BullBuchanan
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42 minutes ago, HappyDays said:
Hmm. Guess it was a bad year to need DL help. We are bringing back the same underperforming group and hoping for the best.
I'm a little perplexed about Beane's strategy these past couple weeks. Cut underperforming overpaid players, then turn around and re-sign a bunch of guys in the same bucket.
I'm sure the real numbers aren't so bad. Hopefully he's healthy and gives us the level of play we got before his injury. I'm not upset about this individual signing. Just confused about what the plan is.
They resigned a couple of the top players on our line. Epenesa was a force this past year that should have gotten all of Miller's snaps. I thought for sure he would've been out of our price range.
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1 minute ago, Malazan said:
Yea, that's what happens when players get old. They get hurt more easily and take longer to recover. Glad you figured that one out finally.
Or they just get hurt because they get hit hard, which is what happened. Football is a rough game. Hopefully you'll figure that one out someday.
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45 minutes ago, appoo said:
That's not how that works
Totally could have done that. Wonder if Beane sent in an offer
I'm shocked he got so little.
4 minutes ago, Malazan said:Yes, Hill struggled in a few games in the back half of the season and there were games where he wasn't really a factor at all. He'll still likely be great, but towards the end of the year.. he will be banged up and less effective. Sound familiar?
He was playing hurt. He's one of the top 2 WRs in football.
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Bosa has always been a bigger name than he's been an impact. He's only played a complete season in 3 of his 8 seasons and has missed half the season or more 3 times. He only has 4 seasons of double digit sacks and has never exceeded 12.5 - his sophomore season. I'm good.
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Jeudy isn't worth the money he's making now and he's gonna want a raise. No thanks. I'd rather draft someone with superstar potential that is cost controlled.
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I'd love Geno Stone, but not sure he fits McD's ideal guy. I expect we'll get some bottom tier vets and some draft picks. I don't expect a flashy move here. This is a rebuild year, imo.
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I like the move, but trading bates for a vending machine sandwich seems like a bad move with this on the horizon. Would've made more sense to have a guy that can play every spot on the oline and compete for starting G in my opinion. Opens yet another OL hole.
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Best wishes Poyer. Probably the best safety the Bills had in my lifetime.
This is why I never fault players for getting the absolute maximum they can from a team, including holding out. tHeY'rE uNdEr cOnTrAcT is only ever a 1 way line of thinking. -
Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. McBeane highly value big men. I could see, DE, S/WR,S/WR, CB/LB in the first 4 picks.
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6 minutes ago, Ya Digg? said:
Outside of someone like Tim Tebow or Johnny Manziel, what other players would make significantly more money by staying in college with a NIL as opposed to going pro?
It's not an either/or situation. They're going to get both, just delayed by a year. It's far easier to be elite in college than it is in the pros.
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On 2/28/2024 at 4:47 PM, Ya Digg? said:
Any kid who stays for NIL money who is going to be a top pick is thinking very short sided in my opinion. The sooner you get to your 2nd contract in the NFL the better. Most guys in college won’t make anything near what they will make in the NFL on their first contract. You are also running the risk of getting hurt and hurting your draft stock, which will also end up costing you millions. That’s why the whole Caleb Williams might stay (and every guy before and after him who is projected to go #1) is so utterly laughable-it will never happen
A small fraction of the kids who get drafted will be making a second NFL contract. An even smaller amount will turn that second contract into a payday. Most of them will get 1 or 2 year deals. It's only short-sighted if you know for a fact that they'll be a star and not get injured or be a bust, which is impossible to tell.
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2 hours ago, Success said:
A "chasm?"
You're obviously entitled to your opinion, but I'd characterize it as overly negative.
If we made it to the SB, which we could have if Chris Jones got to Allen a half second later, chances are we would have had Bernard, Spector & Benford back, as well as a healthier Douglas. I'm probably missing someone, too.
It would have been a great game against the Niners, that I'd give us a 50% chance of winning (at minimum). I mean, we beat the champs in the regular, and the divisional loss was a very winnable game. I can't really comprehend the idea that there is some sort of "chasm" between us & the contenders.
