WTF does this team plan on doing at Guard?

[more cowbell]

Seriously. I understand letting Levitre walk for the amount of money he got from TEN...IF WE USED THE MONEY ON IMPACT PLAYERS AT POSITIONS OF NEED. They let a reliable backup walk away too, leaving us with the often-injured Urbik and zero depth or starters for the left side. David Snow? Colin Brown? Sam Young? Good lord...

I would be FINE with us taking a guard to plug in and start in round 2...but we have way to many holes...and should take a LB or WR there (Assuming we do not lose that pick trading up for a QB).

Leave it to these buffoons to take one of the few "strengths" of the team...which was built "their way" and create a hole by making absolutely no effort to retain our own player(s).

This team SUCKS.

[bosshogg21]

Prob a bunch of Undrafted free agents will be starting for us that no one wanted. This approach to the way they've done things in free agency is really bizarre based on Russ Brandon's no stone unturned speech. I definitely expected more.

[clumping platelets]

Warmack at #8

[better days]

Warmack at #8

Makes all the sense in the World. Create a hole where none existed by letting Levitre walk, then WASTE the #8 pick in the draft to fill it.

I was told that Levitre would be easy to replace by someone CHEAP. Well, the #8 pick is a heavy price to pay & down the road after the Rookie contract is finished, that #8 pick will be asking for more money than Levitre got.

[YardRat]

I'm looking forward to seeing what some of these young guys bring to the table, especially if we get Warmack. Don't discount another signing, like B.Moore, before FA is over.

[X-Era]

1) Start a rookie like Brian Winters
2) Start Colin Brown
3) Sign a Urbik/Pears like FA on the cheap

[better days]

I'm looking forward to seeing what some of these young guys bring to the table, especially if we get Warmack. Don't discount another signing, like B.Moore, before FA is over.

So you are advocating WASTING the #8 pick on a GUARD? A position so easily filled by someone CHEAP?

I think a much better use of that pick would be a position NOT so easily filled myself, like QUARTERBACK.

[ServoBillieves]

Wow, no one has said "Let's move Glenn inside!" yet.

[Jan Reimers]

Makes all the sense in the World. Create a hole where none existed by letting Levitre walk, then WASTE the #8 pick in the draft to fill it.

I was told that Levitre would be easy to replace by someone CHEAP. Well, the #8 pick is a heavy price to pay & down the road after the Rookie contract is finished, that #8 pick will be asking for more money than Levitre got.

Totally agree. We have Mack Truck sized holes all over this team, including QB, WR and LB. Why would we waste an 8th overall pick on a position so unimportant that we let a starter and a reliable backup/sometimes starter walk? Let's use our high picks on positions of desperate need, and get a guard in free agency or with a low pick.

[X-Era]

Wow, no one has said "Let's move Glenn inside!" yet.

Why? So we can then draft a new LT when we have one that we like already?

LT is much harder to fill than LG.

If were moving OT's to LG, let's try Hairston there. He's played LT before and has decent feet, maybe he can be a very good LG.

[DraftBoy]

Draft Fisher/Joeckel/Johnson kick Glenn inside. Upgrade LT and LG in the long term and be done with it. Also get to have your pick of QB's in Round 2.

[kingJofNYC]

Draft Fisher/Joeckel/Johnson kick Glenn inside. Upgrade LT and LG in the long term and be done with it. Also get to have your pick of QB's in Round 2.

Probably the best solution, can also kick Glenn to RT if they find a capable G in the later rounds, Pears stinks.

[T-Long]

Don't understand why everyone wants to move Glenn inside. He played quite well in his rookie season at left tackle, why would we move him? Pick up a serviceable guard and get a RT, Glenn is just fine over there.

[coastal]

Well according to Nix... We're all set at tackle.

So.. everyone's favorite offseason meme of "kicking Glenn into guard" may very well come to pass.

At this point it doesn't really matter now... does it?

[ServoBillieves]

Why? So we can then draft a new LT when we have one that we like already?

LT is much harder to fill than LG.

If were moving OT's to LG, let's try Hairston there. He's played LT before and has decent feet, maybe he can be a very good LG.

It's constantly brought up (see the post below yours) and IMHO Glenn should just stay put.

[Historian]

Leave it to these buffoons to take one of the few "strengths" of the team...which was built "their way" and create a hole by making absolutely no effort to retain our own player(s).

Spot on.

Our run game was the only positive last year, and now even that is in question for 2013.

I sure hope to hell these guys know what they're doing.

[Mahdi]

SIGN ANDRE SMITH.

If we only do this in FA I would be happy with it.

Andre Smith can be a PB guard and would make a nasty duo with Glenn at LT.

[DraftBoy]

Don't understand why everyone wants to move Glenn inside. He played quite well in his rookie season at left tackle, why would we move him? Pick up a serviceable guard and get a RT, Glenn is just fine over there.

Because well or good isn't good enough. He was considered the best OG in the country in college, his game is best suited as road grading OG. Can he play LT? Yes he proved that this year but why not put your players in the best position for them to succeed? If you get a shot at say Joeckel at 8, do we really want to pass on that value because we don't want to kick Glenn inside or even to RT?

[stuckincincy]

SIGN ANDRE SMITH.

If we only do this in FA I would be happy with it.

Andre Smith can be a PB guard and would make a nasty duo with Glenn at LT.

I can't see Andre Smith pulling...he'd probably break his dainty feet - again.

[trapezeus]

the way i see this playing out is that we are going to start hearing a lot more about how marrone was a former line man, and he coached the line, and that he had probowlers play under him.

This will allow the team to say, "we can get guards and tackles whenever. We'll coach them up." We may get a couple, but we won't have depth. Somene will get seriously hurt, mildly injured guys will need to learn a new position in the week before game, and there will be no continuity.

after year 1 where our QB is sacked at will and the run game stalls, we'll hear
1. CJ had a poor year. RB's can be found. We let him walk.
2. injuries really took their toll, there was good stuff in there.

Year 2 will start, our rookie QB will be shell shocked, he'll have a decent training camp, we'll have a few more bodies. we'll have higher some assistant coach you've never heard of. Some how he is supposed to be a diamond in the rough. Again, we'll leave the lines mostly the same promising that injuries were the problem.

Year 2 will end with 50% of this board convinced the QB sucks, and 50% blaming the line. Someone will say, "it's year three now, it'll come together"

Year 3 starts with a big naming signing to get us over the hump. First round draft of an RB to enhance our struggling running game. we will be told this is going to help the QB buy time and really see the field. "this is the make or break it year for Marrone and I like how he went from 2 wins to 6 wins. And man we only lost to the patriots by 15 and 25 points in the two games last season. I feel playoffs"

Year three we all see that line play is worse than it was in 2012. Levitre has gone on to perform well....again, and is now considered a steal at his contract price. by week5 everyone will complain about "what are we paying for". Then at the end of the year, when we can marrone and feel like there is a shot at change, Russ will be promoted to Grand Poomba. He will continue to move people around and take flights in January to Arizona as a sacrifice of turning over every stone.

I would gladly have this post thrown in my face in three years when the bills win the superbowl and told that i suck as a fan. but i just don't see any other way that this team travels but sideways and in the steps it laid previously.

Russ has got to go for there to be a winning football team in buffalo.