this guy nailed it

[seanbillsfan]

Page 2 columnist Greg Easterbrook shared plenty of thoughts on the draft in his "Tuesday Morning Quarterback" column.

Here are the AFC East highlights from his review:

Buffalo Bills

In April 2009, the Bills entered the draft with an emergency situation at left tackle, and chose no left tackle, but did use their first selection on a nickel linebacker who, even if all went well, would play only on passing downs. The Bills' 2009 offense proceeded to be awful as Buffalo started five different players at left tackle. This April, the Bills entered the draft with an emergency situation at left tackle, and did not choose an offensive lineman until the fifth round.

For a decade, Buffalo has failed to reach the playoffs -- the worst such streak in the AFC -- and in that period drafted horribly, making repeated luxury picks (three first-round running backs in a single decade, for instance) rather than fixing its offensive line. Offensive tackles on the Buffalo roster: Demetrius Bell, eight career starts, coming off an ACL tear; Jamon Meredith, four career starts; Edward Wang, fifth-round draft selection; Kirk Chambers, waived four times by the Bills over the last three seasons; Cornell Green, who will be 34 years old on opening day; Nick Hennessey, no career starts, though he surely got a great education at Phillips Andover Academy and then Colgate; Andre Ramsey and Jason Watkins, no career starts. Presumably, the quarterback-needy Bills passed on multiple chances to select Jimmy Clausen or Colt McCoy because they know the blocking is so bad, anyone under center for Buffalo next season will just get killed anyway. It's the year 2010. How can a professional football team totally ignore the need to be solid at offensive tackle?

http://espn.go.com/blog/afceast/post/_/id/13258/tmqing-the-afc-east-draft

[mikemac2001]

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he just tells us alot about we sucked with people who sucked

[superbills]

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So who should they have chosen at 9th over-all? Clearly, they weren't impressed with the over-hyped QB prospects (as, apparently none of the other teams were) and the one tackle most were projecting at this slot, Bulaga, has significant question marks and may not even be suited for left tackle in the NFL. You don't draft question marks at 9th over-all. You look for a home run and, if you see it, you take it. That's what the Bills did with Spiller. It's not that the LT and QB positions won't be addressed, they just weren't addressed like all of the "smarter" fans and writers thought those positions should be. After all, our draft boards are sacred.

[T-Long]

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In reality, the only knock could have been that they didn't take Anthony Davis, a pure LT, at 9. But there were major flags with him, so they would have got knocked with that pick as well. It was a lose-lose. If it was Clausen, people would have went crazy because it was too high for him.

Spiller was by far the best player available and they took him. I have no issue with that whatsover, especially with the unknown with Lynch.

[ddaryl]

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rediculous

This guy fails to mention all of our desperate needs. Then he has the nerve to talk about this years lame ass QB class as if it was some sort of can't miss situation...

I think we can determine the real draft savy sports writers from the not so savy draft pundits by those who choose ot focus on Buffalo needs at QB and LT and not focusing on all the other needs which are numerous.

If a draft expert discusses the Bills needs as NT LB OL and QB then you know the person has some insight... but when they can only blog about QB and LT it kind of tells me they are just weekend hacks...


This all being said.... If Spiller is a home run hitter then he was a steal, but we could've traded down in this draft 2-3 times and stock piled major picks and filled lots of needs....

[Buffalogic]

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Surface media haters. I hate how lazy writers are nowadays. They just regurgitate the same **** over and over.

Uhh Uhh no first round LT. Uhhh fail. Any damn moron could write that. It's despicable.

[NOT THE DUDE...]

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u dont pass on a potential home run hitter... u just dont!

[Bill Cody]

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The problem was we had emergencies all over the place, particularly switching to the 3-4. I would have preferred a trade down to Spiller and I would have preferred a tackle before the 5th round, but in the end the real question is how many keepers did we actually draft. Noone really knows that now.

The Patriots are supposed to be geniuses and check out the raft of flat out busts they've drafted in the second round in the past 5-6 years. **** happens.

We need to get lucky somewhere. NE got Brady in the 6th and Moss for a 4th. That's a pretty good start. New Orleans got Drew Brees as a free agent. Those are difference makers. We need a few of our own.

[Philagape]

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There was just no other feasible pick at #9. I would have liked Bulaga, but NFL scouts didn't have him highly rated, it turns out.

[NOT THE DUDE...]

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who else were we going to take? bulaga? davis? red flags... u take the sure fire superstar! spiller is that!

[Mr. Miyagi]

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Surface media haters. I hate how lazy writers are nowadays. They just regurgitate the same **** over and over.

Uhh Uhh no first round LT. Uhhh fail. Any damn moron could write that. It's despicable.

Greg Easterbrook is not your average copycat writer. He's a great writer, with plenty of independent insights and very very objective. And he does a ton of research. He slams all the hype teams just as much as any other team.

I may not agree with him in this article but he is no idiot media yack.

[Mike13]

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u dont pass on a potential home run hitter... u just dont!

who is going to block for him?

[NOT THE DUDE...]

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who is going to block for him?

bell/flozell adams levitre hang wood, green....................... its not like our line is putrid.. we had lots of injuries last year... we were 16th in rushing and that was from playing from behind.... u dont pass on the next marshall faulk!

[mysticsoto]

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Interesting that he doesn't mention that we got Jason Peters as an undrafted free agent who eventually started for us and went to the probowl.

Nor does he mention that we went 1st round with our 4th pick a decade ago to get Mike Williams who was a perennial flop and extremely costly mistake that hounded us for years!!!

[acehole]

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OMG!!! Ramsey!! HA thats a condom brand!! Perfect!

Ramsey and wang!!!



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Page 2 columnist Greg Easterbrook shared plenty of thoughts on the draft in his "Tuesday Morning Quarterback" column.
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Here are the AFC East highlights from his review:


Buffalo Bills

In April 2009, the Bills entered the draft with an emergency situation at left tackle, and chose no left tackle, but did use their first selection on a nickel linebacker who, even if all went well, would play only on passing downs. The Bills' 2009 offense proceeded to be awful as Buffalo started five different players at left tackle. This April, the Bills entered the draft with an emergency situation at left tackle, and did not choose an offensive lineman until the fifth round.

For a decade, Buffalo has failed to reach the playoffs -- the worst such streak in the AFC -- and in that period drafted horribly, making repeated luxury picks (three first-round running backs in a single decade, for instance) rather than fixing its offensive line. Offensive tackles on the Buffalo roster: Demetrius Bell, eight career starts, coming off an ACL tear; Jamon Meredith, four career starts; Edward Wang, fifth-round draft selection; Kirk Chambers, waived four times by the Bills over the last three seasons; Cornell Green, who will be 34 years old on opening day; Nick Hennessey, no career starts, though he surely got a great education at Phillips Andover Academy and then Colgate; Andre Ramsey and Jason Watkins, no career starts. Presumably, the quarterback-needy Bills passed on multiple chances to select Jimmy Clausen or Colt McCoy because they know the blocking is so bad, anyone under center for Buffalo next season will just get killed anyway. It's the year 2010. How can a professional football team totally ignore the need to be solid at offensive tackle?

http://espn.go.com/blog/afceast/post/_/id/13258/tmqing-the-afc-east-draft