Paul Costa
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14 hours ago, Dopey said:
I can only dream about Hamilton, but I wouldn't be mad if Daxton Hill or Cline were drafted in the 2nd round. What we do at safety in the draft will tell us a lot about coach's feelings on our previous choices. Are they confident one of them can replace our vet studs?
Neither will be there at 57. Best case would be a move back get additional picks and draft them in low 30’s. I’d take hill @25 in a heartbeat. He may go way sooner too.
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2 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:
Oooo this also means expect another move. Gilmore?
Or Bradberry
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Whaley was great on the opening drive yesterday. I kinda agree with his Diggs take. A year from now we may have to trade Diggs no doubt. That’s why it’s important to get a guy who can be a #2 next year from this draft to pair with Davis
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33 minutes ago, Lost said:
I dunno man, after reviewing film of both Hamilton and Dax Hill, I see all the same qualities in Hill who also has a faster 40 time. He also appears to me to have a quicker first step than Hamilton when breaking towards the ball. I would be tickled to death if he falls to 25 and the Bills scoop him up.
I think Hills stock will continue to rise on draft day while a lot of others will drop off some. Just my opinion though.
I definitely think Dax Hill is in play @25. I personally think he can play as a outside corner till Tre comes back. He can also fill in for Poyer, Hyde, or Johnson if they are out. He’d bring our dime packages to another level. We would lead the NFL in playing dime packages. Which would lead to the discussion of is Tremaine worth $12 million dollars playing 30 plays a game? 🤔
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Thank You 🙏 McBeane😀 Terry & Kim too 🤗
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Steve Nelson please 😱😱😱😱😱😱
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10 hours ago, Doc said:
The tender was $3.986M.
That’s for one year. Then there back to negotiations next year. Let’s just say Ricky has a good year.he may not but most feel he’s an ascending player. Would he be asking for more than 4.25 million in his next contract? As I’ve said many times before. Let Beane do what Beane does best. He’s built this Organization into one of the best in the entire NFL. Some of the speculation on here is downright scary 😱. Beane is a Warlock 🧙♂️ he does Warlock 🧙♂️ like things.
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I think people are sleeping on John Metchie in the second. CB at 25 hopefully. He reminds me of Robert Woods. Very versatile. He’s coming off a ACL tear too. Seems like a forgotten man. Canadian 🇨🇦 Too. 😀
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Round 5 at the earliest. Even then that’s bold 🤭
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Trust The Process 😀 Beane & Company have transformed our Football 🏈 Organization into one of the best in the NFL. He has a plan. You need not be worried. Just because you can’t see it don’t be troubled. Did you expect Von Miller in Buffalo 🦬?
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1 hour ago, 4BillsintheBurgh said:
Agree. Will also add if Anderson and wildgoose had not been plucked off the ps we'd be looking better right now. So beanes process is good, we might need to shift our 53 man roster thought process in the future.
Valid point. It’s good to be that team now.
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2 hours ago, RunTheBall said:
I think it’s pretty obvious Beane does not think nearly as much of Bates as most of TBD seems to.
He didn’t make a mistake, he deliberately made a low tender offer. He wasn’t trying to sneak Bates under the radar, he doesn’t care that much if someone wants to make Bates a high offer we don’t want to match.
I think Bates is gone
I trust Beane. Many on here have no idea how the Buffalo Organization evaluates players or more precisely Guards in this case. I have no idea either. Let Beane and Company just do their job. We are one of the best teams in the NFL in main part because of the decisions made by our front office and coaching staff.
