st pete gogolak

Don’t tell me that they are going to cut Martin & Lewis? Hey, pretty lady!

The general consensus before the draft is that the Bills wouldn’t be one player or a handful of plays away from a Super Bowl because of the loss of Diggs, Davis, Morse, White, Poyer and Hyde. I think a lot of folks are forgetting that fact. Maybe that was Beane’s thinking in accumulating some extra picks instead of going all in and overpaying for a blue chip WR.

Sorry, no. Great player in his time but that time is gone. The ex I’d take back? Risto. Veteran RHD with a physical presence and a mean streak.

So Matt Miller of ESPN says that 31 of his top 100 prospects for upcoming draft are defensive lineman. Have no idea whether he’s correct or wildly mistaken. Assuming the Bills’ brain trust agrees, shouldn’t that dictate how the Bills approach not only the draft but free agency as well? We are close to set on offense. So little in the way of needs. If we trade Knox or Kincaid, we’re still pretty much set at TE. If we can’t sign Ty Johnson, we draft a RB in the 4th or 5th round. Only real difficult question is if we don’t sign Cooper and/or Hollins. At that point we should dip into FA for a vet boundary WR (Hollywood Brown?). Add a speedster in the mid-rounds. Assuming we can’t pull off a mega-trade for Garrett or Crosby, we should target a top end CB (DJ Reed?) in FA and use our #1 and 2 #2’s on D-line. Add mid round safety and call it a day.

I’ve been saying, with 20/20 hindsight, we should have moved up to grab BTJ before JAX picked him. Then I went back and looked at first round selections. Go ahead and tell me who would dealt with us. Rams? They picked Verse. Eagles? They picked Mitchell. Steelers? Maybe. Looking at it again, we probably would have had to offer a significant overpay (#1 plus 2025 #1?) to move up enough to grab him.

Great news. No reason to even waste a late round draft pick on OL. We are good to go!

Given limited amount to spend on FA, I’d rank position of need as DE, CB, DT, WR and S. Move Taron to FS (because we’re going to a base 4 - 3!). Add Bishop, Rapp and a mid round draft choice and we are good to go.

My God, I’m on this forum too much. This is sarcasm, right?

You really want to know what has cost us MULTIPLE Super Bowls? The 2019 draft. Instead of Oliver, pick Wilkins, Simmons or Lawrence and we have a game wrecker in the middle of the D Line. Instead of Cody Ford, pick AJ Brown or Metcalf and we have quality boundary WR. (As an added bonus, maybe next year we don’t trade for Diggs, we pick Jefferson or Higgins.). Of course, it’s all 20/20 hindsight but if it had turned out this way, tell me we wouldn’t have a championship or two.

Isn’t Rousseau better against the run? To me, he’s a perfect complementary DE with a high level pass rusher on the other side. On the other hand, $25 million? Not going there.

Either Kincaid or Knox. If we aren’t going to play a two TE offense (we’re clearly not), it’s dumb to have both of them on the roster.

I’m pessimistic that we end up with either Garrett or Crosby (for starters, they’re not free agents and if they end up on the market, other teams could very well be positioned to make Cleveland or Las Vegas much better offers). On the other hand, Josh Sweat and Milton Williams are free agents. I could live with a front four of Sweat, Williams, Oliver and Rousseau and concentrate draft capital on the back end. I could live with that even without adding a quality boundary WR. Thoughts?

The play wasn’t to draft Worthy. The play was to move up and pick Brian Thomas Jr.

I have nothing bad to say about him as a person. From all accounts, he was a genuinely good human being. As a coach, however, I absolutely hated the hiring from day one. Does anyone remember the formula for continuous 7 - 9 seasons? Great special teams play and play ultra conservative football to beat bad teams. One year during his reign, we were near the absolute bottom in both offense and defense (30th and 30th if I recall). Yet the team was, yep you guessed it, 7 - 9. I suppose you could call that great coaching. I’m not sure what it was.

Oh come on. You’re seriously calling that a good hire. If you are, I’ll give you two more words. Buffalo. Sabres.