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Cowherd has been critical of the Bills coaching for awhile too. He thinks McDermott is a good coach but that head coaches need to be offensive minded in this day and age. The criticism is finally catching up to Beane who had evaded it almost entirely for years. McDermott rightfully gets criticized for not having what it takes to get us to the Suoerbowl. But Beane sits right along side of him as an anomaly in this league. Every GM that has been tenured longer than him has been to a Super Bowl. He made two good moves in his tenure, drafting Allen and trading for Diggs. He stopped making big trades, his one big FA signing - Von -didn’t work, and his one top 10 pick post Josh has been just ok (both big Defensive splashes of course). Too many misses, not enough swings. Not f’ing things up too bad can keep you around for awhile, but not hitting on enough should get you canned.

He did pass on Mahomes 😬

Have you heard any rumblings about changes to the front office? Because what is crazy is I think Beane really does feel he has invested significantly at WR. Keon was his first draft pick in 2024 and Palmer was his biggest free agent signing in 2025 (And he would probably argue that Kincaid is a receiving threat too and he was the first pick in 2023). Obviously they are woefully inadequate when you basically neglect WR for the previous 4 years. Someone will be available next offseason via trade, but will Beane have the gumption to spend the picks and the money to go get them? with all the criticism he has taken he may… As for Aiyuk, if he makes it to the Bills on waivers he needs to be added. Best case scenario he is the piece that unlocks our passing game and helps us go on a playoff run that likely goes through playoff newbies in NE, Denver and Indy. He is a really good receiver when healthy. Or maybe he just accrues some good stats and then he goes and gets a decent size contract with another team in FA and we get a comp pick in 2027. Or worst case scenario is he does nothing, he walks at the end of the year and you move on like the Ravens did with Dionte Johnson a few years ago.

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Bills squad has some takes I hadn’t thought about before. Like how Beane and McDermotts posturing through interviews may be pointing to a bit of a rivalry between the two - part of their post trade deadline discussion. Jeremy is goated for taking Beane’s outburst in stride and pretty quickly being vindicated by the teams play this season.

Read the first three words of the title really excited, then the next 6 sad

We added Josh Palmer! 😂

I think this team is too flawed to do it, but if there was a year make a run as a wildcard, this is the year. Broncos, Patriots, Colts, and Steelers have not won a playoff game since 2018 or earlier. Experience does matter in the playoffs. Bills, Ravens or Chiefs could find a way to beat inexperienced teams with young or mediocre quarterbacks.

Yea Beane has not figured out how to build a roster with a star quarterback contract in the books. He still wants to make moves in free agency like he did when Allen was on his rookie deal and we could sign all the middling free agency’s he wanted without screwing the cap terribly. He needs to sit early free agency out for a year. Add guys on one year, near minimum contracts later to let some of this dead cap fall off and focus on the draft. Or preferably another GM will do that this year.

It is time. Not sure Kromer or Ronald Curry will better, they may even be worse. But the trade deadline is past so our roster is basically set. McDermott isnt going anywhere and any changes to defensive coaching won’t affect how the D is designed due to that. So the only real change to try is at O Coordinator. See if someone else can design an offense to improve our weaknesses. If it goes sideways and we lose a few more games, who cares. We aren’t winning a Super Bowl with this current formula anyway. Lets hope a real shakeup can happen this off season.

Finally the discussion is being had

2020 we drafted Gabe in round 4 2021 Stevenson was a round 6 pick 2022 Shakir was a 5th 2023 Shorter was a fifth Not enough investment regardless of who is in charge

Shavers looked great today. He is nothing special speed wise but he got himself wide open for three big plays today. Looked like the tuddy they got him inside and Diaby (DE) rode him to the sideline and then released. Shavers took it deep and was fast enough (long striders can be deceptively fast on those longer routes) to beat the safety comfortably. Josh buying time was critical. Shavers had the deep in where he just found the soft spot on the zone. Then down by our own goal line, he got in his DBs toes and when he turned broke it to the sideline to be WIDE open. Really good showing for him today. He isn’t going to be a superstar but if he can be our Romeo Doubs that would help so much.

