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I'm probably more critical of McD than the average Bills fan, but to have him at 22 is laughable. I think he's closer to 10th best than 20th. Ross Tucker says that McD has inexplicable losses to bad teams in the regular season???!! We've lost 2 games to teams that finished the season with a losing record in the past 3 years. Reid and the Chiefs have more losses to teams with a losing record in the same time frame.

1) McD did call timeouts prior to both the 19 yard play to Tyreek and the 25 yard play to Kelce. Not to mention a lengthy break between the TD to take the lead and the kickoff to think about what to do on defense for 1 or 2 plays. Having and using timeouts there is a big reason I view this as one of the worst coaching failures in NFL history. McD/Frazier had ample time to think about what they wanted to do and they settled on a prevent defense....twice.... 2) Where did you hear/see McD was screaming on the sidelines about defensive formations? By all reports I've read he never blamed the loss on anyone publicly, just saying "we need to execute better". If you read between the lines it seems he scape-goated the ST coach as he wasn't brought back and was blamed for miscommunication on the kickoff (touchback vs short kick). Personally I think McD and Frazier were terrified of losing the game to a long Tyreek TD after giving up that 64 yard TD to him with 1:02 left in the game. They got tunnel vision on not losing to 1 big play by Tyreek and instead cost us the game by allowing the Chiefs some very easy plays to go down for a tying FG. We lost the OT coin flip and the rest is history. Agreed that the defense has been awful for 3 straight postseason losses. I HATE the bend but don't break. Works great against the Skylar Thompsons of the world but not so much against the Mahomes/Burrows that you'll need to beat to win a SB.

IF he gets cut and IF he wants to come here for near vet minimum then sure. No reason not to bring him back as a depth guy. Those are pretty big IFs though.

I'm normally on the side of letting the process play out in court before judging a guy, but he's literally on video forcing himself on that woman. It's impossible to watch that video and conclude anything other than Jackson Mahomes forcibly kissed her. There's no "context" that makes what he did ok. My only question is how much (if any) jail time he'll end up with.

There's a reason only 5 teams have a line at 10.5 or higher. All it takes to hit the under is one key injury, one bad stretch of games, or some unlucky bounces in close games.

It's always fun to play the "what if" games, but I don't think about the 2017-2018 playoffs very much. That roster was hot garbage. Replacing Tyord with a raw Mahomes would've improved the team a little bit, maybe even enough to win the Jaguars game. Beyond that though? What are the odds of us going to Pitt and scoring 45 points in the divisional round? Or going to NE for the championship game and winning there? Any given Sunday and all that, but I think there's less than 1% chance we would've made the SB that year with a rookie Mahomes playing.

I think it's a decent question if the Bills neglect the offense (again) in this draft.

10.5 is a pretty easy over. Even with the DEF getting worse and the division getting better (although if Jets don't get A A Ron how much better will they be) I have a hard time seeing the Bills not make it to at least 11 wins. Injuries could happen I guess but that's a risk for every team.

Basically every short yardage back we've had in the McBeane era. Michael Tolbert, Frank Gore, and Zack Moss.

The hype for Jeudy doesn't match up with his results in the NFL. 3 years in and he has an abysmal catch rate. Hasn't topped 1k yards in a season yet either. He's had bad QBs and injury issues so there's still a lot of potential, but this has to effect his trade value. I think our 2nd rd pick would be fair. Maybe Ed Oliver + late picks if the Broncos like Oliver.

3 concussions in 3 months is devastating, but it doesn't make much sense for them to make a move this season. Dolphins don't have much in the way of draft capital (lost their 1st due to tampering LOL) and not a lot of cap space. I'd expect them to ride it out this year and evaluate Tua. If he can't stay healthy this year they 100% need to move on. Maybe they could do a Tua + for Lamar trade. That's about the only path I see for no Tua in Miami next year.

Why would a 31 year old be concerned with estate taxes ?

If you told me 4 years ago that we'd have 4 straight playoff appearances and 4 playoff wins I would've been ecstatic and say that McD far exceeded expectations.. The problem is that the 2020-2021 reset my expectations. We had a top 3 QB on a rookie contract. The expectation should really be SB and the best we've done is a blowout loss in the AFCCG. Some bad luck that we played against the Chiefs/Bengals playing at their best, but that's the NFL. The 30mm+ in free cap space that a rookie QB contract gives you is such an insane competitive advantage. If McD couldn't get it done these last 3 years it's hard to imagine he'll be able to going forward.

