A little unfair to judge his philosophy against the new NFL with 1 pick in 1 round of the first draft.
If we come away with a good starting CB, OT, and WR, and solid depth the rest of the way, I would call this draft a success. Pick up a LB in FA and this would have been one of the best offseasons for the Bills in a long long time.
It's all about risk versus reward. Can they sacrifice and trade up to get someone they liked more than Gilmore? Maybe. But you introduce more risk at that point, and very likely they didn't feel that the reward of that higher rated player was worth it.
Moving in the first round while much easier to do than in the past is still pricey compared to moving in rounds 2-4.
Give it until Sunday to see who the Bills end up with before we judge each team's draft philosophy.
A few days ago, people were arguing between WR/CB/S/OT/LB at 10. Well, the S went incredibly high, the WR's slid a little, the OT's slid a lot, and the CB's went mostly where expected (Kirkpatrick may have slid a bit). It looks like the Bills better assessed player value than most of the fans. Who would you have wanted them to trade up to take? Kalil? It cost the Browns a 4th, 5th, and 7th to move 1 spot. What would it have cost the Bills to move up 7 or 6? The Jags gave up a 4th to move up 2 spots, had the Bucs been entertaining an offer from the Bills, I would almost guarantee that the Jags would have increased their offer.
All the lack of trading the Bills did yesterday tells me is that they believed the drop off in talent between OT's and WR's between the top guys and the 2nd tier guys wasn't worth the price of moving. And for the most part going into day 2, it looks like there's still plenty of talent at the OT and WR positions available.
So I guess my question is, who would you have wanted to see the Bills move up and get yesterday, and what would you have given for him?