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Welcome back to the Buffalo Bread Podcast. We

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have our post -draft analysis episode as we do

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every year. The Buffalo Bills did something that

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I think you and I, Dan, would agree they haven't

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done in a number of years, which was basically

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follow the exact script of what most talking

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heads, media members, people who care about ranking

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positional need put out there as the menu of

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things that they needed to get done. They basically

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checked every box in the exact order that most

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people had it, which doesn't happen. I mean,

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it doesn't happen as far as I can recall back

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to ever since Brandon Bean took the job. I think

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that many people in Bill's Mafia and Bill's media

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were frustrated often with the best player available

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mentality or my board rankings said this when

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the Bills would repeatedly pass on something

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that everybody agreed they needed. Where are

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you at with the overall draft feeling, sir? Thought

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this was his best draft and I'm not even saying

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that because I'm afraid he's gonna want to come

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on this pod and yell at us Whatever criticism

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we have. I honestly thought he did a great job

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with the strap This was and I put this out on

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a lot of our socials Bill's mafia. Do how did

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you feel was this his best draft since 2018 and

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and I got a lot of Yes, it absolutely was. And

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it wasn't just because he was checking the boxes

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of what all of us amateur mock drafters wanted.

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I think for the first time JJ saw a vision. for

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this draft plan. There was not a lot of luxury

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picks or meandering picks. We are way past that

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phase where we can take like a luxury second

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round linebacker or draft our fourth running

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back in the second round in the fourth consecutive

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year. Right. We are at a point now where the

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the salary cap is what it is with Joss's extension

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with some of these homegrown talent extensions

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they've given to guys like Rousseau and Shakir.

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This was as locked in and focused a draft strategy

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as I've seen for bean and unlike. how we've criticized

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this this organization before where it doesn't

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seem like there's a fit or there's a long term

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plan or vision for a lot of players they bring

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on. I can literally look at every single one

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of these guys that they drafted and say, oh,

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I see where they fit, not just for the 2025 season,

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but in the long term developmental arc of the

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organization and their role that I can see where

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the bills hope they are going to end up. So overall,

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I was very, very satisfied. And I don't even

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care that they didn't draft a receiver. Right.

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Well, I mean, and starting there on that note,

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we they signed a receiver, even after Brandon

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Bean's tirade on WGR about how everyone's always

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bitching with this and that because you're bitching

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about Josh Allen and now you're bitching about

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we don't got a wide receiver. We're the highest

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scoring NFL or highest scoring team in team history.

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We're the best team in the league if you count

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the postseason and scoring. He did he did all

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that and then the same day they had Elijah Moore

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formerly of the Jets and formerly of the the

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Cleveland Browns in for a workout and two days

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later he signed so Hey, let me ask you this over

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under beans been the the GM of the team since

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2018 right? Yeah, yeah, so 2018 draft was his

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first draft. He started the summer 2017. Yep

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Yep. Yep. So 2017 is 2025, eight years. He drafted

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Josh in 2018. Okay. So over under seven years,

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he's been waiting to pull out the, you guys wanted

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Josh Wilson. You guys are bitching. Yeah. Oh

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yeah. No, I bet. You know he's had that thing.

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He pulled out the hashtag wrong Josh. Yeah. He,

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he like, he. He's had that thing in his pocket.

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And he's he probably watches that video clip

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of the Bills fan, like with his hands on his

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face like, no, like just to get him juiced up

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in the morning and ready to go during draft season.

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Dude, I can picture Brandon being in a mirror,

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being like, you got this. You're a big baller

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bean. You can do this because like puts on his

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aviator sunglasses before he walks out. And then

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a second pair of your sunglasses just to pull

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him off in dramatic fashion. Yeah. So good. Yeah.

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So, so let's start with the most recent news

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is of course that signing. Elijah Moore, I think

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that we both remember him from the 2021 draft

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coming out when I think that was that the season

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that the bills traded their first round pick

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for Stefan Diggs? Feels like it. The twenty twenty

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draft. Oh, twenty twenty draft. OK, so the year

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after they traded for Stefan Biggs, Elijah Moore

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came out from Ole Miss. He is he was a second

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round pick for the Jets that year. Second pick

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for the Jets, five, ten, one hundred and eighty

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pounds. Considered a burner from the slot. Usually

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split his snaps with Cleveland over the past

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two seasons, half in the slot and half outside

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receiver. He. feels a little bit like a Curtis

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Samuel duplicate in terms of his skill set he's

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good at crossing routes he's good he's got long

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speed but he hasn't been one of those like big

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play you know big play receivers that you think

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of who's like always getting those 60 70 yard

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touchdown bombs so he also hasn't played with

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absolutely he hasn't played with anything but

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absolute trash at quarterback his entire career

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And so it's an interesting dynamic. I, having

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seen Marques Valdez scantling, and who's the

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other guy that used to be on Pittsburgh that

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was here in the offseason cut? Chase Claypool.

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Yeah, Chase Claypool. Having seen some of those

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veteran flyers on players who haven't stuck,

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I'm not super hopeful about this signing, but

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I think that it essentially... As you mentioned

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in text earlier, it sort of invalidates the fired

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up rant that Bean went on by saying, you guys

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are wrong, and then immediately doing the thing

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that everyone was hoping he would do. I don't

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know if it invalidates the whole thing fully.

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I do think... Listen, we have been as critical

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as anyone of Brandon Bean's draft strategy a

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couple of years ago We dedicated an entire bod

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our entire podcast to an alternate universe of

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Brandon Bean picks right, where the pick that

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he actually made, we found someone better that

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was still available on the board at that time.

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And so I get his frustration. I mean, let's remember

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where we were when he took over this organization

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with Sean McDermott, like we were in the throes

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of the drought or the drought had just ended

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right in 2017. And, you know, it times were times

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were rough for Bill's mafia. I mean, you and

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I at the time when it was still 16 game schedule,

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we were just ready to get six and 10 tattoos,

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because that's just where we were at every season.

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Not always good enough to draft a franchise changing

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blue chip talent and but just good enough to

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like, keep ourselves at this very middling pace.

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Then he came in and they've transformed the culture.

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They've transformed the roster What they are

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though is they're the victims of their their

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the own expectations that they have set We are

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now expecting this level of success We're we're

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no longer talking about if Josh Allen is healthy

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will you know? Can we make the playoffs its will

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the can we is now? Can we win a Super Bowl in

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this current window where Josh Allen, who is

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a supreme athlete, but a very violent player

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who puts his body through a lot. Are we taking

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maximum advantage of the window we have with

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this transcendent generational player? And I

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think those are fair questions. And I think those

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questions are exactly at the bar that being a

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McDermott have raised for this organization and

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quite frankly, for this community. So I think

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they're fair asks. I think what is, I think what

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is unfair is we can't lose our objectivity. Objectively

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speaking, regardless of how you feel about a

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couple of the trade ups, he knocked the straft

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out of the park, right? And I think the Elijah

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Moore signing, while not a total concession,

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I think is in line with the type of G aggressive

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GM style we've seen with Brandon Bean. Other

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than the QB room, which we can all agree is 100

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% set, he is always, always in the rumor mill

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about he called check on this player. He called

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a check on a trade for this guy. He's having

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a conversation with this organization about someone

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that might be available. And he's always, to

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your point earlier about the MVS signing, the

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Chase Claypool signing. He's always looking to

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improve on and build the room. He never feels

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like he is fully satisfied with where a room

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is at and it's only resources a lot of times

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or time because the season eventually has to

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start and you got to put a roster on the field

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that really limit him. Like he is an aggressive

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wheeling and dealing GM and he's always looking

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to improve. So I think the Elijah Moore thing.

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Not a total concession. I think it's more part

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and parcel with what we have come to expect with

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Brandon Bean. He is happy with the wide receiver

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room, but there was a guy out there that had,

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you know, has field tilting speed in a lot of

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ways, has much better acceleration than Curtis

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Samuel. And he had the opportunity to add him

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to his room, to the wide receiver room at a low

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risk, high reward contract. This is a big baller

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bean move if there ever was one. JJ, what do

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you think about Moore's potential impact on the

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field? I picked up on you saying he feels like

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Curtis Samuel competition. And that's kind of

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where I feel like a lot of Bill's fans and Bill's

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media are at. But let me posit something different

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to you. Are we sure Josh Palmer is coming in

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and immediately one of the top three guys in

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that room with Coleman and with Shakir? Because

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Shakir, listen, he's got the exact same. Physical

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profile as a Stefan Diggs who was our our Z receiver

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our fee our field side of the receiver guy and

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played on the outside I know Shakira's best when

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you can get him non and get him free of coverage

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without a whole lot of contact and press and

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that's why he's so effective in the slot But

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he's got the speed the profile the change of

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direction to play on the outside Are we not sure

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that the alignments gonna be Keon Coleman? Khalil

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Shakir on the outside in certain packages, not

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all the time. And then we see a mix of Curtis

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Samuel and Elijah Moore in the slot. I mean,

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we were not sure. I think that we also need to

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acknowledge the fact that Keon Coleman might

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actually be better from the slot because he got

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pressed, especially after he came back from the

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injury. Right. Like great point. There is a lot

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for Joe Brady to do with this receiver core.

