Bills will meet pre-draft with Colt McCoy
by Brian Galliford on Mar 16, 2010 8:00 AM EDT
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Chris Steuber at Scout.com is reporting that the Buffalo Bills, along with the St. Louis Rams, will host Texas quarterback Colt McCoy for a two-day visit on April 11 and 12.
One of the most decorated winners in college football history, McCoy is a four-year starter that helped guide the Longhorns to a 45-8 record over the past four years after taking over the starting job from Vince Young as a redshirt freshman. The 6'1", 216-pound McCoy is regarded as a second- or third-round talent, though scouts are worried not just about his playing abilities, but about a pinched nerve in his throwing shoulder that he suffered in January's BCS National Championship Game.
McCoy will work out for scouts on March 31 at the Texas Pro Day.
It's no secret that Buffalo is in the market for a new quarterback, and to date, it's already public knowledge that the team has met with (or will meet with) McCoy, Florida's Tim Tebow and Notre Dame's Jimmy Clausen. More visits and/or workouts are certain to be scheduled over the next month.
The first round of the 2010 NFL Draft will take place on the evening of Thursday, April 22.
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Weak armed QB’s with girlish builds aren’t really what we need here IMO.
at least he’s not form California
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by S2 on Mar 16, 2010 8:25 AM EDT up reply actions
Which is totally offset
By the fact his name is Colt.
mob – he’s much bigger than Flutie and if you recall, Flutie was damned talented in Buffalo. If a QB has it, they have it. A lack of a prototypical physique won’t keep them from succeeding.
At the end of the draft though, i’d rather they take a gamble on The ’Bow than on McCoy.
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by TheAfghanTwilight on Mar 16, 2010 9:32 AM EDT up reply actions
The ’Bow
Haha…is this how we’re referring to him now?
Bill Polian and AJ Smith are gone, so there's not the usual balance between "sane" and "others." Ralph has mentally checked out since 1994. It's a very dangerous time. The coalition for reason is extremely weak.
I’m going to, anyway.
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by TheAfghanTwilight on Mar 16, 2010 12:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Haven't you ever learned???
don’t take a “bow” to a gun fight???
Let’s get a rifle (Colt) instead!!!
JK…
The 'Bow' & The 'Colt'
I like it.
What makes me think, though, that we’ll wind up with (a) Popgun.?
by ccthemovieman on Mar 16, 2010 12:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Why?
You got that right.
A good college quarterback and nothing more.
Bills like to waist time looking at foolish potential players.
Focus on the real teams needs along with talent.
Start looking at trading D.Whitner, M.Storud, K.Williams, A.Schobel now with future picks to get some young new talent this year in the draft.
The front office of the Bills is boring and thinks small.
This is why we have 7/9 seasons and last years 6/10.
They need management to create more picks with trades and forefeit future picks to get young and talented now.
Its sad to watch how boring they are with their draft.
Lets wait & see shall we...
Look the Bills are doing what must be done! Covering all bases… The good thing is at least there looking to get a QB in the draft – If not through Free Agency.
It would be ignorant for them to not meet with a half-dozen or so QB’s. At 6’0 209, Drew Brees “girlish build” seems to work ok
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Well
Dang if we played in a dome, I’d agree with you.
Or
If we had an offensive line that didn’t try to compile an NFL’s greatest hit’s DVD on our QB’s every week.
are we planning on retaining that o-line status for the future? McCoy has taken 92 sacks in college, he’s pretty much used to it.
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by dzil on Mar 16, 2010 9:18 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I don't know about anyone else
But you say 6’ tall girls that weigh over 200 lbs have a girlish build? YIKES!
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Some people are into those eastern European girls.
Bill Polian and AJ Smith are gone, so there's not the usual balance between "sane" and "others." Ralph has mentally checked out since 1994. It's a very dangerous time. The coalition for reason is extremely weak.
If there not bigger than me, I have a hard time envisioning them playing in the NFL.
Or at least being able to take an NFL beating. It’s weird Iknow.
Good. Nix has said he wants someone that has always done it, and McCoy is one of the most successful QBs in college history.
I think his lack of arm strength is overstated and I think the weather conditions in Buffalo are overrated (particularly when one of the late season games is in Toronto).
I’d be happy to see the Bills take him.
I think his lack of arm strength is overstated and I think the weather conditions in Buffalo are overrated (particularly when one of the late season games is in Toronto).
The sideway’s goal posts and the backwards punt would disagree with you. And with Nix stating that he wants a strong armed QB, I’m thinking that McCoy is just due diligence. Crap I’d rather have Tebow than McCoy.
sideways goal posts and backwards punt was once, and no QB in the world can throw in that. Flutie seemed to function just fine in Buffalo.
