that’s an interesting perspective. IF anything comes of him being added, then i’d definitely lean towards him telling them that they didn’t need another rookie mini-DE guy. if nothing happens, then i’ll just blame it on Jauron’s bent towards DBs.

A guy that got run out of town in Green Bay should not have that big of a say come draft day.

I really doubt that the head coach and Brandon/Modrak types are even allowing the position coaches to speak during the first few rounds of the draft. Especially new position coaches. No way does Sanders get a say in the draft process. Buffalo has a handful of important scouts and a bunch of other guys who scout for a career. They have a few front office people who are close to having the final say on personnel decisions. They have a head coach and an offensive and defensive coordinator. Why would anyone care what their brand new DL coach, who still hadn’t seen any of his new players practice yet, have to say about the draft?

The real reason that Buffalo didn’t draft Everette Brown is because they didn’t really have space for Brown on the roster. They didn’t want to keep 6 DEs and they didn’t want to cut Kelsay or Ellis. Does anyone think that Buffalo realistically considered taking a second DE that early in the draft? I doubt they even cared that Brown was on the board.

I’m thinking that the later option is the case and that Sanders went “I have enough talent to do something”. Let’s be honest here, he’s not a miracle worker, but we do have very solid talents at the DT positions and I for one do NOT think that we needed to add a big DT to complete out group.

As for the DE’s, he got his guy with Maybin, and Schobel is very coachable. Denney has proven to be a very usefull utility DE, something that I’m sure Sanders appresiates. Ellis has yet to show us anything, so I’m not putting any hopes at all, but Sanders should help his development. And Kelsey… well I’d just rather we cut him.

As for drafting Byrd over Brown, I don’t think that it was a lack of pull from Sanders as much as it was Jauron trumping everyone else there with his love for DB’s. And as much as I hated picking Byrd over Brown at the time, drafting Byrd was still as smart move (although not as smart as drafting Brown would have been).

In the end I think that Sander’s coaching ability combined with the speed rush of Maybin and the added experience of Williams will prove to make in significantly better D-Line (it’s pretty hard to be any worst then we were last year). And in my honest opinion Sanders may be a future candidate for our Deffensive Co-ordinater, especially if this season goes bad.