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Pro Underscore, Underscore ant that's Pro two Underscores. A n t Intnight's episode,
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I am exhausted mentally emotionally, physically, spiritually, even maybe we are
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coming to the end of the draft process. It is Draft miss Week.
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The NFL Draft will be live two nights from now Thursday, April twenty seventh,
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and then continue wing on Friday, April twenty eighth Saturday April twenty ninth.
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And with the draft about to begin again, we are coming to the
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end of the pre draft process. All the prospect evaluation, fits, the
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mock drafts, the discussion, the wants, the needs, the desires,
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all of those things are starting to come to a close. And in tonight's
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episode, wanted to take a bit of a different turn. So much of
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this predraft process has been here on this show and the Cover One channel,
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rightfully so has been on the focus of things from the Buffalo Bills perspective.
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What do you want for the Bills? What do we want for the Bills?
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Needs, scheme, fits, skill sets, positional upgrades. All of
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these pieces all from the eyes of the Buffalo Bills and through the lens of
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what the Buffalo Bills want. So I thought it'd be fun to flip that
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conversation a bit on its head and look at things into night's episode through the
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eyes of an enemy through the eyes of an opponent, and see what does
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a potential Buffalo Bills, you know, team not want the Buffalo Bills to
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do. Because sometimes in order to find what you need most, it's interesting
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to see what your enemies want you to do the least, and that can
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kind of put some things into perspective. And with that being said, going
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to bring up my guest for tonight's episode. You folks should know he's joined
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me multiple years now for the Buffalo Bills regular season games against the Kansas City
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Chiefs, mister mad Lane of the k C Sports Network, and you also
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contribute to the Draft Guy that you guys put out as well. You do
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a bunch of good work covering the Chiefs, covering college prospects. You and
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I were chopping in up earlier talking about how exhausted we are as we've come
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to the finish line here. You're awesome. Thank you for being here.
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I hate your hat, I hate your shirt, but I like you and
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respect you. Thanks for being here. Welcome. How you're feeling, you
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know, I'm feeling good. There's these these two different Super Bowl pairs of
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merchandise fit real well, still pretty recent. They're new We got one from
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like the last year that a couple of years ago. Yeah, it's just
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like, which one do I want to wear? Like, yeah, all
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the second one. I mean, you know there's you know, maybe I
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have some of the knockoffs from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost to you that might
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be somewhere sitting in a closet. No, thanks for having me on.
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I always enjoy coming on you know, we're we are busy during this time,
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like everybody is, and like I do work on a draft guide.
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We have kcs and stuff that I got going on. It's like I'm usually
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pretty busy. I don't do a lot of other podcasts because we have so
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much going on. My voice gets tired. You have a little bit of
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a farm, like I get. You know, there's a lot going on
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in my life. But when you asked me, I'm always ready to come
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on here. I love coming on here and hanging out with the Bills,
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my Bills friends slash enemies here. Yeah, I appreciate that. I appreciate
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the kind words. You are genuinely one of my favorite people that I've ever
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had on the show, which is weird because like I hate you so much
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and about like every everything about you, and I am planning like we talked
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we talked about on Twitter last week, like I am going to try and
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take over your farm with some of the farm takeover strategies that you talked about
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last week. Justice. Justice will be swift and it will be served.
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But I digress this episode. So I mentioned in the intro I thought it
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was a cool concept to have because again, like everything is always so focused
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on whoever covers what team. It's always like, what does our team need,
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whether it's you're looking at from you know, the team perspective, what
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you know, what you think they will do, or what I want them
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to do, so on and so forth. So I thought it'd be cool
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to flip things on its head a little bit again and look at things from
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an enemy perspective, because I think that kind of puts different needs and team
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building pieces into perspective when you see, you know, Okay, this is
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what I think we need to do, But what are your opponents think?
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And do that maybe lead you in that direction. Like if you've got your
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opponents and they're like, well, we definitely don't want them to do this,
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it's like interesting, Like maybe I didn't think of that or I didn't
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see it that way. So we're going to dive into ranking some things tonight
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from the perspective of Buffalo Bill's opponents. So obviously Matt has the perspective of
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the Kansas City Chiefs, who are a team that most Bills fans don't like
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in any which way, shape or form. But nonetheless, I thought mass
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perspective as as a person who analyzes and covers the Kansas City the Chiefs knows
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the ins and outs and xs and knows of their team end of football,
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combined with his draft prowess and knowledge, would be an awesome guest for tonight
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and Matt. Before we dive into that rankings piece and the focus on the
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draft, there's one I actually kind of a general leading question. So the
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Chiefs as your merchandise on your head and torso indicates won the Super Bowl once
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again. Yeah, you're really healing it up. I hate it, but
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I respected so much. The Chiefs won the Super Bowl again this past year,
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the second in the Reed Mahoons regime. There once again on top of
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the AFC throne and the NFL throne. When you look at the Buffalo Bills,
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one of several teams that have Super Bowl aspirations and realistic odds and chances
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to win a Super Bowl, but they are chasing the Kansas City Chiefs.
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When you look at the Buffalo Bills as things stand currently, how far away
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do you think they are from potentially dethroning the Kansas City Chiefs. We've seen
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back to back regular seasons. From these past couple of years, the Bills
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have beaten in the city. In Kansas City. We all know what happened
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in that stupid playoff game two years ago. They did not meet in the
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playoffs this year. Wait what happened? Can you can you tell me?
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Now? It's um? Now it's um, It's I can't even make a
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joke. I'm still like to hurt. You're a jerk. The Bills,
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you know, we have that bit of like a budding rivalry I think between
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the Chiefs and Bills, although the playoffs will ultimately decide it. Where do
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you see this Buffalo Bills team? How far away do you think they are
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from potentially knocking the Chiefs off of the mountaintop? Okay, so this is
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you know, I've healed it up a little bit, got my jokes off
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but now it's time to pander back to the crowd, right. Um,
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I still personally see the Bills kind of as the biggest challenger to the Chiefs
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going forward. Um, Bengals very good team. They obviously did get the
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Chiefs in the playoffs two years ago. They beat him in the regular season
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again last year, like they have the three and one record verse the Chiefs
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over the last couple of years. But I just when we still go up
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and match up against the Bengals, it seems like they live on such thin
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margins that I still have all the confidence in the world. And the Chiefs
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and the Bengals play, the Chiefs are gonna win, and it's the Bengals
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path. The beating the Chiefs seems so narrow all the time that I just
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can't believe it keeps happening. Whereas the Bills, on the other hand,
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Yeah, it's still the Chiefs are always going to have a narrow path to
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lose a game, right There are a good football team, so it's always
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going to be hard. But I can see the Chiefs go in and play
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the Bills and give an a minus game and still lose because the Bills a
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plus game beats that the Bills a game will still beat them at that point
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in time. They can play almost equally, and the Bills have enough talent,
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they have a quarterback that has enough talent that they can beat the Chiefs
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who play a very good game. I think every other AFC team needs the
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Chiefs to play a poor or a mediocre game to beat them. The Bills
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are right there. I do think the issue the Bills have run into with
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the Chiefs and the playoffs, or even the Bengals or whoever it might be
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in the playoffs these past couple of years, when it comes that crunch time,
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and I don't just mean, like you know, high pressures are just
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generally high pressure situations, it seems like they are no longer playing their best
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football all the time when that comes up, whether offensively, defensively, as
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specific player, the coaches, whoever it may be, it seems like that
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pressure just builds up and it becomes just a little bit too much. I
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think they just need to get over that hump one time and that all changes.
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But until they get there, that just mounts and gets bigger and bigger
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and bigger, and eventually you either got to get over it or you unfortunately
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come up against kind of a reset to figure out how you get there.
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Yeah, you either kind of break that piece a little bit and the pressure
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dissipates, or it continues to mount and build and it crushes you underneath the
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weight of it. And that's a very real thing. I think that's very
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well said, and it's something that I echo, I echoed, I think
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out loud verbally on the show or on Twitter, or at least in my
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mind, like, Yeah, it just seems that whether it's the moment from
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like a large scale like the Bengals game as a whole, or the detailed
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small scale moment like thirteen seconds, which you were so kind to bring up
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and remind us of because you're such a gentleman like those, whether it's the
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small scale niche moment or the large scale piece, like you know, it's
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I mean, we see it in you see it in movies and storylines like
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and you see it in real sports, Like it's not just for an entertainment
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or to write articles or store like draw drama or storylines like. The pressure
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is a real thing and it manifests physically on the field, whether in plays
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that are called or decisions that are made or execution on the field, and
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it just seems like, for whatever reason, in those crunch time moments in
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the playoffs, yeah, the Bills have kind of faltered a little bit and
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against the team like the Chiefs, like you just I like the margin for
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error comment you made about the Bills, because what makes the Chiefs so hard
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to beat year in and year out is because you have Patrick Mahomes, because
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you have Andy Reid and Travis Kelsey and then the playmakers that they have on
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defense, your margin for error against them is so small. I mean,
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even take the Jags for a little bit. I'm not sitting here saying the
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Jags we're going to beat the Chiefs, but you drop that interception that Chad
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Henny maybe gifted to you when Patrick Mahomes goes out like and then you fumble
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down like inside the low red zone against the Chiefs, Like the Chiefs are
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in that spot now where almost any mistake you just feel like, well,
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you know what, we did everything right nine on of ten, but that
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one thing we did is the reason we didn't win the game. And they
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make the margin for error so small, and it's why they're so frustrating.
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Well, I think the hard part two is from the Bill standpoint too,
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Like you're talking about these big picture games or a minor not even minor,
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but like small details. But now I think it's transitioning to team building in
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general, right, Like now there's this pressure that the builds are having of
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trying to essentially chase the Chiefs. Right. I don't want to say this
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be cocky, but like everyone's chasing the Chiefs again right now, and especially
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in the AFC. You can't if you're in the Bill shoes, you can't
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just build a team to only beat the Chiefs, because now the Bengals have
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caught up, and so the team that can beat the Chiefs might not beat
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the Bengals, or the team that can beat the Chiefs might not beat the
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Dolphins or whoever else is coming, right, but you still have to also
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beat the Chiefs. And then you go back to that margin of airthing.
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If you build a team that's okay, like it's a really good team,
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but not centered around just beating Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs, which is a
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different task, how does that play out in the playoffs. It's like,
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now the Bills have to find out how they want to build their team while
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chasing another team with other good teams Likes I'm saying the word team eight hundred
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times here, but it just kind of becomes this crazy circle of like,
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how do you chase one team that you clearly have to get over the hump
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against while not letting everybody else catch up to you? And so now it
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goes back to there's pressure and team building. Bill's done a very good job
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building their team, right, But it feels like this draft's kind of big
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for you guys, just in terms of adding young talent to this team,
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and not even just young talent, like getting guys that are just just solid,
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like just getting guys that can go out there and play, maybe not
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necessarily. I don't know. You can tell me. Do you guys want
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big splashes? Do you just want a solid group of guys that can play
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early? Like I don't know the best path for them, but it just
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feels like they need to have a big draft this year. This draft is
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super important, not just for twenty twenty three, but you know for twenty
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twenty four and beyond. The Bills are now in that territory that any team
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with the franchise quarterback gets into where you pay the franchise quarterback, and now
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you have to get that cheap, effective talent, usually via the draft,
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to be able to maintain functionality and have a solid floor and all your positions
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across as many spots as you can offensively and defensively. And the Bills have.
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The Bills have significant questions. I've talked about it all offseason on this
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show, like like right now, they have no defensive tackles on the roster
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for twenty twenty four, and that's not great for a team that is primarily
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driven defensively by their defensive line. Like, they've had some questions at offensive
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line that I think they raised the floor four. You've got some questions at
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wide receiver. You know, we might be doing this dance at safety again
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next year if Mica Hide doesn't come back. There are questions on this roster
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that it's unfortunate this draft class isn't the strongest, especially if the positions of
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need for the Buffalo Bills and overall, like, I don't think this is
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the draft class to be like, oh sweet, we can plug all these
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holes or upgrade all these positions in this draft class. But yeah, they
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this draft and this offseason as a whole was very important to them, not
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just for twenty twenty three, but in terms of setting themselves right going forward
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as Josh Allen's contract starts to kick in further and further as you go forward.
