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“Almost” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. I can certainly think of some instances… Now if you said he always THINKS he’s right….truer words have never been spoken.

These two comments sum you up perfectly. It’s gotta be absolutely amazing to never be wrong once in your entire life. And so humble, too! Incredible.

After. Even if he drafts a corner early, he’s gonna sign a vet to compete and to alleviate pressure on the rookie. Watch.

I know the Jets are our division rivals so I shouldn't ever root for their players to succeed, but... If Mekhi Becton is truly done, what a shame. He has the talent to be a first ballot Hall of Famer. I hope he can fix whatever is ailing him and get back on track. Seeing a player with that much potential be gone after one season is just a terrible waste.

I was thinking about this yesterday. The Bills have been eliminated from the playoffs two seasons in a row by a team with a super speedy wide receiver. They know firsthand how difficult it is to defend an offense that features one. Beane's famous line is that your playoff losses show you where your team is at, and where it's deficient. They've already addressed the pass rush, but could they also be thinking that team speed on offense -- specifically a dynamic playmaker at WR that changes the way the defense has to play -- is the other big need? McDermott recently said "there's no substitute for speed". Beane recently said "if you see another guy out there like Tyreek Hill, let me know". Maybe it's wishful thinking on my part because I love Jameson Williams and he's my number one draft crush...but could a trade-up for Williams be in the works? It would cement the Bills offense as elite for the next several years. Please please please please....

- The first quarterback of the draft will be selected at pick 20 by the Pittsburgh Steelers. - Four to five players that are commonly thought to be 2nd or later round players by "draft analysts" and appear in nobody's round one mock drafts will be drafted in round one. - Kyle Hamilton will not be the first safety drafted - Quay Walker will be drafted before Nakobe Dean - Charles Cross will be drafted before Evan Neal - Derek Stingley will be drafted before Sauce Gardner

Dream big, I guess.

Ah, I see. I wasn't aware. In that case, he seems like a fit for the Chiefs. (I kid. Kind of.)

I'm extremely curious to know why you think Sam Williams won't be drafted.

I don't know exactly how it would end up looking, but I think 11 Lamar Jacksons on offense would be a hell of a thing to watch. Ditto 11 prime Rob Gronkowskis.

Weren't you team "we should have drafted DK Metcalf over Ed Oliver", or am I mistaking you with someone else?

Based on this information, I bought non-refundable plane tickets and hotel reservations for Los Angeles and Detroit, took these dates off of work, and fought with my wife about it. You better be right, @Alphadawg7. (Just kidding. Thank you for the tips.)

This is where I'm at, too. Love the player, but still care about positional value. Will ultimately be fine either way. Bruce Nolan's analogies in the Tweets below sum up how I feel pretty nicely. The first pertaining to liking a player but recognizing that the positional value is not great, and the second relating to it probably being okay to occasionally make a choice that's not the most efficient or best use of resources, so long as it doesn't happen often. and

I love that the past 9 or so pages of this 59 page thread are mostly just @NewEra and @IronMaidenBills going round and round in circles about Breece Hall. As if either of you are going to change the other one's mind at this point. Thursday night can't get here soon enough. 😅

Has @BADOLBILZ stepped in yet to remind us that Oliver was the wrong pick?

With the 14th pick in the 2022 NFL Draft, the Baltimore Ravens select Charles Cross, OT, Mississippi State For some reason, the 13 teams ahead of the Ravens -- including three teams that selected offensive tackles -- allowed the best offensive tackle in the draft, Charles Cross, to fall to 14. While we just signed Morgan Moses in free agency, he is 31 years old, and we're not in the business of passing on franchise tackles when they're available, especially this late in the 1st round. Cross is a strong, powerful blocker who explodes into run fits and has the flexibility, athleticism, and foot speed to excel in pass protection. He's a nasty finisher and possesses all the traits necessary to become a long term fixture at right tackle as well as to challenge incumbent left tackle Ronnie Stanley for blind side duties. The Ravens were looking long and hard at Jordan Davis and several cornerbacks, but simply could not pass on a player this talented at such a premium position. @Big Blitz and the Philadelphia Eagles are now on the clock.

It really is a silly trade for the Texans, for one main reason: They're early in a rebuild. You'd think they'd want as many draft picks as possible. They're not like the Bills or Chiefs, saying to themselves that they don't think a 7th round pick will make the roster. For the Texans to be the ones giving up the extra pick, and to be doing it this far in advance, is just bizarre. Nick Cesario appears to have been out-gamed by his old chum Belichick on this one.

"Sounds like a smokescreen to me" is often draft-season-speak for "I don't like the rumor I'm hearing". Yes, sometimes this stuff IS a smokescreen. Sometimes it's not. Very often, the more arduously one dislikes a given rumor, the more vehemently they will insist it's a smokescreen. I wonder, for instance: If the rumor was that the Bills planned to stay put and take the best corner available, or, say, that they really like Andrew Booth...would people insist THAT'S a smokescreen, too? (Cue insistent "yes!" defenses here). Draft season is too long. By the Monday of draft week, the arguments and counter arguments have all been made. The hay is in the barn. All that's left is kookiness. Let it be Thursday night already...

