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Hello Bills fans. As free agency approaches, the Bills are an estimated 30+ million under the salary cap. The team also has 49 players under contract going into the 2008 season. This should mean that the Bills will go after a few free agents starting February 29th. The front office spent a lot last offseason to beef up the offensive line. I’m expecting that to be done this year on the defensive line. The two main positions that should be focused on are defensive line and linebacker. Many complained after the team shelled out big contracts to both Chris Kelsay and Aaron Schobel. Kelsay had a disappointing season but was bothered by an ankle injury. Schobel didn’t have as many sacks as he did in 06 but was voted to the Pro Bowl. He improved on every area of his game and if the team can pick up a defensive tackle, both players will have a great season in 08. I would love to see them pursue Albert Haynesworth but I believe he will stay with the Titans. As of right now, Paul Posluszny and Angelo Crowell are penciled in as starting linebackers. The team will look to improve on the weakside position, which is currently being held by Keith Ellison. I like Ellison and think he is solid but he is undersized. My dream would be for the team to sign Lance Briggs. I don’t think that will happen because Briggs is going to get big money and the Bills will state that he is out of their price range. Look for the team to draft a linebacker or pickup an up and coming star. I also have a feeling that the team will sign a wide receiver. I mentioned that they are interested in Ernest Wilford and I believe he wont command that big of a contract. I’m looking forward to free agency and feel the team will address some major needs before the draft. Go Bills.

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Hello Bills fans.  As the Super Bowl approaches, I cant stop thinking about who the Bills will take in the 2008 NFL Draft.  I read an article today on realfootball365 about the Bills coaches interviewing and observing linebackers at this past Saturdays Senior Bowl.  The team is looking for a weakside linebacker to replace Keith Ellison.  I for one liked the way Ellison played but was a little undersized and didn’t make much noise when on the field.  The best linebackers available are Keith Rivers from USC and Xavier Adibi from Virginia Tech.  Putting Rivers or Adibi next to Posluszny and Crowell will do wonders for the Bills defense.  I don’t know if the Bills will take a linebacker with the 11^th pick because I don’t feel that is our most pressing need.  The defense can really use a defensive tackle and a tall wide receiver.  I would love to address both of those needs in free agency and then we will be able to draft Rivers with the 11^th pick.  We will have to wait and see what the Bills front office does once free agency starts.  April cannot come soon enough.  Go Bills. 

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Hello Bills fans.  I just watched the Senior Bowl and here is my list of players that would help the Bills in a big way.  Defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis from USC is a beast.  He made a bunch of plays today and had to be doubled teamed most of the time.  I hope this guy falls to the Bills at #11.  He will most likely be a top five pick.  The guy is going to be a great pro.  Draft expert Mike Mayock ranks Ellis above Glenn Dorsey from LSU.  I pray that he is still there when the Bills are on the board.  Another defensive tackle that impressed me was Trevor Laws from Notre Dame.  He is another defensive playmaker.  He gets into the backfield quick and has a knack for the ball.  Either Ellis or Laws would be great alongside John McCargo.  Linebacker Dan Conner is also another possibility.  He is a great tackler and would be a great complement to Paul Posluszny and Angelo Crowell.  Conner will definitely be a first round pick but I don’t know if the Bills will go linebacker with their first round pick.  Defensive Back Rodgers-Cromartie from Tennessee State had a tremendous game.  He has the speed to close on receivers and the ball skills to get the interception.  He might be the best corner in the draft.  I was trying to get a good look at the wide receivers.  There wasn’t one that jumped out at me.  I like Adarius Bowman’s size but he couldn’t hold on to the ball in the endzone.  Caldwell from Florida is a speedster but reminds me of a bigger Roscoe Parrish.  There were a few receivers that didn’t play because of injury that I would have liked to see.  I think the Bills should go defense in round one and then draft a receiver in the second round.  The receiver class is deep this year so the Bills can afford to wait.  I can’t wait for the combine to see more of the players I mentioned.  Go Bills. 

