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    Gonzo 2.0 2 Rounder w/Trades

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    I've been on the Cole Bishop bandwagon for a while now.....he strikes me as a real "McBeane-type" player.

     

    When he ran a 4.45 40 at the combine, that solidified him as the perfect 2nd round pick for the Bills.

     

    Getting Thomas and Bishop would be a real win in my eyes for the Bills.

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    An unpopular trade option.

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    7 hours ago, M. Wrotto said:

    With expectations lower this year than the past couple of years, here’s a thought. Offer Josh to the Bears for both of their first rounders and their second. Draft Williams, Thomas and Mckonkeywith the first rounders. Fill out the rest of the roster from there. Put 2024 in the books as a probable reset, Look out league in 2025.

     

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    Final season of Curb Your Enthusiasm

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    Great Finale!!

     

    I was worried as the last two episodes before the finale were weak, but this was great!

     

    I don't want to spoiler it if you haven't seen it yet, but this is how Seinfeld should have ended......as the title of the finale says: No Lessons Learned!!!

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    Trade Targets for Bills (WR)

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    2 hours ago, Sammy Watkins' Rib said:

    I still like DK Metlcaf.

     

    1.  He's young. We would basically acquire him at the same age as when the Bills acquired Diggs.

     

    2. The physical traits are still there.

     

    3. He has one elite season under his belt back in 2020 and you could definitely make the case that that was the last time he played with a top 10 QB. 

     

    4. He won't be WR that commands the QB's attention all the time. He's still just a 120-140 targets per season receiver. Compare that to Diggs who basically averaged 160 targets per season in his four years with the Bills. I actually think in our offense DK could be a 100-115 targets per season WR and basically produce similar to Davis but at a higher level since we have seen that DK's ceiling is a 1300 yard 10.1 ypt season. And this would allow our offense to have a balanced passing attack. I'd love to see an offense where our top 4 targeted pass catchers are all within about 15-20 targets of each other at the end of the season.

     

    5. With a new coaching staff and no franchise QB on the roster i could see Seattle making him available. 

     

    Mock draft simulators.

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    My trade up/downs netted me a 2nd from SF and a 4th from AZ next year, but cost me a 3rd next year:

     

    31. Adonai Mitchell WR Texas

     

    66. Cole Bishop S Utah

     

    83. Marshawn Kneeland EDGE Western Michigan

     

    133. Jordan Jefferson DT LSU

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    Would a trade for DK Metcalf be possible given his current contract??

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    4 hours ago, CA OC Bills Fan said:

    Not sure what you mean by "if Seattle eats some of that contract in the way the Bills did with Diggs". Buffalo didn't "eat" Diggs' contract, it's just the way the salary cap works where a signing bonus is paid up front but is amortized over the course of the contract. When a player is traded, what's left of the amortization immediately goes against the cap. This is the first time I've looked at overthecap, but I think I understand it. Metcalf would have a base salary of around $13 million this year and $18 million next year. Seattle would have a dead cap hit of $15 million / $7.5 million this year / next year. Unless they really want to get rid of him, I doubt they'd want to do that. But, I didn't think the Bills would have wanted to take the big hit they did for Diggs, so, what do I know.

     

    Well, they could convert 50-66% of this years base salary to a signing bonus before trading him to the Bills with the incentive of a higher draft pick from the Bills in return.

     

    That's what I meant by Seattle "eating" some of his contract......not at all sure if that is allowed or if Seattle would be willing to do it.

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    Would a trade for DK Metcalf be possible given his current contract??

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    I believe he has 2 years and 35 million left on his current contract......if Seattle eats some of that contract in the way the Bills did with Diggs, could a trade for Metcalf be possible?

     

    How about a 2nd and 4th this year plus a conditional 2nd that could become a 1st next year for Metcalf and Seattle's 3rd rounder this year.

     

    This would still leave the Bills with the ability to draft a WR at 28.....they could go with a smaller speed-type receiver like Xavier Worthy to compliment Metcalf at WR2.

     

    An offense of Metcalf, Worthy, Samuel, Shakir, Kincaid, Knox, and Cook would surpass anything any other AFC offense could put on the field!!

     

    Lets go, Beane!!

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    Diggs traded to Texans for picks

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    29 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

     

    See post by Virgil for pick values.
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    Rd #1 pick 17 is valued at 950; 28 is valued at 660.  Difference of 290 pts, which is a low 2nd round pick of this year.

    The Bills got a 2nd round pick in 2025, which is usually equated to a 3rd round pick this year - so around 180 points - AND tossed in this year and next year 5th (6th this year), both valued at about 10 points.

     

    So maybe we got about 160 points in trade value for Diggs?  We would have had to give them something more, if the value charts are correct and that's how they valued Diggs.

    To get that 1st pick swap, we might have had to toss in both our 4th round picks or something :(

     

     

    Didn't the Bills move from 23 to 12 for Cordy Glenn??

     

    You would think they could have moved from 28 to 17 for Diggs!

     

    Oh well, doesn't matter at this point anyway.

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    Diggs traded to Texans for picks

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    Too bad the Texans had already traded pick 17 to the Vikings....would have been a better trade with a 1st round pick swap.

