Spikes, the two-time Pro Bowl for the Bills

It was 27th March 2007, almost a year ago, when the Buffalo Bills made waves through the trade of linebacker Takeo Spikes and backup quarterback Kelly Holcomb to get the Philadelphia Eagles defensive front Darwin Walker and a seventh round.
Spikes, the two-time Pro Bowl for the Bills, had asked the organization on a trade because he would not participate in its reconstruction. After a season with 70 against, his first since tearing his Achilles tendon in September 2005, many thought, 31 years was on his way to becoming a football player, once again dominant. It's never pan, however, that the tips of the quiet season experienced Eagles 08.08 (85 tackles, a sack, forced zero revenue) - a win win more than seven bills - and was released on Thursday.
At the opposite end, Walker was to bring a piece of land in the middle part of 6 Super Bowl Champions jersey
the Buffalo defense, but was extended because the team would not give him a new contract. him a five-year $ 25,000,000 - - Accordingly, Walker was traded to the Chicago Bears in the summer for a fifth round pick this year. In 11 games during the year of the ultra-disappointing Bears, champions of the NFC in 2006, Walker not accumulated 17 tackles and a sack.
In the meantime, the seventh round of '07 Bills in the initial phase of trade acquired former Oklahoma Sooners defensive end CJ Ah, who was released before the season.
Philadelphia finally Holcomb trade for the Minnesota Vikings in August, he has never really appropriate for an important game like an eagle. Holcomb, 34, is now a free agent.
Interestingly, the four parts of the exchange of nearly a year, not the stove in the new configuration. (The jury is still by Walker, to some extent.) Was originally conceived as an agreement that both sides will benefit included: Buffalo would receive badly needed aid to the D-face, Philadelphia, thought he was a tapered spikes.
Wrong and wrong.
Ultimately, was the only remnant of the highly publicized trade, was the fifth round, the calculations of Walker got bears. Last weekend, however, deals with the election Buffalo (with a third round) for the Jacksonville Jaguars for another DT, three-time All-Pro Marcus Stroud.
In contrast to Walker, who was himself as a defender of the elite, but in fact it is not, Stroud is a front top group. and no reason to believe that it is not - - then the bills, a year later, finally, the solution of problems found in the middle, while the 30-year-old is completely out of 6 Super Bowl Champions jersey black jersey
an ankle injury, that the last two seasons has hampered recovery in the defense.
If Stroud have an immediate and lasting impact in Buffalo, the decision by former general manager Marv Levy at a linebacker on the hill trade and a quarter resulted in Walker and oh last March and then refuse to contractual requirements Walker could inadvertently be one of the Autumn is the best in the history of recent bills.