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1 minute ago, TheWeatherMan said:
I agree…
Every post you make is anti the post you quoted. Never anything positive. You’re here to take out your frustrations in life.
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6 minutes ago, TheWeatherMan said:
Insulting 3 members in one post while contributing nothing to the thread is quite impressive.
I should have just used an eye roll emoji and ghosted like the pros
I bet you have more eye roll emojis than posts in the 6 years you’ve been here.
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8 minutes ago, DJB said:
This is a message board no? So we are all entitled to our opinions?Right…..you are. But you insinuating that the FO bypassed superior talent in order to fit their philosophy. In their eyes, they drafted the superior talent.
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23 minutes ago, TheWeatherMan said:
Great post, very informative.
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27 minutes ago, DJB said:
Not trading up for a better WR. I also think McConkey is a better WR.
I also think there are many non WR’s in that spot we could have drafted which were far better BPA than Coleman
See above
seems to me that you’re confusing “better talent” with “players that you deem to be better talent”. No?
as if there’s no chance that the Bills front office sees things differently than you?
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7 hours ago, BeastMaster said:
I think Beane is not getting enough props for adding a piece to every single group on both sides of the ball. This is an infusion of youth everywhere on the roster.
We are now a younger team that has good depth pretty much everywhere.
We may need a gamechanger or two, but now at least you reloaded the roster with promising young players, and next season we will have cap space and even better draft capital to make a power move or two should we have a glaring need.
I like the approach, and we'll see how good McDermott and his staff really are given the makeup of the roster
You know you made a nice post when the two blokes who rolled their eyes at you are @KDIGGZand @TheWeatherMan
3 hours ago, LABILLBACKER said:This is not a reload. It's a rebuild, there's a big difference. And as of right now we have no clue how these guys pan out. Perpetual optimism and "wait till next year" gets old after watching this movie for 55 years.
Stop. Find a new hobby
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14 hours ago, HappyDays said:
Yes! Just ask Chiefs fans. Their WR corps was in fact really bad last year and it directly led to them having the worst passing metrics of Mahomes' career, and having to play on the road in the playoffs for the first time in Mahomes' career. Do you think their bad WR corps was not a problem for the team? Because that defies the entire national conversation around them right up until they won the Super Bowl.
The Chiefs were shut out in the 2nd half of the AFCCG and the 1st half of the Super Bowl. Is that what you want us to aspire to? Do you think our McDermott-led defense with Ed Oliver where they have Chris Jones would carry us to a Super Bowl win under those circumstances?
By the way the Chiefs had the GOAT pass catching TE in that offense and possibly the GOAT offensive coach calling that offense, and it still was just barely enough to overcome a bad WR room. Do you think we have anything close to that caliber of favorable conditions?
This is a lazy talking point and I see it repeated over and over and over again. Our organization is nothing like the Chiefs from top to bottom. The only similarity between us is that we both have freaky QBs that can do things the league's never seen before. We can't build the kind of offense that they have and expect to win, or even participate in, a Super Bowl.
We were a couple plays away from beating KC last 2 playoff games. We beat them in our last three regular season games. We took our shot on Von Miller and it backfired due to injury. Extending Diggs was needed in order to make that happen. Diggs fell off a cliff and turned out too much to deal with. Now we have to deal with the consequences for a season.
You do realize that we have to stop the KC offense as well as score? Adding 10 all pro WRs won’t help us beat them if our defense can’t stop them. We need balance. We lost our 2 pro bowl safeties, floyd, 3 DTs and Tre. They have to be replaced with good/solid players making very little money due to our cap sitch. It looks like we’ve accomplished some of that, if not all of that this offseason (minus the elite pass rushers that don’t grow on trees and cost a billion)
Sorry to see you like this. Looks like you’ve gone off the deep end. This is part of the salary cap nfl and scoring endless amounts of points is rarely the answer. Balance is usually the answer. We can still have a top 5 offense this season. I’d go so far as to say that our offense will be fair share better than our D….even with our so
called terrible WR unit.
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3 hours ago, DJB said:
True but that’ doesnt mean we need to ignore better talent to go along with this offensive philosophyI missed the beginning of the convo. Who is the better talent that we ignored?
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2 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:
Because people want to either be proven right or prove others wrong. But you can’t prove anything until the games are played so there’s a lot of screaming.
And unless your team wins the Super Bowl…..the coach and GM suck
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The draft brings out the worst in many
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3 hours ago, boyst said:
Fastest growing state over the last so many years. It must be horrible.
That’s what is making it horrible. People moving there because they work online and don’t pay state taxes. Same with Las Vegas. No state tax. Never cold. It used to be a great place to live. I found it unbearable over the last 2 years and it’s getting much worse by the month. Warm weather no tax states getting over-infested
We moved to St George Ut and life couldn’t be better. I drove to Vegas on Thursday to watch the draft with the boys. Once I hit the outskirts of LV on the 15, dead stop of traffic at 1:15pm. Took me 70 minutes to get a location 10 minutes away. My buddy is a limo driver for Aria and is looking for a new job because he only gets 3-4 runs a day now, when he used to get 8-12. Stuck in traffic all day.