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And I also thought, you know, I just wanted to touch on
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the point you made, you know, when you're chasing, because it was
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such a great point. When you're chasing the top dog, you still have
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to make sure you're able to beat the rest of the dogs that are around
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you and ackotize into my philosophy I always have for team building, like it's
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that rock, paper, scissors ability, Like you need to be able to
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throw all three. You can't just be rock because you know, okay,
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so if the chiefs are paper and your notes, well, the chiefs would
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be scissors. If the chiefs are scissors and your rock, sweet, guess
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what, you smash them all day? You win. What happens if you
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play a team that's paper like what happens if you build a tremendous you know,
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coverage unit on defense built to stop the pass. That's what you're going
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towards. That's what you're going towards. And then I don't know, you
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played like the Ravens in the wildcard round of the playoffs, and they're like,
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cool, We're just going to run it fifty five times on you and
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keep the ball away from you, and then you're gonna lose. And then
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it's like you built this team to beat this one team and you never even
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got And that's and that's part I think of the pressure point too, like
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then you're caught like chasing your tail a little bit because you're trying to beat
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this one team. But then are you at a disadvantage against the other teams?
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And okay, does does the playoff seating fall the right way with the
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way that you're built versus the teams that you play and how And it's so
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frustrating and so dumb, and I hate sports, but I also love them,
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and it's it's the enigma that is being a sports fan, and especially
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when you I think when you understudy, when you understand and study the xs
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and ose and the schematic pieces of everything, and for me, like every
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free agent signing, every roster to decision, it's all dialed up to like
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ten because I feel like I'm seeing the ones and zeros like Neo and the
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matrix, and like every someone would be like, oh, that guy's okay,
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and I'm over here like freaking out for like no reason, And it's
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just I feel that pressure. And I'm not even I'm not one of the
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coaches with the giro on the field, like, so imagine what they think,
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like roster building. Yeah, especially when that that top dog is in
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your conference or is a rival like and the factor in the copycat league and
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so on and so forth. It it really the money mundies the waters in
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a whole bunch of ways. I'm stressed, but I'm also it would be
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it'd be really cool if the NFC would keep a quarterback or two as well,
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Like that would be awesome. We were talking about a bit offline,
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like the AFC sucked for years. When the Patriots are running things and then
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the Bills get Josh Allen and the Bills are good, but it's like,
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no, now Miami is gonna be good and the Jets are gonna be good,
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and then they're gonna get Aaron Rodgers and the Patriots aren't great, but
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they're still like good enough. And then there's Patrick Mahomes and there's Justin Herbert
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and there's Joe Burrow. And then we're over in the NFC being like,
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who's the best quarterback in the NFC, And it's like Jalen Hurts, question
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Mark, Like not that he's not that. I don't want to take anything
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away from Jalen Hurts, like and I think he deserved the contract he got,
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but like, I don't know the five if we ranked the best quarterbacks
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in the league, they're probably all in the AFC. Oh, yeah,
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I mean I think so. I mean even beyond that too, just like
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your best teams, Like, yes, the Eagles were a very good team
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last year, they've belong to the Super Bowl, but after that and especially
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once I mean, especially with quarterback injuries, but even without, Like how
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many teams from the AFC would be favored over the forty nine ers if they
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were all to be matched up, even at the end of last year,
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right, Like the AFC is just loaded a team like the Niners. The
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Niners are sweet, right, but I don't know, like there are they
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really gonna go with Brock Purty, Like we don't even know what his arm
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is gonna look like. And then if it's not him, is it's Sam
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Darnold or Trey Lance, Like granted the rest of their squad is stacked and
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really good, but also like that that's what you're talking about in the NFC,
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And is it the Cowboys? Is it the Eagles? Like is it
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the Niners? And then you look at the AFC and it's just this murderers
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row of stupidity And it's just like that always goes back to like the paranoid
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that exists to me as like a Bills fan, just like like it never
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works out, like it's always there's always something else. Like you think you
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turn the corner and you're like, I'm going to escape the haunted house.
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And then you like turn the corner and you're like, oh no, this
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is like a hall of mirrors. I have no idea where I am.
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This sucks. And then you escape that and you're like, sweet, no,
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now I'm in a labyrinth, Like where am I? Like what's going
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on? It's just you turn one corner or you go through one door and
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another roadblock or obstacle. Mr just but nonetheless, let's dive into the topic
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for this episode, The Buffalo Bills twenty twenty three NFL Draft Anti Wishless.
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So many things are wish lists driven, Oh, I'd like this guy.
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I'd like to see this position address. But again, for this episode,
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we are flipping that idea on its head a bit. For everybody who's joining
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us live here. You know how we like to do on the show.
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A questions, thoughts, comments, concerns, throw them up into the chat.
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I will start them, and then once I send Matt on his merry
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way, I will bring things back up towards the end of the episode,
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especially, I want to get all your folks. Is your anti wish list
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things. Maybe it's a specific player you don't want position, so on and
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so forth. We'll dive into that on the back end of the episode.
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But right now, because we're joined by mister Matt Lane of the Casey Sports
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Network, Matt, we're gonna lead off with your number one when it's come
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into this NFL draft for the Buffalo Bills, what is the top thing?
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If you are an opponent of the Buffalo Bills, which technically you are,
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what do you not want to see them do in this draft? And I
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should also say for people I don't know Matt's answers, and they could be
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position specific, they could be players specific. There's a lot of ways that
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he could answered this question. A lot of avenues potentially go down. So
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what's the top thing you do not want to see? The Buffaloes? Do?
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Buff the Buffaloes? The buffalo Bills do? I'm falling apart. Go
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ahead, I'm gonna I'm gonna start at the top here and we're gonna go
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player specific to start. And it's a guy that I like, And it's
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a two full answer here. I don't want to see him on the Bills
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because I think it makes him a lot better. But I also if he's
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available to Bills pick I think they should just let him go by so the
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Chiefs can maybe draft them. Jordan Addison, wide receiver out of USC.
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I don't know how Bills fans feel about him. I know a lot of
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people are torn on him because he weighs like one hundred and fifty pounds.
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And I get it, I one hundred percent get it. But I love
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Jordan Addison. I think he walks into the NFL and is able to get
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open when you need him to get open on all three levels of the field
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because of his route running, because of how well he understands coverage. I
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think he gives them that option across from Stefan Diggs that can be reliable.
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I love Gay Bavis. I would take Game Davis on the Chiefs ten out
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of ten times right now, But I don't know if I would call him
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a guy that's going to reliably be open on any point in time that we
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have to call his number because our other guy is getting doubled or getting taken
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out of this game or whatever. I think Addison would give them that guy,
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and I think the Chiefs really need that guy. I really don't want
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to see the Bills have two people that start to build that connection with Josh
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Allen that just to get open. The Chiefs were great this past year without
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Tyreek Hill, but there was still a difference when push came to shov and
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the offense needed a play. Having Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelsey having two guys
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that had the upmost confidence from your quarterback in the offense, I don't want
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to see the Bills get that. And Addison's the one guy that I think
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walks in like right away and can probably build on that. So please do
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not take him if he is available. Is is that answer more Jordan Addison
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driven or more wide receiver weapon driven free. Yeah, it's it's probably fifty
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fifty both. I really do like Addison, so he's he's my top wife.
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I knew you're I thought as soon as you started talking about like someone
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you don't want you'd like to go to the Chiefs, like, because I
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follow you on Twitter, like I see your timeline, I immediate it was
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like, it's gonna be Jordan Addison, So that yeah, and that's the
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one. It's like. I would still have the same feeling if it was
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a Flowers or for whatever reason, Jackson Smith and Jigba fell that far,
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but it would be more prominent to me if it was Jordan Addison. I
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think you'll play in the outside of the NFL. No, you don't want
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to slap him on the line of scrimmage for one hundred percent of his snaps
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and have him go beat a corner. But if you keep him off the
22:10
line of scrimmage or you just have him do it occasionally, I don't think
22:12
it will be a problem. So, yeah, it's mostly player. It's
22:15
position driven, but the player being Addison being ready right away, beating man,
22:19
beating coverage, it just amplifies it and it makes it that much more
22:23
because you give the Bills Quinton Johnson even or is a Flowers. I think
22:27
he adds more dynamic ability to the team. It's really good, it makes
22:30
them better. But I still wonder if you come back to that same reliability
22:34
or consistency issue that that feels like they're missing. Outside of Staffon Dix.
22:38
Is he your wide receiver one in this draft class? He is? And
22:44
part of that is slanted towards the Chiefs a little bit because I do think
22:47
that they need that reliability. So like and then like for Json specifically,
22:52
I push him down just a tiny bit because I think he is pretty exclusive
22:56
to operating in the same space Travis Kelsey is, and not that that's a
22:59
bad thing, just that does impact the rankings a little bit. So Addison
23:02
is my wide receiver run one? Though right now, one more question for
23:06
you around wider SIP pieces. We've seen what Patrick Mahomes ad any read By
23:11
extension have done well. Granted maybe the sample size is a bit smaller because
23:15
it was really just this past year, but the idea of them being able
23:17
to take guys like Marques Valdes, scant Lang and Juju Smith Schuster, and
23:21
I guess Kadarius, Tony and skymore to a degree, but the whole idea
23:25
of if you've got that great trigger man, you can just drop in little
23:27
pieces here and there, and you know that guy, that trigger man like
23:30
Mahomes or Alan or whoever, can raise the game of those pieces that you've
23:34
dropped in and kind of make everything fit. Do you see you know we're
23:40
talking an offline a bit about you know, Mahomes and Alan and how good
23:44
Alan is and how good Mahomes is. Do you see Allan as that guy
23:49
that you can kind of just drop in any weapon around him and he can
23:55
raise their game or do you think he needs more players specific skill set pieces
24:00
then Mahomes does. And if by so, like, how like how much
24:04
you know you know you that there? Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna
24:08
say right now just because we haven't seen him go through the full wholesale change
24:12
that we just had to see Mahomes go through over the past two years,
24:15
and Mahomes has completely revamped how he played the game when he first started starting
24:19
in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen to where he is now. It's like he's
24:23
kind of been forced to do it. So we've seen him do that,
24:26
and then we saw him do it with all new pieces. We haven't really
24:29
had to see Josh Allen do that yet, and it does seem like the
24:33
times where he does start to struggle the most is when what he does well
24:37
is taken away. Now, I still love Josh Allen because he's like,
24:40
hey, you want to take away my deep ball, that's fun. I'm
24:41
just gonna throw it even deeper and it works, and like, that's that's
24:44
awesome. I wish Mahomes did that more. That's actually one thing I do
24:47
wish that he did. But I do think Allan needs a guys that are
24:51
a little bit more specific to his skill set right now, or at least,
24:53
we haven't seen him do it with guys that are just kind of being
24:56
dropped in and put out there and then saying, Okay, Josh, we
25:00
need you to make this work. Now. The it's now on you.
25:03
It's your problem to make this work. Go figure it out, and not
25:07
as a punishment. Just as we believe you can do it, let's see
25:11
you do it. I just don't know if we've gotten there yet. Very
25:14
fair, very fair, good answer. I knew this would lead to I
25:17
knew each one of your answers would lead to like questions that I would have
25:21
in like the organic conversation. I'm pretty happy with that first answer. Um,
25:26
It's funny, you know you mentioned how Bills fans feel about Jordan Addison.
25:29
I think for Bills fans, the holy grail of receivers to fall would
25:33
be Jackson Smith and Jake bob One Just I think a lot of it is
25:37
due to that slot nature that he plays or that he works in. Just
25:42
we saw the Bills offense look and feel different this past year without the presence
25:48
of a legitimately dominant slot receiver like a Cole Beasley. Like it just Beasley's
25:53
ability to leverage space and read coverage and be able to understand what's happening from
25:59
the chas from pre to post snap, and be able to do all of
26:03
that quickly and accurately and on the same level in plane as Josh Allen.
