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After signing Smith.....who they didn't have at the time they signed Taylor, they've decided to just keep Taylor on the right side. Before that signing, he was going to be on the left side. Paying Taylor that money and keeping him on the right is fine. Ramczyk got more fully guaranteed than Taylor (43m to 40) and just as much in total guarantees (60m). Lane makes more per year. McGlinchey got 5 less fully guaranteed and 7.5 less total. It's a RT market deal, in an NFL where the difference between the right and left tackle isn't what it used to be. I remain confident their O line is better than last years.

Here are some I made.... 1. I don't expect these to be popular...it's major color change and thus departure from longstanding tradition. 2. I am not the first person to ever have the idea of adopting the Wyoming Cowboys color scheme to the Bills.... 3. Again...not a popular opinion...especially as a fan of rival team...but I kind of think dark brown and maize is a better color scheme fit for a "Buffalo" themed team... 4. Yes, I know...not alot of originality here...both are Wyoming color scheme rip offs...and one of these is a straight up plagerism of the NDSU Bison logo. That said...here they are in the following posts 1 2 3 4

I readily admit I have nothing at all to back any of this up and that these assumptions on my part....that may be completely wrong. Regardless...this is terrible.

I agree with alot of the sentiment here.... I am confident I speak for ALL Chiefs fans when I say we don't like Jackson either. He comes of as, and IS every bit the untalented, attention seeking, entitled older brother of Patrick Mahomes. A couple things strike me as odd. First, you see a TON of footage of Pat with his dad shagging fly balls, playing sports as a kid etc. Apparently Jackson, bigger and taller than Pat...isn't athletically inclined? Just odd. You'd think he'd be raised up in that same heavily sports leaning environmnet. I have nothing against LGBT folks...to each their own. No problem. That said...It's just been totally assumed since the beginning that Jackson was gay. Until this, he'd never been seen with women in public, and no effort was ever made to suggest he wasn't gay. Those have been the rumors and stories since the beginning. He also seems to be good pals with Brittany. I only bring that up because he's come accross as the "gay friend" alot of women have. I have NOTHING tangible to support any of this...just observation and drawing conclusions on my part. Perhaps he's bi? Again, I don't care....just all seems so wierd. At any rate....we can deal with Britanny....kind of have to....but the Pat Mahomes team needs to get on top of this situation and cast Jackson back to NE Texas where Pats and Jacksons mom still lives. Jackson seems immature and might benefit from the nearness of some parental guidance again. Last thing...I would hope that for Jackson..his brothers fame doesn't make him feel less loved by his parents etc...but I wonder if his dad doesn't show some extreme favortism that contributes to this. Their little sister seems to get plenty of love and attention so I hope Jackson does/did also. That can screw you up...always trying for attention etc. It's a crap situation though regardless of the cause. Dude needs to eat some consequences.

People just do not understand how crappy a pass blocker Orlando Brown is/was and how KC schemed around him and how Mahomes bailed him out. I am CERTAIN that the Bengals, are quickly going to regret putting Brown at LT and thinking that is going to work. It will be evident in short order. Now, is it risky for KC to sign Dawaan Taylor, a career RT and ask him to play LT...yes that involves risk. I am CERTAIN he'll pass block better than Brown did (I do not think he'll be a good run blocker no matter where you put him..KC doesn't care) They like Morris...his tools and traits are outstanding...but he needs work. I haven't been impressed by Niang the rare times he's actually been healthy....and I DO NOT believe Darrian Kinnard is an NFL OT. This left KC thin at OT...but the were every bit as thin last year. I am also CERTAIN that Andrew Wiley was not a good pass blocking RT. He did an admirable job starting all 17 games. He was a great and versatile backup that did the best he could..and will always be loved in KC..but he was not good either. I would tell you that as we sit here today...KC is BETTER at OT...by a good margin...than they were last year. I won't be surprised if Smith starts, or Morris wins the job.

Interesting account.

I don't much care for PFF grades...but if you put credence into those....this guy was a higher ranked pass blocker than Orlando Brown. (which isn't hard to believe) He apparently was a horribly graded run blocker. (KC doesn't care about that)

Deal is "UP TP" 9 million. Pretty much they've more or less said he'll start. In reality...he'll start if Taylor can't smoothly transition to the Left side....or more likely, one of 3rd round pick Wanya Morris doesn't win the job, last years 5th rounder Darrian Kinnard (who didn't play at all) can't win the job...Or if Lucas Niang, can't win the job...they have a good insuarnace policy/hedge there. it's a good move to make sure we can put a capable line on the field. I HOPE Smith isn't called on to start and that Morris or Niang has won the job. Kinnard will never be an OT in this leauge...he has slow feet.

