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Pretty sure former All Pro Daryl Williams had a long stretch where he was grading out like the best RT in the league. Oh, wait, that was 2020.........then he was awful at RT in 2021. Dawkins is a good player who struggles with conditioning.........a lot of times players like that hit a wall in their mid-late 20's where the natural athleticism alone ceases to be enough. For some they can change their habits and not lose a step.........others can't and it's a career killer..........for others it just changes their role.

Imagine the versatility of the phrase "Babich please" in said scenario.

Aaron Donald is firmly in the conversation of top 10 defensive players all-time.......for prisoners of the moment he might be #1 overall.........so it's unlikely there is one of those in this draft at all............let alone where the Bills are picking at 25th. A very good player at a premium position would be a GREAT get there though and there very well might be one of those. It would have to be a pretty woeful draft to look back years from now and think that the best pick at #25 would have been a guard or a running back or an off-ball LB etc.. QB's and edge/island players have the best chance to make the greatest individual impacts in games........which is why they get the big bucks come contract time. As for Dawkins.........yeah you mentioned 3 probable HOF LT's that haven't switched to LT...........they are all freaks of nature athletically........but lot's of good tackles flame out after 5-6 years........we just tend to forget about them. Jonas Jennings was an excellent LT and got huge money to leave Buffalo for San Francisco........and flamed out in year 5. Cordy Glenn was excellent too.......also flamed out between years 6 and 7. I like Dawkins but in terms of talent/athleticism he is much closer to those guys than the HOF types you listed, IMO.

Definitely interesting plan.......thanks for sharing. 1 - I don't think Metcalf brings 2 first rounders in return from anyone. The Bills 1st might be right on the nose for his trade value. All it takes is one team........but it's another strong WR draft on the heels of several very good ones........WR isn't a desperate need around the league and he only has one season of team control left..........and no 5th year option for an acquiring team to leverage to make a deal. 3- I wouldn't pay Calais Campbell that much.........he'd be a nice addition but he is not a playmaker anymore.........more of a run defense addition.

I don't dislike you at all @eball.............I just know you....uh.... "wear your heart on your sleeve" as you say......... and that you don't have a sense of humor about it........ so I just sprinkle on a pinch of sarcasm......

Round 1 ain't about drafting for need...........it's about getting the best player available at a critical, high impact, high dollar position. Bills had a loaded pass rushing front going into the 2014 draft.......Mario/Dareus/KW/Hughes...........I was promoting the idea of selecting the underrated Aaron Donald of Pitt..........I started a thread to say he was the best defensive player in the draft......and that I thought he could be the rare 10 sack guy as a rookie and play both end and tackle despite his size. I normally get a lot of responses..........but only got about 5 responses.....all just like yours........"wasn't a need" they said.......end of thread. By spring of 2016 "The Cold Front" had turned into a warm breeze and Buffalo was desperately reaching in round 1 for the juiceless and useless Shaq Lawson. The Bills STILL don't have a stud pass rusher. Needs change FAST.........draft to stack the roster with talent........not to patch perceived holes. Dawkins is a nice LT........he's also going into year 6........by year 7 he could EASILY be a guard. Brown is a nice prospect.........but struggled in pass pro last season as a rookie and missed games with lower back issues.

Oh so you've heard a lot of people say that the Chiefs generally outplayed the Bills..........but the Bills deserved to win? I don't think so. The narrative around here has centered around how the Bills earned the win with their play........but a choice by the coaching staff to kick the ball into the end zone caused them to lose. Not playing better in the first 59:47 is the reason.

Just so people know........it doesn't sound like May-ff it's pronounced Mah-fay.......kinda like MAFK but without the k

The Bills ranked 16th defensively in 2020.........so they actually haven't been consistently excellent. I could see something of a defensive letdown statistically next year. To me, the key is being able to adapt their defense to their opponents in the playoffs..........they have not been able to do that versus KC..........and have subsequently been dissected by the Chiefs.

Greatest playoff game ever, are my thoughts. The narrative that the Bills had outplayed the Chiefs and had some richly deserved victory snatched from them in the final seconds is not accurate though............Chiefs played better than the Bills for more of the clock that day.........Allen just nearly willed the Bills to victory.

Won back-to-back NYS championships in hoops in 1983 and 1984 as underclassmen. Couldn't stay out of trouble or it would have been 3 straight. Probably Rochester's most remembered/dominant HS sports team.

Yeah the Bills finally had no choice late in the year but to turn Allen loose on the ground. They had done so in the early season win at Arrowhead as well. When the stakes are high.........using Allen by any means necessary is a great performance elevator..........but it's not a good, sustainable plan for a 20-21 game season. The issue is how to win more regular season games than anyone else in the AFC without using Allen like RB1.

Or the Giants asst QB coach, of course. I'm not sure I buy the idea that he thinks he has a real chance to make the Giants roster..............he hasn't made an NFL roster since his rookie year and has one actual appearance in a real game.........maybe he assumes he will be back on the PS as a de facto QB coach either way..........and prefers to continue to learn from Daboll rather than be with first-timer Dorsey?

