said, he blew them away there...They obviously had no questions about his durability, Leadership capabilities, or overall athletic ability...They're looking for a Starting ILB in the 3-4 to plug in next to Poz...I think this Kid fits like a glove...I really do...I think he's got a darn good chance to start Week #1 and that's REALLY saying something for a 3rd Round Pick...In fact I think his chances to start are WAY better than Aaron Williams and they got Sheppard a Round later...I think the comparisons to Tally are actually pretty fair...I just don't see a downside to the Sheppard Pick...I REALLY like that Pick...

Well...This is straight from Buddy... On if there would have been more consideration if Dareus had gone No. 2 to go offensively or with QB Blaine Gabbert: BN: Very likely, yea. On how the quarterback position has sorted itself out based on his expectations: Obviously there were some shockers last night. But we’re to the point, and I think I’ve said this a lot of times, but with the first pick we wanted a franchise guy. If he wasn’t there then we were going to get better on defense and work on needs if the right guy was there. We are still going to go to camp with probably four quarterbacks, so that’s not to say we won’t take one in the draft, but it’s also not to say we wouldn’t go after a veteran to be a back-up for us and then take another arm to camp. He might be a college free agent. On if how it (the quarterbacks) fell affected the team’s game plan much: Maybe a little bit. We didn’t think Marcell (Dareus) would be there. Now the whole thing leading up to it until the last day or two, we thought he’d be gone. But when he was there and (Cam) Newton was gone, he was there, it was an easy pick. So...QB at #3 became secondary when Cam was gone and Dareus fell to them...Makes sense...The run on QB's in the 1st Round made getting one at #34 that they were comfortable with as a potential Franchise QB impossible...Again, makes sense...There's no indication, based on what The GM said, that they think Fitz was better than any of the Top QB's in this Draft or that they would not have Drafted a QB that was not named Newton...There is every indication that's not the way The Draft fell and they stuck to their Board... There comfortable with Fitz Folks, that's all...They were still looking for a Franchise QB though, which tells you EXACTLY what they think about Fitz longterm...And they absolutely felt there were QB's that were better longterm options than Fitz in this Draft...It just did not fall in such a way that one of those QB's would be available when they Picked, and Buddy is not big on moving around...

Buddy pretty much said today we would probably get a Vet UFA AND maybe even an Undrafted FA...He said we would got to Camp with 4 QB's...

I tend to agree a bit...Young and Smith actually have similar Stats, though Young is clearly the better runner of the two and has a much better Won/Loss record over the past 2 Years...But I agree about the Coaching Smith has received...I am not a Singletary (as a HC) fan at all, and I would assume any QB would struggle under that guy regardless of the Offensive Staff...I just think Singletary was in WAY over his head...And I realize he's not an Offensive HC, but I think a HC and a Starting QB go hand in hand...You need a REAL strong HC when you're bringing along a young QB...And even then sometimes it does not work...Look at VY as an example of a young QB who failed under the best of NFL Coaches... I should mention though that I've heard the Coaching argument brought up about Smith a few times and not everyone agrees...There are quite a few "experts" out there who feel he simply is an average QB...Nothing more...

Here's why

You do know the Kid has cancer right? It's treatable (a success rate for beating the cancer he has - non-Hodgkin lymphoma - is better than 90 percent), but it's still cancer...

Well 1st off the Post was in response to finding a Franchise QB because once again someone brought up Brady like it happens all the time...It doesn't...NFL Network just had a 3 Part series on drafting QB's and the vast majority of Starting QB's come from earlier in the Draft, and the likelihood of finding one goes down with every Round...8 out of the 12 Playoff Teams from 2010 had a QB who was Drafted in the 1st round, another was drafted in the high 2nd, and the two Teams who finished with 10 wins and missed the playoffs have 1st Round QB's...Considering Franchise QB's, it's FAR more rare to find one late than it is to find a Starting DT late...It's not the same for every Position when comparing it to Franchise QB's...It's more rare to find a late Round or Undrafted Franchise QB than it is to find a late Round or Undrafted Position Player...That's just the way it is...You can try to do it anyway you want...But if you want a Franchise QB the odds say Draft one earlier...Period...End of story...

I swear sometime it's like the Fitz police around here...The original comment was a generic comment about the difficulty of finding Franchise QB's late in the Draft...That's all...It was in response to yet another post about how QB's, like Brady, are found late in the Draft...Which is actually about as rare as it gets in the NFL...That's all...I never said the Bills should have Drafted a QB, I never mentioned Fitz, or that they should have addressed QB early...I'm thrilled with the Draft so far...It helps to read back and see what the context of a Post is about...