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3 hours ago, Negan said:
The NFL and the schedule release is ridiculous, anything for the Almighty dollar.
Did anyone ever think Rome would fall?
I'm surprised at the lack of leaks this year compared to others.
Also a 3 hour schedule reveal is bonkers. Almost (but quite) as bad as the "The Decision".
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4 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:
I suppose this is just Starks saying he wants to beat the best, but it also comes off a little like Jalen Ramsey's "trash" take. As a rookie he might want to actually do something in the league first before calling out the MVP.
I don't even get a sniff of Ramsey in this interview. He sounds pretty playful and smart. I thought Starks came across really well. Good kid.
He said he wants to pick off Allen because he has a bunch of friends on the Bills.
Malaki basically said "it would be fun to beat my friends on the Bills"
Ramsey said Allen was trash.
IMO this is a total non-story.
Timestamp is around 5:10
https://youtu.be/IueRXT77hfU?si=PO7VRTE5303nus5D
32 minutes ago, GASabresIUFan said:Didn't Hairston say basically the same thing when drafted by the Bills.
I highly doubt that anybody who actually watched the interview thought the kid was coming at Allen with anything but respect.
What a BS headline. He was super friendly.
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Certainly a tough way to end his legacy.
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4 hours ago, Prospector said:
Zubaz pattern on the stripes could be interesting... not my preference, but definitely interesting... would definitely need to be the all white uniforms for that.
Zubaz would be a great get for the Bills honestly. Make the restripe on the Buffalo Zubaz, and the stripes on the jersey? Or maybe the numbers? IDK. But if they go down this road and do it right, they won't be able to keep them on the shelves.I hope it isn't some riff on chicken wings. Ugh
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1 hour ago, Jauronimo said:
Moving Watt means they're going for a full rebuild. The timing of a rebuild makes no sense considering they just signed DK and didn't draft a QB.
I think they were taking one more shot going down the vet QB route. The DK trade was to lure in Rodgers.
But to me, trading Pickens and Watt would be early signs that Rodgers is out and they're chasing draft capital for next years draft class.
By all accounts next years QB class is much stronger. So they have some ammo to go get a guy.
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7 minutes ago, Kirby Jackson said:
They are working on stacking picks. This article is before the 3rd for Pickens: https://steelerswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/steelers/2025/05/02/2026-nfl-draft-steelers-updated-pick-projections-for-next-year/83408057007/. They can use those 3rds and 4ths to move up the board. Maybe they can get 2 2nds and still have a 3rd. Their own first, which could be early, 2 2nds and a 3rd may be enough for them to move up and secure their QB in a much better QB class.
I suspect that they get a 2 and a little more for Watt. My buddy is there and things they should get whatever they can for Watt. He thinks he’s about to fall off a cliff.
This is exactly where I am at.
Even if he doesn't fall off a cliff, getting a 2nd is worth it. The NFL is different now. You need the QB and then a good GM to get all the role players in place once he gets paid.
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23 minutes ago, davefan66 said:
Most likely true.May be Pitt doesn’t want him.
1 hour ago, Kirby Jackson said:Interesting thought. You’re probably right. I can’t imagine that this would be something Rodgers wanted.
The trade is an interesting one. Pickens has all kinds of ability but is an idiot. He’s an explosive playmaker that has played with 🗑️ QBs and voiced his frustration. We will see how it works in Dallas. Dak is much better than what Pickens has played with but so is Lamb. They’re either going to have an incredible passing game or it’s going to go up in flames. 🤣🤣
My thoughts on Pitt as a whole have been that they get one more bite at the apple before they need to blow the roster up.
They can keep Tomlin and Co.
The roster is good enough to plug and play an established QB, but if they can't make it work they need to do whatever it takes to go out and get one.
If I am Pitt and I don't get Rodgers the entire roster is up for grabs. Load up on capital to go up and get your QB.
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My quick two cents is that Rodgers is hanging it up and/or not coming to Pitt and they have word.
No way they trade Pickens if they get one more bite at the apple with Rodgers/Pickens
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On 4/27/2025 at 9:36 AM, SoonerBillsFan said:
Every time I have posted his name that damn song starts in my head.