@Alphadawg7 after hearing what Diggs got

Without the Canadian fans and the vax requirement I suspect demand would have been normal. We still wouldn't have been too bad off with regard to moving extra tickets.........but the worst-ever weather NFL season in Buffalo was the last f*cking straw. Ultimately, when the games are on tv anyway a lot of things have to line up........price, ease of attendance, weather........to get the more casual fans to snap up those extra tickets.

Then the security footage came out

There aren't that many Bengals fans in LA, but probably something like this

I don't doubt for a minute that teams that haven't seen a lot of Edmunds are wary of throwing at him in the middle. But I think what we've seen the last two seasons is a number of teams realizing there isn't really a lot of risk throwing the ball Edmunds way............he is the antithesis of a "heady" player. He will run up and put a big hit on a defenseless receiver who is at a full stop 5 yards from the LOS in the middle of the field............but Darius Leonard comes in and peanut punches the ball at the ball while making the tackle on the same play. Edmunds also attacks passes in front of him.....even when it's clear that another defender is making the play............with seemingly no concept that the pass might get tipped to him. He is never mentally prepared to make plays. And yeah he can run down receivers and ball carriers going side to side at a high level................but it's negated by the fact that blocks stick to him in the screen game and that he is a woeful blitzer. In 2020 he somehow blitzed 72 times without generating a single pressure. Right now he's a middle of the league MLB..........which isn't a great distinction being a de-valued position..........but the more familiar people are getting with him.........the further he's been slipping down the list, IMO. I'm concerned that his slide isn't over. But as I mentioned.........guys like DeVondre Campbell and Demario Davis took big steps after their rookie deals were up(at much older ages than Edmunds is now)..........so it's not impossible that he improves significantly. Just seems unlikely at this point.

I haven't read the whole thread yet but my guess is @eball went from 6 to midnight when he opened this thread.

The Chiefs have won 2 Super Bowls. Dude's talkin' about "always" and doesn't know this. SMH

1) Edmunds doesn't just not make "a ton of plays" he rarely makes ANY. That statement falls in line with McDermott saying "would we like to score 50 points every game, sure" in response to having one of the worst offenses in NFL history thru half a season in 2018. The man with the 7' wingspan hasn't forced a fumble in a regular season game since mid-way thru his rookie season! 2) "Passes are completed against him for sure, but a lot of passes don't come his way because of his" Edmunds' passer rating is well over 100 the past two years so the Bills "65.3" rating is somewhat in spite of the action that comes his way. That's math. And here is the thing about all this range he supposedly has to prevent passes in his area..........if a LB is just a half step out of position he might as well be 5'4" instead of 6'4"..........Edmunds is not disciplined or instinctive in coverage. 3) The Chiefs are a problem. For sure. They are really familiar with Buffalo now and Edmunds is Mahomes toy. He works him like a yo-yo. That's not the case with all LB's though.......as noted, Logan Wilson played a masterful game in coverage against Mahomes attempts to manipulate him in the AFCCG. The Bills were fortunate to really only face two top QB's this year.........Mahomes and Brady. Both torched the Bills for the most part. It's more of a "good QB" issue in the passing game with Edmunds........will agree about that. But then there is the liability in run defense against strong running teams. So then we have Edmunds' sweet spot.......bad to average QB's in pass D..........and middling running teams. Then the problem is.........he doesn't make game changing plays. The Bills could really use a finishing pass rusher but the ACTUAL reason their passer rating is so good is because they get very good pressure from their front 4, force QB's to throw or tuck and scramble quicker than they want to. And they are experienced and make a lot of plays on the ball in the secondary. The reality is that Edmunds is just an average MLB right now.........who was drafted and expected to be a game changer and looks like an All Pro on the hoof.

I equate the Rams situation in LA to if the Bills moved away...........then the Dolphins moved into Buffalo 10 years later with the stated objective to be Canada's team on this side of the border. Illegitimate and the fanbase feels exploited/used. The Rams betrayed an already tepid NFL fan base not all that long ago...........they weren't as deeply ingrained as the Bills are here........they'd already moved to Anaheim before they left CA, a move that really pissed off a lot of long time Rams fans to start with............It's probably going to take 10-20 years.......the time to spawn a new fanbase......... for them to really earn the trust and respect of the fanbase back. When the Raiders won a SB in LA it was the same way as I recall............only in hindsight did LA really seem to care about the Raiders(as evidenced by all the wearing of Raiders gear by hip hop stars etc..)

Of course he gets a shot to keep the starting job. The point is that Cody Ford was also penciled in as the starter at RT going into 2020. The Bills signed Daryl Williams to a $2M one year deal coming off a bad season playing guard for Carolina.........and when Ford failed Williams stepped into the RT job and that was pretty much the end of Ford being considered even an option as swing tackle let alone a starter. To add insult to injury.......when Williams struggled at RT in 2021......Ford AGAIN got benched in favor of Williams......who was moved to guard and Brown was inserted at RT.

Mostly agree but I don't think the situation with Brown is any different than it was with Cody Ford going into 2020. Brown had some struggles and had back issues as well. He has great potential but still too much to prove to assume he's going to keep improving. Ford certainly did not.........he regressed.