I think the key to the offseason is....

[yordad]

Getting a DT and center in FA/trade.

If we only sign one player in FA it should be Haynesworth. It would be a huge upgrade in the middle of our defense.

Maybe we could trade Losman and Fowler for a good center. The jets need a QB, right? Long shot, but seriously it needs to upgraded, and I just don't see a definite up grade in the draft. I don't have and easy suggestions here, so it will be hard to do. Do you have any?

How many draft picks do we have, and what rounds?

1) CB. We have to get a physical one. Someone who can match up with Moss sooner then later. There is only a couple possibly worth as high as we are picking. We utilize the NFL combine to let one float to the top. So far it looks like Malcom Jenkins is the cream of the crop.

2) WR. There are several tall, physical, speedy, productive ones coming out. Malcom Kelly, Sweed, Bowman, Hardy, in that order; which ever is available.

I think we have two 3rd round picks. Trade them for a second if the top TE is gone. If we don't have two 3rd, then we have two 4ths. Trade up with the 3rd, 4th, and maybe one 7th.

2) TE. Davis or Rucker. Who ever is available. We need a large, immediate upgrade here. In fact we need two upgrades, which brings me to..

4) FB. Is a true FB too much to ask for? One who can be a receiving threat, and carry the ball once a game. It keeps the defense honest. And would be the finishing touch on a formidable looking offense.

5) Best available front seven defender

6) Best available front seven defender

7) Best available front seven defender

I think I'm missing a pick or two.

I think we will have addressed our big weaknesses. Of course we still have a question at WLB. But I think we move DiGi out there. And, the whole O-line would benefit greatly if we somehow got a good center. Allowing us to give Butler a little more time. And, I don't think we can get an economic option that will be an upgrade at DE, so unfortunately our guys will have to do. Of course we have to sign a veteran QB also if we do get rid of Losman. But they are a dime a dozen.

[Ebenezer]

Re: I think the key to the offseason is....

I truly believe this team is 4 players and experience away from being a contender. We need a tall, physical CB as well as a tall WR. Add in a WLB to replace Ellison and a center and I think this team is set.

[G. Host]

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[G. Host]

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Darn. I just noticed that. I hate it when that happens.

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[Ebenezer]

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moved and taken care of....carry on.

[yordad]

Re: I think the key to the offseason is....

I truly believe this team is 4 players and experience away from being a contender. We need a tall, physical CB as well as a tall WR. Add in a WLB to replace Ellison and a center and I think this team is set.

No tight end?

[Ebenezer]

Re: I think the key to the offseason is....

No tight end?

Although they can upgrade the position I don't see it as essential to making the playoffs.

[yordad]

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Although they can upgrade the position I don't see it as essential to making the playoffs.

I think you are right. Heck, I think they can make the playoffs next year with the same squad. But with the sorry state of our TE and H-back, it can be upgraded with a 6th round pick. Not that I'm advocating we do that.

We have picks. We are third in free cap space according to the estimates I saw. We aren't losing any projected '08 starters due to free agency. We can make a run. We can do more then the bare minimum. We don't have to settle for just a playoff berth, IMO.

[yordad]

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I think a good TE could easily add 600 more yards, 5+ TDs, and many first downs to this offense.

[Wys Guy]

Re: I think the key to the offseason is....

I think the key to the offseason is....

The key to the offseason is not getting your hopes up over this team which is led by dunderheads and owned by an owner that clearly doesn't give a crap about winning.

[yordad]

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The key to the offseason is not getting your hopes up over this team which is led by dunderheads and owned by an owner that clearly doesn't give a crap about winning.

Would you rather have hope and fun rather then no hope and no fun?

I'd rather have fun and lose, then no fun and lose. Its OK to enjoy it man. Let loose. Be a fan.

[Wys Guy]

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Would you rather have hope and fun rather then no hope and no fun?

I'd rather have fun and lose, then no fun and lose. Its OK to enjoy it man. Let loose. Be a fan.

I guess I'd rather have a team such that I wouldn't have to delude myself every season and talk myself into the notion that if everything goes 100% peachy keen, then we may be a wild card team with "everything" entailing a soft enough schedule so that we can "make the playoffs" not due on the talent we have which is capable of beating their counterparts mano-a-mano, but rather on just being able to constantly pull out close wins against bottom tier teams.

Otherwise, yes, I think I'd merely prefer to not invest too much of my emotions, time, and money in something that is guaranteed to only disappoint me. At that point I'd prefer to merely watch some good football whereever it may be found.

Hope is only hope if there's a real basis for it, not a handful of fabricated ones all built on faulty premises and with known reasons why they won't ha ppen steering the ship while many bury their heads in the sand when they are capable of affecting changes towards improvement by putting pressure on Wilson to make some real changes and good ones instead of just NFL good-ole-boy ones.

[Ebenezer]

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Otherwise, yes, I think I'd merely prefer to not invest too much of my emotions, time, and money in something that is guaranteed to only disappoint me. At that point I'd prefer to merely watch some good football whereever it may be found.

then I think you have found your answer....switch teams

[Wys Guy]

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then I think you have found your answer....switch teams

Alas, I think we'll all be doing that soon.

Sounds as if you're mistaking me for someone that has the power to affect this team, what it does to improve itself,

Otherwise, if the choice then is to be happy with the slop that keeps getting slid underneath the cell door and call it a meal, or to continually criticize this organization until someone that knows what they're actually doing makes a series of important GM/coaching hires that are not obviously flawed, or at the very minimum at such astronomical odds for success, thereby leading to putting out a product worth paying for and investing one's time and emotions into, well, I'll opt for the latter.

Just as fans can express their enthusiasm, those that don't see that bowl of swill getting slid under the cell door as a five-star cordon bleu as you and others may, with promises of mushroom gravy and a side of mashed potatoes the next night, and rather see it for what it is, also have a full right to piss, moan, ***** and do whatever else it is that fans may do when they've been schnookered.

Who are you or anyone else to tell me how to react to a team that is perpetually bereft of solid leadership and even further from performing to a level even remotely indicating that they are playoff ready?

Just curious!

We've been thru "this drill" with the Bills for over a decade. You know what Jauron is, or should. You know what Levy is, or should. (as a GM) You're beginning to see the skid marks of their track record, or should be able to. Yet, the brown-nosing with the team's media and marketing department continues.

At least we know who actually deserves this team and its perennially pathetic putouts.

[Wys Guy]

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Sounds to me like fan message boards are full of people ill to deal with reality and even more reluctant to put some pressure on the powers that be to make some changes.

If the fans here wouldn't merely toe the party line each April and then again in August, along with the regional media that is continually wrong about when this team is "going to turn it around" and "make the playoffs," then perhaps the team (Wilson) would be forced to make some changes.

In my mind it kinda begs the question of who the true fans really are.