Only 16 games in 2022 due to Damar too Diggs averaged more yards per game and a higher percentage of his qbs yards than Reed did. Reed was very good and had great longevity but I agree with Bull, Diggs was better just brief.

This was my reply to the other poster not you. Strange to quote that.

Stuff you are hearing, or just what he has done (and not done) on the field?

Is Beane’s home life that bad? Now I feel bad for the guy

28:00 was a great discussion. I don’t listen to a lot of pressers so how they broke down how Beane and McDemott are answering questions it is enlightening. I have my gripes with Joe, especially his pre draft evals and how he talked about Cooks value for a contract, but I think he hit it on the head when it comes to Keon. Diggs forced his way out and Davis became a free agent. We went into 2024 with no one with significant stats with Josh. So drafting Keon and making him a starter out of the gate especially one who is basically a boundary receiver was not fair to him. Now he may just not be an NFL level player, but I don’t think this was conducive to him maximizing the talent he does have.

Yes sorry you are missing my point. Beane has made some fine picks. And the job he had isn’t the easiest - coming to a team just out of a 17 year old draught, finding a QB that became elite but took most of his rookie contract to get there. He has had more challenges than other GMs for recent superbowl teams. He is not a terrible GM. As I have said before, I don’t care about where we are drafting. Sure he is getting above average value, but many of those GMs that are doing worse than him no longer have a job. I am measuring him against the stalwart GMs whose results have led to an extended tenure like his. They have either drafted, traded or signed their way (often times all three) to enough elite talent on rosters to get to the Super Bowl. Beane’s cumulative has not been good enough. This has devolved into a conversation of is Beane a good drafted or not. I think this benching of Keon is as much due to the position they put Keon in (being the guy expected to replace Diggs because they haven’t done anything else significant to do so) as it is Keons ability and effort. Then find another way to get them - trade picks for starters or sign in free agency if it is soooo impossible. Somehow others teams have done it. He did it once with Diggs and that was his best move behind drafting Allen. If you can’t scout yourself into great talent, then trade for it. But that would require being better with your salary cap to be able to acquire players with larger contracts. Something we have struggled with since Allen’s rookie contract has ended.

Beane hasn’t fumbled every pick, but he hasn’t done well enough. I don’t really care about where we draft, there are good players that go outside the first round every year. The Chiefs dynasty is in part because they found two hall of famers in Kelce and Chris Jones outside of the first round (prior GM but still under Andy). Not to mention Tyreek. Using AJ as an example really isn’t bolstering your point. Yea he is fine for where he is drafted (0 sacks in 12 playoff games lollll) but in such a competitive league nailing 5 fine players is not getting you over the hump as we have seen. The proof is in the playoff exits. Beane (and the Colts GM) stick out as GMs that have had their job for a long time without the results.

Since he only gets screen passes he classified him as a running back. Easy mistake to make.

Yea everyone misses on picks to a degree. The GM that draft Phidarian Mathis is no longer a GM. Basically the only GM that has been tenured longer than him that hasn’t at least made a Super Bowl is Chris Ballard with the Colts. Even acknowledging everyone has their whiffs, what picks he has had that have had success have not been significant enough to counteract the misses and get us where we need to go.

Yea that was my biggest gripe with Diggs as a Bills receiver too. If you want to focus on that that is fine, but there is a reason playoff and regular season records are separate. If you think Reed is our most prolific playoff receiver I would agree. Moulds still holds the single game receiving record there which is cool

yes he did, but when just saying who was the more productive WR, Diggs is more productive. Sure there may be reasons for it but the stats are what they are. No slight on the 90s teams. We will look back on the Diggs era fondly in 30 years too.

ok haha