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It is interesting and human nature I guess. Fans tend to overvalue the unknown. Last year Duke was not playing and there was so much talk about how he is the best WR on the roster etc. Now we draft Davis and Hodgins and the Bills have "double-downed" on WR. Reality is neither of these guys could make the roster. Who are they better than? Diggs, Brown, Beasley - No Roberts, Foster, McKenzie - Probably not Williams, McCloud, Easley - Maybe I have no problem with them being drafted where they were. But lets not exaggerate the value here. If they had moved up or drafter guys early - like Higgins, Aiyuk, Pittman etc. Even one of the first 10 WR off the board that would be one thing. But they took the 17th and 30th WR of the draft. These are low risk, maybe the make the team type of picks. Its lower than a free agent signing like a Rashard Higgins, Marquise Lee, Jordan Matthews and if one of those guys were signed would we have a Bills double down thread?

Yes Diggs is good. But I feel like he is being talked about like he is Jerry Rice/Randy Moss/Calvin Johnson. The team is better. But this is a upgrade. Very similar to any team that upgrades its #1 WR. Good yes. But to use your title - game changer...no. Many teams have 3 WR at our quality. Exactly. People are getting ahead of themselves here at acting like we got the best player in the NFL.

No trades, just who would you pick if the draft fell the way it did. 2 - DE Epenesa - Options: RB Dobbins, WR's Jefferson/Mims, LB/DE Uche/Okwara 3 - RB Moss - Options: CB Dantzler, DE Greenard 4 - WR Davis - Options: LB Quarterman, WR AGG/T Johnson, C Biadasz, CB Hall 5 - QB Fromm - Options: DT Murchison, DE Anae, G Muti, S Gilman, WR Peoples-Jones, 6 - K Bass - Options: OT Runyan, LB Weaver, S Brooks/Fuller/Metellus 6 - WR Hodgins - Options: OT Wanogho, WR Hill, RB Benjamin, DE Willekes 7 - CB Jackson - Options: UDFA (CB Guidry, LB Divinity, TE Breeland, CB Bassey, TE Bryant, OT Adams, DE Coe, TE Moss)

We don’t know how much of those guarantees are tied to a signing bonus, so it’s tough to forecast Hill’s annual salary cap hits. And it makes learning how this contract is structured even more fascinating. The Saints often use automatically voided years to spread out salary cap resources, and that could come into play again with Hill (especially considering that the Saints have just over $4 million in 2020 cap space to work with right now).

So $3.5M in cap space and they sign Winston plus give Hill a $15M raise? If this doesn't show you the salary cap is easy to get around...

I don’t expect either wr drafted to make roster. Practice squad or cut.

They are drafting like they are going to the super bowl.

Draft feels blah to me and fully sure how I feel about it. I don’t think any of the picks are major impacts this season. Feels like Bills think they have everything on the roster already so not looking for immediate impact. Don’t like we didn’t add extra early picks with the talent on the board early. Too early to tell but I think teams around us got better than we did.

Shaq ran a 4.7...he runs a 5.04... Shaq ran a 4.7...he runs a 5.04...

Or Dobbins or Mims. But think we can get WR and RB later

Espenesa is my pick

Rams - Baun Phi - Lewis or Chinn

OT - Cleveland, Jones RB - Dobbins, Akers, Moss DE - Espenesa, Okwara LB - Baun, Lewis WR - Mims

Baun to Rams Diggs to Phi

OT - Cleveland, Jones RB - Dobbins, Akers, Moss DE - Espenesa, Okwara LB - Baun, Lewis CB - Diggs WR - Mims

OT - Cleveland, Jones RB - Dobbins, Akers, Moss DE - Espenesa, Okwara LB - Baun, Lewis CB - Diggs, Johnson WR - Mims

OT - Cleveland, Jones RB - Dobbins, Akers, Moss DE - Espenesa, Okwara LB - Baun, Lewis CB - Diggs, Johnson WR - Mims, Claypool

The Diggs is better logic. you should never draft then because you can always get a player better than the draft pick needed to trade for them. The differences are many - age, salary, years you control them, etc etc

Tua and Herbert were both talked about as #1 picks a ton. Burrow came out of nowhere but dominated. Not sure how any of the three is a reach.

Yep - hope they all suck.

Fromm

Haha - I was going to say they started the C Virus. Yes all teams draft based on P King and Lombardi...

Overly involved owners with limited sports backgrounds can wreak havoc on an organization. We can debate if the Bills recent success is due to the Pegulas or making good hires in McD/Beane. I would bet more on McD/Beane than Pegs.

https://www.newyorkupstate.com/buffalo-bills/2020/04/nfl-draft-buffalo-bills-bolster-secondary-with-kyle-dugger-swing-trade-for-leonard-fournette-in-7-round-mock.html

But but the Pegula's are great, wait maybe they are just rich billionaires, no they saved the Bills from Bon Jovi and Trump, they made the playoffs. My hope - own the team and leave it alone. Invest the money and resources required and let the football brains do their job.