McBean
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Wrong again. Your on a hot streak there Beane.
That's your opinion Scott.
We will have to let this thing play out.
Sammy wasn't resigning here. Give me the ammo to go potentially end this nightmare. Sammy wasn't winning this team a SuperBowl...a franchise QB can!
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We keep Watkins.." why would you pay that much to Watkins!? Injury prone and no good QB to get him the ball!!"
We trade Watkins..." bad move! He's productive when he's healthy and keep defenses on their heels which helps other offensive playmakers out!! Armchair GM's don't win in this league and draft picks don't always pan out! Disaster!"
Dang if you do dang if you don't. Sad!
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McBeane could care less about marketing. They are legitimately trying to change the culture and follow through on promises they made when hired.
This team is finally putting value on draft picks and acquiring guys that are right fits for their vision.
That's right.
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LMAO he won't lose the team. If he loses the team its because the players are weak. Trades happen all the time, don't want to be here then speak up and beane will ship your ass out.
it is WAY PAST TIME for this to be happening at OBD. Now I feel much better about this team going forward with how its being ran now.
Exactly.
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I'm sure it's minor.
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Peterman with a big day.
Maybe the rookie is gaining some confidence.
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My gosh is it September yet?
People have lost their minds the past 48 hours.
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I dont know what the Rams record will be this year, but they have a lot more potential than you are giving them. They are loaded with offensive weapons right now, a stout D, and a young QB who showed some promise.
If Goff can be even average they will win more than 5 games. And your assessment that Sammy will for sure miss 8 games proves you have literally no understanding or knowledge about the injury Sammy actually had. So let me help you understand...its an injury that take a while to heal and very little can be done to expedite it. But once FULLY healed, its almost always stronger than it was before the injury and highly unlikely to reoccur. He came back to early last year and it set him back. Now its fully healed.
So, in a betting scenario, I would take the over on both your predictions every single time. Sammy wont miss anything close to 8 games this year and I think the Rams will finish with more than 5 wins. I mean they are being gifted 2 from the lowly Niners before the season even starts. However, as you alluded to in your post, it does depend on Goff (who you clearly think is a bust) and his ability to show he has a future as a starter in the NFL.
I can tell you being here in LA, I have liked what I have seen from Goff this offseason. No way to know if he remotely comes close to living up to his draft status, but the kid looks far from an after thought right now as many regard him as.
We won't know for 3 years if this was a good or bad trade.
I'm betting that we came out the winners by a mile. That's where my money is.
We'll see. Only time will tell.
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The Rams will win 5 games this year and Sammy will miss 8.
Thanks for the high second round pick LA and enjoy Jared Goff as well.
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Honestly, the best thing we can do is let Nate start every game this season.
If he looks great, no need to draft QB next year..highly unlikely but still.
If he looks bad? Great! We get the #1 overall pick.
Win win.
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I love McBean but they take Lamar Jackson I'll be very concerned about this regime.
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Geez man the Bills don't suck.
I don't know where you're getting this.
Darby sucked last year and Sammy wasn't resigning.
We have 6 picks in the top 90 in a great QB class.
Why again is this a bad thing? I don't get it.
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The Rockpile Review by Shaw66
The Brandon Beane Era Begins
Brandon Beane arrived in Buffalo three months ago. He was the new guy in town, replacing the last new guy, who replaced the new guy before him. Over time, each new guy made his mark on the team, and then he left. He made a mark, but he didnt win.
So Beane took over in May, and now its his turn to make his mark. He did a few deals, nothing very remarkable. It seemed as though wed have to wait until free agency and the draft in 2018 to get a sense of who this man is and what his team-building strategy looks like. Or so it seemed.
Less than a day after an ordinary and uneventful preseason opener, Beane reshaped the 2017 starting lineup and set himself up to build the team that he and Sean McDermott envision.
In separate deals, Beane traded Sammy Watkins and Ronald Darby and filled their spots in the lineup with quality starters. He also banked second- and third-round picks in the 2018 draft.
