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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.

I'm shocked to hear that an athlete would use a charitable foundation for financial gain.........we need more athletes like Big Ern McCracken who have their priorities in order.

He's very handsy with the women.........there was a segment earlier this season with that goofy Browns fan woman that works for NFLN and after the segment he puts his arm around her and leans into her and gives her a big squeeze and you can see on her face the distress about it. I think he's losing his mind.

Neither the Jets or the Bills had good lines last year. Yet Breece Hall finished with about the same numbers as James Cook............5.8 ypr versus 5.7 for Cook.......and Cook had more carries and didn't blow his knee out doing it. So are you also suggesting the Jets should select Bijan Robinson or are they all set for the next 10 years with the knee braced Breece? Hall wasn't an option to the Bills outside of selecting him in round 1 and while I didn't care for the Cook selection either I am not too busted up about having a potential CB1 in Elam versus having Breece Hall. CB is an island position.......while RB is the position on offense that is most reliant on others. Hall and Cook had good numbers but over the course of a larger sample size they won't do that without better blocking. Pacheco wasn't a steal.........he was the right amount of investment in the right amount of talent. You can get winning production from late round or UDFA backs.

The Eagles have invested a bit more in their OL but a lot of their success is due to longevity they got from Jason Peters and later Jason Kelce and Lane Johnson.......that allowed them time to develop young OL. Their OL isn't all first rounders........their LT Mailata is a 7th......C Kelce was a 6th.......Seumalo was a 3rd rounder who is just breaking out now at age 29. They've had periods where their OL was seen as bad and that lead to Andre Dillard selection.......who has basically been a bust........though he's coming around and might even be a Bills guard target in UFA this offseason.

Where Beane has really failed is in free agency. In 5 offseason the only "value" free agent he's added and gotten production from is Daryl Williams. It's hard to be that inefficient. All the good external free agents he signed he paid top of the market for........even last season when money was tight............and the amount he grossly overpaid to some in those 5 offseasons is staggering. Not just the 2018 class where he dumped about $100M on dud starters..........it's all the $6M-$7M aav deals for backups like Nsekhe, Norman, Klein, Butler etc...........you can't pay backups that kind of money.

Yes. It was a bad look and aged terribly.......Ford didn't even make it thru camp as a tackle ....but it made for the kind of "fan-like" mindset that much of the fanbase loves to see from management. Since then I think they've kept things that might make them look stupid on the cutting floor when editing their Bills Imbedded stuff.

He's more than that.........and that's where the underlying data helps tell the real story. As a rookie, playing in a rotation, he tied for the NFL lead in run stops by a defensive lineman. This isn't Edmunds-mystery impact analysis.........Rousseau literally produces and that's why he stands out in the final analysis. The sacks that he gets that some see as "cheap" are often deep, in-pocket sacks that bendy, arch running DE's can't get because they are 5+ yards past the LOS before they get around their block. In that regard.......he and Miller make a great 1-2 punch. And yes, they lost that when Miller went down.......but people act like Von Miller's production wasn't Rousseau-aided. Von Miller was on pace for his best pass rush production per-snap since 2012.

1. Get a worthy #2 WR 2. Bolster the OL and pick a run blocking identity and stick to it(preferably not outside zone, IMO) At RB James Cook is your lead back........so I sift thru the free agents.........there are a ton of productive ones in UFA because reasonable teams don't invest picks or big dollars into RB's........and add one that fits and is very cheap and then get in the habit of finding your RB's late in the draft. Like KC did with Pacheco. They made an idiotic move by drafting a RB(CEH) in round 1 a couple years ago and have since adopted an almost zero investment policy and it's paid off......because they can block and because there are always capable RB's available all over the draft or in free agency and sometimes even off the street. If you can block your Raheem Blackshear's will produce on the ground.

They just re-structured his contract in early January to make a release easier. If he's cut and designated a June 1st casualty the Saints can actually save just over $1M in cap space in 2023. If they keep him he gets a massive $30M+ roster bonus..........coming off 3 injury plagued seasons. The odds are that he's cut prior to that roster bonus coming due.