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Everyday! Multiple times.
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I'm on Team Emmanuel Sanders. Such a cool interview and still enough juice on the field. Wish we had him in his prime.
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3 hours ago, BillytheKid said:
I’ve already said it in another thread. Coleman is the receiver fighting for the final roster spot.
Shakir, Palmer, Moore, Samuels are all making it. 5th spot will be between Coleman and whoever else.
Beane and McDermott were not happy with him. He is not a lock to make the team as many seem to think IMO. Unless he really really makes a jump from last year.
This is flat out laughable.
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7 minutes ago, Nephilim17 said:
I guess it depends on your assessment of certain players. I'm no draft expert but guys I trust liked Royals and Horton who went much lower in the 4th and 5th and we're there for the Bills.
It definitely depends on Beane's assessment. He has a 1rst round grade on Walker going into the season. It goes without saying that they didn't have anything near a 1rst round grade on Royals. As for Horton, he went before the Bills picked in the 5th.
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4 minutes ago, Nephilim17 said:
He used the word "B word" four times in a couple minutes. I know it's not 1950 and that word is semi-acceptable now but that shows at the very least he's quite annoyed. Not unhinged but upset.
I think the fact that Beane and McD in the recent past (was this a talking point last off-season?) said we had to add more explosiveness to this offense and yet we never addressed that is the big point.
Palmer has some verticality to his game and he separates but he's not explosive.
Very, very few people were asking for a WR in the first three picks but there were guys that ticked that box and had good consensus grades there to be had in the fourth or even fifth rounds. It's not binary: you can go D heavy throughout most of the draft and still take a WR in the 4th or 5th. That's not unreasonable. That's what most critical fans are talking about.I get it, and appreciate your reply. Deone Walker in the 4th has 1rst round upside. If he hits, we have a monster. There was no receiver who has that kind of upside in the 4th. He also stated in his presser that they were ready to pick 2 wide receivers but both went off the board just before their picks. He knows better not to reach. He reached with Elam, and fans here will never let him off the hook.
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1 minute ago, HappyDays said:
He can defend his decision making, I'm completely fine with that. I do not like the way he went about it at all though. Bringing up Josh Rosen vs Josh Allen from 2018 showed that this wasn't just him defending himself, he lost control of his emotions. And maybe it was all a planned stunt anyways, that wouldn't surprise me. It just brings unneccessary attention and is the totally wrong approach IMO.
Why is a GM sharply defending his 13-4, two playoff victories, #2 offense in the NFL football team "losing control of his emotions"?
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It seems that some fans feel he intentionally ignored wide receiver. He did not. Look at their pre-draft visits, private workouts, etc. They knew there was a need. He also named two times during the draft where a WR was in play but picked right before their pick (my guesses; Kyle Williams in the 3rd and Tory Horton in the 5th). But he's not going to commit the cardinal sin of reaching. That's what they did with Elam and it was a disaster.
I wanted a WR in the first 3 picks also. But a.) I trust Beane more than myself AND b.) Our defense sucked last year while our offense was elite. I'm glad Kyle Williams went off the board because they probably would have picked him. But there's a reason the draft room was celebrating with Landon Jackson. I'm excited about that guy (and so are they).
A poster on this thread actually stated "I don't care how many points they scored last year." REALLY??!! That's like going to a restaurant and saying the food is great but you don't like the the cooking methods in the kitchen.
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21 minutes ago, LABILLBACKER said:
Dude you're really lowering the bar for your opinion of our DL over the last several years. I'll go on record as saying both Ed and Greg are overpaid based on their production. Maybe sacks are so yesterday, less nuance. The current analytical "lennys" love their qb hits and pressures. That's how we stop 15 until it doesn't work. DQ was worthless last year. AJE is the reincarnation of Kelsay.
The bottom line is we're never winning a SB without at least 1 elite game wrecking player on the DL. Rams had Donald. KC has Jones. The Eagles and Howie find D players who fight. Groot in that last playoff game looked like Diggs in his last playoff game. I appreciate the excellent moves BB has made but he's struggled with DL.
