Bleeding Bills Blue

We signed Mack Hollins for the league minimum basically. They can't carry 2 ST only WRs so either you pick the better WR or the better special teamer. Injuries happen though so he's a definite possibility.

I think its hard to rank where the players ended up getting picked and determining hit rate. Ideally you would compare similar players and profiles and the grades that you have on them and look there at where you might have been wrong. What makes Collins a hit and bateman a miss? etc. Sometimes you'll be like - bro had trash QBs, or trash coaches, or whatever. But thats i think how i would look at it.

I used to prefer the saturday sunday format. I guess this gives them more eyeballs though.

I think they like tolbert more than most people. However their primary targets coming at TE and from the slot though - i could see them seeing a potential value with that level of speed on the outside.

I still think he's better than both of our safeties - who both signed for backup money. They get 10M in space come june 1st. Post-draft i think they'll have a better idea on what they want to do with that money. If they get 2 WRs in the draft and they're comfortable rolling with that group, maybe a free agent WR is less of a priority. Mocks have been pointing to a safety for buffalo, but we'll know more in a week or so. I personally don't think they're done at safety be it draft or free agency. Obviously hyde is out there, but so are Simmons, Jackson, Diggs, Adams etc. There's still a ton of dudes out there.

I don't trade him for literally anything. I'd trade his #1 WR. I'd fire the HC and GM - he's only ever worked with the 2 we have so i'd be willing to take my chances with allen and new people over giving the staff free reign to build from the ground up. I know its hypothetical. But i'd rather start over with josh than use him to get assets to start over.

It was more a lack of a comment: Butler and Bills 2022 first-round draft pick Kaiir Elam never seemed to get on the same page since the former Florida product entered the league. At locker cleanout back in January after the Bills lost to the Kansas City Chiefs in the divisional round of the playoffs, Elam expressed his frustration with a disappointing second season. Elam said he had a great offseason but ultimately lost the competition for the starting number-two cornerback spot and only played in three regular season games (two starts). When asked about how much he leaned on now former DBs coach Butler, Elam responded with: “No comment.”

They did hire a new coach for the corners (addae), and there is a new defensive coordinator in place (babich). Previous secondary coach John Butler was also the "passing game coordinator", and Elam's post-season comments seemed to indicate that they may have butted heads a bit.

Last time there was a historically deep WR class we acquired Diggs. 6 WRs went in the first - Ruggs - Bust for off-field Jeudy - Not a full-on bust, but not nearly the impact of others in this class Lamb - All-pro Raegor - Bust Jefferson - All-pro Aiyuk - 2nd team all-pro last year, and has grown into a great player Next 2 off board were Higgins and Pitman. Both very good players. Best of the rest was probably Mooney and Gabe Davis. Any number of reasons can be why a player doesn't hit though. Ruggs made very bad choices, and his career is done. Claypool doesn't want to put in the effort to become a good player. Hamler just kept getting injured - and has a heart condition. Yeah, makes sense. Take the 5th year option, convert it to a bonus and spread it over the term (plus void years).

I don't think the Smith extension even starts right away either as he had a 5th year option for 2025. More just making sure to put the number in the books now so you know what it is for later, and to prevent drama/holdouts. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/philadelphia-eagles/yearly/cap/ I enjoy cap financials, but this is very confusing. They structure their contracts with option bonuses that automatically add void years.

Arm talent and athleticism can get you far in college - in the NFL everyone has arm talent and i'd say most QBs today have some level of athleticism. Between the ears pre and post snap, how you throw on the run and under pressure, how you sense pressure in general, how you manipulate the defense, how you manipulate passing windows, etc. That seems to be the part that most scouts get wrong, and probably the hardest part to evaluate and project at the next level.

He (like levi wallace before him) never developed the ball skills to be relied upon for more than depth in a zone scheme. He tackles well, and does an OK job of disrupting the catch point - he had a rough year last year in this regard but a lot of them were really good catches honestly. I wonder how much of that was a lack of athleticism causing him to play a bit more off coverage to prevent being beat deep on those cover 3/4/6 looks. In man coverage i don't think he had the speed or size to be able to play much effective under coverage, and definitely isn't consistently getting his head around to make a play.

