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Outside of Josh Allen, who do YOU believe the Bills have DRAFTED that's all Pro caliber?


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2 hours ago, Pine Barrens Mafia said:

Milano?

Tre White?

 

Who you got? The reasoning for this will be revealed, I think, over the course of this thread.

Truly all-pro caliber? Other than Josh, not a one, not by Beane. He has drafted some nice players though, but no elite ones.

 

If you go to the draft before he came, Milano did have a good year, like to see him keep it up & work on his tackling. Dawkins has always been very overrated, and so was Tre White even pre-injury. 
 

No doubt this upcoming draft / off-season is a big one for him if they are to break through.

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11 minutes ago, ProcessTruster said:

White , Milano, Dawkins.    Taron J.  close behind.   Bass, if the offense wasn't so productive.  

 

now that was easy.   Next question.  

I agree Taron if he stepped up more but he isn’t it either. All so close

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1 minute ago, Rico said:

Truly all-pro caliber? Other than Josh, not a one, not by Beane. He has drafted some nice players though, but no elite ones.

 

If you go to the draft before he came, Milano did have a good year, like to see him keep it up & work on his tackling. Dawkins has always been very overrated, and so was Tre White even pre-injury. 
 

No doubt this upcoming draft / off-season is a big one for him if they are to break through.

He'd better perform or he needs to hit the bricks 

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1 minute ago, Pine Barrens Mafia said:

You're right. This thread makes it clear, no? 5 years, no all pro draftees by Beane outside of Allen 

Beane has gotten the big things right: QB, salary cap, primary trades/FA (Diggs, Miller). But the drafting has been average. Can’t have everything.

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2 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

Well factually White and Milano are the two picks of this regime to have been first team all pros. 

 

Even Josh has only been a 2nd team all pro (though I think he was robbed in 2020). 

 

Knox is the one other with the ability to be in the conversation (though beating out Kelce is always going to be tough) but would require the Bills to actually feature him more.

 

But Beane didn’t pick either one of them. Do we give McD credit for the 2017 draft?

 

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4 minutes ago, Einstein said:

 

But Beane didn’t pick either one of them. Do we give McD credit for the 2018 draft?

 

That was the 2017 draft, which yes, I give McDermott credit for. 2018 on are the Beane drafts. But ultimately this regime is very aligned they jointly own it all IMO. 

10 minutes ago, Pine Barrens Mafia said:

I love Knox, but neither he nor TJ are AP

 

I think Knox could be. He is open a LOT. The Bills need to feature him more. It would need a down year from Kelce too for him to be 1st team all pro but as he ages.... 

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1 hour ago, ProcessTruster said:

White , Milano, Dawkins.    Taron J.  close behind.   Bass, if the offense wasn't so productive.  

 

now that was easy.   Next question.  


Taron Johnson and Bass are the only two on your list that Beane drafted. 

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13 minutes ago, nedboy7 said:

Where would this team be if Bean hadn't drafted Allen?  It's cause of that pick we even have the luxury of this conversation.  Cause otherwise it would be the old we are stuck in another 8-8 season!  We need to tank! 

How many seasons does that buy 

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6 minutes ago, Pine Barrens Mafia said:

How many seasons does that buy 

 

You didn't answer the question.  Where would this team be without him?  Hard to tell ha?  His team did better than 28 of the 32 teams.  Time to fire him?  There is a narrative that if you dont win the SB you need to go.  So how does the number of All pros even play into that?  Would you be happy if he drafter more all pros but he didnt make the playoffs? 

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4 hours ago, Pine Barrens Mafia said:

Kind of the point of the thread. Beane is radically overrated by many, and used to be by me.

 

Allen was a great pick by him. But he's pretty much the only one.

Always thought this guy was one of our best scouts: https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/former-bills-chief-scout-norm-pollom-93-dies-in-california/article_9499fbac-8a08-59fc-a463-f8c78fa7ef74.html

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9 hours ago, Pine Barrens Mafia said:

Kind of the point of the thread. Beane is radically overrated by many, and used to be by me.

 

Allen was a great pick by him. But he's pretty much the only one.

 

Beane helped transform the Bills from a team that didn't go to the playoffs to one that does.  Overrated?  I don't know.  That's a real accomplishment.


But he has not built a Super Bowl caliber roster thus far.   And with our lack of offseason resources, I doubt his ability to build one in 2023.

 

Beane's been good.  But we need him to be better.  

 

 

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9 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

 

But the biggest games is where that top end talent really matters. It is those moments where you need those guys to make plays. I know finding them when you are always at the backend of round 1 is hard. 

 

Gay, Bolton, Humphrey out of rounds where we have ended up with Basham and Epenesa is where the difference is at the moment. 2018 and 2019 I think we outdrafted KC. In 2020 and 2021 they outdrafted us. 2022 too early to say. 

 

The Chiefs traded away one of their top end difference makers and still made it back to the Super Bowl. They even did it while playing their last game and a half with Mahomes hobbled. They have multiple 6th and 7th round players playing key roles on their team. To me that is a sign of a major coaching discrepancy between us and them. Across the board I don't believe they are really more talented than us. But they keep getting it done when it counts.

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9 hours ago, LABILLBACKER said:

Just Milano and White. Sorry no one else. Edmunds too inconsistent and the jury is still out on Oliver, Groot & Elam.

I think the jury has reached a decision on Oliver.  Guilty of being overdrafted and not worth a big contract 

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7 hours ago, HappyDays said:

 

The Chiefs traded away one of their top end difference makers and still made it back to the Super Bowl. They even did it while playing their last game and a half with Mahomes hobbled. They have multiple 6th and 7th round players playing key roles on their team. To me that is a sign of a major coaching discrepancy between us and them. Across the board I don't believe they are really more talented than us. But they keep getting it done when it counts.

 

I do think they have a coaching advantage. They do. But they also have a top end talent advantage. They traded away Hill, agreed, but they still have Mahomes, Kelce, Jones, Thuney and Humphrey. It is that top end talent that makes the difference in big moments for them. The Bills don't have enough elite guys, I will keep saying it.

 

That wasn't an excuse for the Bills performance last Sunday though, it wasn't elite talent to make 2 or 3 game changing plays that they were missing as I think it has been in other playoff losses. They missed far more than that vs the Bengals, they were terrible, from top to bottom. Offense, defense, special teams, coaching it was all bad. They played their worst game of the season by far in the divisional playoff round.

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19 hours ago, bobobonators said:

I mean drafting Allen, a generational talent, when none of you experts wanted him (Rosen was better right) counts for 5 All pros. 
 

The grief this regime is receiving is obnoxious. There are a handful of players drafted that are REALLY good, in addition to Allen. 

Whoopsidoo - he hit on Allen 

 

you make an argument for us “obnoxious” in your own comment!!!!

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Clearly, alot of people here who really want to be NFL GM's.  Let's evaluate why you have not been able to obtain this position in your lifetime, and then examine why you believe you are better than the people who actually have.

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