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I've been trying to deny it all off-season, but the Spikes trade was the last straw. Spikes, Fletcher, Clements, McGahee and going back to last year Posey, Milloy, Vincent, Adams... all gone and mostly replaced by young guys with little to no experience, which is a huge gamble.
I have no problem with getting rid of aging or under-performing players. I do have a problem with not replacing them or trying to replace them with unproven draft picks or benchwarmers. It worked out with our safeties from last year, but can we really count on that type of immediate quality from draft picks for last year? Plus, we need to analyze this realistically- we had a bunch of draft picks play well on D last year and it got us 7-9 and ranked 27th against the run. This year, well, we need another cadre of draft picks to come in and play well if we're going to do anything on D. Read back two sentences in case you forgot what happened the last time we did that. And that's assuming this year's draft is as good as the last.
It seems as though Marv has chosen to build almost exclusively through the draft. Two problems with that: First, our only big FA move last year and two of our draft picks went to the DL, but the DL STILL SUCKS. Second, guys like Losman, Evans, Peters, Schobel, even Whitner and Simpson do NOT have lifetime contracts with the Bills. Eventually they will either a) require big money to keep, b) leave via FA or c) retire. We will NEVER get ahead if we need to keep fixing the same positions or if new holes are constantly created because of self-imposed cap hell from this "cash to cap" BS.
We drop Spikes for draft picks, but we pay $5 million a season combined for Peerless Price and Josh Reed. We bring in second-tier FA's like Robert Royal, Price, Fowler, Tutan Reyes, Larry Tripplett, etc then wonder why we can't win.
We finished the season at 7-9, and an entire FA period plus two trades later, our offense is moderately better and our defense is significantly WORSE. And I know , "but we still have the draft!" Well guess what? So do 31 other ****ing NFL teams.
I'm really ****ing sick of this team treading water. I want to WIN and at this pace we will never do that. Every time we fill one hole, we create two more.
I have no problem with getting rid of aging or under-performing players. I do have a problem with not replacing them or trying to replace them with unproven draft picks or benchwarmers. It worked out with our safeties from last year, but can we really count on that type of immediate quality from draft picks for last year? Plus, we need to analyze this realistically- we had a bunch of draft picks play well on D last year and it got us 7-9 and ranked 27th against the run. This year, well, we need another cadre of draft picks to come in and play well if we're going to do anything on D. Read back two sentences in case you forgot what happened the last time we did that. And that's assuming this year's draft is as good as the last.
It seems as though Marv has chosen to build almost exclusively through the draft. Two problems with that: First, our only big FA move last year and two of our draft picks went to the DL, but the DL STILL SUCKS. Second, guys like Losman, Evans, Peters, Schobel, even Whitner and Simpson do NOT have lifetime contracts with the Bills. Eventually they will either a) require big money to keep, b) leave via FA or c) retire. We will NEVER get ahead if we need to keep fixing the same positions or if new holes are constantly created because of self-imposed cap hell from this "cash to cap" BS.
We drop Spikes for draft picks, but we pay $5 million a season combined for Peerless Price and Josh Reed. We bring in second-tier FA's like Robert Royal, Price, Fowler, Tutan Reyes, Larry Tripplett, etc then wonder why we can't win.
We finished the season at 7-9, and an entire FA period plus two trades later, our offense is moderately better and our defense is significantly WORSE. And I know , "but we still have the draft!" Well guess what? So do 31 other ****ing NFL teams.
I'm really ****ing sick of this team treading water. I want to WIN and at this pace we will never do that. Every time we fill one hole, we create two more.
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