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I'm not convinced he'll be a mid-to-late pick tbh

And TE and RB and OLine depth.

I think he goes in the 2nd or 3rd at the end of the day and I would love for him to be one of our picks. I almost wonder if this is a smokescreen though because they’re literally exposing that they’re interested in him with every possible opportunity.

Nope and Edwards isn’t one next year either.

Even if SU had been on Mitchell earlier, there’s nothing you can do about UMass. They’re hiring his coach and signing his friends to play with him. Syracuse just isn’t going to offer that. Edwards might turn into something in the future but I don’t think he’ll be able to contribute next year and we pretty desperately need help at center next year.

Think next year's team might be even worse assuming Battle leaves despite his non-existent draft stock, but then again, a part of me is more interested in seeing next year's team because of the uncertainty. I was never high on this year's team once we lost Bazley and I also felt like I knew what we'd get with them. I really have no idea about next year. Assuming Battle leaves, I have no feel for what we're going to do at PG or C. If we play the freshmen, we should theoretically have the best shooting team we've had in a long time. Feels like next year might be a disaster if Carey doesn't take a gigantic leap in year 2 though...I like Goodine and Girard but I'm not sure either of them is capable of being the PG that breaks defenses down like we've been severely lacking. With Boeheim's offensive system (and I use that term loosely because there's not much to it), you really need: At least one guy that handle the ball, both pass and shoot out of ball screens, and sometimes create his own shot 1 on 1 Shooters on the wings and at least one secondary ball handler A big man that can set screens, catch the ball, and either roll to the hoop or shoot the jumpshot This season, we basically didn't have any of that. Battle's never been a gifted passer. Chukwu and Dolezaj certainly weren't much of a threat after setting screens. And Hughes and a small stretch of Boeheim were the only shooting we had. It was just never going to work. I love Chukwu and he was an absolutely incredible defender for us, but his offensive limitations on top of our unwillingness to throw him the ball even when he was completely unguarded was a huge weakness for this team. Add in the insane number of minutes that we give to guys like Brissett that bring almost nothing positive to the team and we had all the makings of a disappointing year; I'm honestly surprised we were as good as we were. I really hope that we can pull some strings between now and the beginning of next year to bring in a center and a ball-handler (though I REALLY like the looks of the Duruji kid too). Maybe just throw Carey, Goodine, and Girard to the wolves and suffer if they can't handle it and bring in a C and Duruji instead.

lol.

https://www.syracuse.com/orangebasketball/2018/09/jim_boeheim_on_buddy_elijah_hughes_oshae_brissett_and_the_start_of_practice.html

I’m pretty sure Boeheim is actually on scholarship, though I’m hoping they can convince Jim to let him walk on so we can bring in another recruit.

It's not impossible, but Vegas is pretty good at this. Over the past 9 seasons, Vegas has been off on the Bills win total by a total of 1 win. The over has won 3/9 years with one of those years being by 0.5 a game. And like I said, they're giving Buffalo like the 5th or 6th lowest Super Bowl Odds right now. Barring a miraculous draft, it will definitely be in the 5.5-6.5 range as far as the O/U goes. Anything above that would go against the Super Bowl odds.

Hmmm, just wonder why he would have withheld that when he obviously didn't mind putting the Odell thing out there despite how much flak he got for it at the time.

Did Glazer say anything about this at the time or is he just telling us in retrospect?

As long as Allen shows improvement, I don't think I'll be depressed. I just think the Bills still have a pretty long ways to go personally. I would guess Buffalo's O/U will be 5.5-6.5. As is, their Super Bowl odds are like 5th or 6th lowest in the NFL; there's no way it's going to be 8-8.5 unless they acquire like the first five picks in the draft.

It's probably still too early to really make a good estimate at this point. Barring something unforeseen though, I do not expect to make the playoffs; I'd guess around 6-8 wins as per usual.

Ferguson is extremely productive; I believe he's #2 in the draft class in pass rush productivity behind only Josh Allen. I didn't see video of his 3 cone drill from his pro day, but based on his time, I can only assume that he took a break halfway through. If you adjust his pro day times for how much faster people usually are at pro days (just due to the hand-timing), his testing makes him borderline undraftable. Will be really interesting to see where he ends up being taken because his tape is pretty good. Also wasn't allowed to participate at the Combine due to an assault from his teenage days if I remember right.

There's no chance that Howard got suspended for failing to trip a player. Come on. Clearly he did something else since then. Considering his rumored past incidents it's not hard to imagine him being an idiot. As for how the team plays without him, I'd guess Battle plays PG and Boeheim plays SG and they basically play the entire game. Maybe Carey spells one of them for a short stretch here and there but I don't even think that's a certainty.

They are, but even as the favorites, you're still only talking about roughly 20% odds to win it. In all likelihood, someone else will win. I agree that stopping Zion is a fool's errand.

I like both Tennessee and Virginia personally. I think whoever comes out of that region has a pretty good chance and I think Duke's lack of shooting will eventually haunt them in one of these games. Just my gut feeling though; obviously Zion is an absolute freak of nature so it wouldn't be surprising if they win it.

Him, Weber, the WRs, there's a lot of options really

They almost certainly won't draft 10 players like they currently are slotted to do. Whether that means trading up throughout the draft or trading picks for future picks, I would bet they only draft 7 or 8 guys at the absolute most, much to my chagrin.

Wow, those first 4 picks are more or less all of the guys that I've been hoping for. It's like they read my mind for this. The back half of the draft didn't really do anything for me though.

It'll survive and I'm sure in the very least, the Honky Tonk Highway will remain mostly the same, but after visiting a month or two ago, I'll be fascinated to see how different it is in like 5 years. Just being there for my first time one of the first things I noticed was that it felt like it was about to go through some major major development. The surrounding pockets of Nashville will be almost unrecognizable in 5-10 years IMO.

It would have made more sense if McCoy wasn't in the plans IMO. Gore was legitimately good last year; McCoy was bad and Ivory maybe slightly better. But adding yet another veteran RB contract to a position group that's already among the most expensive in the league while still being a below-average unit is pretty disappointing. If the Bills cut McCoy and Ivory and went into the year with Gore and one or two rookies, I'd be much happier with the position group than I am with its current construction. Is this saying that Beane is good or bad? I have no idea what this means outside of knowing it's a Game of Thrones reference.

Basically identical height/weight/40 time to Kareem Hunt and slightly different from Sony Michel. Difference being his broad jump was pretty disappointing too. Might be enough for Darrell Henderson to move up to #1.