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  It's thirty eight. All bills can win In here, Wake puts it down,
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  the kick is on the way and dock m the bell good one?
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  How the hell that one home? How one? They were a party one
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  not party way? Incredible? Why not combat by my bell? Jacksonville's perfect
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  record on the line right here, quick kicking, look excited? Touchdown Kyle
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  Williams touchdound amazing, unbelievable. They puttied william who's hats to full back and
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  he scores a touchdown. It's wealthier to face tackle. What's good? Folks,
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  Family, Friends, loved ones, Enemies, friend of Mees, Wizards
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  the episode show notes, wh They're here on YouTube or whichever podcasting app or
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  platform you are listening to this show on. I am your host, Anthony.
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  Find me on Twitter at pro Underscore Underscore and that's pro two Underscores A
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  n T In tonight's episode of Disguise Coverage, I am joined by one of
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  my favorite guests, much like I was on last week's episode when I was
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  joined by Bruce Nolan, and he called out in the beginning saying like,
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  oh, you know, you gotta be careful when you say like one of
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  one of your favorite guest because what happens somebody calls you on it and then
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  you got to rank them one day, and it can really you can get
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  into the weeds with it. But my guest for tonight's show is genuinely one
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  of my favorite guests and one of my favorite people as well, who will
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  be diving into a really fun conversation that we have planned for this episode.
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  I think a lot of a lot of the conversation come draft cycle and circles
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  this time of year, especially when you get focused down to a team.
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  A lot of it is just mock drafts and putting those pieces together, and
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  I think that's fine and all good and well. But the conversation that myself
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  and my guests are going to have tonight's kind of building the Bills draft board
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  by breaking down the rest of the board in the first round, specifically those
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  first twenty seven picks and then kind of using that as a jump off platform
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  in terms of how many positions are going to go and which players do we
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  think go in those twenty seven picks, who's available at pick twenty eight,
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  breaking things down by position grouping, and how that impacts the bills at twenty
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  eight, which then impacts the bills going forward throughout the entire rest of this
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  draft. In this episode, you're going to get some bills specific analysis,
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  some schematic stuff, some fit stuff, and then also a ton of prospect
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  analysis and evaluation and to join me on that journey in this episode, Like
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  I said, one of my favorite people, mister Russell Brown, formerly of
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  Cover one now NFL Draft analyst for Fantasy Pros Russ, thank you for taking
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  the time. I appreciate you, and welcome to the show. Yeah,
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  I mean, I'm excited to talk some rugby tonight. And I want to
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  know if you had to rank me in guests, Am I one of one?
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  Or am I like one of I gotta be one, I have to
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  be. I'd have to be. I'd have to quantify how many people are
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  and like my favorite guests, it would be it's a short list like who
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  No, no, no, I'm not saying like where you rank. I'm
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  saying like the people that I would use the term like one of my favorite
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  guests. It's a smallest Like I don't say that for like every person that
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  comes on the show, and that sucks for those people. Well, it's
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  usually more like you have to be you have to be like a repeated,
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  a repeat customer here on the show at least probably like three times in order
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  to like fall because like once is a what is it? Once is whatever?
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  Two is a trend, Three is a blah blah blah. I feel
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  like I got to get to at least three and then then that then we're
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  talking like good analysis, good rapport, good availability. Like there there's a
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  lot of things that go into it. There's a science to it, and
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  it's also it's also stressful for me, like bringing guests, which is usually
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  why I go to certain people more often than not, because one, I
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  gravitate towards a certain level of analysis. But two and you know this,
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  like it's hard in this space to continuously have like open lines of communication with
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  people. Some people are doing this full time and it's one of like several
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  things that they do full time, so it's hard to get them at the
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  right time, at the right moment, depending on when you go live.
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  Some people live in different time zones. Some people do this as a side
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  project, so you got to see what they're doing during the day. Do
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  they have kids, are they sick, like whatever. Here's a lot of
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  moving parts, which why I always appreciate you. You know, it's very
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  easy just to be able to text you and be like, hey, man,
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  do you want to join me like on this date And you're like either
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  yep or you're like nope, And I'm like cool, and we keep it
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  pushing. But and that's that's the key right there, that's the key of
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  me being number one, he said. The keyword text. He texts me.
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  He just texts all of his guests, and there's there's a lot of
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  there's a lot of text between me and Martin Jinnetti here. So I'm happy
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  to be see now, that's what I was going to say, because you're
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  but you're also mean to me, which is what I would say, like,
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  I don't know if I can have the number one guy. You mean
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  to me, you're emotionally you're you emotionally batter me behind the scenes, and
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  it's just it's really hard to deal with sometimes. I mean, you have
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  said some mean things to me though, that is absolutely true, but it
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  mainly in retaliation, and my son set me attack. So I gotta give
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  them one real quick. What's up, brother? I like it? The
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  bomb on? Don's yeah, the bomb on. But let's talk some football.
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  Sorry everybody, No, you're good, You're good. I enjoy these
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  one offs in these tangents, says as we are, you know once to
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  do it. It is good report. It's because we're you know, the
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  tag team champs with the Steiner Brothers live in uh in the flesh. I
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  was just watching the Steiner Brothers. Actually, I can't wait. I can't
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  go down the show. We're gonna get too distracted. I can't let me
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  stop. Let me derail this off cycle train. Before we get too off
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  cycle, let's focus on the draft. How you feel we're about a month
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  away, kind of like from a date perspective close, which is it's it's
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  man, I feel like we were just in Mobile and I feel like the
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  Bills just lost to Kansas City again. Like it's crazy, how fast the
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  off season do? Yeah? You know, like it just moves, And
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  here we are sitting a month away from the draft after I feel like the
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  season, I really feel like we were literally just in Mobile talking ball,
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  talking about that Lion's game against like the forty nine ers, like having to
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  watch it, Dude, I, well, I can't. I haven't gone
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  back and watched any of like the Bills like losses, Like I can't do
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  that, Like it would it would destroy me more than it already does.
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  But as we sit here a month away, kind of just high level before
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  we get into the meat of it all, what are your what are you
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  feeling as we get towards this draft? Are you are you thinking of any
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  player in particular or are you thinking of a position group? Is there a
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  certain team you got your eye on or a certain round or day? What's
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  you like as you think of like the twenty twenty four NFL Draft right now,
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  what's like the first thing that kind of pops into your mind? Offensive
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  line? Baby, that the run, the run is going to happen in
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  the first round. And I think a lot of people forget that. And
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  I said that with Michael Lombardi on VSEN weeks ago, and I've said it
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  on this show. We I think we even went into some detail about the
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  offensive line group. And I was on the show a month ago, so
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  I can't remember what I remember. We did edge receiver, We might have
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  even done corner and that might be safety. We did safety. They all
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  go and yeah, all go, man, even that too, Like it
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  was like a month ago ago or a month ago ago, obvious, a
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  month ago, but we were, yeah, breaking down like what the watch
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  for heading into the combine, And now combine's done and dusted and we're getting
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  ready to cruise into the drip free agency already, like we're twenty nine days
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  away. But I think I feel most confident about the offensive line. I
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  always trust my analysis there. Sure there's a miss or two, but I
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  always trust how I feel on those guys, and I feel like I I've
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  got a pretty good grasp there, and I've got a good grasp on you
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  know, all eleven positions essentially. But it's one of those things where,
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  yeah, a month ago, I was like, oh man, I'm struggling
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  here because I was so I felt so far behind, and now I feel
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  like I'm caught up, and I'm like, okay, now I got to
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  watch some more players. I got to get to the one hundred and twenty
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  five mark, the one hundred and fifty marks. So we're you know,
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  we're in the low one hundred. It's like one O eight or one O
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  nine. But I feel good. I'm feeling pretty good about it. So
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  no, I'm excited. I'm excited to do this. I love doing this
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  with you, and yeah, I love the questions that we have out or
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  that you have outlined for us. I'm excited. I'm very excited too.
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  And you know it's funny too. You mentioned in like the board like I've
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  I've pushed it every year. Like when I first started doing this, I
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  was like, Okay, let me have a top one hundred, and then
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  I was like top one twenty five, top one fifty. And this year
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  I was like, I'm just gonna go right and have like a top two
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  hundred, and I've been so you and I were texting about it like last
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  week and watchers of the show. No. Tuesday night, I was like,
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  not feeling great, but I was fine. I was sick Monday.
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  I've been sick for like three weeks. It's been the wildest thing. But
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  I was good. And then Tuesday night I got crazy sick like Tuesday night,
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  like slash Wednesday morning at like two forty five am, specifically two forty
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  seven, because I woke up and felt terrible and I remember what time it
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  was, and I was out of commission all Wednesday, all Thursday, the
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  majority of Friday, sum even into the weekend, and I was like so
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  stressed. I was like, oh my god, I got to get to
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  my two hundred, and I'm like, not where I want to be,
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  Like there's so many more tiers and levels I want to get to. I
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  sould like and as I was like I was, I felt so terrible.
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  I was asleep for like twenty of twenty four hours, like those three or
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  four days in a row, but and I was awake. I was like,
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  I gotta get through this draft board and it was just man, it's
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  funny, like those little things like of how they stretch you out, like
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  as you get forward, it's like, oh, I'm so excited. And
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  then it's like do I have enough people like Scouted? Do I have everything
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  ranked appropriately? Like I always get real anal and like Tinker where I'm like
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  I have this guy is ninety three and this guy is ninety four. But
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  I feel like I should swap him, and it's like it doesn't matter,
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  like you're fine, Like stop with the nippicking. Do do you have a
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  goal of players that you try to reach every year? I don't think I've
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  ever asked you that question, like in terms of like an overall number.
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  Yeah. Yeah. Usually I've kind of like hard set it, even though
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  it is somewhat arbitrary. Last year, I had a top one fifty.
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  This year, I do want to get to like a top two hundred,
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  and I do think I'm still gonna reach it. I just have to kick
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  some stuff into overtime after missing out on like especially because I have everything very
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  regimented of like what positions. You and I were going back and forth and
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  texting. You'd be like, hey, man, like what do you like
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  three four weeks ago? You were like, hey, what do you think
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  of the tackles? I was like, I haven't gotten there yet. You
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  were like, watch them now. I was like, I have a process,
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  Like leave me alone. I no, only process got like derailed because
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  I missed out on like four days and yeah, just and it but it's
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  all good and it's fun and I enjoy it and you enjoy it and the
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  people enjoy it, and that's why we hear we're here. So without further
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  ado, let's just jump into it. Also, when I want to say,
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  as Russ and I start to go through, you folks watching live and
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  in the live chat, you know how we like to do here on this
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  show. So for those playing at home, questions, thoughts, comments,
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  concerns, feel free to throw them up into the chat. Anything with the
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  super chat gets automatic priority, and I will bring it up to the screen
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  one because I respect the monetary donation too. I see the color and it
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  attracts my eyes and brings me away from my notes. But also Russ and
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  I's specific questions we're going through tonight, So when we bring up those questions,
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  when I bring up those headlines again, those of you plan at home,
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  feel free to flood the chat with your answers, your questions, your
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  thoughts, likes, dislikes, anything and everything you got. I will bring
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  up as many things as physically and humanly possible as we go out on this
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  journey. But Russ, let's start with the big ticket item round one.
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  The sexy aspect. For most teams, including the Buffalo bills, a lot
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  of debate amongst Bills mafia and Bills fans over what they want to see at
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  twenty eight, who they want to see chosen at twenty eight. But I
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  think before we get to that, and I don't mean just necessarily unit tonight,
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  I just mean, like anybody breaking down that conversation, I think we
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  need to first map out the first twenty seven picks from that aspect and really
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  determining like who will even be there at twenty eight, which is so much
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  of the conversation, right, Like there's so many guys who I love,
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  and then it's like, well that guy's not gonna be there at twenty eight,
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  so it doesn't even matter, Like why do we have to have them
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  even in that conversation. So let's start with offensive line, guard, tackle,
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  center, all in one grouping. I want to start with this one
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  because I think this is probably the biggest bucket of what we're going to see
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  in the first twenty seven picks. How many offensive linemen do you think go
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  in the first twenty seven picks? I think eight go I'm gonna be honest,
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  I think eight offensive linemen. Two of them are for sure interior guys
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  Jackson Powers, Johnson, I was gonna say, can I guess the eight?
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  Oh? Yeah, go ahead, Okay, so you have one.
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  I gave you the easy one, yes, so okay, So all Fuaga
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  yep, Olu yep, Latham yep, Mims yep, jpj yep, Graham
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  Barton yep, Troy Fontana yep. Nah sweet, I have the exact I
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  have to say I have eight as well. Those are literally my eight.
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  So as soon as you said eight, I was like, I just want
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  to see if the match continue. Sorry, I got excited. No,
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  And I think that's I think that's kind of where the consensus is here.
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  And I think, you know, is there a wrench thrown in there?
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  Possibly? Is it Tyler Goyton maybe out of Oklahoma? Is it Kingsley suit
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  my Teya out of Byu who I think as teams maybe start to do some
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  cross checks there. You go back to the Senior Bowl, you see some
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  of the stuff that he did, and you really zero in on him.
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  I think you can see a lot of positives within his game, and I
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  think there's that guard tackle flexibility. You add in the fact that he's cousins
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  with Pine Sewel. I think there's some intrigue there. So he could be
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  a back end first round guy. He could be an option. I guess
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  at twenty eight, if we want to get into that conversation, I don't
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  necessarily see that being a thing, but maybe it is. But yeah,
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  I think there's going to be a run on offensive lineman and I think the
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  Bills are going to be a team that me personally, I think that that's
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  what they're going to zero in on in the first round because that run is
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  going to force teams in the second round to take the next group or the
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  next tier, or the next pairing of offensive linemen. And by the time
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  they get into the sixties, they're already onto the next tier. So they're
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  going to have to force their hand a little bit. I think into that
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  second tier of guys. If you let's say those eight guys we talk about
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  as the first because you can mix and match them however you want. You
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  then get into the next tier, and that's the tier of you know,
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  Zach Frasier, Tyler, Geiton Kingsley, Sue Mike Teya, Christian Haynes,
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  you know. The list goes on. So I think once you get into
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  that list, that's kind of like your second ish, third ish tier however
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  you want to word that, But uh, yeah, I think that's what
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  it ultimately boils down to for the Bills is are they going to feel like
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  they can get one of those guys in the sixties. I don't see it
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  happening, but I could be wrong. I mean I've been wrong before,
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  but I think the last like three years, I've nailed the Bills pick.
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  So I think, I don't know. We still got a couple of weeks,
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  so we'll see. I'm still trying to figure it all out. But
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  yeah, I think eight offensive lineman. Gill and I'm in a similar boat,
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  like I think Geiton is the one that I think is a real wildcard
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  too, like could potentially creep up in there, and then that makes nine.
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  Either way, I think that's a good option for the Bills, even
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  if it's eight, just to play like kind of lowest number scenario. That's
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  eight of the twenty seven picks ahead of you going on offensive linemen, so
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  you're down to like nineteen, and that's a really like fun option when you
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  look at that potential run looking at it from a Bills perspective, I don't
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  know why, I've just kind of gotten this feeling offensive line isn't like a
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  need for them, but if someone falls, I could see it, and
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  you know, I put Jackson Powers Johnson on the graphic just for the the
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  sheer idea of it. Like I think he's going to go somewhere in the
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  twenties, And I don't know why. I just have this feeling of like
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  him being there at twenty eight and the Bills just being like, well,
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  this dude's awesome and we could kind of like use him so boom, like
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  let's take him and then you move McGovern back to guard and then you have
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  JPG at center, and he's I mean, he's absolutely phenomenal. Although I
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  do like I do like Zach Frazier, who I watched a bunch today,
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  But JPJ is just in another world of his own. And I remember you
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  and I talking about him at the Senior Bowl, like I just wasn't I
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  wasn't prepared for him to in the three thirties, given how he moves on
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  tape, like how athletic he is, how fluid he is in space.
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  I knew he was big, but I was like, hey, I'll probably
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  push like three eighteen, three nineteen, maybe low three twenties and he was
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  like three thirty four, three thirty three, like like good into the three
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  thirties, not like oh he's you know, three thirty point eight. No,
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  he's like mid three thirties. And then you're also sitting there being like
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  okay, like that's not just workout weight. He's gonna practice this week at
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  that weight, which he did, and he so good. Yes, he
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  dominated. He looked so good and he ticks like every box. And I
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  think that's just such great value at the back end. You even if a
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  team doesn't need offensive line, I will never be upset at a team drafting
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  an offensive lineman because you always need offensive lineman, Like I don't care.
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  Offensive line and corner for me is always those spots where like you can never
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  have enough offensive lineman and you can never have enough corners. And especially too,
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  with that conversation, I know for people of you know, help Josh
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  Allen and help Josh Allen, and I know a lot of that has been
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  Like from a weapons standpoint, helping him with the offensive line is so tremendous
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  idea too. And I could see if one of these, especially from a
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  versatility standpoint, if JPJ is there or our boy Graham Barton if he's potentially
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  there, like the idea, especially with Barton, who offers you like every
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  position flex potentially with what he did at Duke, Like you could do guard,
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  center and tackle, Like that's a really fun option. Yeah, tackle
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  over. It's so interesting to see if they do go a line there,
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  but for the wide receiver only people in the first round or potentially other positions.
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  I do think that's the biggest bucket of players that get dropped into that
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  first round. Like I'm in the same spot like like like, like we
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  said, I think the floor realistically, like I think eight is a very
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  safe bet with potentially again, I think if you could get to like nine
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  with Guiton or I know, you know dude from Byu is really I'm just
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  refused to say his last names. I mispronounced it like all the time.
