ROCBillsBeliever

I know... I know... There are no more Stef Diggs' out there in the world, so, moving forward...

Yeah, I mean... I'll settle for Slaton, I guess.

Been stuck at work all day, and all I have to say is this: BEANE... DON'T TRADE AWAY 4TH ROUND PICKS!!! Missed on every 1 Tech DT worth their salt... Bare cupboards, everywhere you look... At this point, Marquez Stevenson with our 2nd 5th Rounder would be good, but I'm disappointed that all the good DT 1-Techs have been taken...

A positive squeak from Sully the grumpy mouse? Has Sully finally turned over a new leaf?

But Coach, Maybe they thought their edge rushers needed to take more artistic angles

Wait... do you mean that Todd McLIE is sad that Beane didn't agree with him?

How did you read my mind?

JOK!

Sickkkkk! Everything is coming up Bills, tonight!

Sadly, I agree...

When did Cleveland grow a brain cell? Honestly... When?

HELL EFFIN YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Probs Harris

I am totally fine with Tony going to the Giants. Now let's get a run on RB's and let JOK and Newsome drop! The night is playing out really, really well for us!

Why am I agreeing with you, @ScottLaw? But I actually am agreeing with you. LOL!

PLEASE TAKE ETN!

Kinda glad the Pats stood pat and took Jones. I do not fear his ceiling. He may end up being good, but he is no world beater.

Those entitled pricks can drink their corrosive tears...

Probably Vera-Tucker... Their line is hot trash.

Please were take Parsons... You know Jerruh doesn't give arat's kabunkus about off field issues... (Also, I want Newsome).

Bears leap up for Fields, foiling Belicheat! Thank you, Chicago!

Glad the Fish didn't get to add Pitts, but Waddle will be tough to cover. Come on, Beane, get us a CB or DE/Edge!

Thanks for all the hard, thorough work, @GunnerBill! Here's to McBeane making some great picks.

Yeah, I listened to a pod with Sharp on it, today, and he referred to that article a couple of times. I gotta get to thee actual article, at some point. Agreed that DE may be the best value, when things all shake out; we'll see, shortly! I had heard a stat that our pass D had the lowest average depth of target against, in the league last year. That's from exactly what Howard & Jeremy were saying: teams just knew that our backend wasn't going to let up the deep ball, so they opted for the death by a thousand paper-cuts approach: short passes all day long, from quick drops. This negated our overpriced D-line, to an extent. Yeah, an Oweh type who can recover and tackle so quickly might be just the right player to combat this style of attack. What a chess game it is, right? I really don't know what other teams are looking for, in the CB realm, but I do know that--very generally speaking--zone DB's tend to go a little later than equally-skilled man DB's, which will play to our favor. My only real hope for a CB at 30 is if Newsome or Horn drops. The latter scenario is well neigh impossible; the former is unlikely. We can always hope, though. Well, if you're honestly that high on him, then the pick is justified, in your book. That's cool, and I can see the logic there.

I mostly agree, but one thing I think about is when you compare your honest ratings of ETN or Harris to the RBs in last year's draft, where do this year's RB's fit with... let's say 2020's top five RBs taken. For reference, here's the top five RBs from 2020, and where they were picked: 32 - Clyde Edwards-Helaire 35 - D'Andre Swift 41 - Jonathan Taylor 52 - Cam Akers 55 - J.K. Dobbins Now, obviously, everyone will have their own takes on grading, but where do you see ETN and Harris fitting among those RBs? Personally, I would put ETN right around Akers and Dobbins, in terms of talent and value. I'd definitely have Harris a notch or two lower (maybe in the mid-60's). You may rank him differently, but would you have ETN ranked ahead of Swift? CEH? That would be hard for me to justify, but again, ranking players is tough, and everyone's going to have a different opinion. I just wouldn't have ETN up there with CEH, Swift, or even Taylor (I loved Taylor, last year; I would have given our 2nd for him, but I get that Beane saw Epenesa's value as being higher, and he probably stuck out like a sore thumb on the Bills' board, so I get it), so it's hard for me to justify trading up for ETN, and I wouldn't be the happiest if he were our pick at 30. I just see better value at CB or DE. I know the counter-argument: last year's draft was stacked at RB (and probably a more stacked draft, in general), so RBs were probably pushed down the board. I get that point, and it is valid, but it still doesn't make me feel good taking an RB just because they weren't pushed down the board in a strong draft. I kind of liken it to the 2013 E.J. Manuel pick. We dropped back (good thing! Gained draft capital, and still got a QB), but it was to draft a QB in what has become--historically--the worst QB draft in the past two decades, or so. It's that kind of a feeling, for me, so I just don't like it.