EDIT: I did miss some guys - we would have likely had Rapp & Davis back for the SB also.
None of those players, outside of maybe Douglas is the kind of difference maker we'd need to win a Super Bowl. That's the problem. When I say there's a chasm of difference it's because Bernard isn't Warner, Spector isn't Greenlaw, Davis isn't Aiyuk or Samuel, Rapp isn't anywhere near as good as their top 2 safeties.
It's not that the elite teams have one elite guy we can just go out and get, it's that most of their players are better than ours which makes it really tough to overcome.
Every time you play Kansas City, you do so knowing you're playing the best QB and Tight End in the sport and there's nothing you can do about that. You can't get better than them from a talent perspective. They also happen to have a top 3 coach of all time that as an offensive playcaller can dismantle the best defenses in the game. So what do you do?-
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1 minute ago, Success said:
I might need some logic behind this one.
When did we get blown out this past season? When was a Bills game not close? Didn't KC beat the Niners, and the Ravens - who KC beat more handily than they beat the Bills?
So, that one game would have been the outlier where a team just handled us easily?
Happy to help.
It's pretty simple: The Ravens, Chiefs and 49ers all boasted elite defenses in every phase. When the Bills faced top defenses this year, they often struggled (Jets, Chiefs, Patriots, ), they also had success against top defenses in the Steelers, Raiders, Cowboys, but only the Cowboys were though to be in the upper end of defenses. The Ravens, 49ers and Chiefs (who eliminated us) were all cream of the crop.
I'm not saying the Bills would lose by 20, but I could absolutely see a loss by 10+ to the 49ers, or even the ravens, in a game where the Bills were never really in a position to win. I know it feels good to think "oh we were a play away from beating KC" or whatever, but that's why they're stacking Lombardi's, while Josh is working on his short game. Despite the small difference in scores, there's a chasm of difference between the top teams in the league and where the Bills are now.
I think if you run a simulation from the division round forward 100 times, I'd be shocked if the Bills win out more than 5-6 times. They just aren't built to go deep and they never have been. We'll be running it back once again this year and you guys will get all excited when they win 11-12 games, and you'll be so disappointed and shocked when we get dropped out early in the playoffs. I won't be. I've seen how champions have been built the last 20 and especially the last 10 years.
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2 hours ago, SinceThe70s said:
ANNIHILATED!!!
How bad would the loss have been? More than 6 points?
For sure. I would think at least 10. Josh would have been under constant duress from their pass, rush, their DBs would have locked down our WRs and Warner would have blown up our run game. We wouldn't have been able to out-scheme them like KC did.
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Not even remotely close. That San Francisco defense would have annihilated us. McCaffery would've run for 200.
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29 is the tail end of a prime. If we want to win, we need 24 year old players on rookie deals outpacing guys like McLaurin. Then you add a couple guys like Terry on vet minimum deals chasing rings to be your 4th WR, not your #1.
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Nothing to be concerned about. He's a good not, great player. He's arguably "too good", in that he'll be too expensive to keep. These guys should be recycled every 5 years via the draft. It's why it's so important to be good at drafting if you want to stay competitive.
Pick up his 5th year option, draft a replacement next year and dump him for anything more than $14M a year-
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55 minutes ago, SinceThe70s said:
Or maybe this?
To be clear I am not fully in Sean's corner - I think it's a great point of debate on both sides of the coin.
But the insistence on one side that Sean is destined to be Marty II with no acknowledgement that any other outcome is possible is an exceedingly weak argument imo. History suggests to me that either outcome is possible.
Cowher won a a conference championship his 4th season with Neil O'Donnell. Stop it. He kept them in the playoffs and dragged Kordell Stewart to two more AFC Championship games before he finally got Roethlisberger and went to a 4th his rookie year.
Honestly, comparing Sean to Marty is a poor example. Marty was actually a very good coach that elevated every team he was a part of. He just had a ceiling. Sean doesn't have that kind of pedigree. What we do know is that he's an underachiever who game in and game out, year in and year out makes the same mistakes. He can elevate bottom of the roster type players, especially on defense, but he's incapable of being a force multiplier to our strengths, which is what we need in critical matchups. . Instead our biggest players often disappear when we need them most. You can also always count on him for multiple boneheaded clock management and playcall blunders in the most crucial spots of games He might be the 2nd coming of Mike Smith.-
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On 2/16/2024 at 5:12 PM, ProcessTruster said:
oh shut up. 59-25 just does not lie.
