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I'd be shocked if Beane were to get anything for Hughes or Addison. I'd be further shocked if Hughes or Addison went and didn't just retire if this happened. Hughes bleeds Buffalo Blue and wants that Super Bowl. Addison also wants a Super Bowl Having been close the one time. It sez here Beane is stuck with these guys. Having said that, I also thought it was impossible to trade Lee Smith and his contract so whotf knows? And with regards to Mr. Hughes, he may still be our best, IDK, I havta see the new kids, but his play slipped last year in the playoffs.....He just lost that dangerous burst he has been saving for big games, imho....

Get the pro bowler now! We need more weapons! The more the weapons, the better the weapons, the better Josh Allen is. That's a no-brainer! Super Bowl!!! (Yes, I think Ertz gives us a better chance to win it all.. I thought it was made crystal clear last playoffs.) At least we will have an offense that can compete with the chefs. Maybe Groot and the defense surprises at the other facet? Let's remember there is a reason Groot went first. Go Groot! Go Ertz (to Buffalo!) Go Bills!

IDK? I'm pretty surprised by this. It goes against what my eyes are telling me.....I mean, I really watch. Im also a Tremaine fan, but I hope he gets better.... a lot better.... I have seen Tremaine wait for the RB to cross the LOS before engaging. Like he was coached to do that. He makes so many tackles downfield it's crazy. I call shenanigans on this stat.

I think if we had Pettine and that defense (even though I was never a Super Fan because he always played below his talent level overall - low effort) we would win a Super Bowl. Furthermore, I think the defense would look far better with our offense taking big leads. The sack number would be ridiculous. I like this current Bills team as much as I liked any Bills team, but I'm not going to say it is something t isn't. We have a good defense....end of story. We drafted well in 2017 and drafted Josh Allen. Not so good aside from that.... average at best.

Not the topic but.... Honestly, I'd take Pettiness over Frazier. Pettiness attacks, Frazier is defensively defensive. Good when you're playing Baltimore, not do much vs. everybody else. Half the time, you don't know what Frazier is asking his defense to do, so it is hard to criticize the players. I know I've seen Tremaine "waiting" for the runner to hit the LOS before engaging. This is heat he is told to do and as fans it is hard to see and fathom. Frazier keeps the ball in front of his defense where Pettine goes and gets the ball. Frazier becomes far more aggressive in some playoff games but some not do much. Everybody is waiting for Ed to take off but the fact remains, Kyle did not shoot the gap In Frazier's defense and unless it's a playoff game, I doubt Ed does either. I think Frazier values negative plays less than most. I think he thinks he can stop scoring plays and that is really all that counts (but his success is very debatable). Does he have only average players or does his defense make all defenders average? I'm not sure of this but I know Frazier is not an aggressive DC by any means.

Trouble is, we need these higher draft picks to realize their draft position. Tremaine, Ed, And AJ on defense and Ford (or Lamp or both) on offense. Man, if those three had a great year on defense this year we could challenge KC for the AFC crown. If we turn LG into a strength, our run game would cruise along. (We also need our TEs to win blocks more). And the truth is that Tremaine and Ed are good players (we don't know about AJ yet) but aren't very special so far. Yes, we need them to be special to challenge KC. We can't expect our rookies to be all that.... Hopefully, they are helping by November.

Me too. Go Bills!

I'm hoping the Lamp vs. Ford competition is extremely fruitful. It very well could be. Two very highly rated guards not very long ago. Can one of them straighten out their play? Maybe even both? Buck up and Go Bills!

Yeah, QB ain't the difference at ALL. The Bills WRs were ALL beat up for the playoff game (and KC's receivers were a bit better anyhow) and KC's defense has impact players while ours really does not (at least last year.) Another way of putting it, KC Just has a better defense. Our hopes are: The Bills get Ertz and become unstoppable offensively. Or, The Bills draft pays huge dividends. Or, KC runs into injury problems but the Bills could too. Did I miss anything?

I could see Allen regress if Diggs gets hurt or we lose a couple others like Beasley and Sanders and we don't get Ertz. I could also see a regression if our line falls apart. You need all three to have a great offense. The QB, the line and the weapons.

If you guys are intimating that JA didn't improve a ton too, you're crazy imho. JA clearly got better every year. It was all three, JA himself, his weapons and his line, allthewhile Daboll got to expand his offense with his coaches (who were mainly new) and players and getting better in so many ways over time. It was all exponential. It still is now with Sanders, Gabriel entering year two, we hopefully fix the LG position and develop the run game a lot more this year. Zach Ertz will be a huge add and allow our offense to compete with any in the league. The defense on the other hand should be good but unlikely great which is what we probably need to beat the chiefs or Bucs. Can Groot, Boogie And AJ bring electricity to the defense? Can Tremaine Edmunds take a big step? Will the LCB position hold up? A lot of teams are going to try and beat us this year by running the ball down our throat and controlling the clock, can we play great run D? I think those four questions are real and the answers will probably determine our season. Will it be very good (I say we sweep the East again) or great (can we win it all?) I'll tell you, Tampa and KC are loaded and the class of the league. I think theBills lie at #3 but we are a clear notch below the top two right now. the four questions: 1 maybe a bit looking promising for '22, 2 I sadly doubt it. 3 Probably up and down there all year but hopefully up for the playoffs. Like last year. 4 If we lose an AFC game, it will be because NE controls the clock against us with our D unable to get off the field.

