MrEpsYtown

So speaking for myself as a guy who wants Holland or Andre Cisco this offseason, I am looking for a pure free safety to allow Bishop to play around the line of scrimmage more in the box where I think he will thrive. My thought process is Rapp becomes the third guy, and a dime linebacker. So I’m not replacing Bishop, technically replacing Rapp.

That’s awesome

Meh

I agree. I just think its so funny that we went through 3 years of "The Bills need to draft a wide receiver high" rhetoric and "they need to stop throwing picks at the defense" logic. Give Josh weapons! And now we have circled back around to "the defense is the problem. We need defensive linemen." I just think it is funny. But I think it is very likely defensive line is going to be super high on the wish list. Hopefully, the Bills can trade for one of Garrett or Crosby. Maybe there is a Parsons trade built around Kincaid and picks since we stole him from them two years ago?

Cuz he’s a douchebag. And it’s not like Perine, the third down back did a great job blocking. I hate the Chiefs.

I hope it's a change. The best thing Nick Sirianni did was give up control of other side of the ball and it put it in the hands of Moore and Fangio. Sirianni is a mediocre coach who hired excellent assistants and let them do their thing with the talent they have. McDermott needs to do the same. He fully takes on the CEO role that he is pretty good at and lets go of the other sides of the ball. Let Babich and these new hires work together to develop a new identity. Lock McDermott out of the room and let those guys cook.

Maybe we can grab Nick Morrow and Lewis Cine back

Yeah probably not, but that's a whole other issue altogether.

These decisions seem small in a vacuum, but they have huge long-term consequences, which is why, aside from Josh, this team does not have high-level talents and one of the reasons they cannot get over the hump.

This 100%. I don’t care about Worthy. DeJean was a blue chipper sitting right there because the NFL is dumb and they passed. He should have been the pick, absolutely no doubt in my mind. They could have circled back for a WR like Jalen McMillan or Troy Franklin or something. But drafting for need rather than taking the best player available is how you end up here. It is what it is. It happened with the Elam draft pick and now the Coleman draft pick as well. They reached on guys becuase of need and passed on blue chip players.

To me Cisco is a great fit for what we need as he is a true FS fit alongside Rapp and Bishop. Won't be as good as Jevon Holland but also won't be as expensive. Cisco was actually a 3rd round pick who should have gone way higher if he didn't come in with a torn ACL. I love the fit and Joe Danna would have been a big influence on him and his development. The question as you mention is how does Nielsen feel about his game? Some good stuff:

Diving in some, Nielsen is a more connected hire than Rebrovich. Nielsen played for Pete Carroll at USC and started his coaching career there as well. He was a UDFA in Philadelphia when McDermott was a defensive assistant. He spends some time working in college under Ed Orgeron. Then spends a bunch of time working for Dave Doeren at NC State and Northern Illinois. Doeren is one of the "McDermott inner circle" strong college connections which also include Dave Aranda, Manny Diaz, and Bob Shoop. Nielsen would have had a hand in developing Bradley Chubb and BJ Hill at NC State as the D line coach. Nielsen also crosses over with Joe Brady and Ronald Curry in New Orleans. To me, what is most interesting to me is the number of different guys he has worked for/been around. Jim Johnson, Steve Spanolo, McDermott, Mike Nolan, Jerry Gray, Dennis Allen, Aaron Glenn...guys with some different philosophies. While he is a 4-3 base coach, he has been around some 3-4 guys and plays good amount of man with zone. It seems the name of the game with him is being multiple. Results have not been good as a DC, but he seems to have a pretty good amount of knowledge and seems like a good addition to the room with some possibly fresh ideas. We shall see how it goes.

Yeah read the same about Press Taylor. I gotta say I respect Pederson for sticking up for his guys despite the fact that he lost his job because of it.

Probably the same guy who didn't vote for Ichiro HOF!

