Cody Ford: Dumpster Fire

[Snappysnackcakes]

Holy crap has he been bad tonight. 

I should clarify - our trade of him away…

[Rigotz]

For those not watching Monday Night Football, Cody Ford is getting annihilated all game.

 

Bad pick by Beane.

 

But excellent move to admit defeat and recoup a 5th rounder while he still had some perceived value.

[Beck Water]

1 minute ago, Snappysnackcakes said:

Holy crap has he been bad tonight. 

I should clarify - our trade of him away…

 

I forget, what did we get for him?

[Jauronimo]

4 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

 

I forget, what did we get for him?

A copy of Call of Dude Bros - 2 Spooky 4 U limited Sega Genesis Edition autographed by Kyler Murray and a playbook that has never been opened.

[Doc Brown]

It's only been five starts but this is his lowest graded season thus far by pff.  We pry win the trade but it will always be a huge whiff of a second round pick.

[Jamie Nails]

1 minute ago, Doc Brown said:

It's only been five starts but this is his lowest graded season thus far by pff.  We pry win the trade but it will always be a huge whiff of a second round pick.

I’ll never forget sitting in the stands near the stage at the draft in Nashville amd the Bills are on the clock. I’m sitting next to @Mark Vader and we’re the guys getting shown on the draft coverage. I’m yelling DK, DK, DK and we go Ford. Had to act happy for the camera. Was pissed. Still am

[Brand J]

7 minutes ago, Jamie Nails said:

I’ll never forget sitting in the stands near the stage at the draft in Nashville amd the Bills are on the clock. I’m sitting next to @Mark Vader and we’re the guys getting shown on the draft coverage. I’m yelling DK, DK, DK and we go Ford. Had to act happy for the camera. Was pissed. Still am

DK Metcalf and AJ Brown were both on the board, but I too wanted DK. Some here wanted him with the Oliver pick. Couldn’t believe he had made it to our pick in the 2nd round only for the wizard to screw it up.

[K D]

5 minutes ago, Jamie Nails said:

I’ll never forget sitting in the stands near the stage at the draft in Nashville amd the Bills are on the clock. I’m sitting next to @Mark Vader and we’re the guys getting shown on the draft coverage. I’m yelling DK, DK, DK and we go Ford. Had to act happy for the camera. Was pissed. Still am

Big miss by all GM's on DK when the analytics showed he graded out pretty much exactly the same as Julio Jones. An absolute physical specimen of pure athleticism. A total no brainer and instead the Bills traded UP for a T that was too slow for the position and was expected to need to move to G at the pro level. But I love when fans say we aren't allowed to criticize the picks because the scouts know more than we do

[Doc Brown]

13 minutes ago, Jamie Nails said:

I’ll never forget sitting in the stands near the stage at the draft in Nashville amd the Bills are on the clock. I’m sitting next to @Mark Vader and we’re the guys getting shown on the draft coverage. I’m yelling DK, DK, DK and we go Ford. Had to act happy for the camera. Was pissed. Still am

Do we trade for Diggs the next year if we already have DK?  Who knows what the long term ramifications would've been?

[Snappysnackcakes]

The Cards definitely knew what they were getting with him. They’re the suckers. Everyone had Cody graded higher than where we picked him. (Everybody means lots of organizations)

[The Frankish Reich]

2 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

Do we trade for Diggs the next year if we already have DK?

So we get DK AND Justin Jefferson? 

You're right ... senseless to go through all the counterfactuals. On the "Cody Ford was a big miss" thing? Well, that one's easy. I posted his PFF scores on the MNF thread - truly astonishingly awful, and still trending down somehow. 

[HurlyBurly51]

so no worries about a repeat of the Teller mistake?😅

[Bubba Gump]

Absolute turnstile 

[pigpen65]

I still think it was like 3 straight years where Ford came into training camp as the starting guard. So yeah, it was good that Beane traded him and was able to actually get something for him, but it's not like it was proactive. Beane's acceptance of Cody Ford's complete sucktitude was a very long and slow process. 

 

 

 

[Locomark]

We traded him for what,  a bag of icy hot? 

[GunnerBill]

Think we got a 5th back. 

[billsbackto81]

Is having Saffold instead supposed to make me feel better?

[Dan Darragh]

3 hours ago, pigpen65 said:

Beane's acceptance of Cody Ford's complete sucktitude was a very long and slow process. 

"Sucktitude" is a great word, think I'll try using it in the haiku thread.

[Dan Darragh]

2 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

Think we got a 5th back. 

Yeh, but I think we had to pay for his airfare to PHX

[Utah John]

Beane is an excellent drafter, except when it comes to linemen.  On the O line, Spencer Brown might turn out to be good but he's still more of a liability.  Cody Ford was a complete miss.  Beane did get Wyatt Teller, but then let him go to hold on to Quinton Spain. 

 

As for the D line, he got Groot but considering how much draft capital he spent on D linemen this is like a blind squirrel finding a nut.  Oliver is improving to the point where he's a good solid B or B+ player.  Epenesa and Basham are C level players. 

 

It's understandable that Beane has shied away from drafting O linemen, considering his track record, but the Bills really need to invest in this area.