I doubt most players have an 'appreciation' for fans or consider that fans are their 'paycheck'. The cashier at the grocery store probably isn't appreciative of the people shopping there.
Are you reporting that Russ Brandon, the director of non-football operations at the time, had final say on drafting those players and not the General Manager or Coach? That would be par for the course for this organization, I guess.
I don't get why people on here are so enamored with cutting players left and right. if it was up to TBD, there would be 2 or 3 players on the team and everyone would want to cut them at that point.