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Except when there isn't a franchise QB to be had. This is not the draft to be in need of a franchise QB, maybe not even a backup.

In single elimination playoffs where the teams are fairly evenly matched, luck is a much bigger factor than pure talent. Anybody can make a mistake that changes the course of the game, ie the Minneapolis Miracle. Anybody can get hurt in a game, ie Dre Greenlaw's Achilles injury in the Super Bowl. Anybody can have a bad day, ie Andy Reid n the last Super Bowl. A roster filled with big stars (and supposedly elite players) doesn't even guarantee a playoff berth much less a playoff win, ie the Dallas Cowboys for the last 20 years. A team has to have all its ducks -- from things it can control to random events -- line up in a row in order to win a Super Bowl.

I wouldn't object to the Bills trading for a big name WR and extending him ... if he's truly a difference maker not just a big name. I don't think that's Metcalf. That he's better than any of the Bills WRs doesn't mean that the Bills should have traded for him when acquiring Garrett or Crosby became a moot point. Metcalf isn't the same level of WR that either Garrett or Crosby are pass rushers. I was on the fence about trading for Hendrickson because I don't think he's on the same level as Garrett or Crosby, either.

I don't think that DK Metcalf would make the Bills "great" because I don't think he's really a "difference maker". I have never particularly like Metcalf, even when he had Wilson throwing moon balls to him. I'd prefer that the Bills extend Benford (which they have done) and Cook rather than shell out a 2nd rounder plus $132 million for Metcalf.

The Miami Open is on the Tennis Channel at 3 pm. It's channel 406 on Spectrum.

I had to do a double take, too!

The official is Dr. Zahi Hawass. He is an icon of Egyptian archeology. I looked up the "Kahfre Project" which is supposed to be the project/organization that the 2 scientists, Corrado Malaga and Fillippo Biondi, are associated with. I couldn't find much on line about the project (like its goal and/or its sponsors) or either of the two scientists except that both are Italian, both are researchers associated with universities: Malaga with the University of Pisa in Italy and Biondi with the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. Their expertise appears to be in Synthetic Aperture Radar tomography, which is a technology capable of creating 3-d maps of landscapes. Biondi has invented proprietary software that enabled the SAR tomography to map underground. In order to prove the Kahfre Project's claims to finding a huge network of rooms, stairways, and columns under Kahfre's pyramid, they have to excavate under the pyramid. That means that they have to get permission from the Egyptian authorities, which doesn't seem very likely. Without excavations to prove that the SAR tomography as intrepreted by Malaga and Biondi using Biondi's software is correct, their claims remain unproven.

IMO, that's exactly why the Patriots signed him. The same with Hollins. They're giving Maye 2 reliable WRs who are going to be where they're supposed to be so that their young QB gains confidence and experience. I can definitely seeing the Pats winning 8 or 9 games this season, and finishing second to the Bills. I expect that they'll go OT at #4 and maybe add another OLer later in the draft.

My mistake.

If you don't care, why did you bother to post???? It seems that maybe you do care. Miller played really well for 11 games until he was hurt.

The accomplishments of early humans are truly awe inspiring because the things they created or learned to do had never been done by anyone ever before. Every step had to be created out of nothing. Early humans learned to make tools not just use whatever tools they had at hand which numerous other animals could do. They also learned to make fire and use it for lighting the darkness and then cooking food. They developed complex languages based on ideas, not just the simple calls/grunts/whistles that other animals used as alarm or locating calls. They developed visual and musical art. They domesticated wolves and then herd animals like sheep, goats, cattle and eventually horses. They learned how to grow food. That's all before they became "civilized" enough to develop cities, astronomy, calendars, writing, religion, etc. The Vikings likely used celestial science to cross the Atlantic to Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland about 400 years before other Europeans learned to use the magnetic compass and astrolabe to navigate the oceans. Like the ancient Polynesians, the Viking culture was strongly associated with seafaring.

Drafting defense for at least 2 of the Bills first 3 picks hardly seems to be a "playing not to lose" strategy. Tempering going BPA with team needs is a sound strategy for a team that, contrary to the repeated claims of some posters on TSW, is not so devoid of talent that almost any player taken in the first or second round will be better than what is currently on the team. This draft is supposed to be really deep with defensive talent, so the Bills may be able to get much better defensive players, especially in the first and/or second rounds, than they would in other drafts. Moreover, the Bills have several defensive positions that could be upgraded with early round rookies, namely DT, DE, and CB, so they're not locked into a single position. Conversely, it's not likely that a prime offensive prospect could fall far enough down in the first round that the Bills could take him. FYI -- The Bills currently do have decent OLers behind their starters, including SVP whom they selected in the 2024 draft. Because the Bills starting OLers have been so healthy the last 2 seasons, we haven't seen much of them. That doesn't preclude the Bills from drafting another OLer later in the draft as a development project.

JJ McCarthy says "Hi". There is no guarantee that any draft pick is going to play in his rookie season. Lots of CBs, including Tre White, have gone in bottom third of the first round and played well their entire rookie seasons. In a draft rich in defensive talent, the Bills can probably find a DLer at #30 or even a 2nd rounder, who can start playing decently some time in his rookie season, especially since the Bills use a DL rotation. I think you are making too big a deal of Bills rookies, most of whom are likely to be taken at the end of each round, making significant contributions. The Bills are not going to miss the playoffs because the rookies they draft aren't ready to start on Opening Day. That said, if the Bills were to trade up into the top half of the first round, I would expect that rookie to be good enough to play well as a rookie.

