Patrick Willis was a dumb pick for San Francisco

[Bills232]

I don't understand why the 49ers would pick an ILB with the 11th pick...

Willis can't even use his speed in the 3-4 defense..

[patmoran2006]

DOnt buy for 2 seconds the BS that we would've passed on Willis if he was there.. This guy is a beast.

Im VERY happy the way things worked out for Buffalo; given the way the board was this was about as good I could hope for.. But the crap about Willis not being one of the "three targets" is BS. Of course, I could TOTALLY UNDERSTAND that.. Why wouldnt the FO hype POS< they want him to have confidence not think he was "settled for".

That's typical of ANY team's FO, not just the bills

[gr8slayer]

Lynch >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Patrick Willis.

Thank you Marv for taking the guy we actually NEEDED.

[Statman]

I don't understand why the 49ers would pick an ILB with the 11th pick...

Willis can't even use his speed in the 3-4 defense..
Willis going to SF was a major disappointment.

Don't buy the hype that Lynch will make a bigger impact than Willis. Lynch is highly dependent upon a very sketchy OL while Willis would have easily provided the cornerstone to the building of a very solid D.

There' s no question in my mind that Willis would have made an impact here for a decade, longer than Lynch likely will if he turns out to be as good as everyone is imagining.

Memories of McGahee are far too fresh on my mind however to automatically think that Lynch is finally the guy without the line to do it. Peters and Dockery, so what. He can't run to the left 80% of the time. Meanwhile, which players that we have on D will stop opponents from posting 150 yard rushing days regularly?

[Jeff1220]

Are you kidding? Willis will be a beast for them. Do you forget that Nolan coached a guy named Ray Lewis in the same system? He sees Willis as that guy for SF.

[streetkings01]

I'll take Lynch/Poz/Wright any day over Willis/Wright because the latter would have been our picks if we would have taken Willis @ #12.

[justasportsfan]

that's like saying Michael Jordan would've sucked in a different system.

[Dr. Lecter]

Memories of McGahee are far too fresh on my mind however to automatically think that Lynch is finally the guy without the line to do it. Peters and Dockery, so what. He can't run to the left 80% of the time. Meanwhile, which players that we have on D will stop opponents from posting 150 yard rushing days regularly?

Let them.

Improve on being the 10th best scoring defense.


Als remember that last years young guys should improve.

[billsburgh]

Let them.

Improve on being the 10th best scoring defense.


Als remember that last years young guys should improve.
stop with the positive outlook. cant you see the sky is falling and we will be 0-16

[Dr. Lecter]

stop with the positive outlook. cant you see the sky is falling and we will be 0-16

:sadwalk:

[mikemac2001]

Lynch >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Patrick Willis.

Thank you Marv for taking the guy we actually NEEDED.


i cant wait to use lynch in madden ;)

[HHURRICANE]

If Willis was there at #12 we were taking him. The Bills aren't going to say that "we got our second choice." Come on people. Willis is going to be great. There are alot more questions surrounding Poz than Willis.

However, I do think Lynch has just as good a chance at being a significant contributor as Willis. It was a good pick.

[patmoran2006]

It was a great pick (for Buffalo) considering.

and im a HUGE huge Lynch supporter. BUt nobody is going to tell me they were passing on Patrick Willis if he was there, nobody..

[Dr. Lecter]

It was a great pick (for Buffalo) considering.



Homer.

How does the kool-aid taste?

[ghz in pittsburgh]

Levy mentioned the 3 top guy rated on their board. I think that 3rd guy is Lawrance Timmons picked by the Steelers. In fact Levy mentioned in WRG55 that one of those 3 was picked "3 or 4 picks after" the Bills picked.

The Steelers are going to go to Cover 2 eventually and Timmons would be great fit there.

Of course the top 3 Marv mentioned excludes those obvious top 10 talents. Now whether Willis is on that top 10 talents I'm not sure. Had Willis avaialble at 12, strategically speaking, they might still go for Lynch because they'll have a much better chance nabbing one of the Willis, Poz, Timmons, and Beason later.

[patmoran2006]

Supposedly, it was Reevis.

[don137]

I know many would of loved having Willis but I think you could not of filled our RB and LB need any better than those two. The drop off between Willis and Poz is not nearly as great as the drop off from Lynch to the next rated RB. I would not change a thing...

[NFLfan]

i think willis will be a great pick for my 49ers.
As the guy mentioned earlier nolan envisions patrick willis to be our ray lewis.
And we can finally get derek smith off the starting team, thank god

[gr8slayer]

It was a great pick (for Buffalo) considering.

and im a HUGE huge Lynch supporter. BUt nobody is going to tell me they were passing on Patrick Willis if he was there, nobody..
I'm telling you that he wouldn't have been picked by us.

[YardRat]

DOnt buy for 2 seconds the BS that we would've passed on Willis if he was there.. This guy is a beast.

Im VERY happy the way things worked out for Buffalo; given the way the board was this was about as good I could hope for.. But the crap about Willis not being one of the "three targets" is BS. Of course, I could TOTALLY UNDERSTAND that.. Why wouldnt the FO hype POS< they want him to have confidence not think he was "settled for".

That's typical of ANY team's FO, not just the bills

I don't find it unbelievable that Willis wasn't one of the three targets if they were assuming he would already be gone before #12. If Willis would've dropped that far, he may have been #1 of four at that point.

[BillsSabresB.C.T. Fan]

Marv said in his PC after they drafted Lynch that even if Willis was there they still wouldv'e taken Lynch so he wouldn't have been a Bill anyways.

[Devin]

Willis will succeed no matter where he goes.

[NJFINSFAN1]

I don't understand why the 49ers would pick an ILB with the 11th pick...

Willis can't even use his speed in the 3-4 defense..

Willis will be a beast for them.

[HHURRICANE]

Marv said in his PC after they drafted Lynch that even if Willis was there they still wouldv'e taken Lynch so he wouldn't have been a Bill anyways.

Whatever.

Again, if Willis was there at #12 he would be a Bill. Marv has no problem telling a lie to kepp his new players motivated.

[Hopper15]

Marv said in his PC after they drafted Lynch that even if Willis was there they still wouldv'e taken Lynch so he wouldn't have been a Bill anyways.

What do you expect him to say. We were taking Willis no matter what.

Think people.

[Goobylal]

Poz was always the LB'er they wanted. Not Willis. They talked WAY too much about Willis and how he'd be gone, kind of like they were telling another team that they HAD to take him before 12.

[Hopper15]

I don't believe that. Poz is not better then Willis.

[Goobylal]

That's your belief. That's not necessarily the belief of Marv and co., or other people.