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They traded a 4th round pick for Randy Moss, went 16-0 and lost a close Super Bowl game. That would be the greatest season in McD and Josh’s careers thus far, no?

Let’s go one step further. Maybe if EVERYONE makes a leap, we will win the next 8 Superbowls

Beane really had people going with that one lol. He didn’t even make it to May

There is no hope anymore bro. Beane does this to himself every year it seems. Backs himself into a corner. We signed Josh Palmer, a guy who walked from a team with maybe a worse WR group in 2024 to a wild overpay as our “answer.” Its his blind spot and you’ll drive yourself insane hoping he changes lol

Yeah exactly, like last year we signed those solid FA WRs Quintus Cephus and MVS right after the draft.

We went from “half of our later picks aren’t making the roster because of how deep we are” to “we just got so much better at CB7!”

Based on this take, what will be your reaction if the defense gets smoked by KC in the postseason again? I’m not saying they will. I desperately hope they slaughter the Chiefs and make Mahomes miss facing the Buccaneers and the Eagles in the Super Bowl. But when we are saying this is “likely the most talent he has ever had,” do you feel like that means the pressure is on? And a similar vein of performance as the past is a massive failure?

No one loves this draft more than Smoke Brown. His phone may ring again by week 8.

You gotta be past the “Beane’s learned his lesson” cope, right?

The “Shilling” alignment

100% bringing back Coop. Beanes post-draft presser is gonna be like “we wish we could’ve gotten another WR or two but we are gonna keep trying to improve that group in any way possible” Rinse repeat Groundhog Day *****. I wish some reporter with guts asked him about the merits of his strategy of targeting the most expensive position outside of QB exclusively from FA. It’s pathological now. He’s had his heart broken by Stef.

Organizational malpractice, year after year lol.

Are we under operating the impression that Beane and co haven’t tried to build a good defense around Josh Allen prior to this years offseason?

The train never left the station. See you next year

Well sure, but if the answer was “just show up next time” I think we’d have 3 rings lol. The Eagles also changed DCs twice in that time span.

The 2022 Eagles defense led the league in sacks with 70.

The Bills entered the 2025 NFL draft with the following picks in the first 4 rounds: 30 56 62 109 132 They used those 5 picks and others to target 4 defensive players in a row. Hairston Sanders (trade up) Landon Jackson (trade down/swap with Sanders deal) Deon Walker (trade up) This is of course coming off the 2024 draft where we took Cole Bishop in the 2nd and Carter in the 3rd. So that’s 6 defensive players over the first 3 rounds in 2024 and the first 4 rounds in 2025. Is this a make or break year for the defense, particularly in the postseason? Or do you view this is as a longer-term retooling/reloading?

Cutting a third round pick or a 4th round trade up to get them on the PS is not ideal

Huh? Just bar napkin remembering, we got blown out in Ravens1 last season. We were also down double digits for what feels like the entire Bengals 2022 divisional round We only lost one game by 7+ is just completely wrong lol. Not to mention a couple of those games the Bills were down two scores, scored at the end to make it seem a bit closer and lost anyway. Listen, I don’t want to say “run defense means nothing,” but some of our worst offensive performances are at the top of that list. That contributed to losing too. ESPECIALLY on the turnover side of things, which is also super strongly correlated to losses. Baltimore is in the top 10 of that chart like 3 times and has a 1-2 record vs the Bills. Do we think that has anything to do with the fact they are constantly one of the top rushing teams in the NFL?

Correct This is also correct and also the definition of correlation. Not causation. Giving up a lot of rushing yards is associated with losing more. This is an example of correlation. where is @GoBills808, he’s better at this than me at explaining.

You are just defining correlation lol

Well yeah. Rushing yards are correlated with winning. There’s lots of reasons for that. Like teams with big leads run the football a lot. Correlation doesn’t equal causation. Every team is going to have a similar chart. Because a lot of teams losses will also be games they get run on a lot.

Josh has his big RZ target. In all seriousness, I guess this regime does want a tub of goo at 1t. Is Carter on the bubble?

Confused by what you are trying to show me here

If the biggest example to worry about the run defense is a game we “almost lost” (read: won), in the playoffs, I’m just not that worried. I’m not the biggest fan of the Sanders pick but he doesn’t need to get us to top 5 against the run to be a success imo