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So now we are resorting to just making things up that were not said? Come on dude...I get everyone wants to get Hopkins, myself included, but this is why so much fake info floats around the internet. Could the Bills be interested? Yes. Does this clip PROVE they are interested? Absolutely not. It is just his opinion on best fit, that is verbatim what he said. If he had any info the Bills were looking into Hopkins, he would absolutely state that. His job is literally to speculate on where he would go and to report all the teams interested in said player. Reporting teams interested would not make him look like an idiot lol, it is what they do every day.

I actually watched a lot of the Cardinals games last year...so yeah, I will trust watching the guy play vs you googling stuff you didn't watch. He is still a top 5 route runner in the league and was constantly open. No one who actually watched him play last year would ever say he was "rarely" open, regardless of your context.

No, that is not at all what the clip is about. Have you even watched the clip? He does not say we are the most likely to get him...that is not remotely what this clip is about. He said its who HE thinks is the best FIT for Hopkins because he assumes Hopkins wants to play for a contender. He picked Bills as the best place for him to go, NOT the most likely place he is going to go. There is literally ZERO information in here suggesting we are the most likely to get him...there is ZERO information in this clip suggesting we are even interested in him. You can't look at a clip/article title and form a conclusion, you have to open it and take in the info too.

If you listen to Beane's off season pressers, he really talks up Brown and his expectation for a bounce back season as he gets further away from his surgery issues. Beane stated he feels that the back surgery and stuff impacted Brown a lot this season. I have a feeling they feel better about Brown at RT than most do, and because of that, I am not expecting them to address RT early in the draft unless someone they covet falls in their lap. I think the more plausible scenario is they won't take a RT in the draft earlier than day 3. Not saying that is my choice, just listening to Beane talk about Brown leads to me think they are comfortable enough with Brown at RT right now that they don't feel pressure to find an immediate upgrade right now. But like you said Gunner, this is a make or break year for Brown.

Beane was talking up Brown in his pressers, so I am not sold they feel like they need to replace him early in the draft. Im not saying that is my choice, but I think there is more optimism of a bounce back season after dealing with injuries amongst the staff. So if I had to guess, I am not expecting them drafting a guy early at RT to potentially start, I think if they take a RT it will be later in the draft as a depth developmental guy.

What is the over/under on the percentage of posters that are going to think this guys personal opinion on the best place for Hopkins to play is somehow a rumor showing the Bills are trying to get Hopkins here? I'm gonna say 72% And I will take the over. Don't get me wrong, I would love to land Hopkins...but this is a dude talking on TV about where he thinks is the best fit for TV. It has nothing to do on whether or not the Bills are actually working on this.

Why do you always just make things up? He's rarely "open"??? Might as well tell me you did not watch him play without actually saying you did not watch him play. He gets open all the time with ease and he is a top 7 WR without question right now. He played with Murray for 5 games and 2nd and 3rd stringers for 4 games...and yet if you project those 9 games over the full season he would have had 120 rec for almost 1400 yards...again, playing half his time with scrub QB's with little else around him on a bad team.

Take him IMHO. I am always about taking the talent. We have an undersized RB in Cook and Harris on a 1 year deal who has had some injury issues. I would rather take the better player than reach somewhere else or trade back and take a lesser player. Bijan is a top 10 talent, getting him at 27 would be insane value too. BUT...he isn't going to be on the board at 27, not since he answered all the speed questions at the combine.

How is BPA not an option in the poll?

Exaclty. Stevie was not nearly as good as fan lore about him is. They cite his 1000 yard seasons, but they were barely 1000 yard seasons, like right at 1000 yards, which is not that great of an accomplishment, especially in a Chan Gailey offense who threw the ball constantly despite having good RB's. But, the absolute most important thing is that a huge portion of Stevie's season totals came at times in games that were blow out losses in garbage time. I posted plenty of stuff on this during that time where he would be a ghost through the first 3 quarters of a game where he would have little production, then in the final half the 4th quarter with the Bills down 3+ scores, he would get a single garbage time drive with like 4 catches for 55 yards and TD that make his game total look solid and pad his season stats. He might be the most over rated player in Bills history. He was the only WR on a bad team who played in a high volume passing offense. That is the only reason he even got to 1000 yards, and again, it was literally right at 1000 yards, not like he was having 1200+ yard seasons. There is a reason his career completely fell off the cliff as soon as he was out of Buffalo and with better QB's too.

To be fair to the Bills, there were a lot of reasons, including being a high volume passing team playing in difficult snowy conditions didn't help. Dorsey getting completely out classed didn't help. Our inability to establish a move the chains running game contributed to that. Not to mention all the mental toll the team and organization went through over the course of the season. In 2023, Cincy scored just 20 points with all its weapons against the Chiefs to lose the AFCCG In 2022 the Chiefs scored just 3 points in the 2nd half against Cincy to lose the AFCCG. In 2021, the Chiefs scored 9 points in the Super Bowl in perfect conditions to lose that game. In 2019 the Rams and their #2 offense in the league were held to 3 points in their Super Bowl loss. Even the two greatest offensive seasons in history lost in the SB with low scoring efforts. In 2014, the Broncos broke the NFL scoring record and then was held to 8 points in the Super Bowl. In 2008 the Patriots broke the NFL scoring record and then was held to 14 points in the Super Bowl. So that happens to every team regardless of potency of the offense and it happens every year. Can't disregard a team as an offensive powerhouse over one game. Now I don't disagree we need to improve things like the OL and WR room, or even that Dorsey needs to step up and improve himself. But the point remains, it is not critical to have two #1 WR's on a team for the offense to be elite or win a SB.

