GunnerBill

They did it. And I applaud them for doing so. They hadn't hired a coach almost old enough to be President. Raiders are NOT going QB at #6.

The Raiders are not going QB at 6. This is the final nail in that coffin. You don't hire a 70 odd year old Head Coach let him bring his placeholder QB from his last place in, then extend said QB to waste draft capital on a replacement. They are gonna try and win now with Grandpa Pete and Geno.

I think outside corners are a premium position (alongside QB, pass rusher, left tackle and outside receiver). And I think what should take priority is the best player available at a premium position. When you do that well - as the Bills did with Gilmore and White it can prove itself worthwhile. When they do it badly it doesn't matter if it is Elam at corner or Williams at tackle or Maybin at edge.... it will be a disaster.

Depends what you do with his DIME snaps. His usage last year was: 1. Slot corner 2. Dime 3. Deep safety 4 Outside corner (only 8 snaps) But if you add 2 and 3 together they come to more than 1. So depends what you do with the dime snaps.

I don't remember the 2001 draft, before my time. The problem with Whitner and McKelvin wasn't the position they played. It was talent evaluation. Mike Williams was a blocker. He didn't help us win any games either, cos he sucked. Aaron Maybin was a pass rusher, he didn't help us win any games, cos he sucked. You can throw Kaiir Elam into that mix too. The problem wasn't that he wae a corner. It was that he was a bad player. But the Gilmore pick and the White pick were good. Sure you can question the strategy in 2017 of not taking Mahomes when they had no Quarterback. But they didn't pass on Mahomes to draft Tre White. The two decisions were independent of one another. They passed on Mahomes because McDermott didn't trust himself or the lame duck GM to pick a Quarterback and he wanted his buddy in place to run that process a year later. And while they got lucky to an extent with Josh it was commonly accepted in the run up to the 2017 Draft that the 2018 Quarterback class looked stacked. I remember seeing Charlie Casserley on NFL Network after the 2017 Combine saying "if they were eligible this year three of next year's Quarterbacks would go 1,2,3." But you can't argue he passed on Mahomes because he wanted a corner who he had no idea would still be available 17 picks later. And Tre White DID help us win games. Instantly. Like the moment he stepped into the building. In the season the Bills went 9-7 and broke our 17 year playoff drought rookie Tre White had THREE game sealing turnovers. A fumble forced and recovered vs the Buccaneers on their final drive in a one score game. An interception vs the Chiefs on their final drive in a one score game and an interception vs the Dolphins on their final drive in a one score game. It is not stretching the point to say without him 2017 coulda been a same old Bills 6-10.

He did run some 3rd down routes. That is not what I am saying. But the reason he "went in" in 3rd down packages was because of his pass pro ability. They didn't then always ask him to just protect. Sometimes he protected. Sometimes he chipped and slipped and sometimes he ran a route.

Ty is our best pass protector. That is the main reason he is out there in 3rd down. Cook isn't a great pass blocker but he isn't a total liability either. What Cook has that is elite is his vision. and I mean ELITE vision. He sees creases 80% of NFL backs don't see. I am not here pounding the table for the Bills to extend James Cook. He is a running back. I don't love paying running backs. But if we end up starting Ray Davis next year or in 2026 make no mistake that is a downgrade at the position and it will be a noticeable one.

With the 41st pick of the 2025 TSW Mock Draft extravaganzza version 1.0, Da Bears select: Luther Burden III, Wide Reciever, Missouri. This would probably have been my pick at #39 and I'd have addressed Dline here. But it works out the other way around. This season for Chicago is about one thing and one thing only - how do we evaluate Caleb Williams? So you have to give him as much around him as you can. The Bears need an upgrade at left tackle but the left tackles are all off the board and I am not doing the Bears thing of taking a right tackle and pretending he might be able to play left, see Jenkins, Tevin and Wright, Darnell. So I am gonna give them a weapon. I am on record earlier in the process saying I thought Burden was slightly overrated when he was seen as a top 20 pick. I don't think he is that. He is a weapon with the ball in his hands but he isn't a route runner. He is ideal in the slot where you can just tell him to find space and be available to his quarterback and where Ben Johnson can scheme things up for him. Here he represents really good value and while the Bears signed a couple of slot receivers in free agency in Zaccheaus and Duvernay they were both to peanuts contract wise. I'm not gonna go into 2026 not knowing on my Quarterback. It's time to put up or shut up. @DJB and the New Jersey Jets are now on the clock.

