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Jerry being Jerry reveals top of draft board
Richard Noggin replied to CorkScrewHill's topic in The Stadium Wall
Baltimore is similarly devoted to drafting BPA over need. Maybe without the splash of some Dallas picks. Just let the draft come to you and select the very best prospects available. It's amazing how well that works (at least to ensure you field a competitive team) on a long enough timeline. -
Rd 3, Pick 89 (25): LB Terrell Bernard, Baylor
Richard Noggin replied to Hapless Bills Fan's topic in The Stadium Wall
Your posting is dreadfully myopic and delights in ruffling the status quo, but you're not necessarily wrong on the Edmunds points. He is a passively effective player as part of a strong overall unit. He is able to affect/deter offenses with his traits, but is arguably unable to further affect offenses with his actual play. -
Rd 6 pick 185 (6): CB Christian Benford, Villanova
Richard Noggin replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall
I would counter with a depth chart of Motor, Cook, and Moss (has real bounce back potential in a Kromer zone scheme). Hopefully Jones can be replaced by Benford, as floated in this thread, or someone else. Would really benefit the team if that gunner job is won by someone who is also a promising part of a position pipeline. -
One might also argue that was the O-line's worst game as well, which at least contributed to Allen's performance. And we could also at least suggest that Daboll's apparent in-game adjustments (if there were any) fell short of solving the problems. But it's difficult for us fans to know the root cause of such a collapse.
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Mods, we NEED a Doug Marrone "obviously" reaction. Not to mock a poster, but to agree smugly.
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Round 6 Pick 209 (31): OT Luke Tenuta, Virginia Tech
Richard Noggin replied to Hapless Bills Fan's topic in The Stadium Wall
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Something happened along the way as Brown went from Bills reporter to Bills TV/radio personality. I LOVED his concise bb.com video reports over the years. He was measured and on-task. Let the content be the story (as was his job). But now he's...louder. One might say he's too often...shrill. Don't get me started on Tasker's meandering and recursive ramblings. Sharp, funny guy who doesn't translate as such most of the time.
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Rd 2, Pick 63 (31): RB James Cook, Georgia
Richard Noggin replied to Hapless Bills Fan's topic in The Stadium Wall
Always appreciate a sense of humor online. -
Rd 5, Pick 148 (5): WR Khalil Shakir, Boise St
Richard Noggin replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall
I do see a delayed reaction on some plays (as the game progesses), and on others a weight sink (or hitch or gathering) before launch (mostly early on). Probably related to pre-snap posture? Shakir might need a "squattier" pre-snap stance so he's already loaded up? I've never paid attention to this specifically, except maybe with Lee Evans who had a weird hand jive circular thing he did pre-snap in college that wasn't allowed in the NFL. -
Rd 5, Pick 148 (5): WR Khalil Shakir, Boise St
Richard Noggin replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall
Your first point is interesting in that because of program status, there are college WR1s who fly under the radar every year. We get all turned around by the testing talents of 2nd and 3rd WRs from Alabama when there are these WR1s from lesser programs who produce and test reasonably well but just get undervalued. Gabriel Davis was a stud for UCF, and Khalil Shakir was a stud for BSU. There is great potential in them if they are committed to their crafts (and they escape injury). Totally disagree that McKenzie is the guy on the bubble, though. That's weird. -
Rd 2, Pick 63 (31): RB James Cook, Georgia
Richard Noggin replied to Hapless Bills Fan's topic in The Stadium Wall
I dated a tall, blonde Carrie back when I lived in Dallas for a spell and let me tell you...7 of them is a LOT -
The bolded passage actually argues IN FAVOR of the Cardinals' draft behavior: they drafted Josh Rosen as the 4th (1st round) QB in 2018, and then took another the next year (#1 overall). They were definitely not afraid to spend 1st round picks on QB consecutive years.
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Rd 6 pick 185 (6): CB Christian Benford, Villanova
Richard Noggin replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall
Of course you're correct that draftable prospects coming out of the lower ranks of college football still have access to pre-draft thinking and training. They know what bigger school, higher-rated guys are doing to prepare for the process and who they've signed with to get them there. But they don't always/usually have agents/orgs as willing to financially stake them at the same pre-draft investment level as those more sought-after prospects. The high-end training camps and schools cost beaucoup bucks many day 3 and UDFA guys can't so easily afford/finance. Gotta first run a cost/benefit-analysis of what a few hundredths off the 40 would net for a typical late-round prospect upon signing... -
In the first 24 hours video posted on BB.com, did anyone notice how Tre and Kaiir look to be closer in height than the measurements suggest? I guess 2" are easily made up if Tre is wearing thick-soled trainers while Elam could be wearing low profile dress shoes? Not a big deal, of course. But stood out to me just now watching that video.
