BigAl2526

I voted for Tuimoloau, preferring his physical traits over Swinson. I am less interested in Farmer for the same reason I'm less interested in Nolen as an option in the first round. Farmer is a 3 tech. Buffalo has Oliver as a starter that the Bills like, Dewayne Carter, who may develop as a rotational 3 tech after a rookie season largely lost to injury, and Ogunjobe once his six game suspension has been served and Branson Deen, a PS Squad member. At one tech, they have Daquan Jones, who looked like he hit the career wall last season, and Zion Logue a low rated free agent pickup and PS member from last year. Watts is my second choice.

They are trying to leverage the playoff and Super Bowl success by landing a game with the potential for higher than average advertising revenue. Family Christmas traditions trump football in my household.

I keep remembering the general comments that have been made about this draft. There are precious few certified blue chip first round prospects in the s draft, maybe 10 or 12 at most. Then there is a whole slew of prospects about whom pundits can't agree on relative value, only that they aren't elite and complete. The only circumstance in which Beane should trade up 10 or more spots is if Buffalo's scouting team along with Beane agree that a player is elite with high game changing potential when nobody picking in the top 15 saw the same thing. I think the odds of that happening are slim, but I trust Beane a great deal. He makes mistakes, but I think overall, he's right more often than he he's wrong.

I think Harmon gives you more pass rush than Grant, and also more versatility. He can play both 1 tech and 3 tech though he played a lot more 3 tech for the Ducks. If the Bills picked Harmon at #30, I'd be OK with it. I'd also be happy if Buffalo added a pure 1 tech later in the draft. I definitely would not like a trade up to draft Harmon.

I might have gone with Ezeiruaka if he had been an option. I think he is still on the board. I did go with Amos. I can see teams bulldozing the Bills in the run game if they try to line Ed Oliver up with Nolen on the Bills interior line. Oliver is going to be the DT3 on a majority of snaps. They have to get a guy who is big enough and physical enough to tie up blockers. I just don't see Nolen being that guy.

Yeah, but will Douglas sign for CB3 money?

Cook is very tradeable . . . except the other GM will need to accept having a player who wants to be overpaid and doesn't mind making noise.

Zabel is not a terrible lineman. I don't disagree with any of the positive attributes suggested in the thread so far, but the fact remains that this is a first round pick. Teams are going to at least find an immediate starter in the first round, if not a high impact player. Zabel is not going to start for the Bills in 2025. Maybe he would eventually. He's certainly not a high impact player. for them. I'm not sure he would be for anybody.

Usually, I just do this on my own. That is, I scan through the myriad mock drafts being generated on the internet, and pick out ones that really outdo themselves in terms of the sheer stupidity their picks for the Bills. I thought maybe I could collect suggestions for stupid drafts on this thread. Feel free to contribute. Maybe I can pick a winner myself, or maybe I could do a poll. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. In any case, here is my first nominee: DraftWire has a mock draft authored by Curt Popjoy. It is a three round effort. I admit the second round picks for Buffalo are decent. Trey Amos at #56 seems like a fine pick Kyle Kennard at #62 works as well. It's the first round pick that makes my jaw drop - Gray Zabel offensive tackle from North Dakota State. Really? Granted, he's rated as a late first/early second round value and he's versatile, having experience at all spots on the offensive line, but he's short armed for an NFL tackle, and his athletic profile isn't terribly impressive. He's elite in his vertical jump and excellent in his standing broad jump. but is otherwise pretty average or below. He runs a 5.3 40. Then, of course, he's from North friggin Dakota State. The biggest issue is offensive line is the strongest position group on the whole team except for QB, and the depth might be better than the depth at QB. Still available to Buffalo when they pick are DT Derrick Harmon, WRs Matthew Golden and Emeka Egbuka, CBs Azareye'h Thomas and Shavon Revel, and edge rusher Landon Jackson (whom the Bills reportedly love) Be alert and post your thoughts on terrible picks made for the Bills.

From his college scouting report, he sounds like a younger version of the guy Buffalo used for the past couple seasons. Finesse and altitude, but not a huge leg.

It's much more fun to nit pick the efforts of others than to do it myself. A lot easier too.

Me too, on both counts. Class of '74.

Even if I were 45 years younger, in great shape and had crazy football skills (not true), I still wouldn't be able to play in the NFL with this rule. I have year around allergies and my nose rarely stops running, especially when I engage in activity. I can't take tissues onto the football field. I either wipe or drip.

Sign him to the PS and put him on a diet. If he can lose 100 lbs before mini - camp in 2026, you can test him to see what you've got. He's not going to be an NFL player at 464 lbs.

NFL teams are being careful about spending cap dollars on aging players. I haven't checked personally, but read that a fairly large number of free agents with names we might recognize are still waiting. Some will get signed, but asking prices are going to have to drop. Maybe during the season, injuries across the league will give opportunities to some of them.

I saw an article today where Restrepo said he's been running in the 4.53-4.58 range during training. He felt his hamstring tighten u during warmups to his pro day performance, but ran anyway, thinking he could gut it out and time where he wanted to. Even at 4.53, I'd question if he would be an upgrade for the Bills over Shakir, since Restrepo would play the slot in Buffalo like Shakir.

Ideally, that's what Beane would hope to do. The tight cap forced him to make some tough choices on where to spend, presumably based on the availability of potentially impactful free agents and the positions they pay. Yours is a valid position. Beane apparently disagreed.

I can't believe that Beane thinks Jackson can hold down the starting CB job across from Benford. He was limited in the amount of free agent dollars he had to spend, and made the choice to hand a sizable contract to Joey Bosa and several moderate contracts at other positions of need. He's going to draft a CB he thinks can be a decent starter.

Honestly, I find it more cumbersome to have one thread that ends up having 70, 80 or 100 pages to wade through. I actually like separate threads on the various sub- topics that make up our pre-draft conversation. That way I can look for the sub-topics I find more interesting, rather than look through one interminable thread looking for the interesting stuff.

A slower version of Cole Beasley? I'll stick with Shakir. If I were a receiver running in the range of 5 seconds, I would probably just put in a job application at the local Piggly Wiggly.

It matters more in man coverage than in zone. It doesn't matter going against every receiver, but the margin for error shrinks for a CB when he is slower and/or smaller. Thomas is not the slowest CB in the draft, but if skill set is similar, or course you pick the guy who is faster and more athletic.

At the moment, it looks like the odds are better for Grant to be the Bills' pick than any other player. As we all know, that can and probably will change over the next five weeks. I would be happy with Grant.

Well, Cook is under contract for the 2025 season. I suppose that Beane's options are to cave and sign him for a big money deal now, try and trade him (assuming there is a team willing to risk that Cook will accept what they are willing to play, or let Cook play out his rookie deal in hopes that Cook doesn't hold out or become locker room poison. If Beane goes into the draft without being relatively certain about Cook's future with the team, I assume he will draft a running back.

I don't have any information on which to evaluate him as a player, so I'll take Gunner's word for it that he's terrible. It is interesting, however that he has good measurables, or did coming out of college. Besides being big, he has long arms, big hands and ran a 5.15. His production has been underwhelming to say the least. So, would there be anything a great defensive line coach could get out of him or is he stuck in mediocrity.

Do you mean "Pastor?" I'm available. I have 40 years experience.