Donahoe's Top Ten Gaffes

[patmoran2006]

Hey guys.

I am writing a blog for Fox Sports.com, dont know if any of you guys know about it, but they are having a writing contest and I wrote a peice about the blunders of Tom Donahoe.

if you get a chance, i'd REALLY appreciate it if you could check it out and offer a couple of comments regarding it.

Please be nice, I'm trying to win a contract! lol. Plus, I think most fans will agree it's pretty "right on"

Here is the link. Thanks much guys

http://blogs.foxsports.com/patmoran2006/2005/12/29/Tom_Donahoes_Top_Ten_Gaffes2

[patmoran2006]

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Wanted to make sure I didnt screw that link up.. Here it is again:

Tom Donahoe's Top Ten Gaffes • patmoran2006's Blog - FOX Sports Blogs

[Romes]

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(Dallas had Buffalo's first round pick this past year in the draft as a result of the Losman trade. They selected Marcus Spears. Something tells me Spears would have more impact on this defense that current DE, Mark Kelsay. Then again, Donahoe would have probably fumbled that pick anyway)

I was with you till I read this...Mark? Its Chris Kelsay.

Have you followed Spears at all this year? 29 tackles .5 sacks

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/players/profile?statsId=7196

Compared to Kelsay's (not very good but much better) 43 tackles 2.5 sacks 1 FF 1 INT

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/players/profile?statsId=6384

For the rest not bad but the Kelsay gaph hurts the credibility.

[Novacane]

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#7 should be Trading for Drew Bledsoe instead of releasing Drew Bledsoe. Drew can just be thrown on the heap of QB's that never took the team to the playoffs

[tat2dmike77]

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Bennie "the penalty"anderson love it!

Letting pat go was huge i think i should of been up a couple of more slots.

Good post though but i think his biggest bone-head play was the hiring of the coaches both coaches! Take your pick at the order or combine them both i don't care but they were both bone headed mistakes.

[venis2k1]

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i have a few problems with your peice, first off it was very well written, and i hope you all the luck in the world with the contest. secondly, i am no Donahoe fan, but i find it amazing the way the fans have turned on this man. here is your list and my comments about it.

10. in hind sight josh reed with the high second rounder was a bad move, but if you remember WR was a huge need(with price going into his contract year, and nothing under him in the depth chart.) and i seem to recall when we grabbed josh, everyone was in shock that he was still there. he was seen as a steal for us in the second round. as a matter of fact, alot of people were very disapointed when Jabar Gaffney went three pick earlier. i dont remember him lighting up the league recently?

9. funny, if you said this a year ago, you would have gotten the crap kicked out of you. i havent given up on the kid yet. and i dont like how you keep saying "well so and so were still on the board" in this case refering to LJ. anyone who watched college football in 2002 and didnt think Mcgahee was 10 times the back that guy from penn state was is crazy. also you say we should have gone O-line instead. let me ask you, who was there? KWAME HARRIS? ERIC STEINBACH, maybe or justin smiley. were the only ones even with a top 2 round grade at the time. i am a big steinbach fan, but ill take willis over him 8 days a week.

8. the bills tried trading up to get big ben, they could not. i gaurentee if we didnt grab losman by doing that, we would have landed Aaron Rodgers, who i am personally not a fan of at all.

7. i have nothing nice to say about bledsoe. so ill keep it to myself

6.letting Big Pat go was not a mistake. but to do it without offering him a fair contract was.

5. Donahoes lack of attention to the oline is really the only reason i want him out of town.

4. mike williams was not a bad pick at the time. like i said, its very easy to go back and ***** about who is on the board at the time and if we were paying bryant mikinnie 100,000 million dollars this year too, people would be labling him a bust. in hind sight we should have traded down, if i recall we tried to and couldnt find anyone interested.

3.2.1. as far as the coaches go. ive said this before, all TD looks for in a coach is someone he knows will never give him a power struggle, a puppet if you want to put it like that. after what happened in Pitt, TD wanted to make this HIS show. letting Charle Weis go is the biggest mistake he ever made....but like i said....hind sight is 20/20.

[mybills]

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7. i have nothing nice to say about bledsoe. so ill keep it to myself.

[Historian]

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Good article overall.

As for any GM, I usually give them a pass on player X or player Y. Most are probably 50/50 with players drafted or traded for.

As far as Coaches go...he's struck out twice-big time...and every other decision is tainted because of them.

And while you mention his arrogance in #10, you need to be more specific with his audacity. Save the Postage...etc.

Overall, good job.

[Ebenezer]

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#7 should be Trading for Drew Bledsoe instead of releasing Drew Bledsoe. Drew can just be thrown on the heap of QB's that never took the team to the playoffs

didn't somebody around here origianlly have the user name bledsoetoreedforsix??

[TacklingDummy]

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Don't forget cutting Flutie instead of cutting Johnson. TDs first bad moves of many.

[HHURRICANE]

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i have a few problems with your peice, first off it was very well written, and i hope you all the luck in the world with the contest. secondly, i am no Donahoe fan, but i find it amazing the way the fans have turned on this man. here is your list and my comments about it.

10. in hind sight josh reed with the high second rounder was a bad move, but if you remember WR was a huge need(with price going into his contract year, and nothing under him in the depth chart.) and i seem to recall when we grabbed josh, everyone was in shock that he was still there. he was seen as a steal for us in the second round. as a matter of fact, alot of people were very disapointed when Jabar Gaffney went three pick earlier. i dont remember him lighting up the league recently?

