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Yeah Harvin is a great comp......also picked #22. I don't think Shenault is nearly that explosive though and fwiw I don't think Harvin was even necessarily a "good" first round pick. He had one really exceptional season in Minnesota and made some big plays in a SB for Seattle but he was never a WR1. But the thing with the Bills is that they've done a lot of thinking out loud on draft day over the years so I'm never surprised to find out that they don't have a system in place to prevent impulsive decisions. The whole "we need a tackle" thing from last years second round "Bills embedded" concerns me. Gotta' know better.

McKenzie and his backup on the practice squad Ray-Ray are gimmick players.............using a first round pick to replace that position is probably a worse idea than using it on a RB. WR1 types only in rounds 1 and 2. Maybe Shenault blows up in the workouts and I feel more comfortable projecting him to the X position but I don't see it to this point. Gotta' get the slots and gimmicks/KR's later in the draft.

I've followed his story over the past year and a half..........he's an inspirational story...........I just haven't seen the tape to back up the hype and he's not a freak like DK Metcalf where the potential upside is that he ends up in a class by himself as a certain type of WR. His workout info will matter a lot IMO. He's a thick, heavy legged player.......basically a RB build......... and we've seen those type of players lose speed and quickness pretty early in their careers so if he puts up average numbers......which I anticipate......that's a red-flag to me.

The Sabres are the biggest mess in north american pro sports.......they make the NY Knicks look like they have a plan.......and trust me the response to that in recent years has been muted to say the least. If you are just looking at the past two weeks...........since fans started losing their minds..........then OK......but it came to a head for a reason. And that's what happens when teams can essentially decide who in the local media covers them. And trust me........I don't care about hockey at this point either.........but if the other stations are on commercial and I switch over to "The Instigators" I want to hear some discussion about how to fix the problem not the lame bullsh*t they ACTUALLY talk about. I get why die-hard Sabres fans are pissed...........if the Bills were this bad there would be much more in-depth discussion of the matter but the Sabres are second banana in town and if you are working in the media being appropriately critical of the Sabres has not been worth the risk of losing access to Pegula teams. If you can't understand that conflict of interest then I don't know what to tell you.........I don't follow kickball so I don't know how your sports teams affect the media in GB.

Murphy is employed by the Bills..........but since WGR is the flagship station of both the Bills AND Sabres there is a conflict for all............and I am not really sure lament is the proper reaction to a decade of incompetence.

I'm not to the point where I care enough to dissect "why" his hands are so bad.? But a near 20% drop rate is ATROCIOUS. And it does remind me of a story after David Boston signed that big contract with SD and struggled and one of his teammates asked him why he was dropping passes and he was like "man.....I just got bad hands". I mean that's a stand-up guy right there!?

I do remember a lot of "mentally it's going to be a challenge for him" from "unidentified sources" regarding Patterson..........which reminded me of CJ Spiller........who there were the same whispers about and who never appeared to understand where a play was designed to go pre-snap. Which on one hand was sad and very unfortunate for the Bills..........but on the other made hearing Sean Peyton talk about what a weapon he was going to be(in his complex offense) all the more hilarious. There are processing power minimums.

FWIW Patterson did score very low on his wonderlic.......an 11. But I think there were other circumstances around him because he was a JUCO guy who transferred to Tennessee........might have been awful grades or something else off the field. No idea how Shenault measures up there. Finding smart, dedicated WR's who can grasp that system might not be as easy as we'd hope..........the Pats sure haven't had many boundary receivers of note during the Brady era. The only great one they had was Randy Moss and he ran 3 routes and hoped Brady wouldn't throw him the ball on 2 of them. That's part of the thing with the system though..........they take on specialists at the right price and just use them for things they are good at. They traded for Cordarrelle Patterson even.

Oh I wouldn't trade multiple high picks for OBJ but I think he's definitely depreciated down to a single #1 pick. They might even take an early #2. You know how those culture cleansing fire-sale's go. In that case you get immediate elite WR play for 4 years and then you get a nice salary slot back at the end.......when those first 4 McBeane #1 draft picks could be eating up 1/3 of your cap......as opposed to using that #22 pick on an unknown commodity and maybe waiting a couple years for the player to mature or worse.

Interesting article..........some of the prices in trade are on the "rich" side. In particular David Njoku netting Cleveland a second rounder seems like a real pipe dream to me.

The Pegula's have been woeful on-ice and on-field stewards..........but they are absolutely committed to winning. Ralph was NEVER committed to winning..........he wanted to win and if he thought he might he'd spend........and if he thought he might not he'd cut bait and try to beat his fellow owners in the net profit game. More often than not it was the latter. Either way was fine to him. We are going thru a long, painful learning curve with The Pegs......(I know some of you are thrilled with the Bills being competitive but overall it's like 2 fringe playoff teams in 15 seasons of ownership Bills/Sabres)......hopefully in the end it turns out like the Rooney ownership went in Pittsburgh.