I don't think he will. If he does, he doesn't get paid at all for those games. If he holds out long enough, 2025 doesn't count, so he'd be exactly where he is now next season. Moreover, he risks Davis developing into a reliable three down, workhorse back who can be a reliable receiver out of the backfield and taking over the starting RB position while he's sitting out.

The QB class in this draft is simply not good enough to push Carter out of the top 5, much less close to #10. There's only Ward and Sanders even being discussed as likely first rounders. In the 2024 draft, 6 QBs went 1-2-3-8-10-12 which pushed the heralded WRs like Harrison, Nabers, and Odunze down to 4-6-9. TE Brock Bowers dropped to 13 and DE Jared Verse to 19 because of the all the teams chasing the QBs.

This is my position, too. I hope he agrees to a reasonable contract because I would love to see him stay with the Bills, but not at an inflated price. He's not an every down RB because he doesn't block all that well. He's also not a workhorse back like Barkley. I don't know where that puts his value to the Bills, but it's not close to Barkley territory. As for his "talk" on social media, I don't think that's going to influence the Bills FO one way or the other which seems to be something that the OP was hinting at when he started this thread.

Unless Epenesa and Knox are better than the guys the Titans already have on their roster, why would they want them?

I don't disagree that they drafted poorly. I just see their poor drafting as a symptom of what was wrong with the Bills in the last 2 decades of Ralph Wilson's ownership. They lost 2 excellent talent evaluators in Polian and Butler (3 if you include AJ Smith who left with Butler and became the Chargers GM after Butler died). I think some of their best scouts may have followed Butler west because the quality of the Bills draft picks, even high ones, dropped off. After Donahoe was fired, and Russ Brandon became the Bills de-facto GM (although Marv Levy held that title for a couple of years), Brandon and Jauron made personnel decisions. The quality of Bills drafts dropped even more. Lots of the Bills rosters between 2006 and 2010 were filled with UDFAs and waiver wire refugees. It improved somewhat under Nix and then Whaley, but the team's philosophy of maximizing profits lasted until Terry Pegula bought the team and hired Rex. Winfield wasn't re-signed during the Drought era. That's why I included him.

I think that one of Ralph's daughters was married to a guy who worked in the Bills finance department. He was probably the head of it, being the owner's SIL. I think maybe his name was Litman or something like that.

The draft is literally a crap shoot because highly rated draft picks crash and burn while great players come out of Day 2 or 3 in every draft, and good teams miss just like bad teams. I disagree that the Bills drafting was the reason why the Bills had the playoff drought. It was more a consequence of the team philosophy which always put maximizing profits ahead of winning football games, even during the Glory Years. Bill Polian was fired because he clashed with the finance guys in the 1990s. John Butler (and a significant part of the Bills pro personnel department) left for San Diego because the Chargers offered him more money. During the Drought, the Bills never re-signed their first rounders who did develop into good/great players except for Eric Wood -- most notably, Antoine Winfield, Nate Clements, Willis McGahey, Marshawn Lynch, Stephon Gillmore -- although they did keep some two who became notable busts after signing their second contracts: Mike Williams and Marcell Dareus. Under Tom Donahoe and especially Russ Brandon/Buddy Nix/Doug Whaley regimes, the Bills continually allowed their best players to leave in FA or via trade and used the draft to find replacements. FYI -- Tre White was the first first-round pick who developed into an outstanding player whom the Bills re-signed since the 1990s. He was drafted as a replacement for Stephon Gilmore whom the Bills allowed to hit FA (and helped the Patriots win SBs). I don't judge rookies. Some players who look terrible as rookies develop into good/great players. Others who look like good/great NFLers in their first season never ever play that well again. I'm a believer in giving rookies three years to show who they are, especially if they play a position which has a longer learning curve than some other positions. DT is certainly one of those positions.

Seriously????? Your statements reek of ignorance of history and misogyny. Just because there were laws on the books that made rape a capital offense doesn't mean that those laws were enforced and sentences applied equally. Even today, a woman who accuses a man, especially a wealthy or well-known man, of rape faces far more scrutiny of her "character" than does a woman who accuses a man of some other crime .... your assumptions about rape underscore your bias.

Abdul Carter all day, every day. Unfortunately, the Bills' entire draft (all 10 picks) is only worth 1464 points, which might get the Bills to #7 or #8. Carter will be long gone, even if two QBs go early.

Well said. I will add that it's not uncommon for victims of some kind of physical/psychological trauma to block the memory the trauma. We call it PTSD, and we mostly associate it with soldiers in combat situations, but it can happen to anyone. Sometimes, victims bury the memory of trauma so deep that they don't consciously remember it, but suffer from the hidden memories rattling around in their subconscious for years without even understanding why they're having flashbacks or nightmares or unprovoked fits of rage, etc.

Some fans just don't get this. Some players are simply best suited to play in only one kind of scheme and don't look particularly good in other systems. Sometimes it can also be coaching -- not necessarily how good or bad a particular coach may be but how that coach and player interact. The best example of this is the Eagles LB Zach Baun who was a JAG LB in New Orleans for 4 years. Philly took a chance on him, and something clicked -- maybe scheme, maybe coaching, maybe Philly cheese steaks rather than jambalaya. Whatever it was, Baun became an All Pro and was a finalist for DPOY in 2024.

I'm not sure the reasons are particularly "confounding". It may be as simple as there just aren't FAs available who a) have the skills the Bills need and b) agree to play for what the Bills can afford and c) are willing to play for the Bills in a particular FA period. All three of those conditions have to be met in order for a for a team to acquire a FA like Connor McGovern who works for them. Of course, guards and centers don't command the kind of money in free agency that pass rushers or wide receivers do, so the Bills can afford to sign higher level FA IOLers than they can DLers and WRs, making the chances for success among IOLers more likely than among WRs.