Generic_Bills_Fan

I feel like there’s only so much you can do with shaky oline/decent WRs/bad running game. The anonymous scouts always make it sound like it’s so easy to just string long drives together with all those deficiencies but chasing the big play might be your only hope of scoring points a lot of the time I’ve used the same to defend Josh at various points in his career so it seems like it’s only fair to give mahomes the same luxury as much as i don’t want to 😂

I think we were all nervous they would retain everyone but dumping mcd and promoting Brady let them bring in some fresh defensive minds and a veteran offensive coach for Brady to bounce ideas off of. Feels like a great move now to me

I think everything kinda fell the pats way last year and they’re gonna regress a pretty good amount tbh. Feels like they’re underselling that to nitpick the bills. pats fans don’t want to see it so they’re only looking at half the equation to question why the bills are favored in most places pats had a generational run of good luck last year…bengals with no burrow and Chase suspended,Lamar goin out at halftime,historically easy schedule because they were very bad the year before, chargers beat to hell in the playoffs, dolphins straight up tanking, Bo nix breaking his ankle the week before the afc championship and so on. It was honestly wild haha you hear a lot of ‘the schedules were only 3 games different’ but it was really closer to 5 games different regular season then they got a huge gift in the afc championship (caused by the bills ironically enough 😂)

Yea that’s fair…should’ve worded it a little differently. I think they signed/drafted a few guys hoping someone could step up into a bigger role at a discount and nobody really did

I think the DC/defensive philosophy shift is a bigger change than any roster building could’ve been. To me you’ve got a qb you know is gonna score points in the playoffs so why not pair that with a defense that brings interesting disguised blitzes and can force a huge turnover when needed at the risk of giving up points that the mcd defense would’ve given up anyway 😂 also promoting Brady gave him the opportunity to bring in a veteran offensive mind to bounce ideas off of. I really think the coaching staff improved a lot and could’ve gotten a similar roster in the past over the top but I guess we’ll see haha

Someone out there had a good article about how bad maye was against cover 6..I don’t think he saw it much until that second half of the bills rematch and then teams started throwing that at him pretty often and they were wildly successful when doing so. If that’s a real weakness and the pats stay in team to beat status they will continue to see more and more of that until he figures it out. Feels like most DCs are a little too stubborn on a regular season game to game basis though and dont mix it up enough. They ran into the team in the Super Bowl that typically runs it the most and saw a lot of it in each playoff game

I’m sure it’s been said but he needed that second superbowl imo and I think he’ll just miss…idk how to justify Russ getting in and Eli maybe not (although maybe they both do)

Palmer could be a good wr3…I think the bills bet on him being able to make the jump to a decent wr1 and that didn’t work out though.. it’ll be interesting to see what happens

Those three different opponents were about as different as they could be though to be fair lol the three teams the pats got were absolutely dreadful and the bills got some perennially great teams. Three games against three good teams instead of three horrendous teams has a huge impact on a division race. I don’t believe bills were second easiest either granted some of that is cuz they got the pats twice..i gotta doublecheck though i had it all in a spreadsheet somewhere 😂. I think if the pats didn’t exist last year people woulda been all over the broncos schedule instead which also ended up being one of the easiest a team has had in the last 5 years or so. The bills were like 6th or 7th easiest last season going from memory. Bears and chargers were two other playoff teams with easier schedules than Buffalo on top of Denver and NE…can’t remember who the other team was

It’ll be interesting to see if teams continue to throw more cover 6 at him. He was one of the worst qbs in the league against cover 6 some teams seem to not sway from what they like to do on defense no matter what but it feels like any team that threw a heavy dose of cover 6 at him down the stretch was crazy successful with it.

I can’t see mcd ever being back in any capacity. Whether by just bad personnel evaluation or what the guy just didn’t really attract any defensive coaching talent and it was always a huge liability when it mattered most

I feel like you’ve oversimplified this a bit personally. With this draft board any gm drafting in the late first needing linebackers and a run stuffing DT badly is trading back. the chiefs,eagles,pats etc don’t give up 75 ppg in the playoffs 😂 I don’t think they were down a second round pick on top of that either like the bills were I really don’t like any of the trade up moves tbh. Really feel like the chiefs have too many holes to be doing it although they did get good players assuming woods returns to his 2024 form. Pats needed a tackle but drafted a LT that can’t run block well when they needed a RT than can imo lemon I’ll guess we’ll see…that’s probably my hot take of the three lol he seems like he could go the ‘slot only that can’t hang outside’ route at an nfl level but time will tell. I don’t think a team like Buffalo without a second round pick and kinda loaded at slot could roll the dice on a trade up for lemon

I think of your 3 lemon would’ve been well received initially because he’s a big name but he didnt even make much sense as a bills trade up target imo when you start to think about it. another mostly slot wr without great physical traits that doesn’t win over the top a ton. Scouts are kinda battling it out over if he can succeed consistently outside at an nfl level… I’d imagine that’s why he fell a bit. Bills were not in a great position to trade up into the mid 1st and their roster has established veterans in that role already. lemon at 26 if he fell that far somehow is a no brainer but if the bills had to trade one or both of their remaining early ish picks with all the other holes it gets pretty dicey. You better make sure you’re getting THE guy if your next pick is like round 5 and lemon mostly played slot so far

I think if you’re trading at least once in the late first it makes sense to trade 2 or 3 total times to get to the early second but that’s getting treated as weird for some reason if your list of guys would be a reach at 26 they’re probably still gonna be a reach at 28 and 31 too

That’s the issue I have with the complaints…even if cooper is good it doesn’t even move the needle unless he morphs into a completely different style of player at the nfl level. Concepcion is possibly gonna have that issue too although they might’ve taken a shot at him at 26

People would’ve complained heavily about two of those im certain…mesidor people were already complaining we were gonna draft him at 26 😂. lemon might’ve been received ok depending on the return.

Y’all are being very strange about cooper when everyone mutually complained about us only having slot receivers all year last year 😂. You want him to spend his only pick in the first two rounds on pretty much the only prototype of player we don’t need Cooper was out once they traded for dj Moore imo

Who did those other two teams trade with to move up if we’re the only ones trading back 😂

What is the deal with cooper lol I’m really not seeing him as a fit on the bills roster at all for reasons I thought this board mutually agreed on during the season last year. The whole roster is slot guys 😂. Frankly I’d rather just take a shot at multiple raw but physically talented prospects than draft a guy that even if he hits doesn’t help the team much based on the current wr room Boston I don’t like either but at least if he develops it’s something they don’t really have much of on the roster. Still could be a Keon repeat though so I can’t hate on passing on that in the first

Genuinely don’t know what this guy even adds to a team with Shakir/dj Moore already. Would’ve been a wasted pick imo. Might work out well for someone without a guy filling those sorts of roles though

I’m thinking he’s gonna start packaging picks to move up and it’ll make more sense but we’ll see 😂

He’s mostly a slot guy in my understanding…this has been a weird night with bills fans pounding the table for guys they already have lol cooper is Shakir/moore but not as good and Boston could very well be slightly improved Keon Coleman We went all year saying no more slot or slow guys and are disappointed we didn’t draft those kinds of guys 😂

Neither of them are a good fit imo and we seem to be avoiding both to me rather wisely if you ask me

Isn’t cooper a slot guy mostly?

Worthy/coleman was a lot different optics wise cuz worthy fit a position of need for the bills and everyone knew that’s who kc was trading up for. This NE trade is them goin after someone we don’t need