The Rockpile Report - A Buffalo Bills Podcast

We've made it to our 300th podcast! In this show we celebrate the last 100 episodes of the podcast - ~1 whole year of content! We touch on the future for the WNY's fans, some of our favorite moments from the last 100 podcasts, and what might be Chris's finest achievement ever as producer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company....

Tired: Complaining About Mock Drafting Wired: Scoring Mock Drafts so We Can Make Fun of The Practice From #DraftSZN to #AccountabilitySZN, we say goodbye to this chapter of the 2021 NFL offseason with maybe the pettiest show we've ever recorded & Talking Buffalo host Pat Moran is along for the ride! We take mock drafts that Bills content creators have submitted over the last month, score them...

Hey Naysayers & Nerds - IT'S A SCHEDULE CELEBRATION! This week we take a look at the NFL & Bills 2021 schedule on the eve of it's release, amid a half dozen drinks! We look at the layout of it from both a podcasting & season ticket holder standpoint, look at games that'll probably turn out to be busts & find storylines we're interested in following at this point in the offseason! T...

WARNING: This might be the smartest you'll EVER hear Drew sound on a podcast! RAS creator Kent Lee Platte joins us for an indepth look at the Bills 2021 draft class through an analytics lens! We look at the dynamic athletic profiles of our rookie crop & how RAS study tells a story about their NFL upside & development! Meanwhile, Drew has done some deep analysis of his own & we look at...

Drew, Nate & Draft Recap - where else would you rather be than right here, right now?! In this show we break down the 2021 NFL Draft as only the Rockpile Report can. We discuss the philosophy of the early round picks - our reactions, the stories behind the selections & the fits for our team - and how they all weave a narrative that Bills fans can't be upset about. We also discuss Nates foo...

Draft week is finally here & to celebrate we bring back one of our oldest guests - Dolphins team employee Travis Wingfield! Our panel of guests joins us for a look around the divisiom at how each team is set up for the 2021 Draft, dream/nightmare scenarios & more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz....

We've reviewed NFL DRAFT everything...right? This week we turn to the smart people among Bills podcasting to answer the last of our pre draft quandries! We talk draft aggression for the Bills & how their picks might not give them the flexibility we as fans think, positions we all covet, dream/nightmare scenarios for Buffalo & more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com...

Some careers ending, others still developing...the Bills DE room is in an odd place. Will the Bills give it a boost in the 2021 Draft? Draft analyst & host of "Bootleg Football" Brett Kollmann joins us for our final positional preview, looking at the 2021 DE Draft Class: 🔸️ 1st draft without an "alpha" DE?! 🔸️ Picks for BUF of the 1st/2nd round prospects 🔸️DT depth that...

The Bills haven't had a legitimate "answer" for CB2 in the McDermott era - is this finally the year they swing for the fences? Newcomer to Bills podcasting Anthony Prohaska, host of "Disguised Coverage" & Cover1 contributor, joins us for a look at this upcoming DB crop through a Bills lens: 🔸 Potential boundary CB targets for BUF & the volatility in '21s CB1-CB5 🔸 JOK & Trill Williams multifacet...

Between Beane's latest comments on Edmunds 5th year option & the future of our SAM LB position, LB could be a sneaky need for BUF...but can this class provide? EJ Snyder of the Bootleg Football Podcast joins us to discuss it all! 🔸️ Where Edmunds ranks against this LB class and potential 4-3 MLB talents 🔸️Bills fan favorites Zaven Collins& JOK, and what their projections to the pros may...

The Bills spent on their OL in free agency, but there's still longterm questions to be answered & the NFL Draft might provide them! In this show, Cover1 host & radio personality Russ Brown joins us to look at the 2021 OL class: 🔸️ Russ's view Beane's draft OL avoidance 🔸️ BillsMafia favorites like Dickerson & Humphrey 🔸️ Bills offensive philosophy & the mid-round OCs/OGs that ma...

Cats & dogs living together...MASS HYSTERIA! Drew actually WANTS to talk about Mock Drafts! This week, fellow Blue Wire podcaster Pat Moran of Talking Buffalo joins the show! Together we talk about him, his podcast history & then Drew holds a discussion with him about the merits of something he loathes...Mock Drafts. Jokes are made, merits are debated, we look at what Pat has learned about...