26:07
I thought that was a big, you know, hindrance to Josh Allen's performance
26:11
last year because he didn't have that safety net and that reliability piece, you
26:15
know, in the middle of the field and in that slot, and Jack's
26:18
operates in that world. He's very comfortable He's got some size on him,
26:22
He's got that athleticism. He is, I think, kind of priority number
26:25
one for the Bills Addison. I think Addison's in that second tier depending on
26:30
who you ask. Jackson I think is in the tier of his own.
26:33
And then it's Addison, Zay Flowers, and Josh Downs, the slot receiver
26:38
from North Carolina that are like Bills fans darlings. You know. Downs again
26:42
is he reminds people of Cole Beasley with how he runs his routes and paces,
26:47
and so I think he kind of put him into that role. Bills
26:49
fans really want that slot piece. But there's some sexiness to Zay Flowers.
26:52
Addison was the ideal one, and I think a lot of people got scared
26:56
off because he weighs, you know, one hundred and ten pounds, soak
27:00
and wet. But to your point, when you watch the tape, really
27:03
polished, good route runner, Like, I think he can succeed on the
27:07
outside, even though his frame and size might be like you know, he
27:10
kind of need to work inside. But I mean, you pair him with
27:14
a Stefon Diggs with how Addison already operates as a route runner and his understanding
27:18
of leverage and finding space and ability to beat man in his own That's a
27:22
very interesting combination in terms of what you can do to help him potentially get
27:26
to his ceiling even further. So good answer to start off, I like
27:30
it, and get jsin for the Bills makes a ton of sense, right,
27:33
because the outside receivers are set. Diggs can play inside, but I
27:36
think he's been a lot more productive when he's outside. Absolutely. Gabriel Davis
27:40
obviously is an outside guy. So you have those guys kind of set up.
27:42
Yes, Dawson Knox lives over the middle a little bit, but not
27:45
still in the same way. So yeah, Jsen being the top guy for
27:48
the Bills, I would one hundred percent agree with there. That would be
27:52
also very scary. I just don't think he'll be there, So I left
27:55
him completely off, right, So I went to you know, the next
27:56
guy on the list. No, absolutely, and I don't even I want.
28:00
I mean, the receiver class is weird in general in terms of like
28:03
how it's gonna fall, Like who even Quentin Johnson, who you mentioned,
28:07
Like before the draft process started, it was like, well, this dude's
28:11
like six foot four, He's gonna run a four fourth, and then then
28:14
he's like six foot two and he runs a four or five one, and
28:17
you know then you you know, watch the on tape stuff and how high
28:21
cut he is and he doesn't, you know, high point the football.
28:22
He's a body catch or all these other things. But this wide receiver class
28:26
is so weird. I wonder how it falls. I don't think Jack's has
28:29
any shot of making too the Bills of twenty seven, and I wonder,
28:32
I wonder who the first non Jackson Smith and Jigbu receiver is off the board.
28:37
Is It'say Flowers? Is it Jordan Addison? Like you've got a team
28:41
like the Giants sitting right in front of the Bills. If they get their
28:45
pick, like, do they lean Flowers? I think Addison makes sense,
28:48
but they could use Flowers like it's It's really interesting in terms of trying to
28:52
see where the receivers are gonna fall, because so much of it, given
28:56
the skill set and frame of the receivers in this class, is so team
29:00
specific. Even Jackson Smith and Jigba right, like, so a lot of
29:03
people have him as their wide receiver. One. Well, I don't know
29:06
if a team doesn't need a slot receiver or doesn't run a bunch of eleven
29:10
personnel? Is he their wide receiver one? Like? And if they want
29:14
more of a guy who can live more on the outside and push things further
29:18
into the boundary? Yeah, is he? Where does he fall? Is
29:22
he your wide receiver? Three? Four? Like? Even though his talent
29:26
might be better, where do you rank him? Like? The team fit
29:30
combined with the sizes and frames all these guys make it such a muddy class.
29:33
I hate this wide receiver class. I hate it absolutely, Like it's
29:36
just like everybody's like five foot six and one hundred and sixty pounds like slot
29:41
guys. Maybe they could play some Z Like the only true X guys you
29:45
have are Johnston and like at Perry and maybe Jonathan Mingo and Cedric Tillman,
29:51
like because everyone else is just smurfs. It's so just muddied and weird.
29:55
And even all of those guys have like glaring red flags. You know,
29:59
Tilman come in the fake offense and we just don't talk about it because he's
30:02
not high and Het Perry's offense might even be more fake than Tennessee is.
30:06
And then bingo, bingo, I have the like least I can't just poke
30:11
random holes in his game. He just wasn't that for a dug Like people
30:14
talk about him in the A. J. Brown level, and like he
30:17
just wasn't that guy in college. Not that he can't develop, but he
30:19
wasn't that guy. But it's a lot of projections based. Everyone has somebody
30:22
read flags. This wide receiver class. I don't hate it, but it's
30:26
really hard to wrap your minder, and you have to be okay with a
30:29
I don't want to say non complete wide receiver, but just a wide receiver
30:33
that has issues, that's not a perfect player. You have to be really
30:36
okay with it if you're going that route. Yeah, like a guy that
30:38
you really might not see what he can do until year two or year three,
30:42
Like you've got to work out some of those kinks. There's not as
30:45
many. This year's class doesn't have Wilson and London and Jamison Williams and Jehan
30:52
Dots and even somebody who I had his like wide receiver six for me last
30:56
year, like Treylan Burkes, like he had a good rookie year and like
30:59
maybe he tops the class this year. Like it's just it's so wonky and
31:02
it's so Muddy, So very interesting that you want with wide receiver there,
31:04
and you're pick Addison, who I do like as well, So I a
31:07
second year notion there, Let's move to the second So the number one thing
31:12
you do not want to see the Buffalo Bills do in this draft is add
31:17
Jordan Addison, wide receiver from the University of Southern California. What is the
31:22
number two thing you do not want to see the Bills do? A right,
31:25
this was less players specific, It's more just like a results based thing.
31:29
I don't want to see the Bills hit on multiple defensive linemen in like
31:33
the way the Chiefs did. Okay, And so when I say and then
31:36
when I say the Chiefs, I mean like they did at cornerback last year.
31:38
So if for you know, those that might not be familiar, they
31:41
drafted Trey mcduffy in round one, Joshua Williams in round five, Jalen Watson
31:45
in round seven, all of them played. All of them played very important
31:49
roles, very specific roles for this team throughout the season. Right, So
31:53
they're not all going to be All stars. Two of them, two of
31:56
the rookies. The day three guys got picked on and stretches. They were
31:59
per picked players by any means, but they were very good rookies that played
32:04
a vital part of winning the Super Bowl. They filled specific roles. So
32:07
the Bills coming out of this draft with three defensive linemen, maybe one of
32:10
them taken in the first round as a three down player, you know,
32:13
plays all the time, has a big impact. We'll call him the Trim
32:15
mcduffee of a defensive linemen. Then we'll say the next guy in Day two
32:20
or Day three there in the middle, plays a lot of snaps, but
32:22
maybe he's only a one and a half down player, a run plugger that
32:25
just stuffs a lot of runs that come his way. He's not a perfect
32:28
player, but very useful. And then they get a Round seven guy that
32:31
comes in and just provides flashes and splash plays like the Jalen Watson, a
32:37
couple of picks, a couple like two straight picks in the playoffs, you
32:38
know what I mean. Just like all these different levels along the defensive line,
32:42
they don't all have to be home runs. They just have to be
32:44
quality players. But the Bills doing that on the defensive line to further bolster
32:49
the team that kind of started the trend of just having this giant rotation on
32:52
the D line right, I think the Bills were one of the first teams
32:54
to do it, and now all of a sudden, the Eagles are getting
32:57
all the credit for only playing three snaps in a row before subbing guys out.
33:00
I remember the Bills when the Chiefs were getting ready to gear up for
33:04
that playoff game two years three years ago, the Bills were like, oh,
33:07
full on defensive line rotation, full on defensive line rotation, Like getting
33:10
that covered full again would not be fun as a Chiefs fan. Do you
33:15
see so with the Bills defensive line where it currently stands right now, You've
33:20
got Von Miller coming back from injury. You've got and we're just focused on
33:22
the edge group right now like Von Miller, A j Vanessa, Greg Rousseau,
33:27
Boogie Basham, a couple other like young guys that haven't really factored in
33:30
it as of now. And then on the interior you've got Da Kwon Jones,
33:34
You've got Ed Oliver, Jordan Phillips has come back, Tim Settle his
33:37
back had a bit of a wonky year. As the defensive line stands now,
33:42
do you see this group as like how do you if the Bills and
33:45
Chiefs are playing right now and you're looking at that Bills defensive line against that
33:50
Chiefs offensive line, is it a group that poses any type of threat to
33:53
you? Or are you very confident in the Chiefs offensive line against the Bills
33:57
d line. I mean, I gotta see the Chiefs tackles right now,
34:00
right because it's a little bit up in the air with them replacing both tackles.
34:02
But just generally speaking from what I've seen to the Chiefs, it doesn't
34:06
It does not strike fear in me. They see they seem formidable, but
34:09
they're not a defensive line. When the Chefs are going to play the Bills,
34:13
I'm not thinking this is going to be one of those games where Mahomes
34:15
is going to have to be perfect in the pocket or make a ton of
34:17
plays with his legs. It's the Bills can do stuff to frustrate them.
34:22
They can have somebody can have a good game. We've seen just about all
34:23
of these guys have good games versus the Chiefs. But I don't think that
34:29
Bills defensive line has really made their presence supremely felt versus the Chiefs. And
34:34
so that's where I think just getting even more depth and deep ish defensive line
34:37
group. I think the issue you guys ran into last year obviously von Miller
34:40
getting hurt really you know, put a big damper on things, right like,
34:44
and you can't predict that, but I can also say he's a veteran
34:47
player, relying on him for a lot of snaps, you better have backups
34:51
ready to come in and play and if this does happen again, So just
34:54
having that depth there to just throw waves of bodies that can be efficient at
35:00
a certain moment. Maybe now all of a sudden, yeah, they're still
35:01
not taking over the game, but there's never also a point where you don't
35:05
feel their presence, and I feel like at times the Bills defensive line kind
35:08
of disappears. I think it's very well said, and it's it's something that
35:13
has resonated with me this entire offseason when I've gone over the metrics, which
35:20
are there's a severe drop for the Bills defens as a whole, but especially
35:22
that defensive line in terms of Pastor's productivity and production in general. Once von
35:25
Miller went down and for a grouping that you know, Brandon Bean and Sean
35:30
McDermot had both come out and explicitly stated like they believe in building the defense
35:34
from the defensive line out, and a grouping that's had a top ten pick
35:37
recently in at Oliver, a first round pick in Greg Russo, a second
35:40
round pick in Boogie Basham, a second round pick in Ajpanessa, and all
35:45
the other defensive line additions through free agency. To have that level of production
35:52
drop off, just Von Miller is tremendous, He's a Hall of Famer.
35:55
But to have your group disappear, like you said at times and kind of
36:00
fall off a cliff just because one guy went out. Understandably that one guy
36:06
is tremendous, But to have that level of production dip despite all the investment
36:10
that you've had has been a tremendously worrisome thing to me. And I think
36:15
you nailed it on the head, like it's not a group that if you're
36:19
facing like a good offensive line, you're like, hey, we could probably
36:22
win this matchup, Like, yeah, they got some guys, but we'll
36:23
be all right. And I don't think that that should not be an offensive
36:28
group's thought, considering all the investment you poured into that position. Group so
36:32
very well said. I also wanted to ask you a question. We talked
36:35
about this offline, the Chiefs corners. You know, you mentioned several of
36:40
their rookie corners who had good years. They had a tremendous rookie class.
