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Is it? I don’t think it is. Chinn might have played “sparingly”, but he would have been used pretty routinely for these athletic tight ends like Kelce. So, yeah...I do think it would have been a different game plan. You’re entitled to your opinion, though.

That’s the point. If you have Chinn, the game plan for Kelce is different. Good grief...

He would have come in handy against Kelce though...

I tend to agree. This is a huge disappointment on the bills part. Epenesa was NEVER a speed guy. Why are they trying to put a square peg into a round hole with this guy? To me he’s a huge wasted pick.

Well...I think Oliver is a little better than his numbers show. He was playing out of position a lot this year and missed Star taking on doubles. I’m not ready to write him off yet. Epenesa, though? Wow. Hated the pick on draft night and hate it even worse now. This guy is not a speed rusher and it irritates me that they asked him to drop weight to try to become one. If they wanted a speed rusher why didn’t they just draft one or sign one?

This is a home run post. Well said. Teams like KC and TB have weapons all over the field. It’s not wonder they are where they are. There is still a TON of work to do on our offense. Diggs is all world, but Beasley is a guy that makes great plays but doesn’t do anything after the catch. We have no running game. Our tight ends stink. Josh and Diggs are our entire offense for the most part. If we want to challenge KC we need to be able to score points. Adding another weapon to go along with Diggs on offense would be huge. I’m not sure if that means Ettienne or Harris at running back, Toney at Wr, or Freiermuth at TE. That’s up to Beane to decide. I do know, though, that KC is the blueprint and we need follow suit. The pick makes me more upset when I have to relive that moment.

Great point. Me too. Again, I hated the pick, but I was slowly getting used to envisioning Epenesa over power tackles and wreck the pocket. Now he looks like a completely different player. My point is...if the Bills wanted speed off the edge then why do you draft this guy in the first place?

This would have been a good pick up. All throughout the draft process we heard hints being dropped about a “big nickel”. Joe B blabbed about it ad nauseum every chance he could. The problem was that Epenesa dropped and the bills got pulled into the BPA crap. Sometimes BPA isn’t the best idea. What if the BPA doesn’t fit your scheme or isnt the type of player at that position you are looking for? I really disliked the Epenesa pick. I wanted Dobbins. He went one pick later which made it even worse. But I would have been ok with Chinn. To me he was more of a fit than Epenesa. We need to stop all these elite tight ends that are popping up and Chinn would have been a good get.

I trust the bills player development almost without fail, but what they’ve done with Epenesa is the one glaring exception. I feel they got the pick completely wrong in the first place if what they wanted was a speed rusher. I agree. I just didn’t like the pick on draft day and I like it even less now that he isn’t even the same player they drafted. Asking him to drop weight seems like a very risky strategy to me.

Epenesa is not a fast twitch athlete. His success in college was based on power. To me, the Bills are trying to make him into something he isn’t. He will never have a lot of speed off the edge. His game is using his heavy hands to overwhelm tackles to get to the qb.

I love Fitz, but want him nowhere near Buffalo. Every team he goes to, the starter gets hurt and he finds himself starting multiple games.

Disagree. Totally disagree. KCs offense is great. They have weapons all over the place. You just can’t stop them no matter how great your defense is. They literally have to crap on themselves for you to beat them. You have to be able to keep up with KC in a shootout, meaning you have to have weapons on offense to match them. I would be more than fine with Pat Freiermuth at 30 if we take a TE. IMO, Pitts is the only other first round TE but he will be long gone.

Yeah I think people that still like this pick are the same people that want more defense at all costs. Epenesa really hasn’t been good at all. We could have gone in a lot of different directions and made more of a difference with that pick.

I just want an elite weapon on offense whether it be at rb or wr. We need someone other than diggs. Travis Ettienne, Najee Harris, Kadarius Toney are a few names that I would love to add to this offense.

I was very upset with the Epenesa pick. I wanted Dobbins badly. Made it even worse when he went one pick later. Disagree. Who knows what the run game would have looked like with Dobbins. He’s better than either rb we have on our roster.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/247sports.com/Article/Kadarius-Toney-Alvin-Kamara-says-models-his-game-Florida-Gators-NFL-Draft-2021-Tennessee-New-Orleans-Saints-160024342/Amp/ Here he is...

We have a stud OG coming back off injury in Cody Ford. If you recall, he makes his hay in the run game. It’s pass pro that is his Achilles heel.

It’s 2021. No defense is stopping KC’s offense. You have to be able to keep up with them. Give me an offensive weapon any day. You can get by with an above average defense.

Do yourselves a favor and check out Kadarius Toney...

Daboll should apologize to the entire offense. Completely went into a shell on the big stage.

I would normally agree with this, but he played in the SEC, which is a minor league pipeline for the nfl anyways.

Cool.

OR...realize that the only way to win in a shootout is to be able to keep up and draft offense in round 1. Then go defense in 2 or 3. Exactly. I have to admit I didn’t know much about him until I watched this, but I’m sold. Can you imagine if this guy actually caught that pass that Singletary dropped? 6 points...

We need a dynamic playmaker on offense...either a rb like Kamara, or a wr like Hill...

Not sure where I said they didn’t need to add to both sides...