Tatonka
04-27-2003, 10:09 PM
http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/6340068
NEW YORK (April 27, 2003) -- "I'm willing to give Tom Donahoe the benefit of the doubt.
He has earned it many times over in a long and distinguished career of judging and selecting NFL talent.
And for now, it is only Donahoe's sterling reputation for competence in overseeing many drafts through the years that makes the first-round draft pick the Buffalo Bills spent on Willis McGahee seem like something other than a bizarre, off-the-wall, off-the-planet gamble.
When the Bills' president and general manager calls it a matter of capitalizing on a "chance to get an outstanding football player" and says the Bills had McGahee rated as "one of the best players in the draft," it is hard to scoff. Donahoe has held similar opinions about other players he acquired to help build the Pittsburgh Steelers into a powerhouse and those he has picked up since 2001, when he accepted the challenge of trying to return the Bills to their glory days of the early 1990s. "
NEW YORK (April 27, 2003) -- "I'm willing to give Tom Donahoe the benefit of the doubt.
He has earned it many times over in a long and distinguished career of judging and selecting NFL talent.
And for now, it is only Donahoe's sterling reputation for competence in overseeing many drafts through the years that makes the first-round draft pick the Buffalo Bills spent on Willis McGahee seem like something other than a bizarre, off-the-wall, off-the-planet gamble.
When the Bills' president and general manager calls it a matter of capitalizing on a "chance to get an outstanding football player" and says the Bills had McGahee rated as "one of the best players in the draft," it is hard to scoff. Donahoe has held similar opinions about other players he acquired to help build the Pittsburgh Steelers into a powerhouse and those he has picked up since 2001, when he accepted the challenge of trying to return the Bills to their glory days of the early 1990s. "