36:44
In general. You have the rookie corners, you have what karloftis did you
36:46
even what you got from Cook at times at safety and what he was able
36:51
to do you got. You know, you're getting base personnel wraps out of
36:53
Leo chanalog just because you're just like, hey, let's just have you run
36:57
as fast as you can and blitz and run into linemen or make plays in
37:00
the backfield and see what happens. They really used him to his skill set
37:02
well. But we talked about this offline. This is a thing for Bills
37:07
fans, and I've said it had been on the show here, but you
37:09
know, you are a Chiefs guy, So I want to talk to you
37:12
about it, and then I'll probably clip it and use it as promo at
37:15
some point. So many Bills fans are focused on the notion of you have
37:19
to play rookies, you have to play rookies, you have to play rookies,
37:21
And they used the chief success last year because well, look what the
37:23
Chiefs did with their rookies, and they won the Super Bowl and now they're
37:27
set up for all this success. But talk about, especially in the secondary,
37:30
talk about why the Chiefs had to rely on those rookies. So,
37:35
yes, they drafted the right players, those players played well. This is
37:38
not to take anything away from the draft pick or the selection, or the
37:43
players playing well and executing, or the decision to put them in there.
37:45
The coaches are coaching them up, so on and so forth, but talk
37:49
about why there was no other option, like they whether the rookies played well
37:53
or didn't, they had to play their rookies, especially in the secondary,
37:57
Like that's just where their depth chart was they had to lean into. But
38:01
it's funny because Chiefs fans got really upset at Steve Spagnolo, the defensive coordinator,
38:06
for never playing rookies. Like right, that's kind of the mantra going
38:08
into this last year. And the Chiefs were also under fire specifically talking corners
38:13
right now of not investing in the cornerback position. So the Chiefs go into
38:16
the draft, they have not taken anything above like a Day three corner under
38:21
Brett Beach. They haven't signed a corner and free agency for more than like
38:23
three million dollars per year under Brett Beach. The whole joke is they don't
38:28
value corner at all. They trade up for Trent mcduffee. They then draft
38:30
three more cornerbacks throughout the rest of the draft. So you go into training
38:35
camp and the competition is Lagerry Steve, who's gonna start. Rashad Finton,
38:38
who is a Day three pick from three years ago who's always just been fine.
38:44
He's always kind of been like a fourth corner that gets some reps to
38:46
start when someone gets hurt. They brought in I'm gonna free Lonnie Johnson from
38:52
the Houston Texans to be competing for a job. The year before, they
38:54
had Mike Hughes. We saw how well that went in the playoffs. They
38:58
didn't bring him back. Like they didn't have corners. They had a bunch
39:00
of journeyman corners or homegrown guys that were Day three picks that were vying for
39:07
first starting jobs. So Trent McDuffie comes in, is a first round pick.
39:09
Yeah, he's probably going to start in Week one against the Arizona Cardinals
39:14
because his only competition is really other rookies, and then Lonnie Johnson who has
39:17
been kicked around from corner to safety to corner to safety, and so as
39:22
the year went on, Trent McDuffie gets hurt, Lonnie Johnson gets cut for
39:24
Shan Finton's banged up a little bit. Well, guests, who has to
39:28
start? Now the day three rookies are now thrust in there. Then the
39:31
Chiefs and their ultimate wisdom decide we will trade Rashad Finton. So that way,
39:37
I don't know what the rationale, as we joked that it was so
39:38
that they had to keep playing rookies who were playing well and not put him
39:42
back on the field. But they trade away the most proven, the most
39:45
tenured guy in that CB room, and now you are forced to play Legariu
39:49
Steenen rookies. That's the legitimately their only options besides special teamers. And that's
39:53
just that's the way it shook out. And even these other guys you talk
39:55
about with Brian Cook Leo Chanel, the Chiefs just he didn't have players at
40:00
those positions. I mean they coming off of John Dorsey to Brett Veach.
40:04
That was something the Chiefs lacked was depth under John Dorsey and Brett Veach has
40:07
slowly been building depth at certain positions. But when you have to rebuild an
40:12
offensive line unit, when you have to rebuild a wide receiver room, you
40:15
take a stall at, you stall out a little bit adding death. They
40:19
had no depth at this in the secondary, they had no depth at some
40:22
of these positions. They drafted, so rookies had to play. So yes,
40:24
they earned the job over other depth guys, but they weren't beating out
40:28
proven starters. They weren't beating out even bottom tier starters. They were beating
40:32
out other journeyman players. For those reps, Thank you so much. I
40:38
hope that helps. It does help tremendously. The big one that it,
40:44
like we talked about offline, that it comes back to, is you know,
40:45
people want to hire Elam playing ahead of Dane Jackson. And the thing
40:50
that I had was Dane Jackson didn't have as bad of a year that people
40:52
think he did. He was in like the top third of the league in
40:54
a bunch of different metrics, efficiency metrics, and Elam had some struggles as
40:59
well. But my whole contention was the Chiefs didn't have a Dane Jackson at
41:04
corner like they all their guys were there. Dane Jackson was a whole bunch
41:07
of rookies. So it was like here you go, sink or swim,
41:08
and they swam, which is again awesome for them. And the identification from
41:14
the scouts and the GMS and or the GM and you know, identifying who
41:17
they wanted in the draft, and coaches were getting no coached up. But
41:20
yeah, whether they liked it or not, like that's who they were rolling
41:22
with. It wasn't a conscious decision to go and be like, you know
41:24
what we're gonna do this year, all rookies. We're gonna have all these
41:28
rookies making impacts. And it was like, no, the board kind of
41:30
fell that way, and then they had to thrust these guys into that role.
41:34
I appreciate you so much. I appreciated you before this show started,
41:37
and I appreciate you even more now. So perfect. We let off with
41:42
not wanting the Bills to add Jordan Addison because of what he adds to this
41:45
team. Your second point was the Bills adding some reinforcements on that defensive line,
41:51
which you did not want to see them do. Now let's go to
41:52
point number three out of five. What a the third thing you do not
41:55
want to see the Buffalo Bills do in this upcoming draft. Let's go back
42:00
to the offensive side. Um, okay, let's say land a day three
42:04
offensive linemen that kind of walks into a starting role immediately, and not because
42:08
there's no competition, but just because he's that good. So I mean,
42:12
like the Chiefs, I don't want to bring everything back to the Chiefs,
42:14
but the Chiefs did do it with Tray Smith. Now that was a medical
42:16
thing. But getting a day three starting offensive lineman, though, that's a
42:21
huge deal. Right. It's one thing to draft one in the round one.
42:23
It's one thing the draft the starting offensive and even in day two.
42:27
But once you get into day three, if you have a guy that earns
42:30
that starting role over a competent enough player, right, Like the Bills need
42:35
help at right Ryan Bates is not a premier starter, right, but if
42:38
he's your starting right guard, you don't. Well, Bills fans might disagree,
42:42
but you're not like, oh my god, this entire game is ruined
42:45
because Ryan Bates is starting it right guard for us. So if they can
42:47
if you can get an improvement on that in day three from day one,
42:52
that goes a long way and you're spending no money. You spent a low
42:54
level of draft capital, and I think bolsterring the offensive line for Josh Allen
43:00
would help. It doesn't matter what position. I think what right tackle and
43:01
right guard are the two positions that you guys would be looking to replace.
43:05
Right Yeah, so either one of those on Day three, specifically Day three.
43:08
That's not fun to see a big rival go ahead and fill a role
43:13
immediately. Then very well said I right tackle has been my biggest with where
43:17
Spencer Brown is. He you know, played eight man football in high school,
43:22
goes to university in Northern Iowa, then sits out the COVID year and
43:27
is extremely raw, high ceiling, and then gets thrust into action earlier than
43:30
he should have his rookie year. Has a bunch of injuries in the off
43:32
season and into training camp throughout the year last year, and that affects his
43:37
play and hurts it, you know, his practice time and his wraps and
43:38
all of these things. But at the end of the day, right now,
43:42
he's just a very mercurial right tackle, and I think that's a legitimate
43:45
I don't want to say whole because there's still like bodies there but he's too
43:52
much of a roller coaster at a premium position for an offense that has a
43:57
legitimate top quarterback in the league that you want to protect, and you need
44:00
to give sustainability and consistency too, So right tackle, for me, it
44:05
is tops on that offensive line. I like the way you've phrased it because
44:07
if you I mean, granted, you guys got create Humphrey on day two,
44:12
but if you get these like day two and especially day three, if
44:15
you can get like a quality starter anywhere in day three, but especially in
44:19
offensive lineman, like the value that you get from the combination of on field
44:23
production and play plus contract cost and monetary value, Like good lord, especially
44:29
with what you're doing with the Chiefs, Like where you've got money spent with
44:34
Travis Kelsey and Patrick Mahomes and now with like guys like Joan Taylor, and
44:38
you know where your money is sinked is sunk in. You've got this really
44:42
good offensive line and you've got to really cost controlled effective center and create Humphrey
44:45
and a tremendously cost controlled effective garden. Tray Smith, who I remember yelling
44:51
Creed Humphrey was the big one. But I wanted Tray Smith so bad.
44:52
And then it was what was the heart? The heart issue right that drove
44:58
yes, and I was like, oh okay, like that's understandable. And
45:02
he just kept falling. And remember when the Chiefs got him. I just
45:06
remember being like, he's gonna end up being sweet because that's the world that
45:08
I live in. And look what you got, like on the interior,
45:12
if you can get especially for I like the way you phrased it, because
45:15
it's not just you know, getting a solid starter on the offensive line or
45:19
at like right tackle, Like if you get it on day three, that
45:22
also means you used your day one and your day two picks in other areas
45:27
and now you've got positional value at other spots. There's less opportunity costs that
45:30
you've used. Somebody who I had tabbed early. I like Nick Saldaveri from
45:36
Old Dominion, but now it seems like he's creeping up into the day two
45:39
range. Like say, I like Tyler Steen from Alabama, though maybe he's
45:44
more he's more guard tackle flex, but now he seems like he's creeping up
45:47
into day two. There's I think there's still maybe like Carter Warren from pitt
45:52
Or McFadden from Clemston will offer you from tackle ability, but then it's guards
45:55
as well. Like but yeah, that that's very well said. I like
45:59
the specificity that day three because again, like you're you're getting what the Chiefs
46:04
get. Again, I don't want to keep using the chiefs S downboard just
46:06
because it's the low hanging fruit here. Like if you have competent starters or
46:09
plus starters on your offensive line that you got on day three, you're paying
46:15
like basically five bucks, Like you're paying nothing for quality starters for at least
46:20
four years, and then that allows you to put your money into other areas.
46:24
And you nailed it because like, if this happens on day three,
46:27
you statman, that means you probably spent some of the earlier round picks on
46:30
other positions, right, and hitting on a day of any position on day
46:35
three is gonna be helpful. But offensive linemen are playing one hundred percent of
46:38
the snaps. If you're starting, this guy is gonna be on the field
46:40
every single play, and all you invested is a fifth round pick of whatever,
46:45
a fourth round pick whatever it may be, that just goes such a
46:47
long way, and you don't think you need studs on the offensive line.
46:52
You just need solid competent players if you have enough of them next to each
46:57
other on the offensive line. It can be with Josh Allen or I'm a
46:59
Home or a good quarterback. It can be absolutely fine and you can roll.
47:02
And I love your list of Day three tackles and linemen there. I
47:07
think I would have named every single one of those guys. Is like guys
47:09
that in that range that would I would really not like to see the Bills
47:13
get um Nick Selderberry has been like a my guy for a while and it's
47:17
been awesome, but also stinks to see him, Like I don't even know
47:20
if the Chiefs would have a chance to draft him at ninety five, Like
47:22
even at ninety five, I think he might be pretty gones like that.
