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Yeah the internet killed April Fools Day thing. Now EVERY day has an inordinate amount of fake stories to sift thru. It has to be very amusing to be worth it.......the bar is set much too high for those not-clever people to reach.

I'm guessing this is addressed to me? He was an entitled 5 star safety recruit who was overrated athletically and lacked instincts. As a result he always seemed to arrive a tick too late to make a play and then out of frustration he would routinely deliver late hits and commit personal fouls and double down on his ineffectiveness. One of those knuckleheads who drove fans and coaches nuts. Reminds me a lot of Nigel Bradham.......5 star overhyped recruit turned day 3 pick.........who wasn't very smart, wouldn't fit in this defense at all now and was a frustrating sh!t show to witness when he had to play his first 2 years with the Bills.

His instincts and attitude are so poor that radar can't detect him.

Nice start to season with sweep in Houston. Soto and Whereswaldo had big series' and bullpen and defense were excellent. https://www.mlb.com/yankees https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39848939/juan-soto-rbi-single-9th-gives-yankees-sweep-astros

Bad HC. Bad OC. Tired old QB.

Why would you do all that arguing over semantics? It IS the norm for big business to gouge customers for whatever the market will bear. It IS also the norm for big business to exploit and manipulate government........in ways ranging from skillfully avoiding taxes to benefiting directly from their application and WELL beyond. Your are far too concerned with the tactics when it's all the same strategy. If you are "not arguing against" PSL's..........why is the distinction of tactics so important to you?

The Jets have been building the best injured-list-bound roster in the league the past 2 offseasons. I wonder if Douglas sees something in Hasaan that makes him think this is the year he gets injured a lot?

Robert Woods was literally the perfect WR for Jared Goff. Goff knew he would be open on those intermediate routes so he could throw with anticipation confidently. Woods was getting killed in Buffalo with EJ delivering late "hospital balls". Had Woods talking to himself on the sideline like a lunatic.

No what I said isn't incorrect...........you just disagree that sacks and QB hits are as meaningful as "pressures". It's the opposite. The lack of hits and sacks allowed Allen to dominate the Chiefs defense in small chunks all day. For Allen and Mahomes, pressures are usually more aptly called "opportunities" to get out of the pocket and make plays. You won't get any argument from me on the impact and the value of having a Chris Jones though. The pressure he got on the play in question was big but Allen had been checking that ball down all day with great success. They got greedy and it made no sense why. Bad decision making by the Bills allowed Jones to make an impact he hadn't been able to prior. And as @HappyDays said, that was against LT Dion Dawkins. I am much better with selecting a LT in round 1 and playing him at guard as a rookie.

I see Khalil Shakir wearing Robert Woods same uniform number. And I think that's a big part of the reason we get Woods comps for him. Woods was quite a deep threat at USC. He tracks the ball well downfield but as a pro he had to settle for being more of an intermediate route runner due to modest size/speed. Shakir doesn't track it well down field but is notably faster and is much better wrt YAC than Woods. He's like a RB once he gets the ball. I'd have to go back and watch Amendola.

You've noticed this trend as well? I love how Beane bends the fans to his will thru manipulation of the truth. He took over the job with plenty of cap space and almost no future cap debt/commitments and declares with a straight face that the previous regime has left them in cap jail to explain getting rid of big name young players they just didn't want. He's been down for whatever he has to say from day 1 and the Pegula's needed that in a GM in 2017 more than anything.

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It's a draft where they could definitely find another Christian Benford type late. Deeper at CB than that 2022 draft, IMO.

Aren't you raking in profits from your investment in Disney? Disney also charges whatever the market will bear for their products........their profit margins are not based on what's fair. I'm not trying to pick on you here. I enjoy your posts typically but you have a very "new money" idea of how capitalism works. There are going to be 40K+ people in that new stadium every week that contributed between $0 in taxes and the NYS share.......which is literally an ineffectual pittance in construction cost terms. The PSL matter is really just a stand alone price gouge. Like paying an extra $200 per person or whatever it is to get in the "fast" lines on your Disney stay.

I also doubt the Bills will use all 11 picks because McBeane like their veteran reserves..........but I think we have become conditioned to just assuming that he will draft a small amount of players without necessarily looking at the potential jobs available: 1 RB........this is basically a need 1 QB.......definitely could see a rookie beating out Trubisky, who I think is toast. 2-3 WR.........this position they definitely need multiple 1 TE 2-3 OL..........I will be disappointed if not AT LEAST 2. Preferably 3. 1-2 DT........with 3 30 somethings at DT they need youth 1 DE 1-2 LB........I don't think we can count on Spector to stay healthy so need a 5th LB at least 1-2 CB.......this draft is too good at CB to not come away with at least 1 high ceiling guy on day 3 1-2 S.........obvious need I think there are 11 or more potential openings for rookies on this year's cap-strapped roster. The Rams drafted 14 players last year and made a big jump into contention. Chiefs took 10 in 2022 and made themselves better largely thru that volume of rookie additions. The Bills using all those picks isn't Beane's MO but it's a strategy that's been paying dividends for other good organizations.

