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He's not Tyreek Hill like. First......Toney is just a slot guy.......Hill can play any receiver position. And Toney is very good at making people miss in tight quarters but he has just enough speed to turn 2-3 stop and go, hard cuts into that occasional 10-15 yards. DB's have to respect Tyreek Hill and give him space because he can turn a missed tackle into an 80 yard touchdown. Toney is fun to watch but he's closer to a 2020's version of Peter Warrick or Roscoe Parrish than he is Tyreek the Unique.

Those would be "jujyfruits" in the states. Someone brought some boxes of movie theatre candy to the October Chiefs game.........which nobody ate because it's not really a tailgate food so they sat in the pantry area. When you posted that I went over and checked and there were some of those in the stack. Opened it up........still relatively soft and chewy.........those 1980's one's would yank the teeth right outta' your head if you weren't careful.

The use from the backfield didn't really start to become a regular thing until the second half of the 2021 season. In his last 8 games he had 53 carries.......6.6 per game. Then in the playoffs he had 27 carries in 3 games.........9 per game. Also remember that flip passes from the backfield don't even count as carries but still see the player having to negotiate DL and LB level collisions. The guy thinks he's a potential $30M aav talent........and 1400 yards receiving is pretty elite so maybe he is right..........and doesn't want his organization to think it's ok for him to be used like a $4M aav RB. Taylor Heinicke is a scrub who needs to produce something on the ground to be on the field.

The trade itself was awful.......the Bills fleeced themselves..........that isn't debatable.........Mahomes has been the most valued player in the entire NFL over the last 4 seasons. Since the NFL is so QB centric post 2010 rules changes.........young Mahomes with the promise of 15+ more years of greatness in front of him probably has had more trade value than any player in NFL HISTORY to this point. In return the Bills got a really good zone CB...........who was probably worth a late first to mid 2nd rounder in trade pre-injury because he is on a team friendly contract..............and a LB who is worth somewhere between a 3rd and a 6th depending on if the Bills would pick up some of his salary? Mahomes would probably be able to ask for a portion of ownership from a team who wanted to sign him if he were a free agent. I love Josh Allen.......approved of the pick from the outset and defended his early struggles.......he was the highest ceiling prospect/QB in that draft and that's how you are supposed to play it, IMO. Great draft pick. We all hope that maybe he has leveled up with or passed Mahomes individually and that things will start changing in the results column and that they will have at least parallel career lengths at the top of their abilities. But they both became NFL starters in 2018 and the ledger says Mahomes has 1 ring and 2 SB appearances.........Allen/Buffalo have none of those..........and Mahomes has literally knocked Allen and the Bills out of the playoffs TWICE already. Not only is Mahomes GREAT.........he has been GREAT at the direct expense of the Bills. Whether we all "live to regret" the trade isn't the point.........we all hope that we don't..........but it doesn't change the fact that the trade itself was awful.

I think need and BPA lined up pretty well in round 1 of Beane's first 2 drafts because the roster had a lot of holes in it. He traded the 2020 pick for Diggs..........and last year there was just a run of DE's at the end of round 1 which I felt were actual BPA's.........it was serendipitous. Beane made a significant error reaching up for Cody Ford in 2019...........so he has proven capable of reaching. Hopefully he's learned from that.

Yeah Boye Mafe is often IMO the BPA at a premium position when I run the mock draft simulators that I think are most realistic. Pass rusher is the #2 premium position on the field after QB........especially in this defensive system.........and Beane has re-iterated numerous times that he also believes that. The Bills are perceived to have a lot of depth there but it's almost all "potential" and very little actual pass rush production beyond Miller. Mafe is also a different type of pass rusher than their other 3 young DE's.........his body type and style are more like Von Miller and Mafe might gain more from working with Miller and emulating some of the aspects of his game than the other 3. I'd hate to see them go Guard.........you can always find good one's in UFA......some times All Pro's even......which is rarely the case with premium positions........drafting an interior OL in round 1 is simply bad roster management.

