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And the Bills wouldn't want Lamb.......he's eligible for extension and will probably demand even more than Tyreek Hill's $30M aav and he has a 100 catch season at age 23 to justify it. He's going to be in a whole different zip code than Diggs with his next contract. Diggs is price controlled where the Bills want him and his deal extends out far enough that he knows he isn't likely to have another good contract after it.............so that creates the option for dummy years to be added on etc.. without having to put 9 figures in escrow like Jerry will be doing with CeeDee this offseason(most likely).

If you didn't hear it on the 11pm telecast it wasn't going to make it to print anyway........so Irv never understood why people paid for the rags.

I'm not sure that some Bills fans realize that Baltimore and Washington are separated by about the same distance as Batavia and Buffalo.......40 miles........it would be ridiculous for the Ravens to trade him essentially in-market and have to deal with the blowback if he succeeds.

Shanna must have owed them some content or something. At this point who thought that was an option? He's been playing golf for 3 weeks.........you don't suppose he'd have had the procedure by now if it was needed? The media content from SB week is the biggest garbage dump of the sports year but this is even super random by those standards.

Here is another bit of info from that time since you are apparently a newb...........bleacher report links were not allowed on TSW back then.........because the bleacher "reporters" were just people posting thoughts..........often more nonsensical than the average TSW thread starter.........but presenting them as articles/journalism. You basically just referenced a post from a Steelers message board. Show me a fan base who doesn't think their OL sucked in retrospect and that team was probably one or either of the teams in the SB.

Yeah.........you're just wrong and showing a lack of what we now recognize as common sense. Sacks are largely a QB statistic. Anyone who watched that lumbering giant refuse to give up on plays like nobody else in the league in his first 10 years knows why he got sacked a lot. When Goodell forced new protections in the passing game in mid-season of 2010 it was mainly because Rodgers and Roethlisberger kept getting concussed and they were worried that the 2 seeming successors to Brady/Manning weren't going to last. The thing was, most of the big hits they were taking were outside of the pocket because they just wouldn't give up on plays..........things Brady/Manning didn't do. Two QB's who simply held the ball too long by NFL standards ultimately caused massive changes to the rules of the game that then resulted in 7 QB's having top 25 all-time passing yardage seasons the following year. I hope I am not annoying you with my lack of real knowledge of the time period that you box score scouted. Back to line one........common sense........as Roethlisberger aged, his offensive lines got WORSE.........and yet his sacks dropped dramatically until his pathetic final season.

Unfortunately Allen doesn't have the playmakers or the blocking that Big Ben had for much of his career.

LOL no that's not "where we are at" with McDermott and Allen. Mahomes inherited an 18 year head coach who already had a probable HOF resume...........and a star-laden offense that was near the top of the league in 2017 and had been to the playoffs 4 times in 5 years. Fully built. Allen arrived on a bad team.........midway thru 2018 they were on pace to score the fewest points of any team in the NFL since the merger. Instead........Beane, McDermott and Allen are all experiencing these firsts at the same time. I told people when they tore the team down in 2017 while they were praising it that McBeane were making double work for themselves............they dumped their young core of 1st and 2nd round picks........in order: Woods, Gilmore, Darby, Watkins and Dareus..........and got just a late 2nd and a late 3rd round pick in return. Gilmore was a DPOY, Woods an All Pro, Darby/Watkins started on SB winning teams. Fans cheered because heads rolled but sh!t like that in the name of culture meant they were going to have to hit it out of the park in the draft and UFA. And they did not. But if you look at the start Beane has had as a drafter versus the NFL's current best GM........Howie Roseman.........you could argue Beane has been better in his first 5 drafts. And McD's win-loss record looks very similar to Andy Reid in his first 6 seasons.

Josh Allen is the best player in the NFL, IMO. Unfortunately he wasn't the best at just playing QB this season...........the root of which, IMO, was that the organization has been hamstrung by bad free agent and 2nd and 3rd round draft decisions both dating back to 2018.........which limited their chips to improve themselves as a team during his first contract window..........and then with too little margin for error than they should have had......... they made a tactical error over-investing what they had in the defense last offseason.

Yes they CAN sit on their hands.......which I assume you mean is not quit their jobs. THEY picked Josh Allen. That's the way it works. He didn't just luck into the Bills hands.........McBeane were literally the first Bills regime to either move up or stand pat and pick a QB with their first pick in round 1 in team history. Yet some people act like he was gifted by the heavens and they have no ownership over the subsequent success or any right to steer this team going forward. I have plenty of problems with McBeane..........starting with McDermott trading Mahomes to the Chiefs when they needed a QB........which was the dumbest thing the organization has ever done...........but drafting Allen was probably the smartest. If it doesn't work out with Allen the Bills organization will have to win a SB someday with some other QB.

I think he and Beane are in lockstep. They brought too much Carolinas' "defense first and if the QB is elite let him figure it out" with them but I think they can grow out of that. Hopefully Josh Allen is in their ear about giving HIM the horses on offense instead of the other way around...........he has 3 terribly defended playoff losses and proof of offensive roster negligence to support that position.

