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Yeah Cook is just so-so as a decision maker after the handoff. It's hit and miss. That's instinct to me but also a function of intelligence/preparedness. He's not CJ Spiller level unprepared.......CJ appeared to just make a random decision where to run the ball at the handoff rather than know the play call, read the defense and know ahead of time where the hole should be. He was a complete dunce. Fred Jackson was the opposite and that made him a decisive runner. Cook's game is speed/quickness and not a lot else. Lousy in pass pro too.

I highly doubt this is the way he will be beating Sauce Gardner.........if he ever does. Sauce is a leaper, has a longer frame and is much quicker/faster than Keon. He will have to out physical a guy like Gardner. I like the Davante Adams comp as a ceiling for Coleman but there is a lot of nuance to attain to get to that point.

Yeah these 1st rounders are usually engaging/endearing with their attitude when they arrive. But as they fail to reach expectations they talk to the media less and blend back into the woodwork. Oliver, Rousseau, Elam.........people were gushing about these guys. Ed started getting chatty again once his play improved and he got extended. Hopefully Rousseau and Elam break out this year and get back to being those engaging personalities with feel-good stories they were right after the draft.

That's not really the case.......Gabe Davis was one of the league's most effective deep threats since he came into the league. His air yards per target and yards per catch were massive and it lead to impressive TD stats. He just didn't offer anything else so defense's adjusted and the Bills gradually got diminishing returns from his role in the passing game.

I can't see that happening. I can see a team putting a good CB on him and calling it a win. That shuts down most TE's if teams are so unthreatened by your WR that they can afford to do that. First time I really saw it was Wade putting Antoine Winfield on Tony Gonzales and shutting him down. The tactic basically ruined Jimmy Grahams career when he went to Seattle and all they had were guys like Baldwin and Kearse outside. Kelce was a real exception as a guy who isn't very impactful inline but still tears up whoever he gets in coverage. Not sure Kincaid is going to become as much of a physical presence as Kelce. He's pretty finesse.

The Bills appear to be holding their breath that this is the case. Hopefully they are bluffing and acquire DK Metcalf in June and we can stop this KJ Hamler/Andy Isabella nonsense.

Beane is gradually getting better at not wasting draft capital on RB's. Hopefully next time it will be a 5th rounder, then the next a 6th etc.. I think Davis is more than capable of being good in a Josh Allen offense that leaves defense's susceptible to the run. Wouldn't be a stretch for him to be better than James Cook whose instincts, toughness and hands leave a lot to be desired. But generally speaking these guys like Davis with 700-800 touches already coming into the league tend to be due for injury problems due to wear and tear. See Breece Hall and Etienne for higher profile recent picks who immediately blew a tire after heavy-use NCAAF careers.

Yeah the upside is that he's built for playoff football (like Rashee Rice) and is young and athletic so he has a lot of room to improve. The downside is that he is raw as hell and not exceptionally fast. I heard a Davante Adams comp to Coleman a while back...........and that kinda' resonated with me. Adams isn't really fast but is a tremendously smooth, physical athlete with great hands and leaping ability like Coleman. Adams really struggled his first 2 seasons.......despite immense success in college and playing with an All Pro QB in Aaron Rodgers. Wouldn't surprise me if it took Coleman a few years to translate his skills into being able to get open at the NFL level. I could easily see him having a longer career and play better than a number of the guys drafted before him but I could also see him looking like a bust compared to them early on. And that's the tough part.........they need him to perform NOW. Hopefully Brady can unlock him early in his career. Maybe play mostly condensed sets like the Rams did with Nacua last year so the X is basically almost a slot receiver. Manufacture some easy-open throws and RAC yards etc.. If they just line him up outside and hope he wins I expect it could be a long wait for that to happen.

A player who sucks and is always injured once the pads come on.........tends to continue to suck and be always injured once the pads come on.

