Orton's Arm Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 Thanks for making my point. The Bills went into the 2002 draft wanting to strengthen their DL. But about 8 teams ahead of them took defensive linemen. TD wanted to take a DE in round one and publicly said so. But there was a run of linemen ahead of him, something he couldnt do anything about. So he chose McGahee. he didnt go into round one looking for Mcgahee. It was a fallback plan. But the other teams didnt cooperate. No one expected all those teams to take DL, and there wasn't any good enough ones left to warrant a #1 contract. That is not ignoring the lines, that is a fact of being in a 32 team league. 603379[/snapback] I wasn't accusing TD of failing to spend picks on the DL. On the contrary, he spent three second round picks on DEs while he was here. But only two first day picks on OL in his five years. You could look at any one year, and say there may not have been an OL worth taking when the Bills' pick came up. But over the course of five years, that record of neglect becomes harder to justify. Some point out that other teams have built good lines with lower round picks or UDFA. That's great for them. But TD didn't find any OL starters through lower round picks or UDFA, so he should have paid the draft price for good OL. Yet the last first day OL under TD was Mike Williams in 2002. Then there's the issue of the Jennings contract. Maybe after year 2 or year 3, Jennings wasn't willing to talk extension, or was being a jerk about it. Looking at just that one case, it's not clear if the problem is Jennings being greedy, or TD being cheap. But under TD, the Bills produced the leading FA LT free agent for the year (Jennings), the most desired FA CB for the year (Winfield), and one of the most desired FA DTs for the year (Pat Williams). It seemed TD had a habit of not wanting to pay for many of the Bills' best players, at critical positions. Those guys walked long after the Butler salary cap mess had been cleaned up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonprophet Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 Jauron is going to be harder to listen to the Greg Williams he just to dull which leads me to a question-If i as a fan find him uninspiring how is a team going to find him INSPIRING? 602918[/snapback] Maybe he has a big foot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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