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and it seems like there's not enough slots available

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because there's not enough slots available in

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the composition of their receiver room. There's

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nobody who's that like absolute dog outside receiver

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in the room. Everybody could use a little bit

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of help not getting pressed by a strong outside

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six foot two corner, right? And so with that,

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I think to your point, you're probably going

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to see that. You're probably going to see all

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kinds of combinations, especially in training

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camp and preseason. We're probably going to see

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Double slot packages with Keon Coleman and Khalil

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Shakir on the slots with Elijah Moore and Curtis

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Samuelson on the outside Then another, you know

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series it might be Josh Palmer on the outside

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or Josh Palmer on the slot like The variability

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I think is a superpower of this team with the

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wide receivers but the actual skill set kind

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of dampens that superpower because nobody I don't

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I don't Think unless Keon Coleman takes a pretty

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substantive step forward. I don't think any of

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them can really be open even when covered or

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doubled or pressed. You know, like an absolute

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alpha dog, you know, outside receiver, like Jamar

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Chase or something. We know there's no Jamar

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Chase on this field, on this team. And they've

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done that by design. And I think that they recognize

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that the Eagles have, you know, a 1 and 1B wide

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receiving tandem, but... for the last several

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seasons, the Super Bowl championship team has,

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it's not been a requirement that you absolutely

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have to have an Alpha One outside receiver. And

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so I think that they're going to be variable,

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that everybody eats is, I mean, I think, wasn't

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Josh Allen recently on like a press, whatever,

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wearing everybody eats hat, like trademarked.

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So yeah, that's not going away. And I think you're

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onto something with the fact that Khalil Shakir,

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Trying to develop his release package on the

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outside is something we'll see this season. I

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hope he does awesome I don't have any doubt for

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his work ethic. I don't think the money is gonna

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change him I think he wants to be the best and

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could Really, you know cuz he is so shifty and

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he is so good in contact I think that it's a

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matter of like, you know, don't don't say he

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can't do it could just cuz he never has Um, and

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so that's, that's a thing, but I do think also

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there's a possibility that Keon Coleman is, is

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tried out in the slot a little bit more to give

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him some opportunity to get, get open on those

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quick slants or quick outs, um, when he was struggling

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to do that late in the season, especially. Yeah,

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absolutely so another fun another fun toy for

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Joe Brady to have the wide receiver room in this

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pass catcher room and Maybe if it doesn't go

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the way of MVS or chase claypool another fun

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weapon for Josh to throw to as well So I will

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I will say this in the in the two seasons of

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Elijah Moore Playing for the Jets after his rookie

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and second season before he was traded Even with

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Zach Wilson who was abysmal at quarterback I

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remember seeing Elijah Moore on third and longs

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and on some like pretty big time downs Making

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a catch and converting and being frustrated.

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He's just kind of being frustrated. Oh, that's

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a good receiver like I have those sense like

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I've I can remember those things because we see

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so many we watch and rewatch so many Jets games

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that I can I have a good sense of the player

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from his early time in the league and from that

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time into Cleveland. In Cleveland, he'd never

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drop below 100 targets for a season and he never

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dropped below 50, you know, 55 catches in a season.

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So He's like a 600, 550 type yardage receiver

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in a year. His yards per reception dropped substantially

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at Cleveland because again, probably the quarterback

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play. Wasn't scoring buckets all over the place,

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but he was a somewhat reliably first down machine

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as a second or third receiver option. Yeah, absolutely.

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I mean, it doesn't hurt to have these options

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heading into camp for sure. For the Tyrell shavers

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hive out there. This doesn't mean shavers is

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not going to make the roster like we're all still

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hoping that that dude ends up on there. So yeah.

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All right, man. Let's let's work it back. Let's

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talk about the draft again. thought being nailed

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the draft at a variety of different levels. I

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know you and I are gonna gonna pick some nets

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about some of the prospects that he brought in.

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But overall, solid draft, great vision. You just

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want to start at the top of the board and work

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our way down? Absolutely. And in what was, you

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know, a lot of preference busting or, or wish

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casting busting, Brandon being stuck and picked.

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at 30. He did not trade up. He did not trade

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back. And that's rare for him in the first round.

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So he stuck and picked. And I think that largely

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he stuck in place and picked because the way

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that the first round developed, almost everyone

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would agree that the Buffalo Bills biggest need

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was a starting caliber outside cornerback. And

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other than Travis Hunter going second overall,

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there was not a single cornerback taken until

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20. Jada Baron who was largely, you know two

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on the board still what a steal that was to go

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Yeah to go all the way down to 20 to get Jada

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Baron. The Broncos got him AFC is gonna regret.

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Yeah happen and But all that led to a situation

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where I think it was like eight tackle or defensive

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linemen went in the first 29 picks and a couple

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of safeties. So it was really a situation where

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the way the board fell, the Buffalo Bills biggest

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number one need was there with the third best

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corner kind of unanimously on the board. Absolutely.

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And last year, JJ, they passed up on taking the

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fastest player on the draft board and Xavier

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worthy. This year, he fell in their laps at 30

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and they took the fastest player in the draft,

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Mad Max Hairston. So, JJ, I mean, kind of ad

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nauseam. Everyone has had the same pros and cons

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about this kid. I think the perception is that

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because of his speed, he's primarily a man corner.

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And now I see a lot on Bill's threads. I'm not

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on Bill's Twitter anymore. I see a lot on Bill's

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Bill's mafia threads that, oh, yeah, finally,

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we're changing our philosophy and we're going

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to play more man. And while I think more man,

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you and I both agree, has to be in the cards

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for this bill squad. Harrison is a zone cover

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corner, his fluidity in his hips, his change

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of direction, his acceleration. And yes, that

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burst of speed. And he's got this amazing sense,

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this amazing ability to read routes. Dude is

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a turno was a turnover machine at Kentucky as

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a result of all of those traits. And he has a

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perfect fit for the majority zone scheme that

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the bills are going to play. And he's to me,

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based on his size, I like to see him bulk up

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a little bit more based on his size, a perfect

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compliment. He's not a tweener. He has an outside

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corner that can play on the other side of the

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field from Christian Benford. They had a clear

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need, a clear hole at that spot, and they filled

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it with, again, consensus top three, top four

00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:23.019
cornerback in this draft, and undisputedly the

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fastest player in the draft. You and I talked

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about some concerns about his size profile. He's

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not a great tackler, though he was dealing with

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a shoulder injury we found out through much of

00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:34.519
last season and his last season at Kentucky.

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From a personality standpoint, the Buffalo Bills

00:18:38.940 --> 00:18:41.339
win their first overall pick again. Keon Coleman

00:18:41.339 --> 00:18:44.599
set NFL media on fire last season with his introductory

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press conference. Mad Max didn't even wait till

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the press conference to do that the videos of

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him tapping up guys in the green room Every single

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one that came through to take their walk up to

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the stage at the draft the bills I think not

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only got a supreme athlete that fits their skills,

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but they got a guy who fits the culture as well

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Yeah, absolutely and I think that the other big

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thing about that that pick that Really kind of

00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:10.400
matches up is again the athletic profile We've

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been saying for ages that the Bills need to be

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faster on defense that they get absolutely you

00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:17.779
know taking advantage of on D when they when

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they aren't able to keep up with the offenses

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they're playing against and then Then we have

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Maxwell Harrison come in and there's no question

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anymore about that He's got recovery speed that

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we haven't seen since Trey white kind of started

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in the in the league and he is a able to, to

00:19:33.539 --> 00:19:36.480
your point, play on zone much better than I think

00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:43.500
that we've seen. Oh yeah. Yeah. And, and on top

00:19:43.500 --> 00:19:46.099
of that, I think that also he, uh, he has a,

00:19:46.099 --> 00:19:48.859
uh, an amazing skill set when staring into the

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backfield. He had six interceptions. Three of

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them returned for touchdowns. So that speed came

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to play when he was at Kentucky through it through

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in the SEC, which is an incredibly competitive

00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:01.940
class. Yeah, absolutely. Now, very excited to

00:20:01.940 --> 00:20:05.220
have this dude on the team, a profile that athletically

00:20:05.220 --> 00:20:07.460
we have needed for a very, very long time on

00:20:07.460 --> 00:20:11.079
the squad. Round two, JJ Buffalo Bills trade

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up to get. What I think we you and I agree were

00:20:14.509 --> 00:20:17.329
one and one be as far as positional needs went

00:20:17.329 --> 00:20:20.210
which was to finally address the defensive line

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More specifically in the interior defensive line

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a defensive tackle finding TJ Sanders who listen,

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I loved the pick I think He after day two was

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the one that most bills fans were like, oh, but