Ha. I will get to it shortly. Probably not immediately as in back of uber and get car sick looking at phone!

I'm fine with this pick. Just landed. Will make my next pick in about half an hour.

Says to me "we are worried Milton's gifts will flash in pre-season and if Maye doesn't start off hot we don't want pressure on him." That is the only justification I see.

Yea I don't disagree with you.

I reckon if we'd been doing them pre-Josh they'd have been overdrafted. Think it is a bit of symptom of where the Bills are.

Ah sorry you meant they stopped to listen to the Queen every year once they were over in America? Got you. I thought you were still talking about the life in London.

I think Schoen might have been the one guy who Beane listened to in saying "Brandon stop, you are thinking too short term." That is my point about why that loss could be relevant.

Because I think Ed is really good and while I like Nolen giving up on proven very good for possibly really good doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

If you think Douglas played well last yeae I recommend new glasses. If they wanted to try this I wouldn't hate it. I am not sure I agree with the transition always being seamless. But I think it might be worth a stab with Douglas if he came cheap. I don't want him out on an island anymore....but as a center fielder... maybe.

Just like our Royal family then 😂

That is a different thing. That is the Most Gracious Speech to open the Parliamentary session. That does not take place at Christmas, and takes place in the House of Lords. It is where the Monarch sets out his or her Government's legislative priorities for the following year. The Royal Christmas Address (to give it the full title) began in 1932.

Then why bring in two vets? When they had just signed one of them I would have said, absolutley, the Giants are taking a Quarterback. But generally when teams without one bring in two vets with a lot of starting experience it indicates Quarterback competition. I wouldn't be stunned if they took Sanders, but honestly I lean towards they won't now. I think what is influencing people a bit in this class is there are only two elite level prospects - Travis Hunter and Abdul Carter. And I think both the Giants and the Browns are likely thinking that taking a slam dunk there is the way to go. I'e had each of them going QB in my mocks. Browns in v1.0 and then Giants in v2.0. But right now today I think I lean towards them both passing. Still 3 weeks to go though I could easily swing back.

You mean 1915? In terms of the Lusitania sinking? I think the London part of your story may have some legend within it if it is pre the Lusitania. The King/Queen's Speech on Xmas Day only began in the 1930s. The only Queen to ever deliver the message was Queen Elizabeth II and she didn't take the throne until 1953.

Yea I have Jihaad as a first. Was he on the poll? Might have missed him. I think I would consider him for the Bills because I think he has the potential to be elite within two years and the fact he might not be ready to go week 1 if he needs shoulder surgery wouldn't put me off. On Scourton I liked him much more than I expected on tape. He didn't work out at the Combine though. I think in terms of mocking him he is right there in that late 1 / early 2 range. I like Princely Umanmeilen a lot too. He definitely isn't going round 1 but I honestly would be willing at #30. I do have Jihaad higher than both though. I mean that's a way to do it and "reset the money at the position" but it isn't the way I'd go personally.

Gonna be a hard sell to my family haha.

Was it the Vikings who used to miss their pick all the time and get jumped? Ha.

I haven't got my board right in front of me... I'm in Albania for work... but of the guys listed on this poll I have two first round tape grades: Walter Nolen and Mike Green. I repeat if Green makes #30 I think there is no way he is on our board because it means the off field is very concerning. I'd love Nolen, but positional value wise it is hard to argue for a 3T DT when one of your best players is already a 3T DT. If we didn't have Ed I'd be majorly banging the drum for Nolen. After those two, of this list, by my board, it's Hariston just a smidge ahead of Amos but on pure Bills fit I'd flip that for scheme. I do have Princely and Nic Scourton above the corners though as well. They just aren't in this poll.