https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bills-gm-brandon-beane-falcons-gm-thomas-dimitroff-join-stf/id1227006689?i=1000463331888
Some great stuff in there on the draft by Beane
Starts just after 37:00 minutes.
Spent money on oline and drafted Ford, brought in some WR and TE to help Josh, what else is next to help him?
- "Josh needed protection, running the ball is a QB best friend , if you aren't good up front it's hard to execute . We want to continue to help up front. Not saying we've arrived there, we need to continue to add weapons. Singletary came on this year but you always need multiple running backs.
Receivers, tight ends, I like to call them touchdown makers, guys that can get the ball in their hands, to take the pressure off Josh, so he doesn't feel like he has to make every play himself, let me dump this little 6 yard hitch route, have the WR make the guy miss and take it 50"
Some people say potential historical WR class, your thoughts on depth?
- " You can tell already now that everyone has declared , this class coming into the Senior Bowl is pretty talented. Senior bowl is great so you can focus on them, then at combine undeclassmen show up . WR is a fun position to go through this spring. "
You've been aggressive to move up for guys, is that your MO as a GM?
- " Definitely , I let the board tell me what decisions we need to make and if a guy is sticking out above everybody else on the board and continues to fall, with Edwards , if we had not got josh, Edwards would have been the guy we took at 12. When he got to 14 Packers were on the clock, man we got to start calling , Oakland wouldn't do it they had already traded down and wanted to pick at 15 , then we found Baltimore who was willing to do it. We felt the value was there. So when the value meets a big hole that you got, why not be aggressive ".
The WR that fit that mold best are Jeudy, Ruggs (round 1), Aiyuk (round 1 - 2), Reagor (Round 2),