So we had agreed that the Bills passing game was not good enough in 2023 and running the ball 9.2 times per game was putting hard miles on Josh Allen........and now we are hoping they get back to "not good enough". And ignoring the fact that the NFL is a matchup league. "Yeah, we don't need Ted Washington in the middle........we can just stop the run with numbers!" That lasted about 2 quarters into game one of the Gregg Williams regime before it became obvious that they had made a serious mistake in judgement going into the season with that "aggregate" mindset in a matchup league. Who in this re-aligned Bills receiving corps is beating a good CB1? I saw someone photoshop Sauce Gardner into that pic of Keon Coleman making the one-handed grab against Syracuse. Yeah, that ain't happening in real life. That means the defense can then double whoever the Bills view as WR1. But they won't need to because the Bills don't have one of those. You aren't beating the defense with numbers........it's still 11 on 11. You gotta' win matchups.

I would hope that Beane would be all over DK Metcalf if he were available in June. But I think they might be bought into a "rebuild" for 2025 mode and cling to all of their draft capital. I remember entering the 2007 offseason there was real hype building with media talking heads and Bills fans about how the Bills were putting together a young team that could soon challenge the Patriots. Fans were really in on Dick Jauron and drinking he and Marv's Kool aid. It was seen as OK that they let Nate Clements leave in UFA without using the franchise tag because they were getting their guys and getting younger. Then the Patriots traded a 4th round pick for Randy Moss........and proceeded to create MASSIVE distance between them and the Bills. They literally scored 8 straight TD's in the game at Buffalo that season as they went f*cking 16-0 with the highest scoring offense in NFL history. Moss tore Jauron's asssup for 3 years until he was rightfully sh!tcanned. The moral of the story is that only a fool would expect that the championship team that you have been chasing will get complacent or be conservative and get themselves caught. No team has won 3 straight Super Bowls. The Chiefs KNOW that it will be harder to get this 3rd one and they may well just go to excess to create separation between them and opponents. The Bills should be in on a difference maker like Metcalf. He's not going to bring a 1st round return............so don't NOT get DK Metcalf just so you can get a shot on next years Cole Bishop.

Yeah, last offseason when people were talking up the acquisitions of Sherfield and Harty like Beane had found a couple gems..........they didn't like it when I pointed out that they hadn't produced for sh!t in their relatively long NFL careers and were unlikely to even produce as much as departing bums Crowder/McKenzie(and indeed, those two stiffs did put up a few more combined receiving yards than Sherf+Sharty). Fans just assumed Sherf/Sharty would be better with the Bills. Truer to form.......they were not. There is a little of that going on here again. Curtis Samuel has the most yards receiving in one NFL season of any receiver on the roster with 851 four seasons ago in 2020. If that remains the case it's the first time since 1987 that they will have taken a receiving corps into a season without at least one receiver who had produced at least one 900 yard season in their career. Prior to that 1987 season you gotta' go back at least into the 1970's or 1960's. I mean this is a REALLY unproven WR corps. It is a big ask to basically expect everybody to play better than the year before......and in the process have the best year of their career to date.

Yeah doesn't sound good. Maybe the potential sale of 25% has something to do with liquidating part of that asset to distribute to soon to be disenfranchised heirs.

Agree, last season was an unnecessarily joyless slog. Chuck Pagano made some dead-fxcking-on-hilarious comment about McDermott's ####### being so tight on the sideline that all he needed was a needle and a chain and he could tow a rail car. It should always be fun having prime Josh Allen. But, two of the past 3 years they've found a way to fXck it up and the other year the Damar tragedy and Josh's untimely Britt drama threw a wet blanket on that one. If you aren't going to win a Super Bowl at least give us a team/season fitting of Allen's talent. If you are going to be the Chargers be the Air Coryell Chargers not Marty and Norv's Chargers.

You do know that Stephen Ross' "corner office" is a yacht, right? Terry Pegula rarely attends a Sabres game because he's in his "corner office", much closer to the equator, as well.

