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The starting post is good and has done an excellent job of figureing out what positions gms find sexy. I think that the reasoning is a little different. I believe that fans, the media, and many teams get obsessed with measurables/statistics. The focus on statistics is particularly unfortunate since there is no such thing as an individual event of a football field, unlike baseball where every at bat is an individual event. Therefore your stat line is the product of the efforts of the entire team. We see this particularly well on the defensive line. DEs are paid a lot more money than DTs because DEs get lots of sacks whereas DTs don't get many sacks or tackles. Corners know that interceptions lead to big paydays more than makeing the correct play and knocking down the ball. This is why so many corners try for interceptions in hail mary situations. With regards to measurables lets talk about quaterbacks. When drafting QBs you never hear talk about reading defenses because it is too abstract. Instead you hear about arm strength. This is why Ryan Leaf was a 2nd pick and Tom Brady was a 6th rounder. Or lets talk about a team that doesn't know how to evaluate offensive linemen so they just aloways look for the biggest guy possible. This can be remidied by watching more game film. By this post I don't tmean that stats/measurables should be completely ignored. A player with better stats/measurables has a higher probability of being good than one without these atributes, but these numbers do not tell as much of the story as game film.

I know that there are some annoying people at the Ralph BUT guess what people drink too much at Bills games. The people in the endzone at any football game drink more than the people in any other section. If you want to talk about annoying people lets bring up the geniuses who bring their kids to sit in the endzone when they know that is where people will be the most rude. Or how about the lady that took her two young children to the game with endzone seats, all dressed from head to toe in Jets gear. There are lots of cheap seats that are less drunk/rowdy than the endzone.

Slightly on the long, but notice I said almost the worst. and yes I know about the guy who went to the CFL

Fat Mike is nearly the worst draft pick in Bills history. He is paid left Tackle money even though he plays right tackle and should be playing guard. We won't move him to guard because we are paying him so much. He has all the motivation and drive of Eric Flowers. He was picked 4th in the draft but plays like a 4th rounder at best. He is too fat to pass block against any player with speed. If you are a lineman picked in the top 10 and you are not a perennial pro bowl player you are a wasted pick. At first I thought that his slow development was due to poor coaching and the constant flux of our staff. Now I believe that he just doesn't have the mental toughness to keep working hard with that massive salary.

What we need to do is release that fat waste of cap space Mike Williams, one of the worst draft pix in bills history. Then we can use our high draft pick on a dt/ol (an o lineman who isn't too fat to pass protect and too soft to run block) Leftover money will be used to either franchise Clements or get better o line players. One of the main reasons that our QB situation has been so bad for the last few years is that we are paying a mediocre player at right tackle superstar money. This takes away from the availible budget for the rest of the line. Hence the bargain basement left side.