Indeed to much of what you say. But Von was a real swing to get that guy. And now Bosa is the same (hopefully with a different result). Did you watch his presser? That's a guy who knows he can dominate. Only the greats are able to say what he said. And of course they're going to use a 1rst and 2nd on another piece. I disagree with Groot. I think he's worth every penny. It's not a stretch to say he's the best run stopping DE in the league. Ed is maddening. But if you can find the right pieces around him, he's definitely part of the solution...not the problem. Wish he was more Aaron Donald. He's not. Never will be. AJE--c'mon. A late 2nd round pick. He was never going to be great.
I'm such a Beane supporter, it's hard for me to criticize him. That's because the team success speaks volumes. That being said, it's the WR position that I wish he was better at. With the D-Line, the way the draft and free agency has gone, I don't see too many guys he passed on. As for WR, AJ Brown, DK, Justin Jefferson, and Ladd could have all been Bills. But every gm passed on DK twice. and Beane was hell bent on finding a tackle in that draft to protect Josh. As for Jefferson, The Eagles took Jalen Reagor one pick before Jefferson and the Bills ended up with Diggs. So none of this easy. And there's a certain amount of luck involved in team building.
But in Brandon Beane I trust!! That's my motto. He's better at this than me. He's better at this than most other GM's. I think he will find the right mix. To be the last team standing is an ultra-difficult feat. Fans who view non-championship seasons as failures view sports through a completely different lens than I do.
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38 minutes ago, Alphadawg7 said:
First off, Beane only knew about one...having the other come out after the fact is no fault of Beanes, would have happened to any GM in the league that signed Larry.
And Beane felt good enough about Hoecht and his situation to sign him anyway. Again, doing so not knowing that coincidentally a 2nd player was going to also face the same situation.
So how exactly is it embarrassing? Beane made a calculated decision that based on what they knew about Hoecht and his potential suspension, that he still was worth signing. For a GM to be blindsided by a 2nd player in the same position, one he has no prior history with, not only wasn't even preventable by Beane, it literally is of no fault of his.
Again, people are making way more drama out of this than it is. These are role player guys on top of all that, all is not lost, and clearly given Beane willfully signed one knowing this was coming.
Your common sensical, contextualized, nuanced, and unemotional point of view frankly has no place here!
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23 minutes ago, LABILLBACKER said:
When it comes to players on the DL, Beane is an absolute train wreck. He's respectable with the other positions and finding mid round diamonds. But his entire career is marked with failures at DE / DT.
I know this tiring sentiment is the growing growl here on the message board, but it lacks nuance, and frankly...truth. Is Greg Rousseau a train wreck? Is Ed Oliver a train wreck? Was Leonard Floyd's tenure here a train wreck? Was the Daquan Jones free agent signing a train wreck? Harrison Phillips? Even the AJ Epenesa pick (end of the 2nd round with major busts all over the board before and after him) is at worst, less than a train wreck.
Are you upset he got Joey Bosa this year? Von was injured. That's not a train wreck. Are you mad about the rotational guys. The Tim Settles and Jordan Phillips of the world?
So, where are the train wrecks? Boogie Basham. For sure!! Dewayne Carter? Maybe.
I fully acknowledge the line was crap last year. So does he. So he's doing whatever he can to fix it. I also acknowledge that you don't just snap your fingers and it's done. They draft near the end of the first round every year. They have a QB who eats up a ton of the cap. And he has to address every position on the field. He did build a team that went to the AFC championship game last year. And if a very good TE makes a catch that he should make, we might be talking about a parade, not an awful defensive line.
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7 minutes ago, JBI$111 said:
Exactly, it's not like these are the only blunders Beane has made, it's a long list and this is so Billsy! WTF! Ridiculous!
Yes they can be at training camp & the preseason, but they cannot be at the facility once the season starts for four of the six games that they're suspended.
7 hours ago, Victory Formation said:I appreciate your kindness and good attitude but once again, Beane has flubbed the dub in many other areas as well. To me my anger has been accumulating over time. It’s not just one said thing.
It’s trading Wyatt Teller for a 5th round pick. It’s signing Von Miller to a $100M contract, it’s taking Kaiir Elam in RD1.
We can go on and on and on..
Tell me about it. These mistakes are egregious!! Now if we were the Chiefs, then we'd be something.
