Glad to be back. I was pleasantly surprised by Brandon Beane's first couple of drafts, but it has been all downhill from there. This "long arms" thing is the new "stiff hips" in the never ending warfare on white players. They've been saying it for a while now about OL guys, but in the past year or two they've incorporated this worthless disparagement to include players at just about every position.
A prime example occurred earlier today. The Bills flagship radio station had Greg Co(hen)sell on to rate and discuss Beane's disgraceful draft. Surprisingly, the player he spoke the most highly of was Cole Bishop. After praising him for nearly 5 minutes, he concluded his evaluation by saying that the only real concern he had about him was that he has really short arms for a guy who is 6' 2"!!!
As for the UDFA OL guys, yes they are both very capable and highly rated, even by the majority of the online prospect rating sites. My fear is that Beane will relegate them to the practice squad and then some other team will snatch them and actually put them to good use. This has happened three out of the last four years under Beane with Blake Hance, Luke Tenuta, and Jack Anderson. I'm convinced that his next goal is to Sumo-ize the OL. Earlier this year, he traded Ryan Bates to the Bears and then released Mitch Morse a few days later. He then drafted an afflete center when there were only two of them amongst the top fifteen centers rated as draft-worthy. He is also in love with the super Sumo he drafted last year(Torrence) who they handed the starting RG job to the first day of training camp. He has admitted in the past that his worst mistake so far as a GM was trading Wyatt Teller to the Browns, but apparently he hasn't learned from it !!!