If Vince Young is there at 8, take him

[Pyrite Gal]

Bad way to build a team?  Yeah.... It's always bad to take elite talent and build around...Predicting the way a qb is going to act or grow as a player is as much a crap shoot as drafting an offensive lineman with the #4 pick and watching him flounder....Cap isn't of the concern of the Bills this year, they already cut their 'star tackle and offensive linemen' losing about 10 million in dead cap space.  Not to mention there starting dt and ss.  If they were concerned with winning this year they wouldn't have made all of those cuts. 

By taking the best player offensively in the draft you allow yourself to cut the dead wood you have already been 'rumored' to want to do anyways.  Losman is a good qb in my opinion, but will never get a fair shake in Buffalo.  Nall has done nothing at any level to convince me he can be a great player in this league and he's already had a few seasons to try.

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Its not always bad to take an elite talent and build around him, its just a really bad idea in this case.

 

Evem if you accept the supposition that Young is the elite talent of this draft AND that this elite talent will be available at #8 (both doubtful but you ask for comments given this fantasy land situation) its a bad idea in this case because taking VY badly leaves a hole on this team which may well be filled by another 1st round choice and because reversing field and taking yet another QB and forcing us to take a hit even further reducing our ability to build a winning team is simply counterproductive and contradictory as a strategy.

 

Even beyond creating some really bad impacts on the field, since this is a business that happens to be a sport, also some thought has to be given as to the impact of this choice on the fan base.

 

VY better be fleet a foot as opposing Ds are going to haul off an be after him big time after we fall behind because this team is not able to stop the run very well. Folks will quite legitimately look at 06 as us setting up the same disaster as last season where the braintrust rather than trying to build a team which at least can compete now, instead decided to use 05 like it was a pre-season learning experience for JP who by his own admission even before the season began acknowledged he had not earned the QB job on the field.

 

A decision to once again hand the QB of the future job to someone who has done nothing to earn it on the field would be horrible. I'm not sure whether it would be worse to have VY's #8 slotted contract sit on the bench with Ralph paying him for no production on the field while he learned the game by watching (much as Michael Vick did his first year) or it might be worse to simply hand him the job to learn while playing (and likely screwing up like most rookies do).

 

How do you see your fantasy pick of VY playing out in 06 and what do you think the effects would be on this team and its future?