raphael120
04-30-2007, 04:34 PM
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/dr_z/04/29/draft.report.card/3.html (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/dr_z/04/29/draft.report.card/3.html)
BILLS -- B-
They're in the recycling business. They had a perfectly fine little running back, Travis Henry, and they recycled him for Willis McGahee. McGahee was doing well, and then they recycled him for the current top draft, Marshawn Lynch. Who knows? Maybe somewhere in some high school in West Virginia there's this big kid just waiting to ... you know. You can keep drafting this way. It's called marking time, and if this were all there was to the Bills' roster, their grade would be down somewhere in half moon land. But the trade-up for LB Paul Posluszny makes some kind of sense, and the third-round choice, strong-armed QB Trent Edwards, is intriguing, although I can't understand what kind of competition they're trying to set up between he and J.P. Losman. And here's the pick that really gets me excited. Seventh round -- TE Derek Schouman, whose workout numbers absolutely blew away the competition at the combine. I just have a feeling about this guy.
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http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/6757084
Five solid Day 2 picks
2. Brandon Siler, No. 240 to San Diego: Siler left Florida early coming off a stellar junior season which was capped off with a BCS title finish. Yet, while defensive mates Reggie Nelson, Jarvis Moss, Marcus Thomas, Ray McDonald, Ryan Smith, and Joe Cohen were all scooped up in the first six rounds, Siler slipped to the seventh round. He's a former SEC Freshman of the Year, and a three-year star in college football's toughest conference. Big game experience, leadership, and a BCS championship ring on his resume — he could end up vying for Donnie Edwards' old spot in San Diego's defense next year.
4. John Wendling, No. 184 to Buffalo: Some draftniks had Wendling rated as high as a second-round pick. A physical freak of nature (he has over a 37-inch vertical jump), who's great in coverage and can hit, he still slipped to the sixth round on Sunday. With rookies Donte Whitner and Ko Simpson both playing safety at a high level last year, Wendling offers ever more young depth to the position.
(raph notes: just interesting what they said about siler...)
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http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=jc-afcdraftgrades043007&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/sp/v/nfl/teams/1/50x50c/buf.gif Buffalo Bills (http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/buf/): This is not necessarily a complaint about the players the Bills drafted because running back Marshawn Lynch (http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8266/) is very talented, linebacker Paul Posluszny (http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8288/) was considered a first-round talent and quarterback Trent Edwards (http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8346/) was highly regarded by many. However, you have to wonder if the Bills did a lot of checking into Lynch's background, given the character issues, before they used a pick this high on him. Even more, Lynch is probably going to like Buffalo's weather as much as former back Willis McGahee (http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6359/). That said, if the Bills get four or five good years out of Lynch, who cares if he likes it there?
Grade: B+
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http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10157364
NEW YORK (April 29, 2007) -- The 72nd NFL draft set records for the longest Round 1, longest Day 1, and longest two days (over 18 hours). The interest in the draft continues to go up every year.
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="46%" align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TH vAlign=top bgColor=#40557a colSpan=2>2007 NFL Draft
</TH></TR><!--<tr bgcolor="#d1d1d1" valign="top" align="center"><td>http://images.nfl.com/images/2007/sb-41.jpg</td><td align="left">Video highlights:
56k (http://play.rbn.com/?url=nfl/nfl/open/nflfilms/demand/s2006/nflcom/w22/colts_bears_short_56k.rm&pcode=nfl&rsrc=nflfilms1&rpcontexturl=http://www.nfl.com/fieldpass/includes/super_bowl&rpcontextwidth=500&rpcontextheight=275) | 300k (http://play.rbn.com/?url=nfl/nfl/open/nflfilms/demand/s2006/nflcom/w22/colts_bears_short_300k.rm&pcode=nfl&rsrc=nflfilms1&rpcontexturl=http://www.nfl.com/fieldpass/includes/super_bowl&rpcontextwidth=500)</b>--><TR vAlign=top align=middle bgColor=#d1d1d1><TD colSpan=2><CENTER>http://images.nfl.com/images/grey_rule.gif</CENTER></TD></TR><TR vAlign=top align=middle bgColor=#d1d1d1><TD align=left colSpan=2>Features and columns
Carucci: Russell the only choice (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10155526)
Roger Goodell Q&A (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10155631)
JaMarcus Russell Q&A (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10155490)
Adrian Peterson Q&A (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10155480)
Gaines Adams Q&A (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10155376)
Calvin Johnson Q&A (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10155355)
<TR vAlign=top align=middle bgColor=#d1d1d1><TD colSpan=2><CENTER>http://images.nfl.com/images/grey_rule.gif</CENTER></TD></TR><TR vAlign=top align=middle bgColor=#d1d1d1><TD align=left colSpan=2>Blogs and analysis
Kirwan: Lessons learned (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10159094)
Vic's Picks: Best drafters (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10157105)
Kirwan: Mid-draft analysis (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10156972)
Brandt: Mid-draft analysis (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10156966)
Draft blog (http://www.nfl.com/draft/features/blog)
Bakay blog (http://www.nfl.com/draft/features/bakay)
Dukes Q&A (http://www.nfl.com/nflnetwork/put_up_your_dukes)
<TR vAlign=top align=middle bgColor=#d1d1d1><TD colSpan=2><CENTER>http://images.nfl.com/images/grey_rule.gif</CENTER></TD></TR><TR vAlign=top align=left bgColor=#d1d1d1><TD>Get all the info about the 2007 NFL Draft from New York.</TD><TR vAlign=top bgColor=#d1d1d1><TD align=middle colSpan=2>Draft (http://www.nfl.com/draft) | Draft tracker (http://www.nfl.com/draft/drafttracker/round/round1) | Analyzer (http://www.nfl.com/draft/analyzer)
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Several things will take place now that the draft has ended. The first thing is that 32 teams will hit the phones trying to sign undrafted free agents. Fifty undrafted free agents made Week 1 rosters last year.
