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McD has fired 2 OC's and a bunch of other coaches have been fired or encouraged to leave..........he most certainly rolls that way. If the WR corps is a disappointment.......after his initial season with the Bills where they were a disappointment.........Henry will be easy to scapegoat. He's a journeyman coach.

Dogs eat their own sh!t so probably not too bad from their perspective. Seems a bit pedestrian to serve your elite QB though.

This is not correct. I think you are blending era's here. Ted Washington played way more than 50% of the snaps as a Bill. All the Bills DL starters played virtually every snap back then. It was expected. This heavy rotation stuff is relatively new. Take 1997.........they only even rostered 6 DL. All 3 starters played all 16 games and Marcellus Wiley was the only other one active for more than 10 games. Shawn Price played in 10 and Jim Jeffcoat 7.

If Adam Henry can defy gravity with this cast of high rpm drain-circlers he should some HC interviews. The more likely result is a pink slip.

His drops are there for people to see but overall he catches the ball a fraction of a percent better than Gabe Davis. The issue is that he looked washed last year. When Patrick Mahomes has a passer rating of 73 when targeting you.........you probably suck. That's why he was kicking rocks in the middle of May.......not his career low-light reel.

It takes a weakling to ignore the obviously correct point at the expense of dwelling on a very minor detail therein. You probably thought it was a lock that Bass was going to make that kick didn't you? To people like you life is a tragedy.

As @dave mcbride said.........it's a dog's breakfast.

I see it that way as well. But I will say that they guaranteed $1.1M of Mack Hollins contract so I think Shavers and Cephus are starting out well behind him in that competition. I see it that way as well. But I will say that they guaranteed $1.1M of Mack Hollins contract so I think Shavers and Cephus are starting out well behind him in that competition.

Not shooting the OP here but it never fails.........as soon as the team stops spending freely the fans start counting cap dollars not spent as W's. For any reason, good or bad, rational or irrational. I sure hope that a star WR doesn't get traded after June 1 and the Bills aren't ready to accept prosperity when it presents itself.

Yeah why is this back up? It will probably take a football miracle(read: a bunch of injuries) for DK Decaf to make this opening day roster with all the veteran scrubs they've guaranteed money to.

You are correct that there were 3 longer completions to Shakir on the season........the longest being 30 yards from the LOS not 40 yards. Your math is terrible and your attention span watching a 2:59 video is very poor. But my forgetting some busted coverage plays and your subsequent exaggeration doesn't change the point in any way. The 3 longer throws were all wide open sideline throws........busted coverages. None of those were posts trying to split the safeties like they attempted on that fateful 2nd and 9. Even the one versus the Jets that I had credited as the second longest throw.......because that one actually WAS in traffic.........was NOT that throw. It was a stupid time to attempt a high degree of difficulty throw that they hadn't completed all season. Especially considering that they had failed to connect on big plays all night. The handling/choices of 13 seconds was debatable. All that was needed was one very SIMPLE play to be made to end that game. 2nd and 9.........not so debatable. Even if you WIN that play.......the prior 58 minutes of that game + the Chiefs need to score a TD playing 4 down football.......well if you have any common sense whatsoever that tells you that you probably lose the game anyway. That's the point. They chose to turn the result of the game over to their weaknesses.......defense and special teams.......... instead of finishing it with the only thing that had gone right that day........methodical offense.

Yeah if they keep 7 and the last 3 veteran additions suddenly become un-washed they will have a little bit of everything. Reminds me of those drought years when they couldn't pass the ball but the toughest decision in camp was whether to keep a 7th WR and which one. When you have a high quality WR corps you only need to keep 5.

I mean..........yeah, if Josh WANTS to.

The problem with what they have now will be even getting TO the playoffs with this bottom 1/3 of the league WR group. All 4 vets they added are guys coming off down seasons by their standards. For guys like MVS, Claypool and Hollins those downs are quite significant from the seasons prior. But, yeah. In the postseason MVS has had success and hasn't dropped passes. I just don't think that past is very relevant now because he looks to have washed ashore last season.

Yeah and then significantly more than the next longest target after that. The OBVIOUS POINT being that it is NOT something Khalil Shakir has done with any degree of regularity whatsoever. Is that not clear to you?

Another way to look at it is that they will have added drain-circling vets like Hollins and MVS to an already unimpressive cast of never-been's.

He is what Kolby Listenbee could have been if not for the sports hernia's. Adding him would leave them one Keon Coleman hammy strain away from meaningful games with elite ball-dropper MVS on one side and DK Decaf Shorter on the other side. What could go wrong?