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Hello Bills Fans. All I have to say is that I really like the way John DiGiorgio plays football. He seems to always be around the ball. He never misses a tackle and his speed allows him to get to the outside in a hurry. He has 52 total tackles so far this season and he didn’t play until Paul Posluzsny went down in week three. He also has one sack, one interception, and one fumble recovery. It seems that every game he is always making a play. Whether it be corralling a running back or stopping a receiver from getting a first down, DiGiorgio is turning into a playmaker. I’m not going to anoint him a pro bowler just yet. I have to say that I’m very impressed with the way he plays the game. He is an undersized middle linebacker but makes up for that with his hustle and desire. It also helps that he is playing next to in my opinion one of the most underrated linebackers in the league. Angelo Crowell gets better and better every game. He, Keith Ellison and DiGiorgio make a great linebacker trio. When Poz went down, I was really upset. He was becoming one of my favorites on this team. I didn’t know what to think about DiGiorgio at first. I only saw him play on special teams last season and during the preseason this year. I’m turning into a DiGiorgio fan because I feel that this is a player with a little more experience can be an all-star. Thanks DiGiorgio. Lets get them Bengals.

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Hello Bills fans. There is some potential great news for the Bills defense. Linebacker Keith Ellison practiced today and could be ready to go for Monday night’s game. It was said that Ellison did not experience any pain and was full go at practice. Ellison is a very good cover linebacker and it will only help the defense. I wish Posluszny didn’t get hurt because I really wanted to see him, Ellison, and Angelo Crowell on the field at the same time. Ellison had a high ankle sprain that has sidelined him for the first four games. It would be a big boost if he can go against Dallas. In other news, starting strong safety Donte Whitner is moving to free safety this week due to the injury to Jim Leonhard. Bryan Scott is starting at the strong safety position. He is better suited for that role. I feel Whitner will do a great job and will be excellent in supporting both Jabari Greer and Terrence McGee against the high-powered Cowboys offense. Defensive end Anthony Hargrove is eligible to return to the team this week. The Bills have yet added him to the 53-man roster. Look for that to happen in the next few days. I believe they have until Sunday to do so. I am happy that Hargrove is back. He brings energy to this team. It will also be good for our defensive end rotation. Having Hargrove spell both Schobel and Kelsay will make both stay fresh for the entire game. After the bye, defensive end Ryan Denney should be back. This will be yet another boost to our defensive line. Denney is just as good in my opinion as Kelsay. Can’t wait to finally get a little help on the defensive side. Go Bills and lets show the national audience what we are made of.

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Hello Bills fans. The Bills have made a few roster moves today. They have placed backup offensive lineman Jason Whittle on injured reserve. To take Whittles place on the roster, linebacker Kevin Harrison was signed. Harrison spent most of last year on the practice squad. He was released during the final cuts in September. He will most likely play special teams because of the release of Josh Scobey. The Bills have also signed defensive tackle Orien Harris to the practice squad. To make room for him, they released offensive lineman Nevin McCaskill. Look for the Bills to add another offensive lineman to the roster. The only reserves we have healthy are Duke Preston and Kirk Chambers. I still can’t believe how many players we have put on IR this season. The list continues to grow. Whittle joins Ko Simpson, Jason Webster, Al Wallace, Paul Posluszny, Kevin Everett, and Aaron Merz. I can’t believe we are only going into week four. With all of the injuries we have, I would think it was the end of December. In other news it looks like newly signed linebacker Leon Joe will get the start on the outside. John DiGiorgio will take over the middle and Angelo Crowell will be on the other outside position. I don’t know about you but I cant wait for Keith Ellison to come back. He might be back for the Dallas game. He was jogging today in practice and hopefully he can be ready for next week. We could really use all the help we can get. Lets Go Bills