No question Allen is better than McNabb or Michael Vick or Jeff Garcia or Alex Smith. But Reid also dropped Mahomes onto a top notch veteran roster that had been to the playoffs 4 times in 5 seasons and already experienced numerous playoff upsets and failures........including one of the worst ever..........a blown a 28 point lead to Andrew Luck and Indy. Truth is........Reid was wearing out his welcome in KC after 2016 because he was a coach with an 18 year track record chock full of playoff failures and no rings.........if they didn't get Mahomes or Watson in that 2017 draft........... I suspect 20 years with no rings, with no franchise QB to instill hope causes the Chiefs to fire Reid before he makes it to the 2019 season. There are so many Bills fans who were casual fans of the NFL during the drought and because of that now don't have any perspective on the kind of runway coaches who win 10+ games every year get and how long a lot of HOF coaches take to win a SB.

Yeah Reid was 1-5 in conference championship games(and 0-1 in SB) and an incredible choker and clock botcher before the Chiefs won a SB with him. His status as a legendary offensive mind is a bit overblown too. He had a season in KC where a WR didn't catch a TD pass all season. He's just a very good HC and things finally came together for him and he has the league's best QB. I think McD is a very good HC as well.

In fairness..........Brady played about 8-9 years before the violence was forcibly legislated out of the passing game by Goodell. Brady was tremendous at avoiding big hits. Montana was very good at it but he did like to keep plays alive with his feet.........as evidenced by "The Catch"..........so just not as good at it as Brady.

Two totally different receivers. And Reed arrived 2 and a half seasons before Levy.

Javion Cohen isn't in the draft either. He transferred from Alabama to Miami.

I will say.........at least the Hodgins angst is based on a position of need............the "we missed on Creed Humphrey" obsessors neglect the fact that Mitch Morse was under contract and has been their best lineman and that Ryan Bates would probably be a good center as well.

You're right, he wasn't getting open and that is not something you can just project will change entirely. He's a work in progress and also kind of a tweener with regard to outside and inside skills.........limitations in both areas........he may never be more than a good 4th receiver option for a top offense. But we are at the point of the offseason where fans are getting far enough removed from the actual games played to start getting delusional about expectations for players who are down the roster. It only gets worse until camp starts.

The Allen pick saved the franchise but I don't feel their chances slipping away...........they just need Beane to live up to his hype and have a big offseason. Beane got way too much undeserved praise early in his GM career.......he wasn't an experienced personnel man when he took the job and it showed but I do think he's highly intelligent and trying to learn and get better(as opposed to his former boss Gettelman who was inflexible by nature). Having picked Allen has given Beane the opportunity to grow into the job and now he needs to string together some championship level offseasons.

Oh the league will force it if he hits the market. There are about 20 starting RB's in UFA this year........including guys who had better years than Cook and are younger. Time is not on his side and he finished the year poorly with 3.5 ypc in last 7 games.........he should milk Minnesota for a re-structure and save what he can because it's a very fast drop from getting paid 8 figures to the veteran minimum for 28 year old RB's with his kind of mileage.

IMO it was just a title added to his DB's coach job to get him to stay in Buffalo..........like an assistant HC title. If Frazier gets fired John Butler is very likely the first in line for the DC job.

Broader analysis aside.......if they didn't nail the Josh Allen pick I think McDermott's 0-6 start against Belichick becomes 0-10 by 2021.......0-4 without Brady.......and I don't see McBeane surviving that indignity let alone getting to 0-12.

Dalvin should get REAL interested in a pay cut.

Not featured? Pacheco had about 600 touches at Rutgers..........about twice what James Cook had at Georgia.............that's PLENTY of usage...........you don't want or need to see anymore than that. The elite, durable athletes stopped playing RB about 15 years ago. That's when the "wall" for runners started retreating from age 30 down to age 26. It's been my opinion that once you start seeing 700-800 touches at the college level I expect the wear and tear to show pretty early at the pro level............and as it so happens that has been the case with Etienne and Hall blowing tires as rookies. Pacheco didn't produce more at Rutgers because he's not an instinctive runner and Rutgers wasn't winning at the LOS......so there were a lot of ineffective collisions and a paltry average of about 4 yards per carry. He's not a "stud". But when you can block like KC can.........you don't need all the tools of a great RB to produce like one. Which is all that matters at the position. Producing yardage and executing assignments. Doesn't matter who does it.........you can turn over your RB roster every year and still run the ball well. The same can't be said for the passing game athletes or the OL etc..........which is why RB is the least important individual position on the offense.

True. And fwiw Miller was having one of the best seasons of his career............on a per-play basis probably the best since his greatest season in 2012. Beane has been terrible at signing free agents from other teams but the Miller signing was looking great, IMO. The other DL signings and Saffold were all clear overpays even at the time...........which I can't understand.........they need to know that Rodger Saffold is a league minimum vet at that point in his career(not $6M) and the same with Jordan Phillips. Even Daquan Jones, who played well, was a $4M per year market kinda' player........his salary the season prior in Carolina..........and the Bills have a $9M cap hit on him for 2023. I'm constantly perplexed by the valuations he comes up with in UFA.