Quantifying the Buffalo Experience
Snap judgments are a powerful but dangerous thing. They have a tendency to allow you to use your intuition and subconscious to take in information without you cognitively processing it, and without all the necessary information needed to be informed, and yet, snap judgments can be accurate at a very high rate (See Malcolm Gladwell-Blink.
In the bottom of the 5th round, you’re typically not trying to find the best overall talent, as much as you’re drafting guys who have specific traits or can fit specific roles. Instead of wheeling and dealing like many expected, the Bills sat tight and let three hand-picked role players fall into their lap with.
Day 1 saw the Bills land their top need with a toolsy, highly skilled, fast, athletic, tackling, ball-hawking, high upside (I could go on and on) CB in Mad Max Hairston. On Day 2 they will hope to land more difference makers and there are still some on the board, but which positions should they.
Over the past five years, TheHuddleReport.com has collected mock drafts from 172 different media analysts who submit their mocks for the purpose of finding out who is the most accurate. Well-known writers like Lance Zierlein and Daniel Jeremiah have participated, as well as fantasy experts like Jared Smola from Draft Sharks and John Daigle from.
