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I had no idea there was “Tre to safety crap”, sorry to ruffle your feathers there brother. Touchy subject apparently… Unfortunately, team doesn’t have a starting caliber safety. BTW, quite literally prefaced with “too late for a positional switch”. He’s shot at corner. TRYING him out at safety in the offseason would’ve hurt who exactly? Taken valuable reps away from all world pro Damar Hamlin? Those paid off…

I feel like they should’ve tried Tre at safety. Probably too late at this stage of the preseason for a positional switch, but it’s worked for some other corners in the twilight of their careers. Devin McCourty and Troy Vincent come to mind. I mean, the team needs something at Safety, and I feel like while we all love Tre, he’s likely to be more of a liability than anything else out there on the boundary this year... Unfortunately time + injuries catches up with the best of them sooner or later.

Yeah, I deleted the post bc I had the contract years mistaken, he has one more season guaranteed bc they are locked in to a bad deal. If it weren’t for the price tag, I’m not sure what he brings to the offense that the other two don’t. His production as a pass catcher has been almost non existent, plus Kincaid was drafted specifically to fill that role, and Hawes is almost certainly a superior blocker. But I could see Knox perhaps taking a team friendly restructure/significant pay cut next year to stick around bc of his relationships here and he is plenty fine as a reserve, just not for nearly the same dollars as James Cook.

Yeah, that’s what I get for trying to look up the numbers myself and refusing to use Chat GPT or Google AI… thanks for clarifying.

Devil’s advocate here, but why should it really matter? If the NFL actually cared about anything other than printing dollarbucks that would be one thing, but it’s just a corporate entity only concerned with the optics and PR of the situation, not rehabilitating Rashee Rice as a person or the safety of the community. Unless it has an impact on the actual integrity of the game (betting, PEDs, spygate, SA and even then they let Watson back, etc), why not just let the law handle the legal stuff? As a fan, I just want to watch the best players on the field on Sundays, if they veer into the wrong lanes in their private lives then shouldn’t whatever punishment they receive through due process be sufficient? I mean if Ed Oliver crashed his horse and fled the scene, I think we’d all be feeling the same way…

Tone it down… Hijacking a thread?… Surely you can’t be serious… This place is stiffer than a catholic priest at a Chuck E. Cheese’s.

So you’re only allowed to look at the successes and not the misses, got it… I expect Beane’s scouting department to do a better job of not blowing high end draft capital on a regular basis. Or we can keep pretending that this team contends for anything whatsoever as it’s currently built without the generational unicorn that is Josh Allen under center… it’s a decently built team with a decent head coach and arguably the greatest QB ever to take the field. If Beane and McDermott landed Baker or Darnold instead of backing into Josh are they even in Buffalo right now? Point is I’m not going to blow smoke like Brandon Beane can’t frickin miss when really the only bullseye has been Josh Allen, and a kudos on building up the OL… But am I wrong expect him to hit some drafts out of the park every now and again? Rather than resting his laurels on the fact that he’s the guy who drafted Josh Allen. I’m supposed to sit here and make a big deal bc the guy extended a running back? He has Josh Allen and zero Super Bowl appearances at this juncture in his tenure with the Buffalo Bills, by my measuring stick that’s underperforming when we all know who and what we have in 17.

Sorry, I don’t live around here, and didn’t realize there were hard and fast rules. Clearly it’s your panties wadded up in those cheeks… That trade for Diggs was a good thing in hindsight? You’d rather have a few good years of Diggs at top dollar than the pick that was ultimately Justin Jefferson for the entirety of his prime? Shouldn’t we be able to trust that if a Beane is the wizard everybody you say he is, he would’ve surely drafted Jefferson in that spot, right? Didn’t realize it was a crime to get sidetracked a bit and deviate from the riveting discussion of “Go Bills!” And “ Nice, great deal!”. ADHD happens, if you get that butthurt about it, gloss over to next “In McBeane We Trust” post number #5437… FTR, I hope Coleman goes for 1500 and 12 TDs and makes me look like an absolute clown. ”Go Bills”

Strawman much? I may have gotten side tracked a bit, but all I said was I don’t think Beane has done enough to draft playmakers around Josh. I’m not even sure how I got off on that tangent, ADHD is a helluva thing, but my entire point was while I’m happy he resigned Cook, it’d be nice to have more playmakers to resign, but there isn’t bc he doesn’t draft them, and he’s missed some golden opportunities, IMO. Nowhere did I say failure, I even used the phrase “top tier GM”. Apparently we just need 20+ pages of “Way to go Beane!”…

“Der Der Madden Der Der….” Eight draft classes to surround Josh Allen with weapons and in 50+ draft picks he got James Cook and Khalil Shakir… I mean, I guess only in a fantasy video game could one fathom to possibly somehow manage to draft another WR or two worth a 💩 in the better part of a decade… Beane is definitely a top tier GM. Doesn’t make him perfect, I think his approach to drafting WRs, or lack thereof, is flawed. Personally, I’d rather draft guys in the first 3 rounds rather than pay “jags” like Samuel 7-9million a year.

Teams move up and down the draft board all the time, especially in the late 1st. You think teams are just icing out the Bills? If Beane wanted to move up, he could have, especially with the extra 2 from the Diggs deal.

