Pyrite Gal Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 The Bills are looking to win now. I can see how someone might reject this notion because the feel that Whitmer is a #15 or so and that McCargo is a second rounder. I'm not arguing about their absolute quality as players. Instead, I think the keys to the Bills decision-making were the Bills listed much more to this being a NEED draft early than this taking a BEST PLAYER AVAILABLE spproach. The Bills seem far more interested in filling the holes in their starting line-up which are not filled by players on their current roster than on taking the BAP who might start but will not only force a current starter to the bench but leave a hole in the starting line-up. Once OAK picked Huff the Bills had Whitmer on their board as one of the few if not the only safety that could assure we were not going with Coy Wire as our starting SS. Then, having gone after an SS we had a hole at DT where Tim Anderson is first on the depth chart. Bunkley and Ngota both got picked and we decided to trade up to get the guy the Bills judged to be the 3rd DT capable of starting and traded up to get McCargo. They traded up to get him rather than waiting to see if he fell to them in the 2nd round. This risk would have been easier to take if we were on a 2 year curve. However, because we want to make sure we have a player who has a chance to start this year, we went that way. Apparently we have now gone to BAP with our roumd choice taking amother OSU DB who dropped on many boards. My sense is that as far as OL probably a couple of things are true: 1. By taking Eric Winston the Texans probably took the one OL player who had dropped who would have been a good pick-up for us. 2. The Bills actually feel JMac can make things work with the crew we have on hand. This looks doubtful to me but I think they are acrually better than the group led by Glenn Parker and Dusty Ziegler that JMac turned into an SB worthy OL for NYG a few years back. We'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 I am still convinced Oakland screwed the whole draft for us. If Huff were still available, I think the Bills would have traded down because they knew Whittner would still be available. The extra picks would have netted us Winston or Trueblood. PTR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thailog80 Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 I am still convinced Oakland screwed the whole draft for us. If Huff were still available, I think the Bills would have traded down because they knew Whittner would still be available. The extra picks would have netted us Winston or Trueblood. PTR 676564[/snapback] I believe that also. I couldnt believe Al Davis let Leinhart slip. He called him the next Ken Stabler. I was shocked when they took Huff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrite Gal Posted April 30, 2006 Author Share Posted April 30, 2006 I believe that also. I couldnt believe Al Davis let Leinhart slip. He called him the next Ken Stabler. I was shocked when they took Huff. 676576[/snapback] One thng true about most of the draft words that folks seem to convert into deadlock certainty is that most of that intelligence was flat out lies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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