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Elijah Moore is a great example of the kind of value talent that can pay off big. He's been with the Jets and Browns and his career has suffered the consequences. He could be ripe for a short term opportunity here on the cheap. All the WR talk now and pretty much since last August has gotten many salty takes. Beane has taken a money ball approach to the WR room and it worked last year. WRs that block, don't drop the ball and don't complain about their role can get you a long way with Josh Allen as the QB.

Have you ever heard Beane yell about anything, ever? I know I haven't. That's not his style. But he was definitely combative and probably got annoyed while listening to the feed while waiting on hold and is probably very much aware of that general criticism about his drafting. In general, fans and media love the draft and some love it too much to the point of being blind to the other roster building tools. Beane is concerned with the entire roster including the practice squad and knows that this job is never done and the draft is maybe half of the process at best.

Next time Brandon is on, I predict that he offers some sort of apology as he is normally very patient with critics in the local media. It was almost like his version of Polian's "if your don't like it you can get out of town!" moment, but, in a much more well-mannered, southern gentlemanly, passive aggressive way.

Beane came at them with a "it sounds like 2018 again" meaning the criticism for taking Josh Allen. He was probably waiting on hold listening to Sal's segment and missed the conversations earlier this morning about what an improved defense could mean for the upcoming season. Seemed to suggest that the criticism is coming from fantasy football perspectives. Says he does not value WR less than the rest of the league.

He's on now and I have never seen/heard Brandon Beane so salty on an interview. He is prickly about the WR/draft conversation. Interesting interaction and not the usual Beane interview.

Scoring 30+ points a game and having an MVP QB not possible in the NFL with a bad passing game. High volume stats you cite are incompatible with a 13 and 3 team that blew away their division and had their starting QB on the sideline for ~10 quarters of game action.

That should be a word. Here's another. I had a coworker who has a hearing issue and is prone to malaprops. He was speaking to a larger size group about a quality issue and described a sudden change in an X-bar-R-chart as "dramastic." It was funny at the time and maybe he was just caught between "dramatic" and "drastic" but now that I have two teenagers I use that word often. It comes in handy.

Coaches had little to do with the failures here, imo. Multitude of players taking turns screwing up.

That first game was a logistics nightmare. Those 2-14 were not drawing big crowds and the Bills game day prep was subpar for this one. Bill Polian was supposedly somewhere in the mix directing traffic. I was stuck on Abbot Road in an NFTA bus and the driver would not let us out to walk to the stadium. Missed the whole first quarter.

He will turn 24 in September and that works against him. But, although he lost most of 2023 to injury, he was All-MAC in 2022 which says his play has been solid beyond just the last year. The lack of a senior all-star game and combine invitations is glaring. That seems almost like snubs with a message although I can't say for sure what it would be.

I'll weigh in. I think it went sort of like this and had similar consequences. The OL are the US Marines of the locker room. Not every human being is capable of being a marine no matter how they are "encouraged" to up their performance and playing mind games with people can go sideways. Martin was considered soft by the coaching staff and team and there was a concerted attempt to toughen him up. Call it constructive bullying. Who issued the Code Red? Wrong movie.

Ok. Missed that. Just turned from Fox.

If that's the shot I saw it was from Buffalo's Riverworks. Fun place.

Let's say Cole plays Kelce better than any previous Bills playoff defender. I wonder how much having brought Micah to the practice squad might have helped. That seems like the most tangible, hoped for benefit of bringing him in at that point of the season if they never intended on having him in a game.

That's it. He loves to mess with people, I assume it doesn't matter whether there is a camera there or not. Look for the video from when he did a live interview on a golf course with a local news reporter where he asked if it was a live feed and then pretended to freeze up or the video linked here. Wings at Room 40 at 1:06 Live Interview at American Century Golf

Josh takes a borderline hit and embellishes its effect on him so that the referee will feel the pressure to drop the flag. He will also hold the ball to the last possible moment where the hit is immanent but he can still release the ball cleanly, thus creating a borderline hit. Very rare for Josh to take a hit that he did not see coming but he chooses not to avoid many of them at the cost of missing the play. Mastering QB time and space.

QB chasing the ball carrier for 30 yards vs stationery in the pocket watching the play and getting lit up. Can't be the same.

Horrible to break the huddle that late on the road on such a crucial play. That's not on Stroud.

ESPN out before we even know the spot for first down

The hidden value of sack avoidance.

Got it. Makes sense now. Obviously the Bills lean on Cook and Josh to run it in when close. I think I hear people say that Lamar's EPA/play is higher. Maybe people are just puking out mangled facts

Yeah I get that but EPA is one that is frequently cited and according to the reference I found, Josh led in total EPA and EPA/play. So maybe consumers of football analytics can explain to me why this conflict of facts exists.

Yes. The sequence would be 1) Josh balls out 2) Ravens lose 3) NFL awards ceremony Lamar wins MVP 4) Lamar has to go onstage to accept. Forever awkward scene which would be something for sure.

Ok. I have heard it said by many sources, from Mina Kimes to Joe Marino, when they have weighed in on MVP or QB comparisons, that Lamar leads in EPA. Maybe it's the stat source or some twisted semantics of the English language, but this would need some explaining.

Jordan Burroughs.