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Laviska Shenault has 96 yards since 2022.

It’s called the Hokey Pokey round these parts. Excellent work as always

No. The 2020 Bills scored more PPG. That was back when Josh had maybe a top 3 receiving group

FWIW Mack was the 2024 leading WR in snap count. He won the MVP with far lesser number than Lamar Jackson because the NFL world at large recognized him making miracle plays to carry JAGs on offense and keep a bad defense off the field. Sigh

Groundhog Day. Is it even possible to still get mad at this stuff anymore? This is like when the drought era Bills refused to seriously invest in QB for years at a time, and TBD would crow that “we did address QB, we brought in Brian BROHM!” We will have serious problems on offense and throw away capital for a WR rental AGAIN, probably. Then bemoan why we don’t have a third round pick, AGAIN. Contractually, this is not correct. The NFL market has spoken.

I am certainly very confident that we spent almost all of our draft capital on defense this year. Do you disagree with that amateur expertise lmao

Clearly we just need 100% defense 0% offense and that will make the difference of stopping Andy Reid in the playoffs! - TBD on this glorious day

Kiko didn’t win the real rookie of the year? I thought he was runner-up to Sheldon Richardson.

I gave it a B. I think they addressed most of the major areas on defense. Disappointed in offensive investment. Hopeful that the defense will finally figured it out in the playoffs against the Chiefs. Silver lining that if the defense sucks again with an entire offseason dedicated to McD’s defense, maybe his seat will get warm.

THEY PLAY MORE GAMES NOW im so sick of this dumb stat lol I think the point you are missing is that because of Josh Allen, a deep threat WR5 may actually move the needle a LOT more than DT5

Josh Palmer ***** SUCKS

The point was when it came to team-building, even the Pats who were notoriously stingy on WR’s invested more than Beane. So from a team-building blueprint checklist, we don’t have the HoF coach, we don’t have the HoF TE, we don’t have the championship defense, and we don’t even draft as many WR’s as they did, which is the lowest bar to probably clear. Other than that, yep, following the model exactly lol.

Top recievers? Sure. But here’s the WR’s drafted by NE from 2009 to 2013: 3rd 7th 3rd 7th 2nd 4th Compare that 5 year stretch of investment to Beano’s strategy. Even NE with their crappy WR history invested more than Beane’s “blueprint” lmao.

IMO, when discussing the Pats “blueprint,” skipping over the greatest QB of all time, the greatest defensive coach of all time, and maybe the greatest TE of all time, but mentioning “building through the trenches” is probably the WORST way to describe said blueprint.

They had maybe the best TE in NFL history.

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