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8 hours ago, dave mcbride said:
We'll likely have a large amount of cap space, however, so we will be able to sign good defenders. The idea is to build up the offense for THIS season and take advantage of a generational WR draft. Thomas/Aiyuk and McConkey?!? Sign me up for that.
KC has always, always, always won with a very good too…. We don’t have at all….
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1 hour ago, Sharky7337 said:
Von miller contract
Dawson Knox contract
Stephen diggs contract
Defense line draft picks that never pan out
Defense tackle signings that are not good enough
No reliable pass rusher
Wyatt Teller give away
Edmunds
Just curious why he is so highly regarded when these issues have come to roost fully
Boy, you and me, pal…. I don’t get the blind love for Beane either…. You could also add mediocre drafts since Allen pick….
(the jury is still out on how he did last year) and you definitely could add the Diggs trade as well…. I still say the worst one was the VM contract. Miller was no where the player he once was in Denver and we gave him a contract like he was. And he was old….
oh, and the Star Loutotia (SP?) contract. Everyone forgets about that one but it was the first of the dramatic overpays….
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4 hours ago, Logic said:
Bills Scoring Offense rankings the past four seasons:
2nd3rd
2nd
6th
Bills Scoring Defense rankings the past four seasons:
16th1st
2nd
4th
The Bills have won the second most games in the league since 2020.
The Bills have been top 6 in preseason Super Bowl odds the past four seasons.
Winning more games than everyone but the Chiefs, being consistently above average on both offense and defense, and being considered one of the five or six best teams in the league year in and year out seems like an indication that the team's GM is fairly good at his job.
Looking at each move in a vacuum -- "Beane failed to draft impact player X", "Beane failed to burnish positional group X with the draft capital I would've liked" -- ignores the reality of looking at the team as a whole: The Buffalo Bills have been very good for several years now. It also fails to mention the moves he's made that have been SUCCESSES.
Ultimately, to suggest that the man in charge of building the roster for a team this consistently good is, himself, bad at his job, well...I strongly disagree.
The top two reasons we have been so good under McBeane….
1) we got Josh Allen. Which is starting to look like we lucked out as we never drafted another player anything like him since….
And #2 - Beane is very fortunate he has an owner willing to spend way over the cap and this has covered up a myriad of mistakes.
bonus third reason: it seems now that we really lucked out signing Hyde and Poyer and drafting very well in 2017….
Beane is by no terrible but he is by no means great either…. It seems lucky now as we never came close to signing FAs like them again. Morse was really good but he was paid a super amount. And last year Beane did very well with our LG from Dallas….But that signing still doesn’t compare to Hyde and Poyer, not yet at least….
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On 3/23/2024 at 8:18 AM, Pine Barrens Mafia said:
No needs on the roster? That's a rosy outlook. TE is set. WR is severely undermanned. RB is ok, QB is above average, OL IS THIN. DL isn't great, LB is ok, CB is good but lacks depth, safety is a tire fire.
RB is not OK, we have one NFL back and he is best when splitting snaps… and we need a sixth LB as well…
Otherwise I agree with you….
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15 hours ago, Chandler#81 said:
Now for the discussion part. It’s not an overly optimistic highlight reel. He was clearly great in college and Beane wanted this dimension for the team. However, for a pass catching TE, he had numerous drops and very rarely broke tackles. His TD production was -in a word, disappointing. But the pure talent was on display for most of the season. With Knox taking a pay cut recently, Dalton is now clearly TE1. But he can and needs to improve. He is a willing blocker though his relatively slight frame doesn’t scare anyone and is more of a ‘get in the way’ type blocker than physical blocker. While he made numerous eye-popping catches, he underwhelmed in contested catches where his size should have been a benefit. He displays deft footing but he doesn’t use this to break tackles when defenders dive at his lower legs. It was obvious by seasons’ end that if a defender was closing in on him, he was going to be tackled -even though there were opportunities to challenge the tackler with changing speed or direction, stiff arming or lowering his shoulder -something Knox is proficient at.I’m hoping these were discussed with him in his end of season meeting with coaches as aspects he needs to improve on. Bulking up a bit is essential, but also hand fighting, better body control to fend off would-be tacklers near him and more gumption/desire to finish the play in the Endzone.
