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Chris Jones still has a few years of prime left. Their best OL players are young. Rashee Rice, if he comes back the same guy post-injury, is better than any WR we have. McDuffie is better than any CB we have (yes, he's better than Benford and he stays healthy). They keep drafting impact guys where we struggle to get them on the field in any meaningful way year 1. The only silver lining player personnel wise is that Kelce is reaching the end and they, like us, have a lot of big money decisions coming up on good players.

Fair. There's no logical reason as to why our Defense can slow down Kansas City in the regular season, but then completely folds against them every postseason. We just watched the Texans Defense give them fits the week before and that was with an Offense/Special Teams that kept putting them in bad positions. Then KC plays us and we look like a JV team out there on that side of the ball. Can a Maxx Crosby solve that? I don't know.. but it's the only hope I have.

We need a separator on the outside, for sure. We need Keon to become a better route runner, for sure. I guess it depends on your definition of stud WR1.. I don't think we need a 25M+ WR on this team. Solid CB, sure, but I don't view CB2 as a massive issue next year while we still have Benford. Especially if.... ...we draft a big DT to push Daquan Jones to DT3 and have a Maxx Crosby to pair with Ed Oliver on the line. A move like that would not only give us that elite DL player we haven't had, it will also allow Oliver to have more favorable matchups and a DL that actually threatens the opponent will in turn help whoever our CB2 is.

Since we are making no big changes to McDermott/Beane, I feel like you.. unless we get a difference maker in his prime this off-season. Given the Ryan Talbot's and Matt Bove's of the world have openly discussed Maxx Crosby and Maxx Crosby's random infatuation with all things Bills since the Raiders season ended, I wonder if there's actually some smoke there. And I'll admit, if we added Maxx Crosby this off-season, I'll believe. We need our Chris Jones. He'd be that. If we continue to go the route of Josh Allen as the only elite player plus a deep/above-average roster around him, eh... It hasn't worked yet, so why am I to believe it will next year with the same coaching staff and front office?

It takes away from their greatness. And they are great. One of the best HC/QB combo's we've ever seen. Chris Jones and Travis Kelce are all-time greats on each side of the ball. But nobody gives them that credit because every fan outside Kansas City views them (correctly) as the NFL's golden child that wins games, in large part, due to biased officiating.

I've never seen the NFL fanbase more angry at the league than I do now. The league's calculus has to be that they don't care and know we'll still watch, but it's not just Bills fans... it's fans of every team outside KC and it's analysts and commentators. It's the sudden realization by almost everyone that the league isn't about pure competition. They'll still get ratings because the Super Bowl is an American holiday at this point, but this is the most "out" i've ever seen the NFL fanbase on a game.

Von and Hamlin should go. Milano looked like vintage Milano in the playoffs and he's not really financially viable to move off anyway. I think Smiley is probably gone, but that's about it. Overall, it seems like a very predictable off-season when it comes to who is brought back and who we let leave.

I honestly believe, at this point, that the NFL has it's finger on the outcomes of games. Not in the sense that they script or determine who wins, but as Bill Burr put it on Rich Eisen's show "they massage the games a certain way". I don't like feeling that this is the league I follow, that the team I most passionately support plays in. I think most of the NFL fanbase seems to feel this way. And I can come to terms with the Bills not breaking through. We've certainly had practice at that. I can't come to terms with how I now feel about the NFL.

Never really liked the Carter pick, but he was decent before his injury. Seems he lost strength from that time off and never recovered. Think he can, at least, be a serviceable DT4 next year. Solomon was a high ceiling pick in the middle rounds. Might pop as a pass rush specialist next year, might wash out of the league.

I love how it's a valid criticism for some that we didn't execute on those plays because we got 5 when we needed 5 and got 1 when we needed 1, simply because the refs decided to give us 4 and 0.

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Agreed on all of the above. I will say, however, the only reason everyone thinks the Chiefs are perfection in big games personified is because they get the breaks. I'm not at all backing off that simply because we also didn't execute. Let's look at this the other way if we don't have every single call, including the biggest call of the playoffs thus far, go against us and win the game: -Mahomes fumble when Chiefs could go up two scores early -Allowing a TD before half when up 21-10 -Empty possession up 21-16 out of half -Mahomes taking an open field sack on the second possession of the 3rd quarter negating any ability to get points -Mahomes getting sacked when the Chiefs had an "and goal" situation to go up 7 late in the game, only going up 3

I'm not boycotting it, but I can't imagine this is the tenor of discussion the NFL wants for much longer. You have some analysts and most fans alike, at fever pitch, saying in all seriousness that they wonder if the league is just entertainment at this point and not a true competition. Bill Burr was on Rich Eisen's show echoing that sentiment. Every show yesterday opened by talking about, yet another, game altering call(s) that went the Chiefs way. Maybe they don't care, but the NFL is getting dangerously close to becoming a league it's fans will watch, but don't truly believe in any longer.