If that impresses you, this is what you'll get:
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On 2/16/2024 at 11:38 PM, Thurman#1 said:
He dragged Cassel to 11-5 with one of the easiest schedules in history. Even the Fins went 11-5 in the AFC East that year with the easy slate the division faced, when they were 1-15 the year before and 7-9 the year after.
In that 11-5 year, the Pats beat three teams with winning records, and two of those were in the division facing the same easy schedule, the Fins, the 9-7 Jets, and the 9-7 Cards.
And Kosar was no dumpster fire. He was a pretty solid QB. Garoppolo too. Neither has been really really good but both good.
MacCorkle too, really. If he's a dumpster fire, Belichick gets a great deal of the blame. As a rookie, MacCorkle looked really promising. After that, Belichick gave him an OC with a defensive background.
Garoppolo went 2-0 under BB as I said. Kosar played one full year under BB and was washed up.
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4 hours ago, TheFunPolice said:
what team would want to hire a 73 year old Belichick?
Supposedly Dallas reached out to him behind the scenes to gauge interest before sticking with Big Mike this year. So BB doesn't want to go there.
That's the only team I can imagine hiring a 73 year old guy who has only been good with Brady as his QB.
Maybe SF? or Philly? A team that would be good but not good enough and would just want that SB title (in theory) not caring that it's a short term proposition.
If Buffalo regresses, this year, we should ABSOLUTELY do it. We're the perfect team for his no bull####, insane work ethic approach. Dawkins would finally show up to camp in shape, Josh and WRs wouldn't be having miscommunications about where they thought the ball should be, every player would know every nuance of the rules, our clock management would be the best in the business, alignments and formations would be locked down.
Saying he's only been good with Brady as his QB is a cop out and wrong. He dragged Matt Cassel to 11-5. Jimmy G went 2-0, Jacoby Brisett 1-1. The problem is that every other QB he had in his coaching career (besides Bledsoe) was an unmitigated dumpster fire. Give him Kirk Cousins the last couple years and they're a perennial playoff team.-
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13 minutes ago, FireChans said:
Imo Josh Allen has felt like he arrived after 21. I think he wants to win badly, but it’s a lot harder to motivate yourself to work even harder when you feel like you’re at your peak
For sure. There's no doubt that diminishing returns make it really hard to motivate yourself to improve. When you're competing at an elite level though those razor thin margins are everything and if you wan to be Michael Phelps or Usain Bolt, you have to put in that 500% extra work for that 0.1% gain. Otherwise, you just end up being whoever the #2 guy is that no one remembers. Maybe that's ok with him deep down, and I kind of think it is, because at 27 you should know what you really want.
I think Josh would like to be a champion is it just happens with his current level of commitment. I don't think he's willing to do whatever it takes to overcome #15 though.-
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I put "no patience" as I'm pretty confident McDermott hit his ceiling years ago, but with that said, I'm also not a big believer that we'll hire a better coach or that any version of this roster will win a Super Bowl unless Mahomes and Burrow get knocked out before we face them in the playoffs, and San Francisco isn't our opponent. I think we're basically a less talented version of the 00's Chargers. Maybe when Kelce retires we'll get a shot, or maybe they trade for Sam LaPorta and then we're stuck in the same hole again.
My best hope for a Bills SB is that Allen outlasts Mahomes and gets an Elway/Manning type win late in his career. Given the wear and tear his body take though, that's a tall order unless Mahomes just wants to walk away.-
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I'd rather he be closer to the red dot.
Epenesa re-signing, 2-year deal
in The Stadium Wall
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Best news of the offseason. I thought he was going to get $12-$14M a year the way he flashed last season and we'd see him walk. The upside is definitely there for him to step into a fulltime starter role. Double digit sacks are definitely a possibility with the way he's been improving.