shelby
04-24-2008, 07:20 PM
A great read by our own LifetimeBillsFan....enjoy!
Fans who would like to see the Buffalo Bills adopt a strict “Best Player Available” approach in the upcoming 2008 NFL Draft this weekend are, once again, likely to be disappointed. It appears that Russ Brandon, Tom Modrak, and Head Coach Dick Jauron, along with Bills owner Ralph Wilson, Jr., will continue to take the same kind of “targeted” approach to this year’s draft as they did in the two most recent past drafts, under former GM Marv Levy.
In Levy’s two drafts, the Bills “targeted” specific players, who could fill specific needs for the team early on. In the 2006 draft, knowing that they needed to add both a strong safety and defensive tackle capable of playing in the Tampa 2 defense that Head Coach Jauron was installing, the Bills shocked many by taking safety Donte Whitner with the 8th pick in the first round and, then, trading back up into the bottom of the first round to take John McCargo. In 2007, the Bills passed on filling their obvious need for a middle linebacker with Paul Posluzny, to fill their equally dire need for a running back, by taking Marshawn Lynch with the 12th pick in the first round. When Posluzny was still on the board early in the second round, once again the Bills traded up and took him.
If you see a pattern in what the Bills did with the first two picks in those two drafts, well, you should. In both cases, the Bills identified positions of need, and then not only used the depth at those positions on their draft board, but anticipated the moves that other teams might make to get the best combination of players that they could at those positions.
more.... (http://www.billszone.com/mtlog/archives/2008/04/24/as_i_see_it_bills_will_take_a_atargeteda_but_flexible_approach_to_draft.php)
Fans who would like to see the Buffalo Bills adopt a strict “Best Player Available” approach in the upcoming 2008 NFL Draft this weekend are, once again, likely to be disappointed. It appears that Russ Brandon, Tom Modrak, and Head Coach Dick Jauron, along with Bills owner Ralph Wilson, Jr., will continue to take the same kind of “targeted” approach to this year’s draft as they did in the two most recent past drafts, under former GM Marv Levy.
In Levy’s two drafts, the Bills “targeted” specific players, who could fill specific needs for the team early on. In the 2006 draft, knowing that they needed to add both a strong safety and defensive tackle capable of playing in the Tampa 2 defense that Head Coach Jauron was installing, the Bills shocked many by taking safety Donte Whitner with the 8th pick in the first round and, then, trading back up into the bottom of the first round to take John McCargo. In 2007, the Bills passed on filling their obvious need for a middle linebacker with Paul Posluzny, to fill their equally dire need for a running back, by taking Marshawn Lynch with the 12th pick in the first round. When Posluzny was still on the board early in the second round, once again the Bills traded up and took him.
If you see a pattern in what the Bills did with the first two picks in those two drafts, well, you should. In both cases, the Bills identified positions of need, and then not only used the depth at those positions on their draft board, but anticipated the moves that other teams might make to get the best combination of players that they could at those positions.
more.... (http://www.billszone.com/mtlog/archives/2008/04/24/as_i_see_it_bills_will_take_a_atargeteda_but_flexible_approach_to_draft.php)