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Yes. I still say it was. The number 1 priority for the Bills going into 2020 was they needed to come out of it knowing for certain whether Josh Allen was the guy. He had a mixed rookie year, took some steps in 2019 but with plenty of inconsistency still present and in 2020 they needed no excuses can he be the guy for this team. Much easier to make that assessment with a veteran, elite, wide receiver than with a rookie - however good that rookie ultimately is. If they were faced with a similar decision today and they traded for the vet I'd hammer them. They know who Josh is, take a swing on the young talent. But in 2020 the priority was finding out for sure on Josh Allen and trading for Stefon Diggs allowed them to do that more than drafting any receiver in that class would have. Also - though this supports your point re. them needing to better evaluate offensive talent - they weren't picking Jefferson there anyway. I have it on pretty good authority that at the point they made the trade the calculation they were talking through was vet Diggs vs rookie Tee Higgins. The draft was still six weeks away, so things could have changed.... but as at the point they made the trade I think the guy they were otherwise leaning towards picking at that spot was Tee.

I think more likely the case the $15.28m is the money guaranteed at signing. I suspect the rest of the guarantees are in a team option bonus which triggers next spring and the construct of the contract makes an absolute certainty will be picked up. It's something Beane has used before as a tool when you want to amortise a good chunk of the money but your cap situation for the current year is tight so you can't stick a lot of amortised money on this year. That isn't to say the eventual number can't come in a shade under the reported numbers... both Shakir and Bernard did. But I suspect that is the major reason for the discrepancy on guarantees. The Elijah Moore takes in the spring were wild. He has all but disappeared since we got to camp. I don't know that he is a lock for the roster at this point.

This was par for the course for 17 years. One bad decision after another, crappy trades, draft pics, and overall mismanaged. Russ Brandon was in way over his head. I’m constantly reminded of well run we are now, and how well constructed we are from top to bottom. 31 teams and fan bases are let down every year. I want us to win the SB earlier rather than later, and hopefully a couple, but we may go after this run for the next 15 years without one.

okok lol Im on the bandwagon on Coleman improving. he looks improved. On the bold.. Did you see the QB's he was playing for? yea.. Im not saying Moore will be awesome but you have to take that into consideration.. The JA take I agree.. it was crazy. He had no OLINE and No WEAPONS.... nuts..

Agree. Not a huge fan of talking heads but a lot of the talk is “QBs with the most to prove”. Caleb is brought up a lot. Rightly so. He has to show improvement on his decision making. Now whilst the line play wasn’t that great, a lot of his decisions were at fault. Can’t hang on to the football for 4 seconds to throw in this league. Couple that with what they added last year for him, this year the moves they’ve made and a moderately decent defense to boot, he has to showcase the abilities they drafted him #1 overall. Time will tell indeed but the clock is ticking.

I loved him while he was here, and understood he wanted to work and the dolphins were offering. Sometimes it’s best just know when it’s over. He looked old and slow his last year here, and was worse in Miami. Sure, a part of me thinks it’s funny, but when I’ve left a company, I’ve never trashed my old manager or the company where I made a living. Just move onto something new. He certainly has made enough $ in his professional career, so invest well, spend time with you’re family, and accept you had a rich career.

tbh... you're wrong.

Disagree man. Those past playoffs alone proves he was a top 10 guy in this league. Easily. Especially the Chiefs game.

Always liked Poyer, the mighty Bush played a part in his downfall. Thankfully the double cushions he had to fall down on propped him up I guess!

You might be right but if they couldn’t have traded and got Josh, maybe they end up with Lamar? Maybe Kyler Murray, Daniel Jones or Dwayne Haskins? Burrow, Tua or Herbert? Lawrence, Wilson, Trey Lance or Mac Jones? Guess we’ll never know… thankfully! All Praises to Josh!

Wrongly utilized more often than not. Similar to Watkins, a lot of his collegiate dominance was due to quick passes and screens, something you seldom saw him being deployed in. A lot of great players that never panned out over those years, sadly. Can’t fault Ralph really, Nix was that older mentality that he probably gravitated to. Double down with the networking he had within the league and it did kind of make sense. Russ Brandon, at least to me, was the biggest part of Ralph’s problems. Certainly mismanaged a lot of the improvement/building of the teams over his tenure.

I saw a discussion with Scicilliano where they believe enough is enough and there won’t be any more references to it

An internet war enthusiast such as yourself certainly doesn’t care.

Being 62 and life long Bills fan. It has been a roller-coaster ride.

Tbh...Cook is not a top 10 rb in the nfl. He is perfectly suited for his role here. I'd like to see him lined up as a receiver on 3rd downs.

I’ll stop you when you’re wrong.

It wouldn’t be the 1st time. No team has a worse record of starting QBs. Case in point -with due respect to McMann, their only great QB was and still is Sid Luckman

WTF?🫨

Speaking just as a Florida resident, we never have open windows. It’s either damp & cold or treacherously hot. Car roof openings & convertibles are worthless here. Oh! THAT window. nevermind..

Thanks folks. Now I’m depressed. It was bad enough that we couldn’t win, but then we were a sh!tshow to boot.. Just shoot me.

I recall our last real game where Cook was called on to score or die on 4th down from the 2 yard line. I also recall he was going to be stopped short of the goal line before pulling off an unnatural flight while being virtually broken in half to reach the endzone. Cook is capable of extraordinary feats. $15 M? Pay the Man!

Anderson does play center - he was the #2 center the entire pre-season last year and has done it in relief og McGovern when he has got nicked up in games. And they have used both Grable and Lundt inside some in camp as well as at tackle. As for Green... the Bills didn't use him at center last week even with Anderson out. He played RG on the 2nd string OL. Dan Feeney played center. With Brown, Anderson and Grable out and SVPG still on PUP they went: 1st string: Dawkins - Edwards - McGovern - Torrence - Van Demark 2nd string: Lundt - Gouraige - Feeney - Green - Van Demark

⬆️ Porn boy has thoughts? 😂

Do people not realize that in negotiations, you don't start by throwing out the number you are expecting to get? It would be pretty dumb to start negotiations saying you'd take $12M. He starts high, the team starts low and you meet somewhere in the middle. That's how negotiating works.

I feel your pain! I am part of a big mens group with a lot of big hitters in it from media, tech, music, leadership, business, etc. that meets every Saturday and has all these guest speakers come in. I remember sitting in the theatre on Saturdays (now we meet via zoom on Saturdays) listening to some of biggest crypto people in the game tell us all the time to just put $10k in Ethereum and let it sit. Same people who told them to buy bitcoin when it was worth nothing too (I wasn't in the group back then). Ethereum was at $6 then and that $10k would be worth based on todays price $7,888,033! I think it about all the time as I had the $10k to do it, but buying crypto was complicated back then, nothing like now to buy or use it, so I just didn't have the time or bandwidth to really dive into it as I had so much already going on with two businesses I was building and running at the time. There are guys in the group who literally made hundreds of millions getting in early on Ethereum in that group who now live in sick places in like Bali, Dubai, Costa Rica, Malaysia, etc. Oh what could have been lol.