Then you need to read the posters post that I responded to. Because you are all off track and none of this pertains to my actual comments. The poster said why dont we have things like Cincy with a 1A and 1B WR, which is essentially 2 #1 WR's on the same field. JuJu has never, not one time, had a 1000 yard season as a #1 WR, not even in KC. So the point is, he isn't on the level of the "1B" that the original poster I responded to was asking about.

Beane IMHO has always stayed trued to their board and gone with BPA and I don't expect that to be much different this draft personally. And I have a hard time seeing anyone else as BPA if Bijan lasted to 27, but then again you never know how teams truly grade these guys on their personal boards.

I don't think that is necessarily the case though. I mean if Beane loves Robinson, then signing a RB to a 1 year deal IMHO would not take Robinson off their board at 27. The reality though is that Bijan is almost certainly going to be gone by 27 though, so I don't think it's a decision Beane and the Bills will face. Once he ran a good 40 and removed any break away speed doubts, any chance he could slide to 27 was all but eliminated. He has a chance to go within the first 10 picks, and has very little chance of reaching us at 27 IMHO.

I think its plausible Beane could move down this year, but unfortunately for us, not sure the draft is strong enough to attract a trade up partner for any significant compensation. But I like the thread topic, and I think the scenario you posted where we traded back and got an extra 2nd and moved up from our 3rd to another 2nd would be a big win. And I don't think anyone would be upset if we used those 3 picks on 2 OL and a LB. Not sure who would be there to entice Seattle, but I would really like this trade. Who we draft would obviously depend on who was on the board, but just getting the extra 2nd and trading up our 3rd into another 2nd would be a nice haul. I think when we got to our 4th round pick we would more likely go RB there to groom behind one year of Harris.

I am very good with this. Think drafting someone in the mid rounds is still a possibility, but this is a good addition to the team this season.

The fact you just called JuJu a 1B WR says everything. He is not a 1B WR, which implies he is a legit #1 WR in which JuJu has proven he is not a quality #1 WR and has never had a 1,000 yard season as a #1 WR on any team, not even in KC with the reigning MVP and SB MVP Mahomes. LMAO at your forgetful memory here...you said most teams are investing first round picks and 2-3rd round picks every year...not only is that not true, but the Bills have actually done that. We invested a first (and a 4th) into Diggs a #1 WR...we drafted Knox (who has been a big TD producer) with a 3rd who we just extended long term, used a 4th on Davis who is our starting #2 WR...all in the last 3 years. You say Philly and Cincy...Bills finished 2022 with #2 Offense in the NFL ahead of BOTH Philly and Cincy and behind only KC, who has never drafted a first round WR in the Reid era. In fact, since 2020, Buffalo has never finished lower than 3rd offensively in the NFL, and always ahead of both Cincy and Philly, and even KC in 2020 and 2021. So yeah, this whole we must have a 1B WR is nonsense. Basically, we are doing what you are asking by spending a 1st, 3rd, and 2 4th round picks on what was a #1 WR, #2 WR, and a starting TE who just got extended...all over the past 3 years. Yet you complain we aren't. LOL

Weak argument. And JuJu is not a 1B by any means, so your point on Kelce is totally irrelevant to the posters comment I responded to asking why don’t we get to have a 1B WR. KC just won the SB without a 1B WR as they absolutely do not have a 1B WR on that team to Kelce. JuJu is a decent #2 WR but he stinks as a WR1 and has proven that on the field.

Didn’t realize Cincy and Philly won the SB. Because if memory serves me it was KC who won and didn’t have a 1A let alone a 1B at WR. But to answer your question…Cincy has a 1B WR because their QB, WR1, and WR2 are ALL on rookie contracts. Philly has a 1B WR because their QB and WR 1B are on rookie contracts. Bottom line is you don’t need to have a 1B at WR, and most teams don’t unless they have a rookie contract at QB and hit on at least one of the WRs at 1A or 1B through the draft. It still amazes me how anyone can still not understand this.

I don’t know a ton about him, but all my friends who are Dolphin fans are not happy he landed here and said we are gonna love him. So be interesting to see how he fits in.

I was only addressing someones comment who said they would not be interested solely over character concerns. And I said that is not accurate considering they have twice looked into bringing him here. Whether or not he is the type of back now they are looking for is a different question. But I still think he is better than what Zeke is right now. Hunt is still only 27 and has a lot less wear and tear on him.

Except they have expressed interest in Hunt before, twice actually. So I don't think that is the case

Lemme guess, you read some sleeper article, saw his name on there, and came and tried to regurgitate the same info here to appear like you have this great insight. Stop mentioning Pacheco. For every 1 of him, there are a 1000 nobodies. And you act like Pacheco carried them to a SB lol. Second, it’s substantially easier to find a late round RB to contribute in a rotation than a MLB who starts and plays most the game who is the QB of the defense.

One maybe, but two is fantasy from a cap perspective. I’d try and go get Hopkins and just draft a RB or sign Hunt.

Hunt >>>> Fournette