BigDingus

We can hope, but he sure didn't show me anything that made me think he's got the talent to become a TE of that caliber. I think he could be good (certainly better than he's shown so far), but not anything on the level of a Kittle or Kelce. Even if it were just flashes of greatness here & there, I'd be more optimistic, but he's shown flashes of "good" more than anything.

Well if you got that kinda money, could you hire me to get me out of Texas? I don't know sh*t about horses, but I'll clean your toilets if it means I get to live in Buffalo! 😉 Isn't that how exactly how improving your team works? You replace one player with another. You don't just keep every player forever & add more on top of them.

Good. They need to just resign Cook. It'll become even more apparent after this year, unless he decides to hold out.

Pretty much how I feel, though I think Landon Jackson is my slight favorite, hoping he can really make use of that size on the edge. Deone Walker would've been better had they taken him later in the draft. I don't think he's very good (yet), though admittedly I only began reading/watching everything I could on him after we already drafted him.

The way Beane reaches in the draft, he's probably already preparing sending next year's picks for the guy. Would that be a first... passing on someone in the draft, only to then trade away draft picks to get an UDFA? 🙃

Just because we've managed to hang in the playoffs with a poor WR room, doesn't mean they didn't contribute to us losing games. Allen & the offense had the ball in their hands with a chance to go ahead against KC the last 2 times we met, and both times they failed. The D never looks great, regardless of who's back there. It's McDermott's unit, so no matter what tools you give him, the end result is always the same. So in that situation, why do we keep investing so much in a defense that's never going to look drastically improved come playoff time? The only hope we have is to bolster the unit lead by our best player, but we keep refusing to do that. In 20 years, will you look back & think "we definitely gave Allen the best tools to succeed" or will you think "damn, we wasted a lot of his prime years investing so much draft capital on a defense that never changed?" Hell, when we finally got Allen a good run game for the first time in his career, with a RB that tied for most rushing TDs in the league, we extend everybody BUT him because "he's just a RB." You know, the same RB who was our most successful player against the Chiefs, only for us to stop feeding him the ball & start trying to go through the air. But you can't really do that when your receiving weapons are what they are! All the people saying "should've given it to Cook!" are now saying "don't pay him, trade Cook!" So good luck with the offense once that happens. Weak WR group, underwhelming TEs, and alienating your best weapon because you want to pay him less than what Groot got LAST year (despite Cook being significantly more important to our success than Groot ever was)... all while drafting almost entirely defense. How'd it work out when we used a 1st on Rousseau & a 2nd on Boogie back to back? How many Pro Bowl caliber seasons has 1st round pick Ed Oliver had? Surely, our 1st round CB came in clutch against KC last year. Wait, he got traded to the Cowboys for scraps? Giving a truckload of money to Von Miller sure worked out though, just as our rotation of D-linemen has. It's like once these guys figured out Josh Allen was actually going to pan out, they decided they no longer needed to put much effort into that side of the ball. They signed Diggs, saw Allen flourish, then were content with signing old vets & hand-me-down players that couldn't breakout on other teams. We could point to Kincaid & Coleman as 2 attempts to rectify that, but neither have shown they're capable of living up to expectations yet, so the priority should be to keep going! The D shouldn't need as much help as it does, especially given how many people McD & Beane have signed & extended. They clearly like who they have well enough to sign them to extensions & pay raises. If there's one thing Beane & McDermott do well is they find value in the later rounds of the draft, then coach them up into solid starters. But they have yet to draft a single star player in the first 2 rounds outside of Allen. The closest they got was Cook, and even then he's "just a RB," which apparently means "easily replaceable."

Is there a team with a weaker WR group than the Bills? Probably, but that's not exactly a ringing endorsement of our own WR group either.

Listen to his opinion on Walker (1:07:55 in the video). Again, the more I watched & read on him, the more I dislike this pick. I don't dislike the player, but it's rare to hear someone say "he's just not good" about a prospect overall. He's big, and that's about it. https://youtu.be/Y8F03DjBtpM?si=H6w2tdSQbJB4GSlU

I doubt most of the guys we drafted will even get a chance to start, so probably none of them. Maxwell Hairston is the only one that might have a shot (unless he ends up a dud like Elam & gets passed over on the depth chart by one of the other rookie CBs).

Just sign ALL the WRs. Surely, one of them will pan out!

Well he's automatically my favorite pick since he's not more defense. Here's hoping he becomes Stevie Johnson 2.0!

I think the Bills have PTSD with all the injuries over the years...

Anything that has potential to help? We literally have starters on this team from round 5 or later. These aren't throw-away picks.

Well, here's the late round guy that will inevitably become the starter, so can't be mad here!

I've been of the mindset that you can upgrade D talent everywhere, yet they'll still perform the same in the playoffs as long as McDermott is calling the shots. This draft is a good chance to prove me wrong. It'll also give McDermott & Beane a chance to redeem themselves by showing they can identify defensive stars in the early rounds if things pan out.