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He's A LOT better than Shaq.

The team(s) that select a RT-only in round 1 will regret it. It's not a hot take really.........because "hot take" implies that it could be wrong..........but since some people are excited about drafting a RT it's a reminder to observe and learn. An even more certain take is that the Bills will NOT regret it if they pass on a RB who goes in round 1. They haven't lived to regret NOT selecting a RB who subsequently went in round 1 since at least the 1980's. That's not going to change in a post-RB NFL. Apologies to @Inigo Montoya who thinks the Chiefs can wrap up the Lamar Hunt trophy in perpetuity if they get Bijan.

Man........you had a really bad eye for pass rushers. And Groot has been the best DE(or DL) from that entire draft........by a lot. Phillips is the only one with as many sacks......he has 3 more.........but he has played 50% more snaps.

I'd love that if there was a young star player at a premium position on the market..........unfortunately that didn't align for them this year. Need to align the player AND a really dumb GM like Russ Brandon to trade that player for a late first round pick. Even last year the Titans were smart enough to get a better return for AJ Brown than the Bills would have had to offer. That would have been sweet.......that new contract he signed had super-cheap cap hits in 2022-2023.

A RT-only in round 1 is like giving up on life. Beane should just start wearing sweat pants to the office.

Same operator that patched the Tampa GM thru to Buddy Nix?

I originally thought Matthew Bergeron was so old because he probably had to go to the 13th grade to get a diploma like some of you guys on here.

Right.......that is the end of a response to your claims that the Bills division winning results are fraudulent because they haven't had to play elite QB's in their division. Which neglects the fact that the Chiefs have had a cake walk schedule of non-elite QB'd teams in their division since before Mahomes entered the league 6 years ago. I know you and @Zerovoltz come here because your Chiefs sites are full of garbage illogical posts from idiots who don't get the nuance of the game. But you're not making much sense here either. You've determined that to your casual fans eye that the Bills are circling the drain and old. So rather than realizing that the facts are that the Bills have beaten the Chiefs in Arrowhead two straight seasons and have had the highest point differential in the NFL in that time period you are making a broad assumption that they have cycled out simply because they didn't beat your team in the playoffs. The reality is that they are still rightfully one of the strongest SB favorites. Just like the Chiefs still were even though they blew a 24 point lead the AFCCG and got rid of Tyreek and Mathieu while there was a general perception that the AFC West had CLEARLY improved themselves across the board.......just like the Dolphins and Jets have! If you aren't worried about the Jets as a Chiefs fan then there certainly isn't any reason for the Bills to be.

Yeah that is the way the draft is. Fans fantasize that they are going to get 7 eventual starters out of every draft.........and in reality it's a good one if you get a few. With the exception of getting a franchise QB it's basically impossible to live up the hype. Then they get depressed by the actual picks. Then when you look at the final results it usually looks like every team that didn't have 2-3 first round picks had a bad draft.

This was your first sentence to me: "#1 that is a dumb comment to make" I think I was wrong saying that you just don't want to know.........your ignorance is not by choice. 😆

Yeah I don't put much into any of the info. The Cardinals may have zero strong interest. Or they may well only have 1 strongly interested team.....so they are leaking false info to try to get more from that team. The teams that are being used with false info don't care because they all have a vested interest in that acquiring team paying more. So if the Ravens are the team that really wants him.......leaking that their AFC rivals Bills and Chiefs might be close may help force their hand a bit. And those teams don't mind a good AFC team losing a good draft pick. So it's worth a shot. As a Yankees fan I've seen that game used for years in the offseason.