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1 hour ago, DrPJax said:
I understand your great point; however it’s not like he was just on the roster for a few games or just one season. They have had plenty of time to evaluate him, and after he performed well, it looks like they underestimated his talent and continually over valued Ford ( Fina , who Rarely is critical of guys on the roster , said Ford has heavy feet and has not lived up to what you expect at this point) and they may have under valued Bates again with the lower tender. So they got rid of Williams, Feliciano , and now will probably lose Bates’ and so far just brought in a guy for a year in Safford. What happened to all the talk by Beane of protecting Josh, as you stated? This looks like a mess to me. Hard to believe they plan on drafting a rookie at guard to plug and play ; just look at Brown as it took several games of horrible line play before they stuck with him , mostly forced to because of injuries. So do you think Beane meant we needed to protect Josh and he was depending on grabbing a starting guard in the draft ; just seems unlikely to me, and depth is still a major concern as we witnessed many injuries on the O line in the reg season last year.
I think Beane made an error, as Bates’ stabilized the line going into the playoffs and the line play unquestionably got better after he was inserted. With the low tender and losing Bates’ , you essentially lose three starters and gained one guard. So at a minimum we are really questionable with depth now and it’s looking like because of the cap , they may go back to Ford at RG, and imo that’s a disaster waiting to happen. I hate to see them going thru what they did last year with all the numerous changes in the line , when all this could have been ( and maybe still could be ) avoided by sticking with Bates’. Yes, it was a limited STARTING sample, yet he gave them nothing to really be critical of or to base speculation that if paid he suddenly would get worse. He is definitely safer than trying one more time with Ford. If they lose him , I think it was an avoidable mistake on Beanes part and we are back to always working on the D line , but never doing enough with the o line to have a consistent starting group heading into the season opener. I don’t know enough about the FA from the dolphins but just judging their line play , I find it hard to believe they let some great talent walk , and I thought he was to take Bates’ place for depth purposes. So it would seem like going in circles with the O line and it is forcing a need that Beane can’t ignore in the draft and goes against his preaching of taking BPA.
I agree with you that they now can’t avoid addressing guard in the draft , and they are also almost forced into addressing CB as well. That may take away from their ability to get an offensive playmaker to keep giving Josh , who you live and die with, some Stability at wr / rb who he he could develop chemistry with for years to come. So far he has benefitted with Gabe and Knox ( took awhile to have that happen as they were projects in later rounds), but everything else has been by grabbing Free agents and who knows how that will go. We hit with Smoke ( for a year of production only really) Beasley ( couple of good years ) , Sanders imo was a disappointment, tight ends have been disappointing ( let’s see If Howard bucks that trend ), Running backs have been very average so far ( this year again going with our second choice of FA rb who had productive years at least a couple of years back, so that’s another ?) , and our one big hit has been Diggs. Crowder could be good , but has developed injury issues and chemistry with Josh has to be developed again , which gives me ptsd after Sanders.
My point is you have your franchise qb after 20 years of crap , and he is here 5 years now , and we have drafted 1 starting caliber WR, 1 starting caliber TE, 1 possible starting Rb ( and I think we could do much better than motor ) 2 starting O linemen ( Dawkins / Brown) as guys that can grow with Josh. We have thrown a ton of FA money at the d line and used multiple high picks there and spent more money on special teams / Punter, various Cbs , various LBs without hesitation, yet we are losing a starting guard because of a lack of foresight EVEN AFTER BEANE SAID IT WAS SUCH A PRIORITY! When will they get serious about providing Josh with tools that will be here for more than a season , and use the draft to help with the cap and stop only helping the O by throwing new FA’s as stop gaps that require adjustment year after year. Josh is how you win the SB ; look at how Burrows thrived with the right WR who has speed! We don’t have that and now we may be forced to go CB , possibly guard o-line , early as we have no depth there. You have a superstar qb , and the best you can do is keep throwing FA’s at the O ( wr , o line , rb) and I think you could argue they are placing him at risk of injury, and not fully helping him become even better than he is now because they only look at tools for him AFTER filling holes on the d and now they potentially have lost a starting guard unnecessarily.
