Malazan

I hope he goes full crazy old man now.

..because obviously the Bills front office is incompetent. If they hadn't drafted Josh Allen, they would really be screwed!

If you read between the lines of this, you can tell he's already gone.

Right now, it's probably Baker Mayfield.

Hey, they're moving up.. just signed a deal to broadcast games on ESPN 8

Who doesn't love a good cornhole?

Sometimes, when everyone disagrees with you.. it's not because you're a secret genius.. it might going the other way.

The stats speak for themselves. You should take a look. Beasley fell off a cliff (that's not to say he wasn't effective, but compared to previous seasons.. there was a stark difference). Whatever the Bills felt about him off the field, they replaced his production for about half the cost with a younger player which strikes me of much greater interest to them.

ok? I posted stats. No one posts stats that include regular season and playoffs. You can do with them what you will.

Their next commercial should just be a Browns team photo

The two seasons are pretty close. I went with 2019 personally because more catches and my own bias that I watched every jets game with him and he put that team on his back. You're probably correct that while he fewer catches, he had 1 more TD, 14 more yards and 3.8% higher catch percent in 2016.

It's the season under "Best Season" in my post aka 2020. I did not differentiate between QBs. That is not how stats work.

Best Season: Crowder (2019) - Catches: 78, Yards: 833, Yard/Rec: 10.7, TDs: 6, Catch: 63.9%, YAC: 365 Beasley (2020) - Catches: 82, Yards: 967, Yard/Rec: 11.8, TDs: 4, Catch: 76.6%, YAC: 354 Last Season: Crowder (7 Games) - Catches: 51, Yards: 447, Yard/Rec: 8.8, TDs: 2, Catch: 71.8%, YAC: 327 Beasley (16 games) - Catches: 82, Yards: 693, Yard/Rec: 8.5, TDs: 1, Catch: 73.2%, YAC: 305 Career: Crowder (28 years old / 96 games / 18 games lost to injury) - Catches: 409, Yard/Rec: 11.3, TDs: 29, Catch: 66.9%, YAC: 1895 Beaseley )32 years old / 149 games / 2 games lost to injury) - Catches: 550, Yard/Rec: 10.4, TDs: 34, Catch: 71%, YAC: 2446

The other thing I think people underplay here is that Beane literally just got another team negotiate a deal for him and he absolutely knows what Bates could get in FA. If you put a 2nd round tender on him.. no other team even sniffs around. The arguments on here had Bates value all over the place. If Beane was not sure and didn't want to negotiate against himself.. he needed another team to weigh in and he got one to do it..

BPA isn't a thing. Most teams use something that if you describe it would be "BVA" aka Best Value Available. Drafting BPA is a bad strategy. To explain this in the extreme, the BPA could be a QB.. a QB at 25would be a massive waste on the Bills though.. Same thing if you look in the draft and you're in the 2nd round and the BPA is a player who's going to have a hard time making the team then.. well, you have better value elsewhere. It's not drafting for need, but it's a balancing act. Then you look at things like a safety... don't draft a safety in the 1st because solid productive players are available in FA every year at that position and even the cost of the elite ones don't compare to pass rushers and wide receivers.

Beane frequently says, you don't know what the market will be for the player until it starts.. too many factors. If he had tendered him at a 2nd round.. he was negotiating against himself. He's also telling the rest of the NFL what he values Bates at.. Now the NFL has told him.. exactly what the market for Bates is... The risk of someone giving Bates a crazy deal (and to be clear I think the Bears deal is on the high end) that they wouldn't match was low. Beane got the player, he doesn't have negotiate a new deal with him and got information on how other teams in the league are valuing players.

Given his history.. he probably had several..

before you guys get too excited.. NFL Stats bots has some worrying statistics: Ryan Bates (C) had 0 pass completions in 2020.

I'm a believe in you draft WRs and CBs. They're too expensive related to production. Diggs trade made sense with his contract in place even with the likely extension.

Will Detroit still be a city by then? I've seen Robocop

As I said all along.. Beane loves to let other teams do the work for him. Beane absolutely knows what Bates market value is now..

not anymore...

Oh, thank god, our long national nightmare is finally over.

The scuttlebutt in Miami is that taking that job meant turning around Tua. There's a reason they took so long to hire someone and ended up with a 1 year coordinator lottery ticket as their HC. Now I believe strongly in Tua's ability to make Bridgewater the starter, but it's not an open competition