Seems logical. Honestly - this is sort of how the justice system should work? Ideally you give someone a sufficient enough punishment to change their behavior, and with no priors and a high profile job, you can be expected to have the fine and stuff to cover all the time lawyers/judges wasted, and restitution for the damages you caused, and some level of - if you're back here on similar charges, you're going to have a much worse time. I personally don't want to send everyone to jail for everything. It's just a problem when having money is the reason that you don't get a charge - not... chances of reoccurrence. At the same time, insurance companies aren't going to want to pay out when the driver was racing, possibly drunk, with a gun in the car. So having money can pay some of that, whereas if you were broke doing the same thing? I'm not sure what else they can do other than put you in jail.

We'd have von off the books though, and ideally they add someone else. He needs to crack 10 sacks to get a big payday though.

Part of why safety in the 2nd is still very much in play IMO.

I liked Bernard because he saw the field in a way that lead to pass breakups and turnovers. Edmunds was a good player, and his ability to take away passing lanes likely results in the QB holding the ball which forces sacks and throwaways. He just never developed that instinctual nature that milano and bernard possess (and all the great off ball linebackers have). I think you would get more out of trading spencer brown. Low cap hit for 2024 (most teams have spent a lot of their cap budgets to this point in the season), he's 26, and he's due an extension in 2025. It'd be basically like moving a potential comp pick from 2026 to today - but considering we'll likely be spenders in 2025, you would potentially be losing him for nothing. This assumes you are comfortable with collins or van demark at RT.

I mean... the 2nd round is usually where teams have drafted traits over production and fit. You also see a lot of slot WRs go in the 2-3 range (Boyd, Samuel, Shepard, Juju, Kirk, Moore x2, and a bunch of other slot WR misses on the list above). Thomas has been derailed by injury but... he won OPOY and holds the record for most catches in a season at 149 (which he did in 16 games). Other thing to take into account - there are a bunch of hits outside of the top 60. 2021 - Amon-ra St. Brown, Nico Collins 2020 - Gabe Davis 2019 - Diontae Johnson, Terry McLaurin, Renfrow, Slayton 2018 - Gallup 2017 - Kupp, Godwin 2016 - Tyreek 2015 - Diggs, Lockett, Crowder Yeah - i feel sort of similarly to Kirk. He was behind Hopkins and Fitz, but he's been very good for the jaguars.

I have no idea where hes projected to go... but all things considered dane was a good soldier here and a ton of value for a 7th round pick. Started 28 games, another 5 in the playoffs.

So we're going to trade a former first team all-pro for peanuts because he's injury prone to garbage turf in London? I think the fact that Lavonte david, demario davis, Bobby Wagner, and CJ mosely have all continued to perform into their 30s makes me a bit more comfortable with him at his age. Not to mention - he was playing fantastic football to start the season. Why add MORE new faces to a defense in flux?

His drops last year were some pretty rough ones. But i love his physicality. Combine that with similar aggressive run after catch ability you see from kincaid, and you can make it really tough on another teams secondary by forcing them to shed blocks and tackle these big dudes.

He sucked last year - plain and simple. Injuries definitely played a part - he tried to play with a broken wrist for a few weeks. At the same time, he was actually pretty solid the previous 2 seasons so I'm not worried that he's "lost a step". He's always had issues with drops so thats probably never going away, but the guy can play and he's probably our best redzone weapon at this point. If we're going to play a more physical brand of football with him and kincaid as pass catchers, you can do a LOT worse at TE2.

Love that Elam ending that they use in the basketball tournament. No more stalling in the zone, no more intentional fouling, and it'd cut down on all the timeouts. The only thing you lose is the potential "buzzer beater". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elam_Ending

He's a big boy and isn't quick so i don't see him in the slot, i just wonder if he's more bark than bite.

I would like a move up to get your guy, but I'm not wagering two drafts. The extra 2nd in 2025 makes you a bit flexible with next years first round pick. But I do think we still need 3 picks in the first 4 rounds, as well as more picks than normal. I think I'd like to see 8 players picked total - WR, WR, CB, DT, DE, OG, S, RB maybe (I think RB can possibly be UDFA), There's always people that slip through cracks because teams have depth and don't want to draft a WR6/7 in the 3rd round. Shakir was drafted in the 5th - while pre draft i felt like he was right in that same window with guys like Robinson and Moore who went like 100 picks ahead of him.

I don't disagree on his being overpaid, just that i don't believe he's paid as even a top 10 TE. And beyond that, he mostly sucked last year. I think injuries derailed him quite a bit too though. His hands were never particularly consistent, but he'd made strides the last 2 seasons before the wrist injury last year. You definitely bring in other options and improve the WR room - but there's a potentially larger role to carve out than he's ever had before with that many targets becoming available.