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Who is your backup LT? Quessenberry? The guy who allowed the most sacks of any tackle in the NFL playing RIGHT TACKLE last year? Who is the backup outside receiver behind Diggs and Davis? Jake Kumerow. That's who. The 5th round rookie with 29" arms is not really a big catch radius deep threat on paper. They are set at slot receiver though.........got 3 of them. Who backs up Hyde and Poyer? Are Hamlin and Johnson better prospects than Lee and Griffin and McCloud at CB? They are just as unproven. Athletically McCloud has the same raw speed and athletic traits as Kaiir Elam. It's not like they had nobody with any athletic potential to play a CB position that is protected by scheme. If Rodger Saffold misses 300 snaps again this year.......who backs him up? Cody Ford? Mancz? I mean if players of that level were all that was needed they could have done the same thing at zone CB. Sorry if you don't think talent is needed on the OL but protecting the only reason they are a SB contender............Josh Allen............is job #1. It's a luxury to have a loaded defense...........it's a necessity to have a healthy QB.

Like I sad at the bottom of the post.........I'm not saying I believe in that plan..........but it's possible that they think that way and want to be able to play a 4-3 front against some mobile QB's. He'd have to be pretty damn sticky in coverage to justify taking a CB like Taron Johnson off the field. As Joe Marino said in his draft recap..........they may view Bernard as that big nickel they've often been rumored to desire..........like Shaq Thompson, who they drafted in round 1 for that role in Carolina despite having Luke Kuechly and Thomas Davis.

Daryl Williams was coming off of a season where he was tremendous at RT........remember him shutting down TJ Watt? Feliciano and Boettger were coming off good seasons..........that's why they extended Feliciano. Cody Ford didn't have a middle name yet. Ryan Bates was the depth player spoken in hushed tones about. And they had just drafted a very athletic OT in Spencer Brown. It's really NOT clear that they are better on paper than they were at this time last year. Brown is coming off a really rough year in pass pro..........Bates is now a starter and has only played a handful of full games in his career...........Rodger Saffold missed 300+ snaps (about 5 games worth) due to a chronic shoulder condition and he is replacing Daryl Williams who played 98% of the snaps. Quessenberry lead the NFL in sacks allowed as a tackle. This is a very thin unit on paper............the hope is just that Kromer can coach them up. I'm a big Kromer fan and a defender of the offense's when he was here last time. But I've also been around long enough to remember them hiring the vaunted Jim "Mouse" McNally and assuming he could turn a sh*tty OL into salad from 2004-2007 and that didn't work out. When your plan is to throw the ball A LOT you need dudes with pass blocking chops...........not sure Beane has even given Kromer even the minimum to work with.

Then what are your fellow Boston fans hero Tom Brady and grocery clerk to MVP/HOF QB Kurt Warner? One in a BILLION? How many millions of NFL QB's do you think there have been? Josh Allen was literally picked 7th overall in the draft. His comps were to big armed athletic QB's like John Elway, Ben Roethlisberger and Cam Newton. Yeah he had a big completion % year in 2020 with no crowds and refs not throwing holding penalties and that surprised people. But last year his completion % fell back down to a very pedestrian 63% and his dynamic playing style came back in line with the earlier comps............who happen to be 2 HOF'ers and a former NFL MVP. What are the odds of that happening with a player drafted that high? Well the odds of landing a franchise QB in round 1 at all used to be about 15% a decade ago............that number has increased in recent years with the influx of quality QB's. So let's say it's just a number between 1 and 100 and stop with the hyperbole.

The draft odds are updated daily.......and quite rapidly after game results........all season at https://tankathon.com/nhl and you can spin the lottery simulator until it comes up Buffalo at #1 and they have mock drafts based on the projections etc..

This occurred to me as well..........because I know that Mahomes scrambling was what killed the Bills defense in the divisional loss........not the play of the secondary. They simply didn't have a guy at the second level that could prevent Mahomes from extending drives with his feet. There isn't a CB in the league that can cover a good receiver for 6 seconds. Whether Bernard can cover well enough to replace a DB and not put them in an unfavorable matchup is highly questionable though..............as is whether he would be a better option for such a role than Siran Neal. Ultimately, it was just much too early to go that gadgety for my liking though.

I'm not ignoring them........I am discounting them. I have no faith in Cody Ford, he has only gone from bad to worse each season. And Quessenberry doesn't rate favorably because he allowed the most sacks in the NFL in 2021...........ELEVEN.........that is why he was available. He is basically Jordan Mills-level in pass pro. I like Aaron Kromer a lot............I gave him tons of credit for the Roman offense's..........which I was one of the few posters around here who appreciated because the majority were just hate-watching Tyrod Taylor and cared little about anything else even though they were leading the NFL in rushing and a very good scoring team. But I don't like playing fast and loose with the pass protection for my elite QB.