Zay Jones is a meager career 10 yards per reception possession receiver who lead NFL WR in drop % rate(10.7%) in 2022 and has a career 57% catch rate. That's the kind of catch rate you expect from someone with about 50% more yards per reception. Drop-zone Jones is the very definition of "Juiceless and Useless".

Sometimes star players just decide they need to work with other coaches and players because what they've been doing just isn't working. Doesn't have to be hate. None of your 4 "points" are in any way necessary for this to be plausible. QB/front office conflict didn't stop Brady from winning his last couple SB's in NE. Nor did it keep Rodgers from winning back-to-back MVP's. All that needs to happen is Allen just feeling like he needs change. What's implausible is thinking that an elite QB will just be cool with the other side of the ball imploding every year in the playoffs.........when that side of the ball is the HC's specialty. Started with blowing a 16 point lead in Houston in 2019. Then a blowout in KC in 2020. 13 seconds. Bengals just dominating the Bills defense at home in 2022 and same with Chiefs in 2023. McDermott's side of the ball has consistently let Allen's side down in the playoffs. Doesn't have to hate him to think he needs a change.

It's not me predicting a "probable" scenario. The context of this thread is what would make McDermott and/or Beane NOT locks to stay. The answer is Allen deciding he needs a situation change. Capiche? But I literally gave you an example, in Matt Stafford. A beloved player who was totally invested in Detroit but finally decided he needed to go elsewhere to get a ring(s). I am not an anti-McDermott person. But Allen has been blocked from the SB 4 times and counting by Mahomes and Burrow.........who both have offensive minded HC's. Allen is a CA native and has chosen to make LA his home. When asked why he lives there.......he says why wouldn't anyone want to live in LA? He loves it and his GF lives there to boot. Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay are arguably the 2 brightest offensive minds in the NFL and also happen to coach in CA and they have reached 4 of the last 6 SB's. They've just been out-QB'd in the SB. And they don't have long term commitments at the QB position. There are less elite QB's to compete against in the NFC. More home time, more earning opportunities in LA. And again, a chance to play Mahomes in a Super Bowl with an elite HC instead of in a divisional round with a defensive HC whose defense has TOTALLY fallen apart in all 3 meetings with Mahomes.

As for what I envision..........I envision Allen(and his agent, family etc..) having to be dissuaded from seeking greener pastures if they don't get past Mahomes and to a SB this year or the next at the latest. If he decides he wants to go to a place with an offensive minded HC who actually gets to Super Bowls INSTEAD of staying with McDermott and getting speedboat out of the playoffs every year, Pegula will have to oblige. Just like Detroit had to with Stafford. But you can be sure that the Bills organization will try to give Allen the same situation in Buffalo first. They'd be dumb not to. Elite QB's are a lot harder to find than solid HC's.

They aren't close. It's a professional relationship. Two very different types of people. Now Daboll and Josh Allen? They were close. It's not a matter of Allen having to go behind anyone's back. If he refuses to sign an extension next offseason, Pegula will have to do what he has to do to keep Josh Allen on board.

I don't disagree. I've wanted them to become more multiple on defense for years. Adapt to opponents like the Patriots did for years. Or even like Spags and the Chiefs. It's been maddening watching them in the same defense for 7 seasons and despite all of that continuity........when they get to the playoffs they are just fish in a barrel for the likes of Burrow and Mahomes. Other teams actually do get stops against those QB's in the playoffs. I just think this one move is an outlier.

I can't say I'd be happy with that kind of result. I'd at best be indifferent. I was hoping they'd pick Austin Booker with that selection they traded to the Bears........and that's who the Bears took. I liked what I saw of Solomon........I even thought he might have a clearer path to success in the NFL. As an OLB edge rusher. But he's just not a fit for the Bills defense so he was basically off-the-board for me there. Hopefully they find a way to make it work. Didn't work with Moats. On D he did next to nothing well with the Bills. We were collectively glad to see him go after the 2013 season. He played WAY better in Pittsburgh, in a scheme that fit his skills.

You really think Josh Allen views McDermott like his dad?