I don't think he wants to play anymore
I thought I heard a few months ago that there wasn't much tread left on his tires and the dude is more or less washed.
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On 4/29/2025 at 9:16 PM, HappyDays said:
This guy's sources are reliable:
So the last game ever at Highmark will be on Christmas. I would bet it's the Chiefs.
Ugh.
We were just talking about what to do if the Bills play on Christmas. It's a tough one because we don't live there anymore and most of my family is gone.
So wed have to ditch both families and make it a friends Christmas. Which we are on the fence about.
But then you add in the last regular season home game ever.
....against the Chiefs...
That's a lot to miss
11 hours ago, Warriorspikes51 said:We’ve been getting lots of primetime games for 3 seasons now. But usually at least 3 are on the road
perhaps we get 4 Home Night games as a tribute to the stadium?
Our Home opponents are far more worthy of primetime matchups tooAs an out of town season ticket holder who makes it to just about every home game, 1 pm starts are so much better for me. I can make it home Sunday night and work Monday.
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It's fine. I'm optimistic. But I am hesitant if the impact. I'm not confident that we'll get much use out of him in the same way we didn't get any use out of Yeldon, Hines, Knox, Kincaid, Samuels, MVS etc.
We've struggled with some of these role player/definitive skill set types and getting them involved early/often.
Rooting for this one to be different but I am cautious.
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34 minutes ago, Chandler#81 said:
I accidentally killed the previous post trying to delete 1 post. Great interviewI was so confused checking my notifications.
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2 hours ago, Logic said:
MVS was a weird case, but Poona Ford was even weirder.
Dude was GOOD good last year for the Rams and parlayed it into a fairly lucrative 3 year deal.
And it wasn't like the Bills were just overflowing with DT talent when Ford was unable to even get on the field here.
I think Allen and McD lock onto certain guys for different reasons and MVS missed checking the boxes for both guys. Not getting any production from Poona Ford was absolutely bonkers.
Allen is wildly talented but tends to live "off script" because of that he can kind of play favorites a bit and/or will force the ball into situations/players that aren't the best. This is something that has gotten much better over the years. His OTA presser he said that his offseason focus was being better pre snap, setting up blocking, and understanding what he is seeing, etc.I suspect that a lot of this is a one hand washes the other type of situation. And I fully expect that this portion of his game takes a leap over the next few seasons.
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I do like that he directly said "when you pay Josh what you are paying for it you have to take it away from somewhere else".
I am a huge proponent of the fact that once you pay the QB that player has to do more with less. They have to make up for the pay gap in some of their talent. Josh did a very good job of that last year. I expect him to continue to do very good as we move forward.To Beane's point on WGR, defense has cost us games. We have an excellent RB stable and OL.
The Bengals model is bad.
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On 4/28/2025 at 6:55 AM, May Day 10 said:
The problem is, the nhl is a lot more intricate than an nfl program. In the nfl you hit on a qb and a competent coach and you have a generation of results. We are Josh Allen retiring from again going back to the org who endlessly promoted russ brandon, Whaley not being "privy" to who the coach was, marrone essentially quitting as hc, and Rex Ryan not being allowed to "leave the room".
In the nhl, coaches are throwaway at the bottom of the food chain. There is a lot more need for scouting and development. You are looking at teenagers across the world playing in apples to oranges leagues. Then drafting them at 18, forecasting who they will become, then being responsible for development to reach their potential.
The cap in the nhl is also unforgiving. You also have much of the league at ufa status or have no trade protection who view the sabres as not serious or relevant.
The construct of a good nhl team is also based on intricate chemistry and balance.
Pegula being involved at all is an inefficiency the franchise can't afford. After Ruff and regier's way-too-long run, they have trotted out a series of first timers culminating with adams who had zero applicable experience. Top "officers" in the hockey department have dubious resumes to be manning their positions. Pegula and adams don't seem to want to be threatened by someone who knows what they are doing.
Before he had to hide, hearing pegula speak about hockey made me seriously wonder if he had been a fan at all. Not knowledgeable.
I absolutely agree. An NHL franchise is much more difficult to manage. The complexity of managing and scouting thousands of athletes from 13 years old to 33 years old, and deciding whether or not to draft them, and how/where to progress them in a system with a million different variables, cannot be understated.
