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10 minutes ago, Einstein's Dog said:
A different way to look at WR1 is to say it's your best WR on the team. And currently the Bills WR1 is pathetic compared to the rest of the league.
An offense that has Josh should have a good WR core. Josh has the best 25-30 yard laser passing in the game today (maybe ever?).
Get Josh a better WR that we can call a WR1. Beane lost Diggs who was our best WR and we should get a new best. Then it is easy to think K Coleman is better than G Davis, Samuel is better than Sherfiled/Harty while Shakir and Kincaid are both better with a year of experience. Our WR room can be better than last year with the acquisition of a WR on the level of Diggs last year.
Good luck with that. Anything can happen….but that’s not happening imo. Seems to me they’re going to roll with what they got plus maybe a 2nd 3rd tier FA if one happens to come available and take less money than they thought.
Bottom line- it doesn’t matter if our WR group is better than last years as long as our TE group is better, our RB group is better and our OL is at least as good. Not to mention our coaches.
I think there’s too much infatuation with WRs in this fan base. They matter, don’t get me wrong….but let’s not act like having an elite War unit is needed to win a SB.
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4 hours ago, BigAl2526 said:
There were other backs available who combined both more speed and better size. I assume Beane knew all about them and chose to draft Davis instead. I figure they must have known what they were doing.
For sure. Doesn’t look like he was trying to add a power back like many were thinking. Looks to me like we drafted James Cooks eventual replacement. Can’t pay RBs big bucks!
He’s a helluva receiver too. Cook needs to start catching the ball in the end zone
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4 minutes ago, Kirby Jackson said:
I think Coleman is more explosive and smoother. They have similar straight line speed but Coleman’s a better athlete.
The point was, that Beane once liked Benjamin too. He drafted him in the 1st and traded for him. Beane doesn’t value quickness, speed and space as much as he values size. I think that’s an antiquated philosophy. I wouldn’t add guys that run 4.71 coming of a full season suspension for gambling. I’d rather take a flier on someone more explosive.
Might be right, but one could also say that he signed John brown, Beasley, traded for Diggs, signed Harty, drafted shakir and signed samuel. 🤷🏻♂️ doesn’t seem that unbalanced to me
5 minutes ago, FireChans said:Yes, I wish the Brandon Beane that acquired Diggs, Beasley, Brown and Davis came out to play in last 4 years.
I agree
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11 minutes ago, FireChans said:
i guess that’s one way to look at it.
Then again, our FO valued Deonte Harty and Trent Sherfield last off-season so maybe an appeal to Bill authority isn’t the most convincing argument when it comes to WR e v a l.
No, they don’t.
Anyway, Josh Allen is very good at football. It makes me sad watching him throw passes that go through Trent Sherfield’s hands in playoff losses. If you consider those very good accomplishments instead, more power to you.As they did Diggs, Beasley John brown, gabe Davis in rd 4 and Shakir in rd 5
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I agree that we don’t need a true elite WR if we have 5-6 good playmakers. Spread it out. Makes it tougher to scheme against and you don’t have to worry about a diva wrecking the locker room
not saying I don’t want one. I do. I just don’t think it’s needed to win a SB
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21 minutes ago, Kirby Jackson said:
He loved Kelvin Benjamin too. While everyone gets faster, we get big, sluggish, late round fliers, street FAs, and UDFAs to support our HOF QB.
Do you think Benjamin is comparable to Keon Coleman as an athlete?
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10 hours ago, FireChans said:
I mean, sure. But this highlights how bizarre it was to not draft another WR lol
Or it just shows how our FO valued the WRs available vs the players that we drafted.
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2 hours ago, HappyDays said:
Meh I think it's fair as is. The GMs have access to info that we don't. The league thinks Franklin is not a top 100 prospect for whatever reason. GMs probably know that that's how the league feels about him, unless one team is way outside the consensus. So having the true draft board after the fact equalizes things a bit.
Good exercise @Logic. Bump the thread in two years.
You think all the GMs know how everyone feels about the other prospects? Might be true but if this is the case, I would think, in a multi billion dollar industry, that GMs would be a little more discreet considering the drafts are their livelihood.
you guys enjoy, but knowing which players will be available in each round makes this MUCH different exercise than what the GMs are doing. 💯
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15 hours ago, section122 said:
Isnt this a bit of an unfair exercise where we know who will still be available so we can play around with combinations?
