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There’s still a ton of stuff that gets swept under the rug. One is a stunner - someone who has a great rep is a total phony and I had to believe the BNews knows and hid it.

Because I'm bored and it's raining outside and I have more time on my hands than I've had in months, I dropped the predictions into a spreadsheet and here's what I found: 75 total predictions 45 predict Bills win (60%) 30 predict Bills lose (40%) Average Score in predicted Bills win: 27.83 to 20.41 Average Score in predicted Bucs win: 29.50 to 17.30 Average Score regardless of predicted outcome: Bills 23.67 Bucs 24.00 Thoughts: I don't track this data historically but I'd guess that the 60% that feel the Bills will win at home in mid-November against an NFL South team means that the predictors are somewhat pessimistic about the Bills. It's also interesting that those that predict a Bills win predict a margin of 7.42 points whereas those that predict a Bucs win predict a margin of 12.20 points. My prediction: I really have no feel for this game other than I continue to believe that the young defense is improving and is as healthy as they've been all season excepting the absence of Oliver and Hoecht. I have a bit of a concern about the nickel situation with Cam and Taron both ailing but I expect a strong performance at home in the inclement weather. Offensively it's ironic that the boost in the receiving corps coincides with the forecasted inclement weather (including high winds). The Bills are an excellent running team and the Bucs have a poor run defense. The same is true in the opposite direction but not to the same degree and again I think home field comes into play and that the Bills run D is part of the overall defensive improvement. From my perspective the Bills still have a lot of proving to do but they get right for at least one week and they do so decisively. Bills 31 Bucs 12

Yea everyone misses on picks to a degree. The GM that draft Phidarian Mathis is no longer a GM. Basically the only GM that has been tenured longer than him that hasn’t at least made a Super Bowl is Chris Ballard with the Colts. Even acknowledging everyone has their whiffs, what picks he has had that have had success have not been significant enough to counteract the misses and get us where we need to go.

Heck of a come back win. I thought for sure it was over when Detroit went up 4-1. But the Sabres battled back in the 3rd and tied it up. They even had to kill a penalty with less than 3 minutes left in the 3rd. Tage made a great play in OT to keep possession of the puck. He knocked a Detroit player on his ass, got the puck and set up Samuelsson for the OT winner. They finally got a win in overtime, and on the road! lol

Ya overall they are good, but their last breakdown on the passing offence was bad ImO. They were basically ripping on Josh for not taking 1-3 yard gajns on 2nd and 10 lol

Cover1 has Bills players on their some of their shows sometimes, meaning they have access to the Bills organization. Because of that, it’s not surprising they could get this kind of info.

Not counting this years rookie class we have Epenesa, Bishop, OCT and James Cook as 4 out of our last 6 second rd picks So I'm not sure how you're defining success but I don't see a lot to complain about there

Nah, it’s just him. Coaching is immune to criticism. So is Josh.

Of course, every team has had misses. The ones here who think the Bills should hit on EVERY draft pick need to put down the crack pipe.

Does coaching play a role?

The real spike came in 2021-22. Hmm who was in charge then?

Shot heard round Niagara falls

That seems to be a childhood memory of many here

and now people are saying we are benching our WR getting the most reps, and at worst our WR2 currently, for Gabe Davis….

There's really good junior college football out there don't make fun of Southeast Nebraska!

I got news for you, if you look at the Drafts in previous years (especially if you want to go as far as back as, say, using Cody Ford as an example) - you're going to find that everyone has had misses. And a fair amount too if you go that far back. Especially when you consider where we're generally picking. Look at the number of 2nd Round Picks we bring in to camp from other teams to Training Camp and the Practice Squad in recent years, for example. We just signed a guy in Phidarian Mathis to the active roster that was Washington's 2nd Round pick bust in 2022. It feels like he misses a lot bc you focus on the Bills. But the fact is if you analyze every team's picks over the past 8 drafts - you're going to find a lot of misses in the first two picks. That's the nature of the Draft.

I don't think I would ever disagree with that He picks a lot of good football players..but you can't miss on your first pick in a draft and get Josh a wide receiver who's now in the doghouse Josh makes a lot of football players look good so to getting to the dog house Take some non-effort I would trade beans sixth round successes for second round successes because you're just getting better athletes typically in a more premium spot

No no no. Chuck it deep to Gabe and Mecole I’m so done with this nonsense!!

Hope he likes southeast Nebraska

I’d guess about 90% of this board was adament that we didn’t want to draft Coleman Shame that the fans appear wiser than the GM especially because of all the talk about speed and then passing on Worthy for one of the slowest WR’s drafted

One of my earliest memories as a child was walking into a room, maybe I was 3, and my dad yelling at the TV. I can recall my dad saying “don’t hang your head Ferguson”.

This is revisionist history-nobody thought they were “forcing” him there, everyone thought he was a legit 2

I'm not saying he's perfect or even excellent tbh I think his drafts are generally solid if unspectacular

Best version of this classic IMHO ...

I'm not a part of the bills organization so I can't tell you what's going on in the war room right before it's about to happen But I wonder what the scout consensus at one Bills drive versus beanes train of thought is Is Brandon Bean taking Coleman because that's his guy... But he's willing to listen to his scouts in the sixth round and take Christian Benford because the pressure isn't as high Beane is not a trained on the road full-time scout.. he was a front office guy with some scouting training... I wonder if there's scouts screaming for guys that he doesn't pull the trigger for when he can Because he has his plan Bills have always had a pretty solid scouting department.. overthinking them is how you draft bums