No_Matter_What

Yeah it is a danger, but it only matters if they take our guy. And nobody knows who that is.

I really hope that Beane is more patient than TBD members lol. Not every team needs a WR

So Vikings already don't have 2nd, 3rd and 4th round picks next year? That is an interesting strategy for an average team at best...

Beane stay patient please

I just hope that Beane knows better.

Not a single defensive player in top 10. Wow

We never had a chance. Back to Earth now.

Whatever we do, I'll support it. Odunze, Legette, Thomas, McConkey, Worthy, Coleman, Franklin, trade up, trade down, stay put, whatever, just make the right choice Beane. Go Bills.

Agreed. @Simon isn't it time to unlock it?

Why didn't you make a poll? It's easy, I think you can still add it.

You guys know that your TV's have nothing to do with the Bills picks, right?

Would be cool esp. if Bills are really targeting Legette or Franklin (I know you don't want him in the first but maybe the Bills do). Maybe to do 2 small trade down to make sure you don't fall too much and land a guy you want. Fwiw, in our mock 49ers traded up with Eagles to get Mims, while the Chiefs were trying to do the same.

Gunner, sort of random thought, but do you see any reasonable chance that either Ravens would want to jump the Lions or that 49ers would want to jump Ravens/Lions? We just had local community moct draft with me as Bills GM and I managed to trade down with Ravens - picks 28 and 200 for 30 and 113. I risked almost nothing and got Legette. Ravens did it for Barton IIRC. I really liked it for Bills, pick 113 is a nice extra asset to move up in the 2nd. Do you find this realistic in real life?

Wait, so Legette is there at 60? Then just pick him and call it a day. Thomas and Legette? Are you serious? If both pan out, we are unstoppable for next 4 years and then we pay one and get comp pick for the other. If one pans out it's still great.

It's actually 2 WRs but the point remains.

I love this result, it is at least good experiment to see what a trade down like this can mean and who can we miss out on. Or, on the other side, who we can still get lower. 41 is little too low for my taste but still a good exercise.

I love what we are doing. Everybody and their mother knows we are drafting WR round 1 so we don't even try to hide it and are doing all the work that can be done. This way nobody knows which WRs are we in fact interested in.

Lol I just found out and came to post this. Sportrac doesn't say anything about incentives but it doesn't mean there aren't any. Anyway, it is a low cap hit, but at the same time it's all guaranteed, so he is either lock to make the roster or leaves us with $1,5M dead cap and no savings if cut.

Who from tier 2 and 3 would you consider for Bills at 28? I guess tier 1 is out of question and I doubt tier 4 and below could even be BPA on your board when we pick.

He was taken at 12 😀

Ok, np. But since you wrote the bolded, it seems that I wasn't clear enough. What I mean is that once Bills are on the clock, you wouldn't start the poll immediately, but give all other GMs a chance to send their offers (within an hour or so). If there was any reasonable offer, you would include in the poll. So the poll would be very specific, something like - player A - player B, etc - trade down with team X (pick 28 for picks Y and Z)

Virgil, did you think about possibility of including trade down in the poll when Bills come on the clock? I know it is not easy to manage but something like giving all other GMs one hour to send you offers and if there are any include these in the poll? Just a thought since people are talking about trading down quite a lot around here imo.

While I understand what you are saying, I wouldn't call a chance to draft Nabers a "tough spot to be in"

This is spot on. Just to provide some data - I like to read mock draft on one Commanders forum, they do 7 rounds every year and seem pretty knowledgable to me (well, Bills GM made some odd choices this year but that is small sample size). https://es.redskins.com/topic/446775-2024-es-gms-mock-draft/ Below is comparison how WRs were taken in both drafts: Marvin Harrison 4 / 5 / +1 Rome Odunze 6 / 10 / +4 Malik Nabers 7 / 9 / + 2 Brian Thomes 12 / 26 / +14 Adonai Mitchell 28 / 32 / +4 Troy Franklin 30 / 46 / +16 Xavier Worthy 33 / 47 / +14 Xavier Legette 35 / 33 / - 2 Ladd McConkey 36 / 36 / 0 Keon Coleman 43 / 49 / +6 Ricky Pearsall 46 / 54 / +8 Roman Wilson 48 / 43 / -5 Malachi Corley 53/ 64 / +11 Jermaine Burton 54 / 72 / +18 Ja'Lynn Polk 58 / 70 / +12 So, with 4 more picks in 2nd round to go, in TBD mock draft 6 WRs were selected in the 1st round, 9 in the 2nd (15 total). At their forum, only 5 in the 1st round and 8 in the 2nd (13 total). Only Legette and Wilson were picked a little earlier, McConkey at the same spot, and 12 WRs were picked later, many of them A LOT later (Thomas, Worthy, Burton, Polk). On average, first 15 WRs went 7 spots later than in TBD draft. I know it is just one alternative mock draft but I am pretty sure Bills fans have strong bias towards WRs. EDIT: If draft went their way, Nabers/Odunze would be easier to trade up for, if not Thomas would be basically a Bill, and it would also be much more realistic to trade up for our guy in 2nd round. I really hope/think some of this will be the case in real draft.

Well Stef, I get your point, you want to win more than anybody else, so why exactly you basically disappeared in all of our last 3 playoff exits?