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  Sure, yeah, whatever you say. And he he's rising up boards too,
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  you know what's funny too, Like I felt that way about Fatanu from
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  Washington and then I just nailed his name. And for whatever it is,
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  I just can't get Suemataia's name right. Oh. I guink it's a game
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  close there. I just can't get it, Like it I don't know if
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  it's all the vowels. It's driving me absolutely nuts. Yeah, but he's
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  like he's starting to rise up a little bit, like people are starting to
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  throw him into first round conversation. Like I think once the once the entire
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  first round is done, I think you could see nine or ten offensive linemen
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  truly being off the board. But in that first twenty seven, I think
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  eight is the floor. Yeah. No, I'm with you one hundred percent,
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  and I think that's why the Buffalo Bills will be faced. And if
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  just to anybody out here watching and to you, if I say the Detroit
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  Lions and we're talking about the Bills, it's my apologies. I do Lions
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  stuff and they like a couple times already, I've caught myself in my head,
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  don't say lines, don't say so if I say it, my apologies.
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  But like with me, I'm so intrigued with the offensive line pick for
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  the Bills because, like take Zach Fraser for example, if you got rid
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  of JPJ in this draft, Zach Fraser would be talked about in the first
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  round. It would be same type of thing as we saw with Frank Ragnow
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  when he was coming out and saying not saying he's the same player, because
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  he's not. But he gives you that guard center versatility. He's got long
• 20:32
  enough arms to play either one. He's got good snap to step quickness.
• 20:34
  He is a mauler in the run game. I mean the former wrestler which
• 20:38
  we know Sean McDermott and a really good wrestler like for yeah, yeah,
• 20:44
  one hundred and fifty nine and two like and I look at it like this,
• 20:47
  like if he's there at twenty eight, which I think he will be,
• 20:49
  and I part of me really feels like he's the guy, Like I
• 20:55
  was thinking that today. A whole bunch, especially watching his hand use is
• 21:00
  an Aaron Cromer s stot. He I was watching him against Houston. I
• 21:03
  think it's literally the second play of the game. He's blocking their really big
• 21:07
  one tech number ninety three for Houston, who's a monster. And the way
• 21:11
  he puts his inside hand in and clamps him right in his rips, the
• 21:17
  positioning, the hand quickness, and you can see the grip strength just from
• 21:22
  there and his hand he's constantly refitting hands and just leveraging so well. And
• 21:27
  you combine that with the wrestling background and what he does, and I was
• 21:32
  doing the same thing. I was sitting there watching I was like, I
• 21:34
  don't know. I just had like a gut feeling. I was like,
• 21:37
  is that Fraser going to be the pick at twenty eight? I feel like
• 21:38
  people would be upset at that because not enough of the fan base knows who
• 21:42
  he is. They know of JPJ because of the REP. But I could
• 21:47
  see Fraser being the pick and I'd be like, that's a cool pick,
• 21:48
  and I can see the fans wanting to burn everything to the crowd. Yeah.
• 21:52
  And I think when you look at the position, I mean when you
• 21:56
  look at teams across the league, finding a center is difficult to do,
• 22:02
  but pairing one with the quarterback younger not or a veteran like Josh Allen.
• 22:07
  Getting somebody in there though to help establish that ground game, which should be
• 22:11
  very important for this team for how much they use Josh Allen, and then
• 22:15
  obviously trying to get James Cook the football and running with him and doing that
• 22:18
  type of stuff. Getting that guy that could come out and help identify pre
• 22:22
  Snap is a good leader, which is everything that he is, like pre
• 22:26
  snap stuff. There are glimpses on tape where and I believe they were playing
• 22:30
  Texas. There's a glimpse where he is picking up a line stunt in a
• 22:34
  blitz at the same time, and like he identifies it, he picks it
• 22:38
  up. He's quick enough to do it, and it's like, wait a
• 22:41
  minute, this is a guy. His head is always on a swivel,
• 22:45
  like you're watching, like he's handling so much here and scanning here and then
• 22:48
  what I love too in typical fashion, like if nobody comes, he's like,
• 22:52
  all right, cool, I'm just gonna finish find and work here and
• 22:55
  bury the dude who I've just had my hand. He's always alert, yeah,
• 23:00
  and that's I mean, you're it's like you're in my mock draft three
• 23:03
  point zero or something like. It's just I I don't know. I circle
• 23:08
  in on him. And I always kind of create a mini board, if
• 23:11
  you will, for players that I think fit certain teams, and you obviously
• 23:18
  get kind of caught up in the consensus of what like makes sense, But
• 23:21
  then you've got to create two or three players that could be sleepers or just
• 23:26
  fits because of the number of times that they visited with that player, the
• 23:30
  interest in that player, or schematically how they fit off of need or value
• 23:34
  or whatever it's going to be. And I think Center is a sneaky need
• 23:38
  for the Bills. I don't think he gets talked about enough because everybody wants
• 23:42
  Worthy or Mitchell from Texas, and look, I love Mitchell, you love
• 23:48
  Worthy. We like both players. But there's a reason to why. When
• 23:52
  you look into big boards, the three receivers are in the top five and
• 23:56
  the top ten, and then there's a significant drop off. So so it's
• 24:00
  the same question that you could have to the New England Patriots or the New
• 24:03
  York Giants or the Minnesota Vikings, whoever's going up for a quarterback. Let's
• 24:07
  take the Patriots, for example, within the Bills division. If their two
• 24:11
  guys are Jaden Daniels and Caleb Williams and both those guys are gone, this
• 24:15
  is a team that's projected to win four and a half games next year.
• 24:18
  Do you really think they're going to force their hand at the quarterback position,
• 24:22
  knowing the hit and miss percentage of that position. Probably not. So why
• 24:26
  should the Bills force their hand at receiver just because it's a sexy new toy.
• 24:32
  It doesn't make sense because you're not necessarily going to hit at that position,
• 24:36
  because if you go back and look at previous drafts over the years,
• 24:38
  there's a lot of guys out there on Twitter and in the national media,
• 24:44
  and myself included that, like the whole hell of a lot of receivers,
• 24:47
  and a whole hell of a lot of those receivers are on their third fourth
• 24:49
  team in the NFL right now, and it wasn't that long ago. So
• 24:52
  it's like me personally, the safe pick is the offensive line. I think
• 24:56
  the Bills need a draft safe in Round one. They have a ton of
• 25:00
  capital for Day two and Day three. They can get sexy then hit the
• 25:03
  home run and maybe it's a maybe it's a double, maybe it's a single.
• 25:07
  Take a guy like Zach Frasier, and I think that's what I think,
• 25:11
  that's what he is. I really think he would be the guy that
• 25:14
  is a no brainer for them. Yeah, I've I was literally, like
• 25:18
  I said, I was watching him today and I just I don't know what
• 25:21
  it was, and really I wish I could quantify it, but I was
• 25:22
  just sitting here watching him and I was like, he I just feel it.
• 25:26
  At like pick twenty eight, like I think he would be there,
• 25:30
  and it does make sense to that degree, especially given again, and we'll
• 25:33
  have this conversation as we go forward, but given what you could still get
• 25:37
  at wide receiver in round two. Again, it might not be the specific
• 25:41
  player that you like. If you love, you know, ad Mitchell,
• 25:45
  you don't take him at twenty eight. You're not getting him at pick sixty
• 25:48
  if you're the Bills. But that doesn't mean you can't get You still can't
• 25:52
  get a really good wide receiver at sixty, which is the whole point of
• 25:56
  how deep this class is and what you can get. You could still get
• 25:59
  a receiver too, and even potentially one that still has wide receiver one upside
• 26:03
  based on who falls and what happens. Yeah, I'm very interested in the
• 26:07
  old line piece and the other thing with the receivers too, and maybe we
• 26:11
  shift focus to receivers. But with that, I mean, I don't know,
• 26:15
  I'm just spit on. But with the receivers, like you have to
• 26:18
  find Diggs, whatever happens with his situation, will see if there is even
• 26:22
  a situation. I don't know what to make of that. I'm just on
• 26:23
  the outside. I can't go from a financial perspective. It is no like
• 26:30
  he he would have to be an absolute toxic nightmare for them to move him
• 26:37
  because of how bad the financials are. So, like, to put it
• 26:41
  in perspectively, if they do move him, that is literally them saying,
• 26:45
  even if it's not explicitly them saying, that's them saying, this dude is
• 26:48
  such a problem, we're willing to chop off both of our arms financially just
• 26:53
  to get him out the door. Right. I don't think it's gonna get
• 26:56
  I don't think it's at that point. I don't think it's gonna get to
• 26:59
  that point. But yeah, there's such a problem from a dead cap perspective.
• 27:03
  Yeah, he also from a dead cap perspective. Not to get off
• 27:04
  to too off track, I was looking at Dak Prescott's contract today because of
• 27:07
  the news he's got a dead cap hit this year of sixty six million dollars
• 27:11
  and his cap hit is fifty five. Like, it's wild what his cap
• 27:17
  number is It digs isn't to that level, but it's wild as well.
• 27:19
  Yeah, And I think that's how like people say the salary cap doesn't exist,
• 27:23
  You're probably right, it doesn't to an extent because these teams are worth
• 27:26
  billions and billions of dollars. But at the same time, the structures of
• 27:30
  these deals is why there's so much cap flexibility because however they structure it,
• 27:36
  and I don't know all the financials and all the technical terms. We need
• 27:38
  Greg Tomson for that. But it's one of those things where like, uh,
• 27:42
  it's one of those things where like you're you're paying them fifty five million
• 27:47
  dollars on the year, but then there's another sixty million dollars behind it because
• 27:49
  if you get rid of like, there's just so much financial gurus the number
• 27:52
  rap behind it. I just I don't know. But talking about receivers,
• 27:57
  Digs, Curtis, Amuel Khalil, Shakir maccollins, not saying mac Collins is
• 28:03
  a you know, it's gonna move the needle tremendously that you don't take that
• 28:07
  guy at twenty eight. But I'm I'm operating under the assumption that, yes,
• 28:11
  Mitchell Thomas, those guys are gone. So you get rid of the
• 28:15
  top five guys with Mitchell Thomas and then obviously the consensus top three. Now
• 28:21
  you're forcing your hand at what Keon Coleman doesn't create a bunch of separation.
• 28:25
  That was what I think that was the problem with Gabe Davis, right,
• 28:27
  I don't know, Like yeah, so, I mean it's like one of
• 28:30
  those things like do you you you have Dalton Kincaid, like you've you've spent
• 28:36
  the capital on the weapons. You now have to spend the capital on the
• 28:38
  product or on the protection and getting things going, and they're they haven't really
• 28:44
  done that, Like they've brought in guys like you know who we're talking about
• 28:48
  here with with with the center mc McDermott and or McGovern excuse me. And
• 28:55
  it's it's one of those things where like you brought in that guy for sexually
• 28:59
  pennies on the but you let go of Mitch Morse because he can't stay healthy,
• 29:03
  Like you just you got to bite the bullet here and you've got to
• 29:06
  get a quality center on the interior. And when you fit the profile that
• 29:10
  the Bills look for in football players, it's just a no brainer to me.
• 29:12
  So that's fair. Let's uh. I was gonna go QBS next,
• 29:15
  but let's stick to the wide receiver group since we've already talked about it a
• 29:18
  little bit. So first twenty seven picks you kind of alluded to it already.
• 29:22
  The Big three Marvin Harrison Junior, Elie Neighbors, Roumwoodoonze. You also
• 29:27
  think Brian Thomas Junior and ad Mitchell both go in the top twenty seven?
• 29:33
  Is that the only So you think five wide receivers go in the top twenty
• 29:36
  seven and that's who those five are? Yep, And I think ultimately six
• 29:40
  go in the first round. I mean, you can you can make a
• 29:44
  case that Xavier Worthy doesn't go in the first round just simply because of his
• 29:48
  frame, and teams might be hesitant on that he had the lower body injury
• 29:52
  stuff earlier in the year two. There might be some hesitation there. But
• 29:56
  when you look at like Marquise Hollywood Brown and players with that pro file,
• 30:00
  there's a lot of intrigue. And when you run a four to two to
• 30:02
  one or a four to two to two or whatever you want to say,
• 30:04
  teams, there's a team out there that's gonna fall in love with that speed.
• 30:08
  I don't know if it's Miami, I don't know if it's Philly,
• 30:11
  I don't know if it's Tampa. Man, if it was Miami, how
• 30:12
  ridiculous ham Waddle and Hill and age like that's wild? I know, I
• 30:18
  look at Tampa, and I'm just like, man, you brought in Baker,
• 30:21
  you brought back Mike Evans. Do you try to take this offense to
• 30:25
  the top, but you have the need at corner because Carlton Davis is now
• 30:27
  gone. So like, Tampa's an intriguing team right before the Bills, Arizona's
• 30:33
  another one. I mean, do they call me crazy? But do they
• 30:34
  double down at wide receiver in the first round? Do they take Marvin at
• 30:38
  four and then they take Xavier Worthy at twenty seven? Like, man,
• 30:42
  it sounds crazy. They have enough capital? Do they move up for a
• 30:45
  guy like that? So, like, I think realistically there's five. I
• 30:48
  think Coleman and Worthy are the two guys that are a bit on the outside.
• 30:52
  I don't think leg It gets in. I just don't. I mean
• 30:56
  maybe, but I would be surprised, like seven to eight receivers in the
• 31:00
  first round. I know it's a pass heavy league. I know they're fun
• 31:03
  and sexy picks, but I alluded to it. There's not been a lot
• 31:07
  of success once you get past the first kind of two tiers of wide receivers
• 31:12
  in the NFL draft. Every tier you find one guy, but a lot
• 31:15
  of teams are swinging and missing? Are they really going to swing and miss
• 31:18
  on guys that you know, A month ago we had Xavier legatt as like
• 31:22
  fiftieth, fifty fifth overall, but now suddenly I got to put him at
• 31:26
  thirtieth in my mock draft. No, I don't think so, Like I
• 31:29
  don't care what the consensus says, you know, so, uh yeah,
• 31:33
  I just I think realistically you got five. I just I really do so.
• 31:37
  And I also wonder too, the positional depth at wide receiver. I
• 31:42
  just wonder how much that's going to come into play four teams. Brandon Bean
• 31:48
  talked about it a little today on I think it was that like on the
• 31:49
  PFF podcast or something like that, talking about I think his literal example,
• 31:55
  a literal example was if you add a player on equal tier for wide receiver
• 32:00
  and some other position, they're more likely to go with that other position because
• 32:04
  it probably has more of a drop off to the next pick than wide receiver
• 32:07
  does. But if the wide receiver value is up here and the other one
• 32:09
  is here, then they're like, no, no question, We're going to
• 32:12
  go at wide receiver. And that's been my thing all along, Like the
• 32:15
  drop off from whatever wide receiver. I think you probably get it twenty eight
• 32:20
  to whatever wide receiver you could get at sixty. I don't think is as
• 32:22
  significant as defensive tackle or edge potentially, or interior offensive line or tackle like
• 32:29
  whatever aspect. I really I just want to shot this start real quick.
• 32:32
  Royce as Troy Franklin late round one wouldn't shock me. Troy Franklin is a
• 32:36
  false god and a false prophet. I hope that that doesn't happen, but
• 32:39
  to each their own, but I respect your boy. I actually could see
• 32:43
  that potentially happening as well. So like I'd be cool if the Bills go
• 32:47
  receiver, Like if the Bills go with Legett, I have no problem because,
• 32:51
  Okay, you want to take a baby aj Brown dude who's two hundred
• 32:53
  and twenty plus and runs a four to three and high points the football and
• 32:58
  knows how to play above the rim downfield. Cool. I also like the
• 33:00
  fit of the get with the Bills because you're talking about yes, and you
• 33:06
  were talking about that position grouping. Like the receivers. The big thing with
• 33:08
  me is whoever they draft as wide receiver two? Right, Like that rookie
• 33:13
  wide receiver this year isn't going to be target two in this offense, that's
• 33:16
  Dalton Kin Kate, and then target three Khalil Shakir, potentially James Cook.
• 33:23
  If you're talking touches, you know, catches plus runs, James Cook is
• 33:29
  option three in this offense. So let's label players as options. Diggs is
• 33:31
  option one, Kin Kaid is option two. Cook might even be option two
• 33:37
  if you're factoring in the run game. But your top three from a touches
• 33:39
  and options perspective is already set. So that rookie this year, at best
• 33:45
  or at like most in terms of responsibility, really only has to be option
• 33:50
  four or target four, touch for guy for you. But again that's not
• 33:52
  even including Shakir and Dawson Knox and anybody else that could creep up the pipe.
• 33:59
  Which is why I like the idea of a legat because, okay,
• 34:04
  they don't have somebody with his size profile, his athleticism profile, and his
• 34:08
  speed profile. What does he need to do needs to add some polish to
• 34:12
  his game from a route tree perspective and a stem perspective. Cool, you
• 34:15
  know, it's a really great way to do that while your option four or
• 34:19
  five is a rookie and you can just all you would have to do is
• 34:22
  just be big and strong and fast your rookie year and let the rest of
• 34:27
  the game come you. And I completely forgot about Curtis Samuel in that whole
• 34:30
  conversation. Yeah, with that just now, and so he's going to be
• 34:34
  in your top four as well. So that rookie, you know, wide
• 34:36
  receiver, that wide receiver too, even if it is Legett or Javon Baker,
• 34:39
  whoever it is, really is option or touch five in your offense.
• 34:45
  So it could. So I like the idea I've come around more to the
• 34:49
  idea of Legat. I always like this tape from a while perspective heading into
• 34:53
  the Senior Bowl. I didn't love him on day one at the Senior Bowl.
• 34:57
  I liked him more on day two. But I just think you could
• 35:00
  take a guy who has that ceiling and just needs to work on his floor,
• 35:05
  because you can give him a lot of that time his rookie year to
• 35:07
  work on that floor because he's not gonna he might be wide receiver two on
• 35:12
  the depth chart, but he's not wide receiver two from a touches or targets
• 35:16
  perspective, which allows him to really develop. And then you can just lean
• 35:21
  into that skill set, which is why I have a two on le Guet.
