Does anyone else feel deflated by the draft?

[BuffaloRanger]

I feel like I just completely wasted the last 2 months talking with people on this board about who the Bills should select when they only got one of the three.

Just about everybody on this board thought that the glaring needs were a combination of Pass-rushing DE, CB, FS, OL, WR, TE.

WM:

Maybe WM will be a great pick. With great risk comes great reward I guess. I'm just not really fired up about all the bad things that could come from this.

1. He may want Top 10 money and be tough to sign.
2. We already have a Pro-Bowl RB.
3. He may not contribute until the end of the season if at all.

Would Joseph DT, Woolfolk CB, Steinbach OG, been more useful to the team?

Kelsay:

Not too much problem here - could have gone with White.

Crowell:

Trade with GB - didn't get good value according to draft chart.

Could have stayed at 79 took Peterson DE, Dockery OG, Whitely OG, or Battle S.


Even with trade could have selected Holt S, Holland OG, etc.

Yes they still have tomorrow. But I think we were all hoping for different players.

I doubt I'll ever follow another draft this close.

[mps658]

Someone is a whiny girl. You got your theorys that you have been pushing for two months and they didnt work out.

YOU ARE NOT THE BILLS GM......period(If you were Flutie whould be QB)

Who knows what TD has planned until it happens.....Just because things didnt work out the way YOU thought they would your dissapointed......PLUS DARTHOKEEFE was right.....AGAIN.
Sucks to hae to listen to his cocky ass for the rest of time.

TRUST ME YOU WILL BE THE FIRST ONE WITH A MCGAHEE JERSEY CHEERING HIS 2,000 yard season in 2005 and youll feel stupid for wanting a center or long forgotten DE.

[Max997]

I was deflated after the Bills took McGahee only because I was expecting them to draft someone that will contribute this year

McGahee wont do much this year, Kelsay just gets added to the mix and Crowell will play mainly on special teams

not much to get excited about

[BuffaloRanger]

Originally posted by mps658


TRUST ME YOU WILL BE THE FIRST ONE WITH A MCGAHEE JERSEY CHEERING HIS 2,000 yard season in 2005 and youll feel stupid for wanting a center or long forgotten DE.

So now I have to wait until 2005 for a SB?


"The Great Lurker" has spoken! Since you didn't follow the draft, and had no preferences you couldn't be disappointed. I'm going to do that next year.

[bps21]

I feel the opposite of deflated.

What the hell were we supposed to take in the first round with that pick? A tight end?

The best part is that only one DE came off the board between our first pick and our second...when we selected a DE that some mocks had us taking in the first!

Peerless Price gave us a free pick and we used it on the only player available that has the potential to be a striaght up STUD player. I love Henry as much as the next guy...but he's not McGahee. The whole "shocking everyone with taking a running back when you already have a good one" thing worked out pretty well when it happened to New Orleans.

[fmr60]

Currently, this is a difficult draft to judge. A lot of us were looking elsewhere for the Bills draft needs. However, we don't know what is really going on at 1 Bills Drive. The Bills have been practicing for a while and some of our doubts, i.e., Denney and Jones, just might be coming around. So we'll have to wait and see.

[blunted]

I was not siked about WM at first, but when we got Kelsey in the second round --who was the player I wanted in the first-- it made me feel better about it. A lot better.

[Figurita20]

Originally posted by bps21
I love Henry as much as the next guy...but he's not McGahee.

Wait a second, not only the guy is a big if, he has yet to play a NFL snap and he has already rushed 2000 yards. Get real
This pick was a gamble, we don't know if he will be able to regain speed and cut back abilities that made him a top 5 selection before his unfortunate injury.

Right here right now McGahee is not Travis Henry.

[RaidersFan]

you guys did get a great pick in the second. Chris could have easily gone in the 1st. Even to the bills. And now you guys got him in the 2nd. But one thing that got me was that the bills got Willis. That is just wild. I think willis will be good in the nfl. But i dont think that he will be good for the bills. I think the bills wont sign him this year. Or if they do he will want out becasue Travis will have such a good year this year and the bills will not want to play willis.

So that is what i think. I think that Travis will have such a good year this year that next year willis will not play for the bills next year. Which will make this pick a complete waste and it means that the bills gave up Price for nothin.

[matthew94]

i also feel the opposite of deflated. all week i've been i've been wondering what team would have the guts to pick mcgahee (who i consider a top 5 player in this draft, long term). i was talking to my friends throughout the week, jealous of the team that would grab him. I was very pleased to hear buffalo picked him.

that being said, i have no clue how we're going to use him. i really don't think he and TH can coexist when both healthy. but this is a good problem to have. this isn't a flutie/johnson problem (one in which they both were below average) this is a r.williams/mcallister problem (one which ended up working pretty well).

Bottom line, TD took the best player available and if he comes back healthy it was definitely the steal of the draft.

Kelsey in round two was fine, i would have liked a trade up to get Doss instead of a trade down (passing on peterson).

[Bledsoe11]

Why can't Henry and McGahee co-exist? They are two very different runners, and would offer a very devastating 1-2 punch. One hits the hole and smashes you n the mouth while the other runs around you. Very hard for defenses to contain both of them. For a couple of seasons they will be together (one while McGahee is out, and one while he learns the ropes). You have no idea what the Bills will look like then. It could work with both of them.

[Billsouth]

doss will not be a star safety in the nfl because of his WEAK cover skills. he was a reach.

[bps21]

No he obviously hasn't played in the NFL yet.

But if teams only took players that played in the NFL we wouldn't have a draft.

Is he a risk? Hell yes. But who was left that had half his upside?

My top priority going in was a DE. Maybe if we hadn't gotten the same DE we would have taken instead of McGahee in the second round I could understand your point.

But we did.

[K-Gun]

Does anyone believe that the WM pick is trade bait for teams come Training Camp/ Next years draft? If he proves healthy i think we will have a huge bargaining chip to move into the top five picks in next years draft, or perhaps fetch a proven veteran that could help the Bills now!

[K-Gun]

PS

TD is a sly sly fellow, he is looking ahead to something big!

[sahlensguy]

40 to 1 in Vegas. I wanted a ring THIS year.

[bps21]

I'm sorry...who was the player left who was going to win us the ring?

Did I miss a starting player for this season somewhere other than maybe Tight End?

[BBDAVE7]

would any rookie really contribute that much this year? rookies always hit the wall midway through the season. i love this pick.

[sahlensguy]

I loved the Sam Adams signing, but we seriously need a quality player to rotate with him and Pat Williams, this year. A run stopper who also could add a pass rush.

William Joseph would have fit the bill. Or trade down and then do the trade for Detroit's Shaun Rogers.

Either way, an effective front at the tackle position throughout the season is the fastest way to get the best out of the whole D.