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Kansas City was never taking McConkey. He’s 23 years old. Good player, but I wouldn’t expect thank you cards for letting the Chiefs take Worthy…maybe a Namaste card from One Arrowhead drive.

No, I don’t think he falls to 32 without the trade. Back in 2017, everyone here thought the Chiefs had been fleeced because they traded up to pick 10 for a QB that could have been had at 27. Fast forward 6 years, and Sean Payton was doing interviews about how the Saints were going to take Mahomes at pick 11. There’s no way to say for sure that Worthy would or wouldn’t have been there, but we do know that pick 28 was the first of a 7 pick stretch in which 5 WRs were taken. Whatever intelligence the Chiefs front office had must have been pretty good, and I’m inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt. When you’ve got an elite front office (which the Bills and Chiefs both do), I’m always in favor of picking your guy and doing what it takes to get him. Kansas City did that with Mahomes, Trent McDuffie, Rashee Rice, and Xavier Worthy. Buffalo did that with Josh and Dalton Kincaid (who has been disappointing but is still a decent player). When the Chiefs either stood pat or traded back, they’ve wound up with Clyde Edwards-Helaire, Skyy Moore, and Felix Anudike-Ozamah while the Bills have taken guys like Kaiir Elam, Boogie Basham, and AJ Epenesa after either trading back or getting jumped. I didn’t even like Worthy much as a prospect, but the minute we traded up for him, I was much more excited about him than I would have been if we had taken him at 32. Conversely, if the Bills were convinced that Keon Coleman was so good (and it looks like they were right), it was silly to risk losing him over something as trivial as swapping a 4th rounder for a 3rd rounder.

I have been impressed with Coleman. He looks like a hell of a player, and I’d whole-heartedly agree that he was better than advertised until his injury. That said, what could you have possibly expected from Worthy if 9 TDs and 750 yards of offense is less than expected? He’s been the #1 WR on the Chiefs as a 21 year old rookie. The only rookie WR who has put up demonstrably better numbers than Worthy is Brian Thomas Jr. For comparison, Dalton Kincaid and Keon Coleman have a combined 900 yards and 5 TDs. At this point, I’m not sure how DeWayne Carter even factors into the calculus. He’s a 24 year old rookie who will be lucky to make the team next year. Daniel Jeremiah (whose opinion I actually respect more that’s any other draft “expert”) had Carter ranked the highest of anyone I saw at 75th overall. Nearly everyone else had him as a 4th round pick. I’m a rival fan, so of course I love to needle y’all, but hot damn, I can’t believe Beane handed us that pick on a silver platter.

Buffalo didn’t really get “an additional 3rd round pick”. They moved up from pick 133 (4th round) to pick 95 (3rd round). There’s a very strong possibility that Carter would have been available at pick 133.

Where are you getting these numbers? Worthy has 742 yards from scrimmage and 9 TDs. Coleman has 498 and 3.

They did what?

He’s already shown that he’s far better than Levis, and he’s 3 and a half years younger. His absolute floor is Daniel Jones.

I judge young QBs by what they do well as opposed to the mistakes they make. Maye does some things you can’t teach. It’s up to the coaching staff to teach them how to make the right decisions. Maye made a ton of mistakes today, but he was a rookie playing in an extremely difficult environment against an elite team. He’s got subpar talent at basically every single offensive position, and his coach is clearly developmentally disabled. I was impressed with him.

Elam’s the better of the two at this point. Douglas can’t commit PI because he isn’t within arm’s length of the receiver. If Kaiir can just dial the grabbing back a quarter turn, he might get away with some of it in the playoffs where they tend to let you play a little more. Rasul was worn down by the end of last year, and he’s worn down this year.

The Bills played a terrible game against a terrible team. They tend to do that once a year. The difference is that they usually lose this game. All that matters is the result. I promise the Eagles and Cardinals would preferred an ugly win today. An ugly win probably sounds pretty good to the Buccaneers right about now.

Wouldn’t Purdy being sensible mean he demand nearly every dollar he can get? He turns 25 in a week, and he’ll have less than $3,000,000 in career earnings. We just watched Tank Dell’s knee burst into flames on the field. Go get your generational wealth while you can. Those opportunities don’t come along every day.

He’s clearly tanking.

For anyone who complains about McDermott, take a good look at what a legitimately poorly coached team looks like. Mayo is clueless. His players are complete idiots. There couldn’t be a bigger difference between the teams in that regard.

Dude’s playing field position when he’s 3-11 and 15 point underdogs. He deserves to get fired.

The teams look like they swapped uniforms.

It was a joke. Buffalo has several slot receivers who are clearly better than Dotson. That guy’s a bum.

Chicago is about as good of a situation as a first time HC could walk into. They’ve got a pretty good roster and a raw QB who is already putting up historically good rookie numbers. He’s been overshadowed by some others, but he’s on pace for 3,600 yards, 21 TDs, and only 7 INTs plus over 500 yards rushing. He would be out of his mind if he were to take a job in Jacksonville or, even worse, stay in Detroit as the OC.

Chicago is going to go all in for Ben Johnson. They’re going to have plenty of competition, though. He’s going to have his pick of any job available (and maybe even a few that aren’t).

He (Jawaan Taylor) absolutely does it as well. For some reason, the league treats it like delay of game in that they give the Tackles a split second of leeway. It doesn’t make sense to me, but you can’t ask the refs to only enforce it on one team but not the other.

How many times was Dawkins called for doing that?

The clock was stopped before the play due to the penalty. You can’t spike the ball when the clock was stopped prior to the snap.

If he’d spiked it, it would have been a 10 yard penalty.

How do you figure? Buffalo called a timeout. That saved them about 12 seconds. The Rams got the ball with 59 seconds on the clock. If the Bills hadn’t called timeout, that would have been about 47 seconds. They ran 3 plays and used 12 seconds. You’re down to 35. Then they punted which burned the final 6 seconds and would have taken a few more. So that’s about 27 seconds with no timeouts.

The Bills’ win probability went from 9.5% to 8% after that play. The timeout barely impacted the game at all. Even if they’d run up to the line and spiked the ball or snuck it in rather than calling a timeout, they were still going to need either an onside kick or a defensive stop followed by a 40+ yard drive and a made FG with about 25 seconds on the clock and no timeouts.

Josh is going to win, there’s no real doubt at this point. He obviously deserves it, but it’s also pretty clear that the organization has made it a priority to ensure that he brings it home. It’s free money at this point.