• 35:24
  I would have no problem with him being to pick at twenty eight because
• 35:27
  I think the fit with the Bills really works for them, but also for
• 35:31
  his career trajectory because there's not going to be a lot that's put on his
• 35:35
  plate from an expectation perspective given the surrounding cast. Yeah, no, that's
• 35:40
  a great point, and I think, like, look, I like the
• 35:44
  fiddle to get, but the point to receiver four, receiver five, the
• 35:49
  number of touches, Like, that's why I think, like, do you
• 35:52
  really need to force that in the first round. I just and that's why
• 35:55
  I still my ideal option is I would love to take best player available at
• 36:00
  any spot in round one and then just like, if you could do that
• 36:05
  and guarantee me the Bills get Javon Baker at sixty. I felt this way
• 36:07
  since before the Senior Bowl. That's why I would take that every day of
• 36:09
  the week, because he's he can also be a true act and I think
• 36:13
  he has some wide receiver one upside as well. But then you get that
• 36:16
  fit with the upside, let him simmer and you've had that BPA. Obviously
• 36:22
  that's you know, you're taking some risk into that there, but yeah,
• 36:25
  it's just from that need perspective. Long term, it's a little different with
• 36:30
  Okay, what is the long term structure for Shakir or Samuel or digs or
• 36:35
  whatever, Like when do you need a new wide receiver one? Is it
• 36:38
  next year? Is it twenty twenty six? Like Diggs might so very well
• 36:43
  be on the team. Does he start to get phased out? Like does
• 36:46
  he slow down? I'm not saying he will, but just all these conversation
• 36:49
  pieces, I think that's what starts to creep into people's minds. But that's
• 36:52
  why I think it gives them so many options at wide receiver because you really
• 36:58
  just need a specific dynamic skill set added to the group right now, and
• 37:02
  that get that. It gives you the entire menu, like you can go
• 37:06
  anywhere because they don't need to be the second option for your team. Right.
• 37:09
  Oh And that's a good point. That's a good point, I guess
• 37:13
  really, I mean, like, what would we identify the Bill's biggest needs
• 37:16
  are going like thirty days away, twenty nine days with whatever the countdown is,
• 37:20
  But what are the biggest needs for the team. I mean, how
• 37:23
  would we assess the team right now? I would say interior offensive line at
• 37:29
  least one. Another receiver sure, uh, just as like that wide receiver
• 37:35
  four or five, and maybe there's the upside to be like number two or
• 37:37
  number three in the offense. Then you have corner safety, some some type
• 37:43
  of defensive that probably multiple, another interior out defensive lineman. I would have
• 37:47
  to think, yep, I mean that's how I would identify it. I
• 37:52
  would maybe even throw a linebacker in there. But I know you don't want
• 37:57
  to talk about Edderan Cooper, so we will like Eddrian Cooper. I just
• 38:00
  don't want to have to take them in the first two rounds, like that's
• 38:02
  just given what else they have. Because you need you need a wide receiver
• 38:07
  too from and I want to say a wide receiver two again, I mean
• 38:10
  on the depth chart. I mean from like a size and frame perspective,
• 38:14
  like that's what you need. So you need wide receiver, you need another
• 38:17
  interior defensive lineman, you need another edge. I would love some offensive line
• 38:23
  depth, but you could also go offensive line starter on the interior. I
• 38:28
  also think you could throw a dart on the board for a tackle, just
• 38:30
  to have some added depth and long term, like I don't in tons of
• 38:35
  mocks aren't real, but like the PFF, when I do, Christian Jones
• 38:38
  is always available in like the one hundred and thirty, so I'm always like,
• 38:40
  okay, cool, I'll take Christian Jones every single time. Why not
• 38:45
  tackle from Texas for those who don't know. Again, so you're looking at
• 38:49
  edge and you could still make a pick at safety. Mike Edwards is only
• 38:52
  there on a one year deal and the depth behind him is still shaky.
• 38:54
  Corner is another one too that you and I were talking about the other day.
• 39:00
  Douglas. He didn't have an extension this offseason. He did a restructure,
• 39:04
  so he's under contract through this season and is a UFA after next year.
• 39:07
  So that means your CB one for this year is not on the roster
• 39:12
  for twenty twenty five. Yeah, for twenty twenty five, kyri Elam is
• 39:15
  still an unknown quantity. And even if you're super high on kyer Elam,
• 39:20
  okay, he's CB three this year, you still need a corner four.
• 39:23
  But realistically with kyr And, I want him to be CB like two or
• 39:29
  one in an ideal world, but there's just so much unknown. I think
• 39:31
  corner is in need because you could need a CB three this year, and
• 39:37
  corners get banged up all the time, especially Benford and even Douglas to a
• 39:39
  degree. So you need a CB three this year in my estimation, but
• 39:45
  also you could use that CB three to be your CB two next year.
• 39:49
  Maybe it's and I give the example all the time, like I always find
• 39:52
  a way to get like Chris Abrams drain like in like the third or like
• 39:55
  fourth, and I'm like, okay, cool, be my CB three this
• 39:58
  year and then it's you and Christian ben for next year is the one and
• 40:00
  two or maybe? And this was this was one that was proposed in the
• 40:04
  chat I forget by who like a month ago, someone was throwing out scenarios
• 40:07
  and was like, oh, like where does like best player available come down
• 40:13
  versus need? This was before Trey White got cut and everything, and somebody
• 40:15
  was like, what happens if Terry and Arnold falls to twenty eight? I
• 40:20
  was like, he's awesome, but like you have Trey and Douglas and Ben
• 40:22
  for you don't need it. Now. I'm sitting there being like, oh,
• 40:25
  if Terry and Arnold fell, yeah, that's actually pretty sick because now
• 40:31
  again like you have to figure out who's going to be CB three this year,
• 40:35
  but you have your long term CB one and two with him and Benford,
• 40:37
  Like there's just all these Brandon Bean did a good job, like he
• 40:42
  does every offseason of mitigating all the needs so that there's so that the conversation
• 40:46
  we're having is the one that we have where there's not like priority one is
• 40:51
  this. No. He fills the holes and mitigates things, so you can
• 40:53
  have a conversation of being like, oh, it could be this, it
• 40:57
  could be that, it could be over here, which is what makes their
• 41:00
  options and their menu so wide open, which again coming back to receiver,
• 41:06
  is why I think receiver in round two just makes so much more sense because
• 41:09
  there's so much less positional drop off there than there is that these other positions
• 41:14
  that they could use. Guys at Now the flip side of that that I'm
• 41:17
  worried about, and you kind of alluded to it a bit, I do
• 41:22
  see like five or six wide receivers going in the first round, but then
• 41:25
  from like the end of the first to pick sixty where the Bills go,
• 41:30
  I could see like twelve wide receivers going where it's just this huge run and
• 41:35
  then it's like, uh oh, we're in on the tail end of the
• 41:37
  run and all that depth that we loved in round two is gone. That's
• 41:43
  where you try to balance and you get scared because that's where I think the
• 41:45
  big run is gonna happen. I don't think you're gonna see all these first
• 41:47
  round wide receivers. I think that's where the offensive line and another position to
• 41:52
  a degree that we're going to get into in a minute. I think the
• 41:54
  run on wide receiver really happens from the end of the first round through the
• 41:58
  end of the second. Like I think why receiver dominates round two, and
• 42:01
  then you're kind of taking, you know, a luck of the drawer,
• 42:06
  taking kind of fate by the wayside a little bit and trying to see who's
• 42:08
  gonna be there at sixty. Yeah, but then you got the you know,
• 42:12
  you'll have a run on running backs. I know that'll probably more so
• 42:14
  start in the third round, but you can see probably one or two going
• 42:19
  the second. I would have to assume at least two, you know,
• 42:22
  between Trey Ben, Trey Benson, Jonathan Brooks, Blake Korm I mean kind
• 42:27
  of take your pick of who Marshawn Lloyd, you know, Jalen Wright.
• 42:30
  I mean there's enough there where maybe the Bills get a little lucky and kind
• 42:35
  of get somebody to fall at wide receiver to them in the second round.
• 42:38
  That kind of fits that tier, and then they don't necessarily have to be
• 42:43
  this sixty seventy reception guy in year one because they were picked at twenty eight.
• 42:47
  They can catch thirty five balls, four hundred yards, three or four
• 42:51
  touchdowns and be fine, and all the fans are going to talk and be
• 42:54
  like, he sucks. He only caught thirty five balls. You're not going
• 42:57
  to look at the usage or he sucks, right, he was only on
• 43:00
  the field for five hundred snaps. But yeah, you know whatever. But
• 43:05
  now you look at like, you know a lot of comments here about pass
• 43:08
  rush and stuff like that. I think it's great. I think they should
• 43:12
  go quick started starting interrupted. Like the chat is a great example, like
• 43:15
  you can see all the different options for people of how they're rank and stuff.
• 43:17
  You've got wide receiver, two, defensive tackle, safety, center,
• 43:22
  defensive end. Yeah, pass rush Matt. Matt came here and gave specifics.
• 43:28
  He said, three tech, which is why there's somebody at twenty eight
• 43:30
  who I really love. Potentially we'll talk about Roy came in and said three
• 43:32
  tech like RC is coming insane, safety is one, O line is two.
• 43:37
  But again that all it's a great microcosm of what the bills need.
• 43:40
  Like you could ask ten people what the biggest needs are and rank them and
• 43:45
  all ten will give you ten, like ten different orders because it's all a
• 43:47
  little bit. It's all six to one half a dozen of the other.
• 43:51
  Yeah. No, and I and like pass rush, Like once you get
• 43:55
  through Dallas Turner, Jared Verse and Layatu Latu, there's a drop off there
• 44:00
  just is. It's a big but it's a big drop off, like a
• 44:04
  significant drop off. And you're not gonna force your hand to take Brayln Trice
• 44:08
  or a Desa Isaac or Chris Brasswell, I mean, or your boy John
• 44:15
  Robinson who you love. No, you're not gonna take him, Like could
• 44:19
  you take Darius Robinson at twenty eight and get away with it? Yeah?
• 44:22
  Could you take Johnny Newton get away with it? Absolutely? I think he's
• 44:24
  a great fit. I think he's a home runs pick next at Oliver.
• 44:28
  But last time I said that I was an idiot, and they don't need
• 44:30
  two three texts, even though you can align things differently in the NFL with
• 44:34
  two eyes and four eyes and whatnot. But whatever I'm gonna, I was
• 44:37
  gonna pocket. And I just want to comment on that now. Like so
• 44:39
  initially before the Bills had re signed Daikwon Jones and you and I have talked
• 44:44
  about Newton and Murphia Punch, but specifically Newton. I really like Newton.
• 44:50
  I liked him when he was John Newton. I like him still even though
• 44:52
  he's Johnny Newton now. Either way, however you want to label yourself,
• 44:54
  I'm fine with it. I didn't like the idea of him at twenty eight
• 45:00
  because of the positional redundancy with ed Oliver. I thought you weren't maximizing his
• 45:04
  skill set because okay, like what's he gonna do play like rotational three?
• 45:08
  Or like are you gonna try and put him at one tech? Again,
• 45:10
  that's not maximizing a skill set with them bringing day Quon in. I don't
• 45:15
  know what that triggered or changed in me. I do to a degree,
• 45:19
  I am very much on board with Newton at pick twenty eight because of your
• 45:22
  top three on the interior which is a premium position nowadays. If you can
• 45:27
  generate pass rush from the interior spot like that's why so many of these teams
• 45:31
  are paying your Chris jones Is and your Jeffrey Simmons and your Aaron Donald's,
• 45:36
  like these dudes that dominate inside, who can compromise the depth of the pocket
• 45:42
  is just so tremendous. But with Newton, even though he's your second string
• 45:46
  three tech, like you're your first and second down dudes are Daikon and Ed
• 45:51
  Oliver. And this isn't to say that Daykon can't play on third downs,
• 45:52
  because he can and he showed it this past season. But when you get
• 45:58
  to those known passing downs and passing situations, it's at Oliver and Newton on
• 46:02
  the inside. Or to your point, you can play games and kick Newton
• 46:07
  out to a four I or even put them on as a five dependent on
• 46:08
  what kind of tackle situation you got. Same thing with that Oliver. The
• 46:12
  games you can play. But even aside from that known passing downs and passing
• 46:16
  situations, it's Newton and Ed Oliver on the inside, and that's nothing to
• 46:21
  sneeze at. With Daikuon like you would then have this nasty three man rotation
• 46:25
  on the inside with Austin Johnson, who the Bills just signed as your defensive
• 46:31
  tackle four. So you're looking at your two to one Texan Johnson and Daiquon.
• 46:36
  Your two threes are Newton and Oliver. That's a very solid top four
• 46:40
  versus the run and the pass. Then you're also looking at very I don't
• 46:45
  want to say very little, because that's I don't want to set the expectation
• 46:46
  so high for Newton or lower it for Ed Oliver. But then you're mitigating
• 46:51
  the drop off when Ed Oliver goes off on the to the sideline and you
• 46:54
  bring in Newton like you're looking at the high tier guy as your defensive tap
• 47:00
  two at the three tech spot. But again, it's that pass rush usage.
• 47:02
  And like you said, this is a passing league. So even though
• 47:06
  Newton would be a backup, I still think he's gonna be a guy who's
• 47:09
  seeing like forty five almost fifty percent of snaps depending on what the game script
• 47:14
  is. Yeah, and then that's tremendous. Now you've got a premium spot
• 47:16
  who's affecting the quarterback and who fits the Bill scheme so well from a penetration
• 47:21
  standpoint, that's really why. And so to hear you have Pete's comment like,
• 47:24
  oh no we have two Ed Oliver's what a terrible thing. That's been
• 47:29
  my thought. And then you're working in like Daikwon Jones wherever you want,
• 47:32
  like just it. That's what's gotten me on board more and more. You
• 47:37
  want to affect the quarterback. Pass rush has been a let down for the
• 47:40
  Bills in the playoffs these past couple of years, and I think a lot
• 47:44
  of times thought is all pass rush, defensive end edge For me, I'm
• 47:49
  looking there. I think the premium guy who's gonna be there from a pass
• 47:52
  rush perspective at best is probably Newton. I like Darius Robinson a bunch.
• 47:58
  I would play him at edge, not defensive tackle. I do think he
• 48:00
  fits the Bills archetype, but I don't think he's there as a pass rusher
• 48:05
  right now. I'd have no problem taking him at twenty eight because big,
• 48:07
  long, strong, and he's gonna play the run like a monster. Like
• 48:12
  you could do a lot worse than having Darius Robinson and Greg Russo as your
• 48:15
  defensive ends. When you want to play light boxes because nobody's getting outside,
• 48:21
  you have forced and boxed every single run inside no matter what. And then
• 48:24
  that obviously changes the things you can do, which is so I'm okay with
• 48:29
  Robinson there. My dream has started to become like Newton at twenty eight because
• 48:32
  I think he's a premier player. I have around one grade on him and
• 48:37
  him being there at twenty eight, I just I don't care if someone's gonna
• 48:40
  be well, we already have two starters inside, yeah, but he's a
• 48:45
  hell of a third option, and then on passing downs he's your starter inside.
• 48:49
  Yeah. And you can, like we mentioned alignment versatility, Sure,
• 48:53
  you can move him in a variety spots, which he did at Illinois.
• 48:57
  With with Newton, he moved all over the place. I mean, you
• 49:00
  go to the Mississippi State game in the bowl game that they had two years
• 49:04
  ago, He's lined up at the nose, the three, the two,
• 49:07
  y, the five, that you name it. He was everywhere. And
• 49:10
  that was really when I think he started to turn it on and really show
• 49:15
  Okay, I'm gonna take over this team now defensively for us. But the
• 49:19
  other thing too is like you can bring in so many different fronts now,
• 49:22
  like you can bring in you know, five man fronts, the format you
• 49:27
  can the bill started a monkey with a little bit. Last year they used
• 49:29
  some more bear fronts, they used some more tight front stuff like and start
• 49:34
  to get really creative with those odd fronts and what you can do. Yeah,
• 49:37
  yeah, exactly. So you get into all this different stuff, and
• 49:39
  I think getting a guy like Newton just makes a lot of sense. I
• 49:42
  mean, because the players that they've brought in on the interior are brought back
• 49:45
  on the interior. They're not necessarily sure things. Newton isn't a sure thing
• 49:50
  either. I mean, he's got to be healthy, he's got to have
• 49:52
  his head on right in the NFL, I mean, all these guys do.
• 49:53
  They got to be smart. But at the same time, like you
• 49:57
  bring him in, you kind of have a long term plan for the next
• 50:00
  four or five years on the interior to help at Oliver and help your pass
• 50:04
  rush and stop Patrick Mahomes. I mean, that's the guy that you got
• 50:07
  to stop. You gotta find ways to limit him. Isaiah Pacheco and that
• 50:10
  Kansas City Chiefs and an interior pass rush if you can, if you have
• 50:15
  to choose, like you can either have pass rush from the edge or pass
• 50:19
  rush from the interior. You're taking pass rush from the interior every single time,
• 50:22
  because that's literally literally the worst option for a quarterback is pressure right up
• 50:27
  the gut in their face, and that is what Newton gives you. Not
• 50:30
  to mention, from a long term perspective, d Kwon signs that two year
• 50:34
  contract, which I love, he's thirty two years old. You bring Newton
• 50:37
  in. Now you're solidifying two of your top three guys with Newton and Oliver
• 50:40
  for the next three four years. With what Oliver's contract is, then you
• 50:45
  just have to keep fitting in whoever that one tech is or what you want
• 50:47
  to do, like it could you could do a lot worse than going with
• 50:52
  Johnny Newton nitpicked twenty. Yeah, I mean, and imagine a defensive line
• 50:54
  that is featuring in the AFC Championship Game, third and eight game on the
• 50:59
  line Von Miller, Greg Russo, Johnny Newton and that Oliver. I mean,
• 51:04
  that is a recipe for success and that's what it's about. And I
• 51:07
  was bringing you know, I'm glad we bring up the pass rush and Johnny
• 51:09
  Newton because as I was kind of talking about earlier, like for each team
• 51:14
  in the draft, I bring up kind of a mini big board for that
• 51:17
  player, and I'll go are a a mini big board for that team.
