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I could be wrong, but I believe the team views both Epenesa and Rousseau as potential speed rushers. Re Epenesa, I assume the focus on his weight loss was to convert him from a set-the-edge end to a speed rusher. And I think what intrigued the Bills about Rousseau was his instincts in being able to get to the QB. Maybe not a speedster-- but I think they view him as a crafty disrupter, but with the flexibility to chase down the QB from anywhere. I don't think either of those guys are meant to be the Shaq-type edge setter. By the way, don't you love how there is such a thing as a "edge setter"? Back in the day, great rushing defense ends were supposed to be able to do it all!

ooooh!! This is going to be good. Let the bidding start at two 1st round picks.

In related news, steelers Aren’t picking up tremaine’s brother’s 5th year option. Bit of a surprise, as he is a solid safety.

this is seriously one of the greatest things I have seen. I just emailed myself a PDF of the “tree” so I can see it on a bigger computer screen.

Agreed. You can’t find a better spot to showcase for the NBA. Combine that with the fact that you can save your energy by playing zone on defense, and I would think Syracuse is a great option for a guy trying to showcase his skills. I don’t mind if Q goes pro. But there is not a better college situation than Syracuse for him next year. In fact, it’s an idiotic risk to transfer, giving up a sure bet of playing 40 minutes and being a major scoring threat.

its not so much not valuing CB2, but I think he likes Levi and Dane. count me as one of the few here who like Levi. Playing CB2 is one of the hardest jobs. He is a solid player. I actually think he has room for improvement too.

pretty amazing how many guys Pitt puts into the NFL for having such a middling program. This is me just guessing, but I feel like they have more elite guys in the NFL than a lot of the perennial top-5 programs, let alone the number of guys that seem to make NFL rosters. And with Larry Fitzgerald and Aaron Donald (outside chance with Revis), they will have a pretty good number of recent Hall of Farmers too.

I know this is a lame assessment, but if Rousseau and Basham don’t pan out into NFL starters within the next 2-3 years, the draft should be viewed as a failure. I am totally fine with Beane being aggressive and taking higher ceiling players with more risk/rawness. But you can’t routinely miss on the first two rounds. His track record so far in those two rounds seems to suggest more misses (and mehs) than hits. I sort of struggle with what I want out of a GM. For a while, my view was you take the least bustable/least risky guys in those first two rounds. But you also have to have superstar impact players to really go to the next level. So, I have come around to supporting drafting philosophy that balances risk among other factors.

Good luck to her! Hopefully she won’t get it as bad as me. A few friends of mine had moderna too, and it seemed like 50/50 as to those getting harsher side effects.

was going to say exactly the same thing. Baby face.

Big Jeff Tuel fan here. Non-Bills related— but I was sure Leaf would be better than Manning. Like with 100% certainty.

Beane is simultaneously drafting for the Bills and his pickup basketball team.

Guerrier entering transfer portal now?! What is going on here? This makes no sense to me.

Seems like one common denominator between Rousseau and Basham I am hearing is they can both play inside and outside. You wonder if the Bills are looking for guys with that versatility. Can put a lot more pressure on a oline if you can move guys around and bring 4 guys who can all get to the QB.

I like how they swung for the fences a little here. Unlike the other edges left, this guy has a Chase Young-type ceiling. We don’t really need another “solid edge setter” end.

Another Aaron Maybin?! 😀 I kid, I kid. Seems like a super high upside player.

Don’t think they will draft a QB. Bellichick wants to show how smart he is and that he can win without a QB.

I saw a mock where they took fields. I think that’s looking more and more likely.

this is sheer awesomeness.

its funny— I did the same thing about a week ago and was sort of shocked. I used to have a “don’t draft a U of Texas player” rule— now I may change it to Clemson.

haha-- yeah, Williams was probably much worse. What's crazy about Flowers is here I am 20 years later and I am still so delusional that I am wondering whether there was a chance he could have worked out. He was an athletic guy and a lot of us had high hopes for him--I never understood what happened with him.

Oh man— the name Erik Flowers brings back some bad Bills’ memories.

I swear-- some people around here actually believe that. This isn't like the ronnie harmon drop--in the end zone. This was a swing pass, 60 yards from the endzone, with defenders in sight!! Yet, we hear, "I hate Singletary for dropping that oh so critical swing pass that would have altered my entire future!"

Wow. i love the over-dramatization of that drop. He catches it and we all know he gets like 15-20 yards at most. Bills fans love to live in the imaginary world where he easily takes that swing pass 60 yards for a TD and that is the game-changing play. That was never going to happen. we had bigger problems in that game.