00:20:36.309 --> 00:20:41.079
he's not the he's not the big to gap in, run,

00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:44.200
run stuffing, huge bodied guy we need next to

00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:46.640
Ed Oliver. But I'll tell you, dude, I love the

00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:50.140
pick immediately. Reason being is, yes, the Buffalo

00:20:50.140 --> 00:20:53.980
Bills struggled in several key situations, stopping

00:20:53.980 --> 00:20:57.099
the run and having a big bodied interior defensive

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linemen to help eat, eat up blocks would have

00:20:59.720 --> 00:21:02.319
helped with that for sure. But the Buffalo Bills

00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:04.779
also struggled in another regard, and that was

00:21:04.779 --> 00:21:07.900
in situations of third down and five or more

00:21:07.900 --> 00:21:10.480
yards. They really struggled to get pressure

00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:12.900
on opposing QBs and clear passing situations

00:21:12.900 --> 00:21:17.220
last year. TJ Sanders next to Ed Oliver with

00:21:17.220 --> 00:21:20.579
AJ Epinezza. And Greg Rousseau coming off the

00:21:20.579 --> 00:21:24.059
edge fixes, or at least his skill set, fixes

00:21:24.059 --> 00:21:26.500
and addresses a lot of those needs as well. The

00:21:26.500 --> 00:21:29.359
Buffalo Bills have to get off the field in those

00:21:29.359 --> 00:21:32.740
obvious passing situations. And now I feel like

00:21:32.740 --> 00:21:35.660
they've got an interior presence with both Sanders

00:21:35.660 --> 00:21:38.880
and Oliver. Both are guys who prefer to win with

00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:41.180
speed as opposed to violence and physicality.

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But they've got two guys that can penetrate quickly,

00:21:44.140 --> 00:21:47.440
compress pockets, get quick pressure. get QBs

00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:49.460
off their platform and create the disruption

00:21:49.460 --> 00:21:52.960
the Bills didn't have last season in those situations.

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I loved this pick the minute they made it. Yeah,

00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:58.400
I did as well. And I think that, you know, it

00:21:58.400 --> 00:22:01.180
told us something about the Bills defensive philosophy

00:22:01.180 --> 00:22:06.039
that, you know, some people have pointed to even

00:22:06.039 --> 00:22:12.140
last year. Teron Johnson explaining that in the

00:22:12.140 --> 00:22:14.380
Miami game, they wanted them to run. They were.

00:22:14.559 --> 00:22:16.480
Basically, okay with them running even though

00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:19.259
they rolled up a bunch of yards Because they

00:22:19.259 --> 00:22:20.980
were they were inviting them to run the ball.

00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:23.420
The Bills don't care about running the ball it's

00:22:23.420 --> 00:22:26.880
it's not the explosive play generator of the

00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:29.940
passing game and This kind of proved it to me

00:22:29.940 --> 00:22:33.160
to use their second highest resource in the draft

00:22:33.160 --> 00:22:35.740
on what again He followed the script. It was

00:22:35.740 --> 00:22:37.859
their second highest need was a defensive tackle,

00:22:37.859 --> 00:22:39.819
but not the kind of defensive tackle I think

00:22:39.819 --> 00:22:41.839
a lot of Bills mafia were out here looking for

00:22:42.269 --> 00:22:45.390
everybody with the recency bias of watching the

00:22:45.390 --> 00:22:48.289
Philadelphia Eagles absolutely dismantle the

00:22:48.289 --> 00:22:50.789
Kansas City Chiefs is like, okay, we need our

00:22:50.789 --> 00:22:55.509
giant plugging 340 350 pound defensive tackle.

00:22:55.509 --> 00:22:57.869
Where's our Jalen Carter? Yeah, where's our Jalen

00:22:57.869 --> 00:23:01.650
Carter? Or Jordan? Yeah, Jordan Davis, Jalen

00:23:01.650 --> 00:23:05.119
Carter. Yeah, our our you know, Plugger from

00:23:05.119 --> 00:23:08.720
a Georgia or an Alabama or somebody But the Bills

00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:11.279
kind of stuck to what they believed because two

00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:13.759
picks later Alfred Collins who's way more that

00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:18.400
profile the run stuffing giant body Went to the

00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:21.299
to the Niners, which I love that player, too

00:23:21.299 --> 00:23:24.079
But they basically said TJ Sanders who has way

00:23:24.079 --> 00:23:26.920
more of a pass rush profile way more of an upside

00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:29.519
He has a plan. He has more active hands. He's

00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:34.119
more athletic Is is the choice and so and I don't

00:23:34.119 --> 00:23:35.960
hate it. I mean, I think both of us talked about

00:23:35.960 --> 00:23:40.039
how The Bills defense flaw at times is that they

00:23:40.039 --> 00:23:42.059
don't keep their undersized small linebackers

00:23:42.059 --> 00:23:45.740
clean. I I don't think that they care about that

00:23:45.740 --> 00:23:48.519
I think they're basically like we are just going

00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:51.779
to try to have as many chaos makers Who with

00:23:51.779 --> 00:23:54.140
up with plus athleticism on that side of the

00:23:54.140 --> 00:23:58.329
ball? And we're confident that we're gonna make

00:23:58.329 --> 00:24:01.230
more negative plays than you will get explosive

00:24:01.230 --> 00:24:03.250
plays. It's all about that differential for them.

00:24:03.430 --> 00:24:05.890
And this is a positive, you know, in that regard

00:24:05.890 --> 00:24:08.829
of, you know, Ed Oliver, TJ Sanders both play

00:24:08.829 --> 00:24:10.630
on the opposite side of the line of scrimmage

00:24:10.630 --> 00:24:12.710
in the opponent's backfield. And I think that

00:24:12.710 --> 00:24:14.710
that was their goal with the pick. They actually

00:24:14.710 --> 00:24:17.609
traded with Chicago twice in this draft. And

00:24:17.609 --> 00:24:21.150
for this one, it was a matter of trading up from

00:24:21.150 --> 00:24:27.930
56 to 41. and giving up 60, what I thought was

00:24:27.930 --> 00:24:32.630
actually impressive, they traded their 62 down

00:24:32.630 --> 00:24:36.490
to 71 or 72. And so they ended up trading down

00:24:36.490 --> 00:24:41.190
by 10 slots and up by 20 or so slots, which I

00:24:41.190 --> 00:24:43.930
think is kind of an excellent value, right? To

00:24:43.930 --> 00:24:47.410
be able to go up in the second round, down into

00:24:47.410 --> 00:24:49.700
the third, so they have a two and a three. Prior

00:24:49.700 --> 00:24:52.039
they had two twos and then they swapped later

00:24:52.039 --> 00:24:54.079
round picks, day three picks. And so I think

00:24:54.079 --> 00:24:57.099
that kind of balance and value was really good

00:24:57.099 --> 00:25:00.079
in terms of, if you look at the actual trade

00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:03.880
value chart, it was the bills basically earned

00:25:03.880 --> 00:25:06.779
10 points or something on it. So as even as even

00:25:06.779 --> 00:25:10.660
could be. absolutely and again they got their

00:25:10.660 --> 00:25:13.839
guy and they didn't wait for the rush to start

00:25:13.839 --> 00:25:16.259
to happen like they have been want to do for

00:25:16.259 --> 00:25:18.900
so long they needed a wide receiver last year

00:25:18.900 --> 00:25:21.579
the rush on wide receivers was they were in the

00:25:21.579 --> 00:25:24.359
midst of it they decided to set it out Few years

00:25:24.359 --> 00:25:26.259
before that, we all, of course, remember the

00:25:26.259 --> 00:25:28.920
Kyre Elam year, where all of a sudden DBs are

00:25:28.920 --> 00:25:31.000
flying off the board. This time around, they

00:25:31.000 --> 00:25:33.519
were not going to wait for that big Russian interior

00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:35.640
lineman. They got ahead of it because after that,

00:25:35.720 --> 00:25:38.039
as you noted, Collins and a bunch of other guys

00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:41.240
that we had on our board fell off and went to

00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:43.680
other teams. So the Bills jumped up. They were

00:25:43.680 --> 00:25:46.819
aggressive. They got their guy. They if nothing

00:25:46.819 --> 00:25:50.769
else. They got equal value with Chicago for the

00:25:50.769 --> 00:25:52.950
assets and the players that they ended up swapping

00:25:52.950 --> 00:25:55.539
in the in these deals. And overall, again, a

00:25:55.539 --> 00:25:57.660
move that I love to see in addition to the roster

00:25:57.660 --> 00:26:00.220
that I love as well, especially with how Buffalo

00:26:00.220 --> 00:26:03.400
wants to rotate through their defensive linemen.

00:26:03.500 --> 00:26:06.240
Nobody playing more than than 50 or 60 percent

00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:08.960
of the snaps. They now have a guy in the rotation

00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:13.019
in key situations. They can call in to help shore

00:26:13.019 --> 00:26:15.319
up what was a massive weakness for this team

00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:18.299
last year. I loved it. JJ, I also love their

00:26:18.299 --> 00:26:21.259
third round. Oh, my gosh. I know you just go

00:26:21.259 --> 00:26:23.720
with this one. I know this is your Christmas.

