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Nice little summary about the impact of the J6 bomber. https://www.kunstler.com/p/cold-case-heats-up

The worst part is that Slay has to remain on the active roster, so the Bills essentially have a 52 man roster now.

And if Beane tampered, there's a chance that 3rd round pick may have been his first selection of the draft. A draft we need to have picks to fill in the many holes we do have and will be opened after the year. Tampering for a washed up CB really wasn't worth the risk.

First time they shoveled, they got minimum wage. During the second snowstorm, Beane brought them inside for hot chocolate, and raised their rate to $70 an hour. 😁

Rousseau’s contract is fine.. not good, not bad. I criticize him, but alot of it is because we don’t ever have a DE1 across from him. Id point out that since Chris Jones has fallen off a bit, Chiefs fans are having the same frustrations with Karlaftis. Benford just needs to stay healthy in the playoffs. I was about to lose my mind when he was meh early this year, and we’ll see if he rises to the challenge this week, but he’s looked every bit of a legit CB1 as of late. Cook. Home run. Only a handful of RB’s you should pay and he’s one of them. Bernard’s extension is frustrating. Both in terms of paying him and the doubling down of their philosophy at LB. I’ll give him grace for being hurt, and maybe he makes some big plays when it matters.. he has a knack for that, but I just don’t think our undersized DT/LB combo is helpful both in terms of injury risk and play on the field in the current NFL. My most controversial annoyance of recent extensions is Shakir. I don’t think he’s a reliable slot. I think he’s a guy you move around.. slot, backfield, motion etc. A chess piece. I haven’t seen him be a reliable piece in a functioning passing offense. Some of that could be Brady, but I do think some of it is Shakir’s skillset. Good player.. not sure his skillset is something I’d pay what we did for though. I like Bosa a lot. In a vacuum love the signing. Still do. Get him healthy for the playoffs. That said, we had a plan and then completely deviated from that plan and played him a ton. Injuries etc, I get it. Priority 1 has to be getting him healed up now. Hoecht is someone, who as a vision, makes a ton of sense. But we signed him knowing he had a PED suspension. PED’s are known to make you higher risk for tendon/ligament injuries. This was always the risk. Ogunjobi, I’m fine with it. Beane couldn’t foresee all these injuries and wanted to make sure we were OVERLY stocked on the DL, only to have this year be so over the top with guys getting hurt. Palmer, WR room in general. No excuse for. Huge, monument failure. He just paid Samuel whos always hurt and turns around to do the same with Palmer. Two B level WR’s with injury histories and we expected anything different? His drafting has been middle of the pack in recent years with some huge misses in Elam, Keon and Kincaid. All for different reasons, but all showing that they’re guys we massively missed on with three recent top 33 picks. Just can’t happen. Some hits later in the draft, some TBD’s and some misses. Just very meh. This is the first year where I’ve thought Beane has now been hurting us, and I think McDermott believes this as well. I don’t think Beane is awful. I think he’s middle of the pack as a GM since drafting Allen and has been an acting like he’s some untouchable guy this year. If one thinks Beane assembling a team with an elite QB, elite OL, but pretty average everywhere else with a constant issue at WR is worth keeping, so be it. But I fear he’s trending down lately. I do hope this Defense gets healthy and balls out in the playoffs. I do hope our WR room makes some strides and makes Allen’s life a bit easier as they gel with him. I don’t actually want to feel like we need to fire the GM. I’d love to make a post here at the end of the season saying he’s won me back over.

I think it’s important to look at what the roster actually was supposed to be this season, especially in the trenches, rather than judging strictly by what it became after injuries. On the D-line: We only got 64 snaps of Hoecht, but those snaps made it very clear why Beane signed him. He was explosive, powerful, and disruptive, exactly the kind of presence we’ve been missing opposite Bosa. Adding a healthy Hoecht to Bosa and an Oliver who came out red-hot in Week 1 had the real potential to give us one of the strongest defensive fronts we’ve fielded in years. No, we can’t say for certain what the line would have looked like over a full season, but it’s absolutely fair to say losing Hoecht changed the makeup of the defense. His early play suggested he was going to be a major upgrade against the run and a boost to the pass rush. Pair that with Bosa’s talent and Oliver’s fast start, and Beane clearly had built this line to be a strength. If anything, the problem wasn’t the plan, it’s that injuries wiped out the plan before it had a chance to take shape. On the O-line: The idea that this offensive line is “bad at pass protection” doesn’t match the actual data. According to SI’s evaluation of the 2024 season, with the exact same five starters we brought into 2025, the Bills: • allowed just 14 sacks, the fewest in the NFL • ranked among the top pass-blocking units by several analytic measures • posted one of the league’s better pass-block win rates • and received strong individual protection grades across all five positions These aren’t subjective observations, they’re objective league-wide comparisons. Buffalo’s O-line wasn’t just “fine” in pass protection last year; it was one of the most efficient and consistent lines in the league. So while they are indeed stronger in run blocking, calling them “bad at pass protection” simply doesn’t align with reality. It’s an emotional reaction, not a fact-based one. Big picture: Both the O-line and D-line were areas where Beane made deliberate, well constructed moves this offseason and before building the O-line. The offensive line has performed at a legitimately high level with these same five starters, and the defensive line had the pieces to be a true strength before injuries derailed it, especially with Hoecht flashing so much in his brief window.