Boy, do I disagree with this. The NFC West stands alone by a mile as the NFL's most competitive division. While the fish and pats have greatly improved they will still lose to Buffalo in sweeps. I figure one close game and one blow-out each. The Jets are the laughing stocks of the NFL now. Josh Allen s simply king of the AFC East. San Fran, LA and Az. Went to great lengths this year to be king's of their division. Seattle has a future HOF QB still in his prime at the bottom of the division. That is nuts.

Surprise camp cut??? Feliciano? I could see him losing his starting job as a surprise prediction, but he is a team leader, the starting RG as of last season AND the number one back up center, there is just no way he gets cut, imho..... I-will admit he is not the most coordinated OL around though.... It sez here he keeps his starting job because he is not bad and has a ton panache....

Expanding on the importance of Oliver, Epenesa, Groot and Boogie becoming very good football players it probably will come to this whether we win a Super Bowl or two or not. Josh Allen is Without a doubt the real deal as long as he has good protection and very good weapons and I think Beane will see to that, so I think we have theoffense down. But offense alone seldom gets you a Super Bowl. Everyone here raves about Mahomes but it was the KC D that won that SB for them, no doubt about it, so we too, probably need a much better D than we had Last year. Good defenses always have good linemen, much better than we had last season. It's up to those four young bucks to see to it that we get there. For myself I don't think we get there this year but you never know. Had Groot played last season and repeated what he did the season before he would have been a top ten pick. Likewise, I saw Basham mocked to us at 30, and he now feels he was ripped-off and disrespected. That's great for us and gives me hope. (But not even Bruce Smith had an impactful rookie year.) I like that Bruce came out publicly to support the pick of Groot. It takes a great DE to know a great DE is my thinking.... I liked Groot's film more than most as well. He is going use every inch of that massive frame to play longer than most and surprise many QBs by catching them I hope.

I find it very difficult to ascertain what exactly he is supposed to do on any given play. God knows it can't be trying to make the tackle. I have never seen him hold a double team either. Not saying he didn't, but I never saw it. I like to think I watch closely but I don't watch like I used to (I use to watch the game in slow-mo and really break it down. I think it may be the only way to really know.) His stats are terrible and he is often the last one to react after the snap. This is weird because he moved very fast at the snap in college. I think we play a weird defense that was never successful in Buffalo before so it is hard to judge what a player is supposed to do in this D. We're used to attacking defenses and simple ball. if Anyone recalls, Kyle never rushed the passer once McD was here either, so WTF? I have also seen Tremaine not attack the ball where he was clearly frustrated that he could not (because that is what he is coached to do, keep the ball in front of him.)

Yes, of course it was Injuries but Smoke was old and frail, Beasley is tiny, Diggs is small, etc. so what do you do to combat that? Get more receivers. You just don't hope it doesn't happen again. I wanted Sanders, Ertz AND another drafted WR.I guess I have to settle for Hodgins and Stevenson; two low-round guys, one a rookie, the other, still wearing a red no contact jersey. I'm not holding my breath.....Maybe Stevenson shocks us around November, he has a decent size/speed ratio I think. (Very fast and not tiny.) Hodgins has the great length and leaping ability, maybe he can do something when (not if) we run into injury problems.... Diggs - Sanders - Beasley - Davis - McKenzie.... I gotta admit that's an impressive top five but I think Davis and McKenzie thrive because of the top two or three drawing so much attention and Daboll's being a fantastic OC. This top three can readily beat man to man. Davis might end up being another guy.....sometimes he runs that post and seems to beat man, other times he looks helpless trying to beat man. Simply not so with Diggs and Sanders. I think Beasley is less valuable because he can only play the slot but he is unwatchable in man from the slot t. I don't know why we don throw more to him probably because he is just do small. I've seen him doubled though. One player takes short inside, the other long outside. He can't beat that but at least takes up two defenders.

