GunnerBill

I don't think it is completely beyond comprehension that 15 WRs are gone before #60. 13 in the first two rounds is the record. I think that record goes this year. Whether it is exactly that list is a fairer question. I disagree with you on Legette I think he is gone by #45 or so. But there are 2 or 3 in that list that could go later. But also 2 or 3 who haven't gone here who could go.

It looks a decent list (I'd actually missed that Lassiter was still there which means I had 13 Rd 2 grades left when I said I had 12). I think Christian Haynes, IOL, is the highest ranked guy I have who isn't on your list and TJ Tampa at corner is probably the other one I'm slightly surprised not to see. At running back Benson and Wright are my RBs 2 and 3 after Brooks who has gone. Corum and Lynch are then 4 and 5 for me. And we know Benson has been in for a visit so he might be a name worth adding if not too late!

I disagree there. I think personnel, not coaching is the bigger contributor.

No I think we will win the AFCE and make the playoffs too. But when we ask why haven't we made that final step and won a Championship that set of moves in 2022 looms large IMO.

They have said Beane has authority over personnel and both he and McDermott report to Pegula. That is public and on the record. No mystery about it. Fans speculate about who has more power in the relationship and I agree it is McDermott but also when you speak to people who have been in that building including one at a high level what they say is the same as the public line - Beane runs personnel and he makes those decisions.

It isn't a dig at Beane overall. But they blew that 2022 offseason. There is no question. Yes he found some good contributors in the draft but equally - running back, linebacker and slot receiver are what some might call low hanging fruit. It was a bad offseason. No way around it.

For all that money spent he got half a season out of Von (okay unlucky) and good production out of Jones. But that is a LOT of dollars down the drain. The right moves that summer we overtook KC. Unfortunately the moves we made were not what was required and wasted our last bit of cap flex in that first window.

Some of us did not like the 2022 offseason at the time and it has proven to be pretty much an unmitigated disaster: Free Agent signings: Jordan Phillips - $5m Tim Settle - $9m Daquan Jones - $14m Von Miller - $120m Roger Saffold - $6.25m Ryan Bates - $17m OJ Howard - $3.5m Jameson Crowder - $2m Extension: Stefon Diggs - $96m First round pick: Kaiir Elam I know he had some decent success with some of his later picks - Cook, Bernard, Benford - but it is by any standards a bit of a disaster of an offseason.

5th rounder. All hussle no burst and limited technical refinement. My next two after the 3 listed are Jonah Elliss (who I think is also ideally a 3-4 OLB) and Austin Booker (who probably is more a 4-3 fit). Jenkins would be that Q Jefferson type they kept trying to find. I think he can play base end in a 4-3 in some big packages if you need him to or as your 2nd 3T. I think he'd be very good as a end in a 3-4. If I hadn't gone Newton for the Rams at #19 I'd have drafted Jenkins in round 2.

Trice is similar to the AJE we drafted in that he is just a big powerful bull rusher. My worry with all 3 of those edge guys if we are talking purely Bills fits is I think they might all ideally project better as 3-4 outside linebackers. I have said before and I will repeat here if the Bills don't get one of the top 3 or 4 (depending how you feel on Chop) guys in round 1 (and I think now we are DEFINITELY going WR) then I'd pass on edge in this class until they get into day 3 shot in the dark territory. When there are a few guys worth a punt on. It is not a deep edge group.

He is a bona fide nutcase.

He is a 3rd round grade for me. Javon Baker on a 2nd/3rd borderline is my best WR available. I don't mind the idea of Burton. It is a tad early for him at #60 for me given what else is on the board. I think they'd go Fiske.

No skin off my nose I'd have offered them to @Virgil for the Bills poll in any event: 2 RBs - Brooks and Benson 1 TE - Sanders 1 IOL - Haynes 2 DTs - Fiske and Jenkins 3 EDGE - Trice, Braswell and Isaac 2 CBs - Tampa and James 1 S - Bullock

Josh and Diggs have been basically done with each other for over a year. Maybe we find out one day what caused the relationship that was once so tight to fracture so badly. But the reality is they both put on a brave face and praised each other through gritted teeth last year. Josh was 100% on board with the decision to move on and indeed I suspect he was even encouraging it.