RB at pick #30 for BUF? Harris or Etienne as RB1? Strap in because Matt Waldman is going to blow your doors off! In this show, with the help of RSP Filmroom creator & Barry White sound-alike Matt Waldman, we take an in-depth look at the 2021 RB Draft Class: 🔸 Matt's shocking RB1 (seriously...don't be drinking a beverage...) 🔸 The makeup of the class & where Buffalo might be able to find...

Its DraftSZN & our annual Preview Series is finally here! USA Today's Mark Schofield helps us kick things off as we take a detailed look at the 2021 WR & TE crop & how the Bills can navigate it including: 🔸️ How scarcity at other positions could push an already deep WR class's talent down the board 🔸️ A look at TE & WR prospects that could be a fit in BUF, including BillsMafia fa...

1 remote show in 5 years of podcasts...until now. This week, we look at the Bills stories that have flown under the radar of NFL Free Agency & Draft Prep mania: 🔸 Bills announce full attendance for 2021! 🔸 Ticket price increase & surprising findings when league-wide increases are actually analyzed! 🔸 A divisive new stadium name We also look at Drew living in a bubble & more! Learn m...

We can't seem to keep shows with Nate short, but who's complaining? Not us! In Part 2 of our 2021 Free Agency recap, we take what we know about the Bills & look outward to the rest of the NFL: 🔸️ Hilarious FA "Winners & Losers" 🔸️The State of AFC "Contenders" 🔸️How Free Agency Has Set Buffalo Up for the Draft & more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcas...

Kick holder & radio personality Nate Geary joins us as we take a relaxed but nuanced look at the Bills approach to free agency over the last week! Together we look at the state of our ST units & return of our former starters effect on our expectations, the lack of acquisitions outside of the team that the Bills made on defense & the ways we're going to be OK, the reason the Emmanual Sa...

Free Agency is here and the moves are already coming fast & furious! This week our panel of Divisional podcasters joins us for an indepth look at the early free agency storylines around the AFC East, and setting expectations for the week to come: 🔸️ Dolphins eerie silence & needs in the trenches 🔸️Patriots spending spree & Belichick's potential swan song 🔸️The Jets early moves that...

Saluti to the Don! This week we take a look at how our GM, "Contractual Gangster" Brandon Beane, beat Free Agency to the punch by pulling off some of the most unlikely deals in recent (or maybe all) Bills history! We take a look at the philosophical & monetary in's & out's of "The Trifecta" being retained, and how the picture these 3 signings paint for people outside of...

In our 2nd installment of roster review & free agency discussion, Matt Parrino of NYUp.com joins us to dig into the Bills defense: 🔸️ Matt's surprising pick for QB2 🔸️ The state of the OL, and how impending cuts could dictate Beanes decisionmaking 🔸️ The TE conundrum, Drew's "outside the box" solution to it & more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adc...

NFL Free Agency could be CHAOS - and we've brought in a ringer to chat about it! Tyler Dunne of GoLongTD.com joins our podcast to wax poetic on some of the wrinkles that threaten to muddy the waters of the 2021 Free Agency cycle: 🔸️QB's flexing their muscle & player empowerment 🔸️How much a canceled NFL Combine effects the free agency process 🔸️The impending onslaught of veteran cuts We tak...

In our 1st installment of roster review & free agency discussion, Ryan Talbot of NYUp.com joins us to focus on the Bills defense: 🔸️ Our expensive Defensive Line, young DE free agent class & analysis of some rarely discussed pass rush metics that provide some surprising insights! 🔸️ A secondary still looking for an answer at CB2 & an aging market that may not bear fruit 🔸️ Our LB co...

We were all set to start talk Free Agency conversation...and then JJ Watt put pen to paper in the first headscratcher of 2021! In this show, we're joined by RocSportsNetwork anchor Ryan Lasal to discuss the supremely anticlimactic Watt decision to join the AZ Cardinals! We look at historical flaws in chasing "names" for BUF, the Cardinals desperation play that this represents & how i...

Our final divisional offseason preview takes us to South Beach as we look at the importance of the 2021 offseason for the Miami Dolphins w/Alf's help: 🔸️ Watson Trade Drama 🔸️ Draft Capital Conundrums 🔸️ Fixing Offensive Inconsistency under a new pair of OCs (yes...pair.. ) & more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company....

So much Free Agency conversation has already taken place, and yet there are some MAJOR stumbling blocks that have to be resolved before the Bills offseason plans can really be laid out & Bruce Nolan of BR fame comes along for the ride! We get analytical & wax poetic on topics ranging from how the ripple effects of the franchise tag this season could skew the Bills offseason plans & how...