Yesterday, we could only speculate about how and what Beane and McDermott want to build. Today, its pretty clear.
1. They want to build through the draft. Beane confirmed it in his press conference. Why through the draft? Because drafted players cost less than free agents; acquiring less expensive players means more players under the cap with the talent and skills McDermott wants.
2. McDermott is confident that system trumps talent, that a lot of good players playing in the right system will beat great players whose talents force the team to adjust to them. He knows Watkins is better than Matthews and Darby is probably better than Gaines, but he also knows that Matthews and Gaines plus the two guys the Bills can draft next year are probably better, collectively, than Watkins and Darby.
3. They think they need a true franchise quarterback, not just a good quarterback. Taylor may be a good a quarterback, but he almost certainly isnt a franchise quarterback. Are they done with Taylor? Not necessarily. But the deals put the Bills in position to go after the QB they want if Taylor doesnt make major strides this season. And if Taylor has a good but not great season, dont be surprised if the Bills trade down again in 2018, stockpiling 2019 picks so that they can have one more year to look at Taylor.
4. Theyre students of the Belichick way. Belichick trades his top talent rather than pay it. He can afford to pay a GIllislee $4 million because he isnt paying anyone other than a QB $14 million. Beane and McDermott will take a good role player (Matthews) over a better, but costlier star (Watkins). Belichick stockpiles draft picks, often trading down. McDermott traded down in the 2017 draft, instead of trading up for a Watkins. In every practice McDermott puts his players into a particular game situation tells them the situation, tells them how to respond, puts them on the field to practice it. It was reported as innovative, but Belichick has been doing that for years.
5. The Pegulas have turned this team over to Beane and McDermott. The deals were bold moves, and Beane must have gone to the Pegulas, if not for their prior approval, at least as a courtesy. A GM that didnt have his owners confidence might have been told to cool it, to hold on to the guy who, at least on paper, was your biggest star. It seems the Pegulas response was its your decision.
6. Doug Whaleys approach to his job was to acquire and keep talent. He proudly announced that he had his top six, the highly paid guys who will lead the team: Taylor, Glenn, Watkins, McCoy, Dareus, Gilmore and Hughes). And in truth it wasnt a bad collection of players. But Whaley never articulated, and his acquisitions never revealed, a greater plan about how to build a team. He was hampered by having had a coach (Rex) and maybe another (Marrone), who also didnt have a well-defined strategy. The GMs and coaches, to one extent or another, seemed to think it was enough to get good players and coach em up. McDermott and Beane have a plan; they have an idea of who players fit the plan. (Sounds a bit like Belichick, doesnt it?) Gilmore didnt fit, not at that price (he may be a fit in Belichicks, but not McDermotts). Watkins didnt fit, not at that price. Hughes, Dareus, Glenn, Taylor, McCoy all have gotten the message.
7. Beane may be young, but hes in charge. He handled the press conference like a real pro. Straight, on-point answers to some questions, always positive about the players he decided to trade while emphasizing that in return he got players who can play, and flatly and directly declining to answer questions that reveal his future plans.
8. Beane may be young, but like Whaley, he isnt afraid. First time GM, one of the youngest in the league; a lot of guys in that position would have backed away from the table and just let 2017 play out with the hand he was dealt. Not Beane.
9. Weve heard a lot about how the Bills will be running a variant of the west coast offense, with an emphasis on possession passing and strong running. We saw a lot of short passes in the preseason opener. The acquisitions of Boldin and Matthews reinforce that view. Big targets, possession receivers. The trades scream that the Bills want to be effective, not flashy.
I hated to see Sammy go. Hes a special talent, and its so much fun to watch special talent perform for the team I root for. Itll be brutal to watch if he puts up a monster season this year, and he could.
But I like the moves. I like them because the team may be better this season (and in any case not terribly worse) than 2016, and I like them because the moves should make the team stronger going forward.
Most of all I like them because they say that the Bills, for the first time in a long time, have men in charge who have a plan, who are pursuing that plan every day, and who wont be distracted froam the goal. They have men in charge who have the full support, emotional and financial, of the owners. I like that.