47:25
That's been not fun being on him pretty early and then just seeing him climb
47:29
climb, client, but it didn't be good for him. Good for the
47:30
good good field, the dominion guy, good for him, Yeah, bead
47:32
for us. Jonathan Mingo was my guy for that. Like going into the
47:37
Senior Bowl week, I was like, you know what, this is a
47:39
dude who I'd really like in the fourth round, Like I think you could
47:43
do some stuff with him the size and the frame and if his route running
47:45
can be you know, coached up enough because he comes from home, miss,
47:47
which is so RPO based, YadA, YadA. And now here we
47:51
are like two days before the draft, and everybody's like, could Jonathan Mingo
47:52
go in the first round? And I'm like, are you kidding me?
47:55
Like is that where we are right now? That he's climbed up so much?
47:58
And seemed like I remember doing mocked drafts in granted not that mock drafts
48:01
matter, but like killing time doing mock drafts in March or beginning of April,
48:05
and I was always getting Salada varyat like pick one thirty seven for the
48:07
Bills, And now it's like, nope, he's gone by like pick ninety
48:10
two, and I'm like, oh, like this sucks now, like the
48:14
way it just changes. Um yeah, it's it's ruins. No, it's
48:20
ruining our phone. But again, good for them, I guess for like
48:22
their lives and making more money if they want to be selfish. But whatever,
48:24
if they want that, right, but I mean who wants that?
48:28
Does money really matter? Does does money and like more success matter for anything?
48:35
No, like it's all nebulous ever, not in anything. All right,
48:39
So we're first, we're through the first three, bringing into the home
48:43
stretch of the last two. So the fourth ranked piece in terms of what
48:47
you do not want to see the Buffalo Bills do. If you are an
48:52
opponent of the Buffalo Bills, what do you got? So it's getting a
48:58
little bit hard now to find stuff that I desperately don't want to see the
49:00
Bills doing. That's not because you know of humors or anything like that.
49:04
It's just like, I think those first three moves would make the Bill so
49:07
much better that it would actively be like this is scary. Now these last
49:10
two are a little bit more specific, and this would just be I think
49:14
this would be really cool and if it works out perfectly, this would be
49:17
really bad. So getting and it doesn't have to be round one, but
49:22
hitting on a linebacker that has a Fred Warner esque impact, right, And
49:27
I'm not even attempt to come up with the player. And Matt Milano's great.
49:30
Mattmilano is a great linebacker. There's one linebacker in the NFL that when
49:34
the Chiefs go to play, I'm like, please will find him every single
49:37
time, every single play, he's the only guy that matters, and that's
49:40
that's Fred Warner when you play the forty nine ers just having that guy,
49:44
And I think there's a couple of the linebackers that have gotten a little bit
49:46
closer to him lately. But I still don't think anyone impacts what or dictates
49:52
what an offense can do quite the way he does. But if, for
49:54
whatever reason, if that's Drew Sanders, all of a sudden, you can
49:58
coach him up to have those leve of instincts. If Diane Henley out of
50:01
Washington State, who played wide receiver, shows that same kind of feel,
50:06
it's not as big, but shows that same kind of feel and coverage,
50:08
and all of a sudden, that guy ends up on the Bills. Then
50:10
essentially every year when the Chiefs and Bills play, I have to worry about
50:15
that guy in the middle of the field taking away whatever the Chiefs are trying
50:19
to do, like Fred Warner frequently does for the Niners. What was so
50:22
you know that that obviously ties into a movie that we saw on free agency
50:25
with the Bills losing Tremaine Edmonds. What were your thoughts on you know,
50:30
I think I don't think we ever really hit on him specifically in you know,
50:36
doing Bills Chiefs previews. What was your thought of Tremaine Edmonds as a
50:38
player in this Bills defense, you know, going into every Bills Chiefs week
50:42
and there were several of these past couple of years. Was he somebody that
50:46
you thought of like, this guy's an impact player or this guy makes plays.
50:50
Was he somebody to kind of register it on your radar when you looked
50:52
at the Bills defense or did you just kind of think he was just a
50:54
functional piece in the Bills defense. It's so hard what I watch the Bills
51:00
defense leading up to the game. He's a very functional piece, and I
51:02
think he played a very pivotal role and he did make plays like that.
51:05
I will not say that he definitely made plays, but for the Chiefs specifically,
51:08
I never felt his impact against the Chiefs. I never I never felt
51:14
Edmunds impact when playing against the Chiefs. That doesn't mean he was bad,
51:16
It's just the way the Chiefs play football. I feel like they put him
51:21
in conflict a lot, and I don't know if that was his strength,
51:23
was handling that kind of conflict. And that's I mean, that's the Andy
51:25
Reid special, Right, He's gonna pick a couple of guys, He's gonna
51:29
put them in conflict over and over and over again, and you're gonna be
51:32
wrong. It's just how do you adapt to that? And I don't know
51:36
if I ever felt like he was adapting to a way that it even became
51:38
a second thought to the Chiefs. I think they were completely fine with however
51:43
he reacted. They were going to get what they wanted. But again,
51:45
I don't mean that he was bad by any stretch. It's just I don't
51:49
think the Chiefs were a good matchup for him, and the iteration of the
51:52
Bills defense his favorite. For my favorite play of his versus the Chiefs,
51:57
I don't remember what game it was, but it's it's gonna seem like so
52:00
minor or some mini school because it wasn't a splash play. It wasn't this
52:02
huge impact play. Nicole Hardman ran a post as like the number three receiver,
52:07
and Icole Hardman is like fast as hell, and he ran this post
52:10
like twenty yards down field, was like splitting the safeties and Edmonds carried him
52:15
all the way downfield, and I was just like, that's impressive as hell
52:17
that you just ran with just four or three wide receiver Like that was always
52:22
That's one of these plays that anytime anyone was like, well he can't cover
52:24
him, like he just they were they were playing quarters like they were matching,
52:28
and he picked up Kole Hardman and carried him like and Mahomes looks at
52:31
it and it's like, na, let me go somewhere else. I'm like,
52:35
you got Mahomes to look off a four or three wide receiver against the
52:38
linebacker Like That's always this play that sticks in my mind, and you know,
52:44
it's funny now looking at that linebacker spot like Edmond. Edmond showed up
52:46
bigger this year in terms of making like box score plays and splash plays and
52:51
all these you know, at having all these flash moments. But my biggest
52:54
thing with him is I always thought he was just this large deterrent in the
52:59
middle of field, like his athleticism, his size, his frame, like
53:02
he just he squeezed windows and he made things tough in the middle of the
53:07
field and the Bills as each year as he progressed in his career, like
53:10
from an interior, from an interior, like a middle of the field pass
53:13
coverage perspective. They went from like nineteenth and DV away to second in DV
53:16
way to first and DV away and granted the safeties with hide employer player role
53:21
in that as well. But he was such a deterrent and kind of closing
53:23
off the middle of the field to so many teams, and he played such
53:28
an important role in setting and allowing the Bills defense to play the coverages that
53:34
they do, both in terms of the frequency and the variations that they played
53:37
and not having him think like limits what they do and linebacker is just that's
53:43
another like the linebacker sucked this year, no disrespect. These guys are obviously
53:46
like really good football players, like they're going to go to the NFL,
53:49
YadA, YadA. But this is not that this is not the year to
53:51
need a linebacker, like especially for the kind of linebacker the Bills need.
53:54
But to your point, yeah, I mean, if you can Matt Malanas
53:58
example, they took Matt Malana on the fifth and now he's an All Pro
54:00
linebacker, Like just what you can get the juice you can get out of
54:04
that spot, especially you know, given the need that they have for it.
54:07
Very fair. Now, yeah, and again no, I agree with
54:10
what you're saying, Like when I watched him back, It's like I always
54:13
thought that Edmonds got a little bit too much flak for not making the splashy
54:19
plays that you would pick out like highlights and stuff. But it seemed like
54:21
he was a pivotal part of what they tried to do on defense. The
54:24
issue came when you went up against really good teams. Not even Justice,
54:28
He's just really good teams that aren't going to be They're not going to be
54:30
afraid of the middle of the field just because Churt main Edmonds there. They're
54:34
not going to be afraid to find ways to attack him. So now he
54:37
has to actively make those plays. And that's where I thought against the Chiefs
54:42
specifically, he just was a lot more hit or miss, with a lot
54:45
more miss than hit in those situations. That again, not that he was
54:47
bad, not that he had a negative impact on the defense, just I
54:51
think the Chiefs were one of the teams willing to challenge the space that he
54:54
was occupying and deterring other people, and they were making the Chiefs. You
54:59
watched them play the forty nine Ers. They mostly avoid Fred Warner, but
55:01
they'll still challenge him too, right, And I think, like I said,
55:04
I already think he's kind of the best line He's the only linebacker that
55:07
like registers on my radar really and like they'll still try to find ways to
55:10
try to attack him. So that's not a knock on Advans, it's just
55:14
that's what I noticed was any time that she's wanted to put him in conflict
55:17
or go after him, they seemed to have success. But watching other teams,
55:22
they didn't really try or have that same kind of success. I think
55:24
it's a fair point, and especially you know, given I mean, if
55:27
you've got Mahomes and Read and you're still challenging from time to time the first
55:30
and I'm the same boat, like the best offball linebacker in football, and
55:34
Fred Warner like everybody else, is going to be a tier or two below
55:37
him. So if they're still willing to attack the top tier guy, they're
55:40
probably going to be able to one put into conflict the lower tier guys and
55:45
probably attack the hell out of him as well. So that's a fair point.
55:47
Man, We're gonna bring him home now. The fifth perfect thing,
55:52
I know, right, you know, the last piece, the Kodagra.
55:54
I think that yep, that's the right terminology, a musing here or whatever.
55:58
How to make everybody real mad here at this one. Oh and now
56:00
I'm excited. So what do you got for your last one? Here?
56:04
For the Buffalo Bill's anti wishless in terms of what you do not want to
56:07
see them do if you were a Buffalo Bill's a boy, This one takes
56:09
buy in from the top down right. This is more of a long play.
56:13
But this is it be Jean Robinson falls and the Bills take him,
56:16
and then and then the Bills realize that maybe running Josh Allen isn't the move
56:22
they decide to. I don't know, maybe try to run the football using
56:25
a really really good running back that can make stuff happen to prolong, not
56:30
just Josh Allen's career, but how effective he is throughout the whole season.
56:32
And Josh Allen I already said it once. I love how he just throws
56:37
the ball deeper than deep coverage. I think that's great. You know how
56:38
that works really well off play action or when you set it up by running
56:43
the ball really well. So go ahead and get if he's there, one
56:46
of the better running back prospects in the past decade, slap him in there
56:51
and make it work. Figure it out. Maybe you need another next year's
56:53
draft to get the offensive lineman. You need to transition your style of offense.
56:59
I don't think it's a knock whatsoever to change this to a little bit
57:02
more of a running team than what they currently are running with a running back
57:07
team than they currently are, and I actually think it would go a long
57:09
way with the Bill set of offense. This has been such a powder heg
57:15
of a conversation with anything for Beijon, and it's all tied of the positional
57:20
value for people. I'm so I'm in the boat. If he's there at
57:23
twenty seven, well one, for me, he's one of the blue chip
57:27
elite dudes in this draft class, and there's not many, And I think
57:30
he would be a blue chip elite prospect in almost any draft class that you
57:34
put him in, Like he's that good. The only way that he's going
57:37
to be more of a generational or elite talent is if he ran like a
57:40
four four one instead of a four four six. Like every he ticks like
57:44
every single box in every way, And if he's there at twenty seven,
57:50
flat out, there's not going to be another player like a better football player
57:53
at twenty seven. If he's there, then Bijon Robinson. If he's there,
57:57
he is the best football player on the board. And positional value,
58:01
I said it last week's show, Like that's a whole other conversation if you
58:05
don't believe running back should in the first round, and positional value and resource
58:07
allocation, so on and so forth and all these things. But at the
58:10
end of the day, you're still adding like a truly elite talent to your
58:16
offense. Is it a running back? Yes? Do you necessarily not want
58:20
to use that in the first round? Maybe, But he's elite And it's
58:22
not just because this draft class is weaker, like he would be elite in
58:25
any class. And I'm in a similar boat, like I've been clamoring this
58:30
for the past couple of years. I know it's a past first league,
58:31
but you need to be able to run the ball, like you need that
58:35
quality of your offensive line or a running back that's good enough to elevate the
58:37
old line. And you know, here's a good example, right, what
58:40
happened If Patrick Mahomes goes down against the Jacksonville Jaguars, they put in Chad
58:46
Henny, what do they do when they come out in the second half,
58:49
they run the ball down the Jags throat. What happens in the Super Bowl
58:52
when Mahomes dings up his ankle a little bit and they come out to start
58:54
the second half, they run the ball down the Eagle's throat with that offensive
58:59
line in Isaiah Checko like, you need that pivot disc goes to my rock
59:02
paper scissors piece, right, you need to be able. What happens if
59:06
you're playing a team that has stellar pass defense but they're weak against the run.
