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Dallas didn't have Haley. A great edge rusher AND SB rings. He made as big of a difference as any single acquisition for an eventual that-season SB winner until Tom Brady to Tampa and Stafford to LAR. It's easier NOW than ever for a single great player to swing the pendulum because the disparity between rosters has never been smaller. Chris Jones could be that guy this year.

Yeah, this is the point of trading Bates. The cap room gained next season is just as valuable as it is now. Getting under the cap before UFA isn't really going to be a challenge. Bates is excellent depth but as they get deeper into cap debt they need to sacrifice experienced depth for youth. Anderson and Van Demark represent the youth replacing Bates versatility as the C/swing tackle. I think that's a better situation than relying on Eli Ankou as the depth at DT1T, for instance.

The biggest factor in his trade value is that this is the best OL draft in decades. If it were a bad draft, given the state of current OL play in the NFL then perhaps he does warrant better value than Brown(who was arriving with big contract demands, limited work at LT in a heavy run offense and wasn't/isn't as good of a pass blocker, the more important skill). But this season there are going to be guys late in round 1 who teams think will be as good or better than Dawkins in pretty short order.......and they can be had cheap and potentially for a long time. Not a sellers market for OL.

Entertainment is a purpose. I apologize if this suddenly makes you aware of how pointless your following of a pro sports team is in the grand scheme of things but the NFL is only truly purposeful (by your definition) to those who are profiting from it professionally.

I anticipated this but didn't expect it could happen until late in TC. Thought Mitch Morse would get released and that Anderson and Bates could fight it out for the center job and if Anderson won then Bates would be dealt. Guessing this signals that Morse is in still. I also want to come out of this draft with 3 OL if possible and need roster spots to do that. Lot's of good OL to be had and a good opportunity to re-set the pay scale at OL for the Bills over next couple seasons.

Yeah regarding offensive line in this draft.........needs change FAST. I often cite that 2014 draft where the Bills passed on Aaron Donald. I couldn't find a soul on TSW interested in Donald because the Bills had a DL of Mario/Dareus/KW/Hughes so it wasn't an immediate need. The "Cold Front" turned out to be a brief bluster and in the 2016 draft the DL was the #1 need of the team.

I like it. Hopefully the Hunt family is adopting "cash to the cap" now that they have some fresh Lombardi's in the case.

I think he had to be medically cleared to be released without an injury settlement so I suspect #1 is probably not the case. But the reality is that he probably wasn't going to be nearly the same player in 2024 that he was prior to the ACL tear. I know many of us feared that Beane would do the wrong and "sentimental" thing with Hines........like he did when he allowed guys who screwed him with poor effort like Vernon Butler and Star Lotulelei to hang around with pay cuts..........but this really was an easy "no brainer" level decision to cut an injured RB.

Yeah people see a player like Shakir or Bernard emerge who had underwhelmed prior and just assume those players are studs now. Fans need to learn from the past. Lot's of players have one successful season or a brief run where they look tremendous...........and then fall off dramatically for various reasons. Shakir showed a lot of promise but competition and depth at slot can only help........and this is a good draft to find some. Same goes for a guy like Torrence for me. I am sure a lot of people assume it's just up and up for him now but they assumed the same with Spencer Brown and then were trying to run him out of town when he took a step back in year 2. Maybe the best OL draft of the 2000's........so it would be foolish to not select any just because you think you are set because Torrence had a decent rookie season.

Such an unnecessary "L" to take for @BillsFanForever19.

Agree that if it were just a broken leg he'd be cleared by now.

Better on offense Worse on defense Might be able to add some defensive pieces this spring/summer cheap

Hmmph..........I thought Beane just said the other day that Matt Milano probably won't be ready until TC and maybe not even at the beginning of camp? So to the OP...........no because: 1) You can't trade an injured player or/and 2) He doesn't have the trade value of an early round pick because of the injury, salary(9.2M base salary) age(30 in July) and positional value(LB's don't tend to get drafted early because the position is devalued) .

Yeah I'm not really inclined to trade up for anyone either. The Bills need to begin a youth movement. Ideally they get 3 WR and 3 OL from this draft. Because that's the strength of this draft and that's how you should draft. And hopefully they can also address the DL along the way and find a couple values at other positions. Using draft capital to move up compromises that strategy. The idea that they can't roster 10 draft picks any longer is over now that the cap limitations have set in. And using next years picks is not what I want to see either.

29 wins 32 losses Not a winning record anywhere. The NHL standings are about points, not wins and losses. Some games count for 2 points toward the league standings........but some count for 3 because of OT Losses. Other sports have a set amount of wins and or ties that can be had during a season. You don't get loser points in the MLB/NFL/NBA. That allows for a true winning %. That's not the case in the NHL.