Then the draft grades will come out in the Monday morning papers. Last year, Buffalo was given an F, but it turned out to be one of the best. Fans, if you're down on your team's draft, don't be worried. Teams' drafts tend to turn out better than the so-called experts think they might be.
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http://www.tsn.ca/nfl/feature/?fid=11024
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=627 border=0>http://images.tsn.ca/images/stories/20020912/nfl_bills_smllogo_43445.gif (http://www.tsn.ca/nfl/teams/main.asp?hubName=nfl-bills) BUFFALO BILLS
1-12 Marshawn Lynch RB California 2-34 Paul Posluszny LB Penn St 3-92 Trent Edwards QB Stanford 4-111 Dwayne Wright RB Fresno St 6-184 John Wendling S Wyoming 7-222 Derek Schouman FB Boise St 7-239 C.J. Ah You DE Oklahoma
Potential 2007 Starters: Lynch and Posluszny are both needed to play prominent roles right away.
Value Pick: Posluszny could have easily gone in the first round, so getting him with the 34th pick was a good deal.
Second-Day Sleeper: Wright had injury issues in college, but was productive when healthy.
Still Need: CB, LB, OL
GRADE: B - Solid early picks, including a potential QB of the future in Trent Edwards, allowed the Bills to take some chances later.
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So in conclusion, looks like most people graded us a solid B..but then again we got graded an F last year and it turned out to be a B+/A.
BILLS -- B-
They're in the recycling business. They had a perfectly fine little running back, Travis Henry, and they recycled him for Willis McGahee. McGahee was doing well, and then they recycled him for the current top draft, Marshawn Lynch. Who knows? Maybe somewhere in some high school in West Virginia there's this big kid just waiting to ... you know. You can keep drafting this way. It's called marking time, and if this were all there was to the Bills' roster, their grade would be down somewhere in half moon land. But the trade-up for LB Paul Posluszny makes some kind of sense, and the third-round choice, strong-armed QB Trent Edwards, is intriguing, although I can't understand what kind of competition they're trying to set up between he and J.P. Losman. And here's the pick that really gets me excited. Seventh round -- TE Derek Schouman, whose workout numbers absolutely blew away the competition at the combine. I just have a feeling about this guy.
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http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/6757084
Five solid Day 2 picks
2. Brandon Siler, No. 240 to San Diego: Siler left Florida early coming off a stellar junior season which was capped off with a BCS title finish. Yet, while defensive mates Reggie Nelson, Jarvis Moss, Marcus Thomas, Ray McDonald, Ryan Smith, and Joe Cohen were all scooped up in the first six rounds, Siler slipped to the seventh round. He's a former SEC Freshman of the Year, and a three-year star in college football's toughest conference. Big game experience, leadership, and a BCS championship ring on his resume — he could end up vying for Donnie Edwards' old spot in San Diego's defense next year.
4. John Wendling, No. 184 to Buffalo: Some draftniks had Wendling rated as high as a second-round pick. A physical freak of nature (he has over a 37-inch vertical jump), who's great in coverage and can hit, he still slipped to the sixth round on Sunday. With rookies Donte Whitner and Ko Simpson both playing safety at a high level last year, Wendling offers ever more young depth to the position.
(raph notes: just interesting what they said about siler...)
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http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=jc-afcdraftgrades043007&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/sp/v/nfl/teams/1/50x50c/buf.gif Buffalo Bills (http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/buf/): This is not necessarily a complaint about the players the Bills drafted because running back Marshawn Lynch (http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8266/) is very talented, linebacker Paul Posluszny (http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8288/) was considered a first-round talent and quarterback Trent Edwards (http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8346/) was highly regarded by many. However, you have to wonder if the Bills did a lot of checking into Lynch's background, given the character issues, before they used a pick this high on him. Even more, Lynch is probably going to like Buffalo's weather as much as former back Willis McGahee (http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6359/). That said, if the Bills get four or five good years out of Lynch, who cares if he likes it there?
