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Signing Bell isn't my preferred route, but I would understand if Buffalo recognizes their need for weapons and signs what appears to be the best weapon available. Depending on how they structure the contract, I think I'd be okay with biting the bullet on him. I'm not sure I like his fit behind this lackluster OLine though. I'd probably prefer to just draft someone/maybe pair the rookie with a young guy that they sign in free agency ala Tevin Coleman, Alex Collins, or Malcolm Brown.

They did sign Graham this offseason, and this could also change if Green Bay overhauls its front office/coaching staff as people seem to expect.

I remember this exact discussion a year or two ago and somebody proposed the "reverse touchback". Offense keeps the ball since the defense didn't recover it, but the offense gets moved back to the 20 yard line and the down counts, so if the fumble occurs on 2nd and goal for example, it's now 3rd and goal from the 20 yard line.

I think his passing has maybe been slightly worse than I expected (I was really high on him for the past two or three years now), but I continue to think that a guy with his intangibles and physical tools is the exact type of gamble I like to take when it comes to QBs. Freakish tools with the passion and desire to improve = a guy I'm happy to take a chance on.

Brees will win, but I think Mahomes has a stronger case than people are giving him credit for. Having probably the best running game in the NFL is a huge help to Brees (though he's undeniably been incredible this year). Anywho, I think Brees deserves it, and considering his age and the fact that he's never won, he'll get it barring a collapse down the stretch. But I think Mahomes means roughly as much to his team as Brees does to his. I'd probably go with Luck as a distant 3rd.

I think taking a QB on Day 3 this year would be fine and probably wise. I don't see them spending a Day 1 or 2 pick on a QB until at least next year though. There's too many other areas that need upgrading.

He probably did just quit on the route, but I actually think it was a good thing for him to do so (though he probably did not realize it when he did it). Zay was wide open, and by Benjamin basically stopping, it basically took his man out of the play so that Zay had more space to turn up the field. Likewise I think Holmes should have sat down on his route in the first clip. He was wide open over the middle and instead basically ran into the coverage.

The year before roughly half the NBA teams "lost money" simply because they purposefully spend money elsewhere so that they can claim they're losing money.

I imagine this is probably similar to the NBA, where basically no NBA team outside of the Lakers is "profitable" but if they ever wanted to be, all of them could be. Certainly college programs could scrub their budgets to find a couple more hundred dollars to get a few more jackets.

Boyd has one more year left

They've been to at least 3 games that the public knows about. Of course Alabama has like 40 future NFL players on their roster so it's anyone's guess if they were there because they're interested in Jonah or not (though I imagine they probably are).

That would just lead me to question why they can't afford a few more jackets lol. These programs are making boatloads of money every year and they supply players with all sorts of other types of apparel; seems weird that they'd skimp out on just one item.

Seems like a bad look for both guys. Obviously Oliver wayyy overreacted here but it also seems like a dumb rule that only active players are allowed to stay warm lol.

I don't think that's a concern; there just isn't a RB worth taking remotely near the top 10. I do think they may very well target a RB at some point though. It's at least possible that it's just coincidence that they've seen so many of the top RBs; the only one that they've seen that I would say may have been the big draw in the first place was Benny Snell, but they easily could have been more interested in Georgia's team rather than Kentucky (and it could have been Josh Allen from Kentucky too). I personally think it would be wise to take a RB on Day 3 or maybe late on Day 2, but we'll see. I do think the Damien Harris connection is something to keep an eye on though, and he could be a target with the Bills 2nd round pick.

I think Florio pretty much summed up my thoughts. I understand that fighting with the coach is a bad look, but it seems like this rule is only in place so that the coach has an excuse to bully players.

Interesting. He doesn't have Texas listed in his spreadsheet as a team that Buffalo has scouted yet.

