Straight Hucklebuck

Turn on WGR and Jeremy is motor mouthing about the Chiefs again.

Yeah, in the running for largest flaw with Beane’s team building philosophy… 1. Not interviewing for OC 2. Running a largely static and passive Defensive Scheme 3. Overvalue of players that know the system 4. Assembling a generally smaller stature team. 5. The idea of retaining as much of the 2020 team together for as long as possible stretching the cap thin. The one that sticks out to me is the lack of investment at WR from 2018 - 2024. Your point about the last draft is a good one. 1st Round - Diggs 2nd Round - Coleman 3rd Round - None (unless it’s the 11-game rental of Cooper) 4th Round - Gabe Davis 5th Round - Shakir, Shorter 6th Round - Hodgins, Stevenson, McCloud 7th Round - Proehl It’s just not a lot of top end investment for 7-years of drafts. This team has been loyal to its core, so Rousseau, Bernard, D. Williams, Benford, Shakir will require cap space considerations, so Von, DaQuan, potentially Douglas? will likely be phased out, leaving the cap largely strained. Safety, Linebacker, Defensive Line, Corner could all use another young player, but offensively one more year of Cook, one more year of an intact offensive line, should keep the Bills free to move on from Cooper, Hollins, and select two WRs in the next draft. I just think the model of free agent WRs on their last legs ending up here, always hurt, always running out of gas, has proven to be a faulty model.

Yeah I think the big takeaway for me is this organization needs a philosophical shift this off-season. Can’t do anything about it now. They have to start keeping six WRs on the roster, and they need to start drafting WRs earlier every season. I know, I know, Bills need Defensive Line, Linebacker and Safety. But year after year with these street free agents - Emmanuel Sanders, Jamison Crowder, Deonte Harty, Trent Sherfield, now Curtis Samuel and Mack Hollins. Do not waste money and re-sign Amari Cooper this off-season. Get younger and faster. It’s Game 10 this weekend and your WR group is Mack Hollins, Curtis Samuel, Kahlil Shakir and Jalen Virgil. This team always keeps 5, and it bites them every single year. Stop with these old players and build your group. Invest.

The defensive line is a big let down. Theyve done nothing, every run seems to get into the second level and of course they can’t get Mahomes on the ground once.

Any freaking atop on defense man please

Really need a turnover

Have to do something.

Kincaid is going to need some targets here. Stop running sideways.

Have to get Klein off the field, take the green sticker and give it to Poyer.

Have to get Klein out of the game now.

Gotta get Klein out of there. Line got close, even had a Von sighting.

Just like Jordan Love, IMPATIENT, tons of time left just forced it anyways.

It’s nowhere near the dread I felt last year.

Jim Nantz and Tony Romo = Another game on mute the whole night.

Let’s see what this defensive line can do tonight. Everyone but Phillips Is available.

The defensive line must be dominant tonight. They need the best game collectively they’ve played all season.

He’s always hurt.

They’re trying so hard to prop up Purdy. He sucked, and his defense kept the Packers down long enough, and of course he got lucky with the missed FG.

Stop McCaffrey and you stop the 49ers.

49ers didn’t deserve to win that game, they got outplayed all night. Purdy could have run on first down on the second to last drive, instead he passed for -1 yard play. He could have put his head down there and gotten down the field. Two timeouts and 53 seconds left and he went for it all.

Yes but that stuff is collectively bargained. Is the baseline test back to normal and are there no symptoms? I have no idea what constitutes the final test from the independent neurologist, but something like this has to be somewhat based on data correct?

He’s flying around here:

Brock Purdy did it with one on Monday Night. Trevor Lawrence did it. Ty Johnson did it last week. The Bills played Monday Night and he was back on the practice field Wednesday afternoon. And obviously severe symptoms didn’t come back Thursday or Friday. Also, the initial contact was not intense. Not that it has to be, but it didn’t look obvious. Biggest thing I wondered was why was he shaking his hand?

“No stone unturned search” ended up being 5 days in Arizona where the Bills interviewed: Lovie Smith Ken Whisenhunt Doug Marrone Chip Kelly Ray Horton Russ Brandon is the reason that happened.

With this Coaching staff, you need their trust. Cam Lewis has been here longer. They trust him more than they do Elam. And with Elam being inactive for so much of the year, has he cross trained at anything other than boundary corner? Lewis, we know, has cross trained in the slot and 3rd safety. They took away probable.