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No worries, it's a Latin etymology from nesciens "ignorant, to be unknowing", and related to the more common "prescient" to which it is the ne-gation. Let me point out that no invective is directed your way, just at the ESPN guy. I know their network has fallen off but they're hardly even trying with stuff like that. It just pissed me off being the irst thing with my morning coffee because I'm old and foul-tempered.

You can look at him as a sack threat, i.e. the Alabama game in '23. But yeah, it's on the run where having him instead of Epenesa on the edge makes a difference in denying the sideline to the RB. There's a lot of tape on Jackson that looked a lot like Epenesa last year - out in space playing contain on a misdirection play. Except where Epenesa got waltzed consistently, Jackson was racking TFL's. He's not lost in space, he can click and close so much better than AJE who looked that guy in the commercial pouring his own inground pool. Jackson's change of direction isn't great but AJE's is like trying to take a tank through a slalom course. I liken the difference between Jackson and Epenesa there as exactly the difference between James Cook and Singletary... the latter is just lacking that top gear to make it to the sideline.

Words mean things. To elucidate - puerile because it's such an immature take. Nescient because he's apparently unaware that the Bills drafted a first round CB to start, or DLine with their next 3 picks. Pedantic because he judges the Bills WR's apparently through a filter of, the best roster construction for a f@N+@Sy d0M1n@nC3 is to have 1 god-tier X receiver and a covey of incompetent boobs surrounding him. Perhaps it irks me when people cash checks in exchange for that level of ignorance. So I'll just say: Stick to drafting Bengals and leave the winning to your betters.

No, it was a puerile read born of nescience and/or pedanticism. I only wish he was in the studio to take his beating from Beane with the other WGR fantasy jocks because everything said applies to him to an even higher degree, mentioning CB and DL along with WR. https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/42128547-3534-455e-bd33-156852fa6da8

I was convinced it was going to Scourton, but if it had been they probably don't take Jackson.

The thing Cosell (or was it Nolan) said that wasn't on my radar was that while Strong's long speed isn't necessarily his... uhh... strong suit, his short area agility testing was elite. Combined with his length and play-strength, give me this guy in the 6th over AZ Thomas in the 2nd/3rd all day long. Great value pick. Absolutely a draft pick, along with Hairston and Hancock, to address the Bills inability to jam and disrupt short routes. That's the blueprint - new CBs make the QB hold it just one extra tick, new DL gets home. And if it takes two or 3 extra ticks, have 'em mirror and match and Landon will effort his way to the QB.

Shakir, the way he moves on the field, has a lot of Andre Reed to him.

Here's the Spotrac link for 2026: https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/cap/_/year/2026/sort/cap_total_top51/dir/desc Issues: 1) The Bills are going to have to pay 6 void years on those UFAs: Matt Milano $11,071,000 Joey Bosa $7,200,000 Connor McGovern $4,805,000 DaQuan Jones $3,724,000 AJ Epenesa $2,861,000 Larry Ogunjobi $2,570,052 ------------------------------- Total: $32,231,052 Dunno if you can do much about that except extending and among those only McGovern would be on my radar. If I understand this page, players whose salary exceed their dead cap hit can be cut pre-June 1 for cap savings as follows: Dawson Knox - $9,664,000 (7,404,000 dead) Dion Dawkins - $8,805,000 (14,114,833 dead) Taron Johnson - $6,710,000 (4,350,000 dead) Curtis Samuel - $6,275,000 (3,450,000 dead) Taylor Rapp - $3,350,000 (666,667 dead) Tyler Bass - $2,930,000 (2,040,000 dead) Ed Oliver - $2,685,000 (21,585,000 dead) Ty Johnson - $2,205,000 (820,000 dead) The obvious ones are gonna be Knox, Samuel and Bass. Low-impact cuts where you can get a replacement with not much dead cap might be Johnson and Rapp.

You're gonna love the number of comp picks in '27...

Let's take a look at the thread and pass out the Mocky Awards, these were the posts that first identified every player the Bills ended up drafting in 2025. Interestingly, the 1st pick Max Hairston was the last one to be named in a mock! ( Mar 2 ) #30 CB Maxwell Hairston, Kentucky ( Jan 31 @RyanC883 ) #41 DT T.J. Sanders, South Carolina ( Feb 6 @Clyde Smith ) #72 EDGE Landon Jackson, Arkansas ( Jan 30 @frostbitmic ) #109 DT Deone Walker, Kentucky ( Feb 13 ) #170 CB Jordan Hancock, Ohio State ( Mar 2 ) #173 TE Jackson Hawes, Jordan Tech ( Feb 3 @Pete ) #177 CB Dorian Strong, Virginia Tech ( Jan 29 @RyanC883 ) #206 OT Chase Lundt, Connecticut ( Feb 22 @Victory Formation ) #240 WR Kaden Prather WR Maryland