59:09
Cool, let's pivot and run the ball. What happens if you're playing
59:13
in a shitty weather game like you could everywhere in the AFC Buffalo, Kansas
59:17
City, Cincinnati, Baltimore, all the majority of the good teams in the
59:22
a f C. Besides maybe even like Miami. If you're going to Miami,
59:25
like everyone's going to have bad weather in the playoffs, you know what
59:28
works in bad weather? Run the football. And then on top of it,
59:31
you've got this elite player. That's music to my ears. I think
59:36
it's very funny tying in with that. What is your overall thought on I
59:40
know at twenty seven? For me, I feel like the positional value conversations
59:44
should take a bit of a back seat because you're getting real close to the
59:47
second round right there, you're at pick twenty seven. If there's an elite
59:51
due and needs a running back, cool take them. But what is your
59:53
overall thoughts with taking a running back in the first round in today's NFL given
59:58
the positional value questions surround it? For someone like be Jean Robinson, once
1:00:02
you hit pick like twelve, I think the way the rookie pay scale breaks
1:00:07
out, he's now no longer the highest paid running back. He's in like
1:00:09
the top five, top seven or something like that. But guess what,
1:00:13
he's also on the top five to seven running backs in the NFL. I
1:00:15
think day one like, I think he's that good. So at pick twenty
1:00:19
seven, I no qualms. I want to push back. What's the Chiefs
1:00:22
just drafted Clader de Zilaire at the end of round one a couple of years
1:00:25
ago. Not a great pick. It turned out even worse than we thought.
1:00:29
But Clider and Zilaire is not anywhere close to the prospect that Bejean Robinson
1:00:34
is. And even then, plenty of people, not just Chiefs fans,
1:00:37
but plenty of people were trying to spend it that in that offense, he'll
1:00:39
be fine. They were making you were having to make the argument where how
1:00:44
the situation was perfect. Vjean Robinson situation is perfect for thirty two teams.
1:00:47
Yeah, that's how good he's perfect for thirty two teams. And I think
1:00:51
the Bills specifically are one team where Josh Allen is great. I think he's
1:00:55
one of these really good quarter one of these elite quarterbacks that maybe would benefit
1:01:00
a little bit more from having the run the ball and create space for him
1:01:04
to launch the football. I mean, like he has the best deep ball
1:01:07
or he is the most effective with the deep ball right in the NFL.
1:01:10
Right now, create that space by running the ball more. Now, the
1:01:14
team has to buy in. You can't draft Bejan Robinson. It's still only
1:01:15
give them twelve carries and a game over, like you know, for four
1:01:19
straight weeks. You can't do it. The team has to buy in.
1:01:22
But I you know, can miss me with running back value stuff once you
1:01:25
start getting into the twenties, especially for a player like Bjean Robinson, and
1:01:30
I would go as high as like twelve for him. Dude, he just
1:01:32
especially in today's NFL where I mean the Chiefs have seen it and the Bills
1:01:37
have seen it. Oh you've got this sick quarterback in this great passing game.
1:01:40
Cool, we're gonna play two high coverages with light boxes. You know
1:01:44
what gets teams out of two high coverages and light boxes when you have a
1:01:46
running game that makes them go crap, we gotta walk a safety down like
1:01:51
or you know what, we gotta we gotta pull our nickel guy. We
1:01:52
gotta go more base and maybe respect this run a little bit like originally they
1:01:57
won't, and it just matters when you have a running back they can make
1:02:00
them pay. There's a big difference between just breaking off a bunch of four
1:02:02
yard runs like, yeah, it's effective, but just running the ball for
1:02:06
four yards all the way down the field eventually, you know that margin of
1:02:08
air we talked about the beginning catches up and you're gonna have a blown up
1:02:12
play. Now, your four yard runs don't matter. But with Bejean Robinson,
1:02:15
those four yard runs are six seven yards. But he's more likely to
1:02:17
break one than he is to get one blown ups, Like, there's such
1:02:22
a big gap there. So you want to play too high or do you
1:02:23
want to stop be Jean Robinson. It's like, I think it's incredibly scary,
1:02:28
Like I think that's a terrifying thing. I'm also not one hundred percent
1:02:31
sure that the Bills would buy in on the run game based on what we've
1:02:34
seen so far. So that's why it was at five and not number one.
1:02:37
So if you knew the Bills would buy into the running game more,
1:02:43
that would be your number one. Yeah, that would jump to number one.
1:02:45
And if he's there and that happened, like, yeah, that would
1:02:49
jump to number one. I don't know how you defend them, right,
1:02:51
Like Patrick mahomes the best quarterback in the league, but he does not throw
1:02:55
the ball downfield the way Josh Allen does not. He does not in the
1:02:59
games throw it down the field as far as accurately, as efficiently as Josh
1:03:02
Allen. So if you're gonna make teams now have to decide between defending the
1:03:06
line of scrimmage or defending deep, you're just giving space to one of those
1:03:09
two things. And if team, if the Bills will buy into that run
1:03:13
game, that's gonna be difficult. That's gonna be really difficult to stop.
1:03:17
This isn't like the Bengals. If the Bengals got Bejean Robinson still be good.
1:03:22
But Joe Burrow for a lot of the times when he's not throwing just
1:03:24
go balls, he's trying to eat the ball short over the middle of the
1:03:27
field. I still think it creates as much stretch as it would for the
1:03:30
Bills. So yeah, that would jump to one. Bijean just too.
1:03:34
He takes those two and like those runs that are blocked for two or four,
1:03:37
he turns them into like five or eight, or can turn those ten
1:03:40
yard runs into fifteen or twenty yard runs. And you know, even just
1:03:45
tying it into the Chiefs. A team that I always thought had a really
1:03:50
good blueprint for beating the Chiefs was the Baltimore Ravens because their running attack is
1:03:54
a unicorn. But also not only can you grind out yards and at that
1:03:59
time run on the Chiefs, but what are you doing when you're running the
1:04:01
ball. You're keeping the ball away from Patrick Mahomes and you're keeping that Chiefs
1:04:04
offense off the field. So now, if you have a solid ground game
1:04:09
led by a superstar running back in Bijean Robinson, with an offense that has
1:04:14
this tremendous downfield thrower and Josh Allen this explosive passing offense, and now you
1:04:17
also have the ability to grind teams and run on him and make them pay
1:04:21
for giving you light boxers, to make them make them pay for showing two
1:04:26
high looks or nickel coverages or someone and so forth. With a guy that
1:04:29
can elevate an offensive line and make you pay upfront. Yeah, that's a
1:04:32
really dangerous potential concoction for who. I like that. I like where your
1:04:38
heads? That one more question for you and then we'll get you out.
1:04:40
Yeah. The DeAndre Hopkins conversation where because he's been also rumored to the Chiefs
1:04:45
as well. How much of a how much of a pendulum swinger do you
1:04:48
think he is? Like if he goes to the Chiefs, if he goes
1:04:51
to the Bills, like how much? How much does he change the AFC
1:04:56
landscape? If he were to go to the Chiefs, how much further do
1:04:59
you think he separates them from the rest of the pack. And if he
1:05:01
were to go to the Bills, what do you think he does for the
1:05:04
Bills in the AFC landscape? I mean, I think he fills a role
1:05:09
that both teams are kind of I think looking for right. I mean,
1:05:12
you can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the Bills fans or
1:05:14
the Bills kind of want a second pass catcher that's a little bit more reliable.
1:05:17
Right the Gay Davis just wasn't that guy. So if you need somebody
1:05:20
else that can be paired with Stefan Diggs to get open and make plays when
1:05:24
Diggs isn't getting it done, the Chiefs have the same thing, but with
1:05:27
Travis Kelsey and then nobody else. Right, So I think both of these
1:05:30
two teams vying for DeAndre Hopkins makes a ton of sense because he immediately fills
1:05:34
one of their bigger roles on offense for both sides. I don't want to
1:05:39
say like it's flipping what I think of either one of these two teams by
1:05:42
itself, but it certainly closes the gap. You know, however you want
1:05:45
to go about it, or if you want to have the Chiefs ahead or
1:05:48
the Bills ahead, who that team would go a little bit more ahead.
1:05:50
I don't know if it would be enough to flip them right, Like I'm
1:05:55
being very all right here, it is I think the Chiefs the best team
1:05:58
in the in the AFC. I think the Bills are second right now right,
1:06:00
and people give me mad. I know Bills fans are probably mad at
1:06:03
me about this, but that's where I don't think Bills fans can beat can
1:06:06
be mad like I'm I'm a wrestling guy, Rich Flare, you know,
1:06:10
to be the man, you gotta beat the man like each are on top.
1:06:12
That is fair, That's that's very fair. I don't want to be
1:06:14
ye. I was trying to beat around the bush, but now we're going
1:06:15
to go straight into this way. So the Chiefs are one, Bills are
1:06:17
two. If the Bills get DeAndre Hopkins, I don't think it makes them
1:06:23
number one, but it gets them closer. It now becomes like we can
1:06:26
start having this conversation of Okay, how did the Chiefs go about beating the
1:06:30
Bills. Now now it's a little bit more difficult for the Chiefs to beat
1:06:32
the Bills because now you have to deal with a DeAndre Hopkins. And conversely,
1:06:36
if the Chiefs get them, gets a lot harder I think for the
1:06:39
Bills to beat the Chiefs, because now how are you gonna stop Hopkins and
1:06:43
Travis Kelcey every essentially third down, one of those two guys is gonna have
1:06:45
a one on one matchup. Mahomes will be able to get them to football.
1:06:49
And then the kicker to this is I don't know what DeAndre Hopkins is
1:06:54
going for, but looking at the trade market, it can't be that much.
1:06:56
Like nobody's trading anything for these veterans. So either team would still have
1:07:00
all their Day one and Day two picks to address other quote unquote needs or
1:07:04
just ad raw talent. Like I think that's even where the biggest boon is
1:07:08
is the Bills don't have to take Addison or Zay Flowers or whatever wide receiver.
1:07:13
They solve that issue now it can be all about the or vice versa
1:07:16
with the Chiefs. So I think getting nuke matters more for these two teams
1:07:20
than anybody else, just because they're competing with one another. Very well said
1:07:26
He's I really think he gets traded this week. I just don't know where,
1:07:30
into who and for and for how much. I think a lot of
1:07:32
it's going to depend on. There's all the money stuff, like of how
1:07:34
much Arizona is willing to eat or how much they're willing or what they really
1:07:40
want like Arizona such an owner does not like to spend money. No,
1:07:44
and they're just so I hate like ragging on teams or dumping on teams.
1:07:47
But Arizona is such a dumpster fire of an organization right now, like from
1:07:53
decision making and talent and player evaluation and draft picks selections, and now Buddha
1:07:58
Baker wants out and you're gonna lose hot potentially, like and then they come
1:08:01
up with these stupid uniforms. It looked just like the old uniforms, like
1:08:04
they didn't even change anything, like and they made this big announcement it's the
1:08:08
same uniform. It pissed me off so much. It was so dumb.
