GunnerBill

It is why cash rich owners matter in the NFL.

I said in the game thread Reid was having a shocking day calling plays. It is as bad as I have ever seen him in KC. That was Philadelphia big game Andy Reid. Mahomes didn't play well either. When he feels stress his fundamentals break back down to the mess they were at Texas Tech. His feet were a shambles on Sunday. But I do give Philly credit. You don't beat Mahomes with fancy scheming. You beat him with a simple plan that is executable and really good solid fundamentals. Fangio beat him not blitzing. The last DC to do that was Leslie Frazier of the Buffalo Bills. I agree eith Happy Days that one more high level player on the D line and one more in the secondary. We could with Reid turning into playoff pumkin once against us too.... I swear it feels like he is the most afraid of Buffalo and saves his best stuff for us.

Yea interior OL day 3 is possible.

I don't think he has either the explosiveness or the power that Jerry had. Although Jerry came out before I was getting stuck into trying to evaluate draft prospects so I might be unfairly comparing league vet Jerry Hughes with rookie prospect Ezeiruaku.

No, but it is also not that the Bills never do it. I think they need better corners than Douglas and Elam to make any coverage plan work tbh.

Yea I don't think he is worth #30.No way.

Corner is a spot where I would be wary of medicals more than some others. I feel like it's a spot where those risks generally don't pay off... Caleb Farley and Andrew Booth spring to mind... but he might just be worth the shot.

If Morrison gets that far it is because his medicals are BAD and if that's the case, based on history, this regime would pass. I have a later 2nd on Ezeiruaku. I need to go back to his film. As I was saying to someone the other day, I can't decide whether he is a swiss army knife, versatile usage, havoc causing DL or a bit of jack of all trades, master of none.

I didn't like the way they approached safety last offseason particularly. I think I said in August during camp I was really worried that having spent a 1st and 2nd on a wide receiver and safety I could see us coming out of the season with the biggest holes on the roster being a boundary receiver and a safety.

We did suck in coverage. But Bishop was busting coverages, playing his assignments badly and being in the wrong place all the time. We did get him on the field. He didn't improve. He made the exact same mistake on the JuJu seam play first drive of the AFCCG that he made on the Nico Collins touchdown 3 months prior. He has a lot of improvement to do going into year 2 and he needs to show it in camp and pre-season if he wants to start.

And the run with McD, Frazier, Daboll was at the time equalled only by the 49ers and the Saints for continuity at HC-DC-OC. Four seasons with the same three guys is pretty rare in the NFL these days.

He is definitely not the passer that Tua is but obviously he is more mobile and, critically, I think he is better mentally. That is his strength. He is better pre-snap, better with protections at the line, a great leader, resilient and just the hardest worker you could meet by all accounts. Would he work on a worse team? Not to this extent, no. But I still think his knowledge of the game and mental resilience would make him serviceable. When he went to Oklahoma after the disappointment of losing his job to Tua in 'Bama and got better I thought he proved a lot to people. I liked Hurts more than most coming out as a result but even I am surprised he has gone on to be a top 10 Quarterback. Just shows if you are willing to work and prepare and can respond to adversity you can go further than it appears your talent can take you.

Yep. Guys have to earn their place on the field. That's the NFL. The Bills have never been to scared to play rookies who deserve to play. Tre White started week 1, Zay Jones started week 1, Dion Dawkins and Matt Milano started by the middle of their rookie seasons. Tremaine Edmunds started week 1, Josh started week 2. Ed Oliver started week 2. Devin Singletary started week 1. Dawson Knox started by week 4 his rookie year. Gregory Rousseau started week 1, Spencer Brown started by week 4. Christian Benford (as a 6th round pick) started week 1. Dalton Kincaid and O'Cyrus Torrence started week 1. Guys who didn't start as rookies and then came on to become starters later it is Cook, Bernard, Shakir from that 2022 class and then Gabe Davis and AJ Epenesa. Of those only Epenesa was not the starter by the middle of year 2. He only really became a starter this past year in year 5. Maybe Bishop will come on in 2025 and end up on this list. It is still possible, it is my hope. But it is equally possible he joins Cody Ford, Boogie Basham, Kaiir Elam and Zack Moss as early picks that never earn a starting spot.

I am not throwing him to the curb. I am saying he wasn't out there because he was clearly a liability in coverage. The idea that just gets better if you stick him out there more.... well it didn't. He might just be a bad pick. He might turn it around. You get more opportunities as a 2nd round pick than if you were a 5th or 6th rounder. So Bishop is going to get more shots but he is already in a spot where he really needs to start taking them. If he does not win the job in camp next year (and I think he is competing with Rapp not Hamlin or whoever replaces Hamlin anyway... he is a box safety not a center fielder) then the prognosis does not look good.

Lower priority than what? I think it was by far the weakest spot on the Bills in 2024 and if you want a "you can win with a weakness in the regular season but it will get exposed against better teams in the playoffs" example then the Bills 2024 safety room is a textbook case. They either need to upgrade 3 spots (and that is on the basis Benford is fine to return) or they need to significant, sure thing, upgrades at FS and boundary corner and then let Rapp and Bishop compete for the SS job.

Fair although that is a 3 year sample size only with Kiper. On the hits out of the park that is sort of my point... they are all good picks that you mention but he needs a star other than Allen and hasnt found one. He hits 1s and 2s not home runs. Draft 8 upcoming. He has to start finding those elite difference makers.

Errr... he didn't improve in coverage AT ALL. He improved a bit in the run game but I honestly don't know how anyone can watch what Bishop put out there this year and say "I want more of that." He had two major blown coverages in the AFCCG. He is a liability out there in coverage.

I think Sirianni is fine. He isn't a bad coach but he isn't a great one. He had an awesome roster and two awesome coordiantors that he didn't hire.

I am not quite as high as some of you on Tabor. When he went back to Chicago as the STC under Nagy their coverage units consistently struggled. That said he is a big upgrade from Smiley and he did a pretty good job in his tenure in Carolina. He is legit qualified to do this job which I'm afraid Smiley never was. I would expect improvement in 2025.

Love Holland. He'd be a great addition.

Yea if he had stayed healthy he is a top 16 pick. I'd love Revel btw. Not sure they will do it.

Will they draft a guy coming off a serious injury? Just doesn't feel like their style. If they were to sign a 1-2 year FA deal with a solid vet maybe. I am not sure Revel gets to #30 though unless he fails re-checks at the Combine. And if he does he is off their board.

Oh yea I was not agreeing it was one player. I was accepting the OP's point that the Tre injury was the start of the end for that D. It was definitely the comination of injuries and age catching up with 5 or 6 of their key guys over a couple of year period.

It is a great roster and two great coordinators. All of which are Howie Roseman (who has total control of player personnel and made both coordinator hires over his HC's head last February). I am not saying Sirianni stinks. But honestly, I think he was one of the least consequential Head Coaches to a Superbowl winner in my 20 odd years watching the sport. This was a Howie Roseman Superbowl win.

You miss my point. I know you were comparing his big board with where Beane took guys not his mock with where Beane took guys. But my point is the study you refer to (if it is one I have seen) said Mel is consistently the most accurate was about mocking. It was not about are Mel's player evaluations generally proven to be more accurate when a guy gets the the pros than anyone else's.