Farewell Tom Modrak

by Steve

The Buffalo Bills announced today the cutting of ties with one Tom Modrak. For those lesser fans, Mr. Modrak was the Directer of College Scouting and at one point was assistant GM. Good riddance and thanks for nothing.

This guy has a worse record than Osama bin Laden. Yikes, that is hyperbolic, uh, he was just truly terrible and an awful evaluator of talent. It is true we don't know exactly how much of a say the guy had in choosing players for the Bills in the draft but we know he certainly had some say. Mods was the directer for christ sake so he did have major influence either way.

What, do you want me to run down the list of awful selections under this dude? Rank them perhaps? No ranking is available because we still don't know exactly how awful players like Spiller, Aaron Maybin or Eric Wood (our last 3 1st rounders) will be, although we could guess, I guess.

A quick run down instead: Donte Whitner, MAJOR reach for a position that needs to make plays to validate a top 8 pick. Willis McGahee, he cost two first round picks and was a guy who couldn't play for a year because of injury. On top of that he played a position with a pro bowler already entrenched. Mike Williams, consensus top 5 pick but busted big time since he couldn't even play guard let alone right tackle and don't even think about LT. James Hardy, 41st overall, was out of the league after two seasons and lived up to his billing as a shaky character guy. John McCargo, holy smokes, the Bills traded up for this guy, traded him away only to have him fail the physical and was stuck with him. Then instead of cutting his ass they kept him, benched him consistently throughout his useless career and worse yet he is still listed on the bb.com website as being on the roster.

Oh yeah, and the creme de la creme of awfulness. Johnny Paul Losman. We have to blame Tom Donahoe for this one mostly. However we have to assume Modrak was on board to trade back into the first round for the 4th QB taken out of little Tulane U. The rest we have broken down, discussed, puked about and argued. And in fact this JP Losman piece by Coast was linked to by a major Seattle newspaper.

You would think we would be done after that list and you would be wrong. Leodis McKelvin is certainly nothing to praise over. Especially since the 11th overall pick has had little impact after three seasons. Marshawn Lynch was another shaky pick. RB in the top twelve is never a good idea especially since he wasn't the first running back taken. Oh, and the Bills basically gave him away a scant four years later. Roscoe Parrish, the Bills first selection in '05 has never distinguished himself, the same goes for Paul Posluszny another second round pick. Don't get me started on the third round picks, of which there is little worth mentioning.

Basically the guy stunk at his job. I don't think there is a strong enough word to describe how awful the Buffalo Bills have done in the draft the last ten years. Despicable, dastardly, vomit inducing-ly terrible, disgracefully? No adjective does it justice. It doesn't help that the team didn't make the playoffs any of those years but never awful enough to get a top 3 pick either.

Holy smokes, see ya later Modrak, have fun in retirement.