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The Buffalo Bills made plenty of waves in free agency, signing nine players to help bolster the roster for the 2019 season. Although the Bills have already made plenty of moves to upgrade the roster, free agency is still young around the National Football League, and the NFL Draft is coming up in about a month in Nashville, Tennessee.

 

After the whirlwind week, Bills general manager Brandon Beane joined John Murphy and Chris Brown on One Bills Live to talk about the team's aggressive free agency plan and what is next for the team going forward.

 

https://wgr550.radio.com/articles/news/beane-draft-drafting-best-player-available-free-agency-all-about-your-needs

 

This I completely agree with and it explains McBeane's process and philosophy.

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27 minutes ago, Ethan in Portland said:

Except its all BS. He drafted for need last year. He drafted QB, MLB, CB, G. With four of the first five picks. All need picks.

:thumbdown: BS. EVERY position was  PON last year. 

 

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It's not so much BS for this year though, and hopefully for the future.

 

Last year, was definitely about need. I do think they got a bit lucky in that the Edmunds pick, gave them the value they wanted, to take him there.

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How people don’t see we’re taking a DE/DT is beyond me. We didn’t sign on in FA. We have a need at DE/DT, and the value at pick 9 is like 90% going to be one of those two positions unless we trade down. Pure BPA every GM says every year then you constantly see people picking for need. 

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21 minutes ago, Buddo said:

It's not so much BS for this year though, and hopefully for the future.

 

Last year, was definitely about need. I do think they got a bit lucky in that the Edmunds pick, gave them the value they wanted, to take him there.

 

....we never really know what OBD's Phil Ivey will do versus what he says....cool customer IMO........

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2 hours ago, Ethan in Portland said:

Except its all BS. He drafted for need last year. He drafted QB, MLB, CB, G. With four of the first five picks. All need picks.

Last year he couldnt work the FA. He was cap strapped. Pay attention. 

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2 hours ago, Ethan in Portland said:

Except its all BS. He drafted for need last year. He drafted QB, MLB, CB, G. With four of the first five picks. All need picks.

 

Actually it's more about value than need.

 

QB is always the pick in round 1 if you don't have one. After that, is it so hard to believe that they went by their board?

 

Were they drafting purely for need, they could've stayed put and taken LVE or Leonard.

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6 minutes ago, machine gun kelly said:

Every GM and Head Coach says BPA, but amazingly they always somehow find BPA that coincidentally are of need at least in the first three rounds.

 

Nah.

 

This can be picked apart pretty easily by looking at the top 10 picks in any recent draft.

 

The best prospects always end up going first...plus QBs, because need at QB will always trump everything else.

 

Just look at last year: was RB the Giants' biggest need? No way. Did Denver really need to add an EDGE rusher to the group of Miller, Barrett, and Ray? Of course not. Cleveland had already added multiple cornerbacks in FA; was Denzel Ward a need pick? Hardly.

 

I agree that some GMs draft for need, but it's definitely not all, and doesn't really look like a majority either.

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4 hours ago, Ethan in Portland said:

Except its all BS. He drafted for need last year. He drafted QB, MLB, CB, G. With four of the first five picks. All need picks.

Except those players were BPA at the time of those picks on McBeane's big board. So there's that too....

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4 hours ago, Ethan in Portland said:

Except its all BS. He drafted for need last year. He drafted QB, MLB, CB, G. With four of the first five picks. All need picks.

 

4 hours ago, Nanker said:

:thumbdown: BS. EVERY position was  PON last year. 

 

Glad we took our QB last season though because there was so much talent to choose from. This year, not so much. Allen was the best QB available in the last couple draft classes. 

 

 

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3 hours ago, Boca BIlls said:

Well it is BPA acording to your draft board which is done by need.

Your draft board isn’t done by need. It’s done by grade, but if the value and grade match up with a position of need you take it.

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5 hours ago, Ethan in Portland said:

Except its all BS. He drafted for need last year. He drafted QB, MLB, CB, G. With four of the first five picks. All need picks.

 

Maybe that's because $50MM in dead cap stops you from doing much in free agency?

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3 hours ago, fansince88 said:

Last year he couldnt work the FA. He was cap strapped. Pay attention. 

Exactly lol. All by design. Had a ton of flexibility in FA and will have a ton of flexibility in the draft. The Bills will arrive in 2019.  I been saying this. I think ppl are starting to Billieve and understand the vision

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