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But where did those picks come from? Shrewd business. Not because they sucked. Again, excuses. The draft is insanely important, those who get it right, win. Those that don’t, lose. The Bills lucked out that Cleveland and NYJ took lesser QBs ahead of them and Allen fell to them. Without that, the team would still be a joke and the regret of trading away Mahomes would still burn strong today.

Stop with the excuses! The Bills manage to find most of their talent in the 4th round and down. Guys have been available that would have been stars, but the Bills passed on them for the duds we have. The talent evaluators are missing horribly on the top part of the draft. Even the year they had pick 10, they take Oliver and miss on multiple pro bowl Days who are all far superior. They just don’t get the job done, period. The Eagles are vastly more talented than the Bills, same draft area, the Chiefs pick after the Bills, still more talented, what’s the real deal?

Well it’s also up to the scouts to get it right. The Bills are one of the absolute worst performers in the early rounds of the draft and that’s a fact. I’d take Jerruh Jones in the first 2 rounds over these clowns.

The Rams need a Stafford replacement, Steelers would be better than Buffalo, Seattle isn’t locked to Darnold for long, there’s Minnesota, etc. Allen had plenty of places to succeed, this team is NOTHING without him.

No, this is what happens when you get no impact from anyone above a 4th round pick in the draft, year after year. The last time they had a top 10 pick, they got about the 5th best player at the position. It’s terrible college evaluations on the high end, whoever evaluates the late round guys needs to be the guy taking over the early rounds.

At least 96 keeps flashing.

I’m convinced this may be the weakest coaching staff in the NFL. McD is mid, the rest should be unemployed.

This D is so pathetic.

Was a steal in the third!

They will get way cheaper, I went to the game last year, watched prices for months. I would up with club seats on the 50, first row of the box for less than the upper deck prices when I started looking. Arguably the best seats in the house for less than nosebleeds, don’t panic, they come down a lot.

I’m not sorry, but that’s patently false. Gronk is a first ballot HOF TE, they had Hernandez who was better than both TEs on this team for a couple years. Welker is also likely headed to the HOF and better than Shakir as been thus far. Unless you are delusional enough to argue there are future HOF guys playing on this team, which is just not real, this argument holds no water.

With everything we’ve seen from Jackson, it would be a huge loss.

The guy has been awesome, but if he were here, we’d be complaining about a 4th round ( or 3rd to actually get him) who never plays.

BC Wilson is trash AND an #######.

I agree with everything you said and to that last point, Josh has looked off the last few weeks. I see what you are seeing, he looks like he’s losing patience with the scheme and wants to make something happen rather than “take what they give you”. Peyton Manning said it best, Josh has all the talent in the world, he has to be ok playing boring football if they are going to win. We know Josh is not stupid, he has to see the flaws of the team. It also looks like he doesn’t trust Samuel for some reason. He seems like a last resort even when he’s open. I could be dead wrong about that, but it looks to me like he’s gone back to forcing the ball to his primary guy, come hell or high water. He wants the ball to Shakir or Kincaid, other times he gets fixated on 0 and tries to push it to him. No offense to Keon, but he looks to be exactly what a lot of people here feared, which is to say, just a jump ball guy. I don’t know anything for sure, but I don’t think Josh trusts Brady as the play caller and at this point, I think that’s justified. Some of these plays have zero shot in hell of working and they always seem to come right when they kill momentum. I know some people think he’s amazing, I personally feel he has zero feel for the game.

The resigning of mid tier starters to long term deals at top 10 player money is killing the team. How would you expect to improve while not getting better talent on the field? Not to mention the team is constantly against the cap and has no real game changers outside of Allen and I guess Cook has to be considered one. The years of non-impact players in the draft and resigning all of them has caught up.

All facts.

Is Bosa’s conditioning a question? Seems like the guy is constantly gasping for air.

Pretty obvious that’s not happening, BUT I could see them doing it if they continue to have problems getting over the hump with Lamar at QB. It’s kind of similar to Buffalo if they don’t win.

The positive is it’s early in the year and all APPEAR to be short term. It could be a blessing in disguise, there are a lot of young guys getting meaningful experience against a softer early schedule. You don’t need to peak in October, so maybe, just for once, the injuries won’t haunt the team at the end of the year as it has been seemingly every darn time they have a legitimate chance to make a SB. This year, if anything, the Bills look to be favorites from the AFC to make it, which is a bit of a change and let’s hope they roll in at full strength and break the curse, sending the Ralph out in the best possible way. I think just about the whole defense is in a similar boat, if they didn’t miss the games they were severely limited or went out during key stretches. It’s been really rough. I don’t know, Williams hasn’t been very good and they called him up, not a move up for a game, this smells like something a little bigger. I don’t know if we WANT him on the field, but if he’s earned a spot from practice and what he showed in preseason, then let it rip. He looked great out there in preseason playing kind of a S/LB role. Maybe he can help on 3rd downs at least.

Indy is exactly what Darnold was last year.. perfect storm, but more luck than anything.

No matter how you try to spin it, teams have moved at will on this defense all year long and they have made even the worst of teams look like they have a shot to win. The offense has scored over 30 every game and there hasn’t been a single game where it was a comfortable win. The defense sucks. It’s not up for debate, it’s not even questionable. They are at the bottom of the statistics in everything and they have played trash teams outside of Baltimore. They were fortunate to get the fumble out of Henry, but the O still had to 41 pts to win, that’s not good, no matter how you spin it. I think you are wearing some reallllllly roses glasses, the talent on this D is weak at best. Benford is really good, the rest of the team seeks to be average.

Seems to me he would make an outstanding TE, has the natural build for it and essentially all the measurables one would look for. I think the idea of him playing basketball ball is over hyped. By NBA standards he’s short and slow, he might have fit back in the 80’s, not today’s game.

I’m blaming the guys who got extensions because they haven’t done anything either. Oliver makes about 6 plays a year and is too injured to be an impact the rest of the year. Rousseau feast on terrible teams and gets washed against others, let’s not bother with the LBs they are all made of glass and get bullied like a S by linemen. The whole defense sucks and it’s all starting with resigning mediocre time and time again.

I agree to a point, but why continue to extend your own, when your own hasn’t gotten it done? The only extensions that look justified are Cook, Brown, Shakir and Benford. Look how many extensions have been handed out to the completely mediocre D and explain it to me. Shakir might be overpaid a bit for his production, but 3/4 of the worthwhile extensions fall on O yet the D keeps getting resigned.. why?