Yes, he set team records for catches by a TE and quickly became a starter. But to know the full history of the team, is to know TE has always been an afterthought. I can count on 1 hand our very best TE’s, from Warlick to -well, Knox..The potential is certainly there, but the necessary upgrades to his skills are on him to develop. To me, he’s kinda like a ‘golly gee! This is great playing in the NFL!’ kid. I’d like to see more of a determined approach to his craft to realize his capabilities at this level. He isn’t there yet.
What say you?
I loved his hands and I think you are being too hard on his drops….
He has very good size and I think he is a tough individual that will improve at all aspects of toughness, blocking, becoming harder to tackle, using size and strength to get open….
what I don’t like about about him is his speed, quickness, and overall athleticism (aside from his hands). I think he has NFL quality in all those phases but he is not elite in any of them. The Bills definitely need a few blue chippers to win a Super Bowl and I fear we missed out again. Looks like another red chipper to go with Groot, Ed and all of the best of Beane’s draft picks. We need home runs and all we ever get are singles, doubles and triples…. I think TJ and Gabe were triples given their draft position. Dawkins was a triple too (maybe an hiomer he is maybe on the line) and perhaps White was a Homer but that was 2017….
The Bills have to have a draft more like the 2017 draft this year…. We need a true blue and two red chippers at least, imho…
i really hope I’m wrong about Kincaid.
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11 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said:
They also have Alec Anderson that can play IOL and they like him a lot. I believe he's the one that made Bates expendable.
I do agree that Day 3 we likely see some OL taken. They way it sits at the moment I can't see one on day 2 as we only have one pick that day and still have needs at WR and the DL. But if a guy they love is sitting there anything is possible for sure
We have many needs: WR, DT, S, DE, RB, IOL, OT, CB, LB…. I think in this order….
LOL, Ty J is a total embarrassment as a#2 RB…. I don’t know if he should even be on the PS…..
Our team needs talent so freakin’ badly…..
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3 hours ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
Kind of have to be. We've got our Starters in Oliver and Daquan, but literally nothing else.
Don't know if Roach was something we were looking at before we signed Jones to start or as for depth. We'll def get at least 2-3 more guys there between FA and the Draft. Though it won't be anyone sexy.
We absolutely need good players behind the five we have now. When you have zero great players, you’d better have a lot of good ones.
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12 hours ago, Iraq Vet said:
Can they sign him for a 3 game deal then cut him? A true mercenary move. Vet min for few games? Then go with DaQuan Jones in the playoffs.
Not the dumbest idea ever right? If he is in shape, he has fresh legs for 3 games. Just play him on 1st downs.
We need a DT pass rusher, imho….
Jones and Joseph can handle the run. Jones is OK at pass rushing but Jordan is better.
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1 hour ago, Scott7975 said:
Yeah, thats how I viewed it and commented it on another thread. The play was to Diggs. Allen sees Diggs is going to get blown up so doesn't throw it. I think Allen stuck on Diggs a little long trying to get that to work and by the time he came off, due to the pressure, he just threw it at Kincaid hoping for a play or it just goes oob like it did. If Allen did come off him sooner he would have seen Davis going through the rest of reads with time IMO.
I am disappointed that he didn't have an answer for the pressure but even down a couple players, that is one of the best D's in the league. IIRC they got an important piece back for our game too.
I agree that the chefs have a great defense, it has always been very good. It was the defense that brought them back (more than the O) vs. SF in the Super Bowl. The Bills have no one even close to Chris Jones and they struck gold with McDuffie whereas we know little about Kaiir Elam yet. Probably never will be as good as McDuffie but I really liked the way he looked last year. There’s something wrong with his game though, losing out to Benford.
Having said that we’re supposed to have a great offense. It sure didn’t look like it at all vs. the chefs. Maybe Brady made James Cook look like a great player but that was it…. The whole line had trouble after having two great outings vs. the eggles and jests….
the Receivers (while we can’t see on tv) seemed covered or Josh was mainly locking onto his first read? IDK? But it was very poor.
i really thought we were in position to at least cover the spread vs. the chefs and we didn’t and it wasn’t pretty at all….
Brady may be OK, but I don’t think he has shown to be the definite answer. I don’t think the Bills are attacking the middle of the field enough. Short, medium and long. We keep running these hideous plays to the short outside. Just really ugly plays…. Why was Ty Johnson given a look? Talk about pedestrian. But it was the play calls anyway as our good player (Diggs) could do nothing more than Johnson, just ugly plays.
