[Link] Where are they now?

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http://www.twobillsdrive.com/articles/read...icle=1135694974

[Mark VI]

Nice job, GG.

 

After Ralph fires TD and promotes Modrak, I hope Adams gets Modraks' old job as director of scouting.

 

TD has been the only person making the picks since 2002. I've read the scouts comments, prior to Draft day. They ID good talent. TD just didn't pick them.

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I've read the scouts comments, prior to Draft day.

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How do you manage that?

[Mark VI]

How do you manage that?

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The press conferences they hold, prior to draft day. The scouts talk about the regions they work and who looks good. I've even attended a couple.

[Fake-Fat Sunny]

Great job with this article and thanks! However, the unanswered question which deserves some consideration in this article is:

 

If credit should be given to the old staff for the quality of the 2001 draft which was TD's first, what the heck happened and what is the judgment about the quality of the 2000 draft (Butler's last one).

 

Of the 8 players selected, only 2 (Sammy Morris and Dashon Polk) proved to be a legitimate contributor to the Bills. Perhaps one wants to make a case that 2 players (Drew Haddad) can even reasonably be said to have become contributing NFL players (and this is a stretch- someone may want to make a case that Traveres Tillman contributed elsewhere though the Bills decision to pick him offered him little more than training as he contributed little to the team.

 

Any bad mouthing folks legitimately want to do about TDs choice of Mike Williams simply cannot stand as evidence that the old guard was better at never picking a first round bust given the production of Erik Flowers who did not even have the 1-1/2 productive years of play that MW gave the Bills.

 

The credit given Adams for 2001 simply raises the big question about what the heck happened in 2000?

[dave mcbride]

Great job with this  article and thanks!  However, the unanswered question which deserves some consideration in this article is:

 

If credit should be given to the old staff for the quality of the 2001 draft which was TD's first, what the heck happened and what is the judgment about the quality of the 2000 draft (Butler's last one).

 

Of the 8 players selected, only 2 (Sammy Morris and Dashon Polk) proved to be a legitimate contributor to the Bills.  Perhaps one wants to make a case that 2 players (Drew Haddad) can even reasonably be said to have become contributing NFL players (and this is a stretch- someone may want to make a case that Traveres Tillman contributed elsewhere though the Bills decision to pick him offered him little more than training as he contributed little to the team.

 

Any bad mouthing folks legitimately want to do about TDs choice of Mike Williams simply cannot stand as evidence that the old guard was better at never picking a first round bust given the production of Erik Flowers who did not even have the 1-1/2 productive years of play that MW gave the Bills.

 

The credit given Adams for 2001 simply raises the big question about what the heck happened in 2000?

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it's pretty simple, actually. hang around the league long enough, and you'll have a bad draft every now and then. they don't call it a crap shoot for nothing. every bigtime drafter over the years -- ernie accorsi, bobby beatherd, bill polian, jimmy johnson, etc. etc. -- has had at least one bad draft.

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The credit given Adams for 2001 simply raises the big question about what the heck happened in 2000?

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This has been discussed in another thread, but Adams' duties were to set up the draft board and provide insight/answers to questions on draft day.

 

John Butler ultimately made the picks. And the lack of production from that year (which stands out in comparison to the ten good years previous to that) is a real head scratcher. The scouting department does not select the players, however, so I don't agree that Adams is a has-been because of the 2000 draft.