1:08:12
Kyler's requesting draft picks publicly and we're going that place is and your head coach
1:08:17
is lying about things that never happened. Yeah, but the whole like oh
1:08:20
yeah, they came to me and they were like, oh, we want
1:08:23
you fired. And he was like, oh, I'm leading in the league
1:08:25
by thirty sacks. It's like you were never doing any of that. Yeah,
1:08:28
like that that place, that place is wild right now. And I
1:08:31
think people are expecting Arizona to eat some money, and I think that's reasonable
1:08:35
to expect, But I don't think that they are going to to eat.
1:08:41
They would spend more cash trading him and having eat salary than just cutting him
1:08:44
post tune first, Like that would cost a team more money. So are
1:08:47
you sitting there it's bidwell going to sit there and say, hey, I'd
1:08:50
rather gain a fifth round pick but spend more cash. Or is he just
1:08:55
gonna be like, nah, I'll gain nothing and save my cash. And
1:08:57
like his history says he's going to keep his over gain that fifth round pick.
1:09:00
That's just what he does. And they're just like no point intended,
1:09:03
like a wild card with what they do in because they're because of ownership,
1:09:10
because of the mismanagement. And then you've got a new coaching staff in there
1:09:14
as well, so that adds more variables to it. Like it just muddies
1:09:16
the whole waters. And but I really do think he gets he gets dealt
1:09:20
I don't know to who or or for what at this point, I don't
1:09:26
know. I've seen some combo of like I don't know, they eat some
1:09:29
money and some team gives like a fourth or like a third and a fifth
1:09:32
or like or maybe they eat a ton of the money and it's like,
1:09:35
Okay, give us a second, like, I don't. I think that's
1:09:38
from the lower end of possibilities. But man, it's a name that continues
1:09:43
to circulate amongst the Bills fan bases. And then and then of course Hopkins
1:09:46
is stoking those flames with that video last week with the emoji responses and just
1:09:51
I'm like, dude, like you you're playing the game so well right now,
1:09:55
like you know what you're doing. To his credit, he's been open
1:09:58
like he can routinely says it's not about getting more money or money. He
1:10:00
just wants to play for a contender. And you know, whether it's his
1:10:04
agent, whether it's him, whether it's whoever. They have found a way
1:10:08
to pit two contenders that are rivals, and the Chiefs and the Bills directly,
1:10:12
and even the Ravens a little bit earlier on. But like they found
1:10:15
a way to pit teams that were all kind of rivals against each other into
1:10:18
the social media. I guess, Frenzy, I have no idea what the
1:10:21
actual teams they go. If I know the Chiefs, the Chiefs have a
1:10:25
very hard line drawn in the sand, and they will not cross it no
1:10:28
matter what you try to push them. Like Brett Veach has gotten pretty good
1:10:30
at that. He'll find his price. Maybe it's an overpay, maybe it's
1:10:33
way under. And like they've missed out on free agents or deals because they
1:10:38
just won't budge. Like he's got his hard line in the sand that he's
1:10:41
if they're interested, he's already made. But they Nuke has done a good
1:10:45
job getting two very rival fan bases very riled up. Yeah, you can
1:10:48
you imagine like the Bills and Chiefs organizations like in their war rooms being like
1:10:53
did you guys see that, like that that social media post from that you
1:10:57
saw that Instagram thing from DeAndre Hopkins. He gave us a smirk and like
1:11:00
a positive emoji, like I think he wants to come here, like let's
1:11:02
let's chase this. And the Bills are Bills are similar to the Chiefs in
1:11:05
that regard, like Brandon Bean is very much like we like you. Here's
1:11:10
what we're willing to offer if you don't want it. Cool even and this
1:11:13
is with in house free agents as well, like here's what we're offering you.
1:11:15
If you think you can do better, go test the open market and
1:11:18
then come back to us and let us know. It's the same thing with
1:11:19
incoming free agents, Like, here's what we're willing to give you if you
1:11:23
don't want it, cool, good luck and godspeed if you do come aboard.
1:11:26
We're not budget So that reminded me. I did want to ask you
1:11:29
a quick question before done. It's being of social media stuff. Last year
1:11:32
it kind of went viral for Chiefs fans the Bills war room when the Chiefs
1:11:35
traded up for Trim mcduffey and how somber the war room kind of look,
1:11:40
do you guys as Bills fans think the Bills were upset that the Chiefs jumped
1:11:44
up for a Trent mcduffy at the cornerback position. The Bills quickly thereafter traded
1:11:48
up and grabbed Kiera Elam So like, what was what's Bills fans read on
1:11:51
that whole situation? So this is actually super funny. I talked about this
1:11:56
on our draft show last year and throughout the off season. Brandon ban Oh,
1:12:00
I forget exactly what he said, but Bean doesn't really like for guys
1:12:04
that aren't Bills players. He doesn't really name drop anyone in any way for
1:12:09
anything. And after the post, after the night one presser, he's talking
1:12:13
about you know why they traded up for Kyer Elam and YadA yadda, and
1:12:15
he mentions mcduffy, and I forget the exact verbiage, but he mentioned it
1:12:19
in a way that I immediately was like, they wanted Trent mcduffey. And
1:12:25
I also think because you guys traded up for mcduffey, I think that kind
1:12:29
of forced them a little bit to be like, all right, cool,
1:12:30
and now we can't take any chances and we have to go get Kyer Relam.
1:12:33
I think they were going to go after Trent mcduffye. I know Elam
1:12:38
from a size and frame and skill perspective fits everything for the Buffalo Bills,
1:12:45
right. I think the same can be said in some aspects for Trem mcduffy,
1:12:47
And for me, Trem mcduffy was my corner three last year and I
1:12:50
loved him. And the only reason he wasn't corner one or corner two was
1:12:54
because you had Derek Stingley and Sauce Gardner, who were two like amazing corner
1:12:58
prospects. I thought McDuffie was awesome. I was literally shouting from the rooftops
1:13:02
all offseason that I wanted Trim mcduffe for the Bills, and then of course,
1:13:05
of course the freaking Chiefs jump up and take him, and I'll not
1:13:11
even on the radar. The Chiefs traded up and we're sitting there live and
1:13:14
we're all thinking Jermaine Johnson kier Elan was even a thought because he fits what
1:13:17
the Chiefs had done in the past, right, and so like it was
1:13:21
just really nobody had a Trim mcduffe even remotely on their mind. And then
1:13:25
they take Trim McDuffie and it's just like okay, and then everyone's excited.
1:13:28
Then you hear Brett Beach talk and it's like, hey, we didn't think
1:13:30
he had any chance to be there, so we didn't plan on this,
1:13:32
and then we made the move. But which is good. It's just that
1:13:35
video of the Bill's war room when that while that was happening, Chiefs fans
1:13:39
have done decided the same thing that you were kind of alluding at, that
1:13:42
the Bills might have wanted him, because that's what it looks like when you
1:13:45
see the video, and I obviously have no information or inside info there,
1:13:48
It just it looked like there was a little bit of a surprise and a
1:13:51
little bit of a disappointment when that happened. So you know, hey,
1:13:55
here's the hoping that maybe the Chiefs pulled out off again. You can't.
1:14:00
I'm in as a heel and you ended as a heel. And you know
1:14:04
what, I respect. I was gonna trying to think of the line,
1:14:08
what's the whole like, uh, like I don't agree with like here's what
1:14:11
you say, but I'll defend of the death. You're right to say it.
1:14:13
Whatever that's stupid line is. Yeah, but you you man, well
1:14:16
played, well played, way to bring it all the full circle. You
1:14:19
as as I anticipated, as I hoped. We're a tremendous guest in every
1:14:25
which way, shape and form tonight. Yeah, you're You're a good dude.
1:14:29
I and you know you know your ship when it comes to ball.
1:14:30
I love having you on every single time. And you know, like you
1:14:33
mentioned offline and then on the show and when we're DM in last week,
1:14:39
you are enthralled with draft coverage for the Kansas City Chiefs just regularly at this
1:14:44
time of year, but even more so because the draft is in Kansas City
1:14:46
this year, so things are dialed up even further. Like, I know
1:14:49
you had some work earlier tonight, so one, I appreciate you as always.
1:14:54
Two, I appreciate you taking time it's such a busy time to join
1:14:57
me and break down this what I thought a fun topic and talk draft and
1:15:00
talk ball and talk this rivalry a bit. Um and three, just in
1:15:04
case people don't know, let them know who you are, where they can
1:15:08
find you, what you do, plug your stuff. The floor is yours.
1:15:11
I still hate you, but um, well then that's fair. That's
1:15:15
all fair. Uh. You know you can follow me on Twitter at Mattie
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1:15:28
Like it said here, I love college I love the draft. I
1:15:30
spend a lot. I spend almost three hundred and fifty days of a year
1:15:33
talking about the upcoming draft. So like, I'll take a couple of days
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Chiefs are doing in the draft round where the Chiefs come on the clock.
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If you go to the caseys and YouTube page, it's just Casey Sports Network
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on YouTube. We'll be live covering the entire draft top to bottom. It's
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obviously going to be chief centric, but you'll see our live reactions and what
1:16:09
the Chiefs did. If it's a good pick, a bad pick, we'll
1:16:11
tell you about it. I don't hold back if I think the Chiefs make
1:16:14
a bad pick, so you can go back to your bills fans say,
1:16:15
hey, the Chiefs guys think they made a terrible pick, so come check
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1:16:20
general thoughts on that. And as always, man, I appreciate you for
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asking me having me on. This is one of the few podcasts I make
1:16:28
sure I have a chance to come on. No. I love hanging out,
1:16:30
I love talking and this was I like this topic a lot. This
1:16:32
is a lot a fun way to talk about the draft that I have not
1:16:35
done yet this year, which is nice. Thank you. Why I'm doing
1:16:39
so I've got this show and then I've got the Film Room show on Wednesdays
1:16:43
at seven, and we're doing a wish List episode tomorrow, and all of
1:16:45
a sudden, you just click with me. Last week I was like,
1:16:47
oh, an anti wish List episode would be fun, but I was just
1:16:50
going to do it from like, guys, I don't want to see the
1:16:54
Bills take or things. And I was like, well, what if we
1:16:56
went further and made it like, you know, an enemy type of thing
1:16:58
or opponent type of thing. And I was like, chiefs and you were
1:17:00
the first person I thought of. I've said it before when you've been on
1:17:03
the show, and I'll say it again for the people and here, like
1:17:05
I think it's whether you're just a Bills fan or football fan in general,
1:17:09
but even if you're a Bills fan, you always want to stay up on
1:17:14
the on the news and analysis for every other team in the league, especially
1:17:17
the ones that are your rivals, because those are your opponents. You need
1:17:19
to stay well informed and it's hard to find good a good objective analysis in
1:17:27
general. And you and really the whole squad, you know, Kent and
1:17:30
your whole crew at Casey Sports Network, like you guys do a great job
1:17:33
covering the Chiefs and everything you do. It's good analysis, it's thoughtful,
1:17:36
it's on point, it's accurate, and it's objective. Even though you were
1:17:42
mean to me when you first came in and on your way out, but
1:17:45
you know, I respect it. I respect your grind. I respect the
1:17:48
hat and the shirt and the little chief's helmet in the corner. He did
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your thing. You are awesome again. I appreciate the hell idea. Godspeed
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Fan, I know I'll see you on Twitter and the DMS, and
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god speed, and I appreciate you as always. Thank you so much for
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from NFL Drafting xas. I don't want Buffalo to draft bad players. Absolutely,
1:21:15
you only want to draft good players. I know it can be confusing
1:21:18
sometimes, but you only want good players. Oh, Bills mafistf comes in
1:21:23
and says, I don't want to see Siaki Eka for any pick. Not
1:21:26
a fan of Eka. Oh, and RJ says outside of Bijon, no
1:21:31
running back, So RJ's cool with just James Cook, Damian Harris, and
1:21:35
Nikim Hines. Nikki says doesn't want JSN or Jack Campbell to the Chiefs.