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12 hours ago, Scott7975 said:
I think Brady has done good work with this offense. Every week I am getting closer to thinking Brady is IT. A good week against the Cowboys and I am there. This is some good stuff here. Its only 4 plays but really good stuff and it shows Brady throwing a wrinkle to get a look you want after a defense adjusted to the same basic play earlier.
I’m very disappointed in the offense vs. the chefs. Off a bye, two starters missing from the chef D and the chefs offense struggling and all we can get is two TDs?
C’mon….
He had those plays to cook and that was it after two weeks to prepare. The screens to Johnson and Diggs absolutely sucked and that was it from the O.
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10 hours ago, Success said:
It's something about the way we develop players (we tend to be slow in getting some rookies involved) - but one thing that is clear to me is that Beane's picks sometimes need time. Epenesa is a great example. Oliver was sort of underachieving until this past year I think most here had written Bernard off.
Which is why I'm not so quick to write off 22-year-old Elam. I think he probably was hampered by injury a bit this year, and it wouldn't surprise me to see him start for us next year.
Agreed on Torrence - he has made some mistakes recently, but it's easy to see that he's a good lineman and was a good pick for us.
The slow developing DL is all on Frazier and his desire not attack with his DL until the playoffs (for the most part.) This slows down their development by a country mile and has them playing the wrong style…. Example: Ed did not attack during the regular season under Frazier and Ed skill-set is that of an attacking three-tech…… He played everyone out of position and McD is the answer to why Groot, Ed, DaQuon and AJ look so much better this year.
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2 hours ago, NewEra said:
I don’t remember one ever being created, so I’d like to show him some love and appreciation.
He’s proving doubters wrong. Some like to portray him as a purely finesse RB that can’t move the chains or take on contact. That’s pure bs. He’s been delivering the hammers to mix with his elusiveness.
Good runner up the middle. Great runner to the outside. Tremendous hands for a RB. Similarly tremendous route running for a RB.
Over the previous 5 seasons how many times have see our RB decide to bounce to the outside and run step for step with the LB or DE only to get dragged down? It seems like Cook is able to get the corner and head upfield every time he decides to bounce it outside. His short area quickness and acceleration to top speed is a thing of beauty.
Ken Dorsey was a failure at utilizing his skill set. He should be a focal point of this offense as opposed to being an accent. Running the ball will be big test vs that Philly front 4 but I expect them to utilize him a lot more in the short passing game next week, negating their monsters in the middle. Put their LBs and S to work.
If Brady can get the most out of his talents the rest of the way, we could be looking at a special end to the season
Let’s hope that McD doesn’t doghouse him into wanting out. He’s here for 2 more years after this and we may not be able to pay him when his contract is up. Let’s appreciate this special talent while we have him.
Cook’s been good but the OL has been better creating huge holes for the young back to scamper through…
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6 hours ago, Rich Stadium Original said:
Yes they still had their moments at times last night, but overall I think we have seen great improvement in the O line. Continuity and lack of injuries has a lot to do with that.
At the beginning of the season, it seemed like Allen was running for his life a whole lot, and the holes in the running game just weren't there.
Against one of the best front 4s in the league, they more than held their own. Allen had a clean pocket MOST of the night, and the Jets only managed one sack.
Going into the game, I think the line ranked 2nd best in the league in run blocking and showed more of the same last night.
Another big test will be coming next week against the Eagles.
You’re missing half of the story. Do you think it is easy to run block vs. the jets? The run-blocking was even better than than the pass blocking and was key to the victory.
I think the line has been doing great most of the year. And the TEs and backs block very well making Spencer Brown appear to be a sound pass blocker.
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3 hours ago, nuiwek said:
Over the last few years, after a couple of good games (and especially after a fish @&$ whooping) I start feeling like Buffalo is unbeatable. With the sushi beatdown and all the amazing stats I've seen over the past couple days plus the analysis videos (thanks Cover 1!) I'm pretty freaking in the clouds. Problem is, almost every time I get to this point, we lay an egg in the next game. But, when I feel like there's a good chance we'll lose or that a win is going to be much tougher than it has any right to be, we usually win. So humble my old @&$, why are the Bills going to lose Sunday? I already know that Diggs doesn't move on run plays.
IDK? I feel this time it is different. We fixed so many things from last season plus we got most of our injured players back from last year….
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12 hours ago, HIT BY SPIKES said:
Don’t want to count my chickens before I oven roast them however we have a very doable schedule until we play @Eagles, BYE and @Chiefs.
The Bucs game is in Buffalo.
The Bengals look vulnerable.
