T3 Mock Draft - Draft Strategy for Buffalo Bills

After a brief hiatus, we return with a three-round mock draft for the Buffalo Bills, focusing on their primary needs in the secondary and trenches to overcome their playoff nemesis, the Kansas City Chiefs.

• Buffalo's defense ranked 24th against the pass last season with opponents targeting them 72% of the time
• Philadelphia Eagles provided the blueprint: big bodies on both sides of the line to disrupt elite offenses
• First-round pick: Josh Simmons, OT from Ohio State (6'5", 317 lbs) to provide immediate protection for Josh Allen
• Second-round pick: JT Tuimoloau, edge rusher from Ohio State to generate consistent pressure on opposing QBs
• Third-round pick: Denzel Burke, cornerback from Ohio State to strengthen Buffalo's vulnerable secondary
• All three selections coincidentally come from Ohio State but address Buffalo's most critical needs
• Our live NFL Draft special will begin around 7:45 PM on April 24th

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Chapters

• 0:19 Welcome Back and Episode Setup
• 0:51 Buffalo Bills' Draft Needs
• 2:04 First Round Pick: Josh Simmons
• 5:08 Second Round Pick: JT Tuimoloau
• 6:22 Third Round Pick: Denzel Burke
• 7:45 Draft Analysis and Closing Thoughts

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:19

Welcome back to T3, that Thursday thing. It's not on Thursday. I'm your host, mr U, excited to be back with you guys. It's been a little bit of a break, been a little bit under the weather, but glad to be back with you guys and getting back on track for our goal to knock out drafts for every one of the 32 teams before the first round of the draft and our T3, hopefully first annual live draft special should start around 7, 50, 7, 45. First night of the draft on april 24th. Today we're going to be doing the buffalo bills. We're going to do three rounds here.

Speaker 1: 0:56

Uh, it's pretty clear what they're needing. Uh, they had, uh, an excellent one last year. I I think their primary needs are at secondary cornerback safety, I believe as well Interior O-line help. There they brought in Joey Bosa, formerly of the Chargers, to kind of pair up alongside Greg Russo to kind of bolster that defense. We'll see how it goes. There were definitely some challenges there. They were the 24th ranked defense in the past game. I think 72%, I know 72% of the targets that their opponents had were against them, so their defense was essentially a sieve. They got rid of Von Miller, which I think was a big part of the problem there, but not to be all. In the end all there's a lot of stuff going on that they need to have some help with. Athletically they used a lot of help.

Speaker 1: 1:54

My personal opinion, before we get into this mock draft, is that the Philadelphia Eagles kind of set the blueprint you need big bodies on both sides of the line in the trenches. Kind of set the blueprint you need big bodies on both sides of the line in the trenches. If you can find them, that's a luxury because that was ideally the undoing of the Kansas City Chiefs and the Bills got to go through the Chiefs every year in order to get to the Super Bowl. So we're going to go ahead and jump into our mock draft. We're going for the Buffalo Bills today, three rounds, and we're looking for cornerback help, safety help perhaps and some line help. I think I picked a slow pace for this one. My apologies on the way to speed here, but I really believe there's some good cornerback help here in this first round, because that's definitely what they need. There's some linebacker help here, some line help. We can get on the O-line to help Josh Allen out, also in the first round. All right, we're not taking this trade. We're going to go ahead and take help here.

Speaker 1: 3:05

Some of these draft ideas are so ridiculous. Oh, I love that Egbuka's here. That's not one of their draft needs, but right now Khalil Shakur is their. Shakira is their number one. They just paid him a nice little four-year contract. Unfortunately, I'm just not feeling him as the number one wide receiver. So I'm really tempted to help them out with Ed Booker here.

Speaker 1: 3:31

I think when it comes to line guys offensive tackle I really like Josh Simmons here. I'm kind of tempted to go here and help this particular team out. I think we're going to take Josh Simmons here, big body guy out of Ohio State. He will help out Josh Allen almost immediately. I like his. I mean, I don't like anybody from Ohio State but to be honest, he's really a solid player. Josh Allen would definitely be able to use his assistance here, so to speak. I think people call him a boomer bust, but I like his technique. I think he's strong up front, nice size at 6'5", 3'17". I mean. He got bursts. He's explosive. He doesn't have to really reach for rushes, he just powers his way over the line of scrimmage and pushes those defenders back. I think he's going to be a big help for them. He's probably in the vein of the kind of guys I'm talking about in Philly, so I think he would help out Josh Allen and the Bills greatly. So we'll give him some help there, all right, so we're looking at, hopefully, some line help here. We'll get him some help there, all right. So we're looking at, hopefully, some line help here. A lot of the guys that I was looking for in the secondary have been snatched. All right, I think we're going to go in again. There's some needs here that these guys have in secondary mainly. I think they can get this hook anywhere, though, so I'm going to stay here.

Speaker 1: 5:30

Jt Tua Malau, edge rusher out of Ohio State. I heard a little bit about him besides what we're seeing here Explosive, good body, strong, 6'4", 265. I know that he has a lot of good pass-rushing techniques. Honestly, to be the team like the Chiefs, you need somebody to threaten Patrick Mahomes often and make him uncomfortable in the pocket. We've seen that a lot in this past Super Bowl. I think Tua Malau is a good pick for them. I think we're doing good for the Bills so far.

Speaker 1: 6:01

I'm kind of concerned about the cornerback situation and I don't know if we're going to find anybody that's going to be available in this round that we're picking in. I'm rejecting all of these trades because we need to have some help here, so we're not going to do that. I think it's going to be our last pick, if I'm not mistaken. Let me double check that. Yep, it's our last pick at 62. So we're still in round two. Some good talent here. Yeah, I really want to help these guys out. I'm so tempted to see what they got going on at wire receiver, but these guys are, uh, undersized and I'm going to be reaching, looking for some big, tall wide receivers now that they got rid of mac holland's. But I really be reaching. I don't want to do so. Let's see what we got going on.

Speaker 1: 6:48

Okay, we're going to have an all Ohio State three-round mock for the Buffalo Bills, but I mean there's some high-level play here coming up from Denzel Burke. I mean he's definitely deserving to be in the second round. There was some mocks that had him even going a little higher than that. He has the potential. He has everything that you desire to see in a locked down corner. So we're going all Ohio State here. We're going to go ahead and bite the bullet. Now we're going to make it happen. So that's funny, but here we are, that's what we're doing. So I think we are pretty much here. So all of our picks we got Josh Simmons out of Ohio State to be at left tackle help that Josh Allen needs out there. Jt Tul Malau, a George out of Ohio State, of course, also out of Ohio State Cornerback to the ground on this three-mark draft. Denzel Burke. I like what they got going on. I think these things helped them greatly.

Speaker 1: 7:45

I definitely want to hear what you guys think about this mock draft. Hit us up on our YouTube channel at TheyCallMeMrU. Let us know what you think about this draft. Whatever you see in this draft today, let us know what you think. What kind of grade are you giving me for this mock draft today? Did we really help the Buffalo Bills out or did I submarine them? Let me know what you think. Thanks for listening again to T3 and all of our brand of shows. Thank you for please liking and sharing and subscribing as well. We appreciate you guys greatly. Have a fantastic day.