• 51:22
  So like, I'll have like three or four players that I really like,
• 51:23
  and when I get to the Bills, the three players that I consistently write
• 51:28
  down are Zach Frasier, Johnny Newton, an Xavier Worthy. I think that
• 51:32
  those are the three guys. If they were to somehow get one of those
• 51:36
  three, they're better off as a football team. And you're not writing down
• 51:39
  ad Mitchell because you think he's going to be gone. I think he's gonna
• 51:43
  be gone, and you know when you have let's just say the Chargers for
• 51:46
  example, Let's say the Chargers move from five to eleven and they get picked
• 51:50
  twenty three. Well, if they pass on a receiver at eleven because the
• 51:52
  run happens, and they take Brian Thomas Junior or a d Mitchell at twenty
• 51:58
  three, which is kind of that they would take ad Mitchell because athletically speaking,
• 52:01
  like from a frame and measurable standpoint, he's damn near the same player
• 52:07
  as Quinton Johnston when you look at the frame. But I think he is
• 52:10
  a different type of player, to be completely honest with you, but that's
• 52:14
  a conversation for a different day. But yeah, I mean that's just kind
• 52:16
  of how my process works with each team and how we figure out what they're
• 52:22
  going to do and who they're going to take. So the fourth player that
• 52:27
  I would add to that big board for kind of myself would be a defensive
• 52:30
  back. And I don't I've I haven't figured out what defensive back makes sense
• 52:36
  for the Bills. I don't know if that's Kamari Lassiter. I don't know
• 52:37
  if that's a corner a safety. I don't think it's like a kool aid
• 52:43
  McKinstry. I don't think it's like Nate Wiggins, Quinyon Mitchell or Terry and
• 52:45
  Arnold. I think those three guys are kind of gone. And then I
• 52:50
  look at, you know, potentially the safety spot. Do they force their
• 52:53
  hand with like Tyler Newman? Do they? I don't think. I don't
• 52:55
  think Cam Kitchens is on the board at twenty eight Moore, I just don't.
• 53:00
  I don't think he tested well enough. Not saying the Pro day wasn't
• 53:02
  good and not saying that play speed and tape speed and all that stuff doesn't
• 53:07
  matter. It does, but the combine does matter to an extent. And
• 53:12
  he just I don't know, there's some concerns there now just athletically speaking,
• 53:16
  but yeah, I just I like, I don't know what they do in
• 53:19
  the secondary. And that's that's the kind of the hold up with me with
• 53:22
  the Bills is which one as far as defensive backs, which ones do they
• 53:27
  take at twenty eight if that's the direction that they go, because like we
• 53:30
  said, they don't really have a clear need. They have kind of a
• 53:31
  wide variety on the menu. It's like you go to your favorite dining spot
• 53:36
  and you're like, man, I like the I like the chicken strip Peda,
• 53:38
  but I like the pizza. I want the burger and the Paddy Mill.
• 53:40
  I don't know what I want. And that's what the that's what the
• 53:43
  Bills have presented their fan base because you really don't know. I've gotten into
• 53:49
  like the second and third tiers of corners and become like obsessed with them to
• 53:52
  the Bills, like the Mike Sansertills honestly both dudes from Missouri. I like
• 53:58
  Rekestraw and I mentioned Kad like him being in that mix. I want to
• 54:02
  take a look at Andrew Phillips from Kentucky. I haven't watched him enough,
• 54:07
  but even some of the dudes, like a couple of your boys who I
• 54:08
  knew you, like Brownlee from Louisville, Max Melton, your boy from Rutgers.
• 54:12
  Like there's all these intriguing ways that the Bills could go with Corner.
• 54:17
  There's so many options, Like from from this aspect, let's hit a couple
• 54:22
  of pieces real quick. We can just we've had so much this conversation.
• 54:23
  Let's just hit We've got just some quick oneliners. How many qbs you think
• 54:28
  going the first twenty seven, do you think JJ McCarthy is a lock?
• 54:30
  Now we get four qbs in the top twenty seven, yeah, I think
• 54:34
  there's I think four are the lock. Okay, I struggle with saying is
• 54:38
  they're a fifth? And that's just simply because of the Denver Broncos, Like
• 54:42
  I don't know what the hell they're doing. Who's the thing going to be
• 54:45
  Pennix or do you think like all the love for Spencer Rattler's coming through,
• 54:49
  Like I I know, I think it's it's if it's Denver, I think
• 54:52
  it's all Nicks. I think it's Nicks. I just see is such a
• 54:54
  Peyton QB, Like that's what I'm saying, Like, stylistically, he fits
• 54:59
  with what he's looking for in a quarterback experienced at sixty one games played,
• 55:05
  you don't necessarily like, I don't think he's gonna get much better in the
• 55:08
  NFL, but maybe he gets a touch better under Sean Payton. Like if
• 55:12
  he was to go to let's just say, Tampa Bay, I think he's
• 55:15
  just a dude, right, Like, he's probably like Kyle Trask two point
• 55:19
  zero. But if he goes to Denver with Sean Payton, I think it
• 55:22
  could potentially work. And I'm so intrigued there at twelve, Like, what
• 55:28
  the hell do they do because they don't really have the amo to trade up
• 55:30
  unless they're taking future assets or Patrick certain or something like that and they're moving
• 55:36
  a player. I don't think that's gonna happen. So like I think four
• 55:40
  for sure, probably five, just simply because there's so many needs for quarterbacks
• 55:46
  fair and then all right, so we're looking at that defensive tackle I think
• 55:51
  is a quick one for us as well, Like the I think the only
• 55:53
  sure defensive tackle Locke in the first twenty seven picks is Byron Murphy from Texas
• 55:58
  Agreed yep, okay, cool, same spot, Edge, Turner, Verse,
• 56:05
  Lot to those three? Any chance you think Lot too, I think
• 56:08
  of I think Turner and Verse. There's no chance in hell either of them
• 56:12
  fall to twenty eight, especially Turner. I don't think Turner is ahead of
• 56:16
  Verse for me, but versusn't falling as well. Any chance, whether it's
• 56:20
  the medical, whether it's some of the stuff on tape that you and I
• 56:22
  have talked about, any chance you think a lot too falls to twenty eight.
• 56:25
  He's been a hot name for Bill's fans lately, and then he also
• 56:30
  ticks a box as well, because again you're looking at that edge spot,
• 56:32
  it's Groot, it's Von, it's a Japanessa, it's Kingsley Jonathan. Right
• 56:37
  now, Vaughn is still an unknown commodity at this point. Can he be
• 56:43
  an edge two? Can he get back to A one? Is he a
• 56:45
  three? I do think Edge is in need. What are your thoughts on
• 56:47
  Lot too potentially fall into twenty eight? Because I do think he ends up
• 56:51
  in that mid twenties range. I don't think it's unheard of that he falls
• 56:54
  to twenty eight. I doubt it, but I wouldn't be completely floored if
• 56:59
  he fell. No, He's like the one guy where I'm like, okay,
• 57:01
  if he fell, I get it. A lot of medical stuff there,
• 57:05
  teams are probably just not drafting because of the medicals and maybe some of
• 57:08
  the concerns in the run game, like like we were talking about it on
• 57:12
  the other day. Just he's a He's a fun player to watch. Best
• 57:16
  pass rusher in the draft by far, just as far as hand usage and
• 57:21
  the repertoire of moves that he has. He's got great length for the position.
• 57:24
  He's got good overall size. Mean we're six five, two fifty nine,
• 57:28
  but long arms, long arms, Like he's got a really nice,
• 57:31
  you know, double swipe move. He can swim. There's so much,
• 57:36
  yeah, like so much that is just beautiful to his game. I mean
• 57:38
  it's chef's kiss. But the run game stuff is what worries me. Like
• 57:44
  when I'm watching his teammate Gabriel Murphy, You're running there with his head cut
• 57:47
  off, like his head's on fire, just going berserk in there. I'm
• 57:52
  just trying to go through everywhere. I love him. Once in a while
• 57:53
  to like Murphy'll throw a cross chop in and if it doesn't work, the
• 57:58
  next snap he's like I'm just running through this tackle space. Yeah, or
• 58:00
  they're lining him up in the A gap and he's going up against guards and
• 58:05
  centers and as as a little athletic outside like edge. Yeah, And Gabriel
• 58:08
  Murphy's a guy that I don't know what to do with him. I think
• 58:12
  he's a top fifty, top sixty player in the draft as far as tape.
• 58:16
  I mean, like from an edge rusher standpoint, he's fourth best in
• 58:21
  the class as far as pass rusher, Like by far, he's in that
• 58:24
  tier of Verse Turner and Lato. Maybe there's a step down, but the
• 58:30
  stuff that he can do with only thirty and a half in charms is ridiculous.
• 58:34
  But that's the problem. Thirty and a half in charms only six foot
• 58:37
  two, kind of maxed out with his frame. What is an odd front
• 58:39
  stand up outside backer, Like what the hell is he? So that's the
• 58:44
  thing, but with a lot too. Yeah, Like I think he's in
• 58:46
  the run game. It's the the hesitation, right, Like I don't see
• 58:51
  him knifing down the line of scrimmage in laying out to make the tackle,
• 58:54
  Like he's content with just kind of setting that edge and being there, not
• 58:59
  saying he can't set the edge. I was thinking of this earlier because we
• 59:01
  were talking about so much yesterday, Like, and I don't mean this as
• 59:04
  a knock. As a pass rusher, he's such a finesse pass rusher with
• 59:07
  his hand usage as quick as everything is fine and precise. I also think
• 59:12
  he's a finesse run defender. And I think that's why you phrased it perfect
• 59:16
  yesterday, Like he doesn't really stick his nose in a lot of stuff.
• 59:19
  And yeah, like he either if he's not winning immediately off the line and
• 59:22
  there to make the play, you don't really see it. And I think
• 59:24
  because he he plays the run in the pass the same way, which is
• 59:30
  a finesse precision style and it works tremendously as a pass rusher. But I
• 59:34
  think that's why it leaves you with something to be desired against the run exactly
• 59:37
  playing the run. It's it's a it's pure mentality. It's just like violence
• 59:42
  and wanting to do it versus like, okay, my hand here, precise
• 59:45
  this and time this. It's like not dude, like you want you want
• 59:49
  precision and technique, but it's just a mentality and you want to beat the
• 59:52
  hell out of the man in front of you and stop the r right.
• 59:54
  Yeah. And I think the thing too is like when you when you look
• 59:58
  at the board in front of the bills, Like I think there's just too
• 1:00:00
  many teams that either need help on the interior offensive line or on pass rush
• 1:00:07
  or whatever. Like, especially with pass rushers, I think there's just too
• 1:00:09
  many teams in front of them. Like Arizona at twenty seven, they could
• 1:00:13
  use a pass rusher. Tampa Bay they just got rid of Shaq Barrett.
• 1:00:15
  They could use one, you know, And especially with Arizona, they love
• 1:00:20
  to dial up different types of blitzes and packages like they make sense. Green
• 1:00:23
  Bay with the NFC North getting potentially two young quarterbacks in there with Caleb Williams
• 1:00:29
  and maybe JJ or Drake may or whatever. Like you already have Goff,
• 1:00:31
  you have some established guys there. You gotta get that pass rush going,
• 1:00:36
  especially in the playoffs. You have Gary, you have Lucas van Ness.
• 1:00:38
  Now you bring in lot to like, you get some options there, especially
• 1:00:43
  with the new defensive coordinator. You look at Dallas, I mean, what
• 1:00:47
  does Dallas do. They just lost Torrens Armstrong. I mean they've lost some
• 1:00:51
  guys so I don't know. I just think Glatsu's gonna be gone. I
• 1:00:54
  think it's a dream scenario that he's there at twenty eight. Maybe they move
• 1:00:58
  up a little bit to try to get but I just I would be surprised.
• 1:01:00
  But yeah, like once you get through those three there's a drop off.
• 1:01:05
  I don't think Chop Robinson's a first round pick. I think Darius Robinson
• 1:01:08
  you could make the case. But it feels like that's kind of cooled off
• 1:01:10
  a little bit. That felt like more like senior bole hype, and then
• 1:01:14
  you watch him in that three three five stack and how horrible that is,
• 1:01:16
  and you're like, I don't know what to do with this. Contesting also
• 1:01:21
  didn't help him as well, like he felt big and clunky. Yes,
• 1:01:25
  and I didn't expect to change of direction to be great. Again, I
• 1:01:30
  think he's a compression style power rusher. But the fact that you were still
• 1:01:35
  having that some of yes, and some of the larger conversation is still like,
• 1:01:40
  oh cool, you like Darius Robinson. Are you playing him at edge
• 1:01:43
  or defensive tackle? That right there is enough to be like, oh,
• 1:01:46
  like to scare people off a little bit, or scare me off a little
• 1:01:50
  bit. But to your point, like after that top three at edge with
• 1:01:53
  Turner and versus Latsuo, I think it's similar to the fall off at the
• 1:01:59
  top two at defensive tackle. Like I think those three edges are in a
• 1:02:01
  class of their own, And I also think Dallas Turner is in a class.
• 1:02:05
  I like Verse, but I think Dallas Turner is just with what kind
• 1:02:07
  of athlete he is. I just think he's in an almost tier of his
• 1:02:12
  own at that edge spot. So you've got those three at edge, and
• 1:02:15
  then you've got Murphy and Newton at defensive tackle. There's a bunch of like
• 1:02:20
  tackles at defensive tackles, I like. As we go down farther, I
• 1:02:22
  know a bunch of Bills fans like Braden Fisk, some like Chris Jenkins.
• 1:02:25
  I like Dwayne Carter from Duke, I like both of the Clemson boys.
• 1:02:30
  I like Rooke, I like Tyler Davis, like I like Michael Hall from
• 1:02:32
  Ohio State. But a lot of these guys, there's a significant drop off
• 1:02:37
  from Murphy and Newton to whoever else. Like, I think a lot of
• 1:02:43
  those other guys, whoever you have is defensive tackle three, I think a
• 1:02:46
  lot of it is more siloed skill sets, specific three techs, specific one
• 1:02:51
  tech or more rotational options in a good death ways, Like I think there's
• 1:02:54
  a bunch of defensive tackles in this draft that can be your defensive tackle three
• 1:03:00
  or your defensive tackle four, like in a good way. Yeah, I
• 1:03:01
  only think really Murphy and Newton are those dudes that are like, these guys
• 1:03:06
  can both be your defensive tackle one or your defensive tackle two if you have
• 1:03:08
  a stud And that's also part of the reason why I'm gravitating towards that spot
• 1:03:15
  early on, like if Wat two fell or if Newton falls, because I
• 1:03:17
  think there's such a drop off at edge from those top three and at defensive
• 1:03:22
  tackle from those top two versus what's what the rest of the class looks like.
• 1:03:25
  I'm with you one hundred percent. And I think the thing with defensive
• 1:03:29
  tackle, like with that drop off, like, are you like, let's
• 1:03:32
  just throw a player out there to Andre Sweat? Would the Bills be comfortable
• 1:03:37
  with taking him in that? You know at sixty And you can now because
• 1:03:40
  you've got Daique and Austin Johnson like, and he's he's a one ten times
• 1:03:45
  a million, So then like, what are you doing unless they feel comfortable
• 1:03:50
  enough like, Okay, this guy can play you know, second and short,
• 1:03:53
  third and long scenarios for me because he can rush the passer, sweat
• 1:03:59
  can in a sense like there's some limitations. He's not gonna have this amazing
• 1:04:02
  burst and closing ability a nice armover swim though that you're like decent lateral movement
• 1:04:09
  in this phone booth, especially at three hundred and sixty pounds, which is
• 1:04:13
  legitimately what he's playing at. Yeah, and I think if you brought him
• 1:04:15
  in that would free up at Oliver a lot, which would essentially you know,
• 1:04:20
  I think that that might work for them, but it's not gonna work
• 1:04:26
  for every team. And again, are they really going to continue to like
• 1:04:29
  double down with with these nose and one technique type players. I don't think
• 1:04:33
  so. I think they're going to probably spread the love out a little bit.
• 1:04:35
  So yeah, I mean, I I like this defensive tackle class.
• 1:04:39
  I'm really in true with Michael Hall. I just don't know what to do
• 1:04:41
  with him because of his size. I'm in the same way, bro.
• 1:04:45
  He's so light, but he's so explosive and honestly, he doesn't get pushed
• 1:04:49
  around a ton on the inside, even though he is lighter, but in
• 1:04:54
  those snaps, man, he's he's jumping like two gaps in the blink of
• 1:04:59
  it. Like he's going from like the if you're looking from the defensive perspective,
• 1:05:02
  he's going from like the left B gap to the right A gap in
• 1:05:06
  like an instant, like the explosion, the latter agility, the hand usage
• 1:05:11
  and the quickness everything. It's so fun inside, but I am scared,
• 1:05:15
  like going up against NFL talent, Like how regular can you win there?
• 1:05:20
  Being in that two hundred and eighty pound range, Like that's that's a real,
• 1:05:25
  real, real hard life. And you know, I know people throw
• 1:05:28
  a like oh like Aaron Donald, but that's such a hard bar to kind
• 1:05:31
  of live up to. I've gotten a little more confidence with it knowing how
• 1:05:35
  good Elijah Cansei did as a rookie last year. But he was a completely
• 1:05:41
  different tier versus Hall. And also he's built differently from a frame perspective.