Yeah that's a good call on Lance Moore and that kind of usage. Forgot all about him. He was really good in that kinda' role.

It's true that Chris Jones is the best defensive player on the field that day anytime the Bills play the Chiefs. But the mistake Bills fans like yourself make is not realizing that the Chiefs can't get to Josh Allen either. Neither QB got sacked and each was hit only twice in that divisional loss this season. Combine this last loss and the "13 seconds game" matchup prior to it..........and each QB got sacked twice and Mahomes got hit 6 times and Allen only 4.

That's capitalism for ya'. I bet if you were wealthy you wouldn't volunteer to pay a penny more in taxes than you were required to if the other multi-millionaires didn't have to. It's the exact same situation. The other owners are collecting it from their fans, Pegula would be pound-foolish to not collect it.

Big time? Ok. What 3 centers in the AFC could McGovern absolutely not be as good as next year? Humphrey and Linderbaum were early picks but a lot of the better centers in the AFC were picked on day 3 or undrafted..........and some of THEM got to center because they weren't good enough to play guard. McGovern was a stud C recruit, was a 3rd round pick and has proven himself as a starting G in the NFL. The point is, there isn't any reason to assume he won't be a strength. Now whether David Edwards is a starting NFL G any longer is a far bigger concern. And it wouldn't be a surprise if Dion Dawkins game began to decline this season and Spencer Brown prices himself out of Buffalo and suddenly the Bills were going into 2025 wanting 2 new tackles. I am all for addressing OL with multiple picks in this draft........but the 1st round is WAY too early for a center in a draft with stud premium position talent at WR and OT.

Ok, thanks for the response. I read it all. I don't feel much clearer about your opinion. Like if you think he's an NFL WR1. Your guesstimates for him are similar to mine but I am maybe not as impressed by that Cole Beasley level production bar from the slot. He is a really tough evaluation though because there just aren't any comps I can think of so I don't blame you for not really being able to nail it down either. I don't think he's a WR1. I just don't see him playing outside full time and most WR1 do. The only really dedicated slot guy who fits that profile as WR1 is Kupp and how he wins is pretty unique to Kupp. Obviously Shakir's gift is as a RAC machine which is awesome but I am just not sure how that projects with A LOT more targets as opposed to how Kupp did it when healthy. I think the Bills did a great job keeping Shakir's throws short to intermediate last year after misusing him as sort of an inside-outside guy as a rookie. They used Gabe Davis well as a low target option early in his career too though. I am excited about his potential but I am glad they added Samuel. Samuel is a much better option to compete in the slot than the tiring Emmanuel Sanders was as a boundary WR. Sanders was basically a tomato can they set up for Gabe to knock over.

Experimentation? McGovern was the #2 ranked center in the country coming to Penn State. He's been a center most of his football life. He didn't get moved from center because he wasn't great at it...........it's just the least valued position on the OL. It's much more important at the college and pro level to have your better interior blockers at the guard position. Because gone are the days of defense's regularly using a big 0 tech. Almost everybody uses a 1 tech now instead and that means the Center is basically a "help" blocker and finds himself blocking "air" in pass pro on 3rd downs a lot. I wouldn't be astonished if McGovern was the second or third best C in the AFC.

How long were you a season ticket holder? Your perception might be that the drinking has gotten worse at Bills games but that's not been my perception. It's gotten almost clinical inside the stadium compared to the 1980's and 1990's. I think genetically we are just wired to become more irritable/sensitive to the behavior of others and stop caring as much about things we once did as we get older. It's a WHOLE LOT easier for me to skip a Bills game now than when I was in my 20's. It's an effort getting up and putting in those 12-14 hour days tailgating and it didn't used to be.

Don't worry, the next 20 years will go by faster than your last 10. It gets easier to deal with the bad sports teams when you age because the seasons go by in a blink.

If the Bills didn't get a new stadium the team was going to leave town in the near future. The league is a partnership and they won't let one partner not comply. And if they got a new stadium it was going to be very expensive for fans to attend. This was always the outcome if we wanted the team to stay. My group owns a lot of tickets and one of the guys is in AA and he brings people to the game who are recovering from substance abuse that has destroyed their lives. Some of them could never even otherwise afford to attend a Bills game. There are considerably more Bills fans in relatively close proximity to the stadium in this boat than there are season ticket holders. How many of the fans that are heated about these PSL's think about how unfortunate it is that REALLY broke die-hard Bills fans can't go to games and get good seats etc.. right now? It's all relative. They've gotten to go because they could pay. And it's not like the demographic hasn't been skewing gradually wealthier at Bills games for decades. It has. The stadium is getting smaller as the fan base expands and the venue becomes more attractive to the wealthy and businesses that can write it off.

Oh man, I just noticed you'd been following my postings around on the sly just to be critical. That's where you were grudging! Big @Thurman#1 fan are you? He's a bright one, that guy. No problem, I will put you in my easily-outraged-idiots box ol' timer. That will free you up to post your nonsense in peace.