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Any team that signs him deserves what they get.

Beane has really focused on getting WRs that can separate for Allen. I think we will take a WR in this draft that excels at separation. Unless they think Gandy-Golden can improve there then I don’t see the fit. Or perhaps they’re thinking of lining him up as a big slot and that would help. Obviously some smoke there.

Thanks again to @Virgil for running the show!

KJ Hill has just been so productive, but he isn’t a big performer with his metrics. I see him as a guy that’ll likely go in the 4th or 5th round and wind up a quality #2 WR in the league. One caveat is that I think he’ll need to be paired with an accurate QB. I don’t think Haskins is that guy, but he would be a killer opposite Michael Thomas with Brees throwing to him. I also think Quintez Cephus, WR from Wisconsin, will be a steal in the 6th or 7th round and be a quality #3 possession receiver. Again, he isn’t testing that well, but he just gets open. If I’m looking to acquire WRs to play with Haskins, then I’m focusing on ones who get the best separation and have a big catch radius. Beane has done an excellent job of finding WRs how separate well for Allen. Diggs is literally the best in the NFL st that. Beasley and Ross both excel at it too. It will help Allen see the field and find his targets. I think Haskins could use that too.

KJ Hill, WR Ohio State

My very first thought upon reading Mike Lombardi’s Tweet was exactly that. Notable thing to consider here: - He has been an amoral, back stabbing liar his whole career in football. I’ve only known him to tell the truth when it suits him and he’s working an angle or trying to prop himself up. - He has recently (and maybe currently?) worked for BB as a consultant. - His son is currently on BB’s staff. So, yeah, Lombardi is putting out BS to help BB get his QB. Also I can say for a fact that the Patriots are actively trying to find a trade partner to move up into the top 10.

That concern might dovetail nicely with The Madden Curse.

I like these quite a bit.

***Trade alert*** The Browns trade picks 97 & 151 (141.8 points) for picks 94 & 192 (137.4 points) from Green Bay. (I assume this trade is ok with you Virgil. Please let me know if it’s not for some reason.) With the 94th pick in the draft the Browns chose Willie Gay, LB Mississippi State. Browns make a small move up to fill a big need after two of their targets - Harrison and Trautman - are chosen.

I agree. If that’s accurate - and it’s reasonable to think that it is - then there is cause for concern. I don’t have a subscription, but there are people here who have discussed low energy prices and losses from the Sabres impacting the Bills. If the Bills organization is being stressed to make up for poor performance of other businesses in the Pegula portfolio, then that is also a major cause for concern. I can’t overstate that.

Maybe BB will put him on the same “vitamin” regimen that Brady was on.

I am totally with you there.

Pass. I’d like to see the Bills improve their depth at WR, but I don’t see an oft injured Marquise Lee doing that.

Excellent pick and value. DE isn’t the Browns biggest need, but I’d have taken Weaver if he made it to me.

Yeah. Ngakoe gets paid to play football, Khan gets paid to run a football team. Ngakoe has nothing to lose by getting into a Twitter pissing match, Khan does. He loses face simply by engaging at all. It’s his job to be smarter than that. You know, my first thought when I saw the Ngakoe Tweet was “where is his agent and why isn’t he telling him to stop?” I can only think of two good reasons: 1) the agent is afraid to lose his client and is keeping quiet or he did say something to Ngakoe and he didn’t listen, or 2) it’s intentional and coordinated with the agent’s involvement with the aim of further poisoning the relationship and thus forcing a trade. Number 2 kinda makes sense seeing as how it’s right before the draft.

I love that Kevin Klein won an Oscar (Best Supporting Actor) for Otto. It is, in fact, his only one. I looked that up to see if he’d won another and saw that he and Phoebe Cates married in 1989 and are still together. Interesting couple. To continue that tangent, my favorite Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress is Marisa Tomei for My Cousin Vinny. It is also her only one.

Seems like the Jest would have to sweeten that. Adams is an excellent box safety, but he’s still a box safety. Ngakoue is a stud edge player and that’s worth way more.

Yup. Not easy to run NFL legal screens when teams are playing the QB run/scramble/RPO.

Did you guys watch game film of Okwara? I have not. Just a few scUM games during the season and I wasn’t focusing on him. I just went by what I’ve read on him. If you have, what’d you see?

Voted Okwara, but think Bryce Hall (CB) might be the better pick in this case. Other than his omission there are good names to chose from. Edit: Just saw that names were pared down. He might’ve been one that was.

And it’s worth noting that Allen has progressed in a situation that was as bad as or worse than the others. The Bills have improved his supporting cast dramatically and it is in a great spot now, but it was really poor in his rookie season - especially the OL.

I always have thought that EJ was way over drafted. The expectations associated with that was what led to him starting so soon (injury to Kolb aside). He had tools, but was very underdeveloped as a QB coming into the league. He had a lot of bad habits. I think it was his second season, he started out looking like he’d kicked most of them. That was the only point where I was really encouraged. Then things got shaky around him and he reverted back to those bad habits and it was over. If he’d have been taken in the second or third round and been given a couple seasons to establish good habits and learn the game he might have been a good pro QB. He had the physical talent to do so.

I have a Tempur-Pedic mattress and I’ll never use a coil again. We swapped out the kids and guest room mattresses for medium density foam ones from Wayfair (their house brand). They aren’t quite as nice as the Tempur-Pedic mattress but they are a big step up from their old coil ones (which were old but expensive). Both kids barely moved off of them for a month. I’m sure we paid no more in total for the three of them ($300+ each) than we did for ours ($1k+) so there’s that factor too. I’m sure the adjustable ones are great too. The nice thing about ours was that we could really dial it in to exactly what we liked. The one issue we had with the Wayfair ones is that one didn’t fully expand to shape. They just sent us another one for free. I kept it around and in a month it finished expanding (usually takes a day at most). I didn’t have a use for it at that point so I gave it to a friend who loves it.

Deshaun Watson. Didn’t think his style would translate well and that he’d be injury prone.

The team largely chose to go the veteran route on the DL (Oliver aside). And that’s expensive - especially with starting DEs at the tail end of their contracts. Murphy has one last season here and Hughes two. And don’t get me started on Star’s contract. I’ve hated that since day 1, but at least he took a cut this season. It would make sense to see a youth movement soon, but this is a poor year for that IMO. This is just not a good draft to find that complete, difference making 4-3 DE (unless you’re Washington). I suspect that Addison got paid so much this offseason because of that. Scarcity drives up prices. He gives the team some flexibility too. He could spend a couple seasons dropping down for a DE who is mostly an edge setter. Not as optimal as having a complete DE, but certainly workable if that’s how it goes in 2021.