• 1:05:45
  Yeah, but that's what I think. All is a good example too,
• 1:05:48
  Like there's all these guys like I like this defensive tackle class. I don't
• 1:05:51
  love it if it's like, oh, I really need like a one or
• 1:05:56
  two to really anchor my line. But I love it, Like there's so
• 1:05:59
  much much depth in rounds two and three and four for you to get like
• 1:06:02
  a rotational guy on the interior and give you like defensive tackle three or at
• 1:06:06
  worst, defensive tackle like top four snaps. And with how every team rotates
• 1:06:12
  nowadays, that's tremendously valuable. Yeah, And I think with this rotation,
• 1:06:15
  I think you know, in the Lions are a team that does it a
• 1:06:17
  lot. They rotate guys in and out like crazy. But also whenever everyone
• 1:06:20
  does that to a degree now from college through the NFL, it's a rotation
• 1:06:25
  position. Yeah, and that brings up the player that's on the you know,
• 1:06:29
  on my mind, like where do the Bills value somebody like Brandon Dorless
• 1:06:31
  out of Oregon, Like he's he's kind of like that versatile. I don't
• 1:06:36
  want to say he's a chest piece because he doesn't really have like a masterful
• 1:06:41
  skill set or one thing that really separates him from the bunch other than the
• 1:06:45
  fact that he deflects a bunch of passes at the line of scrimmage, Like
• 1:06:47
  that's really the only skill set that he has. And he's like two years
• 1:06:53
  ago he was super explosive, Like it's weird kind of how he dropped off
• 1:06:57
  a little bit, but I am curious with him, like would they find
• 1:07:00
  some value there because he does fall into like that Levi Ozerique Jonathan Bohler type
• 1:07:08
  of player. You know, he's not super quick, he's not you know,
• 1:07:11
  overly fluid or or anything like that, but a decent first step,
• 1:07:15
  gets his hands up, reads the quarterback's eyes. Well, can that be
• 1:07:18
  enough to say, hey, we could take this guy at sixty and this
• 1:07:23
  is a guy that we bring in and just really put him into our rotation
• 1:07:27
  because if there is that drop off at twenty eight or you know, with
• 1:07:30
  the first round defensive lineman and let's say Newton and Murphy are both gone and
• 1:07:34
  the pass rushers are gone, all right, maybe they take the offensive lineman,
• 1:07:39
  play it safe, and then in the second round they take a Brandon
• 1:07:41
  dor List. I know it's not sexy. I know that would kind of
• 1:07:43
  be like, man, that's Carlos Bashum two point zero. But at the
• 1:07:45
  same time, it's say that, how dare you say his name? I
• 1:07:49
  mean, he's not the same player, They're two different players, but you
• 1:07:53
  know what I mean, Like, no, be kind of like a win
• 1:07:57
  coming out of your sales a little bit, I think, especially for the
• 1:07:59
  fan base. But that spot is a real lot, Like you need a
• 1:08:03
  fourth man to round out your interior defensive line for this Buffalo Bills team,
• 1:08:10
  and ideally that person is a three tech. Like you've got Daikwon and his
• 1:08:13
  backup Austin Johnson, and you've really you've even got Ilion Ku you know,
• 1:08:16
  as that option to kind of like the third man in that spot. But
• 1:08:19
  you need a three tech there and it'll be really interesting to kind of see
• 1:08:25
  like where they go with it, which again is why it's not horrible if
• 1:08:30
  you get if you get Dwayne Carter in like the fourth round or third round
• 1:08:36
  or whatever aspect of he's your like your second tier like three tech and he's
• 1:08:40
  your backup. Like cool. I think that's fine. I just think it's
• 1:08:43
  a premium spot now, and it's why I continue to gravitate towards Johnny Newton
• 1:08:47
  and the idea of him being there and like what he could potentially be.
• 1:08:51
  And I do like Michael Hall and that option as well, Like but again,
• 1:08:55
  you're not taking him early a I don't know where he's going to go.
• 1:09:00
  That's also just me, and what keeps popping in my head is I'm
• 1:09:02
  so pissed that the Bills got screwed with that compick, Like they should have
• 1:09:05
  had a third round pick. Now you're going from after they pick at sixty,
• 1:09:11
  they don't pick again until one twenty eight, and then their comp pick
• 1:09:14
  is pick one thirty three. That one thirty three pick was supposed to be
• 1:09:16
  a pick in the nineties or something in round three. That's also a huge
• 1:09:20
  aspect too, because now you have to, like chess, piece this board
• 1:09:24
  together, which is why I'm also a fan of trading down from pick twenty
• 1:09:29
  eight or using some of their Day three capital to move up a little bit
• 1:09:31
  and trying to acquire more quality with the quantity they have, although I do
• 1:09:36
  like having a ton of swings at the plate and a bunch of throws at
• 1:09:39
  the dartboard. But yeah, that like you're sitting there for sixty eight picks,
• 1:09:44
  Like after you pick your second guy, you are waiting sixty eight picks,
• 1:09:48
  and then again you've got pick one twenty eight, one thirty three and
• 1:09:51
  one forty four and then one sixty and one sixty three, so you've got
• 1:09:55
  a whole bunch in round four and five that are close together, but you're
• 1:09:59
  missing out on it ton of Like so much of this draft is strong.
• 1:10:01
  In rounds two and three, you're missing out on a good chunk of that,
• 1:10:04
  which means in round one at twenty eight or round two at sixty,
• 1:10:11
  there's a chance you might see a name where it's like ooh, but it's
• 1:10:15
  like, well, we like this guy, and there's a huge drop off
• 1:10:16
  at the position, and we had to do what we had to do now,
• 1:10:18
  which is why I wouldn't be surprised. Yeah, if it was a
• 1:10:21
  Zach Frazier at twenty eight or some name at sixty that everybody was like really,
• 1:10:27
  and it's like, well, you're waiting sixty eight picks, Like that's
• 1:10:30
  a long frigging time, man. Yeah, well, look at like the
• 1:10:32
  Denver Broncos, like they have the twelfth pick, then they don't pick again
• 1:10:35
  to like seventy six, seventy seven, Like that's a sixty five player drop,
• 1:10:40
  you know, and then you don't pick again until like one twenty five.
• 1:10:43
  Now you're waiting another forty turns for another another swing. Like there's some
• 1:10:48
  teams out there that that they like they don't have any Capital. You look
• 1:10:51
  at the Bears, they don't have any they have four picks in the draft
• 1:10:55
  this year. I just I don't understand how you bring in a rookie quarterback
• 1:10:59
  like Caleb Williams, who, let's be honest, he's not a sure thing.
• 1:11:02
  You need help around him. You have an older Keenan Allen, you
• 1:11:05
  have DJ Moore who takes on a bunch of contact. Like, there's so
• 1:11:09
  many things that you think about. And I'm not trying to make this a
• 1:11:11
  Bear show, but like, I just get down these thought processes in my
• 1:11:15
  head and I got to get them out because it's just like, there's so
• 1:11:18
  many things that play a piece into this. And with the Bills, they
• 1:11:21
  have so many, like you mentioned it, so many swings at the plate
• 1:11:26
  where it's a good problem to have because they can pack the stuff, move
• 1:11:29
  stuff up Gona. They're gonna find teams that are gonna want to move some
• 1:11:32
  picks to get some extra swings, and the Bills are gonna be able to
• 1:11:35
  land on a couple of guys and hopefully those guys are the players that we're
• 1:11:40
  talking about in another year as an either great rotational depth piece or a for
• 1:11:45
  sure starter and I think that's the key is finding those rotational depth piece guys
• 1:11:50
  that they have. So yeah, I think that's fair. And then so
• 1:11:54
  to kind of like bring this together and mapping out these first twenty seven picks
• 1:11:58
  kind of put some things into perspective for you. So we're looking at it
• 1:12:00
  again, we're playing like minimums, like kind of bare minimum guaranteed aspects.
• 1:12:05
  So there's twenty seven picks before the Bills pick it picked twenty eight twenty eight
• 1:12:10
  minus you know, is twenty seven for those doing a math at home.
• 1:12:13
  We got eight offensive linemen going, so twenty seven minus eight, that's nineteen
• 1:12:17
  players that potentially will be picked in front. After those eight offensive linemen,
• 1:12:24
  we've got four qbs going in the first twenty seven, so that knocks it
• 1:12:27
  down to fifteen. We've got one defensive tackle and Byron Murphy that knocks it
• 1:12:30
  down to fourteen. We've got those three edges in Turner Verse and lot too,
• 1:12:35
  that knocks it down to eleven. Russ has five wide receivers going.
• 1:12:40
  That knocks it down to six players. And then I also think you gotta
• 1:12:43
  throw in some guarantee. It's like brock Bauers is gonna go Quinyon Mitchell is
• 1:12:46
  gonna go. I think Terry and Arnold is gonna go. Start to think
• 1:12:50
  of and I hope my math isn't wrong, because I was kind of doing
• 1:12:54
  it on the fly there with everything. But start to put that into perspective
• 1:12:57
  when you start thinking of who is available at pick twenty eight, who you
• 1:13:00
  really want the Bills to get wide receiver? I think could be like a
• 1:13:02
  wonky one, like I could see four going, I could see five going.
• 1:13:06
  I could see Xavier Worthy slipping in because of that speed. I could
• 1:13:10
  see someone maybe betting on Keon Coleman because of the traits. And he's the
• 1:13:13
  fifth wide receiver or he's the sixth wide receiver. So something could get thrown
• 1:13:16
  off a little bit. As we talked about as well, there are offensive
• 1:13:19
  linemen like Tyler Geydon who could jump up a little bit or do from BYU.
• 1:13:24
  So maybe there's ten offensive linemen that go in the first twenty seven.
• 1:13:28
  But start to use that as your frame of reference when thinking about, like,
• 1:13:31
  man, I really want the Bills to get this guy, or I'd
• 1:13:34
  love for them to do this at twenty eight and then do this at sixty.
• 1:13:38
  It all starts with what happens in those first twenty seven picks, start
• 1:13:42
  to put it in the frame of, Okay, what do we think are
• 1:13:44
  the most guaranteed known quantity players that are going either position groups or positionally,
• 1:13:50
  and that'll start to frame a lot of who will be there, which is
• 1:13:54
  why again, like I come back to the idea of like, ooh,
• 1:13:57
  Johnny Newton, Like, I think it's a realistic an option that he's there
• 1:14:00
  at twenty eight based on how the first twenty seven picks will shake out,
• 1:14:03
  and then kind of go from there. So I think that was a nice
• 1:14:05
  way to kind of frame this conversation for a little bit as we start to
• 1:14:11
  jump off here, Russ, let's stick with that pick twenty eight before we
• 1:14:15
  move on to the rest of our conversation. Here kind of phrased it in
• 1:14:18
  this way for the Bills, the most ideal and realistic pick at twenty eight.
• 1:14:24
  I always have to throw the realistic in there, because I don't want
• 1:14:26
  someone to be like, oh, like Romo Dounza falls and he's the pick
• 1:14:29
  at twenty eight. Fantastic, who is the most ideal pick for the Bills
• 1:14:32
  at twenty eight, But also within that realm of realism for you. I
• 1:14:39
  think we've talked about them both. I think Zach Frasier from West Virginia is
• 1:14:43
  an ideal and a realistic player. I mean we went into detail about what
• 1:14:46
  he brings to the table, and then with Johnny Newton, I think he's
• 1:14:49
  the other one out of Illinois. Now, if both of those guys are
• 1:14:53
  either gone or just not like players that they value, I think it turns
• 1:15:00
  into defensive back. I think there's potentially a defensive back that they might fall
• 1:15:05
  in love with, because if those guys are gone or they don't value them,
• 1:15:09
  I don't know what other position they would value. Like, I get
• 1:15:14
  it we want to talk about receiver, but I've mentioned Mitchell's not going to
• 1:15:17
  be there. I really don't think he's going to be there. I don't
• 1:15:19
  even know if he Savior Worthy's going to be there. And are they really
• 1:15:23
  going to take the swing on him just because he's fast? Maybe I don't
• 1:15:27
  know. I also know the like I would have been, and you mentioned
• 1:15:31
  earlier, like I really like Exavier Worthy. I like Exavier like if the
• 1:15:34
  Bills took him, I'm not going to be upset. I mean, a
• 1:15:38
  super fast dude who runs good routes and has really good ball track and downfield.
• 1:15:43
  Cool. I'll take it. Yeah. I don't love, obviously the
• 1:15:45
  size of the frame, although Tank Allen, Jordan Addison and their performance last
• 1:15:48
  year and Josh Ballins had made me feel better about the sustainability of smaller dudes
• 1:15:53
  and he has to clean up his drops, but the drops deep are not
• 1:15:56
  really an issue. I like the idea Worthy more or before the Curtis Samuel
• 1:16:01
  Pick. I just think you really need a specific and at the end of
• 1:16:04
  the day, you just want to draft good football players, right, Like,
• 1:16:06
  so if the Bills took Worthy or lad McConkie, like, I'm like,
• 1:16:10
  okay, cool, whatever. But I do like the idea of having
• 1:16:13
  more of a prototypical X type of body in that grouping. I'm big into
• 1:16:18
  the adage and everybody and their mother kind of says it now like building your
• 1:16:20
  wide receiver room kind of like a basketball team. So I want to point
• 1:16:24
  guard, and I want a two guard, and I want a small forward
• 1:16:26
  and a power forward in a center. Like I don't want a whole team
• 1:16:28
  of two guards, just like I don't want a whole team of power forwards.
• 1:16:30
  And the Bills don't have that power forward. They don't have that wing
• 1:16:34
  guy like, and so I would love That's why I like the ad Mitchell
• 1:16:39
  fit even more. That's why I like Javon Baker, like the idea of
• 1:16:43
  Okay, this is a frame you don't have, this is the dynamic you
• 1:16:45
  don't have in the room. This is a skill set option, and it
• 1:16:48
  still gives you some of that upside you're still looking for from a two and
• 1:16:51
  a one perspective. But I like the Worthy fit more before Curtis Samuel,
• 1:16:58
  and I also think we're is more of like a slot and a Z more
• 1:17:02
  than he is an ex. I've seen him get off press and be okay
• 1:17:05
  being off the line of scrimmage, like with his hand technique and his speed,
• 1:17:10
  but I just think he's a dude, Like, you don't want anybody
• 1:17:13
  touching him ever, and so you want him as that Z, you want
• 1:17:15
  him as that slot. You want to use him as that move guy.
• 1:17:17
  But they're starting to use Stefan Diggs a little more in that way. So
• 1:17:20
  then I'm like, again, it's just all this positional redundancy. But at
• 1:17:25
  the end of the day, it's cool to have interchangeability and that dynamic and
• 1:17:30
  just good football players. But it and that fit is what I come back
• 1:17:32
  to with Worthy, but it does throw things off to again to a degree
• 1:17:35
  with that pick of twenty eight. I'm in a similar boat with like the
• 1:17:39
  realistic option, Like I think ideal and realistic, Newton and Lattu are my
• 1:17:45
  top and then I'm gonna throw ad Mitchell in there potentially as well, just
• 1:17:49
  from like the ideal side, I really do think Mitchell's gone. Like I
• 1:17:55
  going into the combine, I thought Brian Thomas would be the fourth or Cias
• 1:18:00
  off the board and would be gone by the time Bills went at twenty eight,
• 1:18:02
  and then I didn't know who went after now after seeing Mitchell in the
• 1:18:06
  combine as well, and then you put together with the tape and all that
• 1:18:10
  aspect, Like, I'm in a similar spot, like I just don't see
• 1:18:13
  him being there at twenty eight. But I think he could fit into this
• 1:18:15
  conversation. No, I think he does. I mean, I just I'm
• 1:18:18
  just being real. I mean, like I'm with you, Like I just
• 1:18:20
  I don't think it's a realistic chance of him being there now. If he
• 1:18:25
  is, awesome, sprint to the podium, take your guy. If that's
• 1:18:27
  your guy get him before the Ravens or or the Chiefs get him, or
• 1:18:31
  potentially the forty nine ers, Like, no doubt about it. But I
• 1:18:34
  don't know. The third guy that I would mention is, and you mentioned
• 1:18:38
  him earlier, is Rakestraw. I would be very I'd be intrigued by him,
• 1:18:44
  I really would, like. I don't know if it's Kamari Lassiter.
• 1:18:46
  I think with Rakestraw, like he ran a four or five one. Yeah,
• 1:18:50
  he battled through a groin injury through most of this past season, so
• 1:18:55
  I think he's actually a little bit faster than that. I mean, his
• 1:18:57
  one hundred meters dashtime in high school was a lot seven point zero six seconds.
• 1:19:00
  But I watched him close down Moleak neighbors in a short amount of neighbors
• 1:19:04
  makes a catch over the middle against Missouri and breaks it and it's about to
• 1:19:09
  take it, and Rakestraw closes him down in like a ten a ten yard
• 1:19:12
  hiccup. Granted he's starting to gear up, he's ahead of like neighbors gearing
• 1:19:16
  up already, so they kind of monkeys with it, but he closes it
• 1:19:19
  down in a hurry, and he gives you side outside versatility, which I
• 1:19:23
  like yeah, and I think that's the thing is like he he shows that
• 1:19:27
  you know, he can cover the slot and kind of handle some of those
• 1:19:29
  shallow crossers that you see, but then at the same time he can play
• 1:19:31
  on an island in an appressed man situation, and he's kind of got the
• 1:19:35
  hit fluidity that you're looking for to kind of transition and open up field and
• 1:19:41
  run with the receiver. He's got long arms. I think his arms were
• 1:19:44
  like thirty two and a half or thirty two, So like he's a willing
• 1:19:48
  run defender. I think he just checks a lot of boxes for what they're
• 1:19:53
  looking for on the perimeter. And if they don't feel like there's a sure
• 1:19:57
  thing there on the perimeter outside of you know, the douglass or something like
• 1:20:00
  that, and they feel like they just got to bring somebody else in,
• 1:20:02
  or if they feel like Elam is ready to take that next step, I
• 1:20:05
  don't know what they're thinking in their room. They don't I mean, like
• 1:20:10
  safety, Okay, Edwards is cool, but like I think with just Rakestraw,
• 1:20:14
  you're trying to alleviate some of the pressure that's going to be on those
• 1:20:15
  dbs, and I think bring in in a guy like Rakestraw, we talked
• 1:20:19
  about this. You bring in a kind of a CB three and you develop
• 1:20:24
  him and eventually you now have a CB one after you lost Trey White.