     

    Diggs and 28 to the Texans for pick 17.

     

    That would have also made it a lot easier to get Thomas Jr., or trade up into the top 10 for one of the big 3 WRs.

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    Best Sports-related April Fools Jokes

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    It's now officially April 2nd, so all the goofy threads with lame April Fools Day jokes can come to an end!!

     

    Here are a few actually funny April Fools pranks in sports history:

     

    Babe Ruth Turns Jockey    (April Fool's Day - 1930)


    "WILLACOOCHE, Ga., April 1. — Babe Ruth, the big Bambino of the Yanks, revealed here today that he has lost so much weight by intensive spring training that he has been forced to give up his career as a baseball player and become a jockey.

    Ruth, who formerly could cover more ground than any outfielder in the American League—also while sitting down—now tips the beam at a mere 108 pounds. If he fails as a jockey, he may seek the flyweight boxing championship." [Miami News-Record - Apr 1, 1930]

     

    Left-Handed Golf Ball    (April Fool's Day - 2005)

     

    Sports manufacturer Dunlop announced plans to offer a golf ball designed specifically for left-handed players. Dunlop CEO Chris Ronnie explained:
     

    The idea came from a research project we undertook to better understand today’s golfing market. The results showed that many naturally left-handed players have learnt to play golf right-handed. Up until only a decade ago it had been difficult to get hold of left-handed golf equipment."

    Left-handed golf clubs are now commonplace, but no company has yet produced a left-handed golf ball. Dunlop’s revolutionary move is set to hit the shelves next month, just in time for The Daily Telegraph Dunlop Masters, which tees off on May 12 at the Marriott Forest of Arden and may see the first professional golfer trial the Dunlop Lefty.

    Many golfers mark their ball with an ink image or even a printed logo to help them focus on the ball at the position of address. The Dunlop Lefty will assist left-handed golfers with a strategically placed, ergonomically designed Dunlop arrow, which points from the left-hand side of the ball to the right, thus indicating the correct position of ball focus for the player.

     

    Mark Cuban Attacks Referee but that was April Fools Prank 

     

     

    Sidd Finch

     

    In its April 1, 1985 edition, Sports Illustrated published an article by George Plimpton that described an incredible rookie baseball player who was training at the Mets camp in St. Petersburg, Florida. The player was named Sidd Finch (Sidd being short for Siddhartha, the Indian mystic in Hermann Hesse's book of the same name). He could reportedly pitch a baseball at 168 mph with pinpoint accuracy. The fastest previous recorded speed for a pitch was 103 mph.


    Finch, Plimpton reported, had never played baseball before. He had been raised in an English orphanage before he was adopted by the archaeologist Francis Whyte-Finch who was later killed in an airplane crash in the Dhaulaglri mountain region of Nepal. Finch briefly attended Harvard before he headed to Tibet where he learned the teachings of the "great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa" and mastered "siddhi, namely the yogic mastery of mind-body." Through his Tibetan mind-body mastery, Finch had "learned the art of the pitch."

    Finch showed up at the Mets camp in Florida, and so impressed their manager that he was invited to attend training camp. When pitching he looked, in the words of the catcher, "like a pretzel gone loony." Finch frequently wore a hiking boot on his right foot while pitching, his other foot being bare. His speed and power were so great that the catcher would only hear a small sound, "a little pft, pft-boom," before the ball would land in his glove, knocking him two or three feet back. One of the players declared that it was not "humanly possible" to hit Finch's pitches.

    Unfortunately for the Mets, Finch had not yet decided whether to commit himself to a career as a baseball player, or to pursue a career as a French Horn player. He told the Mets management that he would let them know his decision on April 1.

     

    Sports Illustrated received almost 2000 letters in response to the article, and it became one of their most famous stories ever. On April 8 they declared that Finch had held a press conference in which he said that he had lost the accuracy needed to throw his fastball and would therefore not be pursuing a career with the Mets. On April 15 they admitted that the story was a hoax.

    George Plimpton actually left an obscure hint that the story was a hoax within the article itself (the non-obscure hint being that the story was absurd). The sub-heading of the article read: "He's a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. Impressively liberated from our opulent life-style, Sidd's deciding about yoga —and his future in baseball." The first letter of each of these words, taken together, spells "H-a-p-p-y A-p-r-i-l F-o-o-l-s D-a-y."

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    Bills top 30 visits

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    On 3/27/2024 at 7:05 PM, LEBills said:

    Would be a good day 3 addition to the CB room

     

    I always make sure to watch a Pitt game or two during the College season just to check out their secondary, because I know the Bills have a history of drafting them👍

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    Which round are the Bills more likely to trade up....1st or 2nd??

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    I can see scenarios where the Bills could either trade up or trade down in the 1st and 2nd round, however this question is regarding trade ups.

     

    IMO, I think it is a no-brainer that the Bills will try to trade up in the 2nd round....they have enough draft capital to facilitate moving up, and the value at pick 60 does not coincide with the positions the Bills will likely want to fill in the draft.

     

    I predict a move up of 10-15 spots in the 2nd to either snag a WR if they go Defense at 28, or to grab a difference-maker on Defense if they get their WR in round one.

     

    What do you think??

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