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Ok so the defense, bereft of dline talent, ends up 4th in regular season sacks due to schematic brilliance vs bad teams...largely thanks to McDermott's schematic aptitude...which unfortunately only works vs bad teams as shown by their postseason implosions... This really what you're going with lol

Well you've got @GunnerBillagreeing w you that Oliver is mid after recently saying he was 'a tick below Chris Jones and Aaron Donald'😂😂😂 No Legit don't understand your point

Is it really so hard to understand that good teams w good OLs don't give up as many sacks ffs

We have good dline players who suck in the postseason No inconsistency

For the 10th time we had a ton of sacks last season

We watched them get bullied vs the Bengals backups and third stringers It's not a talent issue

I'd like to see them shift some of those assets toward offense and particularly wideout...because it doesn't seem to matter much whether Beane can't pick them or McDermott can't use/develop them but we don't get the payoff come postseason. Invest in the area where we actually do perform and profit is the play imo

They had the 4th most sacks in the league regular season 2023 and then just evaporated in the postseason like always That is not a talent issue

So McDermott's scheme works in the regular season and then Beane's failures show up in the postseason? How convenient!

So how many more early picks and FA dollars do they need to burn on dline until we have enough 'difference makers'?

I do think it's largely a matter of circumstance It's why Knox's outsize TD year that got him paid just wasn't a very convincing argument imo There are a lot of TDs to go around here and they've got to go somewhere

Come on now They have oodles of top draft picks, expensive FAs, tons of resources put into the dline

Spotrac shows cap space savings w trade after 6/1

No, my argument is that losing a high TD/rec guy to be replaced by one w a lower ratio isn't necessarily an indicator of anything significant

Those guys are all first ballot HoFers tho They just happen to all rush the QB

😂😂I don't think you can use 'Tds in losses' for Samuel and 'walks away w playoff TDs' for Davis simultaneously

Not sure TDs/reception is the best way to compare Bills players to others imo This offense generates a lot more TDs than your average

It's not simply about gross production. That's a simplistic way to look at the valuation of going for a rookie wideout Diggs got 160 targets last season and turned in the 70th most efficient performance in terms of producing ypa I have little doubt a cheaper efficient rookie would be more valuable regardless of whether he breaks an irrelevant gross yardage figure

If anything I'm overvaluing him In this offense, being the 13th most productive wideout in the league on the 5th highest AAV is really bad value compared to a good rookie

Meh He just happened to be the one who caught that pass, the defense was the memorable part

Of course they did that's not the point. They could have gotten someone only say 80% as good as Jefferson and they still come out ahead and it's possible that kind of guy will be available this year around where we pick

I think there's a distinction I would agree top tier elite guys are probably worth paying but that wasn't what Diggs was prior to coming here, he was a borderline top10 guy who blossomed into a legit top5 guy playing in this offense. It was a gamble that paid off but frankly even Diggs hasn't been the piece the Bills have needed to get to Super Bowl...all things considered in hindsight staying put and drafting Jefferson would have been the easy call

Yes exactly It's less about replacing/adding players at this point it's about accumulating the most value

Yes you make my point but for the dumbest rule in pro football we aren't even in the game to begin with

That's the real context for the last drive as compared to the rest of the game It was really only close because we had somehow offensively managed to small ball our way to a one score game, the defense had been getting dog walked for 3+ quarters prior and we finally folded under that pressure