• 1:20:28
  I think that's a good plan of attack to have. And I think Rakestraw
• 1:20:30
  kind of fits that. He reminds me stylistically of like Emmanuel Moseley. So
• 1:20:34
  I think I think he's somebody that makes sense. I know it sounds rich
• 1:20:39
  for people, but I don't know if he's gonna be there at sixty.
• 1:20:42
  I don't think Abrams Drain is gonna be there at sixty. So like I
• 1:20:45
  just I think these Missouri guys are well liked in the NFL draft circle from
• 1:20:48
  NFL decision makers and somebody. There's gonna be surprises in the back end.
• 1:20:54
  It just it is what it is. We have to get away from the
• 1:20:57
  consensus thought. And that's why I'm here and that's why we're discussing this because,
• 1:21:01
  like, yeah, ideally, realistically, there's a couple of guys that
• 1:21:04
  make hell of a lot of sense, a lot to the guys that we've
• 1:21:08
  talked about, but just thinking outside the box, I think Reke Straw and
• 1:21:13
  uh and the guys that you mentioned may make ton of sense. I mean,
• 1:21:15
  it just really does. And man, I like both of those Missouri
• 1:21:18
  corners. There's so many corners I like in this draft. Really a lot
• 1:21:21
  of the DB's like, especially safeties too, Like I really like Nuban and
• 1:21:27
  Cam Kitchens and Javon Bullard, but so many like the kind of the day
• 1:21:30
  threer type of safeties. Well I shouldn't even say this because some people have
• 1:21:34
  because safety is all over the place for some people. But like the Malik
• 1:21:38
  Mustafas, the Jalen Simpsons, like the Kitean Nola Dappos, like these really
• 1:21:43
  interesting dudes that I'm like, Oh, this guy could be like a fourth
• 1:21:45
  round or a fifth round safety, and you let him sit for a year
• 1:21:46
  and then like, maybe that's who you're starting safety is next year after Mike
• 1:21:49
  Edwards leaves on a one year type of deal. Yeah, I think there's
• 1:21:54
  gonna be more dB action for this team aside from safety. Like I think
• 1:21:58
  everybody came into this draft being like, oh, well, the Bills need
• 1:22:00
  a safety, and then they signed like Edwards and brought back Rap and it's
• 1:22:02
  kind of like, oh, they still need some depth a corner. And
• 1:22:05
  I tweeted it out yesterday. I just think it's a sneaky one, like
• 1:22:09
  you technically could use a CB three this year, and you don't have a
• 1:22:14
  CB one and two next year on the roster. Kaeru, Rasoul Douglas is
• 1:22:16
  gonna be UFA. Now, maybe they're going to bring it back and that's
• 1:22:18
  the plan, so on and so forth. Maybe Elamas sends, but right
• 1:22:21
  now you just don't have that known quantity wrapped up. And granted you've said
• 1:22:26
  multiple times here, none of these prospects are known quantities. If the draft
• 1:22:29
  was an exact science, everybody would hit on everything. But that's not necessarily
• 1:22:32
  case. And that's what also makes this conversation very, very fun. Another
• 1:22:36
  conversation. Wanted to have them jumping around a little bit, but we're we're
• 1:22:42
  are we boom. We've talked about it multiple times here in this episode.
• 1:22:46
  Russ the round two wide receivers and the depth there at that spot. So
• 1:22:54
  and also I want to preface this and say, not everybody who goes when
• 1:22:58
  we say this every year, not everybody who gets picked in the first round
• 1:23:00
  is a first round graded player, especially on the back end. Usually when
• 1:23:03
  you get to the twenties. You're getting dudes who have a second round grade
• 1:23:06
  that are being picked in the first round. Now, that doesn't mean that's
• 1:23:09
  bad value. That doesn't mean this player is terrible. That's just how it
• 1:23:13
  works. The range is I forget it every year and I always tell myself
• 1:23:15
  to write it down. What is it like on an average year, there's
• 1:23:17
  like sixteen to twenty like first round graded players roughly like in a good year,
• 1:23:21
  you're pushing into like the lower twenties, like twenty three to twenty four
• 1:23:25
  type. Yeah, I would say the average is probably somewhere between sixteen to
• 1:23:29
  twenty. I think was it last year or the year before? I want
• 1:23:32
  to say that, like the consensus was like ten to twelve, like it
• 1:23:36
  was a read. Yeah, I was thinking one was one year was like
• 1:23:39
  thirteen dudes where like had first round grade. Yeah, a couple of years
• 1:23:42
  ago. Last maybe it was last year's draft, but the last year's trap
• 1:23:45
  wasn't two like stacked overall? Yeah, I think it was last year,
• 1:23:48
  right, last year's Right, everything blurs together for me, like I'm horrible
• 1:23:51
  with the same thing with like WrestleMania. Someone will be like, oh,
• 1:23:55
  what number WrestleMania is your favorite. I'm like the one had this match in
• 1:23:57
  this match and this match. They're like, oh, what number wrestleman that.
• 1:24:00
  I'm like, I have no idea, Like I remember certain like I
• 1:24:02
  know WrestleMania nine and like WrestleMania like twelve and thirteen, fourteen, seventeen and
• 1:24:06
  everything like aside from that, I got like, and those are landmarks just
• 1:24:11
  for like big matches that are tied to them. Yeah, but I just
• 1:24:13
  can't. It's so hard for me to do the number of stuff. But
• 1:24:15
  all right, so Round two graded wide receivers. We you and I both
• 1:24:19
  talked about a run happening on wide receivers in the second round and the strength
• 1:24:24
  of this wide receiver class really being in Round two graded wide receivers. So
• 1:24:29
  the question for you, how many second round graded wide receivers do you have?
• 1:24:35
  So how many receivers have a Round two grade for you in this draft
• 1:24:40
  class? Looking at the board, So the round one guys, it stops
• 1:24:50
  at Roma doonsday. So I say that this was also my my I was
• 1:24:55
  figured we'd get to it as well. I only have three receivers with a
• 1:24:58
  Round one grade, so it's the big three for you as well, so
• 1:25:00
  Marmon Harrison, Neighbors and A Dunes. They are the only receivers that have
• 1:25:01
  around one grade yep. And then we have Mitchell Coleman, Brian Thomas junior
• 1:25:10
  okay, Xavier Worthy, Lad McConkie that's five, yeah, Troy Franklin is
• 1:25:14
  six Yepanky Pierce All is seven yep. Roman Wilson's eight okay, Xavier Laguette
• 1:25:21
  is nine, Jalen Polk is ten, and that's it, okay, So
• 1:25:27
  we're pretty much very similar. I've got Laget in there as well. I've
• 1:25:33
  got Javon Baker in there, who has a two for me, like a
• 1:25:38
  two to three. This is one I keep flirting on, going back and
• 1:25:42
  forth. I really like Jermaine Burton. Yeah, and I like him so
• 1:25:46
  much that I've had like a three on him, but I keep flirting with
• 1:25:49
  the idea. So for this, I'm like, just screw it. I
• 1:25:51
  like him so like I'm just giving him a two as well. So I'm
• 1:25:54
  in a similar book, so that gives me like eleven or twelve. I
• 1:25:59
  might have missed his name, he might have been on there. I'm trying
• 1:26:00
  to see. I've got Worthy. Brian Thomas junior, and this isn't in
• 1:26:04
  order. Just off the rattling through, I've got worthy Brian Thomas junior,
• 1:26:09
  ad Mitchell, Lad McConkie Keon Coleman, Troy Franklin, Ricky Piersahll, Xavier
• 1:26:15
  Legett, Jermaine Burton, Javon Baker, Roman Wilson, and Jalen Polk.
• 1:26:21
  So I am sitting there at twelve, and honestly, I really really like
• 1:26:26
  Jayleen McMillan, And if you twisted my arm, I might give him a
• 1:26:28
  two. And so then I'm pushing it at thirteen. But no matter how
• 1:26:30
  you slice it, there's a lot of Round two graded wide receivers. Is
• 1:26:35
  this also that specific area the Round two graded wide receivers, Is that the
• 1:26:42
  strongest spot and position in this entire class, like not even just the wide
• 1:26:46
  receiver class as a whole, top to bottom, but that Round two wide
• 1:26:50
  receiver grouping, Is that the strongest aspect of this draft class as a whole.
• 1:26:57
  Right, It's a good question, Right, It's a great question.
• 1:27:00
  I don't think so, just simply because of the offensive tackles, Like we
• 1:27:03
  we can talk about probably ten to eleven, maybe twelve guys in the first
• 1:27:08
  round, and then once you get through those guys you can like and that's
• 1:27:13
  like the ten first round offensive lineman. You know, we had the eight
• 1:27:17
  going before you know, the Bills at twenty eight, and then you could
• 1:27:21
  add in Zach Frasier in there as nine, Christian Haynes's ten, Tyler Goeitton
• 1:27:29
  as eleven. Okay, so let's say those are the eleven potential first round
• 1:27:31
  guys or in that conversation. But then you get into Kingsley, Sue my
• 1:27:35
  Teya. You have Jordan Morgan, you have Roger Rosen, Jordan Morgan,
• 1:27:41
  who I really like as well. You're never talking about him? Yeah,
• 1:27:43
  good call. Sorry, Yeah, no, you have him. You have
• 1:27:46
  Delmar Glaze, you have Cooper bb Yeah. Dominic Dominic Peeney, Cedric van
• 1:27:55
  Pangain the one who I liked to I was watching Illinois versus Kansas in watching
• 1:28:00
  Puny kind of give it to Newton a little bit, and I was like,
• 1:28:01
  oh, just big body, dude, like long arms, big frame.
• 1:28:05
  Okay, I like it, yep, yep, yep. So I
• 1:28:09
  think it. I really think it's kind of like a toss up between those
• 1:28:12
  two, and it's more so like who's going to be the more successful.
• 1:28:15
  Like it's almost like remember like those Survivor series matches, like where you'd have
• 1:28:19
  four on four all the time. Yes, and it's like how it used
• 1:28:23
  to be where we were a proper country, right exactly. Yeah, oh
• 1:28:26
  man, dude, And you remember two Survivor series used to always be the
• 1:28:29
  Wednesday. It was the night before Thanksgiving. Yeah, it was. It
• 1:28:32
  was awesome. Yes, it was the best thing because you knew you were
• 1:28:34
  off the next day. It was a pay per view of the night before
• 1:28:38
  the next day was Thanksgiving, and you would watch Now you're a Lions guy,
• 1:28:41
  Yeah, you'd watch that, and you'd wake up in the morning and
• 1:28:44
  and smell the bird cooking and then you'd watch the Lions and John Mann and
• 1:28:47
  Pat Summer. It was awesome. I was just you're going you're going to
• 1:28:49
  bed watching wrestling, waking up in the house smells like mashed potato stuffing and
• 1:28:55
  turkey, and then yeah, I'm turning on the TV and it's Barry Sanders
• 1:28:58
  and Pat's Summer all in John Pop Man. It was just no, it's
• 1:29:01
  so much better. It's phenomenal. But yeah, I mean so like between
• 1:29:05
  those two, it's really kind of a toss up, I would lean towards
• 1:29:09
  offensive line just because there's been so many misses over the years for these day
• 1:29:13
  two wide receivers. But that doesn't mean that the Bills will not hit on
• 1:29:17
  one if they took one. Like the two guys you mentioned, Jalen McMillan
• 1:29:21
  Jalen Polk, I think they're very close in the grating and I could see
• 1:29:26
  either one being potentially the guy there at sixty four for the Bills. I
• 1:29:31
  go back and forth all the time on which one I like more, And
• 1:29:35
  because the one that threw it really for me was McMillan was the two going
• 1:29:40
  into this year. He got banged up and that kind of helped Polk emerge
• 1:29:43
  a little bit. Yep, But if you go back to the twenty twenty
• 1:29:45
  two tape, Jalen McMillan is the hard two in that offense, and he's
• 1:29:49
  got a couple reps against Oregon where he's given it to Christian Goanzalees. And
• 1:29:55
  you and I both love Christian Gonzalez. Last year he was by StEB one.
• 1:29:58
  I thought he was phenomenal, great pick for New England. He's going
• 1:30:01
  up in like high point in the football and wrestling it away from like Christian
• 1:30:04
  Gonzalez and like so twenty twenty two, Jalen McMillan is still in my head
• 1:30:11
  of what he can be. Twenty twenty three was banged up and they used
• 1:30:13
  him more of the slot once he came back, Like yeah, and I
• 1:30:15
  go back and forth of who I like more between him and Polk. And
• 1:30:20
  it's also funny that they have the same first name but it's spelled differently.
• 1:30:24
  They're different kinds of players, Like it's man also that that offense like Pennix
• 1:30:29
  o'doonsay McMillan Polk, I like Jack West over the tight end, I like
• 1:30:32
  Dylan Johnson, like you got like Troy Fontana where like a tackle like that
• 1:30:35
  offense was just wild Rose I mean I forgot about Roseen Garden good late,
• 1:30:40
  Yeah, rosen Garten might be a first roun pick. I mean mel Kiper
• 1:30:44
  and his latest mockcraft had him going like thirty first to San Francisco. Really
• 1:30:47
  yeah, oh Wow's and if he's putting him in there, that's Hill here
• 1:30:53
  and something. Yeah, that's that's also a big thing too, Like just
• 1:30:57
  to hit it really quickly, Like some of these mocks come out from the
• 1:31:00
  people. And I know, like a lot of fans will be like this
• 1:31:02
  mock sucks, Like you know, Timmy so and so in the first round.
• 1:31:06
  These guys who are connected like that, these mocks aren't necessarily like this
• 1:31:11
  is who we think should go. This is what they're hearing and what they're
• 1:31:15
  like putting pen to paper because of the inside knowledge like that they have.
• 1:31:18
  So if there's some kind of smoke like that, now that might not mean
• 1:31:23
  that Rosengarten goes in the first but it could be a sign that teams value
• 1:31:26
  him with like a round two type of grade, and that means he might
• 1:31:29
  be gone by the time Round three starts. And so it's a guy you
• 1:31:31
  maybe just kind of perk up on your radar a little bit. Sorry,
• 1:31:33
  yeah, yeah. And I mean he's got a name of a Chicago Cubs
• 1:31:36
  pitcher, so it works out perfect. I mean, he that's every time
• 1:31:40
  I'm like Rosengarden, I mean, what in the world. But uh,
• 1:31:43
  with Jalen Polk, I want to say this, like, if they're looking
• 1:31:45
  for a potential Gabe Davis replacement, I think he might be that guy.
• 1:31:51
  Like when you look at measurables, they're very similar in a way. Gabe
• 1:31:55
  Davis was a little bit heavier. Polk's a stepped faster. I mean,
• 1:32:00
  but but Davis ran, you know, four five forty. Polk ran a
• 1:32:04
  four five two. I thought Polk was gonna run faster. I was thinking,
• 1:32:08
  like, I wasn't expecting good four fours, but I was thinking like
• 1:32:11
  four four nine, four four eight issues. But I said the same thing
• 1:32:14
  I think. I I think, on whatever the app is, you know,
• 1:32:18
  me and my degenerate itself, I think they had him at like four
• 1:32:20
  four six. I took him under, and I was so disappointed. Of
• 1:32:25
  course you bet your of course you're betting on forties like you just such.
• 1:32:30
  I researched this for a living. I have the game, that's true,
• 1:32:32
  But no, I hate that you also like make a living with it now
• 1:32:35
  too. It's just like feeding it even more like a Yeah, it's just
• 1:32:41
  so wild. Yeah. But like Polk, he's you know, he provides
• 1:32:44
  provisional positional versatility. I think he can play inside outside. I think,
• 1:32:49
  you know, he was used in motion, I thought a lot, and
• 1:32:53
  it forced some rotations like with you know, displacing linebackers and nickels and stuff
• 1:32:59
  like that. So I think if you're trying to gets to find digs.
• 1:33:00
  One on one. You can move Polk and he's going to catch the ball
• 1:33:03
  in the short areas. He's strong enough to run after the catch, but
• 1:33:06
  he's not fast enough to always run after the catch. So you got to
• 1:33:10
  take the good with the bad with him, he got a late second for
• 1:33:13
  me. I think the drops were a little bit of a concern when I
• 1:33:15
  watched him against Stanford. I think he lacked, you know, explosiveness.
• 1:33:19
  I don't think he's real threatening there. But I like Polk. I think
• 1:33:21
  he makes sense for Buffalo. I'm with you on McMillan, the way twenty
• 1:33:26
  twenty two looked for him compared to twenty twenty three. I know the injury
• 1:33:30
  plays a part, same way I felt with like Olu for Shano. You
• 1:33:32
  watch for Shano in twenty twenty two, absolute stud you watch him in twenty
• 1:33:35
  twenty three. He's going through the motions. He looks lethargic, he looks
• 1:33:39
  I don't know if it's out of shape. I don't know if it's because
• 1:33:42
  he was banged up. I he was in twenty twenty two, Like would
• 1:33:45
  I would have thought there was no way anybody was going to come close to
• 1:33:48
  touching him. Yeah, in this year and now you're sitting there and people
• 1:33:51
  are like, well, you know all could be number one, Mims could
• 1:33:54
  be number two, or could you know some people could make it to twenty.
