cba fan Posted December 22, 2018 Posted December 22, 2018 (edited) 6 hours ago, Clemfield2622 said: Double sigh If you spend $1 on gum, how much did the gum cost? This isn't rocket science. Yes, Maybin and Dareus cost a 1st. That was the price to secure their service. triple sigh. like I said it is all semantics and I explained how these terms are applied by vast majority of all involved. I will try again. we are not talking about money like for an item(gum) cost. we are talking about extra asset traded to draft someone. IE: a 1st round pick player cost nothing as we have that player we used the pick on. The pick is here in camp playing on the team, starting, and continues to carry value like Tre White.(who technically cost less than a 1st round pick due to trade back, but that is another argument I should not start until you get the first premise of drafting) using a 1st rd pick is "using" not costing, not losing, not paying, just "using". The pick was free and available to Bills to use given to them by the league. They paid NOTHING for it. Therefore it cost nothing to use it and again when they use it they still have it. It is just now a player. what did it "cost" to draft Watkins. It cost an extra 1st(worth a 2nd at the time of trade) and a 4th. that is why everyone in the world says team X "USED" a 1st rounder back in 2009 to acquire player X who is currently playing like a starter etc etc.........NOONE says it cost team X a 1st to acquire or draft player X who they drafted. Edited December 22, 2018 by cba fan
dgrochester55 Posted December 23, 2018 Posted December 23, 2018 (edited) 17 hours ago, Tazor Face said: Taking Marcel Dareaus ober JJ Watt Looks bad today, but Dareus was cant miss on paper while Watt was a major boom or bust risk at the time projected to go much lower in the first round than Dareus. Dareus is currently not doing much, but did actually have a few productive years for Buffalo including two pro bowl appearances, calling him a complete bust is a little unfair. JJ watt was projected to be a late teens early 20's pick. Had they picked Watt at 3, Buffalo would have been majorly ripped at the time for using a top 5 pick to reach for a late first round prospect with boards being flooded with "WTF, didnt they learn their lesson when picking Maybin" messages? Maybe they could have traded down, but fans would have also seen this as settling and being too scared to take chances. This would have been very unpopular at the the time fresh out of the Jauron era. Unless someone on the Bills front office can time travel, you really cant blame Buffalo for a pick like this. This is more bad luck than a bad decision. As I said in an earlier post, Troup over Gronk or Maybin over pretty much anyone in the rest of the next three rounds are more glaring examples of where an obvious better opportunity was right there and missed. Edited December 23, 2018 by dgrochester55
mannc Posted December 23, 2018 Posted December 23, 2018 17 hours ago, C.Biscuit97 said: JJ watt had 11 sacks in college. Dareus was the best defensive player on the national champs. This is the definition of hindsight. And terrible spelling. What’s not hindsight is that an interior defensive lineman never should have been selected over AJ Green and Julio Jones.
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