Even though they drafted;
1. CEH AND Felix Anudike Uzomah in the first round.
2. Skyy Moore, Breeland Sparks, and Kingsley Suamataia in the 2nd round
3. Traded a 3rd round pick for Kadarius Toney
4. Signed a replacement level right tackle (current off-sides artist Jawaan Taylor) to a 4 year 80 million dollar deal
Every GM has these!! Every. Single. One. We went to the AFC championship game last year. It was no accident. They have good players. He picked, signed, resigned, and traded for those good players. Is he perfect? Of course not. But the Bills are drafting 30th. So he's more perfect than the other 29 teams. And don't throw the "it's all Josh Allen" BS at me. The Bengals have Joe Burrow (and Chase, Higgins, and Hendrickson) and they haven't smelled the playoffs the last two years.
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5 hours ago, LABILLBACKER said:
I love how fans are activating their emergency "justification / rationalization mode".
No big deal
Everybody does it
Happens all the time
Just 6 games
Keep em fresh for the playoffs
It's not my money
I love how you are activating your "blaming/gloom-ridden/chastising mode"
Our GM is awful
We are an embarrassment
The season's over
We'll never get over the hump
Anyone who doesn't see how awful this is must be an idiot
If it weren't for Josh, we'd be a Pop Warner team
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The need is for speed. Here's a better question; would you trade James Cook for Marvin Mimms straight up? I think I would.
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3 minutes ago, BringBackFergy said:
What exactly has he done in the last 3 years that leads people to say “Nice!” ??
This is your job for today; Try to make any fan who feels good about bringing in a low risk/high reward player for a year feel like crap about it.
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6 minutes ago, DJB said:
If we had just selected Ladd McConkey at the draft last year when I said to do so we wouldn’t be in this position to overpay and have Coleman who is still
a huge ?
If only you were the GM of the Bills, we'd be in so much better shape.
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3 minutes ago, KentuckyBillsFan said:
I'm sure this will pan out as well as Beane's other FA WR signings
i hope so. if he's as good as John Brown, Cole Beasley, Emmanuel Sanders, or even Mack Hollins....we should be in good shape.
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6 minutes ago, jaybeezee said:
Did we go to the show? Do we have a SB trophy, or even a visit to the show in the years that we've had Josh balling out?
If you've answered yes to any of those questions, please share whatever your smoking/drinking/snorting or injecting with the rest of us, cuz were gonna need it today. Beane is not signing anyone that we deemed good, he fishes for second/third tier guys and over pay them.
You and I see sports (and probably life) differently. You asked your questions. Here are mine;
1.) Is my team either working towards or putting themselves in direct position to win a title?
2.) Is the GM MUCH smarter than me?
3.) Do the moves they make/don't make make sense?
4.) Do they admit mistakes quickly and move to remedy them?
And a personal one for me;
5.) Am I able to move beyond the "you are either a champion or a loser" mentality of sports, and enjoy that my team is damn good?
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1 minute ago, BuffaloBillsGospel2014 said:
Where are you getting this information?Where do you disagree?
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3 minutes ago, jaybeezee said:
That's why Beane and McDermott blew it with Josh on a reasonable contract. I would feel alot better if they knew how to draft top end talent, but they don't, so here's to hoping KC and Cincinnati and Baltimore have some injury issues this year
Tired, lazy take;
Spencer Brown is a top 5 RT
Khalil Shakir is a top 5 slot
Taron Johnson is a top 5 Nickel
James Cook is a top 7 running back
Josh Allen is a top 3 QB
Christian Benford is a top 10 CB (probably higher)
Greg Rousseau is perhaps the best run stopping DE in football
And that's not to mention O'Cyrus Torrence, Tyrell, Bernard, Dalton Kincaid, Dawson Knox, Ed Oliver, etc.
We didn't stumble into the AFC championship game my friend.
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4 hours ago, Jerboski said:
Maybe DK wasn’t the right or maybe he was… what I can’t understand about your logic is running it back, why does that make sense? They have tried running it back for multiple years with the same results: Sean gets outcoached by the chiefs/or nobody steps up outside of Allen really to make a clutch play.. we have seen this what three times now, so yeah I’m not an advocate of running it back because I already know what the outcome will be so do you.