And here’s the perfect example
2 hours ago, Billl said:Johnny Newton
Roman Wilson
Troy Franklin
TJ Tampa
Who Cares
Who Cares
Who Cares
Imagine if we took a slot WR before an X? But knowing that Franklin was available with our 3rd pick allows you to add yet another slot WR before the X.
with the 60th pick, the Buffalo bills select their 3rd string slot WR.
I like Wilson. I think he’s landed in a great spot. There’s just no way we could’ve taken him in rd 2 unless we knew which WRs would be availble in rd 3.
5 minutes ago, Logic said:
Absolutely. Yes.
Yep.
I want other people to participate by adding their own alternate draft class. It is not meant to be a "me" thing.
I thought it would be a fun game for the draftniks on the board. Like a mock draft in reverse.Sorry, I think it’s a stupid game. I’d recommend starting the game while the draft is going on and make your picks in real time so you don’t have the benefit of knowing which positions/players you can wait on due to players slipping.
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1 hour ago, Bill Grundy said:
He's being called a 'rugby player'.
But he plays in the eigth tier of English rugby. I. can't even tell you how far down that is. It's barely pub level. My old club plays 8th tier.
He's also a winger in rugby. Which means his attribute is pace and he's too much of a pansy to get involved with the rough stuff.
It's weirdest pick I've ever seen. 7th round or otherwise. I presume there are political reasons behind it.
If he's a Tackle, I'm Napoleon. But it's a laugh, I suppose.
He’s a free stash as he allows us to have an additional PS spot. It’s a 7th round pick….
We have a year to work with him with zero downside
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Sadly, I think it’ll be Michael Gallup
1 hour ago, BuffaloBillyG said:DJ Chark. Speed with boundary experience. Former Panther FWIW as well ..lol
In all seriousness, Chark isn't a star but he makes a lot of sense.
Would be a good signing
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23 minutes ago, mrags said:
No. I agree that the coach was terrible and not good enough.
had the roster actually been better we wouldn’t have had to worry about having the coach steal games away from the roster all year and to end the season.
we can be both. If the roster was good enough, we would have had reasonable backups to come in and cover Travis Kelce in the divisional round of the playoffs instead of some guy that sat on his couch all season.
lol…..if we would’ve had better 5th string LBs….those aren’t guys on the roster. You think they could’ve brought another FA LB in that could’ve learned the playbook and start vs Kelce and got the job done? Again, no. Anyone we would’ve had would’ve been taken to the woodshed.
There’s no way a team coached by McD could take the champs to the final minute if their roster wasn’t good enough If the roster had one less injury at LB, I think we win that game. Our top 3 CBs were also injured ….vs Pat Mahomes and Andy Reid. The roster was legit. The best opening day roster we’ve had with Josh Allen imo
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Love his interview. What a sharp kid
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15 minutes ago, mrags said:
On THIS…. We agree
And by agreeing with this, you agree that the roster was good enough. If it wasn’t good enough we couldn’t have been so close to winning with such bad coaching…. No?
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1 minute ago, mrags said:
We disagree. If they ALMOST won. Despite having all these issues you point out, then the roster wasn’t good enough.
but I have argued multiple times that the bigger problem with this team is McD and I’ll stick to that. But the fact that we had a guy like Klein even suited up for a playoff game says we weren’t good enough. We had Williams there and McD choose not to use him. After he drafted him in rd3 the very same year. He choose Klein after sitting on his couch all year to a guy that was in his locker room all year. Jesus I can’t believe we have to relive this right now.
Agree to disagree regarding the roster. It was legit. We had bad luck with injuries and we didn’t execute.
Regarding McD, you might be right. He stunk it up that game. He’s stunk it up on several occasions including every season ending loss. I like the guy and I think he may eventually evolve into a championship caliber coach….but he’s not right now.
