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I had a rather lengthy conversation with someone from the Bills ...... Not going to get into “why” because if you don’t already know you wouldn’t believe anyway.. But for those actually who do. Here is some what I consider interesting information worth sharing. Some is probably already public; some is not.
In a semi-related note. I’m not going to be posting from my Patmoran2006 often anymore. I’m going to be working on some “junior journalist” projects coming up soon, and I don’t want my real name associated with someone who fights with people on a football message board (through fault mainly of my own). I’m still going to post some news, articles and links to other stuff under it though. So nobody thinks I’m trying to pull a fast-one on them, I’m going to be commenting on the board under the name “neggienancy
- The Bills are in the process of making their final “draft board” over the weekend. Modrak is in town, as is Doug Majeski (Director College Scouting). Nothing has been official yet on their board but is expected to be by the end of the weekend. Obviously, this area of OBD is closely guarded.
- Here (to me anyway) is a major surprise. Don’t expect the Bills to move up or move down with their first round draft pick. Unless something “drastically changes” they are taking a linebacker with the first pick. That’s not really big news. But maybe this is. From what I was told, the person that is at the top of their linebacking board is NOT Patrick Willis. It’s also not Paul Posluszny either. SO come next Saturday, if Willis “slips” to
- Marv Levy hasn’t spoken to Gus Cook (Turner’s agent) since he visited
- Marshawn Lynch is not ranked high on the Bills draft board at all, so I guess we can forget about drafting him (sigh). I don’t know WHERE he is ranked, I’m just told he’s not ranked high so apparently
- Jim Overdorf is not a fan of Drew Rosenhaus and it all possible doesn’t want to have to negotiate anything with him. I guess behind the scenes (and I don’t know any specifics) but things got ugly regarding Willis McGahee and an extension before he was traded. If the FO sticks to not wanting to deal with Drew; then you can scratch these names off as draft possibilities: Greg Olsen, Lawrence Timmons, Drew Stanford, Jason Hill and Aundrae Allison.
- The Bills would be interested in Julius Jones should his name get thrown around on draft day. That’s all I could find out, no specifics—probably because there aren’t any. I am told that Jones trade talk is legit though. He’s entering the final year of his contract, and
- I asked about maybe a couple of prospects from smaller schools we may be considering that most people don’t know about and got two names: one was Ben Patrick (TE) and the other was a cornerback. To be honest, I don’t even remember the name of the CB, just remember it was a weird name.
- One thing about Patrick Willis that may or not piss some off, depending on if you’re a fan of his I guess. But don’t be locked on SF taking Willis first. I guess they really like Carriker (ahead of Jamaal Anderson too) and might take him. They like David Harris from
- AP is rated “very high” on our board and “every board around the league”. The Bills “would love to have a player of his abilities”, but expect him to be “long gone” before
- NO mention of this being Modrak’s last draft either. To be honest, I didn’t even ask about it, and Im sure that if I did I wouldn’t get a real answer anyway so the topic was just left alone. I’ll say though that I certainly didn’t get any impression that he’s about to be canned. If anything, I get the impression that he may be next in line after Marv to be the GM. But that’s PURE speculation on my part, so who the hell knows.
- Yuk: The Bills like Leon Hall (though this sounded like a very politically correct answer to a topic when I asked about him)
- Lastly a couple of non-Bills related things I was told.
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In a semi-related note. I’m not going to be posting from my Patmoran2006 often anymore. I’m going to be working on some “junior journalist” projects coming up soon, and I don’t want my real name associated with someone who fights with people on a football message board (through fault mainly of my own). I’m still going to post some news, articles and links to other stuff under it though. So nobody thinks I’m trying to pull a fast-one on them, I’m going to be commenting on the board under the name “neggie
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