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Nothing against Drayton Florence, the guy can play and was arguably the best cornerback for the Bills last year. However, when you’re going into your contract year and the other party is two years from being a 1st round pick, you have to go with youth. Before training camp, the only assumption I had towards Leodis McKelvin fighting for a job was so the Bills could get a 100% effort from him in training camp. You know, light a fire underneath him. Now that we are less than two weeks away from the start of the season, Chan Gailey hasn’t blinked on giving McKelvin the job. If you look at both players statistics for the preseason, they are relatively the same. They are close in tackles and pass breakups, and really haven’t made enough plays to separate themselves from each other.

Prediction: Flip a coin for this battle, but I’m going with Florence. If it was going to be McKelvin, he would have started by now during the preseason. I’ll say this though, fans shouldn’t get up in arms about McKelvin not starting. Sure, it’s not a great sign and would signal another questionable draft choice under Tom Modrak, but it’s not like he’s going to ride the bench. This is a throwing league, where offenses play with 3-4 wide receiver sets. McKelvin will get on the field and should eventually take over the spot.

I wrote earlier in August that I felt the Bills should give Hardy every opportunity to win a job on this team. I happen to come from the old-school when it comes to being patient with draft picks. Especially when high draft picks are wide receivers. However, things aren’t looking quite becoming for the former 2nd ride pick. Hardy has struggled this preseason with injuries and competition from other wide receivers like Chad Jackson and David Nelson.

Prediction: I think Hardy survives, barely. Something tells me that because Chan Gailey is an offensive minded coach, he’s going to elect to have more wide receivers on the roster than normal. Dick Jauron used to be known for keeping a large amount of cornerbacks, why? Because he’s a defensive back coach by trait. When Mike Mularkey was the head coach, he had seven wide receivers on the roster at one point, why? Because he’s an offensive minded coach. Not to mention, it’s not like there’s a wide range of outstanding wideouts on this squad. Really? Are you that impressed with Stevie Johnson? Besides Lee Evans, the majority of these wideouts don’t seem to have much upside and because of Hardy being a former 2nd round pick, it should allow him to stay.

Seriously? Chris Ellis and some dude named Torbor are playing ahead of Maybin? Something tells me that with the injury history of Ellis and the fact that Torbor is a journeyman, Maybin will eventually start a game.

Marcus Stroud’s career best for sacks in a season was 6.5 for the Jags during the 2002 season. Doesn’t seem like a lot, does it? Well, that tops the most sacks by anyone for a season on the Bills roster. Judging by the Bills no-named outside linebackers, which are normally the players that would lead the team in sacks in a 3-4 defense, the Bills won’t get past 10.

Yes! Spiller is the talk of the preseason and because of his talent, I can’t see the Bills not giving him 15-20 carries a game. When he was first drafted, I thought the Bills were getting their version of Reggie Bush, a guy that would return kicks and catch passes out of the backfield. I know it’s still early, but Spiller looks like our version of Chris Johnson and I think he’s the type of back that can average almost five yards a carry