The rest of those 7 games we should be favoured by 7+ points.
Would love to go into our BYE week 11-1 or 10-2.
But we can beat the eagles and chefs….
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9 hours ago, Nephilim17 said:
Just read this on NFL.com...
The Bills finally have a reliable bell cow providing balance to the offense, and it’s a beautiful thing to watch. After racking up 98 yards on the ground in Sunday’s road win over Washington, Cook now has the most rush yards by a Bills player through the first three weeks of the season since 2012 (C.J. Spiller with 308).
Nice to see. Didn't know that we'd gone over decade without that kind of production.
I disagree with MJD's assertion that we have a "bell cow" back (maybe it's semantics, but I define "bell cow" as 20 to 25 rushes many games), but I think Cook is a good number-one back on this team who can rack up 12 to 16 carries a game and get good yardage and some catches.
https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-rb-index-week-4-one-running-back-i-promise-to-stop-underestimating
I like when our B and C RBs get in there though….. I like it fine. Keep Cook viable and get the backups some work. I think Latavius Murray has won the #2 job! He’s running tougher so far…. People do not like tackling him…. : )
Go Bills!
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I’ll say Tre White as we are going to see a lot of passes with all those speedy WRs on the commanders.
Tre with a pick and two passes defensed.
Bonus prediction: TJ also gets a pick….
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19 hours ago, mrags said:
Pretty much seals it for the people that knew Edmunds sucked years ago
It wasn’t Edmunds fault, he was coached to stay back there if you watched.
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If Terrel Bernard attacks aggressively the Bills win. If Terrel Bernard is asked to play like Edmunds, that is wait, wait, wait for the RB, the Bills lose….
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5 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said:
Deep roster. Kind of surprised Zayne Anderson was claimed.
I liked him…. I was wondering why it was we didn’t sign him…
4 hours ago, SWATeam said:LOL, why weren't all the "loaded" Dolphins cuts claimed??? 😂
Maybe because they planned how their roster was going to work. And not drafted players they knew weren’t going to make the team. But in reality that’s not fair, because we could have sustained injured over the summer and then all three of those players would have made it.
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3 hours ago, Dillenger4 said:
Lot's of question marks and "ifs" in your OP response. The biggest "if" is IF Tua stays in for their season, the Phins are a much better team than the Bills.
They are faster, their offense runs a lot of motion and interesting plays. That is O coaching which they are better. All around, I'd say they have a stronger team. Again, this is with Tua.
If Tua didn't miss all those games last year including our playoff tilt - they beat us. I love the Bills but the Phins are gonna be tough this year!
If the Bills weren’t all beat up for both games the Bills walk away no contest.
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On 8/22/2023 at 9:06 AM, FrenchConnection said:
I think that its because they told him that he couldn't run in a PS game and you can't take running out of JA's game. It just throws the whole thing off. I think that just knowing that he has the option to take off helps him stay in there and complete plays.
No! For some reason Josh has become a poor quick passer and he must get much better at this or he isn’t going to be very effective.
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On 8/21/2023 at 6:24 PM, Chaos said:
What are your picks?
What is your over analysis of the game?Being sane, naturally I’m concerned…. On offense it’s our tackles and our seemingly inability to install a short passing game. That’s a horrible mix.
On defense it’s a lot of things. No matter how many DL we pay, they, seemingly, underachieve no matter who we get.
Then we have to worry about the huge hole at MLB and finally we have to worry why the secondary doesn’t look very good at all this preseason. I was expecting our D to challenge every sort of pass and we really haven’t seen that at all….
Our best bet is that McD really decided to hold back this preseason more than in the past and that this really rubbed off on the team and everyone is moving half speed waiting for week one.
The jets have an excellent roster.
Hopefully, so do we. Hopefully this roster still Billieve in itself and fight tooth and nail on every single play for a full 60 minutes.
We can win, but we have to play like we haven’t seen since early in the 2022 season.
Go Bills!
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1. - chefs.
2. - Eggles
3. - Bungles
4. - Bills
5. - Nuners (a distant fifth….
Why Bills ain’t #1: Spencer Brown and Co. are no where near the top ten as an OL., Hyde & Poyer are very iffy and not the greatest coaching, and we have an unknown MLB…. I hope the Bills show me they’re better this year. Excited about Dorian Williams’ first game at Will.
Milano as trade compensation
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Are you assuming we’re going to eat his 20+ mill contract? Because we can’t….
And no one is going to take that contract, no one….