Re: Interesting factoid
The job of general manager is to put together a team that can win. Bill Polian hes done this.
You can try to hate all you want, but the man has done an amazing job. There were plenty of kibitzers who regarded the choicer between Manning and Leaf as a toss up.
A year later, most people said "WHO?" when he took Edge over Ricky Williams.
He followed that up by stealing Reggie Wayne at the bottom of the first round. He was the fifth WR taken, behind David Terrell, Koren Robinson, Rod Gardner, and Santana Moss.
The next year he took a DE that was supposed to be too small, Dwight Freeney has worked out pretty good thus far.
Two years later, the Colts traded down multiple times before selecting Bob Sanders in the second round.
A general manager can only control so much, no one has done a better job building franchises than Polian. Ask any Bills fan if they wish they had him back.
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