For those of us that didn't really anticipate the departure of Spikes...he's not gone yet, but we will start the pre-season without him.
IMO, Spikes will get traded for a 4th or 5th rounder if we are lucky. Let's say realistically a 5th rounder. That will leave us with:
(1) 1st rounder
(1) 2nd rounder
(2) 3rd rounders
(1) 4th rounder
(1) 5th rounder
(1) 6th rounder
(2) 7th rounders
9 friggin picks! If you don't think that we are going to pair a few picks together and move up the draft board you are nuts!
With this many picks, plus an extra 3rd next year I am feeling a calmness that we will fill ALL of our needs in this year's draft.
We absolutely need to add another RB via FA so it isn't absolute that we must pick one of the 2 top RB's in the first round. Yes, CB has an injury history but we should sign him so we can pick another RB in the 2nd or third round. We are probably not going to find out next Thurman Thomas in this draft but we may find the next Kenneth Davis and we can succeed with A-Train, CB, Shaud Williams, Fred Jackson and an Antonio Pittman/Kenny Irons type RB for a rookie. Maybe next year we will be poised to take a RB in the 1st that will be our stud out of the gates.
There is no doubt in my mind that we will take Willis in the first and if we need to move up two picks to ensure this, we will have the ammunition to do it and also to move back into the late first round by trading up again. I think that if Buffalo gets Willis in the 1st OBD will be happy with that and stay put through at least the first three rounds. It should only cost our #92 pick to move up to 10th spot if Houston is willing according to the point chart. Either Miami at 9 (if Quinn is gone) or Houston at 10 (if Peterson is gone) could be patrners for trading down where they could still get Levi Brown and we would be ahead of SF who is the only team IMO that might be willing to take Willis. They need a WR bad though so I don't see it happening. We should get Willis and I wouldn't be suprised to see us grab two LBers early on day one.
IMO, Spikes will get traded for a 4th or 5th rounder if we are lucky. Let's say realistically a 5th rounder. That will leave us with:
(1) 1st rounder
(1) 2nd rounder
(2) 3rd rounders
(1) 4th rounder
(1) 5th rounder
(1) 6th rounder
(2) 7th rounders
9 friggin picks! If you don't think that we are going to pair a few picks together and move up the draft board you are nuts!
With this many picks, plus an extra 3rd next year I am feeling a calmness that we will fill ALL of our needs in this year's draft.
We absolutely need to add another RB via FA so it isn't absolute that we must pick one of the 2 top RB's in the first round. Yes, CB has an injury history but we should sign him so we can pick another RB in the 2nd or third round. We are probably not going to find out next Thurman Thomas in this draft but we may find the next Kenneth Davis and we can succeed with A-Train, CB, Shaud Williams, Fred Jackson and an Antonio Pittman/Kenny Irons type RB for a rookie. Maybe next year we will be poised to take a RB in the 1st that will be our stud out of the gates.
There is no doubt in my mind that we will take Willis in the first and if we need to move up two picks to ensure this, we will have the ammunition to do it and also to move back into the late first round by trading up again. I think that if Buffalo gets Willis in the 1st OBD will be happy with that and stay put through at least the first three rounds. It should only cost our #92 pick to move up to 10th spot if Houston is willing according to the point chart. Either Miami at 9 (if Quinn is gone) or Houston at 10 (if Peterson is gone) could be patrners for trading down where they could still get Levi Brown and we would be ahead of SF who is the only team IMO that might be willing to take Willis. They need a WR bad though so I don't see it happening. We should get Willis and I wouldn't be suprised to see us grab two LBers early on day one.
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