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I can see them grading well individually but the scheme allows for opportunity. The Bucs blitz at a high rate and many of those blitz’s involve a secondary player. Despite the blitz’s their pressure rate is below average. So they have given up the 11th most passing yards, including the 10th most 20+ yard gains and the 4th most 40+ yard gains (so when they whiff they whiff hard). Miami is a pretty comparable team to the Bucs on defense, high blitz rate, passing results are very similar. I still think the Bills beat themselves that game. There should be many opportunities if Josh handles the blitz well and takes the deep shots that will be there.

He is 70% of Mack Hollins, as good if Mack Hollins ate soup for lunch

Bucs are the weakest team vs outside aligned WRs that we have faced since Baltimore. Keon has his problems, but I think he gets over 70 yards this week if he gets his normal snap count. Mack Hollins just put up 106 on them last week

No he was scheduled to go on. He tuned in to the show a little early waiting for it, heard them talking about receiver and lost it when they brought him on lol

This was my heavily downvoted comment back then. Justice for LEBills too! Still so strange how he handled this. If he had just had a normal response like “hey I wish we could have added a bit more competition there too, but I have confidence the guys we have will do well this year” no one would ever recall this radio segment, even with the WR struggles

I know you heard rumors that they were trying to get Calvin Ridley, have you heard that he drew a hard line on the 2026 first? The whole thing is pretty vague. As much as I think Beane stinks, these reports really don’t seem very clear that that line was drawn.

Yes. I agree. Matt Harmon pointed to this pre-draft and since. For all the love I (and others) have for Troy Franklin, he struggled much worse than Keon last year when he was a primarily outside wide receiver. They moved him inside over 50% of the time and now he is looking much better this year. Ladd McConkey played in the slot over 62% of the time this year and last. The Bills are forcing Keon into this outside receiver role because they are desperate for bodies that can line up out there rather than trying to get the best out of him. Square peg, round hole type of thing.

This is exactly where I am at. Keon has talent but this was not an easy situation for him to land. He was the first pick and expected to replace the most prolific WR in Bills history as a rookie. Due to terrible roster construction, he has had to play as the primary outside receiver since he got here. And a part of that is basically only giving him deep targets downfield especially this year. I’m not a football genius and maybe he is getting these routes and I’m not seeing them, but some of his best plays last year and at FSU were when he took a slant and was able to do some RAC. And those plays actually contributed to him having pretty decent advanced metrics for a rook. Now certainly Keon hasn’t helped himself and I wasn’t even a fan pre-draft (I believe I had him ranked as WR12 in my rankings that are posted here somewhere). But I don’t think everything has been very fair to the kid. If he was drafted to the team when we still had Diggs and he could develop at his own pace, maybe we would see more flashes. Right now though, he seems to be washing out unfortunately. When Josh was asked about Keon yesterday at his presser and paused and said “well he got one [touchdown]” that seemed like a teammate that is not happy with him.

ok KJ, he is not good at it for an NFL player

Bc he is not good at football

We have been here before each year losing games we should win so I’m not panicking. I think we can win any game as long as the script goes the right way for us. But I do see some of our flaws on offense as not fixable this year. If the defense can start generating more turnovers like they did last year and Kincaid can stay healthy, the path forward becomes much clearer. I won’t be surprised if we fall short of our goal like I was last year going into the AFCCG.

Yes that is exactly how you do it. Draft guys early every year until you have two good players. And even then you cant go four years before picking the next one early.

Both, when players are not getting open after 3.5 seconds of Josh holding the ball, I blame talent more. But players could be schemed better.

Beane:

I doubt they would have traded with us, but if that was the only hold up you give them a 2026 1st rounder.

😭😭😭

Other posters that claim to have some sources have said the Bills would have drafted Ted Higgins if we had retained the pick. Maybe one of them will see this post. Let’s just enjoy memories of the most prolific receiver in Bills history.

Ridley is toast anyway.

Let’s hope. Keeping the OL together and adding a WR1 gives this offense everything we could ask for in 2026.

It’s a rental to potentially improve your offense for a Super Bowl run. Then you can either resign him or allow him to walk. He is projected to get a good size contract in Free Agency and so you should be able to recoup one of those picks as a comp pick in 2027. I would have done it for that price. But I’m not heartbroken we didn’t either.

The Bills actually have one of the highest amount of players under contract for 2026 at 40. 9 of them are on IR currently so it is easy to forget them. Knox, Samuel, Rapp, and Ty Johnson are almost certainly not returning on their current contract. Maybe Bass as well. Starters that will need to be resigned or replaced are LG, C, DE, LB and Safety. DT and CB we already drafted replacements this year. I think you may be counting K and P as starters that need replacement - those positions don’t require a large investment. In any case, the roster status is not that dire that we couldn’t afford to make a trade without crippling ourselves. We will never know what conversations were had. If I was Beane I probably would have tried really hard to land someone to try and improve the roster, even marginally, this year when the path to a Super Bowl seems less daunting than any year I can remember during the Allen era.

On to asking for a first round WR in the 2026 draft again. Realistically, the trade deadline didn’t have much to offer the Bills.

You will get the hungry version

Bc Shaheed got traded

With Meyers and Shaheed gone I don’t think we will be trading for any WRs this deadline.