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that's an awesome memory hah those were the days huh? but all down hill since? explain?

I am not going to say flat out no way to this. If Richie comes back and proves to the coaches he is in his form and can play better then another starting guard on the team then I am all for it. Maybe a little grit and meanness is what this line needs.

Hi all, I am just going to give a little history and where I am at with the Bills. I was born in 69 so I have seen my share of not even play off droughts but "cant" in 7 games droughts. I started watching football with my pap when I was around 6 years old which put me around the 1975-76 range. Born into football with a solid QB named Joe Ferguson and other players on the team like OJ Simpson, Bob Chandler and Tony Greene. What a fun time to just become a fan(sarcasm), In the next 4 years the team had a combined record of 17 and 43. Born into foot ball with 4 straight years of scary bad standings to never be repeated again. Then for 2 years straight we had the Ferguson, Cribbs, Butler/Lewis combo and made it to the playoffs to straight years to not win a playoff game. I remember calling him Butler fingers as in "butter fingers" cause you thought Knox dropped balls... this guy turned it into a talent... or so how I remembered it. then after two straight 2-14 seasons our GM pulled the trigger and drafted a guy named Jim Kelly and got a coach named Marv Levy. After a 7-8 season they went on a 12-4 record and took us to the Conf. game where we lost. The following year man... expectations were high! We wanted a SB run but we had struggles on defense that year and lost the division round. Our defense struggled this year as I remember it and our high flying fast throwing deep ball diving football team could not get on the field enough. Questions were asked that year with all the talent we had why did we fail? Then with out Question the Bills made 4 straight SB appearances. A glorious time it was. We should have won one of them but the team and the fans kept our chins up high as we were proud yet frustrated fans.. we wanted our SB Win. After 3 more years Kelly retired. I sobbed. Then other teams left and started joining other teams. Then we went 17 straight years of... Ownership making silly decisions, GM every 3-4 years and coaches every 2 years.. Boy it took a long time to get it right. Now many of you are wondering.. why the long writeup on history we already know about? Well to make a point I guess. You see we had Kelly for 11 years. Josh we will have for much longer and on top of that we have a Coach and a young GM that I feel will be with us for years but.. The point being is we are going to have down years with this QB and amazing years with this QB BUT... we have our QB. and because we have this amazing QB named Josh Allen who after his second year, takes this team on his shoulders and drags us to the Conf. Champ game. We are going to have bumps in the road but we are going to have a fun ride. Enjoy it Bills fans.. we deserve it!

yea uh no. That's more like wishful thinking. 7th round pick for a good upgrade at a position of struggle is worth it again crystal ball.. you nor I don't have a clue what would happen.

HMM I watched a lot of this too. But.. Is it plausible that this is happening cause of horrible guard play?

I respect the heck out of ya but I am with newera on this one. your doing to much if and but crystal ball stuff. In Bean I trust lol

the only players that usually disagree are high end superstars/ I think this guy will respect we want him and work with us. This is the type of player that would work and help teach our current TE a thing or too. If reasonable I would jump all over this.

This was the original post trying to explain it to you you named 3 difference makers here.. One could argue others but that's 3 and go off on a rant about the chiefs. Then I spent lots of time explaining this to you. And now all of the sudden you want to say you were off topic the whole time not referring to the last 4 years without explaining that and you want to dip into 2016 witch not the year on the OP topic? lol are you serious man? get back on topic for our sanity cause your going to put us in the looney bin.

Dazz Newsom Pro's West Coast Offense. great 5 wide WR. A sleeper. Explosive (quick ) Does a great job getting open Versatile he can play slot and outside Solid rout runner. Great student of the game Con's He lacks size at 5'10 needs to work on some muscle toning Lots of this type of talent coming out of the draft this year.. may work against him Lacks pure speed Spent a year as QB instead of WR Struggles with bump and run My thoughts Personally its a easy no for me but thats just me High ceiling low drag/

This draft model in order is extremely out of date compared to the other ones.

