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The net of 5th and a 2nd is a 3rd as I understand it. What “general reaction” is another question. Quality reporting. The Bills pick very late in the round as well, further devaluing the 2nd.

What took you so long?

Well, if Mike Schoop says so, it must be so.

Yes. The same people who are bitching about it now would have been bitching that the Bills should have beat NE to the punch. Without a doubt.

Cooks definitely added value, especially considering the Bills had no other option on the team to do what he did. However, his hands were very unreliable. I do not know enough about his career to know if this was an aberration, but I would hope they can do better than a WR who drops half the targets that find his hands.

The stats do not say he is declining at all if you bother to look past a cursory glance at a summary table. There has been plenty of evidence presented in this thread in terms of advanced stats and context behind the last two years numbers if you are interested.

I wonder how many threads we can get started on this?

Well I would say that many of the posts in this thread argue against your point about Bills fans being well informed.

Yeah. Really sucks.

Shavers has a torn ACL and is unlikely to play in 2026.

His production suffered last year with Odunzie being their primary target and Williams being erratic, but he still averaged nearly 14 yards per reception. Moore has been highly productive throughout his career, including under Brady, and has never played with a QB nearly as good as Josh Allen. This move tells me that Brady is serious about a more dynamic passing game. Moore can get open at all levels of the field and is great with the ball in his hands.

And just like that the Diggs era in NE ends, like the wet fart that he is.

I am no cap expert but it is a multi year commitment and most of it is guaranteed. I suppose there is some renegotiation options that might be available that would kick the can down the road on the money and make it more affordable this year, but I would not know.

It seems a bad use of resources to me to tie up so much resource (2 premium picks plus $36m this year) on one defensive player, in a year when they have so many holes to fill. Crosby would be a hard pass for me. If we are going to spend $30 M on a player I would rather it be a WR, shoring up the new defense this year with draft capital and low to mid tier free agents.

I think this is simply an acknowledgement that they have underutilized Shakir. He is certainly not a full time X or Y but there is no reason he should not be getting outside reps much more frequently than he currently does. ( which is in a word, rarely). They should be looking for other ways to get him the ball.