I see a lot of disagreements not a single counter point. Typical. Kincaid is on bust trajectory as of right now. Can he change that, absolutely, but the odds aren’t in his favor at this point. Coleman failed to impress, especially compared to all the guys I mentioned drafted around him. Sorry, I know, people are big on the hopium this time of year so the truth doesn’t really jibe with the vibe, I get it. Beane has routinely bypassed quality WRs and the only WR he has drafted in 7 years who is a quality NFL player and overplayed his draft status is Khalil Shakir. That’s it. I understand he has built a great O L, not taking that away from him. Point still remains, when it comes to DRAFTING WRs and apparently pass catching TE’s, it’s not what he does best. Im glad he resigned Cook however, and the fact that when he does get it right, he makes sure those guys stay in Buffalo. I just wish he got the WR position right, or tried to address it more often, rather than say taking Cody Ford ahead of AJ Brown and/or DK Metcalf. That one always gets me because they took Knox the next round so they clearly were scouting Ole Miss. And while some want to point to the Diggs trade, at the end of the day, is this team better off for it? The fact that best WR in football was taken with that pick? The ensuing drama? The wasted dead cap remedying that drama?

Beane would trade Kincaid and Coleman for BTJ faster than you can say Orenthal James Simpson.

Yeah Coleman was about as wrong as a pick gets at this point. I can’t imagine it would’ve taken a kings ransom to jump the Jags for Brian Thomas, the guy many of us had our sights set on. Then Worthy seems exactly what this team needs, no no no, KC you take the field stretching burner, I’m sure we won’t regret that in the AFC Championship… It means Ladd must be our guy, I mean the skill set is a bit similar to Shakir, but I can’t see the problem with having two guys who get consistent separation… Nope, its the guy with sloppy route running and no separation, but he can high point a ball…yay… Don't get me wrong, I love this team, but drafting weapons for Josh has not been exactly Brandon Beane’s forte.

And to your point, he hasn’t taken a beating like between the tackles runners such as Kyren do. Cook wasn’t exactly a workhorse in college, he’s done a good job of staying healthy at this level, he’s still almost as young as Tremaine Edmunds, and his usage rate suggests there is more than enough tread on those tires for him to stay productive throughout the entirety of his extension. I think people are wayyyy to stuck on the “every down back” stuff. Cook maximizes his touches, because as you mentioned the guy is just a playmaker. With the schedule already at 17 games and barreling towards 18, the sun is setting on the days of the “every down back”. Even Bijan gets spelled a healthy amount by the downhill stylings of Tyler Algier. Thats what the Ray Davis’ of the world are for, to live between the tackles, and while I love the way Ray runs, Cooks skill set is much more dynamic and adds a dimension to the offense that you’re not going to get with Davis or Johnson in the backfield. Can’t play three downs, is different from don’t need to play him three downs. Why burn him out and risk injury if you don’t need to? Letting him walk over 2 million dollars of not your money is crazy. Who are the Bills signing for that extra 2 million that makes a difference in winning a Super Bowl right now?

If they can’t come to terms, perhaps Cleveland or Dallas would give up valuable draft capital for the right to overpay a running back. I mean, if any teams would, and both are very much in need… However I hope they keep him, even at a slight overpay, it’s not worth breaking this team up as it teeters on the precipice of greatness, simply to stand on the principles of “we’re not overpaying running backs”. Figure it out, kick the can down the road, win now.

Especially when you consider all the money flushed down the toilet just paying Stefon Diggs to simply go away… I get not wanting to overpay the guy, but as you pointed out, going a mil or two over isn’t the end of the world. It certainly isn’t as bad as taking a dead cap hit of $31million, and even then still ending up few bad calls and a Kincaid drop away from the Super Bowl.

As PFT pointed out recently about players in contract years, I’d be more worried about him sitting out the playoffs as without a new deal there is very little incentive for him to risk injury in the post season. Somebody is going to do it eventually in a contract year/under the tag, just like college players sitting out bowl games became common place.

So apparently Nick Foles > Josh Allen?

Again, we’ll never know what happened between the two, but it certainly doesn’t seem like an orchestrated extortion put in to motion 4 years ago… I’ll reserve my judgement but her words sure feel authentic.

Says somebody who’s clearly been a victim of sexual assault… Food for thought, quick google search says about 7 in 1000 rapes actually results in a conviction. Also, estimates suggest 1 in 6 women have been a victim of SA, or attempted SA. Think about how many women y’all have in your lives, and do the math. Then think about how you’d want them to be treated, considering how incredibly hard it is to get a criminal conviction on SA even when it is reported. Approximately 28% of SA are actually reported to authorities and this trickles down to a paltry (less than) FOUR % conviction rate according to NBC news as of this year… So all these people speaking in absolutes about her “money grabbing” or whatever, stuff like that is part of the reason a large number of these crimes go unreported in the first place, immediate victim shaming without having ANY details. Best to just have no opinion rather swerve way outside your lane recklessly. Nobody knows the accuser, knows the situation, and you wouldn’t give a flying 747 about any of it, if the guy didn’t have a bleeding buffalo on the side of his helmet.

That’s being awfully generous to the Fish, I think they’ll be drafting top 5 next year. Pretty void of any elite talent, Hill is about to be dust, his fall off relying on sheer speed will be precipitous. Plus McDaniel has lost the team. He’s a smart guy, good offensive mind, definitely not a head coach in the NFL however. Things are going to get ugly down there quick. They’d be smart to trade Reek and whoever else they can now while they still hold some value, rather than taking bargain basement deals come week 7 or 8. Steelers you are right, still going to be hovering between 8-11 wins, like they do every season. This trade and Rodgers don’t move the needle in that division.

He’s a more athletic version of Gabe Davis with better hands… Josh will make it work if Keon stays healthy. I think we’ll see him emerge as a consistent redzone presence this season. I’m going over 6 TDs on the season, feels like 8-9…

$500, what’s that like a bag of groceries now? To screw over the entire Bills fanbase, it would probably take generational wealth.

The run heavy scheme only stopped working when they decided to telegraph our short yardage gameplan was one single solitary play, a sneak to the left… if any of those are fake sneak, toss to Cook, Super Bowl…