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No they didn’t. They traded a sandwich pick between rounds 3 and 4. It was the 100th overall pick in the draft. He didn’t pan out long-term, but he did catch a TD pass in the 4th quarter of the Super Bowl and later had the longest punt return in Super Bowl history (65 yards) to set up another TD.

I’m a Chiefs fan, so obviously I hope you’re right. At this point, simply being a capable WR is a win. Anything above that is just a bonus.

Absolutely. Rice is a much better player at this point in their careers. He was easily a top 20 guy before his injury.

The Chiefs lost Hollywood Brown and Rashee Rice to injury before bringing in Juju. Now Juju is injured. This move has absolutely nothing to do with Worthy or Rice’s ability and everything to do with injuries. Giving up a pick at the bottom of the fifth round is nothing. Last season the last pick in the 5th round was number 175 overall. If anything, this makes the Titans worse. Kansas City owns their third round pick. If dealing Hopkins causes them to win one fewer game, the value gained from the third round pick moving up will be worth as much as the cost of a pick at the end of round 5. Then there’s the potential for a comp pick since he’s now a UFA after this season.

The Chiefs lost Hollywood Brown and Rashee Rice to injury before bringing in Juju. Now Juju is injured. This move has absolutely nothing to do with Worthy or Rice’s ability and everything to do with injuries. Giving up a pick at the bottom of the fifth round is nothing. Last season the last pick in the 5th round was number 175 overall. If anything, this makes the Titans worse. Kansas City owns their third round pick. If dealing Hopkins causes them to win one fewer game, the value gained from the third round pick moving up will be worth as much as the cost of a pick at the end of round 5. Then there’s the potential for a comp pick since he’s now a UFA after this season.

I'm pretty sure Travis Kelce is getting more than 5 targets in any playoff game that goes down to the wire. I'm also pretty confident that Reid has goal line plays he's saving for when it really matters. That confidence comes from watching it happen every season. They struggle in the red zone all year and then toss the ball to a receiver who doesn't have a defender within 10 yards of him in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl. There is a very real difference between October and January with this team.

I think you're looking at this the wrong way. The Chiefs just went on the road against the 49ers and beat them by double digits even after giving up a garbage time TD, and they did it while performing at a C level. One of the hallmarks of Andy Reid is that his teams don't mash the accelerater until they really need to. He's perfectly content with doing just enough to win.

They should move the coverage team move up 15 yards as well.

But have you considered the possibility that Edwards is a 28 year old career backup who is actually a dynamic player just waiting to explode onto the scene and that McDermott (and Steve Spagnuolo and Todd Bowles) simply doesn’t notice what’s right under his nose?

He’s likely to get $20 million AAV, but he’s the type of player you can replace and get 90% of the production for 25% of that price. If he wasn’t already on the team, I can’t imagine anyone would be suggesting targeting him for a 4/80/40 type deal. It’s possible that the market turns out to be softer than anticipated and he could be had for something closer to $15 million AAV. If that’s the case, I think they’ll keep him.

Rapp won that game for the Bills.

The best version of the modern era Bills was the 2022 squad prior to Von Miller’s injury. They were the best team in the league with a gap between them and anyone else. They had absolute studs in Allen, Von, Diggs, and White. That team could just line up and kick your ass, not because they had no weaknesses but because their elite talent could simply take over games. There were two conclusions that could have been drawn from that season. One was that the team should try to load up on superstars. The other was that the team shouldn’t have put so many eggs into so few baskets. Beane chose the latter. Now Josh is the only truly elite player on the roster, and they’re back to their old ways of beating lesser teams to a pulp while struggling against legit contenders. Keon Coleman is a perfectly good player, and he’s going to have a 10 year NFL career. If there’s some trait that he posseses that says he’s going to develop into a superstar, I’m missing it. Xavier Worthy is a twig. It is entirely possible that he won’t hold up physically in the league. But unless and until that happens, he is absolutely electric, and every single Defensive Coordinator is forced to adjust his game plan to account for the possibility that he could score from anywhere on the field at any given time. Brandon Beane passed on Worthy for Coleman because he was more worried about recouping the third round pick he traded away mid-season for a 30 year old CB (despite drafting a CB in the first round in 2022) than he was with finding a superstar in the first round. Now he’s traded a third round pick for a 30 year old WR (despite drafting a WR with his first pick in 2024). There is an alternate universe in which people talk about the 2022 Bills championship season saying that Von was unblockble, Tre was lockdown, and the Allen to Diggs combination was unstoppable. I simply can’t envision anyone ever looking back at the 2024 postseason saying that Keon Coleman and Amari Cooper were unguardable or that Rasul Douglas erased every elite WR he lined up against. This team is built to win the AFC East. It’s not built to win four straight games against the Texans, Ravens, Chiefs, and 49ers. The difference between the Bills and the Chiefs is Chris Jones…and Travis Kelce, and Trent McDuffie, and Rashee Rice and maybe Xavier Worthy. The Amaris and Jujus and Rasul Douglases and Kareem Hunts are important, but you can’t give up big time draft assets to backfill your roster.

The question was literally whether or not Amari Cooper will be the best WR Josh has ever played with. Of course age matters. If Buffalo signs Jerry Rice tomorrow, are you going to say he’s better than Cooper? Totally agree about not needing to be Diggs in his prime in order to make a huge difference. We’ll see if he’s a #1 WR, but he’s clearly better than anything Josh has had this year.

Diggs’s current age has nothing to do with the question, though. Josh played with him in his absolute prime, so the comparison is 27 year old Stef who was a top 5 WR versus 30 year old Coop. Even when Cooper was in his prime, there was not one poster on this board who would have put Cooper on the same level as Diggs. Just looking at their Approximate Value ratings from Pro Football Reference, Cooper’s career best was 11. Diggs has ranged from 12-15 the past 5 seasons. Cooper has had a great career, and he’s going to help the Bills, but if he were currently better than prime Diggs, he’d have cost a whole lot more than $800k and a late third round pick.

Don't understand this take at all. Bernard jumps off the screen several times a game. He's an absolute stud and the best defensive player on the team.