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I hope Im wrong and that, this year, we upgrade our QB situation, but its looking unlikely.
Chris wont tell you something that doesn't have a good amount of truth to it. Unfortuantely, we are very likely to suffer through what we have at QB this year. And I think we might just end up with an even worse record when all is said and done. I see several years of growth from any rookie before we get top notch play, even if we win the lottery in the draft and get the right guy. Ryan? Flacco? Sanchez? all had much, much, better teams that allowed them to come in with less on their shoulders. We just wont do what those teams did to improve our roster to where a rookie can win year one. And now it looks likely that we wont even start down the road of fixing it for at least another year:
"CB: Truthfully, I wasn’t impressed with most of what was out there and available. The Seahawks traded for Charlie Whitehurst who has barely played in the league. Cleveland acquired Jake Delhomme coming off a career worst season. It’s tough times if you need a QB. That’s why it would not surprise me if the Bills spent most of their roster shaping efforts addressing their other positional deficiencies this year (OT, NT, LB, TE) and let this year play itself out at QB. Then based on the performance of whichever one of the QBs that plays make a wholehearted effort to address the position once and for all in 2011."
Here's another one of his comments:
"CB: Jim, you’re speaking my language. OT first, provided one of the top 4 are there at 9 (worried a bit one might not be there now) and then best NT on the board in round two. I’m thinking the Bills have the same idea we do, which is spend this offseason filling the other holes and then go hard core after a QB or do whatever you have to next year to get to the top of the draft board to get Jake Locker. And because that could very well be their approach I think trading a 1st or 2nd round pick from 2011 is unlikely."
And before I hear the same old song and dance about how next years QB class is so much better, its actually fairly easy. If the guy is a blue-chip franchise guy hes going top 5, we wont be picking there, so moving up is the only option. That means trading multiple picks and could easily mean 2 1sts to get that supposed "cant miss" stud QB. And from years of posting here, I see very few people that re willing to make that sort of a move. Ihope we solve all of our other problems this year in the draft so that we can trade whatever it takes to get the best possible rookie... but:
A) I think there will be a huge amount of people who will still hate the idea
B) I don't think for a second that we will solve all of our other needs in this draft
Which put us about the same boat were in now.
Chris wont tell you something that doesn't have a good amount of truth to it. Unfortuantely, we are very likely to suffer through what we have at QB this year. And I think we might just end up with an even worse record when all is said and done. I see several years of growth from any rookie before we get top notch play, even if we win the lottery in the draft and get the right guy. Ryan? Flacco? Sanchez? all had much, much, better teams that allowed them to come in with less on their shoulders. We just wont do what those teams did to improve our roster to where a rookie can win year one. And now it looks likely that we wont even start down the road of fixing it for at least another year:
"CB: Truthfully, I wasn’t impressed with most of what was out there and available. The Seahawks traded for Charlie Whitehurst who has barely played in the league. Cleveland acquired Jake Delhomme coming off a career worst season. It’s tough times if you need a QB. That’s why it would not surprise me if the Bills spent most of their roster shaping efforts addressing their other positional deficiencies this year (OT, NT, LB, TE) and let this year play itself out at QB. Then based on the performance of whichever one of the QBs that plays make a wholehearted effort to address the position once and for all in 2011."
Here's another one of his comments:
"CB: Jim, you’re speaking my language. OT first, provided one of the top 4 are there at 9 (worried a bit one might not be there now) and then best NT on the board in round two. I’m thinking the Bills have the same idea we do, which is spend this offseason filling the other holes and then go hard core after a QB or do whatever you have to next year to get to the top of the draft board to get Jake Locker. And because that could very well be their approach I think trading a 1st or 2nd round pick from 2011 is unlikely."
And before I hear the same old song and dance about how next years QB class is so much better, its actually fairly easy. If the guy is a blue-chip franchise guy hes going top 5, we wont be picking there, so moving up is the only option. That means trading multiple picks and could easily mean 2 1sts to get that supposed "cant miss" stud QB. And from years of posting here, I see very few people that re willing to make that sort of a move. Ihope we solve all of our other problems this year in the draft so that we can trade whatever it takes to get the best possible rookie... but:
A) I think there will be a huge amount of people who will still hate the idea
B) I don't think for a second that we will solve all of our other needs in this draft
Which put us about the same boat were in now.
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