If anyone believed Allen would be this good he'd have went #1 overall......right? Bills should have sold the farm to get to #1.......what were they thinking? And the fact is that NONE of the picks acquired in the Patrick Mahomes deal were used to get Josh Allen. A team that has never won a SB got Tre White and fan favorite Tremaine Edmunds in exchange for a lock future HOF SB winning QB. What's revisionist is overselling the Lamonica trade. Lamonica was awful in Buffalo..........almost bad enough to be released outright.........and there were rumors about things he did that fractured the locker room. It turned out to be a GREAT trade for Oakland but I've seen people say it changed the trajectory of the two organizations for a decade and that is INSANE. Lamonica had 3 great seasons and then 3 good ones in Oakland and he was DONE............and Oakland was a rising power and making TONS of good, shrewd decisions because at the time, their owner Al Davis was a football man on top of his game and all he cared about was WINNING. Contrast that with......ahem.......Ralph. The Bills organization was circling the drain..........Lamonica wasn't going to carry that team thru the years of incompetence that were to come...........it simply wasn't a QB driven league where you could expect that then.

There is nothing but hindsight with Lamonica.........and the truth is he was pretty awful in Buffalo. Even by the standards of the day his numbers were ghastly. He was a poor man's version of JP Losman.........big armed deep ball specialists who both played 4 years in Buffalo and only flashed starter potential briefly in year 2. Lamonica turned into an All Pro in the more conducive situation with a growing football power in Oakland. Buffalo was not on a trajectory of making good decisions or developing players at that time. See how they horribly mismanaged OJ Simpson early on. For all the talk about "would Mahomes have made it in Buffalo" there is very little mention about how incompetent the late 60's early 70's Bills were becoming as an organization. As for waiting out Allen and Mahomes careers.........Allen has nothing to do with the Mahomes trade. Getting Allen was as much of a lucky bounce as anything............had the Bills gotten a QB in the 1968 draft and then defied their growing incompetence and gotten beaten by Oakland repeatedly the Lamonica trade still looks just as terrible in hindsight. Unfortunately those late 60's Bills didn't have the luck to have QB's fall to them.............the well went dry at QB for a few years. When a great QB draft happened in 1971.........the Bills had the 4th pick in a draft when Jim Plunkett, Archie Manning and Dan Pastorini went 1-2-3. Maybe Beane trades up there and makes some of his own luck..........but hell 1971 was 5 years into Lamonica's brief 6 years as the starting QB in Oakland..........and he had already been in notable decline by then. Which brings me to waiting out careers.............I don't know about you but a year then = a year now as a fan............and Mahomes is now entering the 6th year of his career. And he's just getting started. That trade has played out almost as far as the Lamonica deal did ALREADY. I love me some Josh Allen but that Mahomes trade might have cost Buffalo 2 Super Bowls already...........the Lamonica trade, by comparison, helped the Raiders more than it directly hurt the Bills.

Yep.......5 years into his career he still makes inexplicable mental errors like that. The fumbled KOR that got him benched was one of the crazier bonehead plays you will ever see in an an NFL football game.

When you fumble 6 times in a regular season on only like 275 yards of return production........and a bunch more in the preseason....as McKenzie did in 2017.........you are always going to have a short leash. That figure is almost inconceivable.......one of the most epic fumbling seasons in NFL history. For perspective........last year only 1 of the top 100 KOR'ers even fumbled more than once(Byron Pringle with 2).........and in TOTAL there were only 20 fumbled kickoff returns all season. And McKenzie has never had less than 2 fumbles in a regular season so he must have fumbled after one of his scant few WR catches last year too. And he also had a fumble on a punt return in the preseason against Chicago last year which naturally caused pause given his history. He is an ADVENTURE catching kicks.........the ball hits his body like a brick.........go back and watch the punt return TD he had against the Dolphins in week 17 that opened the door for him to get some return work against the Bills better judgement.......he BOBBLED that catch too. For 24 yards per KOR and 7.7 per PR the juice isn't worth the risk of turning the ball over and that's why McD benched him.