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2 minutes ago, mrags said:
No. I’ve generally argued that it was mostly our coach, gameplan, play calling, and terrible in game decisions, including adjustments, clock management, etc. so I don’t have much to say about this other than that. But overall, our roster was not good enough. Hasn’t been since 13 seconds really. Damn shame McD ruined our best shot at glory since SB25
No….our roster WAS good enough. We just didn’t make the plays and/or our coaches didn’t do a good enough job.
let’s not mention our starting LB that was covering Kelce on both Tds was unemployed on thanksgiving day. Our top 4 LBs all impacted by Injury, von fell off a cliff, Tre injured, Benford injured, Douglas injured, gabe injured, Diggs, the worst ever version of himself, Rapp injured.
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5 minutes ago, Dr. Who said:
My man, I always feel better about the universe when we agree.
I can’t recall any instances in which I didn’t agree with one of your takes 👍🏻
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I think this turns out to be the best pick in the draft
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23 minutes ago, mrags said:
And they could have just as easily missed the playoffs with a few less plays. So I guess we’re gonna argue about that. They made it tho. Great. Then did nothing with it. Decided to start AJ Klein at LB to cover the best TE in the history of the league after spending the year on his couch. Guess we’re just gonna have to disagree with how close we are.
One of the reasons we didn’t do anything with it is because our all pro elite 27M WR dropped a wide open pass. Another reason is our pro bowl LT got embarrassed on the games 2nd most important play. We were a couple plays away from beating the champs…..
We didn’t win a Super Bowl, but it wasn’t because of our roster
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4 minutes ago, DJB said:
Will you be bumping this thread in 3 years so we know the results ?
That’s what this thread is for. LAMP
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39 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:
For the record, I’m not upset about the WR room.
The vision Beane had for this offense in 2024 simplified:
Diggs
Coleman
Shakir
Samuel
Then add all our draft picks except the Duke DT and you’d have our team. Pretty dang good.
But this organization was thrown into mini turmoil bc of Stefon Diggs. Period. If your take is “Beane has neglected WR and this is what happens” you’re just wrong.
Diggs was supposed to give us 2024 and 2025.
He quit (as we know now) at the end of 2022 and throughout 2023.
I refuse to trash Beane over the WR room that was supposed to include Stefon in the plan until he tapped out and quit.
Quite frankly, I’m sick of the fan base rushing to defend Diggs over the GM that oversaw the construction of this perennial SB contenders roster.
It’s embarrassing.
I’ll be rooting for Coleman and Shakir harder than I’ve rooted for 2 Bills WRs. And if we need more ammo I trust Beane, whose cap is all screwed up this year bc of Stefon, will find more ammo.
Go Bills!One helluva post! 👍🏻
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1 hour ago, Blokestradamus said:
I refuse to believe a dude from Basingstoke got drafted.
Know anything about him?
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13 minutes ago, balln said:
For sure. But there is some legitimacy to a few # here . Basham over creed
Cody for Dover dk
Elam
Like what is their philosophy? Ground and pound and dominate the short and intermediate passing game? Have the biggest guys on offense ?
Do you think Coleman is strictly an option the short and intermediate game?
He may lack the explosion at the top of his routes to get open over the top but if he’s one on one he’s already somewhat open with the proper pass.
He replaced our run blocking X WR with another run blocking X. But this one can actually make contested catches and even be a threat after the catch.
The run game will be a big part of our offense and he can be an asset there. The weather will also play a role in our offense. Physicality is extremely important. Coleman is a physical component in both our run and pass game. Samuel has speed. Shakir has speed. Cook has speed. Kincaid has speed. Bringing in some muscle helps. Not to mention that the draft isn’t over and there are still more speed option available.
Replacing what Gabe did well is complete. We replaced him with a superior player (imo anyway) that can do everything he did as well as thing he couldn’t do (contested catches and rac)
11 minutes ago, ScorpionZero said:Because we don't have the same film, we don't get to talk to his coaches or teammates and we can't talk to him face to face. For all we know he could have been a nightmare interview from hell.
And his lack of balance. Dude looks so dam weak!
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Definition of a #1 receiver
in The Stadium Wall
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I mean, your chance of success increases for every elite player you have. More so on the defensive line than split out wide.
I don’t think our WR unit is average either. I think it’ll be better than KCs last year. I think our RB room will be better than theirs. I think our TE room can be similar as well as our OL.
we just need the coaching and to execute the plays that are called. Having a star WR1 didn’t do much for us in the playoffs 4 years in a row.
I think we can win with what we have as long as the defense doesn’t take a major step back and stays healthy