1:21:42
Oh interesting, interesting, morning mine, what's up more of mine? She
1:21:45
says, I don't want the Chiefs to get d hop Yeah, proven player
1:21:48
will see what he has left in the tank, but especially with what what
1:21:54
the Chiefs already have with Mahomes and Kelsey and Andy Reid, like adding another
1:21:57
potential chip or weapon like that? Scary, scary, scary. Oh interesting.
1:22:01
Brian says, I really don't want Flowers. Interesting. Zay Flowers has
1:22:05
been such a fan favorite for a lot of Bills fans. I'm interested to
1:22:08
see, Brian, why you don't want say Flowers? Very fair? I
1:22:13
like Zay Flowers. For the record, I do think he's not the separator
1:22:16
underneath that the Bills potentially may need, especially against Man. At a lot
1:22:21
of times where he wins, it's due to his athleticism, and when he
1:22:24
faces opponents of a higher tier athleticism were closer to his level of athleticism,
1:22:29
like like when he matched up against Florida State. Granted, Boston College's offense
1:22:33
schematically and from a talent perspective, was not good for Zay Flowers, but
1:22:40
I think he tends to struggle with guys that have more athleticism closer to his
1:22:44
level or above him, like he'll see in the NFL. So I don't
1:22:46
think he's just going to be this dominant stud right away, but I do.
1:22:49
I do like Zay Flowers, So it's interesting that you're not a fan.
1:22:53
DF says, Oh, no edge in round one. Shane says,
1:22:58
no D be in any round. Oh you're do you do want a dB
1:23:00
in anyone? No, no dB in any round. Jim says, oh,
1:23:03
does not want to trade up. I think that's fair. I wouldn't
1:23:06
mind a trade up for certain players. Like again, I really don't want
1:23:10
to trade up either. But if Peter Scronsky were to fall myself and here
1:23:14
Turner we're talking about this earlier tonight, like a Peter Scarronsky were to fall.
1:23:16
I wouldn't mind trading up for Peter Scorronsky because he's fantastic. But fair
1:23:20
fair Oh Song comes in and in all caps with four exclamation points, says,
1:23:26
I don't want Addison because he's too small. He's such a good,
1:23:30
polished route runner, though, um by fair. I understand the size concerns.
1:23:34
You know, under what what are we at? Let me let me
1:23:38
check here. I know it's what one hundred and seventy three pounds up?
1:23:43
Where's my notes? Yea six foot one hundred and seventy five. He's skinny,
1:23:45
small frame, fair fair fair Oh. Justin Phillips says, absolutely don't
1:23:50
draft the TCU wide receiver Quinn Johnston, and please know Jamir Gibbs in the
1:23:55
first I don't think there's danger of Gibbs going in in the first two the
1:23:58
bills. I do like Jamir Gibs a lot. His speed is real,
1:24:02
his feet, his vision, his suddenness in the hole, and his ability
1:24:10
to see fine, go and separate like he is a walking home run hitter
1:24:14
waiting to happen. He's also good in the route distribution, like he's that
1:24:17
guy in those Texas routes, those angle routes that he just makes linebackers look
1:24:21
foolish. You can run him on a drag route, you know, from
1:24:24
a spread alignment, and if you get him the ball on the move,
1:24:28
watch out and look out. Darryl says, no running backs. Roy says,
1:24:33
very simply, I want the Bills to actually let their rookies contribute more.
1:24:36
That's fair, that's fair. No, I like this comment from Nicki.
1:24:41
Micky says, I don't want another bull edge rusher if we do give
1:24:44
us some bend, so von can mentor that's a piece, you know.
1:24:47
I've talked about it on the show all offseason. Like the Bills, the
1:24:53
Bills archetype for edge, aside from von Miller, has been compressed. The
1:24:57
pocket, big, long, strong kind of guys, not very bendy,
1:25:00
not overly athletic. Von von Miller is very much the antithesis of the archetype
1:25:05
that they use on the edge. I would like guys with more bend,
1:25:09
with more athleticism, with more dip to their game, but it's not something
1:25:13
we've seen with regularity. Like honestly, if they go edge in this draft.
1:25:16
I would think it's it would be somebody like like Zach Harrison from Ohio
1:25:21
State, or like the most bendy kind of guy who isn't even really a
1:25:27
bendy guy, would be like Isaiah Fosky from Notre Dame. Like they just
1:25:30
they just traditionally have not gone for those bendy type of edges. But fair.
1:25:36
Dennis says, I think Casey is more tolerable in New England because it's
1:25:40
a genuine rivalry. I just don't want to see Kcy pick one of our
1:25:43
guys again. I think that's fair NFL draft and Nic says I would prefer
1:25:46
no round one wide receiver unless they decide Downs as a round one pick.
1:25:50
I prefer Downs in round two over any of the round one guys. I
1:25:54
think Josh Downs would be an absolutely tremendous, tremendous, tremendous fit for the
1:25:59
Buffalo Bills. I do have a round two greade on him. I would
1:26:00
love him in round two, especially at fifty nine. But I mean,
1:26:04
if the Bills were to trade back, he's somebody who I love in the
1:26:09
late thirties, early forties, depending on what you know, where they trade
1:26:13
back to and how that shakes out. I wouldn't hate it in round one.
1:26:17
I would prefer it in round two. But I mean he adds a
1:26:19
lot of juice to that slot position with his craftiness, his route running nuance,
1:26:25
how he paces his routes, his understanding of leverage and coverage in space.
1:26:29
I also think he plays bigger at the catchpoint than he gets credit for.
1:26:32
He's one of the best in college football last year in contest to catches
1:26:34
thirteen out of eighteen. I forget where it placed him, but he was
1:26:39
one of the best at contest to catches, which again is really saying a
1:26:43
lot considering his size at five foot ten, one hundred and seventy five pounds,
1:26:46
dude plays bigger that he is. Oh el Sharer says, I want
1:26:51
Hopkins and Flowers. Oh, very interesting, very interesting. Oh, I
1:27:01
appreciate you, Anthony. Anthony says, it's definitely not corny to remind people
1:27:04
to hit the like. I appreciate you. You also have a tremendous name,
1:27:06
and I'm not just saying that because we share it. Well, then
1:27:09
well done anything. Oh DF says the only slot guy will take is Josh
1:27:16
Downs. Else what else? Oh amacus comes in. I'm saying a lot
1:27:26
of a lot I see trade stuff in this comment, so I pulled it
1:27:28
up. Amakus says the Bills need to trade Oliver and a fifth for Hopkins.
1:27:31
Then if Nijigba or Bijan is in the twenty seven, trade back to
1:27:35
thirty two for Mazzie Smith, then trade up to forty two for Campbell and
1:27:40
Sanders. A lot of variables there. But I don't hate the plan.
1:27:43
I don't hate the plan. I appreciate you, Dennis. Dennis says he
1:27:48
loves the vibe at the end of the show. Appreciate you, Thank you
1:27:50
very much. Oh Dan Kinkit comes in and says, trade for Judy,
1:27:56
Jerry. Judy's a really interesting one, right. I think he's I think
1:27:59
he's still had some of his ceiling that he can hit and potential to hit.
1:28:01
Denver has been not kind to him his first several years. I think
1:28:06
he's a guy that could still reach some of the levels that he was projected
1:28:12
to reach coming out of the draft several years ago. I think he's a
1:28:17
really good route runner. I think he's got juiced to his game. He's
1:28:19
got enough size, like you put him in this offense with Stefan Daggs with
1:28:23
Gabriel Davis, and then you also had the youth factor on his side,
1:28:26
right, Like, if he works out, you know he's a guy who
1:28:29
you could potentially lock up long term and help himself out that wide receiver position
1:28:32
too. I think he's got high end wide receiver to low end wide receiver
1:28:36
one potential still despite the struggles he's had on early on. So I think
1:28:43
that's very fair. Walter says, unless you think a guy has wide receiver
1:28:46
one potential, I feel like drafting a wide receiver in the first round isn't
1:28:49
optimal, especially in a draft class like this with little separation. That's been
1:28:54
my biggest thing with this wide receiver class and my desire to not go wide
1:28:58
receiver in round one. I think the drop off from whoever you have asure
1:29:06
I don't know, top three or four wide receivers in this class, Like,
1:29:11
I don't think the drop off is as big from wide receiver four to
1:29:15
like wide receiver eight or nine or ten as it is from edge one through
1:29:20
four to edge ten, or defensive tackle one through four to ten, or
1:29:24
offensive tackle one through four to ten, Like I think there is a there's
1:29:28
a larger positional cliff that exists at other position groups than at wide receiver.
1:29:34
I think a lot of the value at wide receiver in this class is going
1:29:36
to be found in rounds two, three, and four, depending on how
1:29:41
the board shakes out. I think Jack's Jacks is a bit of a different
1:29:46
case study for me with the Bills because of how much they rely on the
1:29:49
slot and how proficient he is at the slot. Similar with Josh Downs.
1:29:53
Again, I don't want Josh Downs on the first I would be okay with
1:29:56
Jack's there, But given what the Bills do and need from that slot position,
1:30:00
if one of them were to be the guy in round one, I
1:30:01
wouldn't absolutely hate it. Saying thing with Addison like, I think I would
1:30:08
like a round one wide receiver to have wide receiver one potential. But depending
1:30:13
on your offense and how prevalent eleven personnel is and how much you rely on
1:30:17
a slot receiver or a specific skill set in your offense to succeed, I
1:30:21
think you can make the case to shift a little bit there. But I
1:30:26
understand where your head is at night. You know, I don't completely disagree
1:30:29
morning Mine shouting out the tree. Absolutely the tree is looking beautiful. I
1:30:31
will be changing the Garland live for this Thursday on the Draft Show and on
1:30:35
Friday as start to shift to a Draft miss celebration. But very fair.
1:30:44
Oh Claude comes in and says, there are a bunch of good slots,
1:30:46
Flowers, Downs and Jayden Reid from Mission State. Charlie Jones like them all,
1:30:50
but the Bills need an X. Tillman or Wilson would fit, but
1:30:55
the Bills don't seem interested. I think a lot of it depends on what
1:30:57
you're going to do with Khalilshakire. If you think you can work on the
1:30:59
boundary, you're going to look more for the slot. If you think he
1:31:00
can work in the slot, you're gonna look more to the boundary. But
1:31:03
very fair, very fair. I like this from Urt at the Mississippi Sports
1:31:09
Group who says I'd love to have Josh Downs, but in the second round.
1:31:11
I say our first pick should be the best defensive lineman available. On
1:31:14
round one. I think the Trenches need work, especially on the defensive side
1:31:17
of the ball, from a depth perspective, but also from a high end
1:31:21
perspective, like especially in the interior. I'm gonna say just kind of one
1:31:26
more time before we go into the draft. Right now, your top four
1:31:29
defensive tackles or de Kuon Jones, at Oliver, Jordan Phillips, and Tim
1:31:32
Settle. Jordan Phillips has legitimate injury concerns. I don't think you can stay
1:31:35
healthy for a full year. Tim Settle had a horrible year last year from
1:31:38
an advanced metric perspective, and everything after them like five through eight on the
1:31:43
depth chart or even bigger question marks. You need top end talent in your
1:31:47
defensive tackle grouping and depth for this year. And also you have no defensive
1:31:51
tackle sign for twenty twenty four, so you need reinforcements for twenty twenty three.
1:31:56
M Beyond edge grouping, is von Miller gonna miss time? Even if
1:31:59
he does, you still need production off the edges, boy Boogie Basham.
1:32:01
Shouldn't really be an edge number three, maybe not even an edge four.
1:32:04
At Panessa is built more to be an edge four, not necessarily an edge
1:32:09
three. As of right now, you need reinforcements. There a lot of
1:32:13
potential consternation and conversation what comes to that defensive line grouping, which is a
1:32:17
piece that I do think the Buffalo bills do need support, and I'm gonna
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