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15 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:
It's both. I have no problem investing in the Dline but when it is your highest investment unit both in FA and the draft and yet at no point in your entire reign has it been the strength of the team (we have had pretty good dlines most years but never dominant ones) then both the scale of your investment and how you made it should be questioned. I think that is legitimate.
And especially when it has come at the expense of OL and WR at times.
Yea you are gonna pick on the one guy out of all those dline investment who has actually been worth the squeeze.
I agree that his investment hasn’t panned out to date. Partly due to the players he signed. Partly due to injury. His 2 biggest investments in 2022 missed the playoff loss to Cinci. Both were injured the following year. Leonard floyd was a great signing….until he disappeared. And we were 4th in sacks.
I also agree that he should’ve invested more into WR. No doubt about it. I just don’t question his motives to make DL the number one investment. It matters more than anything else besides QB. I stand by that.
edit- but his clear misses and injury on the DL have hurt us.
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12 minutes ago, Pine Barrens Mafia said:
You know what I'm going to say to this post.
In this iteration of the NFL? Absolutely.
Nonsense.
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2 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
They have spent too much on their Dline. That is what it comes down to. In terms of dollars and draft capital. Beane has made 21 picks on the first two days of the draft in his reign. The breakdown is:
QB - 1
RB - 3
TE - 2
WR - 1
OL - 3
DL - 6
LB - 3
DB - 2
There are only two numbers that stand out as egregious there to me - it is 1 receiver and 6 DL. Everything else in terms of resource allocation feels within the normal bounds of expectation for someone trying to build and maintain a strong roster over 7 seasons (probably 1 RB too many as well, but again not egregious). And then you add to it: Star, Jefferson, Butler, Addison, Trent Murphy, Daquan, Settle, Jordan Phillips, Ford, Austin Johnson..... and that is only the higher profile guys. Which other position has had so many reasonable established FA vets thrown at it in his time as GM? And people will say "ah that's McDermott's fault it is the rotation.... and I buy that to a point but I crunched the numbers after last season, will dig them out again, and other than KC (where 3 guys played 70%) the top 7 or 8 teams in the league were all broadly in line with the Bills on Dline rotations. The difference is they were almost all using one or two really low investment guys as part of it. We consistently have high picks and high dollars invested up there. And you don't need to take the tea leaves in any event. Just listen to Beane speak. He has said countless times he "makes no apologies" for investing there. It is just how he believes in building.
Which good GMs don’t believe in building the DL?
do you think WR is more important than DL in terms of winning championships?
QB > DL > OL that isn’t bad > WR imo.
Beanes biggest problem, imo, isn’t choosing to build his team from the DL out, it’s his choices of who he invested in. Some years he invested in poor players. Some years he invested in good players that disappeared in the playoffs. And then there’s Von. A guy that was performing at a very high level until injury made him irrelevant both playoff runs he was in the team.
edit- yes, I agree that he should’ve invest more in the WR position than he has. I just don’t see a problem investing in the DL. He just needed to do a better job at it. Without a good DL, you aren’t sniffing a SB.
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19 minutes ago, FireChans said:
Exactly my point.
If you want to get past the modern dynasty, being the third or fourth best GM with significant weaknesses is NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
You’ve outdone yourself with this ridiculous statement.
so which best GM in the league should we hire? Do tell. Maybe we can offer the ravens and chiefs some wings for life if they allow us to hire Eric Decosta or Brett Veach? Maybe Howie Roseman is available?
The greatest dynasty in nfl history didn’t even have a top 10 GM.
Is Jason Licht a top 5 GM? He beat them. The Bengals don’t even have a GM. They beat them.
With the team Beane has put together, over the last 3 years, we just have to avoid major injury, game plan properly and execute. The 2020 team wasn’t good enough, but I think we were the last 3 years. Injuries, game planning and execution (or lack thereof) eventually led to our seasons ending. Not Brandon Beane. If you want to put losing (in the playoffs) on anyone, I’d put it on McD over Beane
JMO.
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3 hours ago, FireChans said:
We do agree that they have been a top 3 team, we don’t agree who deserves the lion’s share of that credit.
I just think BB has some fatal flaws that will ultimately cost us in the end.
Do we agree that the team they’ve lost to for 3 of the last 4 years is going to go down as a dynasty with one of the best quintets in NFL history in Mahomes, Kelce, Jones, Reid and Spags? We were an executed play/‘s away in 2 of those season enders. It’s his job to find a way….but the same can be said for the players. Injuries, execution and play calls all play a huge factor in why his roster didn’t beat a dynasty
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1 hour ago, BruceVilanch said:
Prime Julio was pretty good
So was Antonio Brown and so is Jefferson, Adams, Chase and many others over the year.
