mileena Posted March 14, 2018 Posted March 14, 2018 46 minutes ago, FearLess Price said: Who did they draft with the pick we used to trade up for Watkins with How does that matter?
BuffaloRush Posted March 14, 2018 Author Posted March 14, 2018 11 minutes ago, Jay_Fixit said: It’s against the rules to get your math wrong. Anything else I can help you with? Gotcha...my bad
harv shitz Posted March 14, 2018 Posted March 14, 2018 Another in a litany of blown, wasted picks, by Whaley, and his mentor, Buddy F-ing Nix! Nix passed on Russel Wilson, because, and I quote him addressing me on WGR, "we thought he was too short, and besides, we had Ryan, and he was our guy." Just be glad the idiocy at One Bills Drive is gone, and we have real football minds in control. 1
JOE IN HAMPTON ROADS Posted March 14, 2018 Posted March 14, 2018 If the purpose of the Sammy deal was to fix EJ Manuel's abysmal passing game, as I believe it was, it was a spectacular failure.
Fetou Posted March 14, 2018 Posted March 14, 2018 (edited) I don't think the idea of the trade itself was that bad, or that the compensation for the move up was unfair. It simply is the case that Sammy Watkins explosive ability displayed in college only translated to the NFL in short intervals. He has been a persistently injured player. Even when healthy, he didn't live up to his billing. That's the risk you take when you move up to select your guy instead of choosing from those that are available to you. Nobody would be complaining if he met the consensus expectations held by the NFL scouting community. Edited March 14, 2018 by Fetou
BuffaloRush Posted March 14, 2018 Author Posted March 14, 2018 26 minutes ago, harv shitz said: Another in a litany of blown, wasted picks, by Whaley, and his mentor, Buddy F-ing Nix! Nix passed on Russel Wilson, because, and I quote him addressing me on WGR, "we thought he was too short, and besides, we had Ryan, and he was our guy." Just be glad the idiocy at One Bills Drive is gone, and we have real football minds in control. I love this quote....too funny
ILBillsfan Posted March 14, 2018 Posted March 14, 2018 FAIL.....said it at the time........only really one position you move up in the draft and give away your next years first round draft pick....see this years draft..QB 1
FearLess Price Posted March 18, 2018 Posted March 18, 2018 On 3/13/2018 at 10:07 PM, mileena said: How does that matter? It doesnt. I wanted to know who went with the pick we traded away cuz sometimes i wonder how it wouldve played out if we never traded up. It didnt work out for us. The Browns didnt make much out of those picks either.
Over 29 years of fanhood Posted March 18, 2018 Posted March 18, 2018 (edited) If only they used that top 5 pick on the second or third QB in that draft and picked up Manziel or Bridgwater, or moved up for Bortles. We would’ve watched our bills in like 3 Super Bowls by now Edited March 18, 2018 by Over 29 years of fanhood 1
Buffalo Boy Posted March 19, 2018 Posted March 19, 2018 Fail!!!! Sammy will never become the elite receiver he was pumped up to be. Still can’t believe what KC gave him???
Bing Bong Posted March 19, 2018 Posted March 19, 2018 (edited) Given how highly we think of deontr Thompson. We would have had several more play making with watkins. Loves Gaines, but are we keeping him?? We lack at the WR position Edited March 19, 2018 by PetermanThrew5Picks
Big Turk Posted March 19, 2018 Posted March 19, 2018 Who cares...it really is insignificant in the grand scheme of things
LABILLBACKER Posted March 19, 2018 Posted March 19, 2018 The moral of the story is good wr's and rb's can be found in later picks. Only qbs are worth trading up for.
Ol Dirty B Posted March 19, 2018 Posted March 19, 2018 (edited) It was clearly a fail, when judging by the results. He's not on the team anymore. I don't even understand why this is a thread. I wish it would have worked out better, and I love how now everyone knows Odell would have became what he is. The rest of the receivers in that draft aren't better than Sammy, or just as injury prone. No one saw Odell being what he was and what he could become in that draft. It's annoying to read the people with 20/20 hindsight talk about receivers in that draft. 6 hours ago, Real McCoy said: Hey we could of had this clown Could you imagine this fanbase dealing with that dude? It'd be so ugly. Edited March 19, 2018 by Ol Dirty B
njbuff Posted March 19, 2018 Posted March 19, 2018 It's a lesson for NFL teams. NEVER trade up in the draft for a WR when you don't have a QB to get him the ball.
BuffaloBill Posted March 19, 2018 Posted March 19, 2018 On 3/13/2018 at 9:11 PM, BuffaloRush said: Ok it's been a full 4 years since the epic draft day deal that sent 2 draft picks to Cleveland to select Florida WR stand out Samual Watkins IV with the 4th overall selection in 2014. Bills GM Doug Whaley called Watkins a "generational talent" and when discussing the trade he said this: We thought it was a win for us now. We're building our roster now, and granted, you hate giving up No. 1 picks, but what we thought he brings us now is worth giving up a low (No. 1) that we'll be giving up next year." And then, he walked it back and uttered a phrase which Bills fans will remember forever ""That's not a guarantee; I'm saying we expect it to be low," he said. "I'm a competitor, call me crazy, I like those odds." But the question remains, what is the final verdict on Sammy Watkins? Was he truly the "generational" talent as promised? His numbers wouldn't indicate that he was but you can argue that there were serious reasons for that. So let's make the call about Sammy Watkins Not even close to a generational talent and it was an idiotic trade. You take those kinds of gambles for a QB not a WR. The sad thing is that Sammy was not even close to being the best WR in the draft. Not to mention he had a very poor attitude. I guess we will see how he does in KC with a full training camp but it’s obvious the Rams did not see him as a generational talent. 1
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