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The fact that Sanders was initially locked in in as an early 1st round pick was a byproduct of media hype and, more importantly, the extremely unimpressive crop of QB prospects available this draft year

At what? Missing 50 games a year and filling up empty calorie stats for a loser franchise?

Pretty naive in my opinion. If you were an NFL gm, why on earth would you draft a guy who is a mediocre at best prospect AND whose father is tied to said prospect at the hip? Sanders was never going to be more than Geno Smith anyways, but this is an EPIC downfall

It's the NFL equivalent of drafting LaMelo Ball

I don't think this can possibly account for his free fall entirely. Yeah, Sanders is a middling QB prospect but plenty of other guys have been drafted in premium spots regardless. This is a unique situation related to his family and football background/experience

I wasn't even factoring that into the equation lol. This should be some serious humble pie

Yes

Almost starting to feel sorry for Shedeur at this point. Almost. To me it is obviously self preservation by GM's around the league. The perception has to be that drafting Sanders opens up the possibility of Deion becoming in charge of your franchise.

I agree. I just want someone other than Eli Ankou 🤷

He won his fair share of reps, but I wouldn't say destroyed. Pretty even matchup imo

The Bills do not value either of those things highly lol

True, but the same thing was said for Carter last year. He may be the forgotten man here bc in the first 5 games prior to injury he looked like he could be a player. Upon return...not so much

I think it will be sooner than that. Bills should have it still comfortably this year but next season could be a real competition. Good news is that both Miami and the Jets look like a complete non threat in the near term.

They had passed Miami before the draft

Why don't we just acquire Diontae Johnson? That seemed popular last year

No you're not. Hard pass

I'm not putting a lot of stock in his personality lol. Everyone loved Keon too until he actually got on the field. Just go and play ball - hopefully Hairston will be a good addition to our secondary

My only hope for the first 4 picks in this draft was that the Giants did not screw us and take a QB. Hunter or Carter to the Pats would've been less than ideal

One of the finest moments of Ferguson's career was in a game at the Orange Bowl in 1983, which was also was the first career start for Marino in the NFL. 5 td's and 419 yards passing

That was such BS lol. Fried is a beast though

Exactly. Think of a guy like Troy Vincent, who was an outstanding cover corner for Miami early in his career but had the necessary size and physicality to make the switch when his athleticism slowly waned. Tre always had an extremely lean build for a corner, let alone a safety. He was generally terrible in run support despite solid effort. There is nothing about his game that suggests he could move to either safety position successfully at this stage.

Who cares if he can't play? He looked absolutely abysmal for the Ravens

If Tre is CB2 we are in deep deep trouble. It would be worse than Douglas. There is probably very little guaranteed money in this signing. This should have ZERO impact on the Bills CB plans in the draft

His arm wasn't anywhere close to Marino and Elway, and it faded badly in his early 30's. There is a reason he retired at 36. He was physically spent his last 2 seasons.

I have Kelly somewhere in the 25-30 range, which is obviously nothing to sneeze at. He is worthy of being in the HOF but was only truly elite for 2 seasons (1990 & 1991). He had some clutch moments but plenty of big game duds as well. The edge that Kelly had over almost all of his contemporaries was his physical toughness which is nearly unmatched at the qb position in NFL history.