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To me, the tell-tale sign is going for Clowney which we know is a piple dream, something a small market team should never do.
Trading up for Watkins? It makes sense if he drops very close to where the Bills pick. Again, I want to point out that he does not have the prototypical size the Bills are looking for and no one has compared him to Jerry Rice yet. Heck he may not even compare favorably to Green/Jones when those came out. It would hard for me to imagine Whaley says if I'm going be wrong, I' d willing to bet on a 6' WR ...
Besides, the Bills just traded for Williams, granted more suited for #2 than a #1.
So on a team that does not have a gaping hole like the Bills who were in the past always had, why all of sudden the talk about trading up - paying big price along the way of course - as if there is a super talent up there that would fill a big hole in the lineup perfectly?
The only reason I can see is deception. They are targeting someone who they feel they would like to do something to help pushing him down to them. My money is still on a tackle, since they did vertually nothing to that front on FA and it is a need to help EJ as well as position themselves in the future (Pears is in his last year of contract and not sure anyone they draft beyond the big 3 can replace him THIS year from the get-go). Evans can be another option, even though he's not generally considered the elite 7 or 8 top players in this draft. He might be what the Bills have been talking about size wise all along in the past, but relatively quiet recently. Look at Nix-Whaley draft history: they tend not to discuss their target too much pre-draft.
Tackles are not sexy as Ebron or Evans. On this current team, I'd argue he may help just as much given the way they like to run the ball. The last thing you need is another situation like the LG last year: they bet on some low profile guys to come in to do average/slightly below average job; it wound up being a headache all season long. Right now based on the projection (age, injury, performance trends) of our RT and the guys behind him, it could easily develop into a similar situation...
Trading up for Watkins? It makes sense if he drops very close to where the Bills pick. Again, I want to point out that he does not have the prototypical size the Bills are looking for and no one has compared him to Jerry Rice yet. Heck he may not even compare favorably to Green/Jones when those came out. It would hard for me to imagine Whaley says if I'm going be wrong, I' d willing to bet on a 6' WR ...
Besides, the Bills just traded for Williams, granted more suited for #2 than a #1.
So on a team that does not have a gaping hole like the Bills who were in the past always had, why all of sudden the talk about trading up - paying big price along the way of course - as if there is a super talent up there that would fill a big hole in the lineup perfectly?
The only reason I can see is deception. They are targeting someone who they feel they would like to do something to help pushing him down to them. My money is still on a tackle, since they did vertually nothing to that front on FA and it is a need to help EJ as well as position themselves in the future (Pears is in his last year of contract and not sure anyone they draft beyond the big 3 can replace him THIS year from the get-go). Evans can be another option, even though he's not generally considered the elite 7 or 8 top players in this draft. He might be what the Bills have been talking about size wise all along in the past, but relatively quiet recently. Look at Nix-Whaley draft history: they tend not to discuss their target too much pre-draft.
Tackles are not sexy as Ebron or Evans. On this current team, I'd argue he may help just as much given the way they like to run the ball. The last thing you need is another situation like the LG last year: they bet on some low profile guys to come in to do average/slightly below average job; it wound up being a headache all season long. Right now based on the projection (age, injury, performance trends) of our RT and the guys behind him, it could easily develop into a similar situation...
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