• 1:33:58
  He might make it to the Steelers, man, and like that's a
• 1:34:00
  legit thing. I don't think he makes it past the Saints because of everything
• 1:34:03
  that's going on with them in the offensive tackle and then yeah, I just
• 1:34:05
  saw this stuff today with Ryan Ramchick, like they don't think his knee is
• 1:34:09
  going to be healthy for this. Like I love Ryan Ramchack. He's such
• 1:34:12
  a good and it just sucks that they've been snaked at the last like seven
• 1:34:16
  eight years. Like Armstead got hurt a bunch before he left, and then
• 1:34:18
  Ramchick now and Andres Pete was always getting banged up. Like they just they
• 1:34:23
  got screwed against the Rams in the NFC Championship with that non interference call.
• 1:34:27
  Like I just don't know what is going on with like the water in New
• 1:34:30
  Orleans, like it's just absolutely what sorry, sorry, no, you're good.
• 1:34:34
  I think there's just a lot of bourbon or something down there that these
• 1:34:38
  guys are just getting banged up, but it's all the beads. All the
• 1:34:40
  beads are getting thrown into the water and everybody's leading, everybody getting injured and
• 1:34:43
  beat down. The beads always makes me think of when I was in Mobile
• 1:34:46
  for the first time and I'm with Eric Turner and they're like, yeah,
• 1:34:48
  there's a Marti Gral parade and we like go and We're like getting these beads
• 1:34:53
  thrown at us and I'm like, I'm not lifting my shirt, i don't
• 1:34:56
  know what to do. I'm not seeing anything like what's going on. Uh.
• 1:35:00
  That was the biggest The biggest surprise of me of going down to Mobile
• 1:35:03
  last year for the first time was like that Marty Gross started Yeah, and
• 1:35:08
  I was like, oh, like I just always associated it with New Orleans,
• 1:35:12
  but also too, like Mobile's close to New Orleans. It's all in
• 1:35:15
  like the golf like geographically, but yeah, that's like one of the that
• 1:35:16
  and how good the food is, like everywhere we go to is just what
• 1:35:19
  I was not expecting whatsoever. My it's mind blowing. But you know,
• 1:35:25
  other receivers for round two and I don't have a second round grade on him,
• 1:35:28
  I have a third round grade. But he is one of my favorite
• 1:35:30
  Day two players. That's Jamari Thrash out of Louisville. You guys know,
• 1:35:34
  I'm gonna talk about him experience. I mean, like we talk about savvy
• 1:35:40
  route runners, right, like Ladd mcakie or was it mcakie or Piersaw You
• 1:35:45
  labeled as a professional route runner mcakey, but you, honestly you could apply
• 1:35:48
  it a to Mickey Pearsall too. Like they're both just so good. They're
• 1:35:50
  they run them, they run their routes differently, but they're just yeah,
• 1:35:55
  man, Lad runs his routes like he's been in the NFL for like nine
• 1:35:59
  years. He yeah, looks like that type of dude. He looks like
• 1:36:01
  the dude that is up for fourteen hours watching release packages and finding ways to
• 1:36:05
  beat the opponent. And I wouldn't be surprised that Jamari Thrash kind of did
• 1:36:10
  that too. I wouldn't say he's a professional rout runner, but I would
• 1:36:13
  say he's an experienced route runner, and I think he can run the entire
• 1:36:15
  route tree. He's got great burst and pacing within his routes. He makes
• 1:36:19
  some really good adjustments on some back shoulder throws. He did that at the
• 1:36:23
  Senior Bowl. And when you're looking at you know, a receiver that is
• 1:36:27
  five foot eleven, one hundred and eighty eight pounds, he runs, you
• 1:36:30
  know a sub four five at four four six. I think you can work
• 1:36:32
  with that. You're looking for like a number three, a number two,
• 1:36:35
  number three, maybe a number four receiver, which is what it sounds like
• 1:36:39
  the Bills are doing. I think Thrash makes a lot of sense. Now
• 1:36:42
  the drops are concerning. He's had seventeen of them in his career, so
• 1:36:45
  that's obviously a concern. I think he struggles with more physicality at the line
• 1:36:49
  of scrimmage, But I mean what receiver doesn't. Let's be honest, like
• 1:36:54
  a lot of guys do, so I think if they feel like Thrash makes
• 1:36:57
  sense, I think Polk, Thrash, McMillan, any of those guys at
• 1:37:00
  sixty would be great to just slide into this offense and really the production in
• 1:37:04
  the expectation would be I think a lot more realistic than when you took that
• 1:37:10
  receiver in the first row. I like Thrash, especially with what he can
• 1:37:15
  do in the underneath, in the intermediate and he this is gonna sound like
• 1:37:19
  such a stupid thing to praise someone for. But he's probably like the best
• 1:37:24
  hitch or like sit route runner in the entire class. He just has this
• 1:37:28
  ability to sell vertical and then he sinks his hips and it gets it's one
• 1:37:33
  to two steps and he opens up and the corner is running past the marker
• 1:37:38
  and he just created like five six yards of separation. He did it.
• 1:37:41
  I watched him do it against Notre Dame. I watched him do it in
• 1:37:43
  the rain against Pitt, I watched him do it against Indiana. Like it
• 1:37:46
  is just it doesn't matter who's covering him. Like he takes off and his
• 1:37:50
  eyes and body language are making you think, oh, this dude's going up
• 1:37:54
  the sideline and as soon as those corners turn and open up those hips he's
• 1:37:59
  putting he's taking that large, that large step and sinking his hips and he's
• 1:38:01
  popping it out. Like I just like what he does. I like him
• 1:38:05
  in mobile too. You and I were talking about him on I think day
• 1:38:08
  one day at the end of the afternoon in day one or day two,
• 1:38:12
  just sitting there and yeah, like I like his tape. And it's funny
• 1:38:15
  too, Like there's just man, there's just so many receivers that keep coming
• 1:38:19
  through and obviously like they're not all going to be hits, Like it's impossible
• 1:38:21
  for like all of these receivers and this super deep class, but the odds
• 1:38:26
  of them hitting are I think higher than most years. And it's just wild,
• 1:38:30
  like what you could potentially get in this class and in this group.
• 1:38:32
  And let's let's stick with that conversation. Taking what go ahead. I was
• 1:38:39
  gonna just add I haven't brought up one player, but I to just kind
• 1:38:43
  of put the nail on the coffin on Jamari Thrash. Seeing him in Buffalo
• 1:38:46
  running hitch seam concepts with Stefan Diggs would be phenomenal. I think it would
• 1:38:51
  be. It would be awesome him running the hitch on the outside, digs
• 1:38:56
  up the seam death kiss and then uh, the other player in the second
• 1:39:00
  round. I haven't talked about. Maybe you're about to bring him up,
• 1:39:02
  but Roman Wilson, would you love it? Would love to see him.
• 1:39:06
  I just don't think he's gonna be there. I just I think he's going
• 1:39:09
  to go a lot sooner than people think. There's so much to like about
• 1:39:13
  him. He's a guy that you hear checks a lot of boxes. His
• 1:39:15
  work ethic is outstanding, uh, and you think of like teams looking for
• 1:39:19
  maybe like that next Amen Ross Saint Brown. I'm not saying he's Amen Ross
• 1:39:24
  Saint Brown that type of player, but the work ethic, Like what he
• 1:39:27
  had to do to get to school in Hawaii. The dude was getting up
• 1:39:30
  at three o'clock in the morning, getting on an airplane and flying across the
• 1:39:34
  island to go to school. Like that's some dedication to your craft. And
• 1:39:39
  he goes to Michigan and has all this success. He has a huge year
• 1:39:42
  this year. So I think when you look at Senior Bowl, the Senior
• 1:39:45
  Bowl, yeah, I mean like Lad McConkie gets a lot of praise,
• 1:39:48
  Ricky Piersall gets a lot of praise for his release package and route running and
• 1:39:53
  in the lateral movement skills that those guys have. But Roman Wilson is up
• 1:39:56
  there too, So I think that there's a really nice blend the round two
• 1:40:00
  guys. And I just had to throw some shot out to Rowan Wilson even
• 1:40:03
  though he's a Michigan guy. But I think there's a lot to love with
• 1:40:05
  his run after the catchability and just the fluid route running ability that I hate
• 1:40:11
  Roman Wilson, not because of Roman Wilson, but because to watch, like
• 1:40:15
  to get a good sample size of Roman Wilson, you have to watch like
• 1:40:18
  seven games because they run the ball so much at Michigan. Like his his
• 1:40:23
  targets, right, I'm gonna give you every single game in his targets from
• 1:40:26
  the first game to the last eight five three, five, four, four
• 1:40:31
  four four eleven zero against Penn State where he got banged up, Maryland won
• 1:40:38
  and then ran oh y, that's right, yeah, Maryland won, Ohio
• 1:40:42
  State six, Iowa three, Bama four, Washington four. He had sixty
• 1:40:45
  seven targets on the year, So like just to get a good sample size,
• 1:40:48
  like you start with that Perdue game because you're like, okay, like
• 1:40:51
  this dude out here, he got like eleven targets, nine catches. Cool,
• 1:40:55
  that's his most targeted game, and then everything else you're trying to like
• 1:40:58
  scrap to get other reps. Same thing for like who I really like.
• 1:41:02
  I like Marshawn Lloyd from USC, but he was banged up and then he's
• 1:41:06
  in a rotation, so I've had to watch like so many USC games to
• 1:41:10
  get the tape from Lloyd, Like I can't just get like four games where
• 1:41:15
  there's this heavy workload and I'm out there watching like seven and eight because the
• 1:41:17
  reps are so minimal. Yeah, that's like the legal guy, not Juwar
• 1:41:23
  Jordan, but the other guy like Grendo. Yeah, dude, I put
• 1:41:26
  on one of his games. He was in the backfield like ten times,
• 1:41:29
  didn't touch the ball one time. Dude. Like the first game I was
• 1:41:32
  watching Thrash against Notre Dame because Jordan does really well in that game against Notre
• 1:41:38
  Dame. And the whole time I kept being like, and I wasn't watching
• 1:41:41
  for the running backs, but I was like, where's Gorendo, Like where
• 1:41:43
  is he? And then he'd like go in for a snap and then be
• 1:41:45
  out for like fifty snaps in a row. Yeah, it's just so tough
• 1:41:49
  to try. That guy's not getting like the reps and be having to grab
• 1:41:53
  multiple games drives me nuts in the same way that teams that have bad angles
• 1:41:58
  for their all twenty two, like Washington. It's a great example. Washington's
• 1:42:00
  camera is like on a friggin satellite on the Moon. It is so zoomed
• 1:42:05
  out it pisses. It's so hard to spot those receivers. Sometimes it drives
• 1:42:10
  me in. And that's the other option too, that I hate players.
• 1:42:14
  One of my offensive coordinator left, that's right, horrible angles. Guys not
• 1:42:16
  differentiating themselves. And that's also to like watch it on tape. Do something
• 1:42:20
  different, Wear a different color arm sleep, wear different color cleats. I
• 1:42:25
  hate guys that are like look the same, like all they all have single
• 1:42:29
  digit numbers. So the camera's far away and I'm like, I don't know
• 1:42:30
  who number one is versus number four because the fun is a certain way.
• 1:42:34
  None of them are wearing an arm sleep. They're all wearing black gloves and
• 1:42:38
  black cleats. I don't know who is who. Like it's oh, it's
• 1:42:42
  just like that's why I appreciated Thrash. Thrash for most games is wearing the
• 1:42:45
  arm sleeve on his left elbow and no one else is doing and it's a
• 1:42:48
  white arm sleep. And I'm like, okay, I recognize you're like certain
• 1:42:50
  like Jabon Baker always has the T shirt hanging out a little bit and the
• 1:42:54
  towel and the arms. I'm like, okay, I can put it all
• 1:42:57
  together. I hate where I have to Yes, I need the aesthetic like
• 1:43:00
  one you look good. You play good. But two, it's really a
• 1:43:03
  pain in the ass to watch the tape when I don't know who is who
• 1:43:05
  and I have to wait until I get the end zone angle and see the
• 1:43:09
  number, and then I got to go back to the sideline angle. Yes,
• 1:43:14
  first world problems. It's just really it's just really, really really tough.
• 1:43:19
  Continue some of the conversations. You start to hit our last segment here.
• 1:43:24
  So round one in round two, Dominos, is how I phrase this.
• 1:43:27
  So let's play. We'll go two options. You talk about one a
• 1:43:30
  little bit so, but let's say if the Bills go receiver in round one,
• 1:43:34
  what are you looking at them to address in round two? Again based
• 1:43:39
  on the team, but also based on what we think the board is going
• 1:43:42
  to look like at sixty, how things are going through. I think,
• 1:43:47
  like, as much as I would like to see them go get that pass
• 1:43:51
  rusher, I mean I think you have to go find the interior offensive line.
• 1:43:56
  You have to get somebody. I know it's a good into your offensive
• 1:44:00
  line class, and I know it's a good offensive tackle class. But like
• 1:44:04
  if Cedrick Van Pran is your guy who reminds me a little bit of Lloyd
• 1:44:09
  cushionberry like in a light way. He's kind of maxed out at two hundred
• 1:44:13
  and ninety eight pounds. But at the same time, like you bring him
• 1:44:15
  in, you might be able to plug and play him a little bit.
• 1:44:18
  Maybe he sits for a little while, whatever, I think you can go
• 1:44:21
  that route. Is Cooper BB there, If he is, I mean he's
• 1:44:26
  got really short arms. That's a bit of a concern. But I think
• 1:44:30
  he's probably gonna be gone. But if he's there, I watched him given
• 1:44:32
  the business to Byron Murphy. They had a good battle Kansas State vers Texas,
• 1:44:36
  and I actually think BB won that battle more often. I thought he
• 1:44:41
  was gonna come out last year. You and I were both bummed when he
• 1:44:43
  didn't come out last year. Yeah, I like Cooper BB a lot.
• 1:44:46
  Sorry, continued, No, I'm with you. I'm bummed that he didn't
• 1:44:48
  come out either, because I could have had him on the show, interviewed
• 1:44:51
  him, the whole thing would have been great. And then he unfollowed me.
• 1:44:54
  But whatever, it is, what it is, not bitter about it,
• 1:44:57
  whatever, I'm not salty about it. But yeah, so I just
• 1:45:00
  think getting offensive line help is important and it's something that they need to do.
• 1:45:04
  I just I think it's in need. That's why I talked about it
• 1:45:06
  so much in the first round. I don't think Zach Fraser is going to
• 1:45:11
  be there, so that's why I kind of push for him in the first
• 1:45:13
  round. But if they went that wide receiver route, you have to kind
• 1:45:16
  of pivot and in the second round and prepare for the next wave of offensive
• 1:45:21
  linemen because you know, there is that drop off from sixty all the way
• 1:45:27
  down to the next pick, so you might not find a starting center that
• 1:45:31
  low in the draft like you just might not. So I think that's important.
• 1:45:34
  And if you can get that depth now cool. You can get pass
• 1:45:39
  rushers, you can get guys to get in their situationally, you can get
• 1:45:42
  interior defensive line help to bring in situational guys if you feel confident that Jones
• 1:45:47
  can be you know, first and second down, and obviously you have at
• 1:45:50
  Oliver and you can kind of get that blend and then again the situational pass
• 1:45:55
  rushers that you can bring in. So I think that they can do a
• 1:45:58
  little bit more with the defensive line in the secondary where I think at you
• 1:46:01
  know, wide receiver, interior offensive line, just doing this conversation. That's
• 1:46:05
  the domino effect that I would have if I'm the Bills, and that would
• 1:46:09
  be what I'm hoping for kind of falls into my lap that you can go
• 1:46:12
  and get receiver, offensive line and then so let's flip it on its head,
• 1:46:16
  which we talked about a little bit, so we don't have to elaborate
• 1:46:18
  too much. If the Bills don't go wide receiver in round one, does
• 1:46:24
  that mean that they should and or will go receiver in round two? Like
• 1:46:30
  do you think? Because again, so you're talking to that point after pick
• 1:46:33
  sixty, your next pick is picked one twenty eight, and then again it
• 1:46:36
  comes in a bunch of you've got one twenty eight, you've got one thirty
• 1:46:39
  three, so on and so forth. But that's a huge sixty eight players
• 1:46:43
  between sixty and one to twenty eight, and that's a bunch of receivers that
• 1:46:45
  are going by by I mean, looking at the way that they've structured this
• 1:46:49
  roster, I would I wouldn't be surprised if they passed on it. I'll
• 1:46:54
  be honest. I mean, like, you signed Curtis Samuel to a pretty
• 1:46:58
  decent sized deal. You saw the emergence of Shakir, you have digs.
• 1:47:01
  We talked about his contract. The only way you're getting rid of him if
• 1:47:04
  it's toxic. You brought in a veteran like Mac Collins. Like to me,
• 1:47:10
  that's them showing the cards and saying, hey, the wide receivers are
• 1:47:14
  going to go early. We know we're not going to get one at twenty
• 1:47:17
  eight unless we trade up and get one. We feel confident enough in this
• 1:47:20
  room to where, okay, if we have to take one at sixty,
• 1:47:24
  cool, but more than likely we're probably going to take them in that one
• 1:47:27
  twenty range or package something and move up into like let's say ninety five or
• 1:47:31
  whatever and getting that top one where they should have had their comp pick.
