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Hopefully he slides.

Nobody team-builds in a vacuum so you’re actually right on the money. We drafted Tre and traded for Gaines which made Darby pretty expendable. Trading Dareus left a hole at DT. Star’s contract was going to be up and McD and co knew it. They didn’t trade Dareus, and then 12 weeks later go, “hey maybe we should sign a DT because we don’t have many, who is available?” That doesn’t mean their ONLY plan at DT was Star, but that’s the one they executed to replace Dareus.

Hopefully it’s enough.

Can the Bills best Stidham and BB if they hold him to 18-39 for 150 yards and a pick is going to be the real question.

Lol, imagine costing your org $100k because you appeared on a podcast.

Would not be surprised to see him end up in Carolina as a backup next season. Or Tenn. Teddy/Tanny, Mitch and a rookie battling for the QB spot in a season or two.

McDermott drafted the best player on the Bills and an All-Pro player in 2017. He also drafted an above average LT and a pretty good LB in the fifth. You could argue that McD has drafted better players than Beane. 0 All-Pros to 1. 1-1 ProBowlers. And McD has had less drafts. 2017 was a lost season from the jump, but we fell into the playoffs. Breaking the drought was awesome and probably helped our football team a lot, but we probably cost our team talent in the short term by having some success. Imagine winning 6 games in 2017, not having to trade as many picks to get Allen or Edmunds. We may have ended up with Chark or Warner or Goedert.

He was the second DL off the board, just outside the top 10. Hardly an unbelievable claim. In 5 years, some people may say they liked Kinlaw over Derrick Brown.

The national media besmirches our QB again.

The top picks on our big board were actually all the players we drafted, and then all the other players. This was likely Beane’s Big Board: Epenesa Moss Davis Fromm Bass Hodgins Jackson Burrow Young etc etc. Just a tremendous job done by the Bills yet again.

That’s true, but they probably liked Dugger a lot more than Neal and Marlowe. So if that bumps up to 35-45% of defensive nickle snaps, thats a big chunk. Not to mention ST that Dugger has proven to be able to play on. There’s value there, IMO.

That would actually be pretty cool besides the Pats drafting Lawrence thing. 2 new draft classes at once?

The third DB is a lot of times a safety. Big nickel is a huge staple of our defense

5 tech and slide inside on passing downs.

Lol there were reports about EJ that his college coach thought he would suck in the NFL. This was at the start of his second season. There have been negative takes on all of these Bills QB’s. I even linked a thread above about how the criticism was “so unfair.” Several analysts have gushed over Josh. Pre and post draft. You have a bad memory.

That’s the beauty of the internet. A topic about the “over the top” criticism of EJ.

That’s how they do it. Every year. They assign number grades to everyone. It’s imperfect, but that’s how it’s done.

It’s very simple. They grade every single prospect and list them on a board. That’s why “Big Boards” exist.

So you’re walking this back. Got it. You could have just stuck with, “I think Josh is better than those guys right now,” you know. “Josh is starting so he must be better” is shaky logic at best.

? Josh Allen is on a rookie contract. And the Bears just picked up a sizable cap hit to bring Foles aboard. You have to follow along if you want to participate.

So are you going on record right now that Mitch Trubisky is better than Dalton, Cam and Winston? Don’t be wishy-washy. He’s got a job and is a starter! That was your (silly) argument two posts ago. Stick with it man!

Nah, all those other dudes got brutalized. They were walking punchlines. You are suffering from recency bias.

Oh, so Gardner Minshew and Mitch Trubisky are so much better than Cam, Winston and Dalton. I am still very smart.

Josh Rosen has a job too right now. He must be a much better QB than Cam, Jameis, and Dalton. I am very smart.

I find it so odd this year there are so many folks who don’t know you. TBD band wagoners?