BigDingus

Not a video headline I expected to see... but hey, he's always loved Josh Allen 😅 The rumor is more focused on Dallas, but for some reason the Bills came up as the next best option for him. 1) Revenge on Kraft 2) Having Josh Allen 3) Knowing how to beat Mahomes Nick Wright wants him to go to the Jets though. If McDermott gets fired, would you guys be open to this?

It would take 3 years worth of 1st & 2nd round picks, plus additional compensation. The Bills went 20 years without a franchise QB, so it would be absolute insanity to willingly give one up. But if you had 3 straight years of multiple 1st & 2nd round picks (along with everything else), you'd at least have a good chance of getting another. Only question would be "was it worth jumping through all those hoops when you already had a guy?" If it took multiple years to find the replacement, then probably not. Those picks would've likely been wasted.

I agree. This is also why I don't want us trading up to the top 10 & giving away a ton of picks. There are so many colleges and so many players, there's no way you can get a good look at all of them. A lot of it has to do with the situation they're drafted into, the coaching, opportunities, surrounding talent, etc. I didn't want the Bills to draft Allen, if only because I still had PTSD from the drought & had zero confidence they could develop a raw QB. Thankfully this was a much different organization, and the support, coaching & FO were significantly more capable than in the past. You have great WRs like Diggs, Hill, & Nacua all drafted late, or guys like Terrell Owens from colleges nobody pays attention to like Chattanooga. I hope the Bills don't get hung up on one guy & trade away the farm to grab him, but instead cast the widest net possible to scour every corner for potential quality starters

No matter who they draft, it'll be up to Joe Brady & Josh to elevate their game this season. Diggs was a huge leader on & off the field, so Josh will have to step up. The upside is he'll have a clean slate & nobody barking in his ear about targets. All the receivers, TEs & RBs will be looking to him for orders. And Brady will have to do better than Dorsey about scheming guys open & not getting figured out so early in the season. Some of his success could be attributed to his newness, though I don't think it was the biggest factor. He won't have that same benefit next year, so he'll need to make sure that no matter who we draft, they're incorporated into the offense quickly. Really hoping we find our new WR1 in the draft, but if not, gotta get creative (see Andy Reid).

So who tf is it?!

We should just make a thread going over all players we'd be willing to use specifically to trade up. On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being "zero desire to trade" & 10 being "cya later!" I'll start: Josh Allen - 1 James Cook - 5 Khalil Shakir - 4 Curtis Samuel - 1 (just signed) Mack Hollins - 1 (just signed) Dalton Kincaid - 1 Dion Dawkins - 3 Connor McGovern - 4 O'Cyrus Torrence - 2 Spencer Brown - 5 Greg Rousseau - 6 DaQuan Jones - 4 Ed Oliver - 1 Von Miller - 9 (in a fantasy scenario where it was possible) Matt Milano - 1 Terrel Bernard - 2 Dorian Williams - 6 Rasul Douglas - 2 Kaiir Elam - 10 Christian Benford - 6 (always injured) Taron Johnson - 1 Anyone else is either not relevant enough, nobody cares, is a recent signing, or wouldn't be worth a 7th round pick in a trade value anyway.

Yeah, lets just trade away ALL of our locker room leadership... I know we want to get younger, but Milano is the Josh Allen of the defense. We need him to anchor the unit & be the general out there.

"Best" implies how good of a player they were, so in that regard, it's Diggs by a landslide. If we're just going off of who I liked the most, it's Fitzpatrick.

Since we don't even use a 2nd helmet, does this actually change anything for us?

All this tells me is that you have a 61% chance to find one of these WRs outside of the 1st round, and only a 39% chance within it 😉 The Bills just have to be smart and take multiple shots at it. They'll find one eventually!

You also have to look beyond the 1st & 2nd rounds. Nico Collins - 3rd Round Keenan Allen - 3rd Round Terry McLaurin - 3rd Round Cooper Kupp - 3rd Round Amon-Ra St. Brown - 4th Round Stefon Diggs - 5th Round Tyreek Hill - 5th Round Puca Nacua - 5th Round You definitely can find the more sure-fire picks earlier in the draft, but smart teams find stars in the later rounds every year. The Bills would be smart to go after multiple guys, including those that aren't given 1st or 2nd round grades.

Both men's and women's college basketball is great, but I'd watch ANY regular season Bills game over a NCAA Championship Basketball game. Same goes for any other sport though. I'd take Bills football over everything else.

Let's be real, Josh knows he threw that game away. And Diggs (or anyone) saying something critical probably would've struck a nerve. I doubt it had anything to do with Josh disliking Diggs, but rather a moment where he was already hard on himself & not in the mood to deal with anything extra.

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I said it before, but I feel like fans are hoping for a big splash to overcompensate for losing Diggs. Remember what we gave up to the Vikings to get Diggs? We'd have to give up even more to move so far up in the draft. Even though Diggs did well for us, had we been more confident & drafted well, we could've stayed put & drafted Justin Jefferson ourselves. And to make this kind of trade for a WR? That wreaks of desperation. Look at what the Chiefs traded us to move up to #10 & draft Mahomes... a guy who changed the destiny of their franchise & turned them into a dynasty. Do we think any of these WRs are THAT impactful that they could so something similar? And are they going to be so absurdly good that they're more valuable than the 2 x 1st rounders, 2 x 2nd rounders and additional picks we could've drafted? As fun as it is to imagine one of those top 3 guys on our team, I don't think it's a smart move to mortgage so much of our future on that prospect.