• 1:47:36
  Sorry, continue, No, no, I agree. I agree with you,
• 1:47:39
  but I think that's more realistic. And I think at that point,
• 1:47:44
  if they let's say, did offensive line in the first round, I think
• 1:47:47
  then they would look at secondary or defensive line in round two. And that's
• 1:47:53
  how I would picture it, and it might be, you know, you
• 1:47:55
  start in the trenches, they might have to hit the reset. I mean
• 1:47:58
  a few years ago, it sounded like look like they were trying to do
• 1:48:00
  that, you know, when they took Russo and then they took Carlos bash
• 1:48:03
  them and obviously together as Yeah, and like they were trying to build in
• 1:48:08
  the trenches for now and it didn't necessarily work out completely. You found some
• 1:48:14
  you didn't find others. Now they kind of got to get back into doing
• 1:48:16
  that and find those guys and hopefully they can do it in this draft,
• 1:48:20
  because that just the way it works. I mean again, I I don't
• 1:48:24
  know it. It might not work. It might be receiver. I just
• 1:48:28
  the way this roster is structured. And I and I look at every single
• 1:48:31
  team religiously every single day. And when I look at the Bills, I
• 1:48:36
  see just the holes that in tier offensive line, corner and tior defensive line,
• 1:48:42
  and you're throwing a pass rusher and a receiver. I mean that's how
• 1:48:45
  I would label it. So do you think they surprise anybody by like going
• 1:48:49
  and just getting a running back? Like that's not in the cards, right,
• 1:48:54
  Like that's not a I think on day three, if they keep all
• 1:48:57
  these picks, you're on a hundred running back because they've got you've got Ty
• 1:49:00
  Johnson, You've got Cook. I mean, they have a propensity for I
• 1:49:04
  mean what Zach Moss was a three Devin Singletary was a three, James Cook
• 1:49:09
  was a two. They love their Day two running backs. I just that's
• 1:49:12
  why I brought that up. I know one hundred, I'm in lockstep with
• 1:49:15
  you. I just really think this year they can't afford it. I think
• 1:49:19
  you'll see one no on day three, just given cost control term all that
• 1:49:26
  aspect. Like you're sitting a guy and you take him in round four,
• 1:49:29
  round five, and that means you get him for forty years, and you're
• 1:49:30
  pairing him with these next two years of James Cook and maybe he takes over
• 1:49:33
  for Cook after if you don't give him a second contract. Like I think
• 1:49:36
  they will take a running back again, especially I think the sweet spot for
• 1:49:42
  running backs this year is like rounds three through five, Like based on who's
• 1:49:45
  there, there's not too many like oh, this guy's a top fifty lock
• 1:49:47
  or this guy's a top one hundred lock. Like there's so many like random
• 1:49:51
  skill set dudes like I like Dylan Lobby, like I like Machine Ali,
• 1:49:56
  like so many guys who I just think are so cool. But I think
• 1:49:59
  they'll get one just on day three. Man, they would piss everyone so
• 1:50:02
  much. They would like Zach Frasier in like round one and then like mar
• 1:50:08
  Sean Lloyd at sixty, like, oh my god, everybody, but it
• 1:50:13
  would make sense. I mean, dude, it would make sense. Dude.
• 1:50:15
  I'm sorry. I know that would piss people off, but it would
• 1:50:17
  make sense. Like now if they forced their hand and took like down Edwards,
• 1:50:21
  who I think is a I think he's a pretty damn good running back.
• 1:50:27
  Personally, I think there's some limitations with his game, but I'm not
• 1:50:31
  taking I love marsh On Lloyd, and I even like Edward's two to a
• 1:50:34
  degree, they cannot take They could not take a running back at sixty like,
• 1:50:38
  and I'm pro running back, they're pro Lloyd, but what if that
• 1:50:42
  run of receivers happen? And they're like, all right, the only way
• 1:50:46
  was probably a good offensive line. I mean, okay, So then they
• 1:50:48
  took Fraser in the first round. Okay, that's fine, Like what does
• 1:50:51
  edge look like? What does safety look like? What does corner look?
• 1:50:55
  All depends? But because if that run at receiver happened, then I have
• 1:50:59
  a feeling is kad there at sixty Like then I feel like one of these
• 1:51:03
  corners fell and I'm saying correct, like somebody from that's someone from a more
• 1:51:11
  premium position has fallen. And then I'm sitting there going okay, like there
• 1:51:16
  there's no way the best player available mixed with the need and value is a
• 1:51:20
  running back at sixty as much as I love marshn Lloyd. But again,
• 1:51:25
  and I'm also this conversation another time as well, like I'm also a big
• 1:51:28
  proponent of like I just I want the Bills to run the ball and throw
• 1:51:30
  and do downfield play action shots with Josh Allen who has a cannon and then
• 1:51:34
  you when you want to spread everybody out and just put him in hell and
• 1:51:36
  put him in a blender. But with this offensive line and with Alan as
• 1:51:41
  the quarterback, power run game and bootlegs and shots off of it like where
• 1:51:45
  Allen is just you know, you move, you adjust the line, and
• 1:51:48
  you move the pocket, and Alan can send moonshots and if not, he's
• 1:51:53
  got space to run or he's just trying to shake a lineback or a defensive
• 1:51:57
  exactly like, just I want that with how many issues they've had with generating
• 1:52:02
  explosives out of their regular dropback game, right, let's just do it the
• 1:52:06
  old school way and just make everybody suck up to play the run, and
• 1:52:10
  now we're taking moonshots down the field. But man, I would just from
• 1:52:15
  watching everybody watching the world burned if they went running back at sixty. Oh
• 1:52:18
  my god, I couldnot amaze if they take a running back at sixty.
• 1:52:21
  Whatever stream is happening on Cover one, I'm getting on right then and there,
• 1:52:26
  and I'm not I'm batting down the hatches. I'm putting like I'm treating
• 1:52:30
  everything like this to walking dead. I'm putting up two by fours on the
• 1:52:32
  windows like nah, I'm turning all the lights off, like I don't want
• 1:52:35
  to get one pizza. I'm getting the hell out of here. I'll already
• 1:52:39
  have a one pie pizza. But I'm hunkering down and you're not gonna hear
• 1:52:42
  ace from me for a long time, because I do not want to be
• 1:52:45
  caught in the crossfire for those people. Couple last pieces before we head out
• 1:52:49
  here. Deepest position in this class and shallowest position or positions in this class,
• 1:52:56
  you get it multiple for the deepest, multiple for shallowest? What do
• 1:52:59
  you got start with the deepest? Is there one that's head and shoulders above
• 1:53:01
  the other? Is there two or three what do you got for the deepest
• 1:53:04
  position or positions in this class? Yeah, I mean deepest is offensive line.
• 1:53:10
  I've I've reiterated. I mean that's just especially when you put the whole
• 1:53:13
  piece together like tacko and interior pieces, center included obviously, Like there's so
• 1:53:16
  much quality at the offensive line spot this year in this draft. Yeah,
• 1:53:20
  no, one hundred percent. I mean you're gonna probably see between those two
• 1:53:25
  right there, We're probably gonna see close to twenty five maybe thirty go.
• 1:53:29
  I mean, let's be honest, like, there's a lot there. There's
• 1:53:31
  probably even more. It's probably more than that. It's probably like forty five.
• 1:53:35
  I mean it's up there. It's a number to be a lot.
• 1:53:38
  Yeah, it's gonna be a lot. Next would be then wide receiver.
• 1:53:41
  I would just say from deep just from watching the tape, I don't know
• 1:53:44
  who's all gonna transition to successful players at the next level, but we'll leave
• 1:53:47
  that conversation for another day. Shallowest by far tight end tight end is all
• 1:53:55
  I've said linebacker. The more I watch, Like, you know, who
• 1:54:00
  was your tight end? Two Sanders? Yeah? Theo Johnson? Oh,
• 1:54:05
  okay from Penn State. Okay, fair and then that that there's just a
• 1:54:09
  drop off. I mean, and then I just, yeah, I've never
• 1:54:14
  liked be from Kansas State a lot, I really do. But O I'm
• 1:54:16
  like, I'm not sitting there being like, oh man, first round guy,
• 1:54:19
  but like I wouldn't be mad if my team took snat on Day two.
• 1:54:23
  I like Kate Stover. I mean like he's okay, like he's kind
• 1:54:27
  of forgotten about, but absolutely It's just one of those things. It's like
• 1:54:30
  I I love watching tight ends. I love being able to watch guys that
• 1:54:33
  can go out catch football block, Like you get the best of both worlds
• 1:54:38
  when you watch tight ends, and I always enjoy breaking them down and like
• 1:54:41
  going through summer study and fall and all that, like there just wasn't much
• 1:54:46
  there. And then like earlier, and I might have said it on this
• 1:54:49
  show, like I brought up linebackers, but like, the more I dive
• 1:54:54
  into him, I think you can find some feasible ones. Peyton Wilson,
• 1:54:58
  Edrin Cooper who I love, Jeremiah Trotter Junior is okay Junior errand boy from
• 1:55:04
  the Senior bowlhere you interviewed, Like I think he's going to be a Day
• 1:55:08
  three dude, Like, I like what he offers. He's he's calling that
• 1:55:11
  ND defense. He'ssing everybody, he's penetrating me. He's smart, Like he
• 1:55:15
  had to go back to twenty one when he was with the Kyle Hamilton.
• 1:55:18
  Dude, he was playing it like this, right, he played like the
• 1:55:23
  shell role. It's the weirdest. You have to go see it. It's
• 1:55:26
  the weirdest thing. I remember watching it on broadcast. I wasn't watching the
• 1:55:30
  table at the time, but I forgot that. And then he again,
• 1:55:31
  this is also kind of an insider piece as well, like I remember you
• 1:55:33
  showing us what you speaking with him, like after practice that Wednesday when we
• 1:55:41
  were at the seafood spot. It's just his answer to you was so great
• 1:55:45
  and so smart, and it's so in detail and in depth, and and
• 1:55:48
  it wasn't like he struggled to give that answer. It was just exhortlessly.
• 1:55:54
  Yep, exactly like he he impressed. I liked him at the Senior Bowl.
• 1:55:59
  I liked him even more when you like interviewed him. And then just
• 1:56:02
  yeah, he just flashes on the tape like when I'm I'm gonna usually not
• 1:56:05
  watching four Notre Dames defense, I'm watching for wherever they're playing offense against.
• 1:56:09
  But he I just keep seeing twenty seven making plays like left and right,
• 1:56:12
  and he's just so smart. But yeah, there is some value with linebacker
• 1:56:15
  too, that's fair. Yeah. And then and then you know another one
• 1:56:18
  is a UCLA kid, Darius Muasu. I think I'm saying that correctly.
• 1:56:24
  Three. Yes, he's all over the friggin place, just popping dude sideline
• 1:56:29
  to sideline, penetrating. I noticed him yesterday when I was watching Lotsu and
• 1:56:32
  Murphy like, and I I'm mad at myself cause I told myself to I
• 1:56:35
  was like, look up fifty three, and I completely forgot until right now.
• 1:56:39
  Yeah, he's just popping dudes left and right. Ude. Yep,
• 1:56:42
  he like a little bit undersize. He's like five eleven two twenty five.
• 1:56:46
  He didn't run fast like he ran like a four seven four seven five somewhere
• 1:56:50
  in that range. Shows on tape. He's going sideline to sideline against like
• 1:56:54
  bubble screens, like dudes are catching it behind the line and before they get
• 1:56:58
  five yards down field, he's eating him and b lining him and burying them.
• 1:57:01
  Yep. And I think with this new kickoff rule and stuff like that
• 1:57:04
  and the special teams value that we're looking for in the NFL. Now that's
• 1:57:09
  now coming back as everything comes full circle back to the NFL special teams actually
• 1:57:14
  matters circle, Yeah, you know, but he he would be a guy
• 1:57:18
  that, like I could see the Bills taking some interest in just simply because
• 1:57:23
  of kind of the athletic profile. But at the same time the special teams
• 1:57:27
  value. I think bringing in another linebacker doesn't hurt this team by any means,
• 1:57:32
  just because of Mulino just being banged up from time to time and those
• 1:57:38
  types of things. So I don't know. I think, yeah, the
• 1:57:41
  shallowest position is tight end, And we got on the linebacker thing just because
• 1:57:45
  I said I think on this show that linebacker was the more shallow position originally,
• 1:57:49
  but now that I'm through a lot of the final evaluations, tight end
• 1:57:54
  is by far. That's fair a sim boat as well. All Right,
• 1:57:57
  Russ's last question, what I think it phrases you. What three things do
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  the Bills need to come away with from this draft? But it could be
• 1:58:04
  a big one. Now, it could be two, it could be three,
• 1:58:06
  it could be multiple. We've talked about a bunch here. What do
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  the Bills need to come away with from this draft? Is it a player
• 1:58:14
  type? Is it these specific positions and addressing certain things. We've hit so
• 1:58:17
  much, But if you had to rank like this one thing or these top
• 1:58:20
  two or these top three for you that outsider analysis perspective, what do the
• 1:58:26
  Buffalo Bills need to come away with from this twenty twenty four draft? In
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  tier? Offensive line is number one by far. I think I always take
• 1:58:36
  the scenic route with my answers. I can't just give you three possessions,
• 1:58:40
  three positions and move on. Like I like it, I like the context,
• 1:58:42
  I like the detail. I need the detail in tier offensive line.
• 1:58:45
  I think it's important to get a young piece in the middle of the offensive
• 1:58:49
  line, especially just throwing center out there. If you can find an upgrade
• 1:58:54
  there, do it. It's worth the first round pick, you get the
• 1:58:57
  fifth year option, potentially. Hearing that with Josh Allen, like you just
• 1:59:00
  look at the success of a lot of quarterbacks and I might there might even
• 1:59:04
  be a piece that I wrote on cover one years ago talking about this the
• 1:59:10
  importance of the center position and looking at some of the teams, and this
• 1:59:14
  was back in like twenty nineteen, So like you saw Ryan Kelly go Early
• 1:59:17
  he was there to be paired with Andrew Luck. Obviously Luck retired. You
• 1:59:21
  see it with Frank Ragnow. He was brought in for Matthew Stafford. Obviously
• 1:59:26
  Jared Goff has him. But when Ragnow's not in. We saw it earlier
• 1:59:29
  this year that offense struggled in Detroit. I think the thing is here,
• 1:59:31
  Mitch Morrise, Mitch Morse for Patrick Mahomes early on, like you pair those
• 1:59:35
  those young centers, where those established centers either in like high priority pick or
• 1:59:41
  a veteran guy to boost with those qbs, and you lost him now And
• 1:59:45
  like even when he if he didn't play at certain times for the Bills last
• 1:59:47
  year or years prior, the impact has felt. It is felt like I
• 1:59:51
  don't care what you watch on film and how you want to tell you like,
• 1:59:55
  oh it's okay the backup to film and his film is real. No,
• 1:59:58
  he's awesome. It's just suck a decent and decent enough cap number some
• 2:00:02
  concussion stuff. I think maybe they moved in more because they're trying to move
• 2:00:06
  to a different type of interior, like they want more like depth of the
• 2:00:10
  pocket, security and more anchoring, which is a strength of the government and
• 2:00:13
  moving towards center. But honestly, like if you take Fraser as a good
• 2:00:17
  anchoror and there really isn't anything that JPJ can't do, so like it's an
• 2:00:20
  upgrade, like either way. Yeah, So I think that's just I think
• 2:00:25
  that's when you make a move like that and you move on from a guy
• 2:00:28
  like that. To me, that's just I don't want to say it's a
• 2:00:30
  red flag, but it's like, hey, that's a light shining in my
• 2:00:33
  eye. I'm going to pay attention to that one. So that's why I
• 2:00:36
  put Fraser and Interier offensive line up there. Next for me would be defensive
• 2:00:43
  back. I just look at this team and if you can find somebody that
• 2:00:47
  can help make a difference and not just put it all on you know,
• 2:00:50
  the trade for Douglas or the signing of Edwards, Like you're putting a lot
• 2:00:56
  of pressure on guys that don't have anything beyond this year. Sure you could
• 2:01:00
  bring them back, but we don't know what the plan is and we don't
• 2:01:01
  know what's going to be offered, and those guys might bet on themselves and
• 2:01:04
  say, hey, I want a bigger deal. I you know, especially
• 2:01:08
  Edwards, Hey, I took the one year deal already. I'm not taking
• 2:01:10
  another one year deal. I'm gonna go get three years for fifteen million from
• 2:01:15
  the Chargers or whatever. So I think defensive back makes a lot of sense,
• 2:01:18
  you know, whether it's safety or corner. And then the last one,
• 2:01:23
  I'm gonna go with interior defensive line. I think you have kind of
• 2:01:26
  a well established interior defensive line, but you can make it better. And
• 2:01:30
  if you can, again, I would almost interchange them an interior offensive line
• 2:01:34
  at times like if you can go get Johnny Newton, cool, If you
• 2:01:38
  can go get Zach Fraser cool, But those are the two guys on the
• 2:01:41
  wish list for me on the bills. And if you can go get that
• 2:01:43
  guy, great. If you don't get Newton because he's gone, or you
• 2:01:45
  like Fraser more and you feel like, okay, at pick one twenty,
• 2:01:49
  I'm gonna get you know, an interior defensive lineman. Is that Michael Hall?
• 2:01:53
  Is that you know? Is that the root kit out of Clemson?
• 2:01:57
  Is there somebody else that you can get in that position? Cool? I
• 2:02:00
  think though, you have to add those three spots to really help your team.
• 2:02:04
  And I know the sexy pick is receiver. But I just the way
• 2:02:09
  that rosters shape, I don't see it. I just don't see it.
• 2:02:12
  And I think that's fair, and I appreciate the way you see things,
• 2:02:15
  and I appreciate you riding with me. Man. I didn't. I really
• 2:02:18
  thought. I was like, yeah, we'll probably come in like an hour
• 2:02:20
  and a half here here. We are not me, dude, We're always
• 2:02:24
  two hours. It's how we roll. I should known. I'm we'll throw
• 2:02:27
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• 2:02:30
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• 2:02:33
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• 2:03:36
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