First of all
White Thurman Thomas Jerseys , congrats to Mike Mayock for skipping all the grunt work and being awarded a general manager’s job without ever working in an NFL
front office. Now that the Oakland Raiders have paired Mayock with Jon Gruden,
they have successfully made what would be the greatest daily half hour of
television the world has ever seen. Fortunately for us, we get to go back and
play, seeing what it would be like to have Mike Mayock as an NFL GM. From 2011
to 2018, this is who Mayock mocked to the Buffalo Bills in his annual mock
draft:2011 3rd overall: DT Marcell Dareus, Starts: 100, Pro Bowls: 2, All-Pro:
12012 10th overall: LB Luke Kuechly, Starts: 102, Pro Bowls: 6, All-Pro: 52013
8th overall: WR Tavon Austin, Starts: 50, Pro Bowls: 0, All-Pro: 02014 9th
overall: OG Zack Martin, Starts: 78, Pro Bowls: 5, All-Pro: 52015 No Pick2016
19th overall: DE Robert Nkemdiche, Starts: 6, Pro Bowls: 0, All-Pro: 02017 10th
overall: LB Reuben Foster, Starts: 16
Thurman Thomas Jerseys 2019 , Pro Bowls: 0, All-Pro: 02018 6th overall: QB Josh Allen, Starts: 11, Pro Bowls: 0, All-Pro: 0The actual picks:2011 3rd overall: DT
Marcell Dareus, Starts: 100, Pro Bowls: 2, All-Pro: 12012 10th overall: CB
Stephon Gilmore, Starts: 95, Pro Bowls: 2, All-Pro: 12013 16th overall: QB E.J.
Manuel, Starts: 18, Pro Bowls: 0, All-Pro: 02014 4th overall: WR Sammy Watkins,
Starts: 60, Pro Bowls: 0, All-Pro: 02015 No Pick2016 19th overall: DE Shaq
Lawson, Starts: 17, Pro Bowls: 0, All-Pro: 02017 27th overall: CB Tre’Davious
White, Starts: 32
White Bruce Smith Jerseys , Pro Bowls: 0, All-Pro: 02018 7th overall: QB Josh Allen, Starts: 11, Pro Bowls: 0, All-Pro: 0—16th overall: LB Tremaine Edmunds, Starts:
15, Pro Bowls: 0, All-Pro: 0Let’s compare the picks:2011: This one wasn't tough
to see, unless you thought that the Denver Broncos would take Dareus over Von
Miller. Outside of quarterbacks, Dareus and Miller were the two best prospects
in the 2011 NFL Draft. Mayock might not have given Dareus a ridiculous
player-friendly deal and had to eat an unhealthy amount of dead money after
trading him for a fifth-round pick. 2012: Luke Kuechly or Stephon Gilmore? We
all know the answer to that one, despite Gilmore’s All-Pro season. Kuechly has
clearly been the best linebacker in the NFL since he entered the league. He’s
made six Pro-Bowls and has been voted a First-Team All-Pro five times in his
seven year career. 2013: Oof. Mayock’s scenario and the actual scenario for this
year are terrible. For the sake of Mayock, I’ll give the award for worst pick to
the actual Bills who drafted a day-three quarterback without much talent in the
first round because his hands were big. Tavon Austin hasn’t had the career a lot
of people thought he would, but at least he’s still contributing to an offense
on Sundays...kinda. 2014: Again, I’ll take Mayock’s pick over the blunder the
Bills had. Staying at ninth overall and taking Zack Martin, who is now the best
guard in the NFL and will be in that conversation for the next six to eight
years gets the best of trading up to fourth overall to take Sammy Watkins and
pass on Khalil Mack. Sammy Watkins was a hell of a prospect as a receiver. If he
could have stayed healthy throughout his time in Buffalo (and elsewhere), this
conversation could very well be going the other way. 2015: As a part of the
trade-up to get Watkins, the Bills packaged their 2015 first-round pick.2016:
Even though Shaq Lawson hasn’t panned out to be the player that the Bills were
hoping, I’d take him over Robert Nkemdiche. Nkemdiche has had trouble converting
to the NFL and in his rookie year he was called out for his lack of work ethic.
His 2018 season turned to be better than his first two before he was put on
injured reserve in December. Over the past three years, Lawson’s body of work is
more consistent than Nkemdiche’s. 2017: Trading back for Tre White seemed like
the best move up until September 16th, 2018. The Kansas City Chiefs played the
Pittsburgh Steelers and Mahomes completed over 80% of his passes, threw for 326
yards and six touchdowns—on the road. Mahomes took the league by storm and will
likely win the MVP award for his 2018 season. Of course
Bruce Smith Jerseys 2019 , Mahomes wouldn't be in the same situation in Buffalo that he is currently finds in Kansas City, but letting the Chiefs trade into
their draft spot to take him looks like a miss. Tre White is a good corner and
will continue to be one, but it’s hard not to sit back and think of what might
have been. 2018: Mayock had the Bills packaging the 12th and 22nd pick to move
up to 6th to grab Josh Allen. Luckily for the Bills, they were able to salvage
their 22nd overall pick in the process, which eventually allowed them to move up
again to 16 and grab Tremaine Edmunds. The 22nd pick originally belonged to
Kansas City before the Bills acquired the pick in the 2017 deal for the 10th
overall pick, which resulted in Patrick Mahomes joining the Chiefs. The website
considers the 2013 sixteenth-overall pick to be the team’s worst quarterback
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under:OpinionBills HistoryNFL.com: EJ Manuel is Buffalo Bills’ biggest QB
mistakeNew,101commentsThe website considers the 2013 sixteenth-overall pick to
be the team’s worst quarterback since 1967.EDTShareTweetShareShareNFL.com: EJ
Manuel is Buffalo Bills’ biggest QB mistakeThere are many reasons for the
Buffalo Bills’ lack of sustained success for the past couple decades, but the
team’s handling of the quarterback position has to be one of the more
all-encompassing explanations. After Jim Kelly retired following the 1996
season, the team has cycled through starting passers like a Spotify playlist
left on shuffle. The question is, what was the team’s worst mistake? NFL.com’s
Ali Bhanpuri thinks he has the answer. In an article detailing each AFC East’s
history at the position, he declares that EJ Manuel was the team’s biggest
mistake at QB.As Bhanpuri says, it’s largely a two-horse race between Manuel and
Losman, although some may say Rob Johnson deserves a mention for costing the
team a decent salary along with a first-round pick that was traded to acquire
him. It’s difficult to compare the two statistically as Losman was given 33
starting opportunities with them team while Manuel was only handed 17, with the
majority coming in his rookie year. Having said that, their completion
percentages are similar, with Losman coming in at 59% and Manuel with 58%
according to Pro Football Reference. Where they truly differ is in their yardage
output. Losman had a 3000-yard season in 2006, while Manuel only put up 1972
yards in 2013.The failure of both first-round prospects put Buffalo in
precarious situations, but history has perhaps proven that the Bills were much
worse off after Losman moved on. After that point, the team wandered through the
quarterback wilderness with Kelly Holcomb and Trent Edwards before seeing a
slight glimmer of hope in Ryan Fitzpatrick. Manuel’s departure led directly to
the team lucking into Tyrod Taylor, who successfully broke a playoff drought and
whose own departure led to the team’s current starter in Josh Allen.