I like it. Truthful but very hopeful and promising. Going on last season, I'd have to include Daryl Williams as well, his pass blocking was superb. I also might have to find a place for the boat-rocking Beasmeister as well (again, going on last year.) Also, I would have included future-Bill Zach Ertz. Lastly and somewhat unfortunately, you'd have to include the cookie, Milano, our two LBs play best together as a team (maybe he gets hurt too much?) I'd also lower Edmunds/Milano as you always wish they were better. Crap! I should just make my own.... 1. Allen (by a country mile.) 2. Diggs. (He's the real deal,) 3. Dawkins. (He can do it all.) 4. T. White (Needs to stop guessing wrong. He costs us some TDs last year.) 5. Morse/D. Williams (tie) ((Morse is very underrated in Buffalo just like E. Wood. Daryl is extraordinary at pass blocking.) 6. E. Sanders (for 2021!) ( I always admired him.) 7. Z. Ertz (him too.) 8. Milano/Edmunds/Hyde/Poyer (LOL, the heart of our D, Poyer probably a notch above the other three but it's close.) 9. Epenesa/Groot/Boogie (yes, I stole this idea but it just has to be if the Bills are going to be great. They are our future.) 10. Ed (I guess, see above.) This was fun, thanks!

Not me, I wanted to draft another WR in the second round this year. We had no receivers in the playoffs last year and we simply can not afford to lose any. Cole Beasley really is one of the top slot WRs in the game and we cannot simply absorb him even if we sign Ertz. (We'd be damn good but we couldn't beat KC or Tampa without everybody and everyone healthy and the whole point is to win a Super Bowl.) PS - Beasley is soooo good I might have misspoke saying we have to replace him. Right now, it is probably impossible to replace him. Whoever we did end up getting most likely would be a downgrade. I'm not a fan of Beasley's stance at all but I have to admit, if he is in single, he can just about beat anyone for that five to ten yard gain. Plus he is far from just limited to that. He is very good football player and Allen and him got it down.

NE is going to play us with a double TE and run the ball down our throat. I can't imagine the Bills carrying less than four true DTs.....The last time Star started he played < 40 snaps/game. In fact, the Bills need an upgrade at DT imho... Also LCB and TE. And if Cole chooses to die on that bitter hill, he has to be replaced (not absorbed) imho....

I was thinking about this a little further and remembering how great the DT class was supposed to be that year and looking now we aren't the only ones to draft a DT that fell below his draft status so far. Neither are the jets or Miami thrilled with their DTs; so we are not alone anyways..... What can you do? It's not like we drafted the only dud here and Oliver isn't a bust at least....

This is NOT the draft McBeane wants us to look at to see how they are doing. In fact, the only good draft McBeane ever had was in 2017 and yes, I think Beane pulled the strings here, but all the other drafts were weak aside from selecting Mr. Everything, Josh Allen. If the Bills continued to draft as well as they did in 2017, we'd have won a Super Bowl by now and be favorites for this one. Instead we are a second nd class team behind KC and Tampa. Where Beane has won is Free Agency netting players like Hyde and Poyer, Sanders (Brown) and Beasley, Daryl Williams, Our center,Morse and LG, Feliciano .... We are weak at TE, DT, and LCB and the DE room is a mess with too much money and not enough production. While Edmunds is a good MLB he is far from a great one and wasn't worth the trade-up. Make no mistake, the Bills are a very good team, we can beat anyone not named Tampa and KC, but that line between us and the very top is very real. It is questionable as to why McBeane chose not to try to match up with those two clubs. Will we ever have a better chance? (The reason we couldn't try is probably because we wasted so much money along the DL and drafted iffy at best (not counting 2017).

I've always been on the fence with Tremaine. He definitely lacks instinct and drive and can't beat a blocker to save his life but on the other hand he plays every down and his size is extremely visible and clearly very useful in our D. You just wish he jumped routes, made tackles at or behind the LOS, beat a block, all the things probowlers do every game. Could he make that big jump? Theoretically, he could because he has the physical attributes needed to be a pro bowler but he has seldom shown the knowledge or the dog needed to be a great one, so probably not. Perhaps one thing in his favor is that his front four should be better this year.... the problem is that the DL will only be a little better probably.... He should rise that little bit the DL does though.... One last thing I'd mention about Tremaine is that we do not play standard defense like we are used to. Tremaine is sometimes seen jumping up and down excited to make a play but holds his ground at the LB position because he is he coached to do that. Leslie wants everything in front of the D.... I miss Wade.

I agree with everything you say but I think the Bills are the clear #2 team with Josh Allen and our whole offense leading this team. I think if the offense is healthy (which it wasn't last playoffs) none of those other teams stop ouroffense, maybe even KC can't stop us healthy. If Allen has his weapons, it turns into a shootout with KC. I definitely think Allen is a rare super talent. (I think every QB ever born needs to work with a lot of talent to be effective. )

I think it's all good. The more teams with some mystery to be good, the more exciting NFL games.

I think JP Losman might have made it if he went to a team built to win. IDK, I badly wanted the Bills to trade up and get Rothlesburger and of course, we didn't..... But JP seemed like a winner to me.... Donahoe might have been the worst GM ever here in Buffalo letting go of Winfield and Pat Williams in favor of a broke-down Lawyer Milloy.... IDK, maybe he drafted a lousy QB too? We'll never know.....