Thurman#1

It really is not. It's how he operates. It's not absolutely pure BPA, that doesn't exist, but BPA at a position of need is the dominant draft strategy, though certainly not unanimous.

At the right price, vanilla is terrific as long as it's getting you 4.6 YPC and is a very good pass blocker as Devin is. Agreed, basically. It wouldn't do nothing, but the improvement it would provide would NOT be worth anywhere near that high a pick.

Remember how he was going to make our defense vicious, and then he had to bring in new players to do it? They need a guy who can adapt to their already excellent players, not a guy who needs the GM to bring in guys to fit his system. Has the knowledge to be good, IMO, but is he too lazy at this point? And seems like a bad fit for a defense that's already really good.

Probably I'm with you. But the same answer is boring, so I would fix the slot receiver position for the foreseeable future. That's a lot of the reason our shortish pass game wasn't effective. Once Crowder was injured their plan there pretty much went to hell. Draft someone early or bring in a medium-priced FA (good slots can be had for less than top WR money.) I'd love to get Hunter Renfrow. Josh needs a good slot as a safety blanket.

It's not an "indictment" if we didn't use it this year. Whether you use something is based on situation, game plan, what the other team looks like ... Bottom line is that Dorsey was a rookie. He absolutely needs to improve, but he did improve during the year and should continue to do so. Josh loves him, and the offense was very very good this year despite limitations at OL and WR.

That call was fine. The pull on the shirt prevented the play from being made. Agree about the field.

This.

Yeah, people never say bad things on the internet.

Andre was the 86th pick. Shakir 148th. Andre was 6' 2", with long arms. But yeah, both had a smoothness to their movements. Still, Shakir has a long way to go before he should be compared to Andre. Andre had 637 yards in his first year, under another coach who tended to bring young guys in slower than many liked, though the Bills were bad enough at that point, that Levy wasn't as slow as he became when the lineup was really good.

And it wasn't always comp picks. They got a 1st rounder for Richard Seymour before the last year of his contract. That got them Nate Solder and probably let them feel they had the freedom to take their original 1st rounder that year and trade it for a 1st and a 2nd the next year. Always more picks. https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/new-england-patriots/patriots-still-reaping-rewards-seymour-deal

Both lineups healthy? Bills by a significant margin. But less than would be comfortable. And less than had been true in the recent past.

There is no surprise. It's just pointing out that the vast lahars of pessimism we've seen here are wild overreactions. We certainly do need to do a good job with personnel acquisition this year. But so does every team every year, really. I strongly disagree that injuries had little to do with the loss to the Bengals. IMO with Hyde, Von and Da'Quan on the field, not to mention with Poyer healthy rather than limping around like a golem, there's a very decent possibility that game looks a whole lot different.

Tied him up and hid him in the basement. People would have forgotten about him.

We didn't miss the opportunity with Hodgins. He's about the best guy on the Giants, but he's probably the 5th best here. Why cry about 351 yards in Jersey on 417 snaps and 48 targets. He's a replacement level guy with the possibility of getting better. But he doesn't get much separation, which is what they look for for WRs for Allen. As for Daboll, there were disagreements there, but it happens. Wasn't a big deal. He left because he wanted to be a head coach. He's never made a secret of that. Good luck to both, as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah. Things can change, of course. But that's generally how he's thought of right now. A smart guy who looks like he might go a long way.

It's a lateral move, but onto a staff that has a better path upwards if he does well there. Also, if someone does well in two places it looks better on his resume than doing well in one place for the same total length of time. WR development was OK last year. Shakir got significantly better as the season went along, Davis got better, though not as much as we'd have liked. This isn't good for the Bills, but it's how the world works. They'll adjust and deal.

Wasn't so much that they made a priority of OL. It was more that they had Scarnecchia who was an absolutely exceptional OL coach who did not want to go higher and Peter Principle himself. Also, Belichick really was a very good drafter up till the last four years or so. He also had a smart system, acquiring more picks rather than trading up, generally. They were drafting late 20s most years and still drafted quite well. Belichick was brilliant with trading for more picks and getting more picks through the comp picks system. Belichick was ruthless with the cap, cutting guys early, You mentioned this but it was crucial. They built through the draft, filling in gaps with low- and mid-priced FAs. They also did all the little tiny unimportant things well, including cheating and going right up to the edge. Who was that dark lord figure behind the scenes that Belichick relied on so much? I always forget his name but he had a lot to do with it.

Morse might indeed retire, but if he doesn't they can not let him go. Last thing we need right now, the very last thing, is to go creating new holes on this OL. I'm with you that I think Bates stays also.

I totally disagree with this. He gives up? Just the opposite. One of his absolute strengths is that when Allen is scrambling for extra time Davis is terrific at keeping the play going and finding space. He's terrific at it. He's got his limitations, certainly, but he fights for contested balls and keeps going when he's covered. Both strengths for him. He's got a tight lower body, hips and legs. I hadn't thought it was all that big a deal, but according to Joe Marino the other day, this is a physical limitation for him. And it means he's mostly going to be doing more vertical routes. This means he's not as good at hard horizontal cuts.

Yes. Must ... blame ... coaches ... and ... GM. (The Enterprise is rocked by an explosion. Kirk is thrown across the bridge, and catches himself against a console.) Got to ... throw ... shade on ... anyone ... but ... players.

Again, that play was on the players. We know it because Levi Wallace has specifically said that the coaches called the right play and that it comes down to the communication between Poyer and Wallace. That Poyer was playing deep to stop the Hail Mary and Wallace assumed that he'd be playing shorter to stop the shorter pass allowing a field goal to tie and so their communication was awful. This is a good example of confirmation bias. If you're focused on the coaches, you won't listen to the players specifically telling you what happened and whose fault it was. Oh, and how many points did our offense score against the Bengals? The teams was emotionally drained. We've heard the same thing from about a half a dozen of the Bills.

Oh, no. I'll pray for her.

Not true at all. Josh being terrific is certainly one of the reasons we won 13 games. There are plenty of others, though. The defense was 5th in the league in points allowed, 19.1 points per game despite losing Hyde, Von Miller and many many others for an awful lot of the season. Anyone not seeing that was a major part of the picture just doesn't get it. I certainly would like to see them upgrade the line. But that's not all. They need S, WR and probably DL as well, unfortunately.

Allen is #1 in jersey sales in the NFL. https://buffalonews.com/business/local/with-nfl-s-top-selling-jersey-josh-allen-s-popularity-reaches-next-level/article_63dbcf2c-a0cb-11ed-98fd-57bad9134ddb.html Remember all those times Philip Rivers was #1 in jersey sales? Yeah, me neither. OP just listens to the wrong people. Wait, who was #1? Josh Allen. You mean Joe Burrow? Josh Allen. You mean Pat Mahomes? Josh Allen. There'll be recency bias. But people love Allen, and Bills fans alone wouldn't buy enough to make him #1.

One year don't make an era. Old guys won the last two SBs.