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Stronger than McCoy's arm.
Kinda like the difference between a pistol and a supersoaker.
Earlier in his career yes, but by the time he came to Buffalo, no. I remember safeties playing like 10 yards off the line and sitting on short routes against Flutie because they had no worries about him beating them deep. If I remember correctly, that was one of the reasons that Wade made the switch to Rob Johnson.
by tm on Mar 16, 2010 4:46 PM EDT up reply actions
I never heard Flutie being known for having a strong arm, ever. How did you decide that his was stronger than McCoy’s?
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But I agree, he never really had a lot of pop.
by Richard Hill on Mar 16, 2010 8:41 PM EDT up reply actions
you're biased
because his name is Colt and yours is Pistol. :-)
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by fansince60 on Mar 16, 2010 9:03 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Pistol – it’s not a given that the Toronto games will be played late in the season. Actually, if the team continues the slide they’ve been on the last 10 years, i’d gather the game could move to the first quarter of the season, when they’re still marginally relevant in the standings.
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by TheAfghanTwilight on Mar 16, 2010 9:34 AM EDT up reply actions
Given who they’re meeting with I’m surprised Bradford isn’t on the list.
Perhaps they think it’s a lock he’ll be gone, and you get the sense he’s going #1 now.
But it doesn’t hurt to talk with him; you never know what’s going to happen in the draft, and it’s a good chance to compare him with everyone else.
If the bills were to take McCoy in the 2nd or 3rd, and they liked him… why not. Even if down the stretch he is only a back up, something tells me that one of the winningest players in College football history, with a bit of a chip on his shoulder, and maybe flying a bit under the radar because everyone talks about how Tebow may or may not make it in the NFL, sure as hell could be better than Ryan Fitzpatrick…
I would have no problem with it
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he’s also the only QB in the draft who has started and played 4 full seasons. Plus he’s the one that has a career average above 70% complete. Not to mention a 4 year QB rating average above 155.
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Isn’t he a “Gailey type” for all those that have mentioned Gailey’s lean toward mobile QBs? I am not one who has said it, only read it, but either way, i think this kid has more upside than anyone on our roster, and is well worth a 2nd rounder… if you were to grab an LT in the 1st, McCoy in the 2nd, and then hell, you might even be able to McCoy in the 3rd… or the Syracuse DT in the 3rd and MCoy in the 2nd… something… if we grab those three positions in the first three rounds, than the Bills drafted well in terms of possibibility, if the players pan out is another story
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I could see it happening. It could be argued that he’s the safest QB pick in the first 3 rounds. There aren’t really many(if any) good value NT’s or LT’s likely to be at the #41 spot. Definitely makes more sense than LeFevour/Pike/Snead would.
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Cody or Thomas may be around in the 2nd…if they aren’t, other prospects will be moved down. Don’t take Colt in the 2nd…get an OLB, or OT, or DE, or DT, etc…
by NorCal BillsFan on Mar 16, 2010 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Yes, Colt will be later than that 3rd at the earliest IMO
but I do like the idea that he does fit Gaileys mold for a QB and get good value I like him but If I went QB by round and value I’d take 1st- Clausen: 2nd-Tebow: 3—5th-Lefeavour, Colt, Pike. That would be the only QB range for me and we need to go LT/NT or OLB with our 1 & 2 picks.
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by SouthBuffaloNDgrad on Mar 17, 2010 1:13 AM EDT up reply actions
of course Gailey also specifically said he was looking for a strong armed QB
though I despise Coaches and their double talk so who knows
maybe hes always loved McCoy and said that to keep other teams from thinking OBD would take him
we the FANS the VOICE the PEOPLE the true BLOOD of the Buffalo BILLS are just doing all this SO mAYBE just MAYbe the Coach THE teAM will just see how us the FANS the the SPARTAN aka BUFARTAN we will not Surrender to know onE.
-abayarde
by uPitt_BillsFan on Mar 16, 2010 10:27 AM EDT up reply actions
I don’t see why a coach would say something like that… you are looking for a quality player, no matter what shape he comes in, and what skill set specifically… if they produce they produce,…. thats it
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by killascript on Mar 16, 2010 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions
Just like Quinn’s departure to Denver… even though he looks now like a career backup, Quinn is seen as an upgrade to the depth chart… while we don’t have a legit, or at least undisputed, starter at QB like Denver with Orton (successful last year no matter peoples’ opinion of him and his “noodle arm”) we could still see McCoy as depth that very well may be better than anything we have, and even if his arm isn’t the strongest that doesn’t mean he isn’t or can’t be good at the NFL level… some time to mature, get stronger and study the game could make him a better QB, and maybe even NFL starter…. a lot of possibilities and i would be open to have Colt as a Bill even if his name is a bit flaky
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While not entirely dismissable, the arm strength thing is overrated, on many levels. McCoy could come into the NFL, have a year or two to develop in the weight room, and really improve his “limitations.”
