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75-man rosters plus some rules changes, elimination of preseason, and more, will be necessary to grow the season beyond where it is currently without seriously turning the NFL into a battle of attrition and "load management."

Investing a 1st round pick in the 2024 draft would have been the bills trading up a few picks to get Brian Thomas Jr. instead of trading back a couple times into the 2nd round for whatever WR remained. And I like how Coleman is developing I just wish the Bills took the WR position as seriously in the draft as they try to with the D line

The lot opens at 2 pm per their Official Facebook Group, so that would do.

Bills 33, Dolphins 7

Thanks! Just what was looking for. We of course were planning on seeing the whole Pinto Ron experience! I just didn’t know if I could park in Hammers lot or if it was always sold out. If we get to Hammers by 2pm I should get a spot?

We’ve also had numerous chances to draft WRs and instead continually invest in the D line. We’re banging our heads against the wall thinking if we get that one D lineman that can become Chris jones we will win a SB instead of investing in a WR who can create separation for Josh in key moments and maybe come up with a catch to win us the game. Passing on WRs with big upside like Troy Franklin for high character nobodies like Dwayne Carter is the definition of what the McBeane regime does. Even this year let’s hope that trading up for another DT in sanders was the right call instead of trading up for Luther Burden. Probably won’t know for another year or so. I just hope they can change course and finally get that they need to invest around their biggest asset, Josh Allen. Great job on the O line now get our boy some real weapons.

You'll have to get to the stadium about 6 hours early, but for the true Bills tailgating experience, you can't beat Hammers Lot. It's basically across the street from the stadium, right next to the new stadium. I think it's $60 to park. Pinto Ron has his ketchup and mustard ceremony there. Bowling ball shots. (I won't tell if you let your 19 yr old have a bowling ball shot.) That would be my suggestion. You would have to take the 219 to 20A, head west towards the stadium, then make a right on Abbott and Hammers Lot will be on your left.

This might also speak to Beane's habit of NOT aggressively adding to a position of strength when a potentially special prospect is inconveniently available. He has often seemed to reach around (forgive me) higher graded players at positions of lesser immediate "need" in order to address more glaring needs with potentially lesser prospects. And then when he does double-dip, we get an ahemboogiebasham that doesn't seem like great fit or value. That's just one example, but BPA is NOT AT ALL Beane's draft philosophy. Which is a mistake imho when your team is successful and therefore perennially at the back of the line. Gotta grab BPA year over year in order to hit more home runs and wind up with more difference makers. Again, in my humble and limited opinion. Edit: this is not intended to characterize Beane as a bad drafter. Far from it. Just not someone playing the long game year after year. And I mostly get the reasons for that IRL wrt to cap and roster management. But you have Josh Freaking Allen, so why not swing for the fences more often.

You aren’t imagining it. Chiefs skill positions players in general have been garbage for the past 2 years. Kelce has been dropping some very catchable balls. Mahomes just doesn’t have enough firepower and I don’t think they win their division this year.

It’s absolutely crazy that you spend the whole year missing and waiting for football to come back and this time tomorrow we will have already played 3 games. It goes so fast. Anyone that has issues with more games is insane. I wish the season was 25 games. This is way too short

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I can say from my perspective, I don't attempt to categorize the Diggs trade into a draft pick discussion because I can't track down all the rest of the draft pick trade for players and input that information. Same for Kincaid. I understand he is a receiving TE, but I'm not going to try and categorize all of those types and put some sort of value to weight that as a WR investment. Logical sure, hard to do with analytics and not introduce my opinion. I will also add this look is from 2021 on, so it is outside the Diggs window. But also likely impacted 2021/2022 etc, as we acquired him reducing the need for higher investment. So if one wants to go down the discussion of us actually investing a lot more than what the pure draft picks show, certainly a conversation you could have.

Nice view there. Torrence absolutely manhandled his guy, driving him way outside. Thing of beauty.

So I agree with this, Diggs should be counted as a 1st round investment. Yeah it's not exactly the same as drafting a rookie WR but it feels like pointless semantics to argue that it doesn't count. The combined offseasons of 2019 and 2020 was really the last time Beane made it a point to invest in the position. The result was a very effective three headed monster spearheaded by Allen coming into his own. Since 2020 though it's impossible to deny the lack of investment. I feel better about the strategy right now than I did 18 months ago but I definitely still have my doubts.

Its 100% getting banned next year, I have zero doubt about it after the stink about illegal formations and false starting.

Well run organizations that think they have a franchise QB continually invest in WRs in the draft. See the packers, chiefs, ravens, bengals, Texans, heck even the chargers are doing it now with none other than Jim Harbaugh in charge. Overpaying WRs like Palmer who never produced in his career and Samuel who isn’t a real WR is not what winning FOs do. Beane’s bandaid on this colossal misguided strategy is that he has the best player in the league playing QB. He may just get lucky enough to win a SB despite his miscues because Josh is such a unicorn but It wouldn’t work with any other teams QB and he’d be fired already if he didn’t have Josh to bail him and McD out. INVEST DURING THE DRAFT IN CHEAP LABOR WRs FOR THE BEST QB IN THE LEAGUE PLEASE 🙏🏻 Go Bills

Right thats not my argument though. The argument that I'm presenting is that the Bills don't invest in pass catchers. I think that's false. If you want to talk about specific examples or the manner they go about their investment than I am 100% in agreement with you. Would I like for them to draft a guy in 2nd-3rd round on a more consistent basis, sure you wont hear me put up a fight about that. It just seems the Bills, when they do invest, would rather get a "finished" product more than developing a guy. Why that is, I have no idea.

The bills are now a team that makes nearly no negative plays. It’s boring at times, but something to behold. Miami is going to be desperate and that can be dangerous but they have at best a 10% chance of winning this game.