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A guy called into WGR and went on a rant about how the Bills never keep the guys that are actually good. CB was the main point. We didn't want to pay Winfield so we draft Clements, who we didn't want to pay so we draft McKelvin.
He capped his rant by saying they chase their tails.
That may be the simplest way to describe the frustration I feel at times toward this team.
They don't ever seem to get better as far as overall talent. They simply try to fight fires that they started when they didn't keep the good players.
Now, I actually like much of what they have done in FA this year because it appears to be not be chasing their tails. Or is It?
I mean we drafted Aaron Williams because we may not want to pay Florence what he may bring. But, he stayed so now we are theoretically stronger this year at CB. That coudl ahve gone the other way but fortunately it didn't and we now are significantly better, at least as far as depth, at CB.
They drafted Sheppard because they may not be able to resign Poz. They lost Poz but replaced him with Barnett. I'm OK with this but to be honest I wanted an ILB from FA whether we resigned Poz or not. It was a situation where we needed to add to Poz and not just from a rookie. Davis is good but he is a backup. Adding Barnett provided a spot for Shepp to replace Davis. And that may work. But if Shepp doesn't earn the job, Davis's spot has not been upgraded and remains inadequate to me. And If Shepp doesn't seize a starting role, we may need to be looking at a ILB in the draft next year yet again and that means potentially chasing your tail.
And the other place where it may play out going into next years draft is that we may not be able to draft a QB because we have bigger needs like OT. Provided they resign Fitz. We traded Peters and then were forced to chase our tail to replace him. We still haven't filled his shoes and still have a hole at RT as well. But going into the draft, we may have not resigned Fitz or Bell. And then we go into the draft with a need to find insurance to their potential losses. If either leaves, we have a clear need from the draft, if we draft someone we just chased our tails yet again.
The problem is, we never move forward in FA making moves where we are significantly improving a part of the team when we don't have significant holes in other places. We chase our tails replacing players we lost or didn't want to pay by spending draft picks to replace them or signing players to replace them. We chase our tails trying to fill holes we made by not resigning a player or not addressing it in FA.
Yes, loss is to be expected. But if you ever plan to get significantly better as far as overall talent, you must adequately replace what you lost AND add significant upgrades in the same season. The Pats resigned Matt Light, resigned Logan Mankins, traded for Ocho, traded for Haynesworth, and signed Andre Carter... all while being much closer to the cap than us. So they didn't chase their tails trying to fill losses, they kept the players they needed to keep and added players to at a minimum upgrade their depth. This is how you get better year after year, this is how you keep what is good and still get better.
If you don't, your chasing your tail... And our history in the past decade shows this.
He capped his rant by saying they chase their tails.
That may be the simplest way to describe the frustration I feel at times toward this team.
They don't ever seem to get better as far as overall talent. They simply try to fight fires that they started when they didn't keep the good players.
Now, I actually like much of what they have done in FA this year because it appears to be not be chasing their tails. Or is It?
I mean we drafted Aaron Williams because we may not want to pay Florence what he may bring. But, he stayed so now we are theoretically stronger this year at CB. That coudl ahve gone the other way but fortunately it didn't and we now are significantly better, at least as far as depth, at CB.
They drafted Sheppard because they may not be able to resign Poz. They lost Poz but replaced him with Barnett. I'm OK with this but to be honest I wanted an ILB from FA whether we resigned Poz or not. It was a situation where we needed to add to Poz and not just from a rookie. Davis is good but he is a backup. Adding Barnett provided a spot for Shepp to replace Davis. And that may work. But if Shepp doesn't earn the job, Davis's spot has not been upgraded and remains inadequate to me. And If Shepp doesn't seize a starting role, we may need to be looking at a ILB in the draft next year yet again and that means potentially chasing your tail.
And the other place where it may play out going into next years draft is that we may not be able to draft a QB because we have bigger needs like OT. Provided they resign Fitz. We traded Peters and then were forced to chase our tail to replace him. We still haven't filled his shoes and still have a hole at RT as well. But going into the draft, we may have not resigned Fitz or Bell. And then we go into the draft with a need to find insurance to their potential losses. If either leaves, we have a clear need from the draft, if we draft someone we just chased our tails yet again.
The problem is, we never move forward in FA making moves where we are significantly improving a part of the team when we don't have significant holes in other places. We chase our tails replacing players we lost or didn't want to pay by spending draft picks to replace them or signing players to replace them. We chase our tails trying to fill holes we made by not resigning a player or not addressing it in FA.
Yes, loss is to be expected. But if you ever plan to get significantly better as far as overall talent, you must adequately replace what you lost AND add significant upgrades in the same season. The Pats resigned Matt Light, resigned Logan Mankins, traded for Ocho, traded for Haynesworth, and signed Andre Carter... all while being much closer to the cap than us. So they didn't chase their tails trying to fill losses, they kept the players they needed to keep and added players to at a minimum upgrade their depth. This is how you get better year after year, this is how you keep what is good and still get better.
If you don't, your chasing your tail... And our history in the past decade shows this.
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