Listening to you guys talking about the Mock Draft sites reminded me of the Mock Draft thread, and was curious (and a little drunk) to see if any/all of the Bills actually drafted were identified in the first 10 pages which took us just into March... and I was kind of surprised. It turned out ALL of them had been picked in at least one mock, even Kaden Prather (who was taken in 2 in the 4th round). These are mocks in that early range that identified multiple players that the Bills drafted: 2/3 (2) @Pete Deone Walker, Dorian Strong 2/6 (2) @Clyde Smith Landon Jackson, TJ Sanders 2/13 (3) Dorian Strong, Jordan Hancock, Chase Lundt 2/16 (2) @H2o Deone Walker, Dorian Strong 2/24 (2) @RyanC883 Deone Walker, TJ Sanders 3/2 (2) @LyndonvilleBill Landon Jackson, Deone Walker 3/2 (3) Landon Jackson, Maxwell Hairston, Jackson Hawes The first player to be identified in the thread which the Bills actually drafted: 1/29 @RyanC883 Chase Lundt (Full Mocky Awards on the Mock Draft thread) Now that I've heard the whole cast it seems fairly well in sync with Bruce Nolan, Marino, other national media and honestly sounds just as well produced and information. Well worth the listen, kudos.

Lewis I think has a very narrow path to the 53 at his combination of ceiling/effectiveness/contract. Can't justify carrying him at twice the price unless Hancock just can't ball. Soon as I saw that pick, I figured he's gone.

Hancock does that on a rookie salary with better size and speed, and played for an FBS Champion.

I hope he has Miller's blessing. Terry, that is.

All of the Bills' first four picks have been graded/mocked in the first round at various points of the process, including Jackson.

Matchup I'd be looking forward to at training camp, if I was going to training camp, is: Jackson's ace rush is the long-arm stab to the chest followed by either a chop or swim. Dawkins ace technique is his own shnow-chop versus the long-arm.

Yinzers really liked him. https://steelersdepot.com/2025/03/2025-nfl-draft-scouting-report-uconn-ot-chase-lundt/

I go a little different direction because I'm a mark. There's several good choices... some of them even made the legitimate top-40 chart.

The usual suspects drafting the guys I had an eye on - Ravens, Eagles, that goes without saying. The Seahawks grabbed a few of those guys, and again as UDFAs after the draft so I like their haul by and large. The biggest surprise to me was the Raiders, since we usually count on them for making Matt Millen-worthy picks (ht: Walter Football) even when Matt Millen isn't there. But I pretty much loved all their picks: Las Vegas Raiders (11 picks) Round 1, pick 6: Ashton Jeanty, RB, Boise State Round 2, pick 58: Jack Bech, WR, TCU Round 3, pick 68: Darien Porter, CB, Iowa State Round 3, pick 98: Caleb Rogers, OT, Texas Tech Round 3, pick 99: Charles Grant, OT, William & Mary Round 4, pick 108: Dont'e Thornton Jr., WR, Tennessee Round 4, pick 135: Tonka Hemingway, DL, South Carolina Round 6, pick 180: JJ Pegues, DL, Ole Miss Round 6, pick 213: Tommy Mellott, QB, Montana State Round 6, pick 215: Cam Miller, QB, North Dakota State Round 7, pick 222: Cody Lindenberg, LB, Minnesota

To me even more than the WR position, the biggest miss was not adding a LB better than Bail Inspector and I'm sure Chris Paul was the pick at 173 until the Rams snaked them. I can't think of a weaker link on the 53 based on ability and availability.

You know where else people (or me at least) come to the same conclusion is just doing mock drafts. You operate like the GM, take into account the roster makeup, current FA acquisitions, length of contracts and after solving for that you see that at best the Bills were looking for a WR5/special teams guy with possible upside. I sure as hell wouldn't trade 3 day-2 picks for one of those like the Lions did. Just get someone in the 6th or 7th to compete.

Even the cart paths can be treacherous when wet. True story: Severe downhill par-3, short but the path is almost straight. We play, leave, drive up to the next teebox and hear the telltale "screeeeeee-KRASH". It's blind from the box but from the fairway we could see the group had lost control and smashed into a tree, cart over on it's side. There was a foursome so they had gathered round, I guess there must have been some injury involved since later an ambulance arrived. A week later we're playing again, same course. We're not getting pushed, we go to check out where they wrecked. The cooler was still there in the brush, with some unopened beverages. They were tasty.

People tell me I drive the cart like a weenie, but I've been one oak tree away from going over a cliff on one skidding down a hill on bald tires so, yeah I'm a weenie.