BullBuchanan

I guess it depends on what your expectations are. Are you satisfied collecting division championship pennants to hang on your wall or do you want that silver Super Bowl coin and collector's set from Sports Illustrated? I didn't feel good during last season, because I saw how little had changed on defense and how we still didn't have players who could take over games. I saw the same old strategy that continues to fail to beat elite teams in the playoffs. Still this year we've changed nothing. We've added yet more depth to a team that's never had a shortage of it, but the top of our roster is fairly consistent to what it's been over the last 3-5 years. Do I think McD has learned anything from his premature playoff exits these last 6 years? No, no I don't. Like too many posters here, I think he probably feels they were a play of two away of better execution, instead of a fundamentally flawed approach. Watching Spags pull out all the stops to beat us was simultaneously horrifying and a thing of beauty. He manipulated the play in the trenches like an all-star manager manipulates his bullpen in game 7 of the world series. McD doesn't do anything like that in any phase of the game. There are no wow moments where he shows us something we've never seen before. He just expects everyone to go out there and beat their man. Josh continuing to do that gives his strategy credibility it doesn't deserve. To be clear, I've said for the last year I think we're 2+ years away from real SB contention due to a lack of high end talent. I thought there was an outside chance they could compete this year if they made the right moves to bolster the top end of our roster, but they didn't. The injuries to Hairston and white are now very concerning, The play of our safeties increases that concern, and I thought Hoecht could be a dark horse candidate to raise the entire level of our d-line and he's been very underwhelming to me so far in pre-season.

We also traded the Worthy pick to them. NE traded Bledsoe to us. Jax traded Johnson to us, etc. Void deals. See the video I posted. They have the most money locked up in the league, but they use the cap the most aggressively.

How good was he? Easily the best WR in Bills history over his 4 year stretch. His worst season here was better than 14 of Andre Reed's 16 seasons.

Probably because you can train the mental part of the game. You can't train size or (for the most part) speed.

Maybe he looked himself up on google:

We need both, but Dugger is worse than what we already have.

Are you thinking about a different player on a different team? He was the 118th highest ranked safety on the regular season and he was the 33rd highest ranked safety of the playoffs - where there are 16 teams and 32 starting safeties.

Beane really needed to find a way to address S this offseason and he flunked hard. Getting Minkah Fitzpatrick or someone of his caliber may have been more important than landing a big time pass rusher. Hamlin is the 2nd best safety on the roster, but that isn't even the biggest problem. The biggest problem is Rapp is the best safety on the roster. We've deluded ourselves into forgetting he sucks too. We couldn't be farther from prime Hyde/Poyer right now, and I think it'll be our undoing come January. Quality safety play is critical the way we play defense.

I think the whole trading within your conference thing is overblown. How often does something like that really come back to bite a team? Every team has good players. Yea, the Bengals make us stronger, but Ideally they'd expect to get stronger from the trade too.

It actually IS true. The money doesn't matter. Have you seen the Eagles books? Here's an explanation:

Why do people still think this matters in 2025? We could make the cap space to sign anyone we wanted, if we wanted.

It's the 51st largest metro though, and when you consider the proximity to other significant cities it's not nearly as small a market as people make it out to be.

Shavers really just has one gear, huh?

People on here trying to convince us that Lundt is something special. Kid is not having a good day.

Bagent looks like a legit starting potential player.