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I like that you put the AFCN over the AFCE. For all the talk of our division, if Pickett makes any kind of jump and Watson, at all, resembles the guy he used to be.. that division is incredible.

“Shout” is good. Typically 45-50 minutes. Anything from Cover 1 is very good, typically 60-90 minutes. Buffalo Beat w/ Joe Buscaglia, “It’s Always Gameday” and Bills Chat Podcast all decent but less frequent content. We seem to have an absurd amount of content creators for our team.. not sure if this is the same across the NFL?

I may be in the minority, but have zero care to think about “what if” we drafted Mahomes.. McDermott isn’t Reid. Beane hasn’t built the OL Mahomes has had for most of his career. We haven’t had a Kelce. Doesn’t mean McDermott/Beane are bad.. I’m not trying to bring negativity to an anti-negativity thread, but they aren’t the gold standard.. which so far, has been Reid/Veach. And they’ve done things for Mahomes that we have not for Allen. Therefore, I have zero reason to think the Mahomes we see in KC is the one we’d see here. QB development/success has quite a bit to do with the situation they land in. To give our staff credit, Allen being arguably the most physically talented QB to enter this league, may never have been unlocked if he didn’t end up with McDermott/Daboll for his first few years.

I don’t expect Von back until Week 6, but the fact remains .. the defense we finished the year with doesn’t hold a candle to our opening day roster. Loss: Edmunds Added: Floyd Ford Rapp Now Healthy: Phillips White Poyer Hyde Jones I point this out because, justifiably, a lot of angst is due to how the defense finished the year, and then ended with another feckless performance against an elite offense. Admittedly, the age of our Safeties and the ability of the pass rush to be felt without Von are question marks - along with the obvious hole we’re trying to fill at MLB … … but this defense, on paper, is far more talented than the one that limped to the finish line last year.

I’m optimistic, but back to wait and see mode. It really comes down to the lines. The over-investment (without returns) on the DL and the lack of investment (with ramifications) on the OL. The Jets game will really test both of my concerns. -Can our OL protect Allen against an elite DL? -Can our DL, without Von, take advantage of a weak OL against a QB like Rodgers? On paper, however.. whether by development, return from injury and/or additions, we should be improved at OL, DL, CB, S, RB, WR & TE. Then factor in a healthy Josh Allen and Year Two of Dorsey & Kromer. Lots to be excited about.

Agrees with Portnoy that both Biden and Trump are too old to be President .. going to be interesting to see if he goes on a Truth Social rampage against him. I “think” he’s smart enough to leave that alone. He doesn’t want smoke with Tucker.

Kaiir Elam quickly solves some of the speed problem, but it remains to be seen whether he'll be a part of the equation in any meaningful way this season.

Clearly they are just playing hardball with the unnamed AFC team.

Too accurate ha…

Marino is really good. A little too defense-obsessed for my liking, but overall he does a great job. Good breakdown of Ifedi, and it’s interesting that we seem to be going with a LT backup and RT backup, as opposed to the “swing tackle”… I don’t hate it.

We can probably get by with some of these misses in recent drafts due to the fact we’ve been able to cover them up with Free Agents. CIN & KC have crushed recent drafts and now they have the good problem of having to decide who to pay. The biggest issue moving forward is making sure we hit on some key guys along with maintaining strong depth via our drafts. Beane has been very good at the depth piece … not so much with the impact piece, which is why we’ve had to go out and pay for a Von Miller and Leonard Floyd this year. Which is why we’re desperately praying that Spencer Brown makes a jump this year. He’s invested heavy in the DL via the draft, without much to show for it, while at the detriment of the OL. Let’s hope he’s steadied the ship with these FA signings and let’s also hope that Rousseau, Cook, Kincaid, Torrence, along with at least one of Benford/Elam and Bernard/Williams all show themselves to be the pillars of the next few years as cheap contracts we can build our next window upon. No more mulligans on high impact picks. Beane won’t hit on them all, but he can’t miss on most of them either… Not when Josh Allen is making 40M+ against the cap.

At this point, just use 7th Round picks as minor trade pieces or to draft a punter.

They have a ton of cap space, but also a ton of high value players to pay. There's a reason they're playing hardball with Chris Jones..

Of course, even the best drafting teams have misses... and I'm not very high on the Chiefs last two drafts tbh. That said, they hit on two elite OL. Bengals hit on an elite WR. If one of Rousseau, Epenesa or Boogie became an elite pass rusher.. we would all forgive Beane for missing (or hitting a single/double) on the other two. That hasn't happened... If it did, our DL wouldn't have been a weakness when Von went down. FYI: I do believe Rousseau can become elite, but he was always a project.

Which is why GM's and HC's lose their jobs... We're not competing with every other team. We're competing with the best of the best. During this time, the Chiefs and Bengals crushed their drafts, especially when it comes to impact players. We built some good depth and hit on some really good players, but Beane whiffed on the impact picks (at least thus far.. maybe Rousseau becomes that). To provide some optimism.. Cook, KIncaid and Torrence may change the narrative, whereas the Chiefs recent two drafts feel like prior Bills drafts.

Chiefs DL didn't handle them. Chris Jones handled them. He was a gamewrecker, and without him, the Chiefs DL would've looked a lot like ours. ....especially if they inexplicably played off coverage all game.

The Jets could probably get it done.. They could backload his contract to start hitting after Rodgers steps away, and they could send some picks and one of their pass rushers who Bosa would replace. I mean, if the 49ers asked for Will McDonald or Jermaine Johnson and some picks, would they really say no?

This. If one of AJE or Boogie hit, we're singing a different tune. Instead one was barely rosterable and the other is a DE4 that we hope gives us 3rd down pass rush ability in a contract year so he can pop off and sign a big contract elsewhere. Rousseau has been good, but we're still waiting for him to make that impact player jump. Meanwhile the Chiefs built an elite OL with two hits and the Bengals had hit on a WR1 to be their WR2. I will say, I'm not exactly impressed with the Chiefs recent high draft picks.. McDuffie, Karlaftis, Moore, Uzomah and Rice... We'll see. Feels a lot like the Bills high draft picks of recent (up until this year).

Certainly interesting.. May be some perception > reality, however the main criticism on Beane has been his inability to draft impact players. Rousseau, Cook, Kincaid and Torrence hopefully change that narrative. The reason Beane catches heat is because of who we're competing with.. Chiefs/Bengals.. and those two teams have hit on some serious game changers in guys like Humphrey, Smith, Bolton, Higgins etc.. Beane does do a great job at building a deep roster through scouting Day 3/UDFA's, but the draft separation between us and them has been those high impact draft picks.

Even crazier is that we apparently had a trade in place UNLESS Boogie was on the board... we wanted him that bad. Wild how ridiculous that pick was.

Are we keeping 10 OL or is Alec Anderson a potential cut now? Id be disappointed if that’s the case, as Anderson looks really promising as a G/C, and with multiple years left on his deal. Anderson did not look good in his RT try out, so signing Ifedi makes all the sense in the world, but I really hope it’s a LB on the way out over a promising young OL piece.

Convenient omission.

Yes, but (allegedly) that same poster broke the CMC trade news before anyone else.

The memes/gifs from every AFC teams fanbase begging their GM’s to trade for Nick Bosa is an example what makes Twitter/X amazing. Truly incredible content.

Check the trending tab on Twitter to see Nick Bosa’s name. This is apparently why… No clue if there’s any juice to this or if this is somebody on some elite level trolling. Apparently this guy broke the CMC news before anyone had it..