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The Homer Juice will be flowing, and every writer in America is a moron.. I know I know the routine.
Here are what some national writers are saying about the Bills right now. Read if you choose. Personally, I like the players we've taken, I just dont like the management way we went about getting them. I think that's the consensus pretty much everywhere.
Anyway.. Damn we're getting dissed.
http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn...ic.php?t=87788
From Sporting News Writer Paul Attner
Marv Levy's off to a bad start as a personnel guru
April 29, 2006
Marv Levy's return to the NFL, this time as the Bills' personnel guru, got off to a very bad start today. Levy wound up with two first-round choices and neither one was very distinguished. Other NFL teams can only wonder, how could he?
First, he selected Donte Whitner, the Ohio State safety, with the eighth pick in the draft. One team had him ranked in the third round; he certainly was not considered a top-10 player, nor a first-rounder.
Then, the Bills gave up two choices to take John McCargo, a defensive tackle from N.C. State who was rated no better than a third-rounder at best.
The Bills filled needs with both players. But it is a classic example of what leads to a bad draft, stretching for players whose talent doesn't merit where they are chosen.
(check out the Fan comments on this article, pretty derogatory towards Marv)
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/5555304
Worst picks in Round 1
Buffalo: I'll save the best stuff for tomorrow, but the Bills are simply lost. Donte Whitner at No. 8? I almost fainted on the air. And I'm not anti-Whitner; it is the simple fact that the Bills could've selected him later in the draft. There wasn't another team that had him in the top 10, let alone the top eight. I asked Marv Levy about this on the air. He said I could be right, but he didn't want to make a trade with the Eagles, fearing he could lose Whitner at 14. There's no way he would've been off the board. The Bills are lost.
And I like John McCargo, but why trade up to get the N.C. State defensive tackle. He could've been there at 42.
The horrific off-season rolls along for the Bills.
Fox Spots Michael Smith on the Bills.
WORST PICK
Buffalo Bills: Donte Whitner, S, Ohio State. Whitner got away with mediocre run support in college because he played behind two first-round Buckeye linebackers, A.J. Hawk and Bobby Carpenter. The Bills can't afford to have stopping the run be part of Whitner's on-the-job training. And if Bills general manager Marv Levy liked Whitner so much, he probably could have traded down with some team that wanted to move up to draft Leinart and still landed Whitner later in the first round.
SI's Don Banks
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200....losers/1.html
BUFFALO
Ohio State safety Donte Whitner at No. 8? They could have traded down 10 spots and still landed him. N.C. State defensive tackle John McCargo at No. 26? The vast majority of drafniks didn't even have him higher than the middle of the second round.
And maybe it was a year too early to give up on 2004 first-round quarterback J.P. Losman, but if the Bills do exactly that next year at this time, won't they look back and wish they had taken Leinart at No. 8 when they had the chance?
Here are what some national writers are saying about the Bills right now. Read if you choose. Personally, I like the players we've taken, I just dont like the management way we went about getting them. I think that's the consensus pretty much everywhere.
Anyway.. Damn we're getting dissed.
http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn...ic.php?t=87788
From Sporting News Writer Paul Attner
Marv Levy's off to a bad start as a personnel guru
April 29, 2006
Marv Levy's return to the NFL, this time as the Bills' personnel guru, got off to a very bad start today. Levy wound up with two first-round choices and neither one was very distinguished. Other NFL teams can only wonder, how could he?
First, he selected Donte Whitner, the Ohio State safety, with the eighth pick in the draft. One team had him ranked in the third round; he certainly was not considered a top-10 player, nor a first-rounder.
Then, the Bills gave up two choices to take John McCargo, a defensive tackle from N.C. State who was rated no better than a third-rounder at best.
The Bills filled needs with both players. But it is a classic example of what leads to a bad draft, stretching for players whose talent doesn't merit where they are chosen.
(check out the Fan comments on this article, pretty derogatory towards Marv)
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/5555304
Worst picks in Round 1
Buffalo: I'll save the best stuff for tomorrow, but the Bills are simply lost. Donte Whitner at No. 8? I almost fainted on the air. And I'm not anti-Whitner; it is the simple fact that the Bills could've selected him later in the draft. There wasn't another team that had him in the top 10, let alone the top eight. I asked Marv Levy about this on the air. He said I could be right, but he didn't want to make a trade with the Eagles, fearing he could lose Whitner at 14. There's no way he would've been off the board. The Bills are lost.
And I like John McCargo, but why trade up to get the N.C. State defensive tackle. He could've been there at 42.
The horrific off-season rolls along for the Bills.
Fox Spots Michael Smith on the Bills.
WORST PICK
Buffalo Bills: Donte Whitner, S, Ohio State. Whitner got away with mediocre run support in college because he played behind two first-round Buckeye linebackers, A.J. Hawk and Bobby Carpenter. The Bills can't afford to have stopping the run be part of Whitner's on-the-job training. And if Bills general manager Marv Levy liked Whitner so much, he probably could have traded down with some team that wanted to move up to draft Leinart and still landed Whitner later in the first round.
SI's Don Banks
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200....losers/1.html
BUFFALO
Ohio State safety Donte Whitner at No. 8? They could have traded down 10 spots and still landed him. N.C. State defensive tackle John McCargo at No. 26? The vast majority of drafniks didn't even have him higher than the middle of the second round.
And maybe it was a year too early to give up on 2004 first-round quarterback J.P. Losman, but if the Bills do exactly that next year at this time, won't they look back and wish they had taken Leinart at No. 8 when they had the chance?
Wys is a friend of mine but I can NEVER read his articles. He loses me at hello.
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