7-6 Yanks shut out twice on back to back "getaway days" in the same week to lowly Baltimore and Detroit.........they might as well just call it a forfeit and leave day........for load management, of course.

He could be a distant relative........different spelling but that happens.......I literally know a family that changed one letter in their last name because one brother didn't get along with the other. I just hope he is as underhanded as the Quiz.

Strictly from a one-move basis..........trading the Mahomes pick to KC was worse. There is no guarantee that Buffalo wouldn't have become a bad team with Lamonica as the roster aged out...........it wasn't nearly as much of a QB driven league then and even so, Lamonica never won a SB. Mahomes has won a SB............and it's technically harder to do that now than it was pre-expansion in Lamonica's days...........and Mahomes directly blocked the Bills from advancing in the playoffs and likely the SB twice already. But both trades are examples of why you should never risk giving a conference rival a tremendous QB prospect.

What's this job gonna' run? Ballpark.

Look at the backup OL for instance. Any of the entire backup squad of Doyle, Ford or Mancz could easily prove unworthy of a roster spot at all. Ike Boettger is back under contract but a torn achilles for an OL makes him nothing more than a flyer at this point. That was less the case last year with the more optimistically perceived Cody Ford, a healthy Ike Boettger and of course the long tenured Bates as a versatile backup. The outlook going into the draft was more promising THEN.......and they still added 2 rookie OL to their 53. I can easily see them having 2 rookies on the OL again. A 3rd isn't totally out of the possibility assuming they keep 9.

Yeah by no means are man cover CB's devalued..........given requisite talent many players can simply learn to play zone and excel........but if you don't have the physical talent to play man you aren't going to turn into a top man cover CB. Being able to play man is the rarer skill and allows you greater defensive flexibility. And I agree that Sauce Gardner is a better prospect than Tre White was and should be a top 5-10 pick........but I will add that he is proven primarily as a zone CB.........and zone CB1 he is. White was also zone CB1 in that 2017 draft and as I said, he would be a 10-15 guy in this draft........behind Gardner and Stingley(because of his man cover potential).........but IMO White would clearly have ranked ahead of the rest. It's also important to remember that 2017 was not a deep CB group...........for almost all of the draft lead up Tre White was routinely penciled in as a top 35-65 pick in most drafts........rarely if ever a first rounder. He was a bit of a reach based on the positional values of 2017...........but wouldn't have been today. An elite zone CB talent like White is slightly more valued now, IMO, and the success of a guy like him and the Bills defense itself is part of the reason why. But it is still easy to find good to very good ones...........you don't need to pick one in round 1 to find that level of player. So it comes down to how much you prioritize the difference between good and elite........and IMO that is a $$$ issue. That first round pick should be used on guys with $20M-$30M aav upside in 3-4 years. Like Greg Rousseau.......if he turns into what we think he can be then he's THAT guy. But if you can't envision yourself COMPELLED to pay that particular CB position top dollar to extend him after 3-4 years then it's not the right pick for you, IMO. Now if Sauce was there........sure I'd want that guy and you budget to pay that guy..........but do you budget to pay those bucks to McDuffie or Gordon based on what you've seen of them? I do not think they are that level of player. Booth Jr. is the only one I am on the fence on there. I think he has some Tre White attributes but I am just not as high on him as I was Tre and I do expect to feel that way about a zone CB.........otherwise I'm taking one at the next level for a lesser value pick.

Late in the draft process there is information overload and you can begin to doubt some of the things you KNOW are right. When you are considering a RB in round 1...........ask this simple question.............in the past 30 years what RB that the Bills could have picked in round 1 that subsequently went in round 1 did the Bills live to regret NOT taking with that pick? There aren't any. But they should regret ALL of the RB's they have taken in round 1 in that time frame. None of them even got a second contract and that was BEFORE not giving RB's second contracts was accepted as the best move. Your 1st round pick is a chance to add a franchise building block..........RB's are just short term rental-level impact for your franchise........and the notion that a rookie RB of any ilk is the final piece of any SB puzzle has proven to be without merit for decades now.