9. funny, if you said this a year ago, you would have gotten the crap kicked out of you. i havent given up on the kid yet. and i dont like how you keep saying "well so and so were still on the board" in this case refering to LJ. anyone who watched college football in 2002 and didnt think Mcgahee was 10 times the back that guy from penn state was is crazy. also you say we should have gone O-line instead. let me ask you, who was there? KWAME HARRIS? ERIC STEINBACH, maybe or justin smiley. were the only ones even with a top 2 round grade at the time. i am a big steinbach fan, but ill take willis over him 8 days a week.

8. the bills tried trading up to get big ben, they could not. i gaurentee if we didnt grab losman by doing that, we would have landed Aaron Rodgers, who i am personally not a fan of at all.

7. i have nothing nice to say about bledsoe. so ill keep it to myself

6.letting Big Pat go was not a mistake. but to do it without offering him a fair contract was.

5. Donahoes lack of attention to the oline is really the only reason i want him out of town.

4. mike williams was not a bad pick at the time. like i said, its very easy to go back and ***** about who is on the board at the time and if we were paying bryant mikinnie 100,000 million dollars this year too, people would be labling him a bust. in hind sight we should have traded down, if i recall we tried to and couldnt find anyone interested.

3.2.1. as far as the coaches go. ive said this before, all TD looks for in a coach is someone he knows will never give him a power struggle, a puppet if you want to put it like that. after what happened in Pitt, TD wanted to make this HIS show. letting Charle Weis go is the biggest mistake he ever made....but like i said....hind sight is 20/20.

Your post although accurate is irrelevant. I'd rather make bad draft choices that turn out to be great than great drafts that turn out to be bad. If Donohoe is just plain unlucky he stills needs to go. The Willis Mcgahee draft was anothe attempt to prove to the league that TD was smarter than everyone else.

[Dozerdog]

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i have a few problems with your peice, first off it was very well written, and i hope you all the luck in the world with the contest. secondly, i am no Donahoe fan, but i find it amazing the way the fans have turned on this man. here is your list and my comments about it.

10. in hind sight josh reed with the high second rounder was a bad move, but if you remember WR was a huge need(with price going into his contract year, and nothing under him in the depth chart.) and i seem to recall when we grabbed josh, everyone was in shock that he was still there. he was seen as a steal for us in the second round. as a matter of fact, alot of people were very disapointed when Jabar Gaffney went three pick earlier. i dont remember him lighting up the league recently?

9. funny, if you said this a year ago, you would have gotten the crap kicked out of you. i havent given up on the kid yet. and i dont like how you keep saying "well so and so were still on the board" in this case refering to LJ. anyone who watched college football in 2002 and didnt think Mcgahee was 10 times the back that guy from penn state was is crazy. also you say we should have gone O-line instead. let me ask you, who was there? KWAME HARRIS? ERIC STEINBACH, maybe or justin smiley. were the only ones even with a top 2 round grade at the time. i am a big steinbach fan, but ill take willis over him 8 days a week.

8. the bills tried trading up to get big ben, they could not. i gaurentee if we didnt grab losman by doing that, we would have landed Aaron Rodgers, who i am personally not a fan of at all.

7. i have nothing nice to say about bledsoe. so ill keep it to myself

6.letting Big Pat go was not a mistake. but to do it without offering him a fair contract was.

5. Donahoes lack of attention to the oline is really the only reason i want him out of town.

4. mike williams was not a bad pick at the time. like i said, its very easy to go back and ***** about who is on the board at the time and if we were paying bryant mikinnie 100,000 million dollars this year too, people would be labling him a bust. in hind sight we should have traded down, if i recall we tried to and couldnt find anyone interested.

3.2.1. as far as the coaches go. ive said this before, all TD looks for in a coach is someone he knows will never give him a power struggle, a puppet if you want to put it like that. after what happened in Pitt, TD wanted to make this HIS show. letting Charle Weis go is the biggest mistake he ever made....but like i said....hind sight is 20/20.

Pretty much nailed this on the head. McKinnie wound up sitting out much of his rookie year. Our 2001 OL was a hell of a lot worse and if he drafted a guy who sat out a season everyone would have a *****fest back then as they are now. The 2002 draft was a bust for a lot of teams, not just the Bills.

Blame Brandon Spoon for the 2002 draft. If he doidn't have a monster game vs Carolina, we woiuld have lost that game in the rain at home and probably drafted Julius Peppers.

Reed was the all time career leading reciever in the SEC, which is quite an accomplishment when yoiu consider how much that conference lights it up. So drafting Reed, dumping Price and acquiring McGahee with the pick looked awesome at the time. It's not like everyone burst out laughing in mockery (Like the Dolphins giving up a #2 for AJ Feely).

Many of the moves made a lot of sense at the time they were done- it's just that bad coaches / coaching decisions ruind some decent team ingredients.

It's a 20/20 hindsight article- but very well done. I posted a link to the blurb on our front page

[BillsOwnAll]

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That was a good article but i just have one problem....your comments about the draft. Josh Reed was suppose to be good as with Mike Williams.

Anyone can play monday morning quarterback and say what was good what was bad.

The draft is full of POTETIONAL its a gamble if your guys are going to perfrom or not.

[Novacane]

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didn't somebody around here origianlly have the user name bledsoetoreedforsix??

I've never tried to hide that I supported trading for Drew. I'm talking in hindsight. Bringing him here was a mistake. It got us nowhere

[Ebenezer]

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I've never tried to hide that I supported trading for Drew. I'm talking in hindsight. Bringing him here was a mistake. It got us nowhere

well, you can believe it or not, but ask Mikey82...even though I felt he was the best chance the Bills had to make the playoffs in '05 I was pissed when they traded for DB...I never wanted him here at all...