Albert Breer's column today -- which is worth reading in full, by the way -- reinforces the prevailing thought about this draft class: it's not very top-heavy, does not offer many difference makers, but has great depth into the middle rounds: https://www.si.com/nfl/2022/04/25/mmqb-nfl-draft-preview-rumors-32-teams-jaguars-shad-khan It sounds to me like action at the bottom of the first round might be hotter than action at the top. Or, at least, it sure sounds that way, talking teams at the top of the draft pecking order. One told me that teams close to the bottom of the round have asked more about their interest in moving up from the top of the second round into the bottom of the first than they have about moving up within the first round. And that reflects the nature of the class in general. “This is very much a depth class,” said an NFC executive. “You can build the base of your roster with picks this year. You can get some solid starters, and some contributors. But you’re not getting a lot of difference-makers." So how does that break down? As I see it, after dozens of conversations, the top tackles and pass rushers are valued this year, and then after that probably the top four receivers. But once you get through that group of 10 or so guys, the class flattens out a bunch, right in the mid-teens, where the 15th pick might not be worth much more than the 45th. And even the top group isn’t great—with a few execs having told me the last few months that the top dozen picks last year might be better than anyone this year. So what’s the upshot this year? It’s twofold. One, the second and third rounds should have plenty of gems. And two, it adds a lot more mystery to how the first round will play out for the rest of us.

https://www.si.com/nfl/2022/04/25/mmqb-nfl-draft-preview-rumors-32-teams-jaguars-shad-khan Albert Breer's entire column today is draft rumors. He talked to a bunch of pro scouts, and his article includes draft rumors for every team, plus rumors about players specifically. It's worth taking the time to just read the whole thing, but here are a few snippets: Buffalo Bills First round: No. 25 Total picks: 8 Needs: CB, WR, LB, OT, S, RB What you need to know: The Bills’ roster might be the NFL’s most well-rounded, and so Buffalo’s going to be able to use most of its picks to work on needs a year or two out and build depth across the board. One spot that’s been pointed out pretty consistently as a need is corner. And I’d heard the Bills connected to Stingley at one point, with the thought of his being around fellow LSU Tiger Tre’Davious White, but I don’t think Stingley falls to a point where moving to get him would be realistic for the Bills. So someone like Washington’s Kyler Gordon might make sense here. Or they could grab a back, like Iowa State’s Breece Hall, as a luxury pick, since they don’t have many holes to fill. • Dean’s medical has come up with a few teams. There’s nothing disqualifying in there (he’s had a shoulder labrum repair, he’s got tendonitis and tearing in his knee, plus there was a pec and groin issue before his pro day … and there’s a laundry list beyond just that), but there’s plenty to sort through. And it’s making some wonder how, as a smaller linebacker, he’ll hold up in the NFL. Here’s hoping Dean does, because he’s a blast to watch. • Utah’s Devin Lloyd is another player with some medical questions. I don’t think his age is helping him either. • Is Hall a back worthy of going in the first round? I had one exec I trust sum him up like this, “You could put a highlight tape together that says yes.” Another said he views him as a poor man’s Johnathan Taylor. • I’ve asked a lot of people to compare Pickett to Patriots QB Mac Jones, because I heard the two compared a lot during the college season. Does it work? Kind of. Both are really football smart and good leaders. Pickett’s a better athlete. But where Jones separates himself is with his accuracy—I had one coach tell me Jones’s special trait is that he maintains it deep into his progressions, where most young quarterbacks can’t get past their first read. Pickett might not have that quite to the degree Jones did coming out. • I’ve said it a few times now, and I’ll say again that I think there’s a good chance Georgia’s Lewis Cine will go before Michigan’s Daxton Hill. Why? Cine’s got a ton of upside, and is a killer as a hitter. And Hill isn’t as versatile as some have made him out to be—he was really more just a nickel corner than a movable piece in Michigan’s defense. Which has been reflected in how his meetings with teams have gone. • As I’ve said, Cross is very well-regarded in NFL circles—and by some as the best player in the draft. The downside? Well, it’s the offense he comes from. I’ve had a couple people joke about having Andre Dillard PTSD in assessing another Mike Leach tackle. So I turned over some rocks on that comp. The biggest difference between the two, as it was told to me by a few guys, is that Cross has much better core and lower-body strength. • I had an NFC coach says this to me on Stingley: “Take the 2019 tape, plus the practice tape from that year against Ja’Marr [Chase], and he’s the first pick in the draft.” Which makes, for teams, one question an important one in assessing the star corner: Just how big a mess do you think coach Ed Orgeron’s program was the last two years, and how much of a factor was that in the return on Stingley’s last two years in Baton Rouge being so minimal.

Not sure who’s actually left. Eagles, Ravens, Cardinals, Bucs would all be fine.

If Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll took one look at this guy and said "I don't care that he was a first round pick, I want him gone immediately", it's hard to imagine him being a culture fit in Buffalo. I mean, if it's for a 6th or 7th round pick, then sure. Otherwise, likely not worth the time or effort.

A bunch of victim-shaming, toxic masculinity, and people demonstrating their ignorance of the law. Shocking.

George Pickens should go by the name “slim”, right? Because of his frame? Slim Pickens. I’ll see myself out.