Wys is bringing the Doom and Gloom

[Alluro]

I think it is well past time for the fans and media to start asking some hard questions of Bills’ management. At present, the current Bills coaching staff are trying to make the Bills all things to all fans. With glaring issues on both lines coupled with one of the deepest drafts ever, in other words a great draft to trade down in, not up, the Bills almost completely ignored two of their three largest weaknesses and traded up.

The first question is whether in a draft which is widely and indisputably regarded as one of the deepest ever, coupled with the fact that the Bills are a 6-10 team more than a single issue or two away from making the playoffs, how does one justify trading up thereby reducing the overall number of selections among the first six rounds of such a deep draft to only 4 selections?
Furthermore, neither one of the first two selections will make an immediate impact for this upcoming season. The selection of Losman certainly spells the end of the Drew Bledsoe era and all but guarantees that Bledsoe will not finish out this season as starter in Buffalo. Whether or not he even begins it, now remains to be seen as well as trade possibilities must be at the forefront of the mind of anyone who can "read the writing on the wall."


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[casdhf]

No thanks.

[The Spaz]

[Frozen Tundran]

That's an interesting article but I'm afraid I don't understand why he thinks Evans won't make an impact. I assume the Bills run more than one set, thus you're gonna want three starting wide receivers even though they may not always be on the field when you use a TE set or a two running back formation.

As for whether Evans can make an impact his rookie season, keep in mind his fellow UW alumnai Chris Chambers stepped into the Miami offense and gained almost 900 yards and scored 7 TDs his rookie season. Chris Chambers freely admits Evans is better than he is too.

Amongst recivers in first round consideration, Evans had by far and away the highest Wonderlic score, a 27, most the other candidates couldn't even break 20. He's not going to have as much difficulty as most adjusting to the mental requirements of the pro game. I guess the only way you could say he can't learn routes quickly is if you did't realize he was one of the very best route-runners in college, with an downright spooky ability to get open.

There are two ways of looking at how to approach a rich draft, one to trade down and get as many decent prospects as you can, the other to trade up and get the cream of the crop. The Bills came away with two blue-chip prospects, and got the fastest, most agile and smartest reciver amongst the top candidates as well as snaking the Packers QB candidate right from under our noses. Packers are pretty good at judging QBs, and Losman is the one we wanted. You shoulda seen Mike Sherman's face on the draft cam the moment you snuck ahead of him!

The Bills are a good team, and look to me like the best candidate to take a major step forward next year. You've an intimidating defnse and a very promising running game, and with Moulds, Reed and Evans one of the best reciveing corps in football nowadays.

Your main problem last season was Drew Bledsoe had just a terrible year throwing the ball. You probably know that better than I having endured it up close, wheras I can only look at the stats that indicate Bledsoe was the only QB in the league who threw more wild pitches than Donovan McNabb.

So you got yourself one of the premire QB prospects out of this draft as well. I personally think it unlikely Bledsoe will have such an uncharacteristic campaign again, but if he does you set yourself up with another positive option.

Frankly I hope others are as pessimistic as this fellow is about your chances next year, as I plan on putting a bet on you to win the AFC championship in Vegas and rather hope I can make a killing off it! :-)

(BTW, only betting the championship is not a slight intended to Bills fans, it's how I do all these bets as they don't offer better relative odds on the Super Bowl winner so you are better off betting the teams you think will make it and then you can double down on the Super Bowl if you want to, but I usually keep half and bet the other as that way you're a sure winner in any case)

[Patrick76777]

Shocking! This guy knows nothing! Just like causing trouble!

[Earthquake Enyart]

The NFL could give the Bills the first 36 picks in the draft and wys would ***** about the guy that we didn't get at 37.

[Cntrygal]

Originally posted by Frozen Tundran
That's an interesting article but I'm afraid I don't understand why he thinks Evans won't make an impact. I assume the Bills run more than one set, thus you're gonna want three starting wide receivers even though they may not always be on the field when you use a TE set or a two running back formation.

As for whether Evans can make an impact his rookie season, keep in mind his fellow UW alumnai Chris Chambers stepped into the Miami offense and gained almost 900 yards and scored 7 TDs his rookie season. Chris Chambers freely admits Evans is better than he is too.