00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:28.099
You go land in Jackson and like to get him in

00:26:28.099 --> 00:26:30.700
the third round. I think it was a steal I think

00:26:30.700 --> 00:26:33.759
he's going to he's the player in this draft and

00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:35.559
I think we even we might even talked about him

00:26:35.559 --> 00:26:37.420
Did we choose him on the mock with our friends

00:26:37.420 --> 00:26:39.720
of the pod? I think we might have yeah, we might

00:26:39.720 --> 00:26:42.039
have And we might have chosen with the first

00:26:42.039 --> 00:26:44.619
or second pick. I think he was I think he was

00:26:44.619 --> 00:26:47.240
a second rounder. Yeah. To get him at seventy

00:26:47.240 --> 00:26:50.839
two in the third round edge from Arkansas was

00:26:50.839 --> 00:26:53.759
an absolute steal. He his athletic profile has

00:26:53.759 --> 00:26:55.980
been compared to. And I think it's a great it's

00:26:55.980 --> 00:26:59.460
a great comparison is Max Crosby because he has

00:26:59.460 --> 00:27:04.599
a surprising amount of dip and bend around the

00:27:04.599 --> 00:27:06.480
edge that he shouldn't have for that size. But

00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:10.099
he's also like six six and 270 pounds so he's

00:27:10.099 --> 00:27:13.980
a large large and athletic player who really

00:27:13.980 --> 00:27:16.319
kind of showed out throughout his college career

00:27:16.319 --> 00:27:20.960
at Arkansas and I do think that he He will show

00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:23.359
to be a steal in this draft because the way I've

00:27:23.359 --> 00:27:24.920
described it to people who've asked me because

00:27:24.920 --> 00:27:28.259
they know I'm a big nerd for this stuff is If

00:27:28.259 --> 00:27:31.579
you like AJ Appaneza on the splash plays you

00:27:31.579 --> 00:27:34.160
will love Landon Jackson because he's AJ Appaneza,

00:27:34.220 --> 00:27:38.200
but consistent Like and you could even see that

00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:41.759
in AJ Vanessa's tape at all at Iowa right like

00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:45.900
that he was inconsistent in his impact in his

00:27:45.900 --> 00:27:49.279
play and so Landon Jackson getting a second player

00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:51.640
Opposite Greg Russo because I actually think

00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:53.839
he's going to wrestle away that starting job

00:27:53.839 --> 00:28:01.759
from Who do we just sign Joey Bosa Joey Bosa.

00:28:02.180 --> 00:28:03.819
Yeah, I don't think, I think they're going to

00:28:03.819 --> 00:28:06.720
very comfortably slide into having Landon Jackson

00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:11.390
take early snaps and then either Having him rotate

00:28:11.390 --> 00:28:14.890
inside for some pass rushes or bringing Joey

00:28:14.890 --> 00:28:17.950
Bosa in for those big third downs Because I think

00:28:17.950 --> 00:28:20.509
that Landon Jackson offers you pass rush in early

00:28:20.509 --> 00:28:23.730
downs while also being an absolute, you know

00:28:23.730 --> 00:28:27.269
stalwart edge setter on run downs and Saving

00:28:27.269 --> 00:28:29.730
some snaps from Joey Bosa's body. So I'm just

00:28:29.730 --> 00:28:32.109
I love this pick. I think he's going to build

00:28:32.109 --> 00:28:33.930
my face gonna love him He's got this massive

00:28:33.930 --> 00:28:36.609
work ethic. He's got a huge hot motor. He is

00:28:36.609 --> 00:28:40.859
an athlete. He is huge He looks the part. Yeah

00:28:40.859 --> 00:28:42.579
cat I can't wait to see this kid take the field

00:28:42.579 --> 00:28:45.380
and what I loved about Sanders and Jackson going

00:28:45.380 --> 00:28:48.920
back to back to the bills is They can they are

00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:51.319
they can do their core job responsibilities,

00:28:51.319 --> 00:28:54.059
right? they want Sanders to be able to play that

00:28:54.059 --> 00:28:56.319
three tech or play next to add Oliver in passing

00:28:56.319 --> 00:28:58.779
situations and and Get pressure on the opposing

00:28:58.779 --> 00:29:00.880
QB and they want Jackson to do the same thing,

00:29:00.980 --> 00:29:04.440
but they are both plus defenders Against the

00:29:04.440 --> 00:29:07.480
run as well. So the bills Not forgetting that

00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:09.579
this was a weakness for them last year as well.

00:29:09.839 --> 00:29:12.720
Also trying to address that run defense. But

00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:15.000
as you so eloquently put it at the beginning

00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:17.319
of the pod, they're doing it within their scheme

00:29:17.319 --> 00:29:19.680
and within their philosophy. I mean, dude, some

00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:21.720
of the athletes that they have that they brought

00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:24.500
on board in this draft are really going to change

00:29:24.500 --> 00:29:28.180
the dynamic and the ability and the versatility

00:29:28.180 --> 00:29:31.890
of this particular defense. Which is a great

00:29:31.890 --> 00:29:35.029
segue for me because I loved this next pick and

00:29:35.029 --> 00:29:38.890
you didn't like it. Fourth round pick, pick number

00:29:38.890 --> 00:29:41.470
109. Again, another trade up for the Buffalo

00:29:41.470 --> 00:29:44.549
Bills. Deon Walker, defensive tackle out of Kentucky.

00:29:44.970 --> 00:29:46.849
This is a guy who we had talked about previously

00:29:46.849 --> 00:29:49.430
on the pod. We had already departed on what our

00:29:49.430 --> 00:29:51.910
view of this particular, this particular prospect

00:29:51.910 --> 00:29:54.170
was. He's also a guy who I put out on a lot of

00:29:54.170 --> 00:29:57.150
our socials after the TJ Sanders pick. I was

00:29:57.150 --> 00:29:59.930
like, listen, double dip. very likely in the

00:29:59.930 --> 00:30:02.089
cards for day three. Keep an eye on these three

00:30:02.089 --> 00:30:04.329
guys. And Dan Walker was at the top of that list.

00:30:04.710 --> 00:30:08.150
So, J .J., why don't you start with your feelings

00:30:08.150 --> 00:30:12.829
about this particular draft, Beck? I do not like

00:30:12.829 --> 00:30:16.569
it. You and a lot of Bill's mafia, my friend.

00:30:17.029 --> 00:30:19.789
I do not like it. And I do not like it specifically

00:30:19.789 --> 00:30:22.470
because he's got a lot of variability that worries

00:30:22.470 --> 00:30:25.220
me in the position. in the fact that he was incredibly

00:30:25.220 --> 00:30:27.180
productive to the point where even Brandon Bean

00:30:27.180 --> 00:30:29.339
said that the ratings they had on him would make

00:30:29.339 --> 00:30:32.160
him a likely first -rounder if he would have

00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:35.079
come out of school last year, but then he came

00:30:35.079 --> 00:30:38.400
back this year and played so inconsistently and

00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:40.980
had such terrible tape that he slips to the fourth

00:30:40.980 --> 00:30:45.279
round in the eyes of most NFL -talented evaluators,

00:30:45.619 --> 00:30:48.180
and just me watching line play, because I love

00:30:48.180 --> 00:30:51.259
line play, I was like, ooh, this guy has... terrible

00:30:51.259 --> 00:30:54.180
mechanics it's come out since then that he was

00:30:54.180 --> 00:30:56.680
dealing with a like a cracked vertebrae in his

00:30:56.680 --> 00:30:59.759
back and I'm willing to give him the benefit

00:30:59.759 --> 00:31:02.220
of the doubt that you can't keep your pad level

00:31:02.220 --> 00:31:05.319
low if you're sort of have a broken back and

00:31:05.319 --> 00:31:07.359
the example you gave before we came on and started

00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:10.240
recording was Spencer Brown right like we both

00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:13.339
wrote this guy off after two seasons because

00:31:13.339 --> 00:31:15.220
we didn't think he had what it would take what

00:31:15.220 --> 00:31:17.359
it takes and then you find out that he was playing

00:31:17.359 --> 00:31:20.559
with a broken back or Fracturing his back for

00:31:20.559 --> 00:31:23.140
most of his second season comes on his third

00:31:23.140 --> 00:31:24.980
season and absolutely knocks it out of the park

00:31:24.980 --> 00:31:28.880
So I'm I'm willing to of course, you know, he's

00:31:28.880 --> 00:31:30.660
on the team now So I'm rooting for Deon Walker

00:31:30.660 --> 00:31:33.380
to be an absolute steal in the fourth round But

00:31:33.380 --> 00:31:36.519
other players like Ty Robinson out of Nebraska

00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:40.579
and CJ West out of Indiana Going after Deon Walker.

