he might not be and outstanding RT, but very few RT’s are. For what we ask of him his is very effective and even more consistant. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

Was Walker bad enough to get benched by syrbillsfan? I thought he was the most consistent OL this year.

What can’t be gleaned is future performance. Yesterday’s poor linemen are today’s great linemen. With linemen, looking at whether they are Pro Bowl or not, doesn’t really give you anything. So Brian Waters, the “Pro Bowl” guard, means you’re getting someone who was great three years ago. He might be good now, but he will get more money than his current contract to come here. We will inherit his KC contract, but inevitably he’d want a new deal worked out, probably right away. As far as Preston, I think he improved from game to game, maybe Ron can tell me otherwise. In the 2nd Jets game he did fine. I also think he is m ore suited to guard than center. And my overriding concern was value. For the at or near veteran minimum, I don’t think you’ll find better. I know we’ve seen a lot of bad from him, but we also started to see some good. He’s not going to have the motivation issues that might plague FA’s we bring in. My biggest constraint when I was putting this together was trying to figure value for performance. As a small market team, the more performance for the money we get on the OLine, the more we can spend on skill positions and on the defense.

What if I put it this way, pay Preston, draft/sign a couple of rookies and get Coles? This is purely hypothetical stuff, as the Bills staff may have seen enough, and won’t sign him anyway.

With Walker, I pretty put that out there because if we’re changing things, we should change everything. I have nothing against him, and he very well could have been our most consistent guy, I just know our run game hasn’t been all that great in his time here (again, probably not his fault) and he is vulnerable to any and every speed rusher out there, maybe we need to go a different direction. I think the difference between Preston and Chambers and what not is that Walker is what he is, he isn’t going to get any better and may get worse. Preston and Chambers still have room to grow, and at least Preston I saw doing that, getting better, growing.

What has been with the Bills needs to change. Sometimes you have to look at the puzzle from a different angle to find the solution. What I proposed may seem drastic, but I think it could work. It would also maximize the ability of the Bills to fill some of the holes at WR, TE, DE with people that would make you all happy.

Also, just because the salary cap is such and such, that doesn’t mean the Bills can spend that and keep everything in the black. I believe their resources are more finite than everyone seems to think. Some of their balking is probably related to fiscal sense as opposed to timidity. They might have $30 mil in cap space, but they may not have $30 mil to spend.

I look forward to your numbers. I very well could be way off base on this whole thing. What I really wanted to accomplish was a stirring of the pot so to say. Everyone seems to think the answer to all of our problems is / was on someone else’s roster. Even to say the answer maybe on the K C Chiefs roster. I think the answer might be (or was) on our roster, just the pieces weren’t put together properly. Where I might be wrong is our line was constructed basically “Who’s the biggest man available” from one side of the line to the other. That would mean the Bills staff only considered Preston’s size and not his potential when they drafted him, ugh. I really think he has more to give and is ready to give it, if given the chance. Even if that just makes him average, I am sure it would pay dividends in the long run.

WGR has a time limit. We don’t. :)

…is a dumb as any one of them when discussing player personal. The only decent thing I have to say about him is that his personality doesnt grate on me.