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Good post, nice to see people come back and look at it rationally even if they initially were not on board. Also keep in mind, the trade up wasn’t just to get ahead of Dallas (although both Balt and Dal were capable of taking a corner there), but the first round had trades firing left and right. And everyone and their mom knew Buffalo really needed a corner. So if anyone wanted a corner, they would need to trade ahead of us to get one. Our trade up was about making sure someone didn’t move ahead of us to take him. You know how I feel, I love the pick. I personally thought it would be Booth as I thought he seemed more like a McD style fit, but I also loved Elam. We got size and speed with him, and the 2020 version of him would have made him probably the a top 15 pick. But 2021 they struggled as a team overall and he battled through a knee injury so he had a slightly lesser year as a result (although still very good). This kid seems dedicated to being great too from what I have read about him so far too. He seems like the kind of player we will help develop to his full potential, and having him and Tre on opposite sides for the next several years might become the best tandem in the league if he does.

Have fun wining 5 games at his year and battling NE for last place

Im all for getting Allen more help too, just saying this notion that the defenses can’t stop elite QBs and offenses no matter what is just not accurate at all.

How can you not be excited about this kid?

You sure think a lot of things you literally just made up in your head

Ok you deserve kudos, this got me laughing hahaha

I love it and hilarious to see pats fan melting down and McVay laughing at them. But…if I’m BB I am tweeting a pic of the SB ring I got holding McVays offense to 3 points in the SB.

What team do you scout for? Cuz you seem to know where Elam was graded, so let me know who you scout grades for. Thanks I’ll wait.

This is ridiculous and fact less. Ask KC about that. Bucs D crushed them in the SB. Bengals D bounced them a week after they dropped 42 on us this year. Ask the high scoring Cowboys and MVP led Packers about getting bounced by Niners Defense this year. Ask the vaunted Rams offense that scored 3 points in the SB. Ask Denver, the highest scoring offense in NFL history about getting smashed by Seattles D in the SB 43-8 Ask the Patriots former highest scoring offense in the NFL about losing to the Giants D while only scoring 19 points. I mean I can keep going about this, and I’ve told you this before, but you keep saying this same fact less and baseless claim over and over again. Wasn’t true then, still not true now.

This is such a terrible take. Except you have literally no idea if that is true at all. You 100% just made that up. You’ve decided in your mind they preferred McDuffie when you literally have no idea which CB they preferred. In fact the CB they were linked a lot more to was Booth who is still available. I don’t know why people just make things up to sell an agenda.

Keep an eye on Troy Anderson

This thread gets funnier by the minute. Reminds me of the "Wrong Josh" melt downs. Reminds me of the "Tre White" melt downs. Reminds me of TSW really...lmao. This pick is a great pick, love it and exactly what we needed. PS: Offense Averaged 41.5 points per game in the playoffs. Defense gave up 42 to send us home including 3 scores in final 3 minutes of the game. PPS: Whining about a 4th round pick is even sillier. We got the guy they wanted, thats all that matters. And Beane knows more about evaluating football players than this whole forum combined. Great job Beane, can't wait until tomorrow.

And you ain't an NFL Scout. Not by a country mile. So theres that too sport 😉

This thread is hilarious. Cant wait to pull this up again in a year or two and laugh at all the ridiculous melt downs. Its priceless. So many absolutely ridiculous hot takes.

People need to let the trade of the 4th pick go...geezus, they went and got their guy. They know CB"s, so just be excited for the pick. Who cares about the 4th if it got us another shut down corner to play opposite Tre for the next 4 to 5 years.

I LOVE THE PICK! I thought they would go Booth over him, but this kid was unreal before he got hurt. We needed this, and if Beane traded up I am assuming he felt so strongly about him he didnt want to risk someone else moving ahead of us to take him given we CB was a pretty obvious choice for us at 25. I don't care about the fourth as long as they got the guy they coveted. Now gonna be interesting to see what we do in the 2nd, wouldn't surprise me to see us trade up again at some point in this draft.

I’ve seen more productive, faster RBs at big schools come in the NFL and get no where near the YPC Devin has. There are guys right now in the NFL that meet that description in fact. So sorry, all your claims here are just unsubstantiated by facts or logic, and purely speculative opinion. And hey, that’s 100% ok to have that opinion, but I would encourage you to abandon this quest to push that it comes from sort of statistical analysis or facts. Because your reasoning isn’t making sense on all these proclamations and conclusions of his (alleged) nearly certain future success.

Yeah this is what I think is going to happen too. I think if he doesn’t trade up, he probably trades down instead of picking at 25 unless one of those first round graded players slips to him.

This. I think people grossly over look the fact that our intentions are pretty much never known and what rumors do get out there never seem accurate. Everything I have seen and read suggests Greg was their number 1 target entering the draft and even considered moving up for him but it was determined to be too costly. Beane said multiple times after the draft that they went him zeroed in on improving the pass rush. Draft day footage of days 1 and 2 show them anxiously awaiting both Greg and Boogie to get to them. IMHO the interest in Etinenne definitely has a possibility to have been a smoke screen. Smoke screen potentially could get a team to trade up in front of you to get said player, but also prevents a team behind you to try and get in front of you for the player you really want if they don’t think you’re interested. Best way to disguise a smoke screen is to legit meet with and express interest directly to the player and let them leak that out. This year, Bills have met with all the top WR’s and Hall. They have met with very little other first round potential targets. Makes me wonder if our primary won’t be offense in the first and likely a defensive back such as Hamilton, Hill, Stingley, Booth, etc all depending on if we stand pat or move up. That being said, the one known proven thing about Beane is that he will stay true to his board and go BPA. So if the guys they hope will be there are gone, he won’t reach for another at the same position. So obviously anything is in play at 25, especially given how hard to predict this years draft is given the lack of QB clarity on where they will go and how many will go ahead of our pick.

More information clearly showing that Edmunds is not remotely close to the bad player half this board screams that he is. I have said it 100 times now, the vast majority of what fans here hate about Edmunds has less to do with Edmunds the player as it does with how we use Edmunds a lot of the time. Which is often like a 3rd shallow safety out there utilizing and trusting his athleticism to get back to the ball after dropping back on the snap. Edmunds is also 5th in total tackles since entering the NFL, and thats taking into consideration he played hurt most of 2020.

If we trade up to 7, I don't envision us holding onto our 2nd rounder this year in the process. Its going to cost a lot to go from 25 to 7. Would love to get Sauce, but I don't envision Beane paying what it will take to get to 7 or anywhere inside the top 10. I think our sweetspot for a trade up doesn't begin until probably Houstons second first round pick at 13 personally. But that could be a spot they go after Sauce or Stingley if either slides out of the top 10.

I was at that disaster of a game too…🤮

Thanks again for a great draft @Virgil You da man!

I think he has off the ball LB potential with his athleticism at the next level too though. And with how we use Edmunds he could slide into there until they brought in a more traditional MLB.

Yeah I wouldn’t hate it, no rush for him to get on the field either and with his athleticism would be a great Edmunds replacement if we don’t resign him