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Montana said:
Edmunds is a nice player, and for pure value it's fine.....it doesn't make a ton of sense tho for a team with the holes that the Bills have, especially given what you traded to get Allen.

Bills should have been trading down, accumulating picks, and adding as many rolls of the dice as possible.


Unless, like with the Jets, Cards, Ravens....trading up got you your future franchise QB, in which case who gives a sh*t what it cost. But history is pretty clear cut, that more picks is virtually the only way to guarantee success at the draft.
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I firmly believe Edmunds was a Sean McDermott request. He has that Carolina mentality to D and the Bills were continuously torched by TE last year. Edmunds fills that hole as he’s as big and as fast, if not faster, than the elite TE out there.

I do agree the more picks the better and trading 2 seconds and a third is puzzling.
 
Ravens getting Lamar Jackson at the end of the 1st looks like an good fit for the city/franchise. Excited to see how his career goes.
 
Habsy said:
I do agree the more picks the better and trading 2 seconds and a third is puzzling.
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Yeah, when the greatest football mind of all time, in NE....can't draft well, and basically admits as much by simply acquiring as many picks as possible versus pretending he has to magic touch to know exactly which prospects to jump up & snag....it's kinda mind boggling how many other GM's think they have it figured out.

Hell, I've been obsessed with Darnold for 2+ years....but deep down I kinda suspect the Jets would probably have been better off with Rosen + three 2nds, or if Cousins accepted our offer and we had him + the 6th pick & those three seconds.

Bad teams are the last ones that should be trading away extra picks to move up......but again, whoever gets their pick right when it comes to a QB, sets their franchise up for a decade plus. So I get the allure.

...and when the QB prospect checks as many boxes as Darnold does, it's pretty damn thrilling as a fan.
 
Leafin' said:
Ravens getting Lamar Jackson at the end of the 1st looks like an good fit for the city/franchise. Excited to see how his career goes.
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Agreed.

Makes the RGIII signing look much smarter as well...since they'll then have a backup QB who can step into the same system fairly seemlesslg, if Jackson gets hurt.

Will be interesting to see where Flacco ends up next year.
 
Montana said:
Agreed.

Makes the RGIII signing look much smarter as well...since they'll then have a backup QB who can step into the same system fairly seemlesslg, if Jackson gets hurt.

Will be interesting to see where Flacco ends up next year.
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I could see a qb desperate team having interest if one of their QB draft picks hasn't panned out(Josh Allen? Josh Rosen? Sam Darnold?).

To be somewhat fair to Flacco they really haven't given him anything to throw to the last few years. Hayden Hurst looks decent but i'm not sure about TE in the 1st. To be unfair to Flacco, i think he's shit.
 
‎Richard Thaler (the economist who co-wrote Nudge) did a big study on the NFL draft, got several teams to pay big money for his insights, only to discover those teams did pretty much the opposite on draft day. Emotion trumps rationality.

I'm happy the Vikings GM is in "the more picks the better" camp.
 
Vikings signed a boatload of undrafted free agents. Inrigued by Hercules Mata'afa, Holton Hill, and Tray Mathews.
 
Holton Hill is a great signing...was wondering where he'd go. Bunch of people had him in the back end of their top 100.....no clue why he went undrafted.
 
Im hoping for Desmond Harrison, wanted him since the fourth round (think McShay projected him as a third rounder).....but haven't heard any word of him landing anywhere yet.

Got busted for pot a couple times & it seems to have scared everyone off....seems like he could be a starting tackle one day if he kept his nose clean though.
 
Montana said:
Holton Hill is a great signing...was wondering where he'd go. Bunch of people had him in the back end of their top 100.....no clue why he went undrafted.
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Hill was suspended for the last 3 games of the season for violating team rules.

Also, PPF noted that he "struggles to live with receivers at the breaking point in the route and can allow significant separation even on deep passes, or grabs to prevent it"
They ranked him 24th among corners.

But definitely worth a gamble with his length (6'3)
 
CH1 said:
‎Richard Thaler (the economist who co-wrote Nudge) did a big study on the NFL draft, got several teams to pay big money for his insights, only to discover those teams did pretty much the opposite on draft day. Emotion trumps rationality.

I'm happy the Vikings GM is in "the more picks the better" camp.
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Bills has an economics degree, I think, and is a ruthless exponent of cost-benefit analysis. It started when he cut Lawyer Milloy just before the season started. Just bananas. No one could have imagined.

Earn your cap space or GTFO.
 
lecoqsportif said:
Bills has an economics degree, I think, and is a ruthless exponent of cost-benefit analysis. It started when he cut Lawyer Milloy just before the season started. Just bananas. No one could have imagined.

Earn your cap space or GTFO.
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Of course, the big advantage NFL GMs have is that contracts are not guaranteed. (The Cousins contract was groundbreaking)

So, there's often no cap penalty if you bother to structure the contract correctly.
 
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