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The 2nd Wave of Free Agency Starts Today at 4PM
Richard Noggin replied to Allen2D̶i̶g̶g̶s̶TBD's topic in The Stadium Wall
The bolded portion of your post must be omitted outright. While Hyde, Poyer, and Miller WILL play a lot, there is NO evidence, suggestion, or even anticipation that Lawson and Phillips will see more than bottom-of-the-rotation/situational snaps. That is, IF they both make the 53 man roster. I agree that extending Poyer seems unwise, especially with Hyde already being re-upped for the next two seasons (with no cheap "out" after this year). That is, unless the Bills are willing to stomach both being on big deals for the next two seasons and THEN moving on without Hyde while keeping a re-signed Poyer. But I don't see that. I think Hyde makes more sense as the S they keep until he's demonstrably old. I see Poyer walking in free agency after 2022. Hopefully he plays out his deal so that can happen. -
Rd 3, Pick 89 (25): LB Terrell Bernard, Baylor
Richard Noggin replied to Hapless Bills Fan's topic in The Stadium Wall
I often return to McDermott personally pulling aside Milano at some point later in the MNF Patriots wind game, where you could see McD gesturing and reminding Milano to attack the gaps vertically rather than flow horizontally (we don't have audio)...and then on the next series Milano had two big stops behind the line of scrimmage. For McD, it's not about stifling a running game with leverage and mass. It's about attacking it with speed and decisiveness. At least/especially from the 2nd level. While McD's concepts don't always seem aggressive in terms of blitzing and coverage, he does want his guys to trust their reads and ATTACK. That way, with the right players, a defense can cover its own ass on the backend AND swarm to the ball underneath. -
A thousand pardons if posted. Fun Brobible compilation of Elam-is-awesome content (thinly veiled as a draft interview process piece). https://brobible.com/sports/article/kaiir-elam-nfl-draft-interview-bills/ Includes the combine interview clip many have already seen, where he busts out his Growth Mindset notebook, but has a couple other little nuggets. I hadn't seen this:
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Difficult to disagree with anything here. Maybe it's about what you're omitting, then? For starters: Bates. He's a fine young starting-caliber IOL piece with tons of flex and plenty of athleticism to fit the zone-heavy scheme he'll be in. Next: Saffold. We can sidestep his pro bowl status last season in favor of something like this: aging LG with history of high-end zone run blocking and declining average-ish pass blocking. Probably a solid one-year stop-gap on-the-field and a vital resource for installing Kromer's wide-zone scheme. Depth is underwhelming with respect to starting pipeline management, but we shouldn't ignore Ford's adequate replacement performances late in the season, or Quessenberry's value with RT/RG flex. Of course we'd prefer a 3rd starting-caliber OG. I don't know much at all about Mercz (or even if I'm spelling his name correctly). And Boettger would represent SOLID OG depth if he hadn't torn his achilles last year.
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This seems like an uncharacteristically..."concerned" post from you. You're ignoring Ford and Quessenberry (and of course I recognize that many fans don't rate these two favorably). Something tells me you're concerned about the level of investment in the IOL (lol)? Thing about investing is, it's judged primarily by the return. If it works, that's the bottom line. We can presumably see the Bills taking a leaner approach to the IOL portion of their roster portfolio than we'd prefer, but it doesn't actually mean we're staked to a losing position. Maybe they believe in the horses they have, and believe in them enough at least to allow for the more aggressive allocation elsewhere. After all, it's about how the overall product performs. (I think I effing HATE this extended metaphor. Apologies.) Nevertheless, Bates and Saffold are, at the most skeptical end of the spectrum, average fits for an outside zone scheme (I think, and have thought for more than a year, that Bates is a hidden gem). That's fine if your LT and C are above average fits, and your RT has potential to be average-to-above-average. Would one more high-end IOL prospect be better? Eff yes. But maybe we can wait for one more year and then replace Saffold with Bates and replace Bates with a TALENTED G?