Moss and Julio are candidates for top 5 all time. You don’t have to be THAT to be WR1
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1 hour ago, GoBills808 said:
Loved what I saw out of Kincaid last yr but he's still a ways off from best TE of all time conversations
When I say we need a legit #1 guy I mean I think the Bills need it, not that you generally can't win a SB without one. Imo this specific team w all their attributes benefits most from a wideout of that caliber
Yeah, Kincaid is a ways off, but so was Kelce during his rookie year. Dude didn’t even play. I doubt he’ll be Kelce but I believe he can be the best TE in the league very soon.
I hear ya regarding the 2nd paragraph. I’d just take an elite pass rusher over an elite WR all day every day. On this team especially. I don’t think WR1 is this teams biggest need. Elite pass rusher is. A absolute game wrecker that makes hall of fame plays in the biggest moments. What upsets me most is….we had that. Until thanksgiving 2022. Von was a force with the game on the line. A true PTPer. He was our Chris Jones. And now we don’t one.
We had a true alpha dog elite WR1 and it worked against us. Maybe that’s on the coaching. Maybe it’s on Josh. Or Diggs. Most likely a combination of all 3. But for whatever reason, our alpha dog elite WR1 was nowhere to be found in our biggest games
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I’ll call him “Shooter”. Thanks to his press conference
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1 hour ago, GoBills808 said:
I would count gronkowski and Kelce as functional equivalents
The Bills only have 1/3 of your equation come playoff time...that balance has to be made up somewhere
Maybe it’s kincaids turn to be that elite TE. If not this season, soon.
If the defense stays healthy and von doesn’t stink, we just need to execute.
if not this year, then next. We aren’t ever going to go all in. Last year was the closest we’ll ever see imo
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1 minute ago, GoBills808 said:
You don't need an elite QB to win a super bowl either but it helps
How many elite WRs did Brady win super bowls with? Mahomes the last 2 seasons? The eagles? I just don’t think elite WRs have any correlation with winning super bowls.
Great QB play+ coaching and defense
1 minute ago, Dr. Who said:He was. I don't know if that speaks to WR1 generally, or Diggs, however.
I'm willing to entertain a different offensive strategy where targets and emphasis are diversified.
Still think Beane should have done more to improve the WR room. (And of course, maybe he will, by the time the season starts.)
I agree. I was hoping the same. I just don’t think trading Diggs was in his original plan this offseason. When free agency started, I think Diggs was in his plans. Then the tweet happened. Final straw- jmo.
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Just now, GoBills808 said:
You don't need an elite QB to win a super bowl either but it helps
Yeah….elite players help….as I said
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10 minutes ago, Einstein's Dog said:
The question should not be what unit you have to have - because none are needed to win an SB (not even QB). The question should be what would help your particular team the most. The Bills have Josh a generational QB with one of the best 25-30 yard laser arms ever - a good WR room should be a priority.
I'm still hoping a move is made. They only took one WR so it could be saving the spot. They have extra picks next year as draft capital, Tre money and possible Josh restructure.
The Beane denials could be just keeping expectations low. Plus any move might not be done quickly.
Or would a great run game with dual TEs help out QB more? 🤷🏻♂️ after watching KC win 2 SBs back to back with below average WRs, I don’t know what’s best for an elite QB.
There are a handful of teams good enough to win the SB every year. It all comes down to being relatively healthy and executing a good game plan. It’s not a science.
16 minutes ago, Dr. Who said:We only nominally had a WR1 last year, imo, but I take your point. Getting younger on D will hopefully mitigate the injuries somewhat.
We had Diggs for 3 elite seasons prior to this year. All same results in the playoff losses. He was beyond irrelevant
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Beane on WR "We worked out a guy today we are going to end up signing"
in The Stadium Wall
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“Never invest in their franchise QB”. Never.
I feel bad for ya. I get the frustrations. I really do. I was hoping to draft 2-3 WRs. We didn’t and I’m not happy about it. That said- we did invest in Josh allen. This offseason. Last offseason. Every offseason. And every year we have a top 5 offense at the end of the year, while playing in Buffalo.
They didn’t invest as much as you or I wanted them to invest but I look at our OL and our playmakers, I don’t think we’re lacking as much as many others. Our run last season was done with our WR1 accomplishing next to nothing
I think we’ve provided Josh with a good running game and a boatload of capable playmakers. Missing the elite talent so far, but that could come in the form of Kincaid. Cook is emerging as a top back. Shakir was one of the most efficient WRs in the league. Samuel has been good without a good NFL QB ever throwing him the ball. Keon now has Josh Allen.
All the talking heads talked about in 2020-2022 was “they need to get Josh allen help in form of a running game”. “They are asking him to do too much”. “He can’t do it all”. They invested in the run game to do so, neglected WR more than we had hoped. What they did last season showed they don’t need an elite WR (of course having one would be better than not having one). They can execute a great offense while spreading the ball around and running the ball. Just like KC has done the last two seasons.