Grade: B+
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http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10157364
NEW YORK (April 29, 2007) -- The 72nd NFL draft set records for the longest Round 1, longest Day 1, and longest two days (over 18 hours). The interest in the draft continues to go up every year.
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="46%" align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TH vAlign=top bgColor=#40557a colSpan=2>2007 NFL Draft
</TH></TR><!--<tr bgcolor="#d1d1d1" valign="top" align="center"><td>http://images.nfl.com/images/2007/sb-41.jpg</td><td align="left">Video highlights:
56k (http://play.rbn.com/?url=nfl/nfl/open/nflfilms/demand/s2006/nflcom/w22/colts_bears_short_56k.rm&pcode=nfl&rsrc=nflfilms1&rpcontexturl=http://www.nfl.com/fieldpass/includes/super_bowl&rpcontextwidth=500&rpcontextheight=275) | 300k (http://play.rbn.com/?url=nfl/nfl/open/nflfilms/demand/s2006/nflcom/w22/colts_bears_short_300k.rm&pcode=nfl&rsrc=nflfilms1&rpcontexturl=http://www.nfl.com/fieldpass/includes/super_bowl&rpcontextwidth=500)</b>--><TR vAlign=top align=middle bgColor=#d1d1d1><TD colSpan=2><CENTER>http://images.nfl.com/images/grey_rule.gif</CENTER></TD></TR><TR vAlign=top align=middle bgColor=#d1d1d1><TD align=left colSpan=2>Features and columns
Carucci: Russell the only choice (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10155526)
Roger Goodell Q&A (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10155631)
JaMarcus Russell Q&A (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10155490)
Adrian Peterson Q&A (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10155480)
Gaines Adams Q&A (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10155376)
Calvin Johnson Q&A (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10155355)
<TR vAlign=top align=middle bgColor=#d1d1d1><TD colSpan=2><CENTER>http://images.nfl.com/images/grey_rule.gif</CENTER></TD></TR><TR vAlign=top align=middle bgColor=#d1d1d1><TD align=left colSpan=2>Blogs and analysis
Kirwan: Lessons learned (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10159094)
Vic's Picks: Best drafters (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10157105)
Kirwan: Mid-draft analysis (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10156972)
Brandt: Mid-draft analysis (http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/10156966)
Draft blog (http://www.nfl.com/draft/features/blog)
Bakay blog (http://www.nfl.com/draft/features/bakay)
Dukes Q&A (http://www.nfl.com/nflnetwork/put_up_your_dukes)
<TR vAlign=top align=middle bgColor=#d1d1d1><TD colSpan=2><CENTER>http://images.nfl.com/images/grey_rule.gif</CENTER></TD></TR><TR vAlign=top align=left bgColor=#d1d1d1><TD>Get all the info about the 2007 NFL Draft from New York.</TD><TR vAlign=top bgColor=#d1d1d1><TD align=middle colSpan=2>Draft (http://www.nfl.com/draft) | Draft tracker (http://www.nfl.com/draft/drafttracker/round/round1) | Analyzer (http://www.nfl.com/draft/analyzer)
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Several things will take place now that the draft has ended. The first thing is that 32 teams will hit the phones trying to sign undrafted free agents. Fifty undrafted free agents made Week 1 rosters last year.
Then the draft grades will come out in the Monday morning papers. Last year, Buffalo was given an F, but it turned out to be one of the best. Fans, if you're down on your team's draft, don't be worried. Teams' drafts tend to turn out better than the so-called experts think they might be.
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http://www.tsn.ca/nfl/feature/?fid=11024
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=627 border=0>http://images.tsn.ca/images/stories/20020912/nfl_bills_smllogo_43445.gif (http://www.tsn.ca/nfl/teams/main.asp?hubName=nfl-bills) BUFFALO BILLS
1-12 Marshawn Lynch RB California 2-34 Paul Posluszny LB Penn St 3-92 Trent Edwards QB Stanford 4-111 Dwayne Wright RB Fresno St 6-184 John Wendling S Wyoming 7-222 Derek Schouman FB Boise St 7-239 C.J. Ah You DE Oklahoma
Potential 2007 Starters: Lynch and Posluszny are both needed to play prominent roles right away.
Value Pick: Posluszny could have easily gone in the first round, so getting him with the 34th pick was a good deal.
Second-Day Sleeper: Wright had injury issues in college, but was productive when healthy.
Still Need: CB, LB, OL
GRADE: B - Solid early picks, including a potential QB of the future in Trent Edwards, allowed the Bills to take some chances later.
<TBODY></TBODY></TABLE>
So in conclusion, looks like most people graded us a solid B..but then again we got graded an F last year and it turned out to be a B+/A.