Obviously some of the limitations is that for example, they've technically scouted Shea Patterson (Michigan's QB) twice now, but do we really think he is what drew them there? I doubt it; it was most likely their defense or possibly Karan Higdon. But I think what I've compiled here is different from saying "We've gone to three Oklahoma State games, so we must be locked in on Mason Rudolph". For example, the only team that we've gone to see three times so far is Alabama. I think that makes a lot of sense because they have so many NFL prospects; I would guess going to multiple games has allowed them to focus on guys in game #2 or 3 that they weren't able to focus on in game #1 for example. So I'm not really reading into the fact that they scouted this team multiple times and therefore must be locked in on this one player that plays for that team. I think the fact that, for example, they've scouted every single team that the top 10 DTs play on is probably an indicator that they will further address the DT position this offseason. The likelihood of it just being coincidence that they've just so happened to scout literally all 10 of the top 10, including three of them multiple times, is pretty unlikely IMO. Likewise with the CB position. This is especially true when you further factor in the fact that these guys are easily the main draws for NFL teams. Like Buffalo isn't going to Houston to watch whoever their WR is. Maybe they notice another player that stands out while watching Ed Oliver, but Ed Oliver is without a doubt what drew Buffalo to that game. I think seeing Greedy Williams against Auburn and Alabama's WRs was most likely one of the main draws for them to go see those games (along with just wanting to see all of Alabama's guys). Point being, I'm not trying to use this analysis to single out specific players that I think Buffalo will take; I'm just using it to paint the picture of which positions they appear to be taking a lot of looks at, and in the case of DT and CB particularly, I think the conclusion is pretty concrete; Buffalo wants to upgrade those positions. I don't think there was any reason to believe that Buffalo was locked in on Mason Rudolph last year, but the fact that they were in attendance for games featuring literally every QB that was worth a damn strongly indicated that they'd be prioritizing a QB and that obviously proved to be the case.

I don't know about the Bills, but I think there's a lot of WR prospects in this draft that are on par with how Amari has played in recent years. Amari was a better prospect coming out of Alabama though.

That's why I clarified specifically in regard to the WR position; there's so many of them this year that just because we haven't scouted a ton of Matt Miller's top 10 WRs doesn't mean we haven't scouted the guys that Buffalo actually thinks are the top 10 WRs. I'm not as convinced regarding O-Line though. Perhaps they simply plan on taking a guy like Jonah or Little early and therefore don't feel the need to scout the others, but they've scouted O-Line pretty sparingly across the board. If there's a takeaway regarding O-Line, I think it would be that they plan on addressing it in free agency or they're already locked in on a couple prospects and don't think they need to scout the rest.

Original Post: https://www.buffalorumblings.com/2018/11/14/18094913/who-the-buffalo-bills-have-been-scouting-for-the-draft Update: Matt Miller has updated his big board and positional rankings, and so I've gone through and updated everything. You can see it all at the link here: https://www.buffalorumblings.com/201...-4-round-billsThe Bills have seemingly expanded their WR scouting quite a bit since the last update, which is a welcome sight to see.My post on BR includes updates at each position as well as two separate 4-round mocks of what the Bills might look to do based on who they've scouted so far. Is it realistic to expect them to have personally gone to games for every prospect that they draft? No, but these mocks should give an idea of the types of players I could see them going for based on who has been scouted so far.

I'm fine with it in this case because depending on who you ask, Ridley and Johnson are both top 3 WRs in this class. In all likelihood, Buffalo will be able to draft WRs in the 3-5th round that are on par with any WR that goes in the 1st or 2nd round. This class is crazy deep (if everyone declares).

For what it's worth, Astro's mock for the Bills right now: I'm not sure that I believe either of the Michigan guys (Bush and Winovich) fall that far, but man this mock would pretty much be a dream come true even if I'm only lukewarm on Jonah from what I've heard of him

The only person I know that consistently tweets stuff like this out is Chase Goodbread, but even he didn't report that one. The only reason we know about them going to see that game is because one of the writers from The Athletic tagged along with Brandon Beane while he was working on a "Day in the Life" type of article. The spreadsheet in the OP of this thread does a pretty good job of staying up to date, and I also recently posted a FanPost on Buffalo Rumblings with a list based on The Athletic and Chase Goodbread: https://www.buffalorumblings.com/2018/11/14/18094913/who-the-buffalo-bills-have-been-scouting-for-the-draft

Mississippi as in Ole Miss? Buffalo just went to see them play against Deebo's South Carolina team this past week.

Don't think this necessarily needs its own thread, but I threw a post together over on Buffalo Rumblings basically looking at Matt Miller's big board (he lists his top 10 at each position) and looking at who on the list Buffalo has scouted. https://www.buffalorumblings.com/2018/11/14/18094913/who-the-buffalo-bills-have-been-scouting-for-the-draft