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Well Bills fans, we lost another defensive starter for the year. The Bills today announced that they have placed Paul Posluszny on injured reserve. This to me is really heartbreaking because Poz is a terrific player and he only got to play in three games in his rookie season. This was going to be a year where he would learn the ropes of the NFL game and improve each and every week. He was already turning into a tackling machine and was only going to get better. This really pisses me off. How can we lose so many guys in only three games? Poz joins starting cornerback Jason Webster and starting safety Ko Simpson on injured reserve. The Bills have now lost five defensive starters in all. Keith Ellison is still nursing a high ankle sprain and Terrence McGee did not play last week due to a rib injury. John DiGiorgio had a nice game filling in for Poz. He recorded 12 tackles and ½ sack. It’s a damn shame to lose a player like Poz. Lets hope he gets well soon. The Bills today have also announced the re-signing of quarterback Craig Nall. The Bills had to sign a qb because Losman will be out two weeks. The Bills cut Nall before the season and only kept two qbs on the roster. It’s nice to have a quarterback that knows the system. Nall spent last season on the roster but did not see any action during the season. Lets hope Trent Edwards has a great game this week against the Jets. Lets Go Buffalo. Get well soon Poz.

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Hello Bills fans. What can I say, we were demolished yesterday. Not only did we lose by 31 points, we lost J.P. Losman for at least two weeks and Paul Posluszny for probably the year. The hit that Losman took on the first play of the game was such a cheap shot. Posluszny’s arm got caught between a Patriots player and another Bills defender. I was heartbroken when I saw the trainers putting the air cast on his arm. I can’t believe all of the injuries that this team has endured this early in the season. We have street free agents on the field and it’s starting to show in the games because we are getting blown out. This game had disaster written all over it after New England started to move the ball at will. Our defense can’t stop the run and our offense can’t get a first down. It’s so hard to watch every week but I always have hope that we can pull one out.
The way the game started out I thought we had a chance. After Losman’s fumble on the blind side sack, the Pats had great field position. Our defense held them out of the end-zone and the Pats settled for three. Losman was heading back to the locker room for x-rays on the knee, rookie Trent Edwards came in and led the team down the field. He threw a few nice passes and ended up 4-5 on the drive. Marshawn Lynch powered in the endzone from 8 yards out to give the Bills a 6-3 lead. Lindell knocked home the extra point to make it 7-3. That score would hold until Tom Brady threw a touchdown pass to Watson with 5:08 left in the second quarter. The Bills offense started to sputter after that impressive drive. First downs were hard to come by and New England was winning the field position battle. Our average drive start was the 17 compared to the Pats which was the 44 yard line. The Pats scored a second td with 1:08 to go in the second quarter. Brady hit Randy Moss on a three yard slant. The halftime score was New England 17 Bills 7. At this point I was upset but not too down because we were still in striking distance.
The second half was a whole different story. We couldn’t consistently move the ball and New England would get two touchdowns in the third quarter to make the game out of reach. The score after three was Pats 31 Bills 7. Trent Edwards was getting blitzed and the Bills went into their conservative offense approach. It seemed that on every first and second down we would run the ball and on third down pass. New England was ready for every play and it seemed as if they knew the play better than our offense did. The only positives out of this game is that Marshawn Lynch continued to run hard and ended up with 20 carries for 74 yards and a touchdown. Another reason why the Pats were scoring at will is because we couldn’t stop the run. Maroney and Sammy Morris were getting big chunks of yardage in the second half. Our defense was only playing with two linebackers after Posluszny injured his arm. Tom Brady threw for over 300 yards and had four touchdown passes. Terrence McGee did not play and that hurt our special teams and secondary tremendously. McGee is a big part of this team and could have helped us against Randy Moss and Wes Welker.
The Buffalo Bills are now 0-3 and the future does not look so bright. The only good thing is that we play the Jets this Sunday in Buffalo. Trent Edwards will be the starter this week. If we can have a good running attack and the defense is not on the field the whole game, we might be able to pull this one out. The schedule gets hard again after the Jets game. We play the 3-0 Dallas Cowboys on Monday October 8th. I will be at that game and hopefully the Bills can play the Cowboys tough. Lets Go Edwards and Lynch. We can win this weekend.