Yeah I mean..........in particular in the case of the Sabres...........what a hopeless sh*t show.......on their way to missing the playoffs for 9 straight seasons in a league FULL of mismanaged teams.......it defies explanation that owners of an NFL franchise can't make headway in that bush league. And yet the people at the station can't really afford to real-talk it. Can't blame them their jobs are on the line and after 9 years what can you say that's worth that risk? At the same time.........there are plenty of other places outside of radio to discuss the futility of Buffalo sports.

Like most things with McBeane I suspect the situation is VERY fluid right now. That runs contrary to the notion that they are master planners but I think if they score in UFA they might be more inclined to make a move up to get a play maker to elevate Allen and the woeful offense. I could also see them trading their first or second round picks.............there is logic to that as well since they have drafted 4 players in round 1 in the last 3 years and those players all seem extension worthy at this point.......which could cause a real cap decision crisis involving Edmunds/Oliver/2020 #1 pick around 2022-2023. The kinda' decision the Jaguars have had to make with Fowler/Ramsey/Ngakoue. In retrospect they might wish they had just traded for an elite talent rather than overspend for scratch and dents in UFA and not win until their window was half shut already and then have to trade those young guys because they drafted too well. Maybe as @thebandit27 has suggested they trade for a Chandler Jones.....or a WR like OBJ.......get that seasoned, elite help, save the money in UFA........and open up salary space in 2024-2025.

Despite seeming to be the biggest deep threat in his draft class Cordarrelle Patterson never developed any downfield presence in the pro's........in fact his ypc numbers are pathetic. I didn't see every snap of Shenault's career but I don't get where all the "he is a great tracker of the ball" comes from. There isn't much proof of that. One of the things that made Sammy Watkins such a great prospect coming out was that he caught the ball with virtually the same ease 40+ yards downfield as he did on a bubble screen.........he didn't have to leave his feet behind to track a deep ball. And because of that despite not having elite speed he was like a 4.3 guy on 9 routes because he didn't have to stop.

Yeah and the Patterson tape is MUCH more comparable to Shenault than the Fitzgerald tape.......in fact Patterson was more explosive. Patterson never developed as a receiver but I remember there were serious concerns about his intelligence/personality...........which may have nullified his ability to develop as a WR.........a player with his skillset shouldn't have been such a bust as a receiver.

Yeah I put more stock in the workout season than I used to.........especially in a WR class this deep it should really help separate some of these guys.

Watkins was a tough, beast of a player in college. Put up 16 grabs and 230 yards receiving on a bad knee versus Ohio State in a bowl game that kinda' changed the entire perception about Clemson as a "soft" program. Played thru a lot of pain in Buffalo too........shouldn't have set foot on the field in 2016 but kept working to get back. I think he's clearly shied away from contact in KC........perhaps to try to stay healthy.......but even with the Rams he was prone to lowering his head and running over dudes and paid the price for it.

Might get some more participation in certain popular drills though too...........seeing how they do with a little extra pressure doesn't hurt either.

I gotta' say it's heartwarming watching Promo go from Sully's biggest critic to his last advocate. Real triumph of human spirit kinda' stuff.

His 2020 cap number is actually $13M.......and it fully guarantees in March. He ranked: 37th in NFL in ypc 17th in carries 20th in rushing yards So you are probably right that he's not a top 5 RB. Oh and he has a degenerative knee condition that has reduced him to a below average ypc RB since it worsened in December of 2018 so I wouldn't be looking for value at the end of his deal. The worst guaranteed money deal in the NFL in 2020...........Rams should cut him before the guarantee's vest. The first kick in the a$$ is the best one.

Yeah it was basically a hot garbage article across the board...........and I'm generally not very critical of this kind of stuff.........it's all fluff after all.........but they literally put no effort into the takes whatsoever.?

Yeah if Knox can fix his mitts he could be a top 5 TE.........he's got the athleticism and physicality of Kittle/Kelce types...........I can see why they trade up for him.........but his drop rate is off the charts bad so you can't put too many eggs in that basket just yet. Additionally we don't know if Josh Allen will find his deep ball..........and if not he's going too NEED a great TE.

The Bills entry was "they will extend Tre White"...........someone at ESPN should tell those guys to A) get on the same page so 4 teams aren't acquiring the same player and B) give INTERESTING takes. If they extend Tre White that's fine but dude is under contract for 2 more years.........tell us something that actually affects the roster.

Knox is a gifted athlete but I'm concerned that he won't be able to fix his bad hands. I was watching Ole Miss this fall and I was like "hey there's Dawson Knox little bro playing LB"...........and he promptly dropped a gift wrapped interception..........the spitting image of his bro and spilling the ball on the turf the same way. Those dudes might just have bad hands.

Was that in the "one offseason prediction for every team" article from a couple days ago where they predicted 4 different teams were going to trade up for Tua Tagovailoa? I can't imagine anyone trading for Gurley it's absurd. Probably the most toxic contract in the NFL.