I like this one too. He had a big hand in developing Trey Hendrickson, and, as others have mentioned brings a different perspective.

The only connection I could find is he would have worked with Joe Danna in Jacksonville under Marrone. He worked under Todd Wash and Dom Capers was there at the time as well.

I do think it is significant that the Bills, allegedly, tried to get him at the deadline. That does imply that they like him and also implies that they feel he can co-exist with Shakir and others in their offense. It also implies that they can handle the money on the deal. He was like a 55 percent slot player this year, so if they want to continue with the everybody eats mentality, quick routes and mesh plays, he’s a great fit.

Came in with Doug Marrone, but stuck around through Rex Ryan's tenure. Local guy, somewhat interesting hire with a myriad of experiences. In some ways it's good that there is some Rex influence, some Jim Schwartz and some Mike Pettine.

Which, to a lot of people's points, I think @GunnerBill had said, Keon is really a big slot.

He probably isn't really what they need, but he is a very good fit for what they do. Josh Allen seems to really prey on defenses in that 10-25 yard range. Kupp is that short-intermediate guy and he feasts there. We have those guys in Shakir, Kincaid. While we all want that downfield stretch threat, they simply do not run a lot of those routes. Now is that a chicken in the egg type scenario? Do they not stretch the field because of their personnel? Because Brady certainly stretched the field at LSU. Kupp is a fit, but I am not sure they go down that road.

Now that's truly WWE talk. Best Royal Rumble of all time! One night only! It's all a work!

I really wish we would actually draft BPA and not for need. That is why we don't have any blue chippers aside from Josh. I know Beane says they draft BPA, but they do not. Let me preface this by saying I like Keon Coleman and he will eventually be very good IMO. I know it's easy to say in hindsight, the trade down was fine last year, but Cooper DeJean was just sitting there, a blue chip DB prospect. To me, DeJean was a top 10-15 pick who fell. Mike Sainristil was there, T'Vondre Sweat, Braden Fiske. Those guys could have all helped us in that KC game. I think they cornered themselves into having to take a WR in round 1 and they kind of lost sight of things. What is insane is that they had an entire day to think it over and still drafted for need. Hey Josh, we are taking a wide receiver in the first round, which one do you want? That's how we are building our draft board? It's just so short-sighted. They could have easily grabbed one of those defensive guys and maybe drafted Jalen McMillan or Troy Franklin later. The irony is that both those guys made some flashes as deep down-field threats, field stretchers, the kind of guys fans feel this team needs. Late first-round picks are for drafting guys who the rest of the league was too stupid on and they fell. When the Steelers drafted Watt they had an older James Harrison, Bud Dupree...Watt was coming in as a rotational guy...was it a need? Sure, but it wasn't their most immediate need. The Bills need to be thinking BPA and nothing else. There is not enough true talent on this team for them to continue to draft for need. Plug holes in free agency and please actually draft BPA.

The basis of this idea was not about wins-loses or accomplishments. No one on our staff has accomplished anything ever really. Peterson has won a SB as a head coach, and been there as a player as a backup QB in Green Bay...more than we can say for pretty much anyone on our staff. I think Aaron Kromer is the only one with a SB as an assistant. So wins-loses have nothing to do with my thought process. The basis of the idea was to have a guy who has worked very closely under Reid both as an OC and a player which gives him a unique skill set/experience. A deep amount of knowledge of that offense, more than most around would have. He knows more about Reid than McDermott or Nagy or Bienemy or any of those other guys. He has a unique connection and perspective that in theory could help us get over the hump IMO.

Thoughts on Elijah Molden as a safety fit here?

You will get Donte Jackson and you will like it! I kid, kind of. I just don't see them shelling out money for a top corner like that. To me, the play is to spend on a safety like Jevon Holland. IMO, the safety position in this defense is just so much more important than corner and I don't see them spending on a top corner. At corner I see a buy-low upside play like Eric Stokes or Kritsian Fulton.