Maybe I will be wrong , and they match Bates’ offer and draft a talented Wr/ or Rb ( only the one rb is worth a 1 st imo) and go cb in the 4 th or later ( they have a track record of successfully developing cbs in later rounds , more so than success at developing wrs / rbs with later picks as for every Gabe there is hodgins ,foster, Zay jones, sweeny , Stevenson so far , moss, etc) and plan for the future by maximizing talent around Josh ! I hope so because we have done a ton for the defense ( whose limiting factor MAY be Frazier ), while every year Josh has been required to deal with a lot of variables , including a ROOKIE OC this year and now again new o line men and a new slot receiver. Focusing so much on the d got us a “#1” D , but we see where that facade has gotten us In the playoffs so far , early trips home ( but adding Miller is finally a great move defensively and no one could argue against that as a legit addition). However, Beane , I hope does what he promised , protect and give Josh all the support he deserves and that’s our road to a Lombardi. The Bates’ issue and draft time will tell if it’s same old thing , or will we finally give Josh weapons to keep growing with !? 🙂
Who are the 3 starters we lost again? Of course your including Bates. Williams & Feliciano? Aren’t you being a little disingenuous using 3 guards as starters?
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I actually think the Bills are getting Bradberry from the Giants. NJG clearly want the cap space and are in a rebuild. Bills are in a two year SB window. I have no idea what the compensation should or will be. May be a draft day trade where Bills give NJG pick #25 and Bills get Bradberry and pick #36. Not suggesting that’s the proper compensation. I stated earlier I want Steve Nelson but I think Bills are holding out for bradberry. We will see a Diggs extension just before it gets done
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Tre is putting in the work. He will be ready when he’s supposed to be. God’s will. I’d love to pick up Steve Nelson on a 2 year deal 3.5 per . Just to have an experienced Qb in the mix. He’s got experience and plays with a feisty edge. He’d be a nice addition. We also have to add a CB in first four rounds in draft. I’m very bullish on Cam Lewis too. He can play both inside & out.
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Castro -fields is ranked 288 in the draft network’s rankings. PSU punter has to be a high priority this year.
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3 hours ago, ArtVandalay said:
Completely disagree, Duke has a better build (shorter but stockier), faster, quicker. He's better than McKissic and almost certainly cheaper once we get the details.
Good signing for a pass catching back, this is all you need. No need to invest $7 million in a 29 year old JAG like Mckissic.
McKissic got a lot of garbage yards playing on a garbage team. Everyone run down the field and then they throw a dump down to McKissic. By far Beanes worst signing this off-season. Thank Jesus we got out of it. Duke is a little slippery between the tackles too
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6 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:
If this isna cheap 1 year deal then I prefer the value to the McKissic deal.
Agree 💯
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Bradberry would be ridiculous!!!!!!
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31 minutes ago, John from Riverside said:
Im not going to talk crap about Bates just because he is going through the process
He is good......he should have been starting much sooner.....and I hope he comes back
Fair point. I believe most agree. And I feel Beane will do what’s best for the Buffalo 🦬 Bills.
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3 hours ago, Shaw66 said:
Thank you to you guys who are tracking this. I dont even understand all that you're saying, but I get the big picture. Point is, there's another restructure or two coming.
I also get that everyone cou ta on the cap increasing. Still, at some point down the road we have pay for the restructures in cap dollars, and the full value of Allen's contract will hit. How limiting will all that be?
Yes agree Shaw thanks so much for the updates. I think in a perfect world Beane would like to hold onto a restructure or two until next year. Diggs would make sense. And give us all the room we would need to sign a veteran CB, rookie contracts, and maybe a little bump for Ricky bates. And have some pocket change for next year.
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Let's create TSW Bills draft big board - Final Conclusion: Kaiir Elam was the 5th option in TSW eyes when the Bills were picking.
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I voted for Dax Hill because:
1. He can play CB2
2. He can replace slot or safety injury
3. Poyer’s wife is crazy. Long term safety
4. I’d like more dime packages against high level passing teams. Think Cincinnati’s second half D in Championship game this year.