GunnerBill

I don't see Bowers going before Odunze. Bowers will go later than most expect. Don't think he is a top 10 pick.

Congrats to Dan. Former Director of Player Personnel here. Tough job.

I think you'd have to go massive to get any of the top 3... MHJ, Nabers, Odunze. I am not giving away all my mock v1.0 secrets (you have a week or so to wait) but I agree with DJ's v1.0 the other day. I see it being 3 QBs then 3 WRs in the first 6 picks. Don't have the order exactly the same but that is the way the first 6 looks like shaking out to me without trades.

Yea it is a risk. I figure being an older prospect and one year of production and a strong class might push him down just a touch. I think he is in competition with Brian Thomas and Troy Franklin who are both going to run really fast too and are vertical outside receivers... so there is a chance the top 3 go and then the other two go first. Put it this way.... he should get into range to get him even if they have to be aggressive.

Because a lot of that wasn't on him. This is exactly my point. People reach immediately for coaching. It is the crutch of the fan. Overblame coaching. Underblame player performance. Because it is reassuring "well if we just get rid of this useless coach it will all be better..." I blame McDermott for the things that I really think are his fault. This idea that if you don't think he should be fired you must just be a McDermott homer who defends everything he does is totally wrong. Believe me if I thought Sean McDermott was the reason the Bills can't get over the hump I'd have my pitchfork out. I watch the all22 each week I don't, for the most part, see a badly coached football team. Even in the playoffs - with that one exception.

That is your opinion. Barring the obvious - 13 seconds - I don't agree.

Feelings don't matter. Results obviously do. But so do the reasons behind the results.

Jordan Phillips might retire??? Thank *****. One way to stop Brandon throwing more money at him.

I can't tell you what I will think in a year's time because it isn't based on a gut feeling it is based on an honest assessment of what has happened.

I don't know the answer to that question.

The only one on that list who was ever a top 5 back was Ray Rice. Cook is better than most of that list.

When was the last Superbowl winner with a top 5 back? It certainly hasn't been a common feature the last 15 years.

I am a bit behind this year but I made a proper start last week. I dunno maybe subconsciously I expected to be onto the draft by today.

Get out of here with your sensible, mature reflections! There are pitchforks for sale!

Possibly. But I won't just follow the crowd I always asses what I see. I'd have fired him if he missed the playoffs this year. That would have been a major underachivement. Losing by 3 points to Patrick Mahomes in a game where the Bills were depleted and where I don't think coaching was the in the top 3 reasons for the loss isn't. I get those who go for the "at some point you just have to blow it up even if you can't pin it all on coaching" argument. But I am not there yet. I don't think he is beyond criticism. But I think generally among all sports fan bases the tendency is to over blame coaching and under blame player performance and execution.

Fair. I mean regime not staff.

Comfortably top 10.

I am sick of losing, losing sucks. And if I honestly believed the way to stop the losing was to fire the coaching staff I would be all over firing them. I was all over firing Chan. I was all over firing Rex.... indeed I was the first one driving that bandwagon. I don't think firing this staff is the answer to stopping the losing.

I think Cook is fine. His hands are good everywhere else. So I think the redzone drops are him taking his eye off the catch because he is already looking for the line. I think that is concentration and correctable.

There are two distinct branches of the WCO in the NFL now. There is the Reid branch - which is a heavy shotgun spread variant of the WCO and there is the Shanahan branch - which is primarily an under center WCO off the stretch zone. The first has a lot more freedom for the QB. The second is much more of a straightjacket offense which really relies on the QB painting by numbers.

I don't dispute that Klein was a weakness. He was. I knew he would be. But I know Williams would have been too, for different reasons. But I don't necessarily look at last night and say the gameplan was the big issue on defense. We had a busted coverage from two all pros (we average about 2 of those per season, sucks that one came last night) and other than that the Chiefs just relentlessly attacked our known weakness. They didn't sit all night in soft zone. They mixed in a fair bit of man, even early on, they tried in the 3rd Quarter sending guys (I wasn't a fan of that plan) before they then got to the Siran option. I'd have preferred to go to Siran before the blitzing model. The defense was bad last night. Could they have done some different things? Sure, they could. But they did try and adjust and I think the main issue was the talent deficiency at linebacker.

I saw Williams line up in the wrong place again too. He can run and hit but he has no idea where he should be or what he should be doing. I actually think @boyst is on to something with the use of Siran Neal earlier point. They only brought Siran in on some plays in the 4th Quarter. Leslie used him successfully against KC previously and I think that is an adjustment that they could have gone to sooner. That is the only thing I have read so far in terms of a "what could they have done differently on defence?" that I think there is merit in. They could have gone to that sooner. I am not persuaded that Williams was the answer. He solves one problem and gives you another.

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Yep that was on Josh and the communication in the huddle. Someone didn't get the call.

I think we'd have struggled with the linebacker situation. Again they are a middle of the field attack team.