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Hello Bills fans. This week is going to be an extremely tough game. The New England Patriots look just like the powerhouse everyone thought they would be. One thing I would love to see this weekend is both Aaron Schobel and Chris Kelsay sacking Tom Brady. Schobel has had great success against New England’s o-line and has sacked Brady over 10 times. If Schobel can get to Brady on Sunday and maybe force a fumble or a bad throw, I believe we will be in this game. I really want to see our young yet fast defense play a complete game. We need to attack right from the get go and show this New England team that we our no pushover. It really hurts that we have no depth at the defensive end position. Anthony Hargrove getting suspended really but a damper on what I thought would be a great backup pass rusher. He is due back week five and hopefully can contribute right away. He did look good in the pre-season and showed some flashes last year. Our linebackers also have to be flying all over the field this week. Posluszny, Crowell, and DiGiorgio have to tackle with force and get physical with this high-powered offense. Lets hope that defensive coordinator Perry Fewell has some tricks up his sleeve to create some turnovers. The Bills will need to get at least two or even three turnovers to be in this one. I beg you defense, please get pressure on Brady and get some three and outs. Our defense has been on the field way too long in both games and I would like to see our offense have some time consuming drives. Both will be extremely tough tasks against this team. Lets Go Bills and I will never stop billieving.

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Hello Bills fans. This Sunday the Buffalo Bills travel to Pittsburgh to take on the Steelers at Heinz Field. The game will be on directv channel 706 and in HD on channel 719. Here are the key matchups the Bills will need to win in order to come out of this game victorious.

Bills run defense vs. Willie Parker: The Bills will have a tough task ahead in stopping the speedy Willie Parker. Kyle Williams, Larry Tripplett, Aaron Schobel and Chris Kelsay need to hold Parker in check at the line of scrimmage. Parker is the type of back that can break one at anytime. The defense needs to slow him down and not allow any big plays. The Bills will also need their linebackers to have a big game. Angelo Crowell, Paul Posluszny and John DiGiorgio must fight off blocks and make tackles. Lets hope we can shut down the run this week.

Hines Ward and Santonio Holmes vs. Terrence McGee and Ashton Youboty: This weeks game will be a tough task for our secondary. Youboty is starting for the first time since being drafted last year. He came in last week when Jason Webster went down and played well. Both Youboty and McGee will be challenged all game by Ben Roethlisberger. I believe one will have an interception in this game. Holmes is a fast receiver and Ward is a savvy veteran who knows how to get open. He is also a very physical receiver. McGee will need to shut him down and hopefully we can get some turnovers.

J.P. Losman and Bills receivers vs. Pittsburgh’s Defense: J.P. in my opinion needs to have a big game this week. Last week he wasn’t able to get into a flow and missed on a long ball to Lee Evans that would have sealed the win for the Bills. Evans, Peerless Price, Roscoe Parrish and Josh Reed need to get open and find a way to keep the chains moving. Reed is questionable for tomorrow so if he doesn’t suit up watch Parrish have at least 6 catches. I would love to see Evans catch a bomb from Losman tomorrow. Please lets hit on a few homerun balls tomorrow.

Marshawn Lynch vs. Pittsburgh’s run defense: This is going to be a tough task for rookie Marshawn Lynch this week. Pittsburgh doesn’t allow 100 yard games. Their run defense is stingy and Lynch will have to fight for every yard he gets. Lynch really impressed me last week and I feel he will have another strong game this week. Look for Marshawn to get into the endzone against this defense. As long as the offensive line opens up some holes, Lynch will get his yards.

This is another tough game for the Bills. The Steelers looked really good last weekend and have a strong team on both sides of the ball. The Bills will have to play great special teams this week and try to win the field position battle. Last week special teams came up huge and almost helped us win the game. I would love to see Terrence McGee return a kick in this one. I also feel that the team will play with a heavy heart and win this one for Kevin Everett. My prediction…..Bills 20 Steelers 17

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