Derrick Dockery signs with the Bills

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Originally Posted by Gmanc711

I could not disagree more. Whoever is saying Dock is crap, is whatever. I dont think he's crap, and I wanted like hell to keep him here and the Bills got a hellava football player.

But you understand that the Bills just singed Derrick Dockery to a deal very similar to what Hutchinson signed last year that set an NFL record for an offensive linemen. Do you think Dockery is one of the best offensive linemen to suit up in the NFL?? Hell, he was at BEST the 3rd best linemen on the Redskins last year (behind Samuels/Thomas). Give me a break, I was pissed at the orginization the whole last couple months, ask TAF, but after seeing these numbers, there was NO WAY they could resign Dockery. No freaking way. The Bills are absolutley insane, and Dockery would have been part retarded not to take that deal. I'm not saying we never overpaid people, I'm not saying the deals we gave to Arch, Lloydd are are ok. In fact this basically to me mirrors what we did with Arch, making some guy the highest paid guy at the position, who isnt even CLOSE to the best player at that position. How you can blame the FO for DOCKERY LEAVING (not saying that havent made mistakes), is beyond me.

I dont blame Dock one bit for signing that deal, he would have been a fool not to. What kills me are people mad at him because he signed else where, now saying he wasn't that good. the guys was the best guard, or 2nd best guard on the board. A 4 year player, started 64 games. a beast of a man. the 7 yr 49million deal in two years or 3 will look cheap to what we will have to pay a guy in that time to take his spot.
Example - look at what we left Pierce go for, he signed a reasonable deal the the Gmen, when we low balled him. now we have struggled at the position for two years, and now will pay more for a 32 year old aging veteran. We could have kept clark, who played like a beast for us, but we let him go and pay the richest contract for a safety in history. Springs, we had to sign a 30 year old corner to 10 million up front, 40 some million dollar deal 3 years ago, when we could have paid champ, and much younger, better player maybe 15 million up front. now that looks cheap compared to what clements got. (24million??)

here is was L. Pastabelly said about doc, and most everyone else :

But it was the addition of Dockery, arguably one of the top 15 players in the entire unrestricted pool, that should really solidify the Buffalo blocking unit. Dockery, 26, is a powerful in-line blocker with a nasty streak, a lineman capable of knocking defenders off the ball and creating big holes in the running game.

The former University of Texas standout, a third-round choice in 2003, never missed a game in his four seasons in Washington, and started in all but three of the 64 contests in which he appeared. As one of the most coveted players in the free agent market, Dockery had several suitors, but the Bills moved quickly to close the deal with him.