The goal is not to make the afc championship game, we have done that for years. It’s to actually win the Super Bowl while you have a guy like Josh Allen. I see no reason why to run it back when it hasn’t been good enough for years, you have to take chances like the eagles and rams have done
the chiefs are a better coached team than you, and they draft better than you and they actually have guys who step up for Mahomes time after time in the playoffs. We don’t, so you have to do something different
We see sports differently. The Bills' goal is of course to win a super bowl. But that's hard. Should they move on from McD? That's a legitimately good question. I tend to think yes, but I'm also fully aware that wholesale changes can be dangerous. None of this is easy. But I think Beane is a top GM in the league, and his teams continually compete at the highest level. The Bengals haven't been to the playoffs the last two years with an elite QB, two elite receivers, and a DE who every Bills fan wants. Each year is different, so I don't see your "running it back" theme. They completely uprooted the team last year, rebuilt their entire receiving core. And they were the 2nd best offense in football (behind the Lions who we beat). The Cooper trade was a clear "go for it" move on the level of the Rams bringing in an aging Von Miller for half a season.
No GM can win a title by himself. So much has to happen to be the 1 team out of 32 that is left standing at the end. And the idea that the Bills or Beane are failures because they haven't found that perfect storm of elements (which includes luck) is absurd to me. To use each championship run (like the Rams or Chiefs) to nitpick and say "Why don't we just do that?" completely dismisses the nuances, intricacy, and specificity of each team's unique situation, and the opportunities in front of them. My guess is that as long as the Bills have Allen and Beane, they'll figure out at least 1 title. And the rest of the league will scream, "Why don't we just do what the Bills did?"
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3 hours ago, Jerboski said:
The chiefs are not our model and shouldn’t be
we don’t have a HC like they do nor do we draft as well as they do. You can’t beat the chiefs by trying to be the chiefs
we have proven that more than any team in the league
props to Philly for actually going for it and taking swings
I am not on board with you on the draft. Beane, imo, gets cherry picked for his misses and rarely celebrated for his hits. Yet fans semi-blindly are under the impression that teams like the Chiefs knock it out of the park. CEH was an awful first round pick, and if Beane would have done it, he would be flamed relentlessly. How's Felix Aundike Uzomah working out for them? He's shaping up to be their Kair Elam. And Skyy Moore in the 2nd?? And trading a 3rd for Kadarius Toney. They hit on Trey Smith in the 6th just like we hit on Benford. They jumped us for Mcduffy. And they were smart enough to take a center we didn't need at the end of the 2nd. Good on them for Bolton. And of course there's the Worthy trade, and the jury is still out on that, although of course that's looking good for them. But I don't think they draft any better than us. The two first round whiffs alone are egregious.
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1 hour ago, Jerboski said:
Guess you forgot the AJ brown trade as well
shocker
I'm happy to admit that superstar hunting can be effective. It can also be disastrous.
Can you admit that not paying 30 million a year and a 2nd round draft pick for a guy who hasn't gone over a 1000 yds in 3 of his 6 seasons and doesn't run routes well might be good business?
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1 hour ago, Jerboski said:
Guess you forgot the AJ brown trade as well
shocker
And I'm guessing you forgot that the Chiefs traded away their superstar to remain financially responsible and a well rounded team...and guess what...they won 2 more titles without him.
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4 minutes ago, Jerboski said:
Yes exactly like that
So missing one time on Von means never again
how’d it work out for the rams
how’d it work out for the eagles
howd it work out for the chiefs early on
thought so
I think Beane goes for it every year. Again, we were in the AFC championship game last year. He spent first round capital for a wide receiver and traded for a big name (who did not help) at the deadline. Btw, Cooper was coming off a much better season than DK. You mention the Chiefs...what big name did the sign early on that opened their championship window? The Rams are one of the few stories (in 50 years of fandom) where I've seen that tactic actually work. And the Eagles got Saquon. Great move. He didn't cost 30 million and a 2nd round draft pick. DK is a very good player. I don't think a great player. And I don't believe he's the difference between the Bills and a title, especially considering that they'd have no money (and one less draft pick) to fix the defense.
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Joey Bosa's LA home for sale
in The Stadium Wall
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I agree....good house. With a good summer, could become a great house.