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I know it seems like that because the team was good in the late 90's but it's just a misty water colored memory. Riemersma was just a 35 catch kinda' TE and could not block well. One season he had 11 drops and when asked about his crazy catch/drop ratio he said he "could remember" having 2-3 drops. He was OK but only for the Bills would he be memorable 15-20 years later. George Kittle had 88 grabs for 1377 yards for the Niners last year. That's what I mean about getting a "stud" TE. That kind of production actually can happen.

Gary M is not going to like you saying that.

He will get used to really being rich soon enough and then if he was unhappy before it's likely to find him again. Sorry to doubt you Beaz but it's not like we hear all the time how awful it is to be a Cowboy. JJ generally takes care of his players........sometimes to a fault (fortunately........let's hope he gives in to Zeke and nukes their salary cap).

The Bills NEED to find their George Kittle steal at TE. Tight end is without doubt the position that the Bills have most poorly evaluated in the past 60 years(which is saying something with the state of the QB position for much of that). You'd think in that time they would accident upon a true stud TE.........but you miss every shot you don't take and I think the difficulty of evaluating and projecting TE's has made the Bills pass on taking swings they should have. They've traditionally taken a few too many easy-e v a l positions in mid-late rounds, IMO.

When I watched Allen/Barkley closely thru each drill at the Friday practice at the stadium my thought was "oh sh*t.........if Allen gets a minor injury and misses a game Barkley could end up starting the rest of the season".............he was just sharper at what Daboll and Dorsey were asking them to do. God forbid we go from a potential franchise QB back to another journeyman but it would not surprise me. Now when the bullets start flying Barkley doesn't have the physical skills to do as many things as Allen so hopefully Allen can separate himself there.........but my concern with trying to shoe-horn Allen into a Patriots-style offense is that he seems a poor fit for that. Maybe Daboll understands that and won't force Allen into a dink and dunk offense..........I'd like to think that..........but Daboll has a truly lousy track record as an OC in the NFL. Years removed from those gigs and after working with Belichick we are assuming he's good now. Even I am. But the reality is we haven't seen him guide a good NFL offense yet.

I have absolutely never said they intended to play Jauron Ball long term. But keep in mind that they had inherited a talented but poorly coached defense AND the Bills best scoring offense since 1991(7th in the NFL plus the NFL's fewest turnovers ever in a season thru 15 games) and within weeks of their first camp opening they had settled for Jauron Ball? That was just Rexy-ness in reverse. And that's what we've seen so far. Under the buffoon Rex the offense was finally productive and the defense stunk. Under McBeane the opposite. End result after 2 seasons the same record. It's just time for McBeane to show that all the roster wrasslin' and murdering of money in the name of McProcess was worth it. I'm ready. After spending $70M or so hand picking 18 players in UFA, losing nobody in UFA and drafting near the top of each round with your anointed franchise QB going into a year two which has been big for recent young stud QB prospects............I am expecting a double digit win regular season.

How so? Was Astro a Petermaniac? Did I miss that? My predictions of McBeane's intentions have been very accurate(Jauron Ball 17') and I've given McBeane credit for the good things they've done.......Tre White, Allen, Edmunds, Oliver...couldn't tell you the last time I liked the first 4 players a Bills regime took in round one. But because I won't ignore the poor coaching hires and pro personnel decisions, the inexcusable amount of uncompetitive "blowout" games and unprecedented first-two-season ineffectiveness against Belichick I am the opposite of Astro? I somehow think Astro doesn't like a lot of those "bad" things either. As I've said many times..........you gotta' be making bad decisions on a near constant basis to be a bad team in the NFL. Being a middling franchise means you are at least doing some things right. But it's not hard to be 15-17 in 2 seasons when you inherit a team that was 15-17 the prior two seasons. Now it's just time to start winning. It's OK for a regime to have to "prove it".......it's a violent, competitive professional sport.

Beane —“It’s a little hot for soup.”

Three amigos, one cup?

I don't think there is a lot of difference in either opinion...........I think PFF had Bodine rated around 20th and when you are the 20th center you are a lot closer to 30th best than 10th best regardless of what the math indicates. There is typically a cutoff of precipitous nature in the teens when it comes to positions that aren't very well stocked in the NFL. Center is one of those it just isn't as valuable a position because there is help from the guards in most offenses.

I'd like for Teller to get another year. Your list is my preference as well but I figure one of the free agent signings will probably end up on IR and Boettger and Teller will both have a chance to stick. My guess is the Morse contract will prohibit them from extending Spain (if he plays well) so going to need a LG next year probably. Maybe that's Boettger. If Boettger could handle center that would be great. He's a big, strong, mean dude. Pretty decent with his hands. I hadn't considered it because he's very tall.

Yeah I like this. Boettger has some potential. He had some plays last preseason where he really stood out. Very strong, versatile frame.

Did Hauscha attempt any sideways field goals while you were there Fonzarelli?

Last year he missed 5 games to a concussion. He returned after a bye week...........so it was like 6 weeks that he was off. So basically like 42-45 days depending on when he returned to practice after the bye week.

I guess you gotta' define "on him"..........some of his best plays were extended armed grabs of vertical throws that were so far in front of him that they would easily fall incomplete to almost any other receiver on the planet. He has those Moss/Plaxico proportions and excellent tracking ability. Maybe that's all he has but that's A LOT when you have a young QB with the range that Allen has. Apparently DK has excelled at just this when working with Russell Wilson in the offseason as well. Young Big Ben and Eli were elevated by being able to overthrow Plax. He wasn't that good of a receiver otherwise so it tells you how much that one skill meant. Daunte Culpepper once threw 39 TD passes in great part just due to tossing up deep balls to Moss and the room the threat of that created. The biggest issue with DK IMO is staying healthy..........but that skillset he has is perfect for a guy like Josh Allen, IMO.