I so disagree with this it is beyond words... Has he slowed down? yes.. but he is still fast.. you can't possibly go from 2019 healthy season to 2020 very unhealthy... played unhealthy and even begin to come up with this assumption.

for every one time Kiper is right... hes wrong 5 other times

All do respect and the respect he gets around the league does not = production. but thats just me

This is so wrong on top of wrong, I don't even know where to start. I think HBF said it the best.

no problem

again your off topic. we are just discussing drafts. why is this so hard for you?

so many holes? Most of the holes you are referring to are not holes, just upgrades needed. As a whole, this team is in a better place with this GM. but the holes you are referring to is not the topic at hand. The topic at hand is how good he has drafted the last 4 years. lets not loose sight of that.

Darn. Must of felt good for those bones to sit on that bench.

really? many times scouting teams stay with the next GM.. Do you have a clue at all with how things work? your right I cherry picked a couple things.. FOR GOOD REASON!!!! JGMcD2 put it best in the quote below but to be honest I am not sure you have a high understanding of how the process worked and the situation McD was put in. Whaley was never favored out until after the draft. https://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/04/nfl-bills-fire-doug-whaley-terry-pegula-draft-sean-mcdermott quoted in this article OK, so who handled the draft? Another tough one to answer. Team owner Terry Pegula says it was Whaley, but several outlets are reporting that head coach Sean McDermott was pulling the strings. sorry I trust Terry before I trust any other outlet. Terry had 0 reason to lie these are facts folks. https://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/04/nfl-bills-fire-doug-whaley-terry-pegula-draft-sean-mcdermott says it all

K so I am going to show you the drop off of why I want a top 2 Rb and no later. I am not saying his is horrible.. Keep this in mind.. he has good upside. But. Just look at the drop off and because of this crazy year we will go Average per game in yards and Average per play. And again. to be fair. We are going to go back to there best healthy year for a solid look at each player. Etienne 2019 15 games. Rushing 107.6 yards a game at 7.8 avg with a total of 1614 yards. Receiving 434 yards averaged 11.7 a play http://www.espn.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/player/combine/_/id/220471/travis-etienne Harris 2020 13 games Rushing 112.7 yards a game at 5.8 total avg with a total of 1466 yards. Receiving 425 yards 9.9 a play http://www.espn.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/player/combine/_/id/203572/najee-harris Hill 2019 13 games Rushing 103.8 yards a game at 5.6 avg with a total of 1350 yards. Receiving 180 yards 10.0 a play. What your missing about Hill that your not understanding is Hill does not have great break away speed. sound familiar. http://www.espn.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/player/combine/_/id/210461/kylin-hill Harris Speed without Harris Power running. There are oh so slight differences that tell a big story. https://draftlordsports.com/nfl-draft/2021-nfl-draft-positional-rankings/2021-nfl-draft-prospects-running-backs/#Najee-Harris they have him at #6. 5-6 is fair. Bottom line we all have opinions and you don't have to "feel bad" that mine differs.....

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2706882-bills-reportedly-fire-entire-scouting-staff-in-addition-to-doug-whaley So the entire scouting team gets kicked to the curb with Whaley. Now while they did a decent job in 2017 -Zay Jones and Peterman... (how dare I bring up that name) This Link SLAMS Whaley for bad decision making https://us.blastingnews.com/sports/2016/12/doug-whaley-a-look-at-every-pick-from-the-buffalo-bills-gm-001360789.html while I do not 100% agree with the last link, most of the content is spot on. And again... There was a reason why the GM and his entire scout staff is gone... at the same time

I will start looking YoloinOhio then link in OP that would be great. Thank you sir. Funny, This just came out today. Does this help? Link on OP for now. And thanks for understanding. https://www.turfshowtimes.com/2021/3/5/22316340/2021-nfl-cuts-tracker

I know this time of year is slow but we really need an around the NFL section for the boards