No, I said I wasn't worried about the opposition because at this point Allen is in a different tier than the other QB's in the AFC East. Your argument is that Allen hasn't proven he can win a division with an equally elite QB in it and that Rodgers is the same quality of player he was in his MVP years. I disagree because I saw a very different Rodgers than you last season. You also made some other dubious statements about personnel. Jermaine Johnson is the Jets 5th best draft pick under Douglas and your initial assessment was that he was better than Rousseau? Did you even watch the rest of the NFL last year? Did you pay any attention when the Chiefs struggled against the AFC's two worst teams? You seem to think that the bridge has been gapped in the AFC East because the Dolphins and Jets won a couple of VERY close games........but that the Chiefs close division games don't represent anything. By your rationale the Texans and Colts are better than the Chiefs if they added Rodgers.......because the 2022 Chiefs couldn't beat either of those teams in regulation despite their pathetic QB's.

I don't think the money can get figured out if Arizona doesn't eat a bunch of it. D-Hop could have a great comeback player year but he's not been a top 10 WR since 2020 and his trajectory matches guys like Julio and AJ Green who have flamed out in their early 30's after some injuries, recently. There is A LOT of risk with taking on a receiver who isn't a style fit with Josh Allen(who is averse to throwing jump balls and prefers his receiver open) and who has a $19M salary this year and who has struggled with injury and PED suspension past 2 years.

Yeah but why? He hasn't elevated his game much in 4 years. He has a history of nagging injuries. He's small so he's not like Marcel Dareus where you can just switch him to 1 tech if he gets complacent with a big contract and still get something out of him. Oliver just doesn't have a lot of value as a rental for a team that's not trying to win a SB now........especially with a $10M cap hit.

Draft season is the worst for worrying about things that don't matter. Runnin' bax season is a hard watch. And mockers patching every perceived hole on the roster by applying a pick number to a position that expresses their urgency..........as if that matters if the talent isn't there at that spot.

@Billl made the argument about the significance of Josh Allen not having to beat elite QB's in his division. Not me. It's irrelevant. Tom Brady never had to beat a then-elite QB in division and he's the GOAT. Neither did Aaron Rodgers in the AFC North. My point was that it was an ill conceived criticism of Allen and the Bills and you are correct that it therefore applies to making the same criticism of Mahomes or any successful QB.

I haven't the slightest idea why Arizona would want to rent Ed Oliver for a year. His onerous salary makes him worth no more than a comp pick level pick in trade to a team that is actually trying to win. Hell Poona Ford will probably sign anywhere for less than half of what Ed is getting. For the Cardinals he seems kinda' valueless.

It's not an exact comp but Washington reminds me a lot of Johnny U's favorite target

Come on now. You gotta' play along. Like when the Bills play action to their elite 1st round RB they will have a field day throwing over the top because teams will be FORCED to take their extra DB off the field and go with 3 LB's to stop said RB. Sure, the Bills own defense basically never comes out of the 4-2-5........regardless of how great the RB is..........but other teams will fear a RB running for 5 yards per carry more than they fear Josh Allen passing the ball.

Draft party with the usual group of us that gather to watch the Bills road games. 8-12 people I'd guess. Chicken wings and such on the menu. If it weren't for the gathering I am not sure if I'd even watch the draft. Some years I haven't but in recent years we've been gathering for it.

Yeah I suspect there are a lot of guys you think will make the team that are far from roster locks. Kyle Allen at QB, Harris at RB, Sherfield at WR, Edwards and Boettger at G, Quess and Doyle at tackle..........all could lose their jobs to a rookie with potential or if they just flop in OTA's or can't practice due to injuries etc. in camp like OJ Howard did. And that's just the offense. Plenty of room for 10+ rookies if they had the picks or got priority to the UDFA's they want.

If it doesn't happen soon it probably won't happen. It's not going to be 3-4 year "wait til my first class are seniors" re-build. He's building the Buffs like it's a TV movie and he'll tie up all the loose ends when the montage sets in. Confidence men run the world but there are times in the process of setting the trap when they actually have to have a base to build from. Like the Crypto pirates that have scammed some TSW members out of a notable portion of their retirement. Deion doesn't have that at the big time college level yet. If he is successful before he quits I will be surprised and have a much greater appreciation for the power of his bullsh!t.

