NoSaint Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 Which should be a short list of Bowers, Dareus, and Fairley period. Others including Newton need not apply. Don't screw this up Buddy. As it turns out he should do work with about the top 10-15. Imagine if they trade back 5-6 slots
tonyjustbcuz Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 Its the main story on Buffalo Rumblings. Cant say Im too happy about it, I think he is gonna bust, but at least it would be more entertaining. Id like to see what Gailey dreams up with this HB/QB hybrid. I think its very likely that we take Newton, because the Bills clearly went after Tebow hard last year and with Gaileys comments, I think he wants to run a full-bore college spread offense. Well overall I'm hoping to take a QB in the second round because I just don't believe in Gabbert and Newton enough to want to use our #3 pick, but since the pick isn't up to me to make I guess I will be excited about the potential and overlook the risks initailly..especially with Newton as our QB. I much prefer we take Marcell Dareus, or Da'Quan Bowers with that first pick or trade down with S.F. at #7 as their new coach may want to pursue Gabbert as he wanted Gabbert over Luck at Stanford, but it didn't work out back then. I think at #7 we can still pickup one of the drafts best players and probably have an extra 2nd rounder and possibly a extra 4th or 5th rounder to boot! So I'm hoping we swap picks with S.Fran, that either Dareus, Fairley, Bowers, or Von Miller slide down to us at #7. Then in the 2nd round we benefit from whichever QB falls to us ie: Jake Lockner, Colin Kapernick, maybe Mallet..but there are red flags on him so I don't know about him....Then go right back to defense with pick #45 from S.Fran! Anyways, I'd be excited for Cam Newton as our QB, but I'd much rather see us go a different direction....which means that we will draft Cam Newton as the Bills never do what I want them to do!!!!! If they did...we would have B. Orakapo, Clay Matthews, H. Ngata on our team right now! Okay, we'd also have Claussen too..so I'm not perfect! hahaha
Mike in Syracuse Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 Could this all just be a giant ruse on the part of Chan & Buddy. We all know Chan just loves Fitz. Buddy knows he needs picks so he can keep rebuilding. Could they just be setting a sucker up for picks?
EastRochBillsfan Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 Which should be a short list of Bowers, Dareus, and Fairley period. Others including Newton need not apply. Don't screw this up Buddy. You can't tip your hat man. Keep everyone guessing.
billsfan89 Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 Smokescreen get people to think you want Newton if he falls you can get a team that is in love with him to give up a lot of picks to move up and get him.
DDD Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 As it turns out he should do work with about the top 10-15. Imagine if they trade back 5-6 slots I'm okay with trading down given the teams huge list of needs but there is less of a chance of getting an everydown impact player.
NoSaint Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 I'm okay with trading down given the teams huge list of needs but there is less of a chance of getting an everydown impact player. I'm not advocating a trade down just saying it would be irresponsible not to work on atleast 10 or so guys at 3. Plus guys in the mid-late first in case someone slides or we trade up. Just cause we have 3 and 34 doesn't meant we only talk to the top 3 and 30-35 on our board
McClane Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 http://espn.go.com/blog/afceast/post/_/id/26748/bills-dined-with-newton-agents-monday
Mike In Illinois Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 Didn't Jimbo have dinner with Tim Tebow last year? The speculation was rampant that the Bills would draft him, but as luck turned out he was taken by Denver.
Tipster19 Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 http://espn.go.com/blog/afceast/post/_/id/26748/bills-dined-with-newton-agents-monday Thanks for the link, man. People think that this is a smokescreen but after reading that article I think that people are going to be in for a big surprise. Gil Brandt has gone on record back in February proclaiming that Newton should be the #1 pick and now we have our staff huddling up with him. There's no doubt in my mind that Brandt is still singing the praises about Newton, especially that the article ends with Brandt stating that he expects the Panthers to take Newton #1. I'm going to allow myself to start thinking about a possible trade up for the Bills.
Ghost of Rob Johnson Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIwx_SobsM4
snamsnoops Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 (edited) Mallett is a pure pocket passer, can make every throw. He has some problems resetting his footwork in the pocket but under Chan`s tutelage he should have that fixed. I wonder u say he is a statue and i agree, here`s some other statue`s that he reminds me of Phillip Rivers, Jim Kelly, Dan Marino. Pocket awareness is easy to learn. Tom Brady was the same way. These are the type`s of QB`s that win SuperBowl`s not those Runner Type`s Here`s my prediction Mallett will be the best QB in this draft class. And he will make multiple probowl`s U say "These are the type`s of QB`s that win SuperBowl`s not those Runner Type`s" I am pretty sure that P. Rivers, D Marino & J. Kelly havent won "A" super bowl. U then mention T Brady who has WON a couple superbowls but he is a HUGE D BAG! So actually u mean this is the type of QB not QB's! Just throwing it out ther! Edited March 9, 2011 by snamsnoops
Dragonborn10 Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 Pre-draft where there is smoke there is rarely fire. Hopefully if both Newton and Gabbard are still on the board at three they can trade down with AZ, Minn, or Wash fo rmore picks. There will still be a Quinn on Cam Jordan at those spots in the draft.
NewEra Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 Which should be a short list of Bowers, Dareus, and Fairley period. Others including Newton need not apply. Don't screw this up Buddy. -1
Buffalo Barbarian Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 took Tebow out to dinner last year so we wont be picking Newty
Wayne Cubed Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 This doesn't look like much to me. They met with Newton at the combine for all of 15 mins. This dinner/meeting allows them to further dive into Cams possible character flaws and see if there is anything there. I mean you are asking a guy to come in to, possibly, be the future of this franchise. Unlike the case with Bowers, Fairley or Dareus, we aren't asking any of the DL to lead this team. So maybe there isn't a great need to take them out for dinner. But maybe it happens anyways. Either way, this is Buddy just doing more homework on the guy. Getting more one-on-one time(considering his character flaws seem to be the biggest ??). Which I applaud.
Buffalo Barbarian Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 "Brandt, however, believes the Carolina Panthers should select Newton with the top pick." ESPN This.
OldTimer1960 Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 You can't tip your hat man. Keep everyone guessing. I think it's you can't tip your hand, man. As in, don't hold your hand of cards so that others can see them. Tipping your hat is a polite gesture.
JPS Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 If they really wanted Cam Newton, they woulda had dinner with is father last night..... I know football like you guys do and I have no idea what to think of this guy. On the one hand, he looked like Rottenbiker and won everywhere he went. On ther other, he went everywhere...I am truly stumped.
stony Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 Which should be a short list of Bowers, Dareus, and Fairley period. Others including Newton need not apply. Don't screw this up Buddy. Yeah, because DT/DEs are the safest pick in the draft...
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