BigDingus

I'm no Minecraft fan, but that was pretty impressive! And all the jabs at other teams - well played.

I have no issues with new threads, just pointing out every single "____ says ____ about the Bills!" thread inevitably gets merged with THIS thread. That's why I gave a heads-up that this thread exists.

I'm just happy elite RBs are finally getting paid again. People have been treating the position like anyone is easily replaced, yet time & time again RBs come along that prove this untrue. Henry & Saquon deserve to be paid like the star players they are. It's why I'm annoyed that Bills fans don't want to pay James Cook $13 - $15 million a year. After wasting years of Josh Allen's career trying to find a running game, they finally found a guy that can provide one. For a position that's supposedly a "dime a dozen" & easy to replace, the Bills failed time & time again to establish a legit run game. Meanwhile, under-performing defensive players, who were already getting paid more than Cook (despite Cook having significantly higher impact on the team's success) get extended & paid way more. Buffalo just extended Rousseau to a $20 million a year contract... with his whopping 6 sacks a season. But nah, don't pay the guy who contributed 1,200+ yards & 18 total TDs, because he's "JUST" a RB. And this is after Josh Allen's passing numbers dropped significantly, which in turn reduced his huge amount of turnovers, leading to our best scoring offense ever, all because we had a reliable run game. But instead we'll extend defensive players that didn't do jack against the Chiefs in the playoffs (again). You know who DID carry his weight in the playoffs? James Cook.

This is the conversation I was responding to. "So even if Bishop isn't ready to start, Forrest is still a good option." That's why I stated IF that happens, that's not a good sign.

If Forrest leaps Bishop on the depth chart, that would make me view Bishop as another Kaiir Elam. Another early round draft pick getting passed over by late rounders or UDFAs? Not a great sign.

Never again can someone mock me about wearing a jersey. "You wear another guy's name on you!" Oh yeah? Well actual NFL players get pictures of each other permanently inked on their skin!

Technically, we did lose a game this year...

Remember when we used to complain about the lack of prime time games? Now we miss 1:00 starts (12:00 CST). Ah, the bad ol' days.

Buffalo might have not have much in the way of accommodations & such, but we just saw Green Bay host a draft... Now I know they've got more development in the "Title Town" area around Lambeau, but they basically just setup shop in a parking lot for the draft. Green Bay is even smaller than Buffalo, so there's no way the Buffalo couldn't do something similar. And how nice is Green Bay's weather in April? It's going to be 58 degrees & cloudy tomorrow, with a low of 41. Probably a higher chance of rain in Buffalo, but they can make preparations for that. All that being said, I don't really care one way or another. It would be cool to have a crowd cheer on our picks, but also not a loss if we never host one.

Our QB looks more like a TE than our actual TE does... That being said, everyone said he'd be a huge weapon in the slot! But they forgot, most of what we have are guys who would be good in the slot 😆

He sucked last year, but is he better than Bass? Then again, I'll never forget that 60 yard game winner from Bass, so I won't campaign to have him replaced by a sex offender.

But the injuries are a valid excuse? The bigger issue is they assembled an all-slot receiving corps. Shakir, Samuel, Palmer, or even Kincaid... all work best in the slot. Hell, Coleman would probably have more success there, or even Cook if they wanted. I'm not talking about what position they want these guys to play. Obviously they can't all lineup slot. But all these guys would be good weapons in the slot on other teams.

My favorite Bills game was the New Year's Eve Ravens vs Bengals game in 2017. I haven't celebrated a win like that in my entire adult life. I count as a Bills game because it broke the playoff drought. As for least favorite random game - 2007 Bills vs Cowboys in Buffalo on MNF... That's up there with the worst heartbreakers I've seen, despite being an early season game on a crappy Bills team.

I just think people need to stop looking at him like a big time sack threat. After watching more & more on the guy, it seems very likely he's there to help on run plays first & foremost.

Yes, I forgot about him, simply because we know he won't be healthy for a significant portion of the season.

This video named Landon Jackson the Bills' most impact impactful pick of the draft. Not because of his ability to rush the QB, but because of how good he is at stopping the run.