It's ironic to use the Chiefs as a comparison. They fired their DC (Sutton) after losing to the Patriots in the AFCCG. Their defensive performance in that game was eerily similar to the Bills in the 13 seconds game. Per Wiki: "Sutton had reportedly lost the support of players and coaches who felt that his "lack of adjustments has been a non-stop frustration", so he was relieved of his duties two days after the loss to the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game,[6] when the Chiefs defense twice failed to hold a 4th quarter lead and surrendered several 3rd and long conversions on New England's game-winning touchdown drive in overtime. The overtime drive highlighted Sutton's weaknesses that cost him his job, as the Patriots largely converted those 3rd downs on near-identical plays."

Should link to the actual ESPN article that has a lot of details, and not "amp.thecomeback.com" https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35726691/former-partners-say-dan-snyder-used-team-fund-lifestyle-took-improper-loan-their-approval As far as Goodell goes I think this is the relevant section: The NFL guarantees all debt taken out by teams. If a franchise wants to take on a new loan beyond strict set limits, it usually must get the permission of the league's finance committee and 24 of 32 owners. McCarthy, the NFL spokesman, did not answer a question about whether the finance committee and the 32 owners had approved Washington's new credit line. A franchise owner and a senior executive said Goodell is not responsible for scrutinizing the terms and conditions of loans. However, a team cannot assume fresh debt, which is guaranteed by the NFL, without Goodell's approval. Snyder, on the other hand, sounds like he may have committed fraud. He needed the board's approval to take out a new loan and he never got it (I'm unclear why the bank ever approved the loan though).

I normally wouldn't suggest that Wawrow was trying to skate by on a technicality, but there was an awful lot of smoke about Frazier's contract expiring this offseason after the Bengals loss, AND Wawrow's tweet was a little ambiguous. Now we get this bizarre story of Frazier "taking a year off" with no explanation given.

Tweet from JW in January Couple thoughts: 1) The tweet could be technically true that Frazier's contract had not expired as of Jan 26th, and that it expired today Feb 28th 2) JW could be wrong 3) Other reports that his contract expired could be wrong

You wouldn't need to consider the draft picks traded to get Allen, that's already baked into the value of the 7th overall pick. The Diggs trade would be one that should be accounted for though.

“They are done with Rodgers,” McGinn said, citing his own instincts, his knowledge of the league, and “discussions with someone who [has] first-hand knowledge” of the Packers. HAHAHAHA This "reporter" is citing his own instincts? I know journalism isn't held to the same standards it once was, but this is a joke right?

I'll trust Beane more than random posters on the Chiefs reddit or Chiefsplanet, but I haven't seen a single nice comment about this guy. He's a special teams "ace" that apparently sucks at special teams and made numerous critical mistakes.

I would've liked to see Edmunds sign here at a discount, but I have nothing against Edmunds if he wants to try to maximize his earnings in FA. I'll wish him the best (other than when he plays the Bills). It shouldn't be hard to find a JAG that can do ~80% of what Edmunds does for ~20% of the cost. It also shouldn't be difficult to draft a replacement with the 3rd round comp pick that Edmunds would net us. Of course that would require Beane to actually follow the comp pick formula and not just sign a ton of backup level players to small deals.

I thought sugar high Mahomes was playing hero ball and not taking what the defense gave him. Luckily for him the plays that he tossed up a wounded duck after scrambling were not intercepted.

This might be the dumbest thread I've seen so far this year. How is a sneak specialist worth a roster spot? Hurts is the Eagles starting QB and not eating up an extra roster spot to be a 3rd/4th and short specialist. You're not even making an argument here. FWIW the Bills offense were the best in the league at 3rd down conversions this year.

The playoff game vs the Ravens. Allen had a not great game (which was excusable with the extreme wind) and the DEF balled the ***** out. Guess you could debate if the Ravens are a "good" playoff team. That's the only game I can think of though.

Do you have an AV breakdown by player ? I'm curious how a guy like Spencer Brown rates. As a 3rd round pick just being a starter will look good on some metrics.