Coach Tuesday

Football Outsiders says "beware": http://www.footballoutsiders.com/nfl-draft/2017/backcast-2017

Agreed. Every year they wait for the QBs to fall to a particular spot and every year, they end up missing out on QBs. It's frankly insane.

Some real jerks in this thread, no pun intended...

Here's another way: the Chiefs, who have a far better record than the Bills over the last decade, were willing to spend four picks to ensure themselves a succession plan at the most important position. The Chiefs now have an established, experienced starter and a high-ceiling prospect to groom at the QB position. The Bills have a low-upside starter, TJ Yates, and Cardale Jones. But hey, at least we beat them in trade value points.

I'm sure he's a good player, although the lack of explosiveness bothers me (he doesn't seem to have much of a second gear) and he definitely needs to get stronger from the looks of things. But from a team-building standpoint I question the pick. I'm fine with trading down but they continue to lack a solid strategy for collecting assets with limited resources. In a corner-heavy draft, and with this defense, there was no reason to use a high pick on a player who plays so far away from the ball.

The only good thing about tonight is that they're in the drivers seat for a QB next year and hopefully Whaley won't be in the room.

THIS

They do not understand how to do this.

So does Bob McGinn. I can't believe their owner is going to overrule the expensive, highly-hyped rebuilt scouting department.

Is Haslam really going to do this AGAIN?

Bob McGinn shakes things up with his mock: http://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/mcginn/2017/04/26/mock-draft-bob-mcginns-projections/100929770/

OMG this became a Tyrod thread??? Anyone have a silver bullet or some garlic?

Aaron Donald 2.0. Nothing "stupid" about it.

What's wrong with you man?

They crapped the bed with the 2016 draft.

To me, Whaley's biggest problem has been his inability to plan strategically, both year to year and long-term: identify trends developing within the league, division, college game, and internal roster and develop a plan to allocate limited resources accordingly. You have to be able to anticipate where the game is going and where your roster is going and have a clear plan for anticipating needs and issues before they arise. Whaley is TERRIBLE at this. He can credibly evaluate players on other rosters (i.e., pro personnel scouting) but that's really about it.

No you didn't hear that. Please stop being a troll.

Gotta put Sammy in the "cons" category at this point, at least from Terry's standpoint. That trade didn't work out.

Again - did you see LAST YEAR'S draft? It's not like it can get worse than that...

I'm going to hold judgment on this one until we see who gets axed (if anyone). Perhaps they'll keep some of the pro personnel folks. Regardless, I don't see how this is a "mess" - this is long overdue. This scouting department has failed. Last year's draft needed to be a good one and it BOMBED. Two major injury risks, one major character risk, and one episode of bad luck (Ragland) = game over.

Sure.

Picks 2-10 are incorrect.

When did Whaley get fired?

Alright - but my point is that I'm not sure a QB who isn't a pure pocket anticipation passer is DOA. I think you can win with a sandlot guy if you have the right pieces around him and a solid running game.