Logic

I love Josh Allen as much as the next Bills fan, but if Beane and co are letting him make draft selections, there's something seriously wrong with their process. He should have input, yes, but his preference after watching a few Youtube highlight videos (which is how Josh himself said he looks at draft prospects) should not outweigh the months and months of work the scouting staff does. I doubt it does. I think the "Josh made this pick!" stuff is overstated. If the scouting staff and Beane didn't like Coleman, it's hard for me to believe that they would've taken him over guys they preferred.

Franklin, Baker, Walker all would've been guys I liked. At this point, I've resigned myself to the idea of Beane taking a defensive end, linebacker, or corner I've never heard of with the next pick. Really my only ask for this day of the draft is one more decent receiver prospect. Is that so crazy?

If we're not gonna have an impressive top three -- which, currently, we don't -- I'd like to go the Green Bay route and have a handful of good and diverse guys. If we're not gonna have top line quality, I'd like to see us at least have top line quantity and diversity. That's why I'd like to see the Bills add a receiver with their next pick. The Packers have : Watson Doubs Reed Wicks Melton TE Kraft TE Musgrave No world beaters and no true number 1, but a good collection of players, and Love is able to spread the ball around. The Bills have: Coleman Samuel Shakir Hollins Shorter/Hamler/car salesmen TE Kincaid TE Knox Coleman is their Watson (physically freaky, borderline WR1 type), Samuel is a decent to good number 2 in this league, and Shakir can hopefully be their Reed in the slot. They have better tight ends than the Packers. They just need one or two more dudes in that group. Hopefully they come today.

Great post. Thanks for that.

They'll never leave well enough alone. They'll never say "ya know what? We have the most popular sport in the country, people love it, it's a great product, let's quit messing with it". They'll keep making decisions in the name of money, not of fan experience or player safety. Decisions that water down the product and make it less enjoyable to watch. Decisions like adding Thursday night games, adding two extra games, pricing regular fans out of the stadiums. Decisions like having to pretend they actually DO care about player safety to cover their asses for the Thursday night games and extra games, by doing things like legislating any and all violence out of the game. My point is: The NFL will never be happy. They'll just keep expanding, reforming, and tinkering in the name of making more and more and more money, and as they do so, the product will continue to get worse. Their never ending greed will be their demise. Like Icarus, they will fly too close to the sun, and their wings will burn.

Top Corners- TJ Tampa - 46th overall - they compare him to Kaiir Elam (nooooooooooo!); Cam Hart (82nd), Draine (92nd), K Jackson (102nd) Top WRs - Franklin (73rd), Rice (81st), Baker (87th) & Walker (91st), Washington (99), J Wilson (100), Means (134) Top Edge - Booker (83rd), Brennan Jackson (115th), Ced Johnson (120), Kamara (126), Hall (135) Top C - Van Pran (105th), Bortolini (117th), Nourzad (130) Top RBs - Wright (97th), Davis (129), Allen (142), Guerendo (146) Top OT - Chris Jones (84th), Foster (107), Top DT - Dorius (79th) - kind of a combo DT/Edge, Wingo (88) Top S - Hicks (59th), Demerson (119th) Bolded are some guys I like tomorrow. A running back, a wide receiver, an edge, and a few special teams DBs/LBs will likely do it.

