Bill from NYC

Good. I was afraid that we would do something like this. I want MORE picks in 2020.

I sincerely hope that you are correct. That draft will be chock full of wide receivers. I have probably seen every play of Quinnen's career. The kid can play, and he is a seemingly wonderful kid. Do I think that he is a legit #2? He might be, but not for the Bills to give up a 1st in 2020. I would rather trade down and get another one for that matter. And btw, call me crazy but I think that there is a 10% or so chance that we can get him at #9.

I completely acknowledge your point, but I do not want the Buffalo Bills to serve as a farm team for other franchises, to include New England. Gilmore sure did play harder and better on the pats than he did on the Bills, no? Imo, the draft is the best tool for building a winning football team. A foundation must be built this way. Trading away all those picks for a receiver was just stupid when you have no quarterback and so-so blocking at best. I do not enjoy watching Bills draftees winning games for other teams. We have a quarterback now. I really do hope that we get him some blocking and offensive weapons so we can win football games.

What you perhaps don't see in my posts is how I view drafts. A case could be made that Gilmore, McKelvin, Watkins, and Whitner were "good" picks for the Bills because all were good players. None of them sucked; some were very good. The problem is, the team just kept on losing football games. Whaley mortgaged the future of the Bills by trading for Watkins on a team. The team needed OL help and didn't have a top quarterback , thus making the trade idiotic. The Bills overlooked the QB position and blocking for decades. Whaley was part of this losing process. His other dumb moves were just too numerous to list. In the credit where its due dept., his trade for Hughes was a great one. Getting rid of Whaley gave this team a chance to win. I much prefer Beane and imo, the jury is still out on McDermott. I couldn't possibly disagree more my friend. The trick is to win football games. The results are in the won/loss record. Not many players on that list above ever took over a game and won it for the Buffalo Bills.

This is true. I do however think that a good GM needs 10x the discipline that Whaley had. As far as EJ, the team never should have been in the position in which they were forced to draft a QB in that horrible QB draft. Remember G Man, Whaley traded down 8 spots and then drafted EJ. That tells me that he was ready to lose him and draft Smith. The entire situation was embarrassingly stupid.

Bad info? Watson carried his team on his back to a National Championship! Teams raced up to draft these players. Mahomes (as we know) has every tool one could possibly have. Some posters on this board seemed to have a pretty clear picture of the situation. Your bottom paragraph makes a good deal of sense Dr. D, but it doesn't mean that it was right to forsake 2 big time QB prospects and draft a corner. As I said, if McDermott doesn't win, this will be his legacy, not the term "process" that he shamelessly co-opted from Coach Saban. Maybe but you are supposed to win football games. Why do you think that nobody has hired him as GM if he is that good. Serious question.....

He wound up doing so unwittingly. It is very possible that he will be judged as the man who gave two excellent QBs away to draft a corner. If he didn't know how badly the team needed a quarterback (in lieu of a cornerback) he had no business being given this much authority.

This doesn't surprise me one bit. Anyone who listens to this kid in an interview will hear that he is a very smart kid. Absolutely! His coach invented this term when our coach was in college, or perhaps high school. Seriously. I hope so BB but the strength program he comes from might be second to none. I still think that the possibility of him playing guard, at least initially, is real.

Exactly and btw, I remember TJ as a capable blocker.

I hear ya bro and I don't want to appear harsh with you. If Whaley produced wins, I would soften my tone wrt his ability as a GM. That said, I doubt that he will ever again work in that capacity. Jmo.

I am pretty sure he had some injuries. TJ is strong and always had reasonable speed, as well as good hands and moves. Imo there is little to no risk in signing him and I can picture him down the road winning a game for us.

I'm pretty sure that I heard something like that as well.

Smart move!!! He is a very versatile player and will be an asset to this team if he stays healthy.

This imo is not true. It is about the team winning, not about having a "good" corner for a few years. The Bills did not have a good quarterback. They walked away from an already great one as well as another very promising qb (Watson) and drafted a cornerback. There can be no justification in this. Stupidity like this is reminiscent of the Levy/Jauron years.....an almost unmatched era of idiocy.

The Bills were minus not just the quarterback. They were also minus precious cap space and draft picks. Whaley had the discipline of a 7 year old alone in a candy store.

You make good points, but Whaley's mistakes were huge. Before this article, I assigned all of the blame to McDermott for botching things up wrt Mahomes. Now it seems as if Whaley had a large part in this, and it doesn't surprise me.

Whaley was just awful. He had zero discipline in the draft and overpaid mediocre players. He mortgaged the future to draft a wide receiver, this with no quarterback. The day Whaley walked out the door was a great day for this franchise. We can pretend all day that he didn't suck but he did, big time. Oh, and if he was any good, he would have a job right now as an NFL GM. I doubt if any team will ever be stupid enough to make that mistake ever again.

Absolutely.

The group of WRs coming out next year will be much better in 2020. I would hate to miss out on one to move up for a better DT. Jmo.

That is awful no doubt. I do however wonder exactly when the Yankees learned of this.

I would love a trade down which could get them an extra #1 next season. The receivers coming out will be sensational.

Then she adopted a dialect that she thought made her sound African-American, complete with comments about hot sauce. Now, AOC is almost as vile. I say "almost" because she looks better. We have O' Dork writing poetry about killing kids and his genitals. The dem party is off the cliff insane. I am not a fan of many repubs mind you but the dems are getting sicker each day, and I thank them immensely.

Nasty ethnic/regional slur notwithstanding, Hillary Clinton is from Illinois.

Maybe the Clinton Foundation can step in with a few million. Chelsea's wedding is over so why not? Oh wait.....the foreign division of the foundation closed down immediately after she was unsuccessful at stealing the election!!! Never mind.

This is 100% true. Back then many posters thought that Big Sam Adams could play nose because of his size but he absolutely could not (nor did he want to). Otoh Ted Washington was like running into a brick wall, and if he wasn't doubled (or even tripled at times) he would even get the occasional sack. And as far as LBs go, I heard Nick Saban say that some Bama linebackers that were stars years ago would not even be starters today. The difference is probably even wider in the NFL.