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Also, NFL owners are literally meeting with Trump this week to discuss bringing sports back. There's no way they're ready to announce the cancellation of the season before the meeting even occurs.

I would be very shocked if this is about a cancelled or delayed season. Don’t expect it to be a signing or trade either. The Patriots punishment or a retirement theories make the most sense to me so far if it’s something specific to the NFL.

He's pretty much the antithesis of what I want an NFL offense to be. I'm looking for: RBs that are weapons in the passing game: He was pretty much never involved and when they did throw him the ball, he dropped it. RBs that can create big plays: He rates near the bottom of the class in terms of big play %. RBs that are comfortable operating out of the shotgun and spread offenses: Pretty much all of his touches are from under center with 12 or 22 personnel. I also just prefer my RBs to rely on short area quickness rather than pure power or speed and he's definitely in the latter category. Ultimately, I see him as a guy where you put him on the field, the field shrinks, and the defense knows you're running the ball. That's just not what I want. I don't doubt that he can be a statistically productive runner, but I think he limits what you can and will do on offense. I'd personally only be interested in him as a short-yardage back, which I'd say is worth like a 6th round pick or something like that, but he'll almost certainly be gone well before that because there's definitely still some old-school teams out there that will put a lot of value in him, especially after Derrick Henry's crazy season this year.

I loathe Dillon. I wouldn’t draft him in any round.

For most of the draft process he was thought of as a 4th-5th round guy. Seems like he's been getting more love recently though. I personally view him as a 5th-6th.

He's my #6 RB in the class, but those that are higher on him than I am would probably argue: Great physical profile in terms of physical build, long speed, and explosiveness. The only RBs with a higher elusiveness rating are Zack Moss and Javon Leake (on limited snaps). One of the better pass blockers in the class. Was pretty involved in the passing game at Florida State (to mixed results). He technically checks pretty much every box you'd look for in a RB and the ones that he doesn't check could theoretically be blamed on the horrific OLine he had at Florida State.

Factoring in where you need to select them, I think I would probably rank them something like this: Zack Moss - Arguably the same tier of prospect as the top guys, but you can theoretically get him in the 3rd round instead of the 2nd. Cam Akers - Same deal as Moss, but I like Moss better. D'Andre Swift - I don't really love any of the Day 3 RBs, so at this point, I'd come back to the potential Round 2 guys and Swift is my #1. JK Dobbins - Same deal as Swift but Dobbins is my #2. Clyde Edwards-Helaire - Same deal as the previous two but CEH is my #3. Lamical Perine - I think you can maybe get him in the 5th if you're lucky and I think he compliments Singletary nicely and could theoretically turn into a starter. Jonathan Taylor - I don't like him as much as the top 3 RBs and he'd cost the 2nd round pick also, so I have him slightly behind Perine in terms of which I would want.

The way I see it, Lamar is currently in one tier at the top. Rudolph and Rosen are in another at the bottom. You can order the other 3 any way you want and I won't complain much. I like our guy and he's the only one of the 3 that clearly improved in year 2 (though I think you can argue Darnold improved despite the absolutely disastrous Patriots game). But Allen also started out firmly behind Baker after Year 1. I think I'd go Allen-Darnold-Baker, but as I said, those three are jumbled together right now IMO.

I don’t know what the original meaning was, but the dots are from the horseshoe logo. The horseshoe has 7 grommets around it so they added that feature to the new C logo.

If it's the same spreadsheet I'm aware of (his master draft board for the Bills), that's just saying that the Bills visited Memphis 3 times but never scouted a game. Also mentions "lots of interest in post-season" but nothing more than that and I haven't seen anything reported by anyone that we've been in contact with Gibson or shown any interest in him. I think he potentially makes sense as he may have the versatility that we tend to love.

Where did he mention the Bills meeting with Gibson? I don't follow his stuff super close. The only thing I had seen from him is that the Bills went to Memphis a few times this year but never scouted any of their games and I didn't see anything specific to meeting with Gibson. He has a lot of content that I haven't read though.

These videos aren't perfect as they only show his targets/rushes rather than all reps, but still helps a lot IMO as you can see the whole field:

Not that the public is aware of. Didn't scout Memphis games either.

I would say the opposite. Bowden to me is a lower ceiling version of Gibson. I'm not particularly interested in either. Gibson is a 4th-5th round guy to me. I don't think I'd really draft Bowden at all; I just don't see it with him. Equally raw but less explosive with the ball in his hands.

This is pretty much where I’m at too. My feelings might change if we bring in a legitimate RB to play with Singletary first, but there’s no way IMO that we can head into the year with Yeldon and Gibson as his backups. Obviously an extremely explosive threat once you get the ball in his hands. He doesn’t really know how to play any position right now though. Obviously role for him to replace McKenzie early on if we wanted to train him as a WR though. He’s a 5th round guy for me with our current roster construction.

In the free games of his that I watched, he looked like he still didn’t really know what he should be doing on a basketball court. Kind of just floated around on offense while the other guys played and just stood in the middle on defense and waited to see if anyone would attempt to drive at him. Very very long ways away right now but you can’t teach his size. He would have been a redshirt for sure at SU though.

Ours is like 960ish square feet and it’s so damn expensive lol. DC house market is crazy. I paid like 4 times as much as my parents house in Rochester and theirs is roughly 3 times the size. Excited nonetheless though. Move in day is in two weeks.

I'm relatively low on Shenault as a prospect, but I'd be perfectly fine with it if he were the pick. I tend to think someone will take him ahead of us though.

I imagine Jameis will settle for a 1 year deal as a backup. He's absolutely a starting caliber QB though. But the teams that realistically want new QBs right now are looking more for someone that can just take care of the ball and keep the offense on schedule. Jameis hasn't shown the ability to do that; what he has shown is that he can put a lot of points on the board (yes, for his opponents sometimes, but Tampa's offenses have been great with him at the helm). I'd say he's roughly the same tier of QB right now as Allen, but obviously very different risk-reward profiles.

Sounds like you may have experience with that?

Yeah haha, we ran into that the first time we tried to go to Maydan. Only been in the area for a couple years now, but I'm sure we'll be trying a lot of new restaurants once we move into DC. I'll definitely make note of the need to make a reservation at Dabney though!

I'll have to check the Dabney out. We're in Alexandria at the moment but the new house is basically across the street from the Howard University athletic complex. And that sounds promising! Maybe we can connect on a Sunday whenever the Bills are back in our lives again haha

Thanks! It's a tiny little guy, but it's just two of us and a small dog so we don't need all that much space and hard to beat having a rowhouse in the heart of DC.

I would never draft a kicker or punter so it really depends on who is available after the draft IMO. Shouldn't be difficult to upgrade Bojo. I'm not certain we can find a good upgrade for Haushka but we should definitely bring someone in and find out.

Probably Maydan. We closed on our first house pretty much the day everything got locked down. Our realtor and loan agent wanted to take us to Maydan to celebrate the purchase...it's a recently awarded Michelin star restaurant that's a short walk from the house and it is absolutely incredible.