I love Cason, LOVE him. I love the skills he brings to a team....solid tackling, good coverage skills, return ability and overall playmaking skills. He's just a solid all-around football player. I'm not sure he's talented enough to be considered a borderline top 10 pick, BUT he sure is good enough to play up to that.  I also think Cason rates pretty high on the Bills board, mostly because I don't think DRC, Jenkins or Talib do. He'd be an excellent fit for our D and I'd love to have a guy of such high character on our team.  If we take him, I hope we are able to trade down a bit first. I think most teams will have McKelvin, DRC and Jenkins pretty high on their boards. Talib will be on some boards as well. I think Cason fits a cover 2 best, but he does have the ability to play in any D.

I'm still concerned about Thomas being ready to start from day 1. That's my major concern with him, along with route running, that makes me think(/hope?) we go elsewhere in round 1.

And as most of you know, Derrick Harvey...I've oooonnly got eyes for yoooooouuuuuu.... He's looking better and better for us at #11, eh boys?  

What gets you guys excited about Sweed anyways? He's one of the most vanilla prospects in this draft.

Why not Thomas? Great combine, team MVP, but he doesn't play like the #1 WR in the draft...basically my opinion is based on his film... he looks identical to Manningham in terms of game speed and moves and looks like a 4.5 40 guy... (see he Mich/MichSt game), and with a 28" vert, is unacceptable for a red-zone threat. Much of his success is b/c of very accurate QB (Hoyer) and dangerous TE, Kellen Davis. Plus, he's not much of a run blocker.

However, he is a GREAT return man... when given space.... man, seriously, i've never seen the gunner even touch him... and averages 30yrd/return (#9 in NCAA).

STATS===
Year  GP  Rec  Yds   YPC   TD
2006  10  6      90  15.0   1
2007  13  79   1260  15.9   8

Thomas vs world:
Thomas (6'2,215,4.40,28")
Kelly (6'4,224,4.68,32")-pro day
Kelly (6'4,224,4.54,38")-school measurements
Sweed (6'4,215,4.46,35")
Jackson (5'10,169,4.35,34")

Avg WR at Combine (6'0,203,4.51,32")
Avg vert for all combine including lineman (30")

-->Opinion: If Kelly's proday was not a fluke, then we trade our #11... its the smart thing to do.  If forced to pick #11, I'd pick Sweed, McKelvin, or Harvey.. pretty equal on all three.

One thing is for sure, the Bills are studying game tape and they will take the WR they feel is best.
Some said we would take Poz with our first last year, but took him later, and right now, in many mock drafts, Kelly is not even in the first. I say, as many have, we will take the best value at #11, no matter the position, and then we will take the best at #41, which may still be Kelly, or we will trade down.
There is still alot that can happen i terms of draft day trades, etc., but at #11, someone could certainly fall in our lap we never expected.

1.  Terrence Mgee
   
2.  Jabari Greer
   
3.  William James
   
4.  Ashton Yoboty

The bills have 3 good defensive ends:

1.  Aeron Schobel
   
2.  Chris Kelsay
   
3.  Ryan Denny

1.  Texas' pro style offense makes it a breeding ground for NFL ready recievers.
   
2.  Limas is 6'4 220 pounds with a 37.5 inch verticle making him the big red zone threat we have been looking for.
   
3.  His junior year he caught 12 touchdown passes for almost 17 yards a catch!
   
4.  He can also stretch the feild with his 4.48 forty time.  Anyone who is suprised by that speed obviously didn't watch much tape!
   
5.  Had he not had his wrist problem, which is not an issue now, and played his senior year, and had similar numbers to his junior year (a modest assumption considering he still had the same qb who loved him, colt mccoy), he would not be available to the Bills at pick number 11.  The Bills obviously are not afraid to take risks on players comming off injuries (willis mcgahee).
   
6.  He doesn't have any character issues unlike james hardy.
   
7.  Wide receiver is BY FAR the Bills' biggest need.  And whatever you people say, they will take a receiver with their first pick.  Dick jauron said it himself, "We need to score more points".  The way I see it a defensive end doesn't help to much with that, considering we already have a very good if not great defensive line.  Anyone who has watched the bills games knows that its the offense who loses games for the bills 90% of the time, not the defense. Limas scored 12 touchdowns, the bills need touchdowns!
   
8.  Malcolmb Kelly had a terrible 40 which is exactly as i had suspected.  He benefitted from a run style offense, as ironic as that sounds.  All the defenses thought they would run the ball, they kinda had adrian peterson, and then they would just go deep to malcolmb kelly.  If you watch the tape he never locates the ball at the highest point because he always has the db's beat by so many steps.  Is it because he's fast?  obviously not, they guy ran a 4.68 40 yard dash!  Vernon gholstan ran better than that i think!  Would you line up big vernon at wide reciever?  
   
9.  Devin Thomas will not get the nod because he is basically a less agile/bigger version of rascoe parrish.  Ya ya he's pretty quick and fast, but rascoe apparantly the most elusive player ever to go through Miami.  Both parrish and thomas both only scored 8 receiving touchdowns in there best college years.  Did i mention that we need a touchdown maker?  Everyone says we need another return guy.  What?  I swear to god these people don't watch bills games.  The bills have two of the top 5 best returners in the NFL in rascoe parrish and terrence mgee.  If you don't want to put terrence back there because he's our starting corner then just put rascoe!  Fred jackson can also return as he has done in years past.  I remember freddy scoring a touchdown when we used to put him and nate clements back there on punt return duty.  
   