To bring it back around to the Bills, you hit the QB you hit on basically everything. But to add on to what my OP was talking about, what I think Beane is best at is structure, process, and communication. I don't believe he is anywhere near a world class talent evaluator, or anything resembling one. But I think he is world class team leader at scale. BB's skill set would likely put him in the C-Suite of any business industry he chose. He just so happened to choose the NFL.
I am not advocating for this, because it harkens back to the Russ Brandon/Ralph era, but internally, outside of Ruff, Beane would likely be the best person in the extinct "One Buffalo" org to take over as some sort of COO of the Sabres. Which is a crazy statement to say about the state of the Buffalo Sabres. The best guy to run the hockey team that is already on Pegula's payroll already is the current GM of the football team.
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5 minutes ago, Since1981 said:
Beane use a 5th-rounder on Sanders. Let him light it up in preseason, then flip him when inevitable NFL QB injuries hit. Get a 2nd back. Belichick pulled this trick a couple times — we should too. LOL
Here is a very real thought. You could take a flyer on Shedeur in the 7th and Deion gets an NFL job in 2026 and offers you a third.
Theres a nonzero chance that is possible.
With all the trash in and out of KC and Andy Reid at the helm with Mahomes at QB they're the best equipped to manage that. Shaduer and Jackson Mahomes aren't all that different. They can survive SS for a year.
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13 minutes ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:
Weird how so many people hate him! He seems perfect. What’s the knock?
Not a draft guru. But Google tells me he lacks flexibility, which blows up the leverage he should have with his huge size.
Also conditioning/work ethic seem to be a consistent problem.
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1 hour ago, JFKjr said:
I wonder if they'd be okay with one of the "unacceptable" teams drafting him at this point.
I think the very fact that I'm talking about Shedeur with the pronouns they/them is a very BAD sign. Nobody wants to deal with Deion!
In fairness Shaduer said "we" over and over again when asked about turning an NFL team around.
I agree with whoever else posted that it would have served Shaduer well to have a different coach than pops at some point.
And for the record. I find Deion entertaining. He's without hyperbole one of the greatest all around athletes to ever walk the earth. I like him in college football (although disappointed he gave up on the whole HBCU thing) and I'd like him as an NFL coach. He's must watch TV. There's a lot more insufferable people in the NCAA and NFL.
But that's not the kind of dude I would want as a helicopter parent around my org who has access to the national media and a microphone 2-3 days per week. Retiring his number reinforces this argument as well.
Oddly enough Shilo seems to be the most grounded Sanders by far which makes him an interesting prospect to me.
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At this point the best thing for Shaduer is to go very late round as a flyer to a team with a strong org, HC, and well entrenched starter hoping to flip him down the road for a higher pick.
KC would be a good fit and they can absorb Deion antics. So would Buffalo but I don't want to deal with Deion and his QB son.
I will say Shilo seems like the exact opposite. Much more humble and work horse. Hes been nothing but projected as low draft pick/UDFA safety and Prime hasn't propped him up as more than that. I'd wouldn't be mad at taking a flyer on the kid and maybe putting him on the PS.
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11 minutes ago, BullBuchanan said:
I did? Funny, all the Red text showing that they were near the bottom of the hit rate on position led me to conclude otherwise. Weird.
If he didn't play for the Bills he likely would have been out of the league a lot sooner. A McKelvin comp is not high praise, IMO.
In regards to McKelvin I was more talking about him as an elite physical prospect vs a finished player in the NFL.
I won't hijack the thread too much to defend McKelvin and I also think Hairston should be better. But...
I always thought more teams than not had worse CB2's than McKelvin during that time. In his 8 years with th Bills he was named to the NFL's all rookie team, was top 10 in pass break ups and pick 6's twice, and fumble recoveries and interceptions once. All in different years. Add on his elite skill as a returner and it is a decent NFL career. He just wasn't the guy we hoped.
But to bring it back around without derailing. They seem to have elite physiological measuarables, similar size, and similar criticisms/areas in need for improvement.
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I'm not the draft guru that others are on this board. But going through YouTube, these comments, and a bunch of prospect profiles and I the only one who thinks he reminds me of....
