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    La Canfora: Bills Had No Choice But to Bench Peterman; Monitoring Waiver Wire and Depth Charts for QBs

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    2 minutes ago, baskingridgebillsfan said:

    so why the rush to trade a.j for a 5th.  The dynamic duo make a lot of mistakes   If their evaluation is that Allen isn't ready then they could have had A.j starting this week.  

     

    Did you not read the article? They believe Allen is ready. Their was internal debate about starting him right away and they gave Peterman the edge because of how consistent he was in preseason. Peterman was never going to stand in the way of Allen starting this year. The 5th round pick we got in return is infinitely more valuable than anything McCarron could have offered us this year. You can find players in the 5th round. Kyle Williams and Matt Milano for example. And everyone has forgotten that McCarron looked as bad or worse than Peterman in the last preseason game. It's a miracle we got what we did for him.

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    Bills Release WR Jeremy Kerley; Sign DT Robert Thomas from PS

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    21 minutes ago, Cripple Creek said:

    I'll repeat, look at the 2017 off season when the team had to spend carefully. What does the team have to show for it? An overpaid DT who is a star in name only, a fragile DE, some throw away O-lineman.  That's what they got when they had to be careful and watch every dollar.  What kind of spree will they go on in 2018?  What makes you think that their talent evaluation will be better?

     

    You answered your own question. They had to spend carefully which meant they had to sign second rate players at best. I don't know why everyone is acting like Star is terrible. He isn't Aaron Donald but he's doing his job, which is to eat up double teams and let the LBs roam free. Our run defense was fine last week. It was the last reason that we lost. Murphy has been injured, it happens. Beyond that I don't believe we spent more than $5 million in cap space on a single player. That's what you do in a rebuilding year, you take what you can get. This regime believes in building through the draft and so far they have done that. White, Edmunds, and Allen look like good 1st round picks. Zay looks like a bust, but Dawkins and Phillips look like good picks too and Milano is a steal in the 5th round. They've only had 2 drafts and a cap-controlled free agency to rebuild the team in their image. That's why I expected this season to be rough. They're not even close to being done. Next year we should see a significant jump and in 2020 we should be contenders for the AFC Championship. That's their plan.

    Sadly, McDermott is the wrong guy to develop his own guys

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    4 hours ago, ScottLaw said:

    As would I John.

     

    I just think they holding on to a top LT like Glenn and trading up for Allen could've easily been accomplished by giving up other assets such as draft picks which they obviously had available. 

     

    Keeping Glenn wouldn't have solved anything. Dawkins is fine at LT. Glenn never played RT so who knows if he could have been good there. But our bigger problem is the interior. We did use a 5th round pick on Teller. If we had used say our 3rd round pick on an interior lineman then people would complain we didn't draft DT which was another need. Or if we hadn't been able to get Edmunds people would complain we didn't replace Preston Brown. We were never going to replace all our losses in one offseason, especially once Wood and Incognito retired.

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