When YoAdrian Waddle was with Buffalo I remember his wife was always publicly inviting McDermott to their functions.........which McD then felt obligated to attend despite his busy schedule. Not sure being a Waddle family member has anything to do with their interest in him.

April is still winter in WNY nowadays. It's no longer any surprise to have long cold stretches and snow late in April even. But it doesn't cool off at the end of August here like it used to anymore either..........summer lasts into October now most years.

Joe B did also mention that particular aspect as probably the most compelling reason to take a CB. I don't really think that McDuffie or Gordon or Elam are those guys though..............and I don't feel the conviction on Andrew Booth Jr. that I did Tre White who I felt was CB1(over the more gifted Lattimore) and definitely CB1 for the McDermott style of defense...........though I do think Booth should be better than the other 3 and could be very good. I think we can make the mistake of assuming that to get a CB1 they need to go back to the well that got them White.............and in this style of defense I don't think that is the case. White is a lot more Rhonde Barber than he is a traditional lock-down, island type CB. You can get the kind of athletic traits needed to be a star in this defense on day 2 or day 3 and I still think they are in position where they can draft and develop rather than reach. An all things being equal.........and I do suspect that there will be WR's that are better prospects than the available CB's......and maybe they even get lucky and a tackle like Penning falls to them.........supporting the QB is the highest organizational priority. The primary focus of the draft is building and maintaining the foundation of the organization.

7-5 Injurino didn't find his command until 75 pitches........Boone stupidly pulled him out at 85 pitches.........nearly blew the game..........but small balled their way to a passable 5 runs and a W.

Would you wear a Red Sox hat to Bills/Sabres game, or no?

Points from the article: - Bills haven't prioritized CB2 in the draft or with anything but short term UFA deals under McDermott. - "At the NFL owners’ meetings, McDermott made it a point to start the conversation with White when asked about the need at cornerback and said White is “doing well.” The logical deduction is that their star cornerback is still at the top of their minds when thinking about the position, which likely can be seen as optimistic for the season." - If White indeed is on schedule he should miss no more than 1 month........in a long season.........and they played well for more than a month without him down the stretch in 2021. - "Since McDermott has become the head coach, the Bills have hesitated to put a complete starter’s workload on a young player, regardless of how early he was drafted........The only exceptions to the rookie rule have been White, Zay Jones and Tremaine Edmunds, though they all started because the Bills would have been utterly non-competitive without them in the lineup." Drafting a CB at #25 would be a move for a full time starter. - "The in-house development is another important piece to the cornerback puzzle. Perhaps more than any other position, the Bills have a history of developing their cornerbacks to reach their potential." Points out that even Cam Lewis has been a useful depth piece and that they really like McCloud and Griffin. - "But taking (a CB) to take one because of a 2022 need is how teams can get in trouble. The Bills usually swing for the fences with their first-round pick, too, opting for something that isn’t on their roster rather than just settling on a need or for more of a finished product." - "They can find an above-average-to-good starter in the second, third or fourth rounds and add value to their defense without spending their top resource on a position in which they haven’t made a worthwhile investment in more than five years. Players such as Kyler Gordon (Washington), Cam Taylor-Britt (Nebraska), Joshua Williams (Fayetteville State), Damarri Mathis (Pittsburgh), Zyon McCollum (Sam Houston State), Akayleb Evans (Missouri) and Martin Emerson (Mississippi State) all satisfy the size and run-defending requirements they generally covet and can likely be had outside of the first round." - "All the historical context, rookie dealings and 2022 factors bring us to this point. Will the Bills take one with their first-round pick? Maybe, if the value is right and they think that player can become a star. But is it an absolute lock based on the above factors? Not even close."

Yeah if they draft Robinson then McKenzie better try to go month to month on his apartment. Can't see them keeping 3 smurf, slot-types.