Leodis McKelvin
Tremendous athleticism. Can run with anybody and everybody. On the small-ish side. Needs to get stronger. Sometimes trouble tracking the ball.
I was a McKelvin fan btw. He played 9 years. Good cover corner who struggled to track the ball at times but almost never got beat. Not a world beater but a decent starter in the NFL. With the 11th pick everybody wanted a Nate Clements replacement. We got a solid starting outside corner. If McKelvin were picked 30th people would have viewed him differently. (Aside from that kickoff he fumbled)
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If the Bills think that the situation is really unsolvable with Cook I MIGHT consider Cook in exchange Pickens and a their 2026 3rd.
I think the dude is a headache and I am inclined to say no.
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Just now, coloradobillsfan said:
Somebody here once posted that it was in Brandon Beane's contract he gets final say in all football related decisions, and that Terry had publicly stated that despite the Bills success he had always regretted this clause. If this is true I'd really like to know the source.I've heard that rumor, but I think it might have been on his extension.
My barely educated two cents is that both franchises are managed identically. Terry is very open about allowing anybody and everybody to come directly to him with ideas. Which is awesome in some ways but without structure makes definite roles and taking inventory for improvement nearly impossible.
We see it with the Sabres a ton. And we saw it early with Rex and Whaley and Brandon. The advantage McBeane have is a past prior working relationship and being hired more or less as a package. So Beane is never going to Terry without McD nor McD to Terry without Beane.
The Sabres have been a hire this position, then that position, and then this other position, and they all independently push for their own image of the organization to Terry and Terry piece meals it all together.
I think it's less meddling and more lack of leadership and structure from the ownership. Without some definition and ultimate responsibility in the org it's nearly impossible to hold people responsible.
Terry Pegula is why I have next to no interest in splitting up McBeane. In addition to both being above average at their individual craft they keep our owner in check, which is also a skill.
Just a real life hypothetical on the Bills side. At least how I see the last 14 years of the Sabres:
Let's just say we finally move on from McDermott and we even promote from within (and Beane does not have that line in his contract). Say Joe Brady takes over too keep congruency. We struggles a bit but Brady keeps clamoring to Pegula on the side that we need to start drafting x players instead of y players. Terry starts telling Beane to start prioritizing positoon x. The team gets worse. Everybody blames Beane, but Beane lost control lose 2-1 to Brady/Terry.
Then we get a new GM and that GM is saddled with Brady and he tells Terry "Actually Joey B is an idiot." And Terry goes "yeah he's an idiot". So we start drafting a hodge podge of players that don't work with the current coach.
Then we hire a new coach who goes to Terry to split the tie on what to do with the roster.
And around and around we go for 14 years.
Terry Pegula believes this is a feature not a bug.
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On 4/24/2025 at 1:30 PM, JP51 said:
Josh Rosen still being developed... Dion Dawkins traded for a 3rd cause he is too mean... Steph Diggs never traded for... Hamlin gone cause he cares to much, Rapp gone or never signed cause he hits too much, Zay Jones still starting because he is gonna be a great one... Tremaine Edmunds still with the Bills cause he is only 14 yrs old and has tremendous upside... Rex Ryan on his 2nd stint with the team after Adams fired Phil Jackson cause "who knew Basketball didnt translate well to football"... Jim Kelly hired as LB coach cause thats where he played 2 way in HS and we had an open spot.. Dorsey still OC cause he is the only OC that would stay... Rexies Bro is DC... and Adams looking to get Brett Hull out of retirement as K cause his kick ins are clutch... oh wait that was only a skate in the crease.. no matter... he gets him anyways.. the new stadium doesnt get built but the Highmark has the best renovated bathrooms in the league... and lastly... he eschews free agent signings in lieu of using the money on tropical heat lamps so we can grow palm trees outside Highmark....
To be specific I think we'd be loaded with young slot corners,a young back 7 that can't really cover anybody but they do have way more interceptions than our analytics would think they would.
We'd also have tons of RB's with bad visions and no OL run behind.
Our QB room would be like 6 different versions of Mike White or Gardner Minshew just waiting to blossom under the right leadership or whatever.
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2025-2026 Schedule Leaks/Rumors
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Agreed.
I'm also not gonna sit down and watch a 3 hour reveal of a calendar. LoL
I will F5 all night though.