Amongst recivers in first round consideration, Evans had by far and away the highest Wonderlic score, a 27, most the other candidates couldn't even break 20. He's not going to have as much difficulty as most adjusting to the mental requirements of the pro game. I guess the only way you could say he can't learn routes quickly is if you did't realize he was one of the very best route-runners in college, with an downright spooky ability to get open.

There are two ways of looking at how to approach a rich draft, one to trade down and get as many decent prospects as you can, the other to trade up and get the cream of the crop. The Bills came away with two blue-chip prospects, and got the fastest, most agile and smartest reciver amongst the top candidates as well as snaking the Packers QB candidate right from under our noses. Packers are pretty good at judging QBs, and Losman is the one we wanted. You shoulda seen Mike Sherman's face on the draft cam the moment you snuck ahead of him!

The Bills are a good team, and look to me like the best candidate to take a major step forward next year. You've an intimidating defnse and a very promising running game, and with Moulds, Reed and Evans one of the best reciveing corps in football nowadays.

Your main problem last season was Drew Bledsoe had just a terrible year throwing the ball. You probably know that better than I having endured it up close, wheras I can only look at the stats that indicate Bledsoe was the only QB in the league who threw more wild pitches than Donovan McNabb.

So you got yourself one of the premire QB prospects out of this draft as well. I personally think it unlikely Bledsoe will have such an uncharacteristic campaign again, but if he does you set yourself up with another positive option.

Frankly I hope others are as pessimistic as this fellow is about your chances next year, as I plan on putting a bet on you to win the AFC championship in Vegas and rather hope I can make a killing off it! :-)

(BTW, only betting the championship is not a slight intended to Bills fans, it's how I do all these bets as they don't offer better relative odds on the Super Bowl winner so you are better off betting the teams you think will make it and then you can double down on the Super Bowl if you want to, but I usually keep half and bet the other as that way you're a sure winner in any case)

Nice post. About the only thing I disagree with is what our "main" problem was last year. Yes, Drew had "problems"... but IMO, our MAIN problem were the dynamic dip****s posing as coaches. (GW & KG)

[Ebenezer]

Originally posted by Cntrygal
dynamic dip****s

[Bulldog]

I really can't comment on this article, I didn't make it past the first paragraph. I have already heard all this BS before.

[Ebenezer]

Originally posted by Frozen Tundran
That's an interesting article but I'm afraid I don't understand why he thinks Evans won't make an impact.

I hate to say but I agree...Anybody really think that Evans is coming in here and catching 75 balls and 10 TDs?? If he gets 50 catches and 5 TD I'll be shocked...Remember what Moulds did in his first year?? What worries me more is what this means for Moulds future with the team.

[Jan Reimers]

Evans is a polished receiver with great hands, good route running ability, speed and intelligence. I think he has a chance to make an impact as a rookie.

[The Spaz]

Originally posted by Jan Reimers
Evans is a polished receiver with great hands, good route running ability, speed and intelligence. I think he has a chance to make an impact as a rookie.

Mularkey and TD seem to think he's have an immediate impact.

[The_Philster]

Originally posted by Earthquake Enyart
The NFL could give the Bills the first 36 picks in the draft and wys would ***** about the guy that we didn't get at 37.

Too true

[Frozen Tundran]

Originally posted by Cntrygal



Nice post. About the only thing I disagree with is what our "main" problem was last year. Yes, Drew had "problems"... but IMO, our MAIN problem were the dynamic dip****s posing as coaches. (GW & KG)

Well you got a lot closer look at it than I did, I was just going by a report done by Stats Inc that indicated that of all starting QBs Bledsoe surprisingly had the highest percentage of uncatchable balls. Dirtball Donovan usually dominates this catagory.

I would be surprised if he didn't return to form though, he's usually quite a good passer.

[Patrick76777]

WR's rarely make an impact in their first year. it's not unheard of, but most of them take a few years. What gives Evans a good shot is his speed. If he can come in and stretch the field, maybe he can make an impact this year but I don’t think so.

I for one was very leery of going into last season with Reed as our number 2. Knowing full well that WR’s usually blow up in their third year. That being said, I’m feeling good about Reed this year.