The thing is the media has to be able to stand up stories. I am sure they had all heard the same stuff about the Allen - Diggs relationship that a lot of us had. Some of them have been shared on this board over the last year or so. But the media can't just throw rumours out there. When your sources tell you stuff off the record it is off the record and if you can't substantiate it elsewhere you can't print it... or at least you take risks when you do. The number of questions that the beat guys asked both Allen and Diggs about it last summer is sufficient proof to me that they knew but both players were publicly still giving it the "brothers" line. What did you want them to do? Accuse both players of lying based on things they had been told off the record?

I have 21 firsts and 5 1st/2nd borderlines. As a reminder I had 11 firsts in 2023. Safe to say I like this class a lot more. EDIT: should add we have had 10 guys picked already I have round 3 grades on. But none that I think are completely ridiculous picks. And one pick (my own) on a guy I haven't graded for my board.

With 11 picks left in round 2, I have 12 second round grades still on the board.

He is the Khalil Shakir or this class. Doesn't run routes and coming out of a funky kinda gimmick college offense. But you are right it is a sneaky need for Philly and he would offer something different as a YAC option than Smith and AJ Brown.

Yep. There is limited stuff to look at. I haven't graded him for my board but in this thought exercise I think he makes a ton of sense for the Rams.

With the 52nd pick in the 2024 TSW Mock Draft 1.0, the Los Angeles Rams select: Kiran Amegadjie, Offensive Tackle, Yale The Philadelphia Eagles and @HappyDays are back on the clock. When I woke up this morning and looked at the picks last night I was seven selections away from going on the clock. I had a board of basically three players that I wanted at this pick and Amegadjie was 2nd of the three but is the only one still available. The Rams have tried veteran Ty Nsekhe and converted guards Joe Noteboom and Alaric Jackson at left tackle since the retirement of Andrew Whitworth after the 2022 season. None of those experiments has been particularly successful. Amegadjie is hardly coming from a football powerhouse and it is a big step up to the NFL but the limited tape I have seen of him he is a proper NFL prospect. He has elite length, is uber aggressive in his blocking and even when he is beaten early in the rep can flip his hips and fight back through it to regain the upper hand. He has some experience of playing guard too if the Rams wanted to slow play this by giving him a year there to get his feet wet before throwing him into the premium spot on the line to protect his Quarterback's blindside. This is a big, long, athletic, mauler of a blocker and if he can make that jump to the pro game he has the attributes to be a top 10 tackle.

I like McCormick too. The Jones I was looking at was Elijah from BC but I'm not totally sold on him as a Bills fit.

I think the feet stopping thing - and you are right that is a tendency of his - is also linked to the lack of precision in his route running. To me on longer developing plays he often finishes his route and then sort of stops to adjust to where the route should have finished rather than where it did.

On the Diggs stuff my question for Houston is still "do they have a #1?" And it is the question we were asking here as recently as last week. If Diggs was just banged up / disenchanted / not featured so much in Joe B's offense and can round back to form then they absolutely do. If he is slightly on the decline I still think they are in a bit of a no-mans land where they have two very good #2s in Collins and Diggs and they have Tank who I think is a stud but isn't an archetypal #1. There is no doubt they have a nice balance though - Collins as the vertical guy, Diggs as the route runner and Tank as a speedster and YAC guy who can play from the slot. It is one of the better WR groups in the league if they can all stay healthy. And on asking for videos I think I'll stick with the cutups and streaming services. I imagine the shipping costs to the UK would make that an expensive do! And my draft fandom is separate to my Bills fandom. Sure it's fun to think about who the Bills might take, but team building strategy is the thing that makes the NFL so fascinating to me. So trying to find out how and what teams are thinking through the way they draft is really interesting.

Like the player but if they draft yet another running back in the first three rounds I might send Beane a sweary letter.

I think if Thomas is there at #28 you HAVE to take him. Trading back would not be for me in that scenario.... but if we pretend for a moment you'd never told us he was there..... then the trades back from #28 and #60 and then your first 5 player selections would be very much a win for me. I'm more mixed on your later round guys but they are shots in the dark to an extent anyway.