00:31:40.579 --> 00:31:44.049
I am I'm afraid Those two picks will come back

00:31:44.049 --> 00:31:46.630
to to prove that they were the better choices

00:31:46.630 --> 00:31:49.470
at that point in time and that Dion Walker's

00:31:49.470 --> 00:31:52.690
you know mechanics weren't just sloppy because

00:31:52.690 --> 00:31:56.490
he was Injured but rather they were sloppy because

00:31:56.490 --> 00:31:59.170
he sort of has make sloppy mechanics and then

00:31:59.170 --> 00:32:02.549
his Previous season in 2023 was sort of a you

00:32:02.549 --> 00:32:04.869
know flash -in -the -pan outlier of his normal

00:32:04.869 --> 00:32:09.269
production Yeah, his biggest comp by most draft

00:32:09.269 --> 00:32:13.440
evaluators is Jordan Phillips And the Bills have

00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:15.599
complained, or Bills fans have complained, and

00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:17.619
even the Bills essentially letting him walk several

00:32:17.619 --> 00:32:20.059
times in free agency have complained that Jordan

00:32:20.059 --> 00:32:23.680
Phillips has a giant body but doesn't play like

00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:26.000
it. And that was, that's the thing I see in Deion

00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:29.599
Walker as well. He's 6 '7", 330, but he's not

00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:33.779
dominant physically. And he can, he's more athletic

00:32:33.779 --> 00:32:35.759
than you expect somebody that size to be. But

00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:37.680
he still gets blown off the ball in double teams.

00:32:37.700 --> 00:32:39.579
He gets pushed out of his gap. He gets his body

00:32:39.579 --> 00:32:42.579
turned and he's too inconsistent with holding

00:32:42.579 --> 00:32:44.579
at the point of attack for me to really trust

00:32:44.579 --> 00:32:47.240
him on early downs. And listen, I went back and

00:32:47.240 --> 00:32:50.000
I rewatched some of his twenty twenty three games

00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:52.859
and pad level has consistently been a problem

00:32:52.859 --> 00:32:55.339
for the kid because he's he's huge. He's his

00:32:55.339 --> 00:32:58.519
pro physical comp is a mountain right at that

00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:02.119
size. So yes, pad level technique, all these

00:33:02.119 --> 00:33:04.900
things that the Bills can coach into him. I.

00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:08.099
It's a fourth round pick. I get there were, and

00:33:08.099 --> 00:33:11.099
this was maybe the only pick where there were

00:33:11.099 --> 00:33:14.640
other guys on the board that Bill's Mafia were

00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:16.660
just kind of yearning for, right? That has been

00:33:16.660 --> 00:33:19.259
a regular thing for us and, and past Straves

00:33:19.259 --> 00:33:22.140
this year. I think it was maybe with this pick,

00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:25.440
which is why he's so, he's so polarizing. He

00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:28.119
is versatile. in the way that the Bills like

00:33:28.119 --> 00:33:31.220
their defensive lineman to be versatile. He's

00:33:31.220 --> 00:33:34.119
big bodied, but he does have, if you look at

00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:37.799
his 2023 tape, pass rush juice that would allow

00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:40.980
him to also play the three tech and rotate positions

00:33:40.980 --> 00:33:43.900
with at Oliver. So he gives them a little bit

00:33:43.900 --> 00:33:45.839
of versatility along the line, which they like

00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:50.019
also to team captain starting in his sophomore

00:33:50.019 --> 00:33:52.509
year as well. I know listen, we're having the

00:33:52.509 --> 00:33:54.509
Dwayne Carter conversation all over again, where

00:33:54.509 --> 00:33:56.170
the bills are looking for a lot of these leadership

00:33:56.170 --> 00:33:59.809
traits. But it is important to this culture to

00:33:59.809 --> 00:34:01.950
bring in somebody that can't it doesn't just

00:34:01.950 --> 00:34:03.950
contribute on the field, but can contribute to

00:34:03.950 --> 00:34:06.849
the locker room culture as well. His versatility,

00:34:07.230 --> 00:34:10.619
his physical profile, and dude. Seven and a half

00:34:10.619 --> 00:34:13.800
sacks to one sack. I get is a massive dip But

00:34:13.800 --> 00:34:16.619
if you can somehow get him healthy and reclaim

00:34:16.619 --> 00:34:20.719
even a snapshot of that 20 -23 stat line Let's

00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:22.820
say he's even half of that player in this rookie

00:34:22.820 --> 00:34:26.559
year I would take two and a half three sacks

00:34:26.559 --> 00:34:29.440
from a rotational interior defensive lineman

00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:33.789
that can also Gobble up double teams and get

00:34:33.789 --> 00:34:36.329
pressure on the run and and hold the hold the

00:34:36.329 --> 00:34:38.590
point of attack in the run game as well He is

00:34:38.590 --> 00:34:41.829
a project and I would argue that of the bills

00:34:41.829 --> 00:34:45.369
premium picks He's the biggest project by far,

00:34:45.710 --> 00:34:48.070
but he's a size profile. They've needed he's

00:34:48.070 --> 00:34:50.170
a piece They've been trying to find and free

00:34:50.170 --> 00:34:53.150
agency for a really really long time and just

00:34:53.150 --> 00:34:56.460
haven't been able to fill that gap Now they get

00:34:56.460 --> 00:34:58.980
their hands on this kid with this physical profile.

00:34:59.300 --> 00:35:02.059
They can mold him in their own image, and they

00:35:02.059 --> 00:35:04.480
don't need to necessarily rush him right away

00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:06.960
to play because of the depth that is now in this

00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:10.500
defensive line room. Well, and I think to something

00:35:10.500 --> 00:35:14.099
I'll say is like Marcus West getting his hands

00:35:14.099 --> 00:35:16.760
on Dion Walker and working with him, the defensive

00:35:16.760 --> 00:35:19.880
line coach, Jason Reber, which the assistant

00:35:19.880 --> 00:35:21.300
defensive line coach, they're going to be able

00:35:21.300 --> 00:35:23.679
to coach him better than Kentucky. In a lot of

00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:27.360
ways, Kentucky is a solid program in the SEC,

00:35:27.539 --> 00:35:30.679
but not never like a supremely competitive program.

00:35:30.679 --> 00:35:36.039
It's burgeoning. It's on the way up. But burgeoning

00:35:36.039 --> 00:35:39.880
programs lose good coordinators to better programs.

00:35:40.460 --> 00:35:43.079
This is correct. The burgeoning programs are

00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:46.610
the feeder schools for coaching talent. to the

00:35:46.610 --> 00:35:49.909
powerhouses. We love you, Kentucky. Yes, we love

00:35:49.909 --> 00:35:53.369
you, Kentucky. And we are so happy you have prepared

00:35:53.369 --> 00:35:55.730
Max Hairston and Deion Walker to these middling

00:35:55.730 --> 00:35:59.449
levels that we will turn into superstars. Jesus,

00:36:00.050 --> 00:36:02.610
Kentucky catching strays tonight. I'm sorry.

00:36:03.590 --> 00:36:05.590
But what I'll say is like Ryan Nielsen has been

00:36:05.590 --> 00:36:09.130
seen as like a, you know, cornerback savant at

00:36:09.130 --> 00:36:11.889
coaching the man press and those sorts of defensive

00:36:11.889 --> 00:36:14.150
systems. But he also has, through his coaching

00:36:14.150 --> 00:36:16.570
career, had some experience with bringing along

00:36:16.570 --> 00:36:19.849
some supreme talents on the line. And so adding

00:36:19.849 --> 00:36:22.929
him as a senior defensive assistant and these,

00:36:22.929 --> 00:36:25.710
you know, three defensive linemen in the picks

00:36:25.710 --> 00:36:28.710
two, three and four of this draft. I have a lot

00:36:28.710 --> 00:36:30.530
of hope that they're going to get the best out

00:36:30.530 --> 00:36:33.610
of all of these guys. And, you know, I think

00:36:33.610 --> 00:36:36.110
that just having seen some of the media stuff,

00:36:36.130 --> 00:36:39.550
having heard Max Hairston talk about Deon Walker,

00:36:40.210 --> 00:36:44.190
I think that some of that makes me much more

00:36:44.190 --> 00:36:46.429
hopeful than I was just watching his film. Yeah,

00:36:46.530 --> 00:36:48.789
without a doubt. Listen, it's so it's definitely

00:36:48.789 --> 00:36:51.610
OK to not like the pick. There are plenty of

00:36:51.610 --> 00:36:53.789
Buffalo Bills picks we have not liked before.