But then Hoecht got hurt, so here we are. I still can’t blame the way they went about the team building. Like signing Von, they took a swing and it didn’t work out. I’d be excited to see this defense play if they were healthy, but that’s hard to come by.

Christmas music kind of gets me in a holiday good cheer mood, so i'm all for it.

So, my big old Dodge Ram 5.7 Hemi is ready to die. I was hoping to get it to the Spring and then look for something else, but unfortunately, she's on her last legs. My engine coolant keeps running dry and it's not leaking on the ground, so the only other place its going, is seeping through the head gasket and that's about a $3,000 repair.........i'm not putting that kind of money into her, so we're planning the last rites on her. I haven't been car/truck hunting in a long time, so i feel like i'm running blind out there these days. I'm thinking about a Toyota or Volkswagen SUV........i don't need a truck anymore, but i definitely need AWD or 4-wheel drive. Any suggestions? (i'm planning on buying used, maybe about 3-4 years old, low mileage, etc.) and i think i'm topping out my budget at around $25,000

I made the mistake when I was living in Music City of taking my kids the weekend before Christmas to Restoration Hardware, and said hammer showed up under the tree, so it was either the wife or one of the kids.

Have at it. The kill them all hoax is dead. Admiral Bradley's Testimony Delivers Devastating Blow to Dem Narrative of Drug Boat Story by Nick Arama Democrats and the media have been trying to whip up a story about the Trump administration taking out drug boats. They thought they had something with a story from the Washington Post that claimed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered a second strike on a drug boat when there were survivors in the water. [snip] Instead, when Bradley testified on Thursday, he told the truth. "The admiral confirmed that there had not been a kill them all order and that there was not an order to grant no quarter," Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, told reporters after a briefing with the admiral. https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/12/04/admiral-bradley-testimony-delivers-final-blow-to-wapo-story-n2196825#google_vignette

Anything to keep Beane from drafting in the 3rd round 😁

they’ve been even more decimated w/ injuries than we’ve been over the past couple seasons.

According to GROK: Very close STATISTICALLY. Given the Bill's more difficult SOS you could give the nod to JA.

Just curious, would you feel the same had Beane tampered, been caught and had the Bills punished by being losing day 1 or day 2 draft picks like what happened with Miami a couple years back? Really, if there was any "tampering" it should have come from Slay or his agent leaking that he would really only go to a certain place or retire. Rosenhaus misplayed this more than anyone and it's going to cost his client game checks.

Exactly, make him earn that money!

I agree with we know what Rousseau is now. He’s a run defending base end that will get 6-8 sacks a season. The problem is the Bills have never had enough sack guys to allow him to just be that guy. If Bosa was getting 10 and Hoecht was healthy and getting 10 no one would care as much about him being a run guy. That’s why the Hoecht injury hurt because you could see the evolution of the defensive front and now we’re back to playing base 4 down

I watched that Speakeasy segment, and, honestly, after hearing from the man himself, I’ve got no problem with any of this. Bills took a shot. He’s older. Has a family. If he plays, prefers familiarity. Understandable. Whatever. I’ve also got no problem with losing Ingram for him. Cost of doing business.

If I have one main area I don’t like with how Beane manages the roster signings it’s just how frequently he tries to avoid a player going into his final year or final couple years of a deal to “save” for the future as more cap is added and that contract likely grows. It is a logical strategy in many ways but also ignores elements that can be beneficial when you allow players to enter a final contract year. By allowing that additional year/sometimes two years, you get peak production from the player. You get the benefit of seeing how the rest of your roster is developing and if that signing makes sense. You get the benefit of ensuring that contract is for somebody that is healthy. Waiting is an insurance policy. You don’t always need to use insurance, but to just eliminate it entirely is a mistake. One that has forced us to eat some pretty big contracts, easily making up for any savings from signing guys earlier.

True that! The majority of the fans on this site were desperate for Beane to trade up with the NY Giants for the number two spot to draft Rosen. Thus giving up the farm for that guy! Then, after the Bills drafted Allen, so many here were crying like little children over the mistake the team made due to Allen's accuracy issues. I think many fans here fell in love with Allen in 2018 after that Minnesota game with his jumping over a LBer. One noted poster here who does his yearly NFL draft evaluation on all players, and in particular, the Buffalo players. He noted that he had a third-round grade on Josh Allen. The NY Jets, NY Giants, and Cleveland Browns were all bad teams then, and still are bad teams. So many Buffalo Bills fans here discount the change of culture that this current HC and GM have brought to this team since they were hired. It really is the difference, so now many, many NFL players want to come and play for this franchise. No knock on Josh Allen, I simply think that this team would have been successful in drafting Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, or even Lamar Jackson. Not as exciting or as loved here in Buffalo as Allen is, or perhaps not have won as many games.

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How about this... make a call and see if ol' Howie is willing to cut somone that helps us, then cut slay to sign with Philly. Not sure how that might work,but it's a thought

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Yes that’s how journalism works. You can’t let your sources get fired.