YodaMan79

Sad list. I remember seeing flashes in Holmes, Bryson and Linton (am I mis-remembering), thinking they could have been good. Being a kid/young adult at the time I think I was most likely romanticizing these guys, blind to the fact they weren't that good. I do remember Bryson having a couple of decent games for the Lions of all teams.

Michel? He's good, but a compliment. Looked to me as if Dion Lewis was pretty darn good, too. I agree with Zeke and Gurley. But their respective teams had to stink it up to get access to them. Here's to hoping the Bills aren't picking this high again for a while.

Coincidental I think. Gurley being the only really high pick the past 4 years. Lynch in 2014? He looked quite average in 2016. CJ Anderson is looking like a word beater off the street makes me wonder. The coach does a great job of putting those guys in favorable matchup situations. I look at 28-32 as luxury picks for established teams extracting what they feel is the best value, or they trade out. Ingram was suspended to start the year, and he's a part time player. Good point though, this year is an anomaly. I look at the three years prior and it's mostly home grown mid-round selections. Though, I think with the exception of the Patriots a lot of that is due to the cap % those QBs carry. Last year: Patriots vs Jags (Fournette 1st) Eagles vs Vikings (2nd rd Cook hurt most of the year) 2016: Steelers vs Patriots (Bell 2nd) Falcons vs Packers 2015: Broncos vs Patriots Panters vs Cardinals

Buffalo Timmy -- I agree with you 100%. Players like Sanders, LT or even most recently Barkley would be worthy. Emmitt is a prime example of what an OL can do. Not saying he wasn't good, but I think his greatest ability was durability. Draft and develop the best OL possible, then watch all the skill position players flourish!

I'd be thrilled with a Mack, Cohen, Carson or Jones type of player from the 4th on. Joe Williams and Perine looked solid at times before they were injured, too. I'd say your % does drastically decrease after the 4th round like any other position. I think the hit rate for an RB is much higher than other positions besides OL.

I always liked him. Seemed to have a knack for making big plays.

After reading the reactions on the first page, do half of the fans on the board not understand second level thinking? Creative post. But I agree with the poster (Buffalover4life) who pointed out the Bills are a little further along than Cleveland, when they paid money for Houston's 2nd round pick.

Can't tell if you're being sarcastic, or opening yourself up to a lot of ridicule? Hopefully sarcastic...

I also remembering him lauding Kaepernick as potentially becoming one of the "all time greats". I like Jaws, but he sells the drama and hyperbole a little too much at times.

*Hunt will not command top dollar. He's going to have to take a low guarantee, short term "show me deal". Perfect for a team like the Bills, and I think good for Hunt. A low tier media market could be what he needs to get back into the league, mentally. If you keep McCoy, Hunt would be a nice 50/50 option early in the year, and as the season progresses you could phase the egotistical, washed up and locker room cancer out. Players on the 90s teams did far worse than Hunt, and they're now lauded, so please spare me the moral high ground position.

With very hight % hit rate for RB in Rds 2-4.

Think about who's been throwing him the ball.

They're getting hammered due to the trend of loading up on FA while your QB is on his rookie deal. 25-30 million is going to be the cap rate for a competent QB, while elite RBs 12-15 million. Giants will catch the same heat as Bills fans were dishing on the 2017 draft, before JA showed the goods, if they can't find a future QB. But I agree in the sense you don't pass on a HOF talent.

Agreed (Virgil). I'd like the Bills to benefit by finding a solid upper tier RB in the draft and not over pay. Have the skill players and line develop together. If they're a stud, pay market value to keep your own, when the time comes. I really like round 3 obviously, but Mack, Cohen and Carson after is really good...

Low risk, high reward. Didn't he have a two TDs taken away on catch rule interpretations a couple of years ago? I remember him being pretty talented in space. I think they should get this guy in the building.

The 2017 RB draft class looks to be one for the ages. It begs the question, why would you wants the Bills to tie up large money in a FA or McCoy? The way the front office has been able to grab talent and value in the later rounds leads me to believe they could find really good RBs from Rd 3 on. I grabbed this from Bill Barnwell of ESPN. I didn't realize how great this class really was. Carson in the 7th? Wow.

Living in center city Philadelphia for a good deal of time it was hard for me not to become a fan of the hometown teams. With the Bills being in the AFC and living in an NFC town, conflicts of interest don't happen often. But when they do, I'm for the Bills all the way. The fans here are very knowledgeable and not the mouth breathing heathens the national media makes them out to be, with the typical lazy "they threw snowballs at Santa" narrative.

Ideally if I'm running an organization, I want a player in a single digit draft position to be a foundational two contract player. This team is more than a WR1 away from being a consistent playoff team with an outside chance of winning it all. The goal of the franchise should be not to pick this high again. Find a foundational in the trenches player you can build around and have here for 6-10 years. AB will not be the AB you know within this organization, production wise. How long would he be here? You'll get a talented malcontent that could hinder the development of younger players around him. This team is not setup to bring a guy like him into the fold, locker room wise. Shoot, he can't even get along with HOF talent in the Pittsburg locker room. What would he do here? Supremely talented? Yes. But, I'm not sure we'd get the production from the high dollar amount, draft capital and possibly a player invested.

Whoever is the BPA on the OL or DL. These positions are the easiest to forecast future success at the NFL level. Figures they've missed baddy with highly picked OL and DL in the past.

Better to say goodbye a year too early than late. He's not a unique talent at this point of his career.

Media types have been saying Golden Tate was going to command a lot of money, but I don't see it. If he takes a fair market deal, I think he'd be a great slot target for Adams. He's physicality and YAC could open other areas of the offense up.

What do Fred Jackson, Priest Holmes, Arian Foster, our own Ivory and Lindsay have in common? Talent is out there. I think Josh Adams is next on that list, too. They need to get lucky. If teams had the slightest idea Lindsay was going to be this good he would not have made it past rd. 3. Bills need just good old fashion luck.

Gross hyperbole at it's finest...

McCoy has 0 value. I've been saying this all year. I don't know why our fan base thinks any different? I think the best the organization could hope for is a conditional 5th or 6th round pick. He's paid as an elite talent, and he's nowhere near that anymore. The time has come where the burden of his attitude and ego do not out weigh his talent. He's just not aware of it yet. Contrary to what a number of people think he's not a good "locker room" guy. On a crap team where he's the alpha, he can fake it. He's not a character high talent individual you want the younger players on the roster to emulate. Cut the loss and bid him farewell. Draft a high production SEC or Big Ten RB in the 2-4 rd, and bring in some UDFAs that had bad luck their senior year like Adams and Clement W/the Eagles. Hopefully hit on one of these lotto tickets. In addition sign Yeldon or Coleman as FA and see if they can get some traction that way.

He's had his window to show he can start, he failed. Nothing wrong with 10+ year career as a spot starter and good QB room presence. He flamed out in Philadelphia, Chicago and Cincinnati. If his agent is any good and he has a level head on his shoulders, if Buffalo gives him a contract past this year he'd be crazy not to sign it.