Crazy Legs Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Last year the Buffalo Bills & Beane brought only 3 Cornerbacks in for a Pre-Draft Visit: CB Emerson Martin, Mississippi St CB Kaiir Elam, Florida CB Andrew Booth, Clemson Of course Beane decided to move UP in the 1st round, using a 4th round pick to do so, to select Kaiir Elam. Was that the right pick? Emerson Martin was drafted by the Browns and had a really good rookie year. Drafted top of the 3rd. His PFF grade as a rookie was 72.5...pretty high. (Kaiir's was 56.7) Emerson faced 89 targets and only allowed 48 catches. That is exceptional. Kaiir was targeted 41 times, and allowed 31 catches. This is Monday morning arm chair scouting, but if the Bills scouts identified these 3 Corners as top potentials - did the scouts have one higher than another? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpikedLemonade Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 BUST Quote Do Your Part to Improve The Range -- Please put the TRIO OF TRUMP FLUFFERSTM on IGNORE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuke Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 I think we’ve established that this team college scouting staff is not it’s strength Quote Ed Oliver is my adopt-a-Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldat28 Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Or they could have just listened to me and take Tariq Woolen in the 4th.....which they would've still had if they didn't use it to trade up 2 spots for a guy that wasn't going before they picked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whorlnut Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 I was pounding the table to wait until later to get a corner and didn’t HAVE TO BE in round 1. So many fans on this board felt it had to be in the first round. Meanwhile, guys like Emerson, Taylor-Britt, and Woolen look to be the real deal and we could have used that first round pick on, oh I don’t know…an offensive player? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Legs Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 1 hour ago, whorlnut said: I was pounding the table to wait until later to get a corner and didn’t HAVE TO BE in round 1. So many fans on this board felt it had to be in the first round. Meanwhile, guys like Emerson, Taylor-Britt, and Woolen look to be the real deal and we could have used that first round pick on, oh I don’t know…an offensive player? I support Beane, but in this case he went into the draft with NO CORNERBACK to play in Tre White's spot. Plus we had Dane Jackson as the other starter. Thus, IMO he panicked. He traded a 4th, and our 1st, to move up to draft Kaiir Elam. Could have waited, as you pointed out, drafted Emerson, Taylor-Britt and Woolen. And saved that 4th round pick we traded away. Sigh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcw Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Beane says he takes best player available but tends to target positions in the draft. He may have multiple positions to fill in the first few rounds so he’ll take the best player at those positions but at the end of the day he has A, B and C filled with the first 3 picks. He seems to have a certain number of acceptable guys at each position in each round. Once those guys start to come off the board Beane tends to get anxious and sacrifices middle round draft picks to make sure he gets one of the guys on his list. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanqueray Ten Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 3 hours ago, Nuke said: I think we’ve established that this team college scouting staff is not it’s strength I really miss Jim Monos. Dammit... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SackMan518 Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 To be fair to Elam we had a guy who specialized in man-to-man coverage playing zone almost all of the time. I'd like to see what he can do now that Frazier is gone and we can get out of this Tampa 2/Soft Prevent shit we've been playing. 1 Quote Sack "The Buffalo Range's TRUSTED News Source!" “When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.” ~ Dresden James Parler @NYexile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Legs Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 5 hours ago, bcw said: Beane says he takes best player available but tends to target positions in the draft. He may have multiple positions to fill in the first few rounds so he’ll take the best player at those positions but at the end of the day he has A, B and C filled with the first 3 picks. He seems to have a certain number of acceptable guys at each position in each round. Once those guys start to come off the board Beane tends to get anxious and sacrifices middle round draft picks to make sure he gets one of the guys on his list. I agree with you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albany,n.y. Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Let's wait more than a year to decide. I remember 2 RBs picked before Thurman Thomas in 1988 who outplayed him as rookies. Ickey Woods & John Stephens. Of the 3 only Thurman is in the HOF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Legs Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 49 minutes ago, Albany,n.y. said: Let's wait more than a year to decide. I remember 2 RBs picked before Thurman Thomas in 1988 who outplayed him as rookies. Ickey Woods & John Stephens. Of the 3 only Thurman is in the HOF. I will give it two years. But that is it. If you are drafted in the 1st round, you are not a "developmental" guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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