1st round TE is not typically a good idea...... Something of note..A LOT of 1st round TE don't live up to their draft position, and a good number end up being some other teams TE and put up their best numbers on their 2nd team. Since 2004: Last 20 years of Rd 1 TE 2004 1-6 Kellen Winslow II - Browns Had a couple of decent seasons with Cleveland with 1 season of over 1000 yards and 5 TD, moved on to the Buccs and equaled his career high 5 TD two more times with them before flaming out and ultimately ending up in prison for being a complete waste of humanity and talent. 1-32 Benjamin Watson - Patriots Had 5 unremarkable seasons in New England with a few red zone TD's mixed in. Went on to put up WAY more impressivie numbers for hte Saints AND Ravens in a long, productive career. 2005 1-30 Heath Miller - Steelers Had a long reasonably productive 10 year career, all with the Steelers. Never broke 1000 yards or over 8 TD in a season. 2006 1-6 Vernon Davis - 49ers Davis had a long 15 year career, the first 11 with the 49ers. Never broke 1000 yards, and did have 13 TD seasons two different times, but never more than 7 in any other seasons. 1-28 Mercedes Lewis - Jaguars Remarkably still playing...but in his career year, he had 58 catches 700 yds and 10 TD in year 5. Never come remotely close to any of these numbers in any of his other seasons. 2007 1-30 Greg Olson - Bears Great 13 year career, first 3 unremarkable seasons in Chicago, then took off with Carolina, where he had many brilliant seasons. 2008 1-30 Dustin Keller - Jets Played all 5 seasons of his career in NY...never more than 5 TD in a season, never broke 700 yds. Blew out his knee, ending career. 2009 1-20 Brandon Pettigrew - Lions Played all 7 seasons with lions...had a couple 700 yard years with 4 and 5 TD respectively. 2010 1-21 Jermain Gresham - Bengals Played 5 seasons with the Bengals. Had a 596 yard season wtih 4 TDs and a 700 yard season with 5 TDs his 2nd and 3rd seasons, never broke 400 yards after that, and had one other season with 5 TD. 2011 No TE taken in round 1 2012 No TE taken in round 1 2013 1-21 Tyler Eifort - Bengals Eifort played 8 seasons in the NFL. in his 3rd season he had 500 yards and 13 TD. In his other 7 years combined he had 13 TD total. and never came close to 500 yds etc again either. 2014 1-10 Eric Ebron - Lions Didn't do much in 4 years with Lions, but had a career year in Indianapolis in year 5, with 750 yds and 13 TD. He never came close to that total in any season prior or after. 2015 No TE taken in round 1 2016 No TE taken in round 1 2017 1-19 OJ Howard - Buccs Going on 6 NFL seasons, first 5 with Tampa..rookie year had 6 TD. 2nd season had 5 TD and broke 500 yards...has since fallen off cliff, now in Houston. 1=23 Evan Engram - Giants First 5 seasons in New York, had over 700 yds and 6 TDs in rookie year. Never made it back to those totals until last season, his first in Jacksonville setting career highs in receptions 73 and yards 766 with 4 TD. 1-28 David Njokwu - Browns has played all 6 seasons in Cleveland...had a couple of 600 yd, 4 TD seasons, in 2018 and 2022. Other seasons are unproductive. Missed many games to injury over the years and has never played a full season. 2018 1-25 Hayden Hurst - Ravens Had 2 very invisable seasons in Baltimore....overshadowed and beaten out be Marc Andrews, drafted in round 3 of the same draft. After 2 years was traded to Atlanta where he had career high 56 catches 571 and 6 TD. hasn't come close to matching that, and is now on his 3rd team in Cincy. 2019 1-8 TJ Hockenson - Lions Played 3 and half seasons with Detroit...best year with lions was 2nd year over 700 yds, 6 TD. Half season with Lions and other half with Vikings, Hockens on 88 catches 800 yds 6TD. poised to be better with 2nd team. 1-20 Noah Fant - Broncos. Hockensons teammate at Iowa. Had a pair of 650 plus 4 TD seasons his 2nd and 3rd year in Denver before being traded to Seahawks in Wilson trade. Had 500 and 4 TD season in first year with Seattle 2020 No TE Taken in round 1 2021 1-4 Kyle Pitts - Falcons Had decent rookie season. 1st round 1 TE to break 1000 yards in rookie year for this whole list. 68 catches, but only 1 TD. 2nd year in 10 games played only 28 catches, 2 TD. 2022 No TE Selected in round 1 2023 Dalton Kincaid - Bills

AWESOME! I have the same thing on my Chiefs schedule prediction I did in Feb

I LOVE schedule release day (errr....time of year when schedule is leaked) It's a bills board and I'm not going to bother everyone with my Chiefs schedule prediction that I do every year once the home and away teams are known at the end of the regular season......but I predicted Bills @ KC week 4 Sunday Night Football fwiw.