It wasn't a great free agent class but it rarely is. Also 2 of the 4 best WR in football were traded though so they can't say it wasn't a year where elite ones simply weren't available. It's just that when you push all your eggs into the "we'll fix that then" basket then you run that risk of having an offseason that doesn't matchup perfectly. Agree on Beasley. He's been pretty underwhelming player in his career and he played with a dink and dunk QB in Dak and still didn't really achieve much. As for DK I don't expect him to become a great WR but he has a special skillset that fit Allen's current state perfectly. Big arm, inaccurate, needs to make big plays to be effective offensively QB..........and having a potentially unique field stretching threat would open up the short to intermediate stuff where he could afford to be less accurate. Foster and Brown are deep threats but Metcalf is a massive target. It's not just the short to intermediate throws that Allen is not pin-point on.

You can't look at this offseason as an isolated chance to improve the WR corps...........it's been 3 years..........you were just addressing last offseason and issuing something of a pass. I know you know better but what I am saying is the truth and you know that...........they have known since the day McDermott was hired that they were going to be drafting a QB and that they were going to need to either retain or acquire very good receiving talent around him. It's that simple. After being told "they will fix that later" for 3 offseasons..........IMO it's just time to show us the baby. It's winning time........the time frame for lame excuses has expired.

You are falling into that "this offseason was their only chance to put a good WR corps together" mode. It's been 3 offseasons for McDermott. If he expended the effort on offense that he and later Beane have expended in adding quality to the defense then it gets done. Consciously or otherwise they have been pretty true to the Carolina "defense first and let the QB figure it out" team building philosophy that many feared they would bring. When you operate in Buffalo you gotta' draft and spend to get and retain offensive talent.

Let's not pretend this offseason was their first chance to put a stellar WR corps in place for their QB of the future. This has been a 3 offseason process that started out with passing on Bob Woods(1200 yards last year) and Marquise Goodwin(962 yards in 2017) and then trading Watkins(who impressed enough when healthy to get a $16M/yr deal). After 3 years of documenting their bumbling of the WR position it's past the point of it being down to just missing out on one or two guys in the trade market. This group they've assembled and developed needs to step up and be extraordinary in 2019.

The "apologist" solution to the critical WR problems in 2017 was "they will take care of that next offseason or in 2019 when they have $100M in cap space". Then in 2018 after doing very little about it was "they will take care of that in 2019 when they have all that cap space". Now it's like.........."well they signed some guys but the big stars didn't want to come to Buffalo..........what are ya' gonna' do? They made an effort." Got my fingers crossed but watching Allen's inaccuracy in practice on short to intermediate throws that are automatic for some QB's doesn't inspire confidence in me that he is ready to raise the level of an average or below average WR corps just yet. This is a guy who needs big time matchup winners right now to take advantage of the things he does well, IMO.

I don't care about the effort and the labor pains........these guys were hired to do a job and the template has already been laid out by other successful teams. The plan from the moment McDermott was hired was to draft a QB. Three offseasons to get a top receiving corps in place for "young QB year 2" is enough..........it's not just all about this past offseason and not getting an AB or OBJ etc.. I agree that they seem destined to draft a WR in round 1 next year.........but again.........that means Allen having a rookie WR1 in his extension decision year...........which is not how you want that to play out when you had at that point 4 offseasons to prevent that. My hope is that Foster becomes that guy. I know camp hasn't been kind to him but let's hope he raises his game because he has a lot of talent.

Point being it hasn't gone smoothly for McDermott with his coaching staff either. That's a lot of turnover in just two seasons.

Rome didn't have a salary cap and free agency to deal with. This build is time sensitive. I think Bills fans have come to take for granted the past two offseasons where the team was able to spend in free agency and not lose any players. It's not just going to be build, build, build the next few offseasons..........the timing of building up a team with a first contract QB as quickly as possible matters. This was THE critical offseason to get Allen everything he needs and run with that for two seasons in 2019 and 2020 while they decide whether he is worth a massive, potentially franchise altering extension when he becomes eligible after the 2020 season.

Yes what the Rams put together(in one offseason) is what the Bills should have been trying to do for Allen. To some extent they did but the question is whether they added enough quality with all of the quantity(at WR and OL). The Rams really nailed the quality part of the equation with both units(and then the HC also coached that talent up immensely). I hope Foster and Brown rise to the occasion but if one of them doesn't become a star #1 who can elevate Allen's game then I think defenses will just make Allen throw into a ton of zone coverage and try to succeed with a high volume of shorter throws that he(and probably Foster and Brown) are less comfortable with.

The Bills don't even have a single proven reliable good #2 WR. Beasley and Brown have played 12 NFL seasons combined and between them they've produced 3 seasons with over 700 yards receiving. Obviously there is potential.........especially with Foster...........and Brown and Beasley are coming off unusually good seasons for them.......but thinking the Bills have four #2's out there is a leap of faith, IMO. I think most NFL personnel people would rank the Bills WR corps between 25th-30th in the league. And Watkins and Cooks had 5 seasons of 975 or more yards before they joined the Rams..........they were undisputed #1 WR's not #2's.