McD and Beane unloaded salary by trading Watkins and Dareus. Here is what most will not accept. The Bills are rebuilding. Everybody is all hyped and excited the Bills are still being talked about as a potential playoff team. Great if they make it because it would break the drought, but if they make the playoffs they will get drilled by whoever they end up playing.
Let me list the Bills needs:
QB
WR
DT
DE
OLB
ILB
CB
That list tells me this a rebuild situation.
The fact that we won 8 or 9 games with a depleted roster was a nice achievement, but it hurt the overall strategy by lowering their draft position.