Dodged a bullet with Robert Meachem

[kingJofNYC]

Buddy & his merry band of fools went after this guy pretty hard, he's not even starting for the Chargers. Under performed his entire career yet they wanted to sign him.

Clean house please!

[jdbillsfan]

Re: Dodged a bullet with Robert Meachem

Bills also brought in Danario Alexander prior to him going to San Diego. Looking like that would have been a good pickup.

[ServoBillieves]

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Yeah screw him, let's bring in Norv Turner.

Are you kidding me?

[kingJofNYC]

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What's hard to understand? Meachem isn't very good, yet the FO tried to sign him for whatever reason.

Just another example of how they can't evaluate talent. If you can't succeed in Norv's vertical system you aren't going to do **** in a horizontal spread with Fitz unable to throw 20 yards down field. We're lucky SD overpaid for him.

Meanwhile Levitre and Byrd are set to hit the FA market. Glad Buddy's on top of things.

[Syderick]

Re: Dodged a bullet with Robert Meachem

Hey a lot of fans wanted Robert Meachem too.

[THRILLHO]

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If Meachum was doing well this would be the same thread except it would say "We don't have the balls to spend money, blah blah blah."

[ghz in pittsburgh]

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Apparently the Bills didn't try very hard. Do they? They didn't do the "don't-let-him-leave-buffalo" routine.

Maybe I'm a little older now and have seen the kind of management stuff a few times myself. Let me tell you something. Finding out talent, especially from outside (i.e. not knowing on daily basis for a few years), involving big money, is one of the hardest thing in management. To clean out and restart after every single mistake, you will be out of business pretty soon.

To me, the single biggest mistake Nix and Co. made so far is to go with 3-4 instead of continuing the 4-3 defense we had to start the new era. Drafting is OK. FAs is a plus (remember the Urbik, Pears, Jones, Nelson, etc.). I'm not 100% sold on Gailey as a HC, but I'm not privy to the HC research process. Don't know how many turned us down. Maybe Gailey was the best one that matches Nix's philosophy at the time.

It is a slow process even though all fans are impatient. I see those serviceable street FAs are slowly phasing out by draft picks (Pears, Jones has Graham right behind him). Maybe that happens with coaches too. Who knows. They jumped on Wannstedt when he became available.

[coastal]

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Hey a lot of fans wanted Robert Meachem too.

A lot of fans wanted Mario Williams... And still do.

[jimmifli]

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He might suck but I think he'd be starting here.

[kingJofNYC]

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He might suck but I think he'd be starting here.

Without question, this franchise loves trotting out borderline starters.

[Oaf]

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Are you seriously bashing a team for NOT signing a bad player? Wow.

[kingJofNYC]

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Are you seriously bashing a team for NOT signing a bad player? Wow.

Just pointing out how bad they are at evaluating talent, isn't that part of the problem with this team?

I'm absolutely glad that they didnt, but they sure as hell wanted to.

[kishoph]

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I would still take Meachem on the Bills, they need a deep threat and Meachem fits that profile. I don't know what the problem is in SD, he's only started 3 games and been targeted only 32 times, That's only 4 more than TJ Graham, he's only dropped 1 pass. He's not a #1 WR that's going to get you 80+ receptions, but he's a deep threat when on the field and defenses have to respect that. He's probably not worth the money that the Bills offered him, but at a cheaper price, I'd take him. It's not like our receiving corps is so talented that he couldn't land a spot and contribute.

[justasportsfan]

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Just pointing out how bad they are at evaluating talent, isn't that part of the problem with this team?

I'm absolutely glad that they didnt, but they sure as hell wanted to.

You don't like Chandler, Urbik? resigning FJ, Stevie?Extending Kyle?

[jimmifli]

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Without question, this franchise loves trotting out borderline starters.

So they put a reasonable offer to a marginal guy that was better than what we had on the roster but weren't willing to over pay for him. And that makes them bad talent evaluators?

Sounds like they got it perfect to me.