10.  His name is Limas Sweed, that is just an NFL star name.  And just look at him, he looks like he's the man!

Round One:  Limas Sweed  
Wr Texas
Round Two:  Martellius Bennett
TE Texam A&M
Round Three:  Keenan Burton
WR Kentucky
Round Four:  Darrell Robertson
DE Georgia Tech
Round Four:  Owen Schmitt  
FB West Virginia
Round Five:  Dennis Dixon  
QB Oregon
Round Six:  Jamie Sliva (Trade up with two rd 7's)
Safety Boston College
Round Seven:  Kirk Barton
Tackle The Ohio State University

On why the bills front office doesn't like limas...i don't know.  That is probably a rumor unless you have a credible source that says otherwise.  Honestly, i don't think its anything.  If these guys don't smoke weed and don't beat the wives that they already have kids with then they are clean!  Limas is clean, great character guy just like you said.  

Only reason I could imagine would be the wrist.  You could say that he didn't play through pain or something, but do we really know how bad it was.  I mean he missed the 2nd part of the season so we don't know if it is REALLY healed.  If he would have come back and played there wouldn't be any concerns.  Still he is medically cleared to play and he hasn't gotten injured at the combine or his proday, unlike malcolmb.

I've already stated why I don't like DT at 11, Kelly is not a good option there either any longer, and I can't think of any reason why we wouldn't like Sweed.  Maybe it IS (and I hope) a smokescreen.  He'd be the best fit at #2 for us IMO.  Harvey may be BPA and I would be estatic if we got either or traded down.

If as Geronimo said that if McKelvin were to fall to #11 we will take him no matter what, if so, heres what I think we should do:

Round One:  Leonidas McKelvin CD
Hard to pass on him here.
Round Two:  Martellius Bennett TE
We now will have a red zone threat and a guy who can get a first down.
Round Three:  Jordy Nelson
Good size, hands and consistent college production, and a team leader, and he can return punts and kicks as well, will move Roscoe and Reed to the pine where they need to be.

WRs:
Kelly
Sweed
Thomas
Hardy

Talib is a pot head. Jenkins seems avarage at too many things. DRC is benefiting from a name. Kelly can't run a 40.  The bills appearntly don't like Sweed.  Thomas has "one year wonder" written all over him. and Harvey beats women.

If I had to order them right now it would go like this:

McClevin
Sweed
Kelly
Cason/Flowers
Thomas
Jenkins
Talib
Hardy

I think:

1.  If McClevin is there at 11, the bills will now take him.  then they will see how the draft plays out and be willing to move back up to grab a WR if they don't think Kelly will last until pick 42.
2.  If McClevin is gone (and assuming no one huge drops) I don't see how the Bills don't try like hell to trade down.  Cason, Flowers, Sweed, Kelly, and Thomas are all likely to be on the board post-pick 20.  The "value" at 11 is just not there.
3.  They stay at 11 and take eith Cason, flowers, Kelly, or Thomas.

WR - Anyone of those four becomes a starter on the outside. But the value is not there at 11, where we could get any of them, except one past 16 (Titans will probably take a wr, probably Sweed if there) and Kelly and Hardy will go in the 2nd and maybe Hardy before Kelly.

CB - It is possible one of them is a starter by the end of the season, but not definite, and maybe none of them over the other except for Flowers. Flowers is the CB I want, so he does not have to be taken at 11.

DE - Have to be Harvey at 11, or nothing till maybe the 3rd or even 4th. Harvey starts by year's end, maybe earlier. But, to take him at 11 would show little confidence in what we have (which may be warranted) but he is a good pick up no matter what.

TE - This need not be discussed that this position can be taken anywhere rds 2-4.

I think we should trade down, take best receiver and Flowers. Best TE in the 3rd, and a DE later. That gives us two starters, and a hopeful threat at TE.

I think this Kelly stuff about him blaming OU for the surface is GETTING BLOWN WAY OUT OF PROPORTION!  I mean come on!  He is a young 20-21 year old kid who ran a disappointing speed, and panicked and it came off in the media as blaming his school.  I think its ludicrous to start putting up red flags because of it.  Like I have said, and will keep on saying, nothing really changes by a guy's pro-day.  To some teams it does, but as Geronimo pointed out the other day, the Bills use the pro days more to see the kid, meet him, see him up close, at least for those in the dept. who haven't had a chance yet.

All Malcolm Kelly did today was give the media and sites like this something to talk about.  Its a bunch of smoke IMO.  However, it undoubtedly will be perceived by teams in different ways.  How it affects OBD's philosohpy on their draft board is unknown.  

The Sweed thing needs to be answered.  He seems like a very viable candidate for a WR for us to take.  

although on this point i am also torn, as i like parrish as our return guy.  but getting mcgee out of that position would be nice.  as for cb i think flowers could be a nice fit into the bills system and they could draft him in a later round.  so i still think WR is still our priority in the first round.