According to this random article, it's because Josh Allen's contract is causing problems between him & Brandon Beane 🤣 I can't tell if this is writer is serious or not, but they bring up how in the past, we had a great WR corps consisting of "Stefon Diggs, Gabe Davis & Deonte Hardy." Oh, and that we brought in Joshua Palmer & Curtis Palmer. See, it's all Josh Allen's fault! https://amp.marca.com/en/nfl/buffalo-bills/2025/04/29/68113d97ca47419a0d8b45c4.html

We can hope, but he sure didn't show me anything that made me think he's got the talent to become a TE of that caliber. I think he could be good (certainly better than he's shown so far), but not anything on the level of a Kittle or Kelce. Even if it were just flashes of greatness here & there, I'd be more optimistic, but he's shown flashes of "good" more than anything.

Well if you got that kinda money, could you hire me to get me out of Texas? I don't know sh*t about horses, but I'll clean your toilets if it means I get to live in Buffalo! 😉 Isn't that how exactly how improving your team works? You replace one player with another. You don't just keep every player forever & add more on top of them.

Good. They need to just resign Cook. It'll become even more apparent after this year, unless he decides to hold out.

Pretty much how I feel, though I think Landon Jackson is my slight favorite, hoping he can really make use of that size on the edge. Deone Walker would've been better had they taken him later in the draft. I don't think he's very good (yet), though admittedly I only began reading/watching everything I could on him after we already drafted him.

The way Beane reaches in the draft, he's probably already preparing sending next year's picks for the guy. Would that be a first... passing on someone in the draft, only to then trade away draft picks to get an UDFA? 🙃

Just because we've managed to hang in the playoffs with a poor WR room, doesn't mean they didn't contribute to us losing games. Allen & the offense had the ball in their hands with a chance to go ahead against KC the last 2 times we met, and both times they failed. The D never looks great, regardless of who's back there. It's McDermott's unit, so no matter what tools you give him, the end result is always the same. So in that situation, why do we keep investing so much in a defense that's never going to look drastically improved come playoff time? The only hope we have is to bolster the unit lead by our best player, but we keep refusing to do that. In 20 years, will you look back & think "we definitely gave Allen the best tools to succeed" or will you think "damn, we wasted a lot of his prime years investing so much draft capital on a defense that never changed?" Hell, when we finally got Allen a good run game for the first time in his career, with a RB that tied for most rushing TDs in the league, we extend everybody BUT him because "he's just a RB." You know, the same RB who was our most successful player against the Chiefs, only for us to stop feeding him the ball & start trying to go through the air. But you can't really do that when your receiving weapons are what they are! All the people saying "should've given it to Cook!" are now saying "don't pay him, trade Cook!" So good luck with the offense once that happens. Weak WR group, underwhelming TEs, and alienating your best weapon because you want to pay him less than what Groot got LAST year (despite Cook being significantly more important to our success than Groot ever was)... all while drafting almost entirely defense. How'd it work out when we used a 1st on Rousseau & a 2nd on Boogie back to back? How many Pro Bowl caliber seasons has 1st round pick Ed Oliver had? Surely, our 1st round CB came in clutch against KC last year. Wait, he got traded to the Cowboys for scraps? Giving a truckload of money to Von Miller sure worked out though, just as our rotation of D-linemen has. It's like once these guys figured out Josh Allen was actually going to pan out, they decided they no longer needed to put much effort into that side of the ball. They signed Diggs, saw Allen flourish, then were content with signing old vets & hand-me-down players that couldn't breakout on other teams. We could point to Kincaid & Coleman as 2 attempts to rectify that, but neither have shown they're capable of living up to expectations yet, so the priority should be to keep going! The D shouldn't need as much help as it does, especially given how many people McD & Beane have signed & extended. They clearly like who they have well enough to sign them to extensions & pay raises. If there's one thing Beane & McDermott do well is they find value in the later rounds of the draft, then coach them up into solid starters. But they have yet to draft a single star player in the first 2 rounds outside of Allen. The closest they got was Cook, and even then he's "just a RB," which apparently means "easily replaceable."

Is there a team with a weaker WR group than the Bills? Probably, but that's not exactly a ringing endorsement of our own WR group either.