1. Anyone thinking that the 95th pick in the draft is supposed to be a year 1 starter is taking crazy pills. The 1st and 2nd round are for starters, the 3rd round and beyond are for depth and developmental players. At least that's how it works for good teams, which the Bills are. The only way the 95th pick in a shallow draft is starting for you is if you're a bad team, which the Bills aren't. 2. DT3T was a need. Leadership was a need. Dewayne Carter appears to tick both boxes. 3. I would've preferred an offensive player. I liked Troy Franklin. Obviously, I know nothing. Or at least I should say that NFL teams clearly knowing something that I don't. There's obviously a reason that a guy many of us would have been okay with in the 2nd round is still on the board at the start of the 4th. So yeah, in a vacuum, it's irritating when your team doesn't take a guy you like that seems like a screaming value when he's still on the board late in the 3rd round, but...WR is a fairly premium position, so there must be a REASON that Franklin is still on the board. 4. Clearly WR is a deep position this year, and I'm hoping that the Bills take one in the 4th round. Either that or that they trade for a veteran. Coleman-Samuel-Shakir-Hollins is not a very inspiring depth chart in my opinion. One more legit dude needed. Overall for day two: I didn't like the Coleman pick (I understand it, but I don't love the player), I quite liked the Bishop pick, and the Carter pick makes sense to me as a logical selection at a needed position. More help is needed on offense, and I hope they find some either with their remaining picks or via free agency. Not my favorite draft class ever, but I'm not out on a ledge or anything.

Yeah I have to agree that if Legette was indeed "Their guy", they would've just picked him at 32, especially because if all of US knew that the Panthers wanted Legette, you can damn sure bet that Beane knew it, too.

In an effort to inject some positivity about this player (including for myself, because I still don't love the pick:

I voiced my displeasure with the Coleman pick, so it's only fair that I say: Cole Bishop is a very good, very logical pick. Value meets need. Scheme fit. Culture fit. I'll be downright shocked if he doesn't start year one and for many years to come. Dawg. Gonna be a good one. Nice pick.

There's a LOT that goes into Reception Perception. It's proven to be a pretty excellent (though not flawless) predictive model for WRs over the years. Arguably the best available. Read more about it here if you care to. It's not some arbitrary thing. https://receptionperception.com/introduction-to-reception-perception-and-its-new-home/

We seem to prioritize them constantly over actual ability to play football well. We can't get past the divisional round, but at least we have an amazing culture.

Positive attitude, relentless will to improve, loves to block, can contribute on special teams, "best football is in front of him", can play in the Buffalo elements. Pretty much a grab bag of tired McDermott/Beane cliches with this guy. Nevermind speed, explosion, separation ability. Nope. He brings his lunch pail to work and he likes to block! Huzzah! And heaven forbid we not take the guy that JOSH likes. Worked super well with Ken Dorsey. *****. Mother*****ing *****.

🤢 So F'n Gross. I hate it soooooo much.

I hate it. We lacked speed and separation ability in our WR corps, so what do we do? PASS on a fast separator and draft a guy whose ONE major red flag as a prospect is that he can't separate. Outstanding. Least favorite draft year I can remember so far.

Keon Coleman

I wanted a trade-up, too. That said...If they were to take, say, Troy Franklin, and then later on circle back and take Javon Baker... I'd be pretty happy with that.

It would really ruin my draft weekend. Of all the round two caliber WRs left, I can honestly say that Keon Coleman is the one I want the LEAST. Just...absolutely not the type of player I want. Ugh.

Still waiting to hear how the Bills do it. What's the plan?

Going through the trouble of creating an account, finding a picture for your avatar, and then making dumb posts seems like a weird way to waste your time -- especially during draft weekend. You should probably re-evaluate your life choices.

I'm genuinely curious: Has this ever happened before in the NFL, to your knowledge?

I don't know how many times I need to say it, but...the NFL is Icarus.

Supposedly, it's the worst kept secret of the draft this year that Washington wants to move up and get an offensive tackle to protect their new QB investment. While I don't necessarily trust the veracity of the person who posted the rumor or the specifics of the trade itself, it won't surprise me in the least if we DO trade with Washington. It's about as far back as I can see Beane being willing to move, too.

1.) I don't think the post by Appoo that you quoted means what you think it means 2.) You still have yet to answer me by explaining the mechanism by which the Bills can trade for Deebo Samuel today. Talk all the smack you want. Until you can explain how I'm wrong and you're right, it's all just gum-flapping.