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I understand. Maybe that is so, or perhaps Beane is a sly dog, and has another plan he isn't saying. It might be boring literalism. I'm still hoping he's playing poker, because I don't like the WR room, even though I am high on Kincaid, and was one of the few on this board who championed him well before the draft. There were like 3 of us, we lit metaphorical cigars afterwards to celebrate our success. I tried the same thing this year hoping to get McConkey drafted, but I guess it was a one-time magic. I saw your latest response to Badol. Fantastic if you are correct. Seems overly optimistic to me.

Probably be too afraid to speak the truth anymore, for fear of the mob backlash, and losing endorsements… Sad, when people are too afraid to speak truth, something has gone severely wrong in the society…

Good. One box checked. All he needs to do to make the final roster is 1) Convince McDermott he trusts the process, and 2) Spend some quality time as a member of the Carolina Panthers.

Priceless! The British representative so eloquently illustrates what so many Americans, on both sides of the aisle, have been trying to say for a long time…👍 Trump shouldn’t even have a chance at winning the presidency if only the Democrats did what most Americans wanted…Therefore, they really bring this tight battle on themselves…👍

One way I look at the performance of a defense is by the number of stops it generates over the course of a game. (With a stop defined as a punt or a turnover.) Look at what happened during the year of 13 seconds. The Chiefs' first playoff game was against the Steelers. The Steelers defense forced six defensive stops. Their next game was against the Bills. The Bills defense forced two stops: one in the first half, the other in the second. Their third playoff game was against the Bengals. The Bengals defense forced six stops, including a stop in overtime. (The Bills defense was also given a chance to generate a stop in overtime, but we all know how that went.) All this happened when the Chiefs still had Tyreek Hill. Joe Burrow and the Bengals were barely good enough to get the win against the Chiefs, with those six defensive stops. Josh Allen's defense gave him only two stops--one third of what Burrow received. With those two stops, Allen took his team to within 13 seconds of winning. Under McDermott, the Bills defense has never generated more than two defensive stops, in a playoff game against the Chiefs or the Bengals. In the most recent Super Bowl, the 49ers defense forced seven stops against the Chiefs. That's 3.5 times better than McDermott's best. After the McDermott/Frazier soft zone/prevent defense inevitably collapses against the Chiefs in the playoffs, do you know what we hear? We hear a song and dance about how Allen will never win a postseason game against Mahomes. We hear that Mahomes is better, which is why he always wins. Nothing at all is said about the fact that Josh Allen's defense is only 1/3 as effective as the other postseason defenses Mahomes often faces.

A 4th round pick for a short yardage back though?

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I'm not necessarily prognosticating just saying IF Davis supplants Cook as the main back, I have no qualms with it. I see where you're coming from with the seeming lack of a plan and the seeming trial and erros. If Cook remains the number one and Davis is most the third and shorts and goaline back we could still have a "fast" offense. But who knows. I don't think McD is an offensive guru so let's see what Brady does.

No. It isn't. Drama often comes in two forms. 1) An exaggeration of facts. 2) An exaggerated conclusion. It's factually accurate to say that Allen only has a limited number of years left before his window starts closing. Nextmanup's conclusion or implication is that the Bills should treat each of those years as precious. If a player would decrease the team's chances of winning a Super Bowl during that window, the Bills might want to think twice about keeping that player. Clearly, the Bills had more and bigger problems in the playoff game against the Chiefs than Tyler Bass. I don't think anyone here is trying to hang that loss on him. But it is reasonable to ask, was Bass part of the problem, or was he part of the solution? When Bass is on his game, he's one of the top kickers in the league. No doubt. I'm sure we all want him to get back to being what he once was. But how much time do we give him? If he fails to improve, there's absolutely a chance he messes with Allen's window. As a Bills fan, I'm well aware of what it's like to have a postseason game come down to the final play, and what it's like to lose that game by a single point due to a missed 47 yard field goal attempt.

Wasn’t Shakir a starter last year?

Your Ted Washington analogy doesn’t work with a WR group that has 2-4 players spread across the field on every play. Neither does your comment that our receivers are career complimentary players. Samuel is a career starter. Shakir is a 3rd year player who was finally moved into the game plan until week 7 and will be a 1st year starter. Once Shakir got into the lineup he became a serious weapon with 600+ yards on only 45 targets (with 17 explosive plays). This is 850 yards pace in a full seasons. Kincaid, once he was fully inserted also in week 7, also paced at around 850 yards. Considering their youth to pigeon hole them as “complimentary” players is extremely premature. Kincaid is on his way to being our Kelce. Last I looked Kelce was a player that demanded “extra attention.”

And being a 5th round pick, unburdened by expectations, he was able to learn on the job and eventually became a 1,000 yard receiver in the NFL for the first time in year 4.

He has interest. I thought you weren’t interested in arguing?

Yeah, McDermott goes to the Scouting Combine but he has no interest in scouting the players. Got it.

Believe that McD is either: 1. scouting every defensive player we could possibly draft in the first 100 picks 2. Has prescient knowledge about what players will be available when we pick and scouts ONLY them lol There’s conjecture then there’s conjecture lmao Also McD is such a control freak that he had Leslie Frazier call the defensive plays for 4 years and basically has no hand in the offense at all lol

You'll have to ask him and until you do, it's your conjecture vs mine. I'll add that you cannot argue that 1) The Defense is McDermott's Baby and 2) McDermott is a renowned control freak. Believe what you'd like but I'm not here to debate. P.S. - Tre'Davious White was not Doug Whaley's idea.

"In aggregate" is literally just a re-phrasing of "with numbers". Teams that are matchup nightmares have players who can't be neutralized by a single defender. They require extra attention. Like Ted Washington serving as a one man run defense and creating one-on-one's for other Bills defenders. When they cut him, the aggregate were no match at all for opposing running games. Who do the Bills have in their WR corps that commands that extra attention? What they have right now are a bunch of career complementary WR along with a raw rookie in Coleman.

THEY HATE US, THEY REALLY HATE US!

Neither did Diggs.

I met Shakir and Bernard at a local golf course a few weeks ago. These two young athletes were so respectful and conversational. The Bills should be so proud of these athletes who represent the organization with such class. It was a pleasure to talk with them.

Ya can ride the stairs down on the snow and ice on a sled

Beane has already said that money isn’t going to a WR. I think he said in a recent interview that the June 1 money is going to used to sign the rookies and for operating cap space. I think what he means by that is having cap room to add someone like Douglas in case of injury during the season. I’m pretty bullish on the plan. I watched the Packers 4 1st and 2nd year receivers and 2 1st and 2nd years TEs put on a show last season and the Bills group of Kincaid, Knox, Coleman, Samuel, and Shakir are at least if not more talented. If one of Claypool, Cephus or Hamler can beat out Hollins for the 4th WR job all the better.

Yeah except the fact that your going to be a mile away from the field. I don’t buy any of that crap about being closer to the action. It’s BS imo. The stadium is going to be significantly taller than the current stadium. Those rows up there are going to be steep.