Chaos

excited to see the Panthers pick, likely to be a Bill circa 2024

Lots of zeros, Maybin, Flowers, Mike Williams. But EJ Manuel was a giant negative that set the team back dramatically. Nature of the drafting a failed QB.

Trading the pick was my first thought. But I feel like if there is a QB needy team who drafts after us in the second round, who did not take Tua in round 1, but still likes him, they would move up to take him earlier in the second round.

Interesting observation. I had not thought of that.

Quarantine got you down? Or are you always a grump?

Yes we are a lock.

Its a shame last years defense was not playoff win caliber. If they had held on to beat the Texans, apparently they would have led us to victory in the Super Bowl.

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people always over rate draft picks. Diggs upgrades WR1, WR2, WR3 AND WR4. There could be no greater impact.

You are using facts which don't conform to my feelings that he totally sucked, because he wasn't not as great is in the past, because you know there are only two levels of play 1) greatest ever 2) totally sucked.

Sorry you can't grasp the point. Teams don't want to do what they did the first thirty years in the league. They are going to invest millions in the young players and are willing to wait a month so they can do all of their proper due diligence. And I am great fun to hang out with. People enjoy my company because I am not a selfish tool who wants the world to entertain them.

Physicals and face to face visits are considered important parts of preparing for a draft. Teams are not allowed to do either right now, hence the need to postpone things. If a delayed NFL draft is on your list of "problems in life", then you likely have a great life. Rejoice in that knowledge.

Minshew looked pretty good for a few games. I think he is an NFL starter quality QB. He is not as good as Allen.

If you were Beane, you would not post here ?

Chiefs have more or less traded out of the draft all together in recent years. Long term that seems to have been a super bowl winning strategy. The trading down thing is more myth than reality.

The context being what it is, the facts do not seem to suggest Williams was trying to hurt anyone or plan to hurt anyone. It is also possible he is not an expert on the gun laws in NY. (most likely, he has not been to social media law school). Ignorance of the law is not an excuse, but if this is the first offense for Williams, it seems to me it is the type of thing where he should simply end up with a warning of sorts.

Did not read the whole thread. Does this mean Josh Gordon’s problems are expunged?

If Beane is going to trade up, I hope he calls me to clear it first. I would have stopped the Watkins deal if Whaley had had the good sense to call me.

If you look at QB production, Brady was solidly in the top 10 in the league this year. The fact that he did not put the team on his shoulders and carry it, does not mean they won in spite of him. He was a major part of their winning record.

Do I have the option of getting Derrick Henry in free agency for just money instead?

Howard Cosell. There is no substitute. Glory days cannot be re-created.

How so?

You have clearly never played competitive darts.

Signing Cooper as a free agent would have a pretty big cascade effect on the rest of the Bills off-season plans. If the BPA on the board when the Bills pick happened to be a WR, the Bills could go overnight from having one of the weakest sets of WR's in the league to one of the strongest. This would seemingly allow the Bills to definitively determine if the Allen can be a top 10 QB in terms of actual production. If the BPA is not a WR, then the Bills can would have no positions of huge need, and could truly take the BPA to improve the team. In fact, the team is strong enough, the Bills could go BPA in every single round. Playmaker is the only glaring need, and Cooper addresses that.

I am perplexed by people evaluating real draft decisions in the context of popular selections in mock drafts. I believe the level of information available to GM's is a magnitude greater than the level of information available to sports writers and sportscasters. It is also clear over time that some GMs are consistently better at drafting than other GMs. It seems common for people to defend questionable draft decisions with "everyone expected so and so to go even higher, so you can't fault GM x for the decision". My view is always not only don't we know what "everyone" thinks, we don't even know what anyone who matters (people putting boards together for NFL teams) thinks. Would people think a documentary on how each teams draft boards were put together 20 years (before any current GMs were drafting) to see the range of variation would be interesting? (maybe something like that already exists)