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.

I don't dislike the player, but the more I read the more I dislike picking him here. He's so far down every draft board, but the Bills traded away a bunch of picks to move up & take him here? They likely could've done nothing & got him.

I really hope they give him a ton of reps & that he gets a chance to become more than just another rotational player. Not sure adding another Epenesa will move the needle much, but he's certainly got potential.

And this is why I say I don't like the Bills investing more early picks in D. I don't think a trade was necessary, but they honed in on the guy they wanted & paid extra to get him. Hope it pans out.

Browns - Jags trade for me. At first I was surprised the Browns wouldn't jump at the chance to take a talent like Travis Hunter, but given that they only moved back a few spaces & snagged an extra 1st round pick next year (along with other picks), I feel like that was a smart move & could finally shows them being forward-thinking. The Jags also got a player that should definitely help Trevor Lawrence, while also bolstering their CB group... crazy to think they basically got 2 picks in 1. I'm still VERY doubtful that a 2-way player like that can work in the modern NFL, but I'm really hoping he's successful, if only for the sheer insanity of it all. And if Lawrence can't succeed now, the Jags will know they need to start looking at other options. Too bad they already signed him to a huge contract, but the Browns, Giants & Falcons all have shown that teams will move on even if their QBs are owed a lot of money.

Please no... I ask all of you to think "what would an upgrade at safety really accomplish in McDermott's D?" Wouldn't we all say prime Micah Hyde & Jordan Poyer were a big upgrade over what we have now? And what did that look like come playoff time? Just remember, it's still McDermott's D. The point is that we could get 2 x studs back there, and the end result doesn't change the way he calls a game. I'm not saying it's ENTIRELY pointless, it's just the move least likely to help this team take a big step forward. I don't think having 2 great safeties back there will turn the tides against the Chiefs. I'd rather double down on our biggest strength - Josh Allen. The side of the ball most likely to see changes year-to-year is offense, so give Joe Brady more tools to help Josh succeed. McDermott & Beane are good at finding defensive talent in the later rounds anyway.

Well you got the first one, so here's hoping the rest pan out.

Knowing how underwhelming nearly every early round defensive pick ends up in McDermott's defense, I'm not super confident this will be any different. But I'm not mad at either. He's gotta be better than Elam, right? And either way, excited that he seems like a good dude & happy to be on the team. However, if we draft another CB in rounds 5 - 7, I fully expect he'll end up being the standout player. That's just how it works on this team 😁

Wait, I don't get it... You want to come to the boards to see & discuss reactions to picks, but also don't want to know what those picks are? So you just want general "oh neat!" and "that's bad!' reactions, without telling you who they're talking about?

I have paid zero attention to the draft this year & am just waiting to be surprised. I'm already prepping myself for disappointment when we invest more 1st & 2nd round picks into D, which I doubt will amount to anything since it's still McDermott's unit, but I'd love to be wrong & see us grab another WR.