Dalton is certainly a recieving threat TE. I can't speak to his blocking. Kelce, while not known as a great blocker, lines up and participates and is comeptent at it. Even though the listed height and weight are similar, Kincaid looks more slender than Kelce (Just my opinion) I heard Beanes presser about wanting to attack the middle of the field and have mismatches there and that is what they got Kincaid for. All that makes sense....I would say regarding Kelce...he isn't faster than kincaid or alot of others...and he's not stronger than many others...and there are plenty of guys taller than Kelce in the NFL. Where Kelce has NO PEER is that he reeds defesnes AND knows the mind of his QB better than any TE playing right now. Gronk was similar with Brady. Kelce knows exactly where to go to be open. He knows it most of the time pre snap...or can read at the snap and know where to run to. He also knows, based on these reads, what Mahomes is also reading and acts accordingly. Kelce is almost like a coach on the field....I've seen him miked up, pointing out this and that, he sees and is giving that feedback to Mahomes and Ried constantly. It's his football mind that sets him apart. Kelce isn't wide open all the time because teams don't cover him...he's open becasue he knows how to get open. And when the time comes for Kelce to ride off into the sunset...Ried and Mahomes will cope and still be very good. Last...I do NOT want to come off like I am telling you KC has the next Kelce....I don't know if such a thing exists (seems like only 1 or 2 TE like this every 15 years of so) ....but KC does have a TE with similar skill set and well versed in the offense...quietly was 5th on the team in receptions in 2022...and just turned 24...haivng already played 2 seasons wiht KC....Noah Gray. If Kelce is injured or starts to slide....this will be the guy who picks up the slack...and he'll de reasonably well when it's his turn. (low key..he's really good) I'm looking forward to Kincaid..I think he will be what Bean envisioned...a mismatch in the middle of the field that attacks the heart of a defense...I think the Bills can and will run alot of two TE sets including motioning Kincaid out wide and find him against a slow, shorter LB...should be fun and interesting to see how it looks.

Just stashing this here..(sorry to intrude GunnerBill) I did a complete, full 7 round mock draft with trades for all teams....and here is what I came up with for the Bills Darnell Wright Tennessee OT Keeanu Benton Wisconsin DL1T Tank Dell Houston WR Mike Morris Michigan DL5T Chris Rodriguez Jr. Kentucky RB

,,,,,Some people don't know what a hot take is.....I digress. Also some people don't know how to count to ONE. Hot Take: Clayton Tune will end up being the best QB in this class when it's all said and done. (fire.)

This is really good work! Appreciate your work and your thoughts here!

For the record....I think the Jets are overrated...both before and after the Rodgers trade. MAYBE if Rodgers has something left the jets grab the 6 or 7 seed....but that is the same situation many AFC teams are in.

The worst part about the draft is EVERYONE IS AWESOME. All the way down to the guy you get in round 7. And with the 254th pick, the 49ers select.................Herman Hennyhoo, FB, West Central Rhode Island Tech. Kiper: "What I like about this guy is he can come in right away and give you a goal line option that is a threat to run or catch, and that will take some attention away from McCaffrey, freeing him up to do even more in the 49er offense. GREAT pick here in round 7" Herbstreit: "I agree Mel...I think the 49ers just got the next greaat FB...can'tg believe he fell this far...great pick!" Reality - Hennyhoo doesn't make the team and McCaffrey was always going to be good no matter what. IF you were a betting man, you'd just say every single pick after the top 20 SUCK and you'd be right 90 percent of the time. I wish there was an alternate draft broadcast with dudes who were mostly negative about why each prospect woun't amount to anything.

The Chiefs rostered all 11 picks last draft. The idea is you get guys who are BETTER (and cheaper) than some of what you already have. Also...most teams go into drafts with enough of a roster that if you had to play a game tommorrow...they could field a team and backups.

I don't think the Bills are moving up. Lack of draft capital....they need to add all the bodies they can as they approach cap crunch coming next year.

Just a point on the idea there are 15 or less first round grades by a GM. I don't doubt it...I don't think it's a strong overall class...but One GM's list of 12 1st round grades won't be the same as the next. It's entirely possible that at 27, the Bills could very well be drafting a guy who they had with a 1st round grade. Another point...again, I agree this class is not at all top heavy, but I think it's probably pretty good because it is deep at CB, TE, and RB..and decent Oline in the mid rounds. Weak at LB. So just because it's weak at the top doesn't mean a great player can't be had at 27...and it doesn't mean everything after pick 15 is garbage all the way through.

