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Wouldn't mind both, but highly doubtful both the first and second round pick are dedicated to the offensive side of the ball. I say build a fortress around Josh Allen.

I take thread titles to be indicative of the central theme with the likelihood that numerous extraneous conversations will intrude. When something really happens or is rumored to be happening, the collective will focus. Otherwise, they are going to wander.

You're going to trigger @4merper4mer. There's nothing going on with Hopkins. Probably nothing will happen. It's the nature of discursive conversation to ramble into side paths and down various annoying rabbit holes. It's the human way. If you want linear, logical, single-minded univocal consistency, try a different species.

I'm rooting for Van Denmark. I want to see his name on the back of a Bills' jersey. It's got to be intimidating when a whole country is protecting your qb. He's an OT. If he was a guard he'd have to be Van Switzerland.

He's the best OT option with a chance to be there at 27. The ones who are better are definitely not going to be there. If Wright is drafted and wins the job, Brown becomes the swing tackle.

Ironically given the title of this rather redundant thread, I think they go for Trenton Simpson.

Mahomes misses throws all the time. Folks don't remark upon it when your team ultimately wins. I do agree that Allen needs to take the small stuff. He did that impressively in the perfect game against the Pats* and was playing as well as a qb can play in the 13 seconds fiasco. What happened after that? Daboll left for the Giants' job. Dorsey was hired to maintain continuity, but inevitably, there were significant differences. Dorsey may grow into a top OC. He's not there yet. Dorsey does not blend the running game and the passing offense into a cohesive attack. The calls are too random, the RZ offense is very predictable, and Dorsey does not sufficiently make use of pass catching rbs or Knox in general. However much that was dictated by Allen's injury and a bad oline, I don't know, but he needs to improve. Josh Allen does also need to make the whole field dangerous by utilizing short passes and targeting Knox more often when he is open. Allen is not elusive in the way that Mahomes is elusive. Mahomes is like a snake, slippery and annoying. Allen is a bull with surprising speed and athleticism.

Even then, Mahomes has a superior oline and Andy Reid. And the Chiefs do get timely calls. They are now that team the way it used to be the Pats*. This is a combination of favored status as a marquee franchise with a superlative qb and coach and zebra incompetency. Allen is asked to play superhuman for the Bills to win and as the stakes are ratcheted up, the weight of that ask increases exponentially. I don't grant your premise. Bills have a porous oline, Ken Dorsey on a learning curve and unproven, along with a defensive-minded coaching staff that routinely falls flat in the postseason synchronous with an era where the league is set up for offense to win championships.

In my honest opinion, everything makes more sense after a pint of Guinness.

Identity is not determined by likeness of sound. (Don't ponder that too strongly. I've no idea what I mean.)

That is certainly taking political correctness to a new level.

Amusing. Indeed, I make no claims to spelling accuracy, especially when homophones are involved.

I think the cost is too high for the cap, even if AZ comes down from their ridiculous asking price. If I knew that a fella like Quintin Johnston would fall to us at 27, I'd never make the trade. But most likely the top wrs in a weak draft will be gone before we pick, so ultimately I find myself in the ambivalent position of knowing I would suddenly be thrilled to get Hopkins, while unhappy with some roster consequences down the line. I believe that fella is likely a fraud. He just got lucky predicting the Edwards signing and is posturing. Maybe you imply that with the quotation marks around "told."

Certainly that is putting your top line and best D on the ice all at once. They're not going to combine Power and Dahlin, however. If each is anchoring a top 4 pair, eventually it should become practically a cheat code where the majority of ice time is covered by a dominant defensive pair. The kid's line of Peterka, Cozens, and Quinn is going to be like having a second top line soon. They all progressed this year with some lulls. KA got a lot of grief for the Quinn pick. He could be their best forward in the near future. Granato saved Thompson's career putting him at C. I wouldn't trade Thompson for Eichel straight up. We killed that trade. Tuch is a heart-and-soul guy. Krebs has become that feisty irritant no one wants to play against. I think we hit on all of our first picks last year. Savoie is tearing it up. Ostlund is the best of his peers on his Swedish league team. Kulich is a force at Rochester at eighteen. His Czech teammate Rousek should slide right in to the bottom six when Okposo retires. They're honestly just loaded with forward prospects, though light on young defensemen. If Ryan Johnson signs, that will help. Either way, the future at last is very bright after a dozen years in the wilderness.

Yes, I see what you are saying, but that is on Dorsey and Allen to figure out. JAG usage does not equate to JAG player.

You read like a parody account. Even if Levi is that absolute exception, they're rightly not going to run him into the ground by playing him 72 games. The regime since KA took over has been patient, drafted well, and made good decisions for the most part. They need to add a few solid, veteran D in the offseason.

Great analogy.

I understand. When I write "Still think injury and poor oline play, first year OC, etc. was part of it" I intend Allen's injury to be entailed.

He was pressing. They don't bring in Beasley and Brown late if there weren't some obvious deficiencies in the wr room. Still think injury and poor oline play, first year OC, etc. was part of it. I don't agree with those who want to argue Josh regressed. I don't believe that, but I do think the cumulative effect of everything going on in an unusually trying season rattled him some.

I don't know how he does it, but Reid has a way of scheming that fella college open in the NFL.

27. Quentin Johnston WR TCU 59. Jack Campbell LB Iowa 91. Matthew Bergeron OT Syracuse 130. Jaquelin Roy DT LSU 137. Luke Schoonmaker TE Michigan 205. Juice Scruggs OC Penn State

I really think our rb room right now is pretty damn good. Fix the oline and most of the problems go away.

Yes, that was supposed to be a self-deprecating joke. I now live out in the country, so it's mainly rural barnyard creatures that wonder why the mad man is shouting at the electric box. I wasn't thinking about his playing days, yes, you are correct. Distracted, because I am trying to follow Devon Levi's debut. Pitching a shoutout after one.

I can't answer the enigma of how Allen is seeing the game. It seemed at the end of the 2021 season he was seeing the field well and taking the short stuff in addition to the kill shots. Whether it was injury, porous oline, Dorsey's playcalling, he just was never in control like that for most of 2022. I remember yelling at the telly for Josh to throw to Knox and for some reason he didn't listen . . . I thought I recalled reading that Dorsey had familiarity with 12 personnel looks and it was thought he would favor them. I'm too lazy to research it right now, I don't think it's a delusion.