Was Our 2009 Draft a Plan B Approach

i know that they were high on woods and levitre, so you’d have to think that they were scoping out moving walker and butler before the draft. they got nelson because they couldn’t believe he dropped there. byrd was someone else they obviously had been thinking about earlier as well – so i don’t think that they didn’t want these guys. not with their first four picks probably starting on opening day.

How Pettigrew has looked thus far? And yes, I know it’s WAY too early to get excited or disappointed about any of the players drafted/not drafted.

I think every plan is at least a plan b.

There are so many players that drop or get picked earlier – trades. That’s just the nature of the draft.

I think with this kind of logic you can make it seem like every team that doesn’t have a top three pick is going with plan B. I would bet that Buffalo would have drafted one of the top three OTs, but they were all top 10 prospects or better and Buffalo had pick 11. Since it was almost a certainty that the top 3 OTs wouldn’t be there at 11, Buffalo had the option of trading up for one or drafting a different player. So you could make the argument that Buffalo decided the cost of moving up was too high and went with plan A in Aaron Maybin.

It’s possible that Eric Wood was the target at 28. It’s also possible that Pettigrew, Alex Mack, Clay Matthews and 20 something other guys were rated higher by Buffalo. I don’t really get the whole plan A vs. plan B thing after the first pick. You have to go with the flow of the draft and you can’t go into it with specific plans. Guys go earlier than expected and players fall entire rounds behind where you think they will be picked.

Sound to me like it was Plan A.

I remain convinced that Pettigrew or Mack would have been our pick at #28 had they been there.

DeShawn Jackson was the first DE off the board, so pass rush help did give us the best opportunity to improve an area of need. Enter Aaron Maybin. Interior Offensive Lineman not touched until second half of round one, and not hit hard thus bringing in Wood and Levetri, two of the top four. Bringing in a playmaker in the secondary with Chung going to the Patsies, allows Byrd to step in at make geniusus out of OBD and finally Nelson, stretching the middle of the field with D. Fine just like Cutler and Schlefter. Putting emphasis on Walker and Butler. You know I voted plan B but this does have potential to turn quickly to an A plan. Can’t shake the pessimism but I do think Walker and Butler can hold up their ends of the deal.