Agree with all of this except Mahomes/Allen. We have the guy at QB. It's the fact the Chiefs are one step ahead of us everywhere else that's killing us. (plus we clearly haven't performed the blood sacrifice to get biased officiating) They had McDuffie and Watson (Stole McDuffie from us and hit on a later pick. We had Benford (who can't stay healthy), Elam who we settled for after losing McDuffie and is absolutely a bust at this point, and Douglas who we had to trade for last year that completely fell off at 30. They took Worthy, with our pick, while we took Coleman and then lamented all season about our lack of separation at WR as it was gravely evident in the Playoffs. Nevermind Reid/Spags coaching circles around McDermott, Babich and Brady.

DT, DE, WR Try to make a big swing for one of those positions in FA or Trade and then address the others in the Draft. Seems like there's some smoke for Maxx Crosby as even some Bills reporters have been mentioning his name. LB, CB, S are also needs, but ones we should be able to address in the middle rounds as Bernard, Milano & Williams will all be back at LB. Benford & Johnson in the CB room and Rapp/Bishop at Safety. Need to prepare for the potential of letting one or both of Bernard & Benford walk in '26 though.

I’m ready to move on, but a hire like this haunts my dreams…

It's up to Beane to hit this off-season with picks & some money in order to open the second window. We didn't break through in the first one with Hyde, Poyer, White, Diggs etc.. This was the "reset year". Next year begins the second 5-6 year window for Josh Allen.

1) Bring back Hollins and Johnson. 2) Extensions for Cook and Shakir. 3) Explore trades for a Pass Rusher. 4) Find Josh Allen an outside separator at WR to replace Cooper. 5) Bulk up the IDL. 6) Let Rousseau play out the 5th year option or offer in trade for Crosby/Garrett. Cut/Trade Elam. Bernard/Benford, play out final year and then evaluate after season. 7) Load up LB/CB/S depth/competition in Rounds 4-6.

Do you have faith that this organization can build a team that can take down the Chiefs (and potentially fend off Burrow/Bengals from time to time)? That's honestly all it comes down to at this point. You can tell me it's not, but I guarantee you in Josh Allen's mind, it is. If you're answer is yes, I'm open to hearing why. If no, then what are we doing? Risking a step back would be completely warranted if a step forward seems unattainable.

Yea.. I'm there on Pickens. (Provided Allen gives the approval) Don't like him as a person. Think he's a terrible teammate at times. Just not really in the mood to hear about team chemistry when none of Allen's bros make a play for him when needed. And unlike Pittsburgh, Allen has the status and the Bills locker room has the grounding, to integrate a player like him. I'm honestly just ready for a shake up. We know it won't be at HC, so anything that makes me feel like the season isn't just 18-21 weeks that ends in inevitable pain in the same fashion is welcome to me.

Ok, that helps explain his down year and lack of use. He still dropped the pass that effectively ended our season. I'm not going to go overboard about it, but its not "dumping on someone" to be frustrated that he couldn't make that play with our Super Bowl hopes on the line.

Imagine running a league where #boycottthesuperbowl is trending the day after your Championship Sunday with every fanbase complaining about the league being rigged.. Yet that's apparently what Goodell/The NFL want. Can't wait to see which Eagles defensive back gets a phantom game sealing penalty called on him against KC this time.. My money is on DeJean.

Any chance Vegas would take Rousseau and our 1st, maybe a 4th as well to get it over the finish line. I truly think Crosby has us as a team he'd like to play for and we desperately need a Josh Allen level dawg on that side of the ball in his prime. If it's at all possible, I'd make getting a guy like him here this offseason, bulking up the DT room, investing heavily in the back 7 with our mid-rounds picks and find Josh Allen an outside separator to replace Cooper.

Football fans will tune in, but this is the most dejected/frustrated I've seen the NFL fanbase as a whole in my life.

We can't pay guys simply because we screwed up and they're all we have. That seems to be the argument for D-Line Edmunds as well. This Defense needs a massive overhaul.. and there's not one person that I see as a must re-sign on that side of the ball.