Who has Mahomes had to beat at QB in his division the past 5 years? The AFC west has been KC and a bunch of mis-managed patsies since Peyton Manning's arm fell off. And ALL of Mahomes career. And no........Justin Herbert isn't an elite QB. Yeah he put up impressive stats(first two years, anyway) but Tua was the top rated passer in the AFC last year and he's not elite either. People thought Herberts teams would stop underachieving badly when he got to the NFL but his Oregon experience has continued. He's just not a competitor at the level of Mahomes/Allen/Burrow. And yes, I know Mahomes blew a 24 point lead to Burrow in the AFCCG........sometimes an elite QB has a historic choke job........but the performance by Herbert in Jacksonville was just an epic lack of will by the more talented team. An admittedly raw, second year Allen took a talent-deficient Bills team to the playoffs in a division with Tom Brady in it. He didn't beat Brady but Brady got the best of Mahomes a couple times in that 2018-2020 stretch if I recall. The Bills have not always been unchallenged in their division. As for the list of QB's Mahomes has beaten in the playoffs.........the best QB's on the list are Allen and Burrow. I suspect the Jimmy G/Jalen Hurts SB wins are going to look like the Jake Delhomme/Donovan McNabb wins on Brady's resume in retrospect.......not the Kurt Warner/Russ Wilson HOF career types that he beat. Again.........Jermaine Johnson and Rousseau aren't comps at all. Not close. Rousseau lead the NFL in run stops as a rookie playing only 44% of the snaps. He is an excellent pressure guy, great against the run and likely a double-digit sack guy this season. He's like a year and a half younger than Johnson and miles ahead of him. Johnson's rookie year comp is Boogie Basham. Except Basham put up the same numbers in a lot less snaps. Like I said.......that just shows me you don't follow personnel very closely and are making lazy comps. Are Sauce and Wilson and Quinnen very good players? Sure. But like I told people when the Bills traded the Mahomes pick to KC and people defended it with Tre is All Pro and Edmunds is very good..........an elite young QB is worth a half a roster of star players. The Bills have that. As for the Vegas odds.........yeah the Bills are the 3rd favorite to win the SB despite your assessment of their roster. A team with a 40 year old, half-retired screwball at QB being BEHIND them in the odds sounds about right. I mean........it will be tough going against Aaron Rodgers who had to overcome so many elite QB's in the NFC North every year..........but hopefully Josh Allen can raise his competitiveness level.

I'm pretty sure that this is the 25th consecutive year that Bills fans on TSW feel that the Bills are in an "awkward spot" in round 1.

I didn't say anything about the Bills roster. The Bills have had seasons(2017 and 2019) where they have overachieved and reached the playoffs with McDermott, though. Saleh? His Jets got off to a fast start playing a bunch of backup QB's. White and Flacco and Zack beating backup QB's is meh. They finished 2-9 on the season versus starting QB's. They also had the healthiest defense in the entire NFL last season. So basically..........they had A BUNCH of "ball luck" just to get to that 7-10 you find so impressive. And as noted in the Barnwell ESPN article...........teams that make huge improvements in one year defensively have a tendency to give it all back the next year. Remember the great young Redskins defense a couple years ago? Jumped from 27th to 3rd. Then fell back to 27th. As for you player comps........when you draft later you tend to get lower ceiling players. But the Bills picks aren't busts and I question your knowledge of players if you think the over-ripe Jermaine Johnson is better than Greg Rousseau. That screams "I don't follow this closely". Here's the draft pick you didn't mention............Bills drafted Josh Allen.........Jets drafted Zack Wilson. You are a fan of a team that just won a SB with an overmatched roster...........because they had the better QB. So why can't you understand the perspective that a logical fan will believe that the Jets or Dolphins will unseat the Bills when they ACTUALLY prove they can outperform an elite QB'd team over 17 games?