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Yeah we agree. I think the wording of Coleman as a "Gabe replacement" is what I was disagreeing with. I know you had some appreciation for the value that Beane gleaned picking Gabe in round 4......but to me calling Coleman Gabe's replacement rings like saying Amari Cooper is Mack Hollins replacement. Beane dropped the ball entering the season without a WR1. I know the "everybody eats" people are trying to retract their apologies after the Bills trounced a Seattle defense in disarray without production from Cooper........but anyone with common sense knew that they were "asking everyone to play up a spot", as you say, and that might be the difference between being undefeated now versus 6-2 with Josh Allen having a couple more concussions in his medical history.

Bass can't be moved without a re-structure because of dead money. If the Bills get another kicker I suspect they'd have to keep Bass on the 53 all season anyway.

I don't think Elam has any more than LATE round pick swap and he's worth more than that to Buffalo, I think. Jeffrey Simmons is still a good run defender and brings a physicality the Bills lack but I don't think he nearly garners a 1st. Maybe Jeffrey Simmons, K Nick Folk and a 4th for one of the Bills 2nd rounders. Even then it's a tough match because TN would have to eat about $5M this season for Buffalo to afford Simmons. A pick swap for just Folk wouldn't surprise me. He's on a expiring deal.

Yeah I think you are giving Gabe too much credit. His hands are really, really bad. It's not yips or anything like that he just has hard hands......which is a failure of hand-eye coordination where an athlete just can't make the very subtle adjustments needed to quiet and control a fast moving ball. If you are a good HS athlete in the US you usually play 3 consecutive seasons of sports where you need soft hands to be a good skill player. How Gabe made it thru the cracks with that deficiency is a mystery(although generally speaking, participation in football is low).........but that's why Gabe throws his hands or claps at the ball, he has to make a broad movement to compensate for not being able to make the slightest of adjustments. Subsequently, there just isn't anything Gabe Davis can do with late hands or in a 50/50 situation. Which, of course, is particularly important when you aren't a natural separator and that really lowers his ceiling. Gabe was always best suited as a WR3 or a specialist. I don't think there is any one quality that Coleman has to prove he's not terrible at the way Gabe did. I'm not going to get carried away with him having some good games in this soft spot of the schedule but I think he's really answered some questions about what he's capable of.

Beane waking up to the Diontae Johnson news. Good thing Overdorf wore his brown pants this am.

Yeah you were probably the biggest Coleman supporter all thru the winter on TSW. There weren't many who actually advocated his selection thru the process. I know @Coach Tuesday really loved the pick. I loved the Davante-Adams-esque ceiling but had serious doubts about the learning curve fitting a 2024 timeline. Especially without a true WR1. As horrific as those road games in Baltimore and Houston were that truly horrible passing offense forced Beane's hand to get Cooper. Which I suspect has taken a good deal of pressure off the rest of the group of weapons and then the subsequent flat spot in the schedule has created a lane to feed Coleman and build him up. Hopefully he maintains the trajectory like Rashee Rice did for KC once he got going last year.

Maybe some? There will be a lot of Bills fans giving away or eating their groups of tickets, even if they are particularly meaningful games to home field advantage etc... The more the merrier but there is still a wide difference in commitment between the core fan base and the ever-growing balance........many of whom are our over-acting, living-their-best-lives instagram vacation fans. It used to be that traveling to road games was a sign of extra commitment as a fan but in our case(with so many transplants) it's often the exact opposite so I take these "take-overs" with a grain of salt.

By the standards of the day Bills fans were traveling in great numbers. It's different now, so many of these games are either in what have become "destination" cities or places with tons of WNY transplants. It's bittersweet to me because my dream scenario as a Bills fan was for the fan base to become it's own entity(in the same way that Cubs fans had been able to do) and separate from the team's dysfunction. We have totally achieved that with the Bills mafia shtick. But at the same time.........fans will be GIVING tickets away for the Dec 22 and 29 home games. Those traveling fans won't travel to Buffalo and sit out in the cold to cheer the team on. We have great numbers but more than our share of posers because it's become so trendy to be a Bills fan.

Chritian Benford. He's been consistently excellent and has stayed on the field.

Yeah I will go with Benford this season. I can't really go with a RB, they have 3 of them who all make big plays. And an off-ball LB wouldn't be my inclination either but when healthy Bernard is their best player on D. His nose for the ball is epic and those plays change games. He is the anti-Edmunds in almost every way both good and bad(durability). He's even their best pass rusher.

Maybe one day Ankou will finally become a rosterable rotational DT but given that Daquan Jones has been bad this season and Austin Johnson has looked washed they need a more capable option in that mix. The Seahawks don't even try to run the ball so that game was not one to take seriously when evaluating DT against the run.

It's just not that popular of a dish in WNY. It wouldn't be a challenge to get excellent next day fresh sea food affordably enough but there is not enough demand. We have lobster boil parties and someone will run up to Maine and bring a couple hundred home. The money saved is far more than worth it and it's caught the day before. But you need the volume and that's the limitation for restaurants in Buffalo and Rochester.