Let me try this agian, because I don't feel like maybe I am explaining it correctly....you keep mentioning merch sales and that New York state has the this, that, the stock market etc...I don't disagree with any of that. I am saying THAT stuff doesn't matter to the owners nearly as much as TV revenue. You brought up the Bengals...so mabye this would make more sense if I just use them as an example.... Lets say some circumstance suddenly comes up and the Bengals were up for sale....Someone...maybe that Canadian billionaire that wants a team.....he buys the Bengals and moves them to Toronto. The 31 other owners benefit WAY more from that move than just keepin the team in Cincy. A team in Canada would almost certainly generate more NFL eyes accross the nation. The 31 other owners, would all share in that increased TV revenue deal from Canada. The US TV ratings would essentially be unchanged. Same 32 piec pie...more money per owner. They pretty much don't share much merch sales..the local teams keep more of that for themselves.. 875 Million and lawsuits is nothing to sneeze at...but in a world where a frnachise goes for 6 billion....it's more likely viewed as just part of the transaction (if you wanted to move the team) than an impediment these days. I've already agreed WNY is a GREAT Football market...if the basis of all this was on the local market being what drives revenue..NO ONE would ever move the Bills....that isn't where the bread is buttered though. It's media rights. My whole point is...The Pegulas weren't moving the team....and were good to go with a new stadium, playing in WNY and all that....the situation may still very well be that, but speculation that due to Kim's sudden decline in health....it's worth thinking about what might be possible...and in speculating as such...the local market, fan support, brand...is something to be weighed against the costs and benefits of a move IF.....IF the Bills were to be offered for sale agian sometime soon. I don't want the Bills to move. I like tradition and stability and rivalries and history. I hope they aren't sold. I hope Kim Pegula recovers and that the pegulas own the team a long time and it stays where it is. But if it were for sale....I'd worry that the NFL would suddenly be very very interested in Toronto.

You've missed the point of my post completely. The size of the US market does not matter these days...you could move the Bills to Boise Idaho....wouldn't matter because as I said...TV numbers in NON NFL markets are the same as they are in NFL markets. 31 NFL owners don't gain anything because you moved your team. Also...highlighted above....the NFL would probalby really not want to expand to Canada with new franchises...that's 2 more ways to split the revenue pie. the owners would benefit most if ONE team moved to Canada, and a that drew in a bunch more canadian interest and viewers....and the coresponding NEW TV revenue from that....for the same 32 owners. Western New York is a GREAT NFL market....great fans...great support....well established...great traditions....all that....and I'm telling you, it doesn't matter. Moving 1 team to Canada is what the NFL would prefer becasue it adds revenue to the existing 32 piece pie.

Well then wouldn't it stand to reason that if he were available for THAT reason, that he Bills should not want him?

Carson Strong. QB, Nevada a couple years ago I thought he had an NFL arm (can't run, but good thrower) ....I thought he'd be drafted high....heading into his last year of college...wasn't drafted at all. Hasn't stuck with a team as a UDFA..etc etc. ....Let me be clear. I did NOT want KC to draft him because I am a NO RB in round 1 believer...but think when KC drafted Clyde Edwards Hellaire, that KC was getting a really good player. And one that's been a polorizing figure around these parts....I thought Terrell Bernard was going to be a really good NFL LB....captain of a defense, green dot type guy. I wanted KC to draft him. Maybe he's still got a chance to prove it.

I wouldn't say this is completely true now. Back in the 60's-90's it was the case that moving to bigger markets meant increased ticket, merchandise sales, and more TV viewers/higher ratings. Todays NFL doesn't benefit by domestic team relocation much at all....just the team owner itself might get a better stadium and ticket revenues, but that doesn't really do much for the rest of the owners. The main problem, I would assume especially for the Bills....is that the NFL would benefit by having a team somewhere in Canada (almost certainly Toronto) They could reasonably expect higher TV ratings if the whole of Canada had a team (like the Blue Jays are Canada's MLB team) ....the owners would ALL benefit by an increase in selling NFL media rights to a canadian broadcaster. I would worry that the potential windfall from such a new media deal, along with what would likely be a nice new stadium and expected merch sales and whatnot in CANADA....would render the 875 million buyout to a MEGA billionaire, just a small inconvenience to moving. I'd be wary of that Canadian dude who was/is in on the Commanders sale.