Yeah we know, it mighta' coulda' been a temporary go-ahead TD if everything woulda' went right on the play. The problem was that wasn't what had been working all game so it's no surprise it didn't work then. It would have been one of the longest air yards completions of the season to Shakir. A high degree of difficulty throw they had not completed to him that season. You shouldn't go with that there......let alone actually TRY to give Mahomes the ball back to play 4 down football with almost 2 minutes left. The Chiefs had been going thru the Bills defense at a sh!t-thru-goose pace all game. The game was only in reach because of a the Mecole Hardman fumble out of the end zone as the Chiefs were about to pull away earlier that quarter. The Bills path to escaping the game with a win was to score a TD with as little time left as possible. Clock control is a strategy that overmatched teams have been using to orchestrate upsets forever. And make no mistake, the Bills were incredibly overmatched defensively and on special teams. And offensively they couldn't execute big play to save their lives that day. With some luck they had survived on the narrow path of long drives made up of small plays to keep the score close to that point.........but then just got stupid at the 2 minute mark.

Whatever happened to the good ol' "commissioner's exempt list"? Put him on that indefinitely and let the Chiefs pay him to not play while his legal situations play out and then worry about a suspension. These situations aren't likely to be resolved by September/October so not sure why the league would want him back on the field at that point.

Yeah I've wondered if Terry Pegula will tighten the purse strings........but I don't expect that really. I'm not sure he's that keenly involved to start pulling a Ralph yet. Ralph grew up before the US financial system was thoroughly rigged and I think he still always felt like his net worth could go south in a hurry if he didn't try to pinch pennies. If Beane is a top GM he will understand that you can't let the momentum of money steer you. By that, I mean, you can't expect to win if you are trying to drastically re-set your cap situation. You have to be ready for opportunity when it knocks. Not being ready for the prosperity that fate is presenting is how they missed on Patrick Mahomes in 2017. They were fortunate that the Allen pick bailed them out. There hasn't been a Mahomes or Allen enter the league SINCE Mahomes and Allen. Joe Burrow is the closest but he's not been durable enough to qualify. I want to believe that Beane knows that you gotta' make that hay when the sun shines. No guarantee that it's going to be a favorable talent market when you feel you have have extensively re-set your cap.

Yeah, like I said, I feel that way too. They are just making the wrong decision at WR again, IMO. Same as they have the previous couple offseasons when they stupidly went all-in on Gabe Davis opposite their All Pro Diggs and did little else. Now they are expecting to replace Diggs and Davis with Coleman and Samuel(and a cast of cast-offs). That is an even greater leap of faith than those prior offseasons. It's not like the MLB position in that regard.......that was the first time they'd risked leaving themselves short at the position. This is them tripling down on not doing enough at WR. I was 100% behind their plan at MLB last year. Everybody they had used in place of Edmunds over the years had produced in limited roles. Pedestrian-Preston Brown lead the NFL in tackles under McDermott in 2017. There was AMPLE reason to trust in that decision. Not so much at WR. Skepticism should be the order of the day there.

Yeah the problem with that prediction is that it varies from high WR2 production into possible All Pro consideration. It's too broad to convey the confidence level. When you get there it's kinda' like Parcell's old adage about it being MUCH easier to get to 9-10 wins than to the 11-13 win level. When people were assuming that Gabe was going to be able to assume all of the WR2 snaps going into 2022 my take was that he needed to produce over 1100 yards to replace the impact of having him in a 1-2 combo with Sanders. Of course, those numbers never came to pass with the elevated role.

Yeah he's adept at choosing the right truth for the moment. It's a strength of his. I mean, what was to gain from saying "expect a big splash in free agency"? If a deal comes together, then you look like you accomplished something. If it doesn't, the perception is you've failed. Same with addressing the top of the WR depth chart. Who benefits from saying you are concerned about it in May? In the free agency era the Bills have traditionally had GM's that were either unsophisticated road scouts(Butler/Nix/Whaley) or stubborn hot-heads who would shoot from the hip with the media(Polian/Donahoe) or just clueless green-horns(Marv/Brandon). Beane isn't the best personnel man around by any stretch.....but he might be the best "executive" GM in the NFL. He is really good at bullsh!tting for profit and still seeming like a good guy to the people he deals with.

Yeah, I tend to agree that they are going to risk it and go into the season without a proven WR1 or WR2. That's just feels but it feels like they are willing to crash and burn on this one if necessary. But Beane lies about this kind of stuff ALL THE TIME. Because he knows that if he reverses course on this type of thing the fan base will be happy and not be upset that he was disingenuous. Setting expectations low and then hurdling those lowered bars is how he keeps his stock strong with the fans.