Safety Julian Blackmon visiting Bills

[TheBeaneBandit]

48 minutes ago, SoonerBillsFan said:

I hope not.  Quality safeties can be had rounds 4-7.  Ask Hyde and Poyer.

It's not like a tree where a Hyde and Poyer can be plucked every draft. You only get late round guys that pan out like that every so often.

[nosejob]

I really hope we get him, but guess his home is Utah, so my money is on SF.

[Aussie Joe]

43 minutes ago, JakeFrommStateFarm said:

A good car salesman never lets you leave the dealership without a car....

Jake Fromm has probably learnt that by now

[billsfan89]

6 minutes ago, TheBeaneBandit said:

It's not like a tree where a Hyde and Poyer can be plucked every draft. You only get late round guys that pan out like that every so often.

The Bills recent draft history from rounds 4-7 since 2017 under the McD and then eventually McBeane has been pretty good.

 

Milano, Taron Johnson, Gabe Davis, Dane Jackson and Benford all ended up being productive to great starters drafted in rounds 4-7. They also found Wyatt Teller and Ray Ray McCloud both of whole went on to have good careers elsewhere. In addition to those players the Bills also found solid role players in Siran Neal, Tyler Bass and Hamlin.

 

That being said there were about 15 misses in those rounds in that same time period. So it’s a total crap shoot.

[TheBeaneBandit]

5 minutes ago, billsfan89 said:

The Bills recent draft history from rounds 4-7 since 2017 under the McD and then eventually McBeane has been pretty good.

 

Milano, Taron Johnson, Gabe Davis, Dane Jackson and Benford all ended up being productive to great starters drafted in rounds 4-7. They also found Wyatt Teller and Ray Ray McCloud both of whole went on to have good careers elsewhere. In addition to those players the Bills also found solid role players in Siran Neal, Tyler Bass and Hamlin.

 

That being said there were about 15 misses in those rounds in that same time period. So it’s a total crap shoot.

Right. I mean I like our chances, but it absolutely is no sure thing. Well just like every round, you never know really. All I do know is I think landing a Blackmon and then Johnson at DT would really allow the draft to really just come to us and have no unnecessary reaches.

[BillsFanForever19]

21 hours ago, JakeFrommStateFarm said:

 

2 hours ago, JakeFrommStateFarm said:

A good car salesman never lets you leave the dealership without a car....

 

Scuttlebutt was we offered something heavy in incentives. Which isn't surprising. He tore his ACL before he was Drafted. He tore his Achilles a couple years ago. And now he's coming off a Shoulder injury late in the season.

 

Unlike White, both the ACL and Achilles happened early in his career and he's had years removed from both to show where he's at. But the fact remains, he's gone down a lot for such a short career.

 

Regardless of what posters want you to believe, Blackmon and Edwards are close as far as prospective options in the market went. When we brought in Blackmon and then a day later brought in Edwards and signed him after that - that said to me Blackmon wasn't interested and we moved on.

 

I don't think odds were great he was going to come back to our offer to begin with. Now that we've signed Edwards after re-signing Rapp, I see the odds of him coming back to our offer even less. He'll get a better deal elsewhere or the same deal with a team that has less of a competitive aspect.

 

TL;DR It'd be cool if we landed him too - but I think the Bills and Blackmon have moved on. I don't see this as something you should be expecting or waiting for anymore.

Edited March 21 by BillsFanForever19

[26TrapDraw]

7 hours ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

 

that would be good. Ideally we could still also snag one of these quality starters.  Feels like only 20% chance we do though

And there’s really only a 10% chance of that.

[jkeerie]

3 hours ago, JakeFrommStateFarm said:

A good car salesman never lets you leave the dealership without a car....

And yet I always leave if they don't give me the deal I want.

[Warriorspikes51]

Well it appears he left SF without a deal. Perhaps he is weighing his options?  Some talk he could also return to Indy still

[Warriorspikes51]

 

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[Saint Doug]

8 hours ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

 

ESPN Colts reporter

Yep. He’s a victim. Poor guy. 

[Doc]

If he waits until after the draft, it's only going to get worse.

[Matt_In_NH]

On 3/21/2024 at 4:14 PM, TheBeaneBandit said:

It's not like a tree where a Hyde and Poyer can be plucked every draft. You only get late round guys that pan out like that every so often.

Not to mention Poyer was nothing for his first four years.

[Chicken Boo]

31 minutes ago, Saint Doug said:

Yep. He’s a victim. Poor guy. 

 

There's been a shift in recent years on safety salaries.  He just missed the boat.

 

Now he knows how RBs feel. 

[Warriorspikes51]

There’s a claim we offered him a contract today. Guess we’ll see if anything happens

Edited March 24 by Warriorspikes51

[BADOLBILZ]

11 minutes ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

There’s a claim we offered him a contract today. Guess we’ll see if anything happens

 

 

Take the deeeeal Julian........

 

[JohnBonhamRocks]

7 minutes ago, BADOLBILZ said:

 

 

Take the deeeeal Julian........

 

[BADOLBILZ]

7 minutes ago, JohnBonhamRocks said:

 

 

Where IS @eball these days?

 

 

 

[Buffalo Bills Fan]

19 minutes ago, BADOLBILZ said:

 

 

Take the deeeeal Julian........

 

 

That's a good tv show lol.

 

Edited March 24 by Buffalo Bills Fan

[Saxum]

On 3/20/2024 at 8:43 PM, QLBillsFan said:

Hmm ok the topic wasn’t should McDermy be the coach.

 

It is not like that topic has been brought up before.

 

 

Edited March 24 by Punching Bag