Well, we can start by keeping our own Free Agents that are worth keeping. This cycle that we have been stuck in over the last few years of drafting players at positions you plan on letting go in the near future, be it free agency or via trade, and we also draft players to replace free agents that have already left Buffalo. For example, we drafted 2nd round pick Josh Reed because we had no plans of keeping Peerless Price, We drafted McKelvin with our 1st round pick, because we let Clements, whom is a former 1st round pick as well, walk. London Fletcher goes to Washington and we use a 2nd round pick, that we traded up for, to draft Poz.
By my count, these three moves cost us two 1st rounders, 2 second rounders and another 3rd rounder that we gave up for Poz. That's five picks in all. All first day picks that we should have used on other needs. Not to mention all the picks we used to trade up in the draft just to end up with marginal players at best, and that's putting it lightly, such as, JP Losman, John McCargo and the aforementioned Paul Posluszny. These are valuable picks that are wasted because we don't keep our team intact.
Some of these moves were great moves and some of them not so much. Letting Peerless Price go was a great move. Letting London Fletcher go was an example of a bad decision. Tell me, would you rather have Poz or would you rather have LF and one of the following, TE Zach Miller, C Ryan Kalil, C Samson Satele or TE Kevin Boss? All of which were available to the Bills had they not drafted Poz and let LF go. How about Clements and one of these guys, LT Ryan Clady, LB Jerod Mayo, OG Branden Albert or TE Dustin Keller, or would you rather have just Leodis McKelvin?
We're constantly plugging up holes instead of building up. Chasing our own tail, so to speak.
It's time the FO make some signings on our own squad. We better see Fred Jackson, Jabari Greer, Ashton Youboty and Jason Peters signed up long term before the start of the 2009 draft. Let's use our picks in the upcoming draft to supplement the needs of our team, not replace those that were lost.
The original poster meant the 3-4 defenses we were facing, not using, and losing to by the way.