First off........his name is SHILL Carpaccio. Get it right. And yes, he is a d-bag but it's because of all of the organizational knob polishing he has done on am radio to get and retain that sideline gig. Most men wouldn't go to the lengths he does to keep Maddy Glab from her rightful position. So, IMO, he has earned the right to dance and twirl. Hey-hey......hey-hey......hey-hey......hey-hey

It won't be a yearly occurrence if Hal doesn't get accustomed to spending $350M+ on payroll like the Dodgers and Mets are willing too. His payroll reduction rhetoric is concerning. The league has wisely done everything they can to penalize big spending teams and promote parity without actually instituting a salary cap. So if you want to LITERALLY keep winning every year you gotta' spend. Sure, you might be able to find an unlikely superstar once-in-a-while like the Astros did when they fleeced LA of Alvarez and extended their window for a season or two..........but realistically when you never draft early in round 1 and international money is capped your best chance is just too excel at finding average starters and bullpen depth. You gotta' keep buying difference makers to make up for the lack of cracks at top draft prospects because free agents(except Soto) are usually on the backside of careers. You gotta' be OK with overpaying. And given their ridiculous profits, Hal should be more than happy to spend more than anyone else.

You could say the same thing about Hopkins or Cooper the way they'd played prior to being traded. Sometimes vets need to be on a winning team to bring out the best in them. It's Kyle Van Noy syndrome. That guys looked washed 5 different times but put him in a playoff race and he suddenly becomes one of the more impactful players on that defense. I suspect Armstead and Jadeveon Clowney will revert to prior season form if they join contending teams at the deadline.

Yeah Cooper played on Raiders and Cowboys teams that greatly underperformed expectations. I mean when that Carr/Cooper team went 12-4 they looked like a team that was going to be around for awhile. And they totally fell apart. Cowboys teams he was on regularly fell way short as well. Wins and losses aren't often mentioned as a WR stat but for comparison sake he's 77-70 in his career despite playing on a lot of talented teams........and hindsight-perceived locker room cancer Stefon Diggs is 96-46. But Cooper is a big talent. The fact that he has four career 200+ yard games speaks to how explosive he can be.

IMO teams want their best players to want to win the most. It sets the tone. So his "it's-a-business" demeanor isn't seen as ideal for a star player. I don't disagree....he has been associated with more losing than you'd expect given the talent on the teams he's had so there could be something to it. But the Bills were beggars in this market. He is very talented and in the short term at least he opens up the offense greatly. If he plays in the NFL for a lot longer and settles in as a WR2-WR3 somewhere I think he will be more appreciated.

I wouldn't be shocked if the long rumored Elam for a bag of balls trade happens and a released White gets picked up by the Bills to fill the roster spot but White sure has looked cooked.

He can play both. And with the injury to Carter they need 3 tech help too. Yes. Hornell, specifically. The family own a car dealership there.

Open to trading maybe the worst performing player on the roster? You don't say. How Tre even got more than a camp invite from an NFL team was a surprise to me.

Nah. With the exception of a few 2 month runs where the team was unreal he has been a walking blunder since they hired him. Roberts wasn't a lot smarter letting Flaherty pitch to Stanton a third time. Flaherty totally lost control of about 10 pitches in that game and was lucky they didn't wind up in the strike zone and get hammered. He should have gone to his pen earlier and he might have had a shut out.

The flip side of that is that they swung at about 30 pitches out of the zone. Dodgers didn't even have to throw strikes. Buffoone almost always instinctively pushes the wrong button but he can't do anything about that. I don't think I have ever seen a Yankee team that over-anxious at the plate. That's how they stranded 12 runners. Hell the Stanton HR was way out of the zone too and the 3rd pitch out of the zone he swung at in that at bat. That's not abnormal for him but everyone was jumping out of their shoes to hit after a week off. They just couldn't hold their water, which is very uncharacteristic. But if Tortoise doesn't casual that throw from Soto they win anyway. Meh. It happens, 7 game series.

As @Warriorspikes51 said, if Beane can't get over that deal he thought he had in place falling thru it won't happen. But it makes a lot of sense. The story has been told, but he met his wife in WNY and the in-laws are Bills fans etc.. Actually a lot of these teams trading their near-age-30 stud DL makes sense because it looks like DL will be the strength of the 2025 draft. And if you are the Browns or Raiders what you really want are 2026 first rounders. If you hang on to Garrett or Crosby for another season you might not get a 2026 #1. That's the Arch Manning draft class which figures to be a deeper draft in addition to being better stocked at QB.

1) No and there never are until after-the-fact. Beane tries to keep everything he is working on quiet and usually succeeds. 2) Simmons would be a good get. Would add a lot of needed toughness/physicality to that DT position.

You agree with what that I did not, specifically? I said Reid is a very good HC but it's laughable to call him the GOAT when it took him 20 years to win a SB. Hondo said it wasn't laughable.........but then he said it's "crazy talk"? I have no idea what the difference is(and neither does he). You guys are either just disagreeing to be disagreeable or you got sucked in by @hondo in seattle trolling technique of pretending something was said that that was not said in order to elicit contrarian responses. One thing you can always count on is that people will jump into a thread and not read the prior posts. So that being the case.......I could post a reply to you saying you are wrong for believing Reid was the GOAT and some people would think you said that. That's the nature of a message board it's VERY easy for haters to steer a false narrative. @hondo in seattle is a very confused man. He wants to be a hater but he wants to be a buddhist. I mean buddist. It's amusing.