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I imagine so with Keenan Allen and Mike Williams already in the fold. Tyrell will probably be looking for a larger role than the one he has with the Chargers and in a weak free agency class, someone will probably pay him a lot of money.

There's almost certainly no #1 WR available via free agency (unless someone is released that we aren't talking about yet). Guys like Quincy Enunwa, Chris Conley, Tyrell Williams, and Adam Humphries are worth pursuing IMO, but none of them appear to be #1 caliber receivers. It seems like the only guy really worth considering in the top 10 of the draft is DK Metcalf, but if it were me personally, I'd just wait until the 2nd-4th round and probably take two guys in that range rather than spending a 1st round pick on a WR; this class is absurdly deep and the guys you can draft in the 2nd-4th are probably just as likely to become good WRs as anyone you'd take in the first round. My personal favorites in that range are N'Keal Harry (if he falls to the 2nd), Deebo Samuel, and Collin Johnson.

That's pretty hilarious that this is published literally one day after I published a similar article in their FanPosts section

Relatively speaking, they haven't done as much work on OLine guys (as far as we know) as they have on other positions, so my hope is that they either plan on investing in free agency there and then maybe 1 or 2 rookies sprinkled in, or they simply feel comfortable scouting OLine on film rather than having to go see them in person.

I would guess #3 is the most likely reasoning, and I hope to hell that it's not #4 lol. Having said that though, as someone that has rooted for the Bucs on the side for most of my life, they were in sort of a similar situation the past couple years and as it turned out, #4 was what they went with. Their O-Line has been pathetic each of the past 4 or 5 years with basically all of their young guys except Ali Marpet underperforming, but the GM opted to make one splash signing (making Ryan Jensen the highest paid center in the NFL) and keep the rest the same, keeping faith that the young guys would ultimately gel. They have not, and Jensen has been horrible on top of that.

Yeah, the relative lack of scouting they’ve done on OLine so far is interesting to me but it could mean one of many things: 1. They’re locked in on a couple particular guys and don’t want to bother scouting the rest 2. They feel confident in their ability to scout OLine on film rather than in person 3. They plan to spend on OLine in free agency as their main way of addressing it 4. Least likely of the bunch...they actually feel good about the OLine and think the young guys will gel with another offseason together.

I put together a pair of 4-round mock drafts for just the Bills picks based on who we’ve been scouting so far this year: https://www.buffalorumblings.com/2018/12/11/18136298/who-the-bills-have-been-scouting-update-featuring-a-4-round-bills

OP and thread title have been updated so that people can easily find the updated article rather than having to scroll to the 3rd page of the thread

Matt Miller has updated his big board and positional rankings, and so I've gone through and updated everything. You can see it all at the link here: https://www.buffalorumblings.com/201...-4-round-billsThe Bills have seemingly expanded their WR scouting quite a bit since the last update, which is a welcome sight to see.My post on BR includes updates at each position as well as two separate 4-round mocks of what the Bills might look to do based on who they've scouted so far. Is it realistic to expect them to have personally gone to games for every prospect that they draft? No, but these mocks should give an idea of the types of players I could see them going for based on who has been scouted so far.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2810100-2019-nfl-draft-big-board-matt-millers-latest-rankings Matt Miller's latest big board (top 50); also includes top 10-15 at each position.

They were literally one of the worst defenses in the league on a consistent basis when he was there. He's clearly an elite player but by no means was he making a significant impact. Last season, the defense was 29th in points allowed per drive and yards allowed per drive. This year, they're 30th and 29th. There's been almost no drop-off without him

As someone that has watched almost every Bucs game since he was drafted, I concur.

Even if the Raiders had the money, they were a bottom 5 defense three of the four years they had him and were showing zero signs of improvement. It's hard to justify paying him almost $24 million per year when he's not really making any discernible impact on the field for you. I can't say I blame the Raiders at all for taking multiple first round picks and the cap space instead of paying him.

I'm starting to think that if he leaves Tampa, Donovan Smith will end up being a Bills target in the offseason.

This is basically where I'm at. I think everything Gruden has done personnel-wise to this point is pretty defensible. I'm not sure I believe in his on-the-field philosophies anymore, but I don't think trading Mack was a bad decision. I think trading Amari was a legitimately good decision. And I think moving on from Carr (if they choose to do so) is a fine decision.

I don't really get this at all, and I don't mean to single you out because a lot of other people have made the same point. Cousins isn't even the worst QB contract given out in the past couple years much less the biggest FA bust of any position in NFL history. Over the next 3 years, he'll make less money than Matt Stafford, the same amount as Jimmy Garappolo, and roughly $10 mil more than Alex Smith, who might never play football again; 2 of which we know with certainty are worse than Cousins and the other has started 10 games in his entire career. People have exaggerated the hell out of the fact that Cousins' contract is fully guaranteed. Most QB contracts are effectively fully guaranteed for 3 years too because the way they're structured makes it a nightmare to get out of their contracts before then. Shocking that a guy that has played on bad teams his entire career has a losing record against good teams. Their defense was brutal early in the year but they've locked in recently and are back up to being top 5-10 statistically; basically right up there with how they played last year. The huge difference is that their running game went from one of the top 5-10 in the league to being bottom 5 in the league. The offensive play-calling has also taken a gigantic step back, not to mention last year was probably a bit of a fluke; it was a lot of Keenum just running around throwing up prayers that his WRs bailed him out on.

I’m beginning to think, for better or worse, that if he doesn’t re-sign in Tampa, Buffalo will make a run at Donovan Smith.

Buffalo was one of the two focuses of today's Monday Morning Draft article on WalterFootball: http://walterfootball.com/draft2019mmd_14.php

I'm kinda surprised that no-look passes don't happen more often. I know Mahomes and Alex Smith both do it sometimes, and I know football passes are generally longer than those in the NBA, but considering how often you see it in the NBA, I'm surprised it's not more of a thing in the NFL.

For what it's worth: The last three weeks, Allen has finished 8th, 6th, and now 4th in QBR. PFF hasn't updated their grades for this week's games yet, but Allen was the highest rated QB over the previous two weeks and I imagine he probably had an average grade this week.

That was the main thing that stood out to me today. I’m realizing that his speed is such a weapon that the rest of his skills almost don’t matter. He’s fast enough that he can get the corner turned around and in chase mode on basically every play, and once he’s done that, you can either throw it over the top where he has him beat or throw back shoulder/a comeback and since the corner is in chase mode, they aren’t able to see the ball and adjust to it as quickly as Foster can.

Also has Buffalo getting Noah Fant in Round 2.

I still like the college rules but think the starting point should simply be moved back for the NFL so you have to actually earn the field goal.

At this point, I think Beane probably agrees with Talbot and brings McCoy back while letting Ivory go, but I think Ivory has simply been better than McCoy this season, and at their respective costs, I'd be more interested in bringing Ivory back than McCoy (though you could make a solid argument for letting both of them go too). I can nitpick some of the specific decisions in the article...Anthony Johnson isn't the guy I'd like to target in the 2nd round; likewise with Ollison in the 6th, but can't argue with the holes Talbot has us looking to fill, and so much can change between now and April as far as draft targets go. I'd definitely love to get Ed Oliver here; it seems like there's some buzz that Oliver is slipping down draft boards, but we'll see if that remains the case after he likely takes the NFL Combine by storm. Seems like most people have Quinnen Williams going top 3 at this point, so I don't foresee him being an option unfortunately.

I can already tell that he's going to be drafted 3 or 4 rounds earlier than I think is deserved.