Richard Noggin

This plan might reduce the motivation for division clinchers to keep their proverbial feet on the gas late in the season. The current bye imbalance does incentivize the best 3-4 teams leaguewide to field a better viewing product in weeks 15-18, compared to your flatter, more evenly distributed bye system proposal. So that's a big reason the league and its broadcast partners won't go for it.

Commenting on the veracity of Bond's charges like this is dicey, as we don't KNOW much from our limited perspectives. Slandering female accusers is a go-to move for high profile defendants with well paid legal teams, independent of the truth. I agree with the others assuming Bond is off the Bills board all together at this point, or at the very least out of consideration on the first two nights. They're not going to pull the trigger before KC does, for example. Pearce Jr is another guy who might not be considered draftable by McBeane, unless they decide the locker room is ready to absorb such a risk. To my understanding he has off-field chatter, and moreover there's noise about his character "in the building." So football character concerns, if the couple reports I've heard/read are to be believed. Or maybe those "on-field" flags are more addressable with a strong culture. I don't know. Some pundit last week compared Pearce to Javon Kearse ffs.

Jeffrey Simmons, DT - 19th pick by Tennessee in 2019 - coming off torn ACL, he didn't get on the field until mid-October

Thinking about adding difference makers, gave up a 2nd next year (plus some '25 picks) to go up and finally get that dangerous Texas WR prospect, Golden, then nabbed my favorite CB in the 2nd, plus 2 really solid and disruptive DTs who slid a little. Crawford could possibly unseat Hamlin as the last S. Eff it we ball

Copy that. This is not real world commentary. Heard.

It's not generally wise to trade up in round 1 unless it's for a QB or it's for some presumed "last piece of the championship puzzle"...whatever that really means. So without knowing who we're trading up for, it's really difficult for me to sign off on surrendering what should be multiple future cost-controlled starters for one unknown prospect at DT, WR, or CB. 56 and 62 are VALUABLE picks. I prefer letting the board fall in round 1, and then potentially moving around at reduced cost/risk. Or, I'd understand moving up a handful of picks in round 1 if the guy they truly covet is sticking out and there's intel that he's about to be scooped. Need to hit on multiple impact players every draft, if possible, to continue to grow and evolve. This is what you'd like to see for the 3.0 mock, or the real Bills 2025 draft?

Funny stuff in here with the knee jerk doomers who don't see any room for nuance or uncertainty. A Tre White/Dane Jackson platoon at CB2 DOES unfortunately sound very McBeaney. Think Levi Wallace, Josh Norman, Kevin Johnson, EJ Gaines, Vontae Davis LOL, Dane Jackson et al. But there is ZERO indication that the Bills still won't add one or more prospects to the position group. They might even still spend a top-100 pick on the position. We don't even know the actual guaranteed money in Tre's deal. Maybe it's just an educated gamble, knowing the floor is a Micah Hyde-like presence in the room and on the sidelines, and the ceiling is a steady CB2 who's only 30 and now entering his 2nd year removed from major injury. Would be a bit of an overpay if he just can't play anymore, but could be a nice value if he CAN. Still need at least one more viable CB2 candidate, no doubt. And that will come from the draft and post-draft process. Benford was drafted when? Johnson was drafted when? Good fits are there to be found in his draft. Rounds 2-4 appear to be loaded with potential starters.

When did overtly pushing a ball carrier become legal? I'm remembering the uproar following that Reggie Bush push conversion (ND vs USC). The play was technically illegal at the time. Was that not also true in the NFL? Rugby "ruck" strategies were not meant to be part of the league, until they were. When did that change?

Is everyone forgetting the 80s Bears goal-line MO with Sweetness? Go refresh your memories with the impressive insanity of a HOF RB launching himself over and also directly into head-on car crashes like some kind of residual 19th C trench warfare.

Just nabbed Ransaw (for the first time, and learned a bit about him) in the 5th in my latest mock draft simulation. Nickel flex is welcome, given the nature of Taron Johnson's run fit responsibilities.

But what about Revel, Morrison, Watts, Nolen, Burden III? Are they available? What other DL prospects are currently being UNDER valued by fans/draftniks? Is TJ Sanders a fringe 1st rd guy? What about, gulp, Landon Jackson? (I fear the Bills love him a lot.) (Green's not even on a McBeane draft board tbh. But the others comprise an appealing list of pick #30 prospects. To see the scenario where they're all gone at 30 as "doomsday" is a little silly, depending on the availability of players I mentioned above.)

Can't call it "indefensible" without knowing how the draft plays out. I, too, am stacking mock draft simulations featuring 2 DTs (AND often 2 CBs). Good year for it. But, the board could of course fall in a way that makes pre-determined double-dipping at ANY position unwise or forced. Beane still needs to beef up other position pipelines as those opportunities present themselves. Possible that S and/or CB and/or DE and/or WR value is just screaming at Beane early and often. Maximizing the draft should be each year's goal; the more insulated that process is from the current offseason's depth chart, the better.

No, that would be hilarious. Legendary. (Does anyone qualify among this year's pool? Is Jack Bech "slow"? Wait, Xavier Restrepo IS definitely slow MINGA.)

Can we agree that Mike Green is probably OFF the Bills board due to character concerns? I'll bet they LOVE Donovan Ezeiraku and Landon Jackson and Derrick Harmon and Joshua Farmer and Jamaree Caldwell. (Not some hot take, obviously.) Something fits about those particular prospects/visits and this current organization. Oh and J.T. Tuiamolau.

That list will catch fewer felonies than any single KC position group, though. So, you know...