Chaos

Was he on the injury report at all last year?

Beane gets a pass for one reason: Josh Allen. It was a brilliant move. With the Josh Allen move included he is an above average GM. Remove the Josh Allen move, and he is a fairly average GM.

We are only four seasons away from asking "will we miss the departed players?"

Change any five players other than Allen on the Bills, and replace them with Jags. Bills still win the division in 2024 Change the GM and the Bills still win the division 2024 Change the entire coaching staff and the Bills still win the division in 2024. So we won't miss any of the departed players. But there is little evidence to expect Beane is going to replace them with players we would miss, if they left, either. Bills feel like they have been spinning their wheels for a while. Top 2 QB. Very weak division. Its a pretty good formula for winning the division. And only narrow-minded people think that is not good enough. Or so I have heard.

Plus Belichek is no longer with the Patriots. So there is that.

I think there is a decent change, 2024 is being viewed as a throway by the Bills. Bills can win the division on Allen's talent, plus the current offensive roster as well. I will not be shocked if the Bills trade down/out of 28 and 60 to load up in 2025. Something like this maybe:

I don’t always agree with you. But this post is correct.

Open Try-outs Draft:

Trust the Process:

It seems clear 2024 is not the target year for the championship. Massive turnover on defense, complete makeover of the WR room, new DC, first full year for an OC, Dline overhaul, no reason to expect Miller or Milano to return to form in 2024. Trading all of that draft capital for 2024 seems to make little sense. The more obvious answer seems to be building up the 2025 draft capital to make a move next year.

Hard to imagine that happening.

Allen is going to rush for 1600 yards this year.

In answer to the question in the thread title. No.

Us old guys don't want to accept, that it is all prepping for 2025, and that 2024 is a "whatever Josh can do" season. Building excltement for PSL sales for the new stadium.

Unless you were in the room, you are only speculating

Since the Bills are a professional football organization, it is almost certain Allen was not involved in the decision. Since Allen is a professional athlete, he certainly understands it is part of the game.

The standard draft chart considers a first rounder in the next year at 1000. Because no one knows in where it lands in the first round. Even the 32 pick one year out is worth more than 300.

This seems wrong.

AFC East is weak. Josh Allen is great. Rest of the pieces will likely place the ceiling at winning the division and losing the divisional round playoff game.

Its the perfect way to lower expectations for GM/Coaching. Only narrow minded people have higher expectations.

Diggs was my second favorite Bill. From a pure asset management stand point maybe this was a right move (although we did not get a second back, we got a second minus a fifth and minus a sixth back) And the one given up was an earlier pick than the second is likely to be even round adjusted. But again, maybe the correct assett management decision. But its hard to see the Bills being better in 2024 than they were in the last couple of years. Given the personnel turnover on the Defense and coaching, plus this, it seems as though we are giving Beane/McDermott basically a complete second rebuild shot

Except for the old guys we are young every year.

Can the heading of the thread be updated to be accurate: "Diggs and picks traded to Texans for second round pick" ? Mixed is charitiable. But I think Beane is better than you give him credit for. Davis and Diggs 2024 performances might illustrate one way or the the other.

In real life, we should expect the Bills to trade this years first and next years two second round picks to trade with the Rams to get this star DT.

Bold 2024 prediction: Bills face Texans in the divisonal round of the playoffs. Josh Allen single handedly brings the team back twice from Q4 deficits. However the second time in the quarter he puts the Bills ahead by 6, he scored too fast, leaving a full minute on the clock. Texans come back to win on the last series with a Stroud to Diggs TD pass. We will have a long discussion how Brady and Allen need to learn to milk the clock to the last play of the game, because we can't expect the defense to hold any sort of lead in Q4 of a playoff game.