GO BILLS!!!
The Rockpile Review is written to share the passion we have for the Buffalo Bills. That passion was born in the Rockpile; its parents were everyday people of western New York who translated their dedication to a full days hard work and simple pleasures into love for a pro football team.
Great post.
This is the most confident I've been with this team in 20 years.
Yesterday was a great day and we'll reap the benefits for a very long time IMO.
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Watkins is never a sure thing to stay on the field. Darby went south last year and wasn't a fit for this system. We get two, solid players in return that could contribute.
We are doing the right, and dare I say Patriot* thing, with these moves.
The Run game will stay the same and be great. The defense has already improved and I feel Gaines is a better fit for our Defense. As for as the passing game, now Taylor has to prove he is a franchise QB. He can't lock onto 1 WR and hope he gets open. We now have 4 guys at WR who are good. Teams now have to contend with 3 Good WR's, 2 Good TE's, a great FB And one of the top 3 Running backs in the NFL. WR's WILL get open, just like last year, but now TT has to find them and deliver the ball.
I don't see this as anything but positive. AND...we now have 6 picks in the top 3 rounds. We want a Franchise QB? We can now get one if we feel one is worth moving up for.
I just don't see Watkins and Darby leaving changing what our record was going to be or will be. In Fact... It wouldn't shock me if the TEAM can come together and gel, the playoffs are still not out of reach.
Agreed.
Matthews has better stats than Watkins. This scheme fits Gaines and he had a tremendous rookie season so talent is there.
O, and we have 6 picks in the first 90 in a draft that some are saying is the best QB class since 2004.
Sammy Watkins wasn't signing here after this season.
It was a fantastic move.
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Let's judge a guy after zero games.
Makes sense.
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Yes. Heck yes.
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Do you think we try and deal TT to Denver?
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I'm with you on this one. If they axe TT, then I'm going to be incredibly pleased.
8-8 is herpes. It's the formula this team's played for forever.
CHANGE SOMETHING.
Spot on.
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Having picks means nothing if they're not used correctly.
It's nice to have all those picks, but we need to use them on quality franchise building players (something we've failed miserably in acquiring for the past 5+ years).
I agree.
However, Matthews has better numbers than Watkins and Gaines perfectly fits this scheme.
Again, Watkins and Darby weren't signing here.
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Build like the Cleveland Browns build?
Tank like the New York Jets tank?
Sorry -- can't agree with you.
We got a WR that has better numbers than Watkins.
This scheme fits Gaines.
O, and we are loaded with picks!
Watkins and Darby would've walked out because they weren't resigning here.
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I freaking love McBean.
We finally have people with a brain running this organization. This is ALL for Darnold or Allen next year imo.
Ian Rapoport @RapSheet
With the trades, the #Bills have: 2 2018 first rounders, 2 2018 second rounders, 2 2018 third rounders. Thats not a bad way to build.
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I was disappointed the most with the penalties. That's the same crap that went on for 2 years under TrainRex.
It's only preseason game 1, but I hope McDermott cleans that up fast.
Also, Ragland is in deep trouble. He looked awful. Feel bad for the guy.
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We've improved from last year.
With Rex and the clowns in charge we still won 7 games.
Not only did we significantly upgrade our coaching staff, we upgraded our players.
One week Tyrod was throwing to Goodwin and Justin Hunter for crying out loud.
I think we surprise this year.
Here's a bold prediction for you... Bills go 10-6 and Pats don't live up to the hype. Brady starts regressing this season.
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It would be the best thing to happen to this team the past 17 years.
Why not? Both should be safe for ATLEAST 3 years.
What does a miraculous run for a playoff wildcard get you? A curb stomping round 1 on the road against Pitt? We've tried to JUST make the playoffs for years. How's it worked for us?
Until we get a franchise QB, we will be mediocre at best. Look at Tennessee. 2-14 2 years ago and now projected to win 12 games and the division. I bet you would've been pissed if you were a Titans fan after that terrible season.
Have to thing long term Scott! Have a plan and trust the process.