San Jose Bills Fan Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Numerous outlets are reporting that the Raiders will cut Michael Huff who was selected one pick before the Bills took Donte Whitner in 2006. Huff was the consensus top safety in that draft and was considered a top ten pick. Whitner was generally considered a reach when the Bills chose him. Just thought it was worth a mention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvermike Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Just because we landed the best safety in the draft doesn't mean that we did the most we could to improve our team at #8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Talk about bust! Still young though and may develop if in a better situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PushthePile Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 At the very least this kind of provides a lesson in the "what if" game. Can you imagine the outcry if we were cutting Huff this year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ennjay Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Didn't Huff come from Texas? Seems to me Texas has a way with NFL busts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Ennjay is absolutely right....Mike Williams, Huff, Vince Young. All top ten draft picks. From what I have heard from different NFL people....a lot of Texas players consider playing at Univ Texas the pinnacle of football. Love playing there etc....and after signing big contracts effort and focus is lacking. Certainly a generalization but tends to be something to be aware of when taking a player from Texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.Y. Orangeman Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Didn't Huff come from Texas? Seems to me Texas has a way with NFL busts. Couldn't agree more. I wouldn't be disappointed if we never drafted another player for UT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrobot Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Ennjay is absolutely right....Mike Williams, Huff, Vince Young. All top ten draft picks. From what I have heard from different NFL people....a lot of Texas players consider playing at Univ Texas the pinnacle of football. Love playing there etc....and after signing big contracts effort and focus is lacking. Certainly a generalization but tends to be something to be aware of when taking a player from Texas. Like O-SACK-po? I worry about Orakpo taking plays off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawgg Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Numerous outlets are reporting that the Raiders will cut Michael Huff who was selected one pick before the Bills took Donte Whitner in 2006. Huff was the consensus top safety in that draft and was considered a top ten pick. Whitner was generally considered a reach when the Bills chose him. Just thought it was worth a mention. Therefore Whitner was a great pick. Go Marv! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckyFillUps Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 more like ohcrapo. This guy is a bigger bust than Gholston. I wish people would see this as truth. I say bring Huff in if he is cut. why not. Bryan Scoot for god sakes. cant do much worse. again, damn you taylor mays!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybob Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 There are two types of busts - those who just can't play at an NFL level and those who don't merit their extravagant salary which is Michael huff, because the player who sucks at 6mil a season can be pretty good at 1.5 mil a season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckyFillUps Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 There are two types of busts - those who just can't play at an NFL level and those who don't merit their extravagant salary which is Michael huff, because the player who sucks at 6mil a season can be pretty good at 1.5 mil a season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Very true....what you want is value. Whether it is an NFL player, home or a stock you really want value in the end. Huff's play is poor for a 6M/yr player but at 1.5M you can tolerate it and even be content with the play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvermike Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Would the Bllls consider playing him across from Whitner? The rare dual-top-ten-from-the-same-year-safety-corps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganesh Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Would the Bllls consider playing him across from Whitner? The rare dual-top-ten-from-the-same-year-safety-corps. I am sure there will be the usual love feast with Dallas especially considering that Dallas defense was wanting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oak tree 12 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Numerous outlets are reporting that the Raiders will cut Michael Huff who was selected one pick before the Bills took Donte Whitner in 2006. Huff was the consensus top safety in that draft and was considered a top ten pick. Whitner was generally considered a reach when the Bills chose him. Just thought it was worth a mention. mention what. that the bills made the right choice. it was a reach in all the message board GM's minds but mike mayock called the pick dead on he was not a reach and the cutting of huff shows that. if your insinuating we go after huff no freaking way. think of the money the raiders paid the #7 pick and have invested in huff. now their going to flat out cut him that speaks volumes as to the type of player he is,can you say colassal bust. there is no way the bills will touch the guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lets_go_bills Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 I'm so surprised that Huff never panned out. I thought he was a sure thing. He was so good in that Texas defensive backfield. Big hitter and always around the ball. What the hell happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oak tree 12 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 more like ohcrapo. This guy is a bigger bust than Gholston. I wish people would see this as truth. I say bring Huff in if he is cut. why not. Bryan Scoot for god sakes. cant do much worse. again, damn you taylor mays!! thats total BS. bryan scott is 10 times more physical then huff who by the way is a free saftey and not a physical player in any way shape or manner . why wouuld you want to take a guy who cant play. do you think the raiders are stupid(besides davis) if the guy could play they would not cut him. i would rather take my chances on modrak picking a rookie safety in the draft. i do however agree on orapko no way do i want the bills to take him @ 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
San Jose Bills Fan Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 mention what. that the bills made the right choice. it was a reach in all the message board GM's minds but mike mayock called the pick dead on he was not a reach and the cutting of huff shows that. if your insinuating we go after huff no freaking way. think of the money the raiders paid the #7 pick and have invested in huff. now their going to flat out cut him that speaks volumes as to the type of player he is,can you say colassal bust. there is no way the bills will touch the guy. Easy there Tiger! I painstakingly chose my words so as not to imply one single g-damn thing. Look at the end of my quote. Is says "Just thought it was worth a mention." I'm not insinuating anything. I thought it was newsworthy and interesting and so did other people like yourself who felt the need to opine on this. Believe me if I thought the Bills made the right choice or the wrong choice I would have said so. As I've said several times in the past, I thought we should have drafted Haloti Ngata who went at #12 or Broderick Bunkley who went at #14. Please try to understand the difference between a news item and an editorial. It'll make life less stressful for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
San Jose Bills Fan Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 There's another way of looking at busts in two ways. One is the guy who gets immediately fat and complacent and as a result underachieves. Then there is the guy who simply was not good and was overrated by scouts. This person might try very hard to succeed but he's just not good enough. In these cases, you have to blame the team which overrated him. oak tree12 disclaimer: I'm not saying whether Huff is the first type of the second type. Don't know enough to make that judgement. Just wanted to point out that when a player busts it's not always his fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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