On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Joe From Queens to conversate on several Buffalo Bills topics, including counting down Patrick’s list of the top 20 Buffalo Bills non first round draft picks of the modern era.
Through interest and plenty of boredom, Patrick spent several hours going through every year of the Bills draft history and coming up with his power rankings of the best players that weren’t taken in the first round. It’s important to note that by modern era that means anytime past 1970 after the NFL and AFL merged. That disqualified a handful of 1960’s draft picks that would’ve easily been on and likely near the top of the list, such as Butch Byrd, Mike Stratton, Tom Sestak and Billy Shaw.
Patrick counts down his list with explanations for each and spoiler alert—there’s three current Buffalo Bills players on the list. As you’d expect Joe has plenty to say about several of the players and especially the order Patrick has them ranked in. Fun little spoiler alert—-Joe is not very keen on Patrick’s placement of Phil Hansen and also thinks current Bills cornerback Taron Johnson is ranked way too low.
Also, Joe has his Buffalo Bills/NFL Draft bingo board with plenty of hilarious nuggets. That plus their “True and False” segment, trying to avoid wrestling talk during Wrestlemania weekend and more.
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