Back in the pre-Mafia-social-media days thin-skinned Bills fans really used to hate Mort because he covered the Bills organization like the irrelevant sh!t show that they were under Ralph. He caught a lot of flack from Bills fans that he really didn't deserve for being honest, IMO.

No, Doc is correct, 29-32 is a losing record. There aren't any actual tie's in hockey. Loser points aren't half a win they are just a token point to make losing fans feel better about losing late.

Actually, the Rams used a speed analytic.......his ability to maintain top speed thru changes of direction......as justification for drafting Kupp fairly early despite concerns that he'd be the more-easy-to-find slot type of receiver. Which is what he is and he's great at it. But that metric actually likely got him drafted earlier. The flip side to a player like Reagor busting in the 20's is a player like Jefferson becoming an MVP level offensive player in the 20's. NOBODY saw THAT coming. He looked very good.......but the clear #1 WR in the NFL? No. I think most of us would be satisfied with the Bills WR pick at 28 becoming a 1,000 yard receiver.........but while that player could bust he could also become amazing.

Well, if you followed the draft you'd know that there are never 6-10 hits in a row at ANY position. Not even close. There are just SO MANY different things that can go wrong with any prospect. In the last 8 drafts the Bills have gotten very disappointing returns from 1st rounders like Shaq Lawson and Kaiir Elam. Big fails on day 1 or day 2 happen regardless of position. Edit: And I'll add.......the guys who gained the most from the workouts at WR yesterday were guys like McConkey and Pearsall.........who had great tape but people questioned their athleticism. It wasn't one of those situations where a bunch of guys with nothing good on tape ran in the 4.3's or jumped 11' or 42". This class has been pretty fleshed out for some time. Some of them will inevitably bust or underwhelm due to unforeseen injuries but there is no doubt it's an extraordinary class talent-wise.

The difference is that Xavier Worthy had been a projected 1st round pick in this 2024 draft since his freshman season. Worthy has been a producer at Texas since day 1. I know there are a lot of people who don't follow college football who are suddenly interested and weighing in with hot takes about the little bit of draft history they know but Worthy is not a track star playing football or a one season wonder like most of those guys.

Of course, any of the top receivers to the Chiefs is no bueno. But the same can be said of offensive tackles. They need two new offensive tackles and this is the year to get one. The Chiefs have been fairly stingy with the Hunt fortune in recent offseasons so maybe they have to draft more for need and defer receiver to day 2.

In the days leading up to the combine Ian Rappaport said that the biggest variation at WR between the draftniks and the pro scouts was Xavier Worthy. Pro scouts have always had him going in round 1(even if not a true first round grade, of which some think there are only 15-18). And the truth is that Worthy was generally considered a mid 1st round pick in waiting last spring and summer. He has been consistent so the "he's John Ross 2.0" crowd of folks clearly don't follow college football. Worthy just didn't have a breakout jump in performance. And that was largely on their QB Quinn Ewers IMO. He throws a lot of neighborhood balls. If Worthy and Mitchell had played with a Penix or Nix they would be a much easier evaluation, IMO.

Irrelevant, really. The issue with the Sabres is not reaching the playoffs and as the now 25th best team in the NHL they are BURIED behind 5 teams for the last wild card and 4 of those teams have games in hand on them. As was mentioned earlier in the thread, they are just playing better because the pressure is off.

That's a vague take of it..........but the reality that Flutopians didn't want to hear was that Bill Belichick created the Flutie/Johnson controversy when he drew up the defense that stifled Flutie in the 2 games against the Jets in 1998 and extinguished Flutie magic. Before that there was no controversy. The following season was an offensive struggle under Flutie. 3 teams that missed the playoffs stifled at beat Flutie at home.........ruining their playoff seeding and wasting what is still the best defense the Bills have had during the SB era. It was just plain OBVIOUS that you could totally neutralize a Flutie offense simply by keeping him in the pocket. Johnson simply gave them more offensive potential at that point. So Flutie being a selfish ah0le in the locker room and the media battling about which QB should start were really just the byproduct of Flutie's performance being compromised by Belichick.

Dickerson was indeed hard on Marv but the idea that he betrayed the locker room is just made up nonsense from Tasker..........who specializes in spewing nonsense. Dickerson had his fans in the locker room and he had his players that he loved and loved him. He kept a normal amount of heat on the local NFL team. Also.....Tasker is SO BAD at radio.........he somehow manages to make it clear that he's an ah*le away from work while also being a rambling, boring, uninsightful analyst with terrible recollection.