00:36:54.269 --> 00:36:58.409
I like they have drafted so few interior defensive

00:36:58.409 --> 00:37:01.889
linemen in Brandon Bean's tenure. I love the

00:37:01.889 --> 00:37:04.949
fact that not only are they digging into this

00:37:04.949 --> 00:37:07.230
positional group, but like what they've done

00:37:07.230 --> 00:37:08.969
with the wide receiver room, like what they've

00:37:08.969 --> 00:37:10.989
done with the offensive line room, they're getting

00:37:10.989 --> 00:37:13.090
a bunch of different profiles that are going

00:37:13.090 --> 00:37:16.469
to allow them to hopefully I'm not, you know,

00:37:16.590 --> 00:37:18.489
the man thing versus the zone thing. I'm not

00:37:18.489 --> 00:37:20.110
really here for that conversation. The Bills

00:37:20.110 --> 00:37:21.869
are going to be his own team, but at least maybe

00:37:21.869 --> 00:37:23.570
be a little bit more multiple in their looks

00:37:23.570 --> 00:37:26.809
upfront. This is the thing that two seasons ago,

00:37:26.929 --> 00:37:29.389
they did so well and created so much confusion

00:37:29.389 --> 00:37:32.989
for opposing QBs and they just could not do it

00:37:32.989 --> 00:37:36.360
this season. Do a lot to the personnel builds

00:37:36.360 --> 00:37:38.659
on this defensive roster and a lot of the attrition

00:37:38.659 --> 00:37:40.719
that they had You know forced upon themselves

00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:43.179
to get the cap right now. They're bringing that

00:37:43.179 --> 00:37:45.460
versatility back They're bringing this variety

00:37:45.460 --> 00:37:49.800
of athletic profiles back. I like again I like

00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:52.019
the vision and I like what they're trying to

00:37:52.019 --> 00:37:55.519
build so I'm okay with this All right, JJ. Let's

00:37:55.519 --> 00:37:59.019
wrap it up here two fifth round picks for the

00:37:59.019 --> 00:38:02.320
Buffalo Bills six round pick Two six round picks

00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:04.940
and then of course a seventh round pick Jordan

00:38:04.940 --> 00:38:08.460
Hancock DB out of Ohio State Jackson Hawes, I

00:38:08.460 --> 00:38:10.480
think everybody's favorite day three pick for

00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:13.500
the Buffalo Bills tight end out of Georgia Tech.

00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:16.039
Dorian Strong, who people are already saying

00:38:16.039 --> 00:38:18.179
is the Christian Benford of this particular draft

00:38:18.179 --> 00:38:21.179
for the Bills, CB out of Virginia Tech. Chase

00:38:21.179 --> 00:38:23.599
Lunt, tackle at UConn, likely gonna shift over

00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:26.019
to guard due to his T -Rex sized arms, but we'll

00:38:26.019 --> 00:38:29.400
see. And then, listen Bills Mafia, we got a wide

00:38:29.400 --> 00:38:31.500
receiver in this draft, and his name is Kayden

00:38:31.500 --> 00:38:34.639
Prather, wide receiver out of Maryland with pick

00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:38.420
number 240. JJ, any one or a couple of these

00:38:38.420 --> 00:38:40.579
guys that you wanna particularly highlight here

00:38:40.579 --> 00:38:46.690
as we wrap up? Well, I think that I can do rapid

00:38:46.690 --> 00:38:49.070
fire, kind of lightning round on all of them.

00:38:50.170 --> 00:38:52.090
Jordan Hancock, I think that they said he's going

00:38:52.090 --> 00:38:54.650
to come in as a nickel slash safety, and I think

00:38:54.650 --> 00:38:57.989
that that's useful in a draft where they did

00:38:57.989 --> 00:39:02.599
choose a CB. Pick the first pick and then they

00:39:02.599 --> 00:39:05.360
chose a CB again Dorian strong who has actually

00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:07.739
Astounded was still available in round six because

00:39:07.739 --> 00:39:09.480
in a lot of mock drafts and you know me I was

00:39:09.480 --> 00:39:11.760
doing like 150 of those damn things before this

00:39:11.760 --> 00:39:15.840
draft. I was picking you I was picking Dorian

00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:17.880
strong and like the fourth or fifth round usually

00:39:17.880 --> 00:39:19.880
and I was surprised when he was falling to the

00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:22.199
fifth So I think it's just one of those deals

00:39:22.199 --> 00:39:26.000
where you get uncommon value late It was the

00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:27.739
first pick in the in the sixth round. So that's

00:39:27.739 --> 00:39:30.699
notable as well. It's not their 30th pick But

00:39:30.699 --> 00:39:33.719
you get uncommon value late because of the value

00:39:33.719 --> 00:39:35.739
of some of the other positions. The big men in

00:39:35.739 --> 00:39:37.500
this draft I think pushed a lot of the little

00:39:37.500 --> 00:39:41.489
men down. So all the defensive ends all the defensive

00:39:41.489 --> 00:39:44.329
tackles that were taken really created a situation.

00:39:44.329 --> 00:39:46.349
We're getting even getting Jordan Hancock, you

00:39:46.349 --> 00:39:49.289
know Compensatory pick in the fifth round at

00:39:49.289 --> 00:39:53.309
34 Awesome value was an incredible value. So

00:39:53.309 --> 00:39:55.829
those two I think I'm really excited about Jackson

00:39:55.829 --> 00:39:58.469
Hawes already endearing to Bill's mafia. He's

00:39:58.469 --> 00:40:02.050
going to He's gonna remind you of I'm trying

00:40:02.050 --> 00:40:03.389
to think of the tight end that was playing with

00:40:03.389 --> 00:40:06.869
Josh Allen early Lee Evan No, Lee. What was his

00:40:06.869 --> 00:40:10.690
name? They're like big basically if six offensive

00:40:10.690 --> 00:40:14.750
linemen every long -term veteran in the league.

00:40:14.750 --> 00:40:17.510
I want to say I will say Lee Smith. It was Lee

00:40:17.510 --> 00:40:20.289
Smith. Yeah So Lee Smith, who was like a lot

00:40:20.289 --> 00:40:21.869
of he was like kind of the heart and the soul

00:40:21.869 --> 00:40:25.750
of an early Josh Allen offense briefly and was

00:40:25.750 --> 00:40:27.769
here for some of the drought years. And so I

00:40:27.769 --> 00:40:31.449
think that Lee Smith comp to it's like a younger

00:40:31.449 --> 00:40:34.210
because this dude can catch. He has some juice

00:40:34.210 --> 00:40:36.789
with with catching the football, but he makes

00:40:36.789 --> 00:40:40.210
his hay absolutely punishing people. And I think

00:40:40.210 --> 00:40:43.650
that's going to really show. Well, having somebody

00:40:43.650 --> 00:40:46.690
like Hawes line up next to Alec Anderson on big

00:40:46.690 --> 00:40:51.070
sets is It's like, what is even happening on

00:40:51.070 --> 00:40:53.150
that side of the line? It's just an absolute

00:40:53.150 --> 00:40:57.150
massacre. I'm very excited. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

00:40:57.210 --> 00:40:59.269
I love what they can do in red with red zone

00:40:59.269 --> 00:41:01.530
packages now, too Listen the bills already have

00:41:01.530 --> 00:41:04.630
so many fun red zone package weapons and their

00:41:04.630 --> 00:41:07.570
repertoire Not the least of which is the Josh

00:41:07.570 --> 00:41:10.710
Allen cube QB designed run But now with a guy

00:41:10.710 --> 00:41:12.690
like Hawes, even though he doesn't have a ton

00:41:12.690 --> 00:41:16.170
of receiving upside I mean you could see a situation

00:41:16.170 --> 00:41:18.269
where he's the new Dawson's leak and a lot of

00:41:18.269 --> 00:41:20.449
those situations They come out in that super

00:41:20.449 --> 00:41:23.610
jumbo package. They do their best Baltimore Ravens

00:41:23.610 --> 00:41:26.409
impression rollout and 13 personnel And all of

00:41:26.409 --> 00:41:28.210
a sudden it's Jackson Hawes the guy who'd least

00:41:28.210 --> 00:41:31.050
expect leaking out for a red zone TD from Josh

00:41:31.050 --> 00:41:33.610
I just I love it. I love the fact that he wants

00:41:33.610 --> 00:41:35.869
to put people on the ground every time he puts

00:41:35.869 --> 00:41:38.530
his hands on him He's gonna be a beast in the

00:41:38.530 --> 00:41:40.809
run blocking game And I think he's gonna fit

00:41:40.809 --> 00:41:44.010
in well with bills mafia love this as a day three

00:41:44.010 --> 00:41:46.599
pick for the bills Yeah, absolutely. And I think

00:41:46.599 --> 00:41:49.940
that the other piece is like, he's an inline

00:41:49.940 --> 00:41:51.739
titan built for the dirty stuff, but then he

00:41:51.739 --> 00:41:54.920
also can offer, he can offer those little, you

00:41:54.920 --> 00:41:58.179
know, like five yards and turn around, reliable

00:41:58.179 --> 00:42:02.010
hands. offset, you know, um, safety valve for

00:42:02.010 --> 00:42:04.530
Josh Allen. I'm excited about that too. Uh, and

00:42:04.530 --> 00:42:06.190
then my final, you know, the final comments,

00:42:06.250 --> 00:42:08.389
Chase Lund, Kaden Brather, anyone who's like

00:42:08.389 --> 00:42:10.409
looking at these guys and being like, Ooh, we

00:42:10.409 --> 00:42:12.809
have some, yeah, they're six and seventh rounders

00:42:12.809 --> 00:42:15.469
picked at 30th and 24th in their respective rounds.

