Richard Noggin

Decent Buffalo-specific coverage on Sirius though? I'm not much for listening to national sports coverage. I will, but would much rather find a jazz station or even WBFO's new digital all-music format called "The Bridge." (Kinda/sorta emerged out of the ashes of The Pink.)

Wait, was Moore awful last year? I don't ask that combatively, but I haven't heard/seen that kind of blunt indictment to date (could be blind). Isn't Romeo Doubs some kind of dumb-dumb? Without looking it up, I vaguely recall some nonsense with him last season. Like potential football character stuff. No? Watson, sure. Offers exactly what the Bills fans have been lacking.

The final WR and DB numbers are likely reliant on how the returner competition shakes out. Curious if any of the rookie DBs have enough return ability to threaten Codrington's spot? Codrington WAS a pretty good punt returner last year. Maybe it's more Shenault who's on the bubble, which I think is right. Moore seems like a guy who could return punts.

With the bolded bit in first paragraph, are you switching from Hollins to Cooper there (trade and offensive run that followed)? Love the point about smaller/better separators being Josh's wheelhouse, and hadn't viewed Palmer through that lens (6'1" 209), but it's fascinating. So much difference between what Beane likes in a WR (size/physicality) and what suits Allen better (speed/separation). In the draft, Beane loves tall WRs and isn't super troubled by middling 40 times. Right at the start of day three I really fell in love with the idea of Jaylin Lane. Or of course Jalen Royals. One of the Jayleins. Someone with explosiveness and shiftiness and speed. But alas.

Palmer doesn't really expand the playbook as much as they hope executes it better? And Moore is here more for depth and competition rather than for gameplanning around? Either way I liked your point about Brady's potential growth. SO important whoever is on the final 53.

Huge point here. Not necessarily for this topic exactly, but I'm really hopeful Brady comes up with all kinds of counters to and expansions off of last year's tendencies, as well as new stuff. Exciting to watch both sides evolve and discover what they can do well in 2025.

Miami probably shouldn't have too many 1 PM or 4 PM games at home in the first 6 weeks of the season, tbh. Or conversely, the rules about sideline fans/shade could just be adjusted to prevent dangerous and unethical gamesmanship. I'm not aware of the Bills actively preventing visiting opponents from accessing vital heating equipment during extreme cold weather games. Why is Miami allowed to block medically vital sideline cooling equipment during extreme hot weather games? Because their sideline is shaded, they can then medically imperil their opponents? Crazy.

Finally, someone with eyes that see. Shavers vs Virgil (vs Shenault vs Hamler) for WR5 in 2025 lol. Draft WR and OL and RB in 2026 like an offensive mirror to 2025's defensive picks.

Agree for the most part with where you're both going here. Beane HAS in fact invested in receiving targets with Kincaid and Coleman in the draft and Samuel and now Palmer in FA. Problem is, the results haven't been immediate or impactful. Shakir was both drafted and re-signed, though, so that's another much more successful target acquired and developed. Beane is now taking at least one more season to let his coaches maximize the aforementioned investments, with maybe one more addition to the room at some point in 2025. With the way Royals and Horton fell, of course we're frustrated that we didn't get one. But I think it was maybe more egregious to miss out on adding at least one more WR each of the past two drafts. This 2025 draft was at least properly milked for its specific depth at DL and DB. In a way, Beane is mirroring top NFC teams more than his AFC counterparts, with his emphasis on stocking the trenches overall and the defense in particular. I was happy to see him triple up on DLs and DBs. Go ahead and just fix those pipelines in a draft really well suited to doing so.

What if the league's DCs caught up with McDaniel's offense faster than he (and his roster) have been able to evolve. What if Miami's defensive roster was absolutely gutted by poor management and brutal injury runs. Those things are somewhat outside McDaniel's responsibility. But also, eff him and his unethical owner and the Dolphins overall. They get what they deserve.

Oof.

BUT DID YOU INCLUDE THE PICKS SPENT ON DIGGS

Your explanation continues to evolve and become more convincing, if I'm being honest. I was initially arguing only a strict statistical rebuttal to your claim of "very average" athleticism. The published RAS is nearly a quartile above average. That's irrefutable. However, you continue to erode my faith in that metric for Hawes, and now I'm sad. Thanks.

Was totally kidding, but being way too subtle about it, apparently. You are a gentleman and a scholar.

Hey gang, been offline all day. What did I miss?

Go sign that first guy he hugs! If Jackson is 6'6" 260, then that truck is 6'8" 3 hunjy. Get 'er done, Beane.

Just don't get caught. Depends if his patient gets caught?

I mean, you're responding to a Chiefs fan, so...classic Chiefs Planet really

Problem with your conclusion is that size and strength very much are part of the athleticism equation in football. Being bigger and stronger in such a leverage-based contact sport IS necessarily better. So explosiveness at a larger size = athleticism (in part). He's not terribly fast, for sure. And I guess we don't about agility scores. But being big, strong, and explosive is a nice trifecta for a Y/F TE coming in to block and play teams (and run a few routes here and there).

Unless the Bills can get another year of maximum effort out of Jimbo as he makes his final case for $15-20M AAV in FA. Beane has shown a consistent comfort-level with guys playing on 1-year or expiring deals. I agree that trading him now would be the Patriots/Chiefs method of maximizing value, but there is another way to derive future value while also maximizing that last contract season: play it out. Jimbo can ball out one more time by maximizing his freshness with ~40% usage and earn that deal he seeks. The Bills can get that cheapish 4th year production AND a boost to their 2026 compensatory equation when Jimbo signs elsewhere. Or if he doesn't find his market, they could potentially have him back at a price they deem reasonable (doubt that one). RBs playing hardball while still under contract hasn't worked out GREAT for them in recent history. Cook is dynamic with the ball in his hands, no doubt. Special, really. But he's not a $15-20M guy IMDO (in my dumble opinion™️). One could make the argument that he's not worth it simply because the Bills are still paying too much to many former players who weren't worth it either.

And separately, what do you all think about moving Tre White to S?

Absolute beast in these highlights. Saw him line up everywhere from 1 to 7T. Menace in 2023.

Just depends on how fluently he picks up the full system. McD's defense has had a habit of valuing reliability and consistency (floor) over potential impact (ceiling) when deciding starters, at least in the first weeks of the season.