Joe Montana may be the finest QB to ever play in the NFL, and he had a suspect arm, generally speaking. His partner in crime, Jerry Rice, was too slow. Yeah, those guys really flopped. Sure, they’re exceptions, but an exception is simply proof that a rule can be broken.
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by TheAfghanTwilight on Mar 16, 2010 9:41 AM EDT up reply actions
football is strange, as I guess alot of sports are, because in game speed/play is all that counts… McCoy could be very good, as could Tebow… and I think either would be a welcome addition to the Bills, IMO and I can’t see how anyone can dispute that, besides “We could have drafted other players at different positions, etc.” but you can always do that, and if the player pans out it doesn’t matter. Especially in the 2nd or 3rd (although it might not happent hat either of those two, two of the most successful QBs in college history and from big schools, lasts until after the 2nd, but it might happen
It is Brohm’s Bills jersey that is the least stained with doo-doo... GO BILLS
I won’t be throwing a fit if they draft him, or someone else who did well in college.
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by TheAfghanTwilight on Mar 16, 2010 9:56 AM EDT up reply actions
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by TheAfghanTwilight on Mar 16, 2010 11:26 AM EDT up reply actions
I disagree why does is have to be big time school QB's
maybe this year the top 4 are all from prominent programs and with Bradford (lost title game threw 50 td’s, he did have a damn near NFL quality line), Colt , and Tebow ( the best college FB player ever) . Look at recent QB’s who have done good, from smaller non-major types FB programs; Flacco, Matt Ryan, Big Ben, A-Rodge, Rivers, Eli, all non big time college QB’s they were all good obviously. Some big time guys like Sanchez, Vince, Leinart? made it but it seems the guys that went to smaller type programs fared well. So, college success is great but not all there is.
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by SouthBuffaloNDgrad on Mar 17, 2010 1:25 AM EDT up reply actions
I’d be stunned if the Bills draft him. Maybe Nix thinks he could still be sitting around in the 4th round or something. Or maybe the Bills want to bring him in to throw just to make sure that his arm is what we all think it is. You know, due dilligence or whatever. But I wasn’t trying to be an attention grabber or anything when I said I’d consider taking McCoy entirely off the draft board if I were the Bills.
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by kaisertown on Mar 16, 2010 10:00 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I wouldn’t expect the Bills to spend the $ and time interviewing players that aren’t on their draft board.
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I’d expect that nearly every player in the draft is on their draft board. Hello talent void!
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by TheAfghanTwilight on Mar 16, 2010 10:28 AM EDT up reply actions
just from the perspective
of proper draft preparation, I would also expect every draft-able player to have been evaluated and graded. Some might be an “F”, but still graded. Anything less would be unacceptable.
"huge, big, fast, nasty...all those terms"
alittle more perspective
isnt there a limit on these interviews? like only 50 per teams or something? so interviewing every player on or off their board from the first 3 round grade seems wasteful. plus a two day interview?? what part of it takes 2 days if its essentially just a meet and greet
we the FANS the VOICE the PEOPLE the true BLOOD of the Buffalo BILLS are just doing all this SO mAYBE just MAYbe the Coach THE teAM will just see how us the FANS the the SPARTAN aka BUFARTAN we will not Surrender to know onE.
-abayarde
by uPitt_BillsFan on Mar 16, 2010 10:40 AM EDT up reply actions
I thought it was some totally random number
Like 36 or something.
omeone said 30 in another post
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by killascript on Mar 16, 2010 11:08 AM EDT up reply actions
36, 75, 30, 60
Hike!
"huge, big, fast, nasty...all those terms"
by fansince60 on Mar 16, 2010 11:21 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
what he said....rec'd
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good
we should inspect every QB in this draft up close.
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exactly
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by silverstreak3k on Mar 16, 2010 12:57 PM EDT up reply actions
smoke screen
maybe its a smoke screen to hide who Nix really wants?
I don't like McCoy
But I like that the Bills are bringing him in for an interview and workout. Now they can see up close and personal that they don’t want him.
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by Kurupt on Mar 16, 2010 12:13 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Should we read anything into the fact that they've met with Tebow, Clausen and McCoy but not bradford?
or is it just early?
...so I guess now I root for chan gailey...
Yeah, it means Bradford will be long gone and we are not going to trade up.
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