00:42:15.909 --> 00:42:18.030
Um, they'll be lucky if they make the track practice

00:42:18.030 --> 00:42:20.429
squad. Chase Lund, I think we're being worked

00:42:20.429 --> 00:42:23.469
with Aaron Kroemer. If he doesn't get sniped

00:42:23.469 --> 00:42:26.250
by another team, he played tackle at Connecticut

00:42:26.250 --> 00:42:29.210
or Yukon, but I think that he's Probably a guard

00:42:29.210 --> 00:42:30.949
in the league because his arms are way too short

00:42:30.949 --> 00:42:34.030
to play tackle and then I fell so They said they're

00:42:34.030 --> 00:42:36.090
gonna start him a tackle, but that's what they

00:42:36.090 --> 00:42:38.449
say with every tackle They draft to just see

00:42:38.449 --> 00:42:41.489
if they caught something uncommon and then they

00:42:41.489 --> 00:42:43.170
slide them in the guard where they expected them

00:42:43.170 --> 00:42:45.329
to go Anyway, yeah, I think that's exactly what

00:42:45.329 --> 00:42:47.789
this kid's future is gonna be But again, I like

00:42:47.789 --> 00:42:51.070
the fact that they are not afraid to draft a

00:42:51.070 --> 00:42:54.150
project in Cromer They trust I mean they're really

00:42:54.150 --> 00:42:58.460
becoming offensive line you which If you and

00:42:58.460 --> 00:43:00.639
I were having this conversation five or six years

00:43:00.639 --> 00:43:03.420
ago and to Brandon Beans tenure, there's no way

00:43:03.420 --> 00:43:06.199
we would have believed it. But now they are absolutely

00:43:06.199 --> 00:43:08.880
proficient at taking a guy like this and developing

00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:12.099
him into an asset. So, yeah, man. No. Yeah, please.

00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:14.500
Oh, I was going to finish with Prather. Kaden

00:43:14.500 --> 00:43:17.820
Prather is like a literal possession style receiver,

00:43:18.199 --> 00:43:21.099
6 '4", 200 pound. They're probably going to see

00:43:21.099 --> 00:43:23.500
if he can fill some of the Matt Collins role

00:43:23.500 --> 00:43:26.940
of blocking outside receiver and special teamer

00:43:26.940 --> 00:43:29.780
and has a lot of special teams kind of experience.

00:43:29.880 --> 00:43:31.539
So I think that that's probably what they're

00:43:31.539 --> 00:43:33.579
looking at there is if he makes the roster at

00:43:33.579 --> 00:43:36.480
all, it's because he becomes a four -phase special

00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:40.079
teamer and can be depended on in that sort of

00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:43.989
Matt Collins role. Yeah, absolutely. JJ closing

00:43:43.989 --> 00:43:46.510
thoughts here. Favorite player, let's go there.

00:43:46.809 --> 00:43:50.670
Favorite player out of the surprisingly nine

00:43:50.670 --> 00:43:52.630
picks that the Buffalo Bills made. I didn't think

00:43:52.630 --> 00:43:54.769
they were gonna make nearly this many picks this

00:43:54.769 --> 00:44:00.630
season. I didn't either. It's hard. I'll tell

00:44:00.630 --> 00:44:03.389
you what my number one, the tie of two players

00:44:03.389 --> 00:44:05.590
is right now and I'll probably talk myself into

00:44:05.590 --> 00:44:08.849
a real answer. Max Hairston and Landon Jackson.

00:44:09.070 --> 00:44:12.960
I think that... Both I can't really pick one

00:44:12.960 --> 00:44:15.239
over the other because they're both absolute

00:44:15.239 --> 00:44:18.800
critical needs For this team. I think that they

00:44:18.800 --> 00:44:22.119
both fill they actually fill a hole in the roster

00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:24.539
that the bills don't have one and of course being

00:44:24.539 --> 00:44:26.800
a speedy corner who can play in literally every

00:44:26.800 --> 00:44:30.260
system and Hopefully work work his way into being

00:44:30.260 --> 00:44:33.860
a shut down type of corner and then Landon Jackson

00:44:33.860 --> 00:44:37.260
who You might say they have his his prototype

00:44:37.260 --> 00:44:40.409
and Greg Rousseau but he has a little bit more

00:44:40.409 --> 00:44:43.269
bend on the edge, like I mentioned before when

00:44:43.269 --> 00:44:46.110
I compared him to Max Crosby than Greg Russo,

00:44:46.210 --> 00:44:48.110
and he's not as long as Greg Russo. I think that

00:44:48.110 --> 00:44:50.710
that's, it gives you a little bit more juice

00:44:50.710 --> 00:44:53.130
on the pass rush. And so those two, and I'm gonna,

00:44:53.449 --> 00:44:55.309
I think I'm gonna stick with Max Harrison just

00:44:55.309 --> 00:44:58.670
because it's such a supreme talent at an incredible

00:44:58.670 --> 00:45:01.869
value late in the round, the third best kind

00:45:01.869 --> 00:45:05.369
of unanimous corner in this draft. Yeah, and

00:45:05.369 --> 00:45:08.570
this is listen. This is no shade at Kyra Elam,

00:45:08.590 --> 00:45:10.949
but like this is a palette cleanser from that.

00:45:11.110 --> 00:45:13.469
Yeah, right. It feels like it's accomplishing

00:45:13.469 --> 00:45:16.449
what they hoped that pick would it would do.

00:45:17.309 --> 00:45:19.090
You know he's obviously got to take the field.

00:45:19.110 --> 00:45:21.349
He's got to produce. He's got to develop, but

00:45:21.349 --> 00:45:24.130
it already already feels like a better fit than

00:45:24.130 --> 00:45:27.750
the Elam pick was. And again, this was an eyes

00:45:27.750 --> 00:45:29.769
wide open draft for Brandon Bean. I think my

00:45:29.769 --> 00:45:33.500
favorite player. I talked myself into TJ Sanders

00:45:33.500 --> 00:45:36.599
early on as I was getting into social media squibbles

00:45:36.599 --> 00:45:39.280
with everybody about their questioning the pick.

00:45:40.019 --> 00:45:42.159
I just want the Buffalo Bills to be able to shut

00:45:42.159 --> 00:45:44.480
down third and seven. Like if I've got to watch

00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:47.440
another season of them gifting teams third and

00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:49.920
eight, third and nine, after being so good and

00:45:49.920 --> 00:45:52.679
so disciplined on the first two downs, I might

00:45:52.679 --> 00:45:55.480
lose my mind. And to me, TJ Sanders, in addition

00:45:55.480 --> 00:45:57.880
to a guy like Hairston, but TJ Sanders is a guy

00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:02.030
who can really really rectify that weakness to

00:46:02.030 --> 00:46:04.389
me in a lot of key situations. He just brings

00:46:04.389 --> 00:46:07.190
juice that only really Ed Oliver does in the

00:46:07.190 --> 00:46:09.510
pass rush from that interior. So I'm stoked about

00:46:09.510 --> 00:46:12.150
it, absolutely. Awesome. And that's your favorite,

00:46:12.369 --> 00:46:13.949
TJ Sanders. Yeah, I gotta go with TJ Sanders.

00:46:14.070 --> 00:46:15.869
I love the pic. I understand people thought it

00:46:15.869 --> 00:46:18.570
was a reach. Sorry, Mel Kuiper Jr. I'm not as

00:46:18.570 --> 00:46:22.130
smart as you. But again, for him, maybe more

00:46:22.130 --> 00:46:24.769
than anybody, I see the vision. I just see...

00:46:24.969 --> 00:46:26.530
how they're gonna use them, when they're gonna

00:46:26.530 --> 00:46:29.309
use them, the exact wrong that they're trying

00:46:29.309 --> 00:46:31.829
to write by inserting him into the lineup. So,

00:46:31.909 --> 00:46:34.650
love it. Love everything about it. So, good job,

00:46:34.829 --> 00:46:36.769
Bean. Again, we don't care you didn't pick a

00:46:36.769 --> 00:46:39.409
wide receiver. We're totally happy with the wide

00:46:39.409 --> 00:46:41.730
receiver Rumez is. Yeah, we're good. We're good,

00:46:41.730 --> 00:46:45.269
man. I'm fine because also, you know, let's see

00:46:45.269 --> 00:46:47.789
if freaking Dalton Kincaid can actually be a

00:46:47.789 --> 00:46:50.250
threat in this offense. That's the thing. And

00:46:50.250 --> 00:46:52.550
yeah, listen, man, going back to the Shakir point.

