BADOLBILZ

One of those turkey's didn't quite reach temp so it rode home(unbeknownst to me driving) on the top of our Dodge Ram van. It was pretty well suctioned on there after 70 miles.

Thumbs up for enthusiasm. I think he's out of juice to contribute as a deep ball option but as I've said in other threads I think you can plug him in and trust him to run some of the option routes they abandoned when Dorsey was fired. He has spent a lot of time in EP systems.......most of his best years. That addresses this big "mesh" complaint about not having quicker developing options.

I would have been until this season. I think it's reached a point where he has to relinquish control defensively. He is baby sitting Babich. Babich may one day be a great DC but that position is the one that favors the wiser man. Offense can still be about innovation so young minds can still find an advantage.

I can't envision a scenario where McDermott gets fired for this mess that Beane has made. But I do think the big offseason move is likely for proven coordinators to open the new stadium with. It's all a shot in the dark with so many candidates still employed but Mike McDaniel and Jim Schwartz is my very BOLD prediction.

They did well with their picks........but they literally drafted 24 players in 2023 and 2024. Nacua was their fourth 5th round pick in 2023. It's so frustrating during draft season listen to Bills fans yack that nonsense about the Bills not having space for all these picks and how they should trade up because somebody might not make the roster. But they are taking their lead from Beane on it. He is the one leading that charge and he's been getting ball washed on TSW for most of that time. Fans ALWAYS turn on management when it occurs to the fans that they don't share the same opinions as management. Volume is a cheat code. The Rams basically risked being a little too young for a couple years and in the middle of year 3 they had been totally rebuilt from a cap strapped, aging team into a SB contender. Since 2017 when they stopped having 1st round picks they have averaged 9.3 picks per class. They have lost a number of solid players in free agency that are still contributing in the league. Like David Edwards. So what? It shouldn't matter. Not everybody needs to be re-signed.

We knew they had 9 home games. Then, when the schedule actually came out and we saw there was no international "home" game..........I mean, that looked like a best case scenario schedule for a reigning division champ. They've blown it for want of a WR1. And hell, if Kincaid stayed healthy they are probably the 1 seed.

Where I think you are wrong is that the Bills can't afford to have poorly coached games. Most games look poorly coached from both sides because styles make fights and everyone is tryna do the same thing. Houston didn't coach their way to victory. They damn near got beat despite 8 sacks and 3 turnovers. And the Bills needed a Khalil Shakir facemask penalty to finish off that Tampa game that people thought was some kind of offensive "formula". It's not really a coaches league right now. Teams have never been more alike in their approaches offensively and defensively. Most games look like an intrasquad scrimmage compared to even 5 years ago. It's not an interesting look for the league, it's more fun when you have those contrasting styles........but the league has moved the game in this direction and if you are a fan of parity you can't be upset with the results. On the plus side........it's not the NBA. The NBA got homogenized years ago but being able to trade 5 years worth of picks has created a super team in OKC that is toying with the rest of the league and still has half the league's first round picks in the near future. They should probably win the next 3-4 titles.

Yep, Beane got him a 1,000 yard receiver from 4 years ago off waivers in late November.........what's Brady's excuse going to be NOW!

https://www.audacy.com/podcast/take-the-north-a-chicago-bears-podcast-f67e3/episodes/tremaine-edmunds-has-thrived-since-moving-to-outside-linebacker-2fcf9 Who'd have EVER thought that moving Edmunds to OLB would elevate his game?

But Cooper was a player who had just put up a 1200+ yard season full of big plays......including a game in that 2023 season where he put up 265 yards. NOTHING gets DC's fired like getting beaten over the top. And Cooper(4) only ranks behind Calvin Johnson(5) and Lance Alworth(5) in career 200+ yard receiving games. His commitment to the game was always in question everywhere he went but at the same time he was a great deep threat. The people on here who act like he wasn't having a significant impact after his arrival just don't understand the psychology of the game. Injuries diminished his skills and along with few months of less than dynamic tape that changed that perception come playoff time. But for a while his presence elevated the passing game A LOT.

I've just always believed that Cooks was just viewed as a middle of the pack WR1 so teams weren't really inclined to pay him WR1 money for that. There seemed to be a pretty endless supply of playmaking WR's in the draft and defense's really didn't go all-in on capping passing games until after they watched the 13 seconds game in horror realizing that you weren't stopping the likes of Allen/Mahomes without putting a cap on big plays. Cooks production started to dry up after that. 2017 was arguably Brady's second best year in NE statistically. With Cooks there. The Patriots were notorious for not valuing WR talent. Brady's efficiency fell off considerably the next two seasons after the Cooks trade. Perhaps if they had kept Cooks that divorce never happens. By the time Brady left they had a WR room that was about bottom-of-league like Josh has now.

I think you've steered us into the infamous Cam Newton malaphor that describes the Carolina Way that Beane can't seem to outgrow:

No I was just at a loss for words regarding you taking the hot button term "force feed" that was used to defend "everybody eats" and attempting to turn it against "everybody eats". We get it........you were convinced it was sustainable. But force feeding does not describe what's happening. Too few options are open to feed. You don't take 8 sacks because you are force feeding covered receivers. The only element of force feeding going on is when Allen is choosing the more risky options on the occasion when he actually has more than one.......and then when normally ball-safe guys like Cook and Shakir are coughing up the ball trying to do too much. All errors accumulated trying to make up for the fact that "everybody eats" has real limitations in a MATCHUP league like the NFL.

Maybe next year, for better or worse, when Mike McDaniel is the OC. I don't blame Brady to the degree that some here do. They've built a WR corps where the two most talented players are intellectually challenged at football and the rest are juiceless if not useless. But I think him being a dead scapegoat walking is one thing McDermott and Beane may still agree on.