GunnerBill

No not yet. I haven't got deeper into the class yet.

They's have to promote him and give him play calling responsibility.

Yes, we do. But Kingsbury is speed above almost all else in a receiver room. I think it takes the task from add 1 or 2 to add 4 or 5.

Kliff's offense is all about speed. He wants to spread you out, force you to cover 1v1 then have a faster guy than you have.

This is just wrong. We run tons of picks and crossers. They are E-P staples. I will say I think under Dorsey they relied too much on guys executing 1v1. But that was the plays he called rather than the scheme. Under both Daboll and then again since Brady took over there have been pick plays and crossers aplenty that have got people open.

They did win a playoff game.... but there was a lot of luck about the Giants last year. No doubt.

Yea but an even greater one for Kliff's scheme.

Would need to radically alter the WR room. But it is an offense with at least enough similarity that there would be some conceptual carry over. But we'd need more speed for sure.

Looks like he is going to Chicago.

It has always been the case that coaches on teams who get to the Superbowl are disadvantaged in terms of getting jobs. But there just isn't time to delay the whole thing.

Sure, but I think Puka Nacua is a bit of an outlier. Otherwise the non-early picks among that list are slot receivers. Jayden Reed, Josh Downs, Tank Dell - I like those guys but that isn't what the Bills need. I like where Shakir is. A shifty underneath / slot receiver isn't what will take this offense on. Dell is probably a bit more than that because he is a genuine home run threat every time he touches the ball, but still my point stands. The explosive outside guys will go early. Yea I read that yesterday. Sure, we need to get younger at some spots on defense. But that wouldn't be priority #1 for me.

Yea. I get it because I liked him just watching a couple of Florida State games this year. But the more you really dig into him the more red flags there are. I think he will be a faller in the process. I definitely don't think he ends up going round 1. I think the Thomas, Legette, Franklin tier will rise. They are all going to test well I think and honestly I think all of their tape has more to get excited about when you think of NFL transition.

We need more explosion on the outside. Sure I think we need a couple of pieces on defense - DL and Safety will have holes - but the primary focus should be explosive outside playmakers. I will give them some credit... they focussed on OL last offseason (a year too late by my estimation) and it worked. They added Kincaid, that worked too. But the explosion outside needs to come this year.

I am not that keen on Washington as a coach in general... wouldn't be sad to see him go.... but overall I think there has been some development of some guys on the Dline since he has been here - Ed and AJ obviously. I put a lot of the Dline failures on Beane as much as anyone. If he brings Jordan Phillips back again I am buying one of the pitchforks on sale around here at the moment....

It's a good question as to what their "type" is. Their two highest draft picks at the position - Gabe and Khalil are polar opposites and Stef isn't really like either of them. I get wanting to build a diverse room but I don't have a strong sense as to what they will be looking for. We know some of the guys they have passed on... and we have very strong evidence to suggest they loved Addison last year... but I don't know that I can discount or enhance the claims of particular players at the position as Bills fits in the way I can with some other teams.

I mean that is not how the E-P works, but sure. The thing the E-P requires most of all is receivers with football intelligence and chemistry with their Quarterback because most concepts have options built in. If people want rid of it because of multiple breakdowns - especially between Josh and Gabe this year - where one read X and the other read Z then fine. But wanting rid of it because it is not "designed to get people open" is nonsense.

I didn't like Johnston much either. I don't think Coleman even has Johnston's speed, but I see similarities in that for bigger targets they both seem to struggle above the rim and play smaller than their size as a result. If we haven't taken a receiver round 1 and Coleman is there end of round 2 for us I could live with it. But I think you'd be re-drafting Gabe Davis tbh but with a 2nd round price tag rather than a 4th round price tag. Definitely not my preferred option.

Hmm. I doubt it. Bill's defense works because he has VERY specific profiles of what he wants in each spot and assigns values to people that match up. I think he'd like Rousseau, Tre White if he can ever get back healthy and at their peak he'd have LOVED the safeties. I might be missing one or two but there is a lot of guys on this defense who would not be Belichick scheme fits. He might make do with Milano for a year because I think he'd love the character and the motor. But he isn't necessarily a natural Belichick linebacker. EDIT: I enter into this as purely a thought exercise by the way. In reality there is zero point zero per cent chance it happens.

I have started with receivers this year (normally do end up starting with what I consider the Bills needs) and have spent the last week and a half on them. My provisional rankings of the guys I have done some work on at this stage are: 1. Harrison Jnr 2. Odunze 3. Nabers 4. Legette 5. Franklin 6. Thomas 7. Worthy 8. Mitchell 9. Coleman He did. He went late 2nd to Seattle.

Yea it is hands and blocking. 9 drops this past year is a legit concern and you get nothing from him as a blocker. I know people will immediately say "screw blocking I am drafting a receiver to catch" and I get that. But in an NFL where it feels like almost half the league are running the Shanahan stretch zone version of the WCO not being able to block reduces your potential landing spots significantly. In a sense that is good news for the Bills if they like him because we are not that style of offense and it isn't as emphasised in the E-P. But having said that Brady has talked up Gabe's blocking a lot since becoming OC so maybe it would influence his thinking if he is retained in that role. EDIT: I should make clear I like Franklin. I am not sure I quite have him as a true 1st but I do like him. He is in that late 1st / early 2nd grade range for me and I think he will slip into the end of round 1. However, those are the major knocks on his film IMO.

This surprises me a bit because he is, in a sense, a faster Gabe Davis and I know you have not been a Gabe lover. He is a speed / size guy and he runs the go routes well but I don't really know how else you use him. To me among that little group with Franklin and Legette he is the least versatile. I don't think you are getting anything in the intermediate game with Thomas. I think I'd like him more as a fit for the Bills if I was sure I still had prime Stef. But I think given there are questions about whether you have that you need a guy who has a few more strings to his bow. EDIT: I do agree he won't make it to the Bills anyway. He is going somewhere between 15 and 25.

He isn't even that good at contested catches. I started off my tv viewings of him this year with a provisional mid 1st on Coleman. I have been through 4 full games of his now and he has dropped a full round in my grading. Wouldn't take him on day 1 even if he was there to be honest.

So I am the least qualified person to give parenting advice.... but I both agree and disagree with the above. I'd say look you don't have to follow the Bills because I do, you have the right to choose your fanhood yourself. But the essense of fanhood is that there are more disappointments than glories. That is true whoever you support. Even if you followed the Patriots the last 25 years. They only won 6 years. 19 of them they failed. So fanhood isn't just about winning. It is about feeling an attachment and a commitment to something and the losing only ever makes the winning sweeter. So no, I doesn't have to be the Bills... make your own choice. But once you have made it you stick with it. Because that is where the pleasure comes from. Not just from winning.

Matt Smiley should be fired and I know he has only been here 5 minutes but I'd question Adam Henry's job too given receiver performance.

Nah there is plenty of flexibility this year. I actually think we were closer to trouble last year.