00:46:53.039 --> 00:46:55.719
We are waiting for Cole. Everyone is saying the

00:46:55.719 --> 00:46:57.880
same thing. Coleman's gotta take the next step.

00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:00.360
Kincaid's gotta take the next step. Those things

00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:04.559
are true. I do not feel like Khalil Shakir's

00:47:04.559 --> 00:47:08.079
ceiling in this offense has been fully realized

00:47:08.079 --> 00:47:13.159
yet. He 54 % of the snap share last year. Matt

00:47:13.159 --> 00:47:15.920
Collins, who we love him, except when we play

00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:17.739
him twice here in New England, we will always

00:47:17.739 --> 00:47:21.469
love Matt Collins. 60 % of the snap share. Oh

00:47:21.469 --> 00:47:24.590
a six percent more than than Khalil Shakir start

00:47:24.590 --> 00:47:27.269
implementing this dude more and in a more versatile

00:47:27.269 --> 00:47:29.710
situation And I think he's got another gear he

00:47:29.710 --> 00:47:33.789
can hit for this team Yeah, they've never been

00:47:33.789 --> 00:47:35.969
they've never been punished for giving him more

00:47:35.969 --> 00:47:38.889
snaps seriously his whole career Yeah, his whole

00:47:38.889 --> 00:47:41.550
career every time they give him more. He provides

00:47:41.550 --> 00:47:44.389
more. Yes Yeah, the more you put in the more

00:47:44.389 --> 00:47:46.469
you get out of Khalil Shakir. Yeah, absolutely

00:47:46.800 --> 00:47:49.239
uh let's i mean let's just briefly run through

00:47:49.239 --> 00:47:51.480
our undrafted free agents these are guys who

00:47:51.480 --> 00:47:53.739
are like we you know it's cool the bills had

00:47:53.739 --> 00:47:55.820
a great on them they took them after the draft

00:47:55.820 --> 00:47:58.280
they negotiate those things for anybody who's

00:47:58.280 --> 00:48:01.460
like oh why didn't they get sean dole act it's

00:48:01.460 --> 00:48:04.099
like dude they the players after the draft literally

00:48:04.099 --> 00:48:06.559
get to choose where they go like stop acting

00:48:06.559 --> 00:48:09.059
as if there's some automatic pipeline from ub

00:48:09.059 --> 00:48:15.170
to buffalo um even because of cam lewis and others,

00:48:16.170 --> 00:48:19.429
Buffalo Joe Andreessen. There has been because

00:48:19.429 --> 00:48:21.949
they have familiarity, but they have familiarity

00:48:21.949 --> 00:48:24.389
combined with other teams not wanting those players.

00:48:25.010 --> 00:48:28.250
So in this situation, you know, the Rams were

00:48:28.250 --> 00:48:30.250
offering him something better, which is a system

00:48:30.250 --> 00:48:32.349
that he will thrive in more than the bill system

00:48:32.349 --> 00:48:34.550
and maybe more money. So whatever it was, he

00:48:34.550 --> 00:48:38.950
went to the Rams. So shut your trapper. We're

00:48:38.950 --> 00:48:41.530
about to do our own Brandon Bean rant man. I

00:48:41.530 --> 00:48:44.130
know, right? Sometimes I'm just like, come on,

00:48:44.530 --> 00:48:47.010
just take five seconds and understand how the

00:48:47.010 --> 00:48:49.949
actual thing works before you criticize. Who's

00:48:49.949 --> 00:48:52.170
the most intriguing UDFA sighting that you've

00:48:52.170 --> 00:48:55.949
seen so far for the both? Probably Jacob Bayer,

00:48:55.949 --> 00:49:02.730
Arkansas State, interior lineman. He is like

00:49:02.730 --> 00:49:07.130
a pretty epic mullet. I saw that. yeah that's

00:49:07.130 --> 00:49:09.389
one of his greatest features but then also like

00:49:09.389 --> 00:49:13.389
it just i don't know the watching just the very

00:49:13.389 --> 00:49:15.210
because it's like arkansas state so all you can

00:49:15.210 --> 00:49:17.389
see is like a couple highlight cut -ups that

00:49:17.389 --> 00:49:19.590
somebody probably in his immediate family put

00:49:19.590 --> 00:49:22.590
on youtube um and he just looks like he's got

00:49:22.590 --> 00:49:24.650
like the tenacity he reminds me a lot of like

00:49:24.650 --> 00:49:29.010
an alex anderson or um you know uh spencer brown

00:49:29.010 --> 00:49:32.710
if he was a not a giant you know weird outsized

00:49:32.710 --> 00:49:34.860
human being Right. So he's got that, that fire.

00:49:35.380 --> 00:49:38.800
So he's one. And then Daryl Porter Jr, a CB out

00:49:38.800 --> 00:49:41.360
of Miami, who's like really undersized, but played

00:49:41.360 --> 00:49:45.119
outside. Um, and also has a really good kind

00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:49.599
of, um, not underwhelming athleticism, but an

00:49:49.599 --> 00:49:53.019
incredible anticipation of route concepts. Um,

00:49:53.079 --> 00:49:55.059
and sort of a preternatural ability to know where

00:49:55.059 --> 00:49:59.059
the ball's going to go. Um, very cerebral. Yeah.

00:49:59.059 --> 00:50:02.389
How about you? I would actually kind of agree

00:50:02.389 --> 00:50:05.250
with you on both of those picks. Any time I see

00:50:05.250 --> 00:50:08.389
the Buffalo Bills sign an offensive lineman,

00:50:08.630 --> 00:50:12.630
UDFA, draft a guy, I just assume they are going

00:50:12.630 --> 00:50:17.170
to develop him into a pro ready player. So whenever

00:50:17.170 --> 00:50:20.090
I see them add to the lineman room, I'm like,

00:50:20.170 --> 00:50:22.269
yep. That guy's gonna that guy's gonna see snaps

00:50:22.269 --> 00:50:24.429
that guy's gonna have some trade value down the

00:50:24.429 --> 00:50:26.929
road if we decide to use them or that guy's gonna

00:50:26.929 --> 00:50:29.309
fill in for a for an injury situation like I

00:50:29.309 --> 00:50:32.389
just have that level of confidence that Everybody

00:50:32.389 --> 00:50:35.670
they touch will turn into a pro ready offensive

00:50:35.670 --> 00:50:39.530
lineman They some others of note they they got

00:50:39.530 --> 00:50:42.110
Hayden Harris a defensive end for Montana who

00:50:42.110 --> 00:50:44.150
had nine and a half sacks last year three force

00:50:44.150 --> 00:50:46.829
fumbles two fumble recoveries and interception

00:50:46.829 --> 00:50:50.349
Six five two fifty five kind of Jerry Hughes

00:50:50.349 --> 00:50:55.510
sized dude who? Could do some things but again

00:50:55.510 --> 00:50:59.190
most likely practice squad LSU defensive tackle

00:50:59.190 --> 00:51:02.429
Paris shand who's another Kind of penetrating

00:51:02.429 --> 00:51:07.889
three tech six four two seventy five It's a long

00:51:07.889 --> 00:51:10.510
way to the roster for this guy But yeah, he is

00:51:10.510 --> 00:51:12.349
somebody who I thought had a draftable grade

00:51:12.349 --> 00:51:16.250
as well Yeah, no bills found value at every single

00:51:16.250 --> 00:51:19.550
level including after the draft again master

00:51:19.550 --> 00:51:22.099
class by being Even if even if half of these

00:51:22.099 --> 00:51:24.679
guys don't pan out which they tend not to not

00:51:24.679 --> 00:51:27.880
gonna crush Bean at all for For the plan the

00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:29.659
implementation the patience in a lot of ways

00:51:29.659 --> 00:51:32.300
that he showed Waiting for the board and many

00:51:32.300 --> 00:51:35.039
key cases to fall to him and then as always finding

00:51:35.039 --> 00:51:37.519
Incredible day three value with some of the guys

00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:40.440
he brought on and with two punters on the roster

00:51:40.440 --> 00:51:42.980
currently both drafted punters that failed at

00:51:42.980 --> 00:51:46.500
their previous teams the Bills also invited Buffalo

00:51:46.500 --> 00:51:51.280
punter Ethan ethane Dwayne to rookie minicamp.

00:51:51.460 --> 00:51:53.659
So there may be three punters on the roster after

00:51:53.659 --> 00:51:55.599
rookie minicamp. They have one spot left on the

00:51:55.599 --> 00:51:58.480
90 man. Incredible. That's incredible. And it'd

00:51:58.480 --> 00:52:00.940
be amazing if it was a punter battle that was

00:52:00.940 --> 00:52:03.380
duking it out for that final spot. I just love

00:52:03.380 --> 00:52:05.840
it. Love it. Love everything about it, JJ. And

00:52:05.840 --> 00:52:08.079
of course, as always, I've loved potting with

00:52:08.079 --> 00:52:10.659
you. Oh, yeah. Yeah, man. So for all of you listening

00:52:10.659 --> 00:52:13.000
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