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It's been obvious since Beane arrived. This is a collaboration. I loved in the video how Beane was picking the brains of the assistant coaches to Garner their input.

I think they both were in agreement Van Pran would be a target.

They had their plan. They had their board. They stuck to them both. I trust their judgement over the fan base. They got great value throughout this draft considering they were picking at the bottom of the round. Beane said in that round they would go Davis first, then Van Pran.

Beane said in his presser moving up in the draft was going to cost pick 60. He was unwilling to give that up since they had more players with 2nd round grades and saw day 2 as the real value in the draft.

Just finished watching it. Very juiced about this draft class.

The writer of this article is grasping at straws.

That's because a lot of fans experience watching college football consists of watching the NFL Combine. I'm guilty of that one. Mea Culpa!

Going unnoticed by many in all of their criticism of the Bills draft, 7 out of the 10 players the Bills drafted were in Daniel Jeremiah's top 150. I did this math yesterday out of curiosity, but Chris Brown just made the point on OBL since Arizona is being touted for selecting 8 of their 12 picks out of Jeremiah's top 150. The difference...Arizona was drafting 4th in each round and had two selections in the first round...before the Bills selected even one. The Bills were drafting at the bottom of each round. Now...Jeremiah may not be the be all and end all of draft analysts. However, he is well respected and his rankings of top players are for the most part consensus. So...even though this is a "reload" as Shaw points out...it is a well-executed, well-planned reload.

Diggs became less and less of a match up problem as the season wore on. So I don't agree with you on this point. Diggs could be removed from games just by DBs being physical with him. I think that is why the Bills decided to stress physicality over finesse in their drafting this year. If you also consider the type of receivers Brady had at LSU, Coleman fit that bill. I'm optimistic about this receiver group, although admittedly it is yet to be seen how well they perform.

This was great! This kid is genuine!

There was an interesting take on NFL Live on ESPN today. Mina Kimes who I have really come to respect as an NFL analyst when discussing Worthy vs Coleman, said that both the Bills and the Chiefs got the receivers they needed. KC needed to add speed...which they did both in free agency and the draft, and the Bills needed to add size and physicality at WR. She sees Shakir as the Bills deep threat as she really liked what he contributed in the last 7 games (she was one of the few analysts after the Diggs trade who referred to his production as declining and cited his last 7 games). Dan Orlovsky loved the pick of Coleman for the Bills. He sees the Bills as having offensive players that can contribute at all levels on the field, allowing Josh to simply make his reads vs focusing on one receiver. Field Yates liked Legette better than both receivers.

This is true. His snaps definitely increased in the playoffs. Also with Brown and Worthy, expect teams will revert back to two deep safeties, so lots of underneath stuff will be open.

It says it's an extension, so it must be added years. So...not only do we have to deal with him on KC for longer than hoped, we also have to deal with Taylor Swift in the fan suite. Ugh!

I watched this. It's really good. I'd love to see Moulds work with Coleman as well as Shakir!

I agree since they get manhandled by DBs.

And hopefully Josh will be able to further assist his separation by manipulating DBs with his eyes.

I have seen Greeny defend the Bills and in particular Josh Allen a lot on Get Up. And we are just going to have to disagree about the trade. I think Beane made a good move for the Bills irrespective of who the trade was made with.

I've heard all of these takes on Josh Allen and the Bills. In fact, he's been jealous of the Bills because he is a Jets fan and they can't seem to do anything right. But...he's an emotional Jets fan. So he's not looking at the trade with any deal of objectivity. I heard his take right after the trade was made and KC picked Worthy. It was as emotional as when Mina Kimes went on about the Bills picking Josh Allen...and in truth it gave him something to add to the broadcast since he had nothing to offer with any pick analysis etc. Outside of getting ESPN to their commercial breaks he just took up a chair. Good GMs don't worry about optics. They don't make decisions based on emotion. Media people are all about the optics. And football fans are all about emotion. And btw, just because someone disagrees with you, you don't need to resort to insults.

We moved up a full round...38 picks to be exact.

But not in the first round. Beane said they had no players with a 1st round grade left on their board. That's why they were willing to trade out of the round.

Greeny is a Jets fan and has never been able to look at anything NFL related with an objective eye.

Being a Penn State fan, I watch a lot of Big 10 football and I recall liking him a lot playing for Wisconsin.

Didn't the Jets just draft him?

Correct... But outside of the top two last year, they had zilch (Quez Watkins and a washed up Julio Jones). That's why they brought in Campbell and Parker in free agency. So Smith was a need as number 5 receiver at least. They grabbed Johnny Wilson in the 6th...but outside of being tall, he's no great shakes so I wouldn't call him the BPA.