I get it, you have no faith in Tre White being able to meet the relatively standard 9 month return plan. Either way, they have plenty of depth now.........they have like 8-10 CB's and plenty of guys with excellent measurables/traits even if they weren't high pedigree draft prospects.........which means little because Levi Wallace and Dane Jackson aren't either. Talent-wise and taking scheme into account it's maybe the deepest they've ever been at CB in their history. The OL is thin and sketchy and Jake Kumerow is the top backup to Stefon Diggs and Gabe Davis........but it's a defense driven league, amirite? The hand wringing at CB sorta' reminds me of the justification for the Cody Ford pick..........not because Elam won't be better than Ford, he's much more talented and drafted earlier........but rather just because Beane thinks he needs something doesn't mean he will make the best choice or that the opportunity cost won't be significant. With Ford they passed on big time WR's to take him and then when he failed to impress at RT they moved him to G........which forced a roster move at G that turned out to be Wyatt Teller getting traded. Not saying Beane just cost himself TWO All Pros again or anything but don't tell me I am wrong because that GM said he needed something. Job #1 is protecting the QB.........Beane also said that right after the season........acknowledging their struggles in that regard in 2021. 125 combined pressures and sacks is ghastly. Where are the re-inforcements there? Saffold for Williams mainly just made them older and less versatile and more prone to losing time to injury.

9 straight wins........on 3 straight sweeps of bad teams.........16-6 record, best in MLB. Judge 2 HR game. On to Toronto who is 15-8. Yankees minor league hitters are really struggling in general.........except for monstrous 21 year old switch hitting 1B prospect Anthony Garcia who has 6 HR in 49 AB's and 20 walks for low A Tampa. His OPS is crazy......over 1.100. Big guy with a big swing so probably be a few years before we know if he is going to be able to hit enough to make it to the majors but he is a specimen in that Judge/Stanton/Gallo mold with exit velo's to match.

Fans of Boston sports teams are known for having an excuse for everything.........so I guess it comes natural to you to think that way. But Josh Allen was the QB with the highest ceiling and pretty much considered a consensus first round draft pick. Becoming a franchise QB was plenty north of "impossible".

They didn't have a HUGE hole at CB.........White, Johnson and Jackson are 3 good starters. They have a lack of proven, high quality depth. Which is also the case at WR.......LT.......DE........Safety......Guard......a lot of positions........they aren't just overloaded everywhere. And some of those positions have proven A LOT harder to fill/address than the relatively easy-to-fill CB position in Buffalo. You are just assuming that Tre White won't make it back and that now the rookie Elam will be ready to step right in for him and excel if he doesn't. Two assumptions and there is plenty of reason to believe that neither may be right. I am tired of arguing against the HUGE HOLE theory.......... the same way I was rolling my eyes in dismissal at you when you thought the Bills season was over after Tre White got injured. And I was proven right..........they then proceeded to play their best football the next two months with a 6th rounder and UDFA starting at CB. Sure they had a couple bad games defensively because of a lack of pass rush.........but Tre White probably played the worst game of his career at KC in the AFCCG so assuming that he or a rookie CB would make ANY difference whatsoever in those exact situations is just rosterbation. It's not consistent with what we've seen from this team/defense under McDermott.

6'1" + 32 3/4" arms + 4.52..............good PS guy who they might be able to bulk up. Good zone trait CB's are to the late rounds and UDFA as money is to the banana stand.

Probably not the very top because the RAS goes back to 1983. There were Kentucky waterfalls galore in the 80's. But definitely in the mix for the past 30 years. Robert Gallery comes to mind.

Like Deebo? Deebo Samuel is a first team all pro........he put up 1400 yards receiving on 18 yards per reception and also produced 365 yards on the ground and totaled 14 TD's.........basically dragging a sluggish 49ers team to the NFC championship game. The ignorance around the Deebo Samuel situation is crazy..........that would have been easily the best offensive season by a Buffalo Bills receiver in their history. He was basically 1998 Eric Moulds in the air but with 400 more yards of production and 4 more TD's. Yeah........I'd want that kind of impact from a first round pick. Sign me up.

Less dead cap cutting Smith Jr. but about the same net as cutting Matakevich. Basically $200k-$300K less than replacing them in the top 51 with a late rookie minimum contract. With all the UDFA's teams are going to have to sort thru Spector would probably have to look absolutely amazing in preseason for anyone to bother considering poaching him off the Bills PS.

You can find productive RB's anywhere so who knows. We will find out if he has any wool. Expecting 3 bags minimum.

First off.........I would have expected the GM to be on the phone and feeling out the trade up market. Which was far cheaper than normal. If trading the second round pick was off the table then that was a mistake. You need to know your limitations........the second round has been a black hole for Beane. IMO, you either believe there are reasons for your behavior and their results.........or you aren't self aware and do not. Yes, I would have taken a LT if the right player was there or reachable. I had Penning rated very high. Dawkins can be moved or the player can be moved inside to develop into a LT. I'm of the opinion that if you get 7 years out of a bad bodied LT like Dawkins you've gotten every bit of what you could have expected. And that 7th year is right around the corner. I know @GunnerBill agrees with me about LT not being "set". But why are you going there when 13 WR's went in the first 2 rounds? And I wouldn't have been averse to taking an edge rusher either. Why not? They are carrying 9 or 10 DL and Shaq is a scrub and Epenesa is a disappointment with no production and Basham is an unknown with questionable upside going into his age 25 season. I would have come out of this draft with Jameson Williams. Perhaps I wouldn't have James Cook or Bernard but I would have had a potential $30M receiver. But let's say the teams in front of me refused to take my superior offer for whatever reason. I take Christian Watson. And if he were gone I take Jermaine Johnson. And if he were gone, Boye Mafe. Because in the Bills system those are premium positions......islands where they are earning their pay without being covered up by position or scheme..........and if they pan out the team would feel compelled to extend them. I'm not sure that's the case with Elam. If they were a press man team, maybe that's different. But they play zone. He will be shielded by the system. He could play well but they could easily decide that they could just plug in a Dane Jackson or Levi Wallace level type of player and be just fine rather than pick up his 5th year option or extend him. Because they have LITERALLY done that for the past 4 seasons.

That reminds me of McDermott defending his offense to the media at mid-season of 2018 when they were the lowest scoring NFL team at that point of a season since the merger. His answer was "Would we like to score 50 points every week? Sure." For perspective.......the next team that averages 38 points per game for a season will be the first. There is a wide range of results between being the worst ever at the mid point of a season and being on pace to be the greatest ever by a ridiculously wide margin.

1) No........right off the bat you've somehow misunderstood my philosophy. A team is never "set" at premium positions. You read all my posts.........how many times have I told the Aaron Donald story? 100? Thinking that you are "set" in the rapidly changing NFL is the first step onto the slippery slope of needy drafting. I know most teams actually draft for need, regardless of what they say............but that is also one of the reasons why 1/4 of the HC's and/or regimes get changed every year and why we haven't seen a repeat SB champion in a LONG time. Ultimately the draft should be about doing what is right to achieve long term success........which is done first thru great QB play and second thru consistently winning matchups at key positions. If your philosophy changes from draft to draft then it's not process oriented. As you may recall......I've been saying forever that the draft is a process of organization building.......not just an annual event to fill needs. So people trying to Opinion Control Police me are wasting their time..........if it's not process........it's not going to get the stamp of approval of my individual and ultimately inconsequential opinion. Long term success is best achieved by getting the most value from your drafts and utilizing free agency to fill needs........preferably at less expensive positions(like the one's the Bills drafted). 2) The reason I say that I believe they got tunnel vision on a CB is because Beane said he didn't even talk to any teams about moving up before pick 20. I can definitely buy that none of the CB's were worth moving up higher than that......they've got notable flaws and ceiling limitations. But none of the players at other premium positions were either? Trades were being made for value that was far below normal.........and Beane wasn't even checking that? I don't buy that they didn't have higher grades on a receiver.........unless their BPA was actually colored by their perception of need. Which has been my concern thru this process. This is not the first time we have had a Bills team drafting with the perception that they were ALREADY a Super Bowl contender or favorite...........it was this way almost every year throughout the 1990's. As I've said..........I've seen this kind of draft pattern before. Maybe this is the new normal but I hope it's not. Either way, it is what it is and the draft was A LOT of laughs on TSW this year either way.

That take couldn't make less sense in this context. This type of draft is the exact opposite of that philosophy. It was a draft to address immediate needs that you think will help you in the very short term. The way you maintain a team with a $250M QB on it is to keep infusing cheap talent into the expensive premium positions of your systems..........because it's THOSE players you can't afford to keep after contract 1 or replace in free agency with a $250M QB. Any team can afford a Levi Wallace or JD McKissic or a slot receiver, punter etc............even one's with $250M QB. Instead of just parroting something you've heard someone say............try understanding the concept, bud.

By LHF I mean they used their picks on very easy positions to fill and all non-premium positions as I defined them........zone CB, RB, WLB, slot WR, punter. They got tunnel vision on a CB because Levi Wallace was wearing the wrong color undies when he made his decision where to sign his sub $5M aav deal..........and they took a RB in round 2 because the guy they thought they had signed for $3.5M aav backed out on them. I assign $ value to picks........a first should be a guy who you would have to pay $20M+ aav to if they were at their ceiling and a free agent today. A second would have to be in that $12M-$16M range for me.........which is prime real estate for a top end zone-system CB prospect. Cook would have made sense value-wise in the late 3rd. That's just how I judge drafts..........value and overall talent acquired. Not the same as some grade it..........a lot of the grades you will see will be just based on how they addressed immediate needs..........which is then contradicted by the assumption that you won't know if the players were good until they get 3 years in your system.

I love the Von Miller signing..........but that was only part of their spending spree on defense. I'm underwhelmed by the relative amount of assets that they've put into addressing the offensive side of the ball...........which had systemic problems that only using Josh Allen like a RB down the stretch really resolved. That approach is obviously not sustainable. I like the Von Miller for Hughes/Addison swap A LOT better than old man Saffold for the more reliable/available Daryl Williams. Seems to me they are putting ENORMOUS trust in Aaron Kromer and Ken Dorsey. It's almost like they believe the struggles were all due to Daboll.

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