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Sounds like Beane.

In 2003 he took McGee, Kelsey, McGahee and Crowell. That was also a solid draft.

This should get the homers riled up

The Bengals will be more like 65% offense and 35% defense once Burrow and Chase get paid. Chiefs also just unloaded Tyreek and his huge contract last year. I’m assuming they were over 60% with Hill. The Bills 47% is well behind.

Florio is a Vikings fan. Not a Patriots fan. He’s also one of the best reporters in sports. He rarely if ever pretends to know inside knowledge. He just gives his opinion.

On defense… Bingo. This was Florio’s point. It seems to have flown over several people’s heads.

You're a marketers dream. I'm not saying Pegula is a terrible person or anything, but your perception of him and the organization is from the marketing job they have done. They have done a masterful job of controlling the media. Everything from suspending a reporter because he mentioned the players that were practicing with the 1st unit in training camp, to McDermott cursing out a reporter before a practice for writing a negative article, to PSE getting a reporter fired for negative takes. Even WGR dares to say a negative word, as PSE controls the contract given for sports games with WGR. PSE runs Buffalo's media with an iron fist. It took a completely independent and non-local news organization (the Athletic) to publish information that many people around Buffalo knew about. Boston sports media has outwardly laughed at the softball questions our reporters give to our teams. Two sources even said that McDermott was concerned that the PSE culture would infiltrate and affect the Bills. From the article: “Toxic culture” was the most repeated phrase from those interviewed. They detailed being overworked because of continual downsizing while dealing with chain-of-command breakdowns, poor communication flow and interdepartmental disorder. “I used to feel proud to tell people I worked for PSE,” said a current employee. “Then there was a point I just had to force a smile when talking about my job. Now, when people ask me about openings, I tell them not to apply.” Two sources close to Bills head coach Sean McDermott say the January meetings left him concerned about low morale eroding the culture he and general manager Brandon Beane have cultivated over the past three years with a meticulous, holistic attitude." link

I’ve mentioned this before, but people are so stuck on defending anything the Bills do that they refuse to see the problem. We are spending nearly $1B in taxpayer money for a stadium, PLUS another $100M per year for renovations, PLUS we get downgraded to the smallest stadium (seating capacity) in the NFL, and there is no protection that i’ve seen, stopping a wealthy owner from doing a buyout and moving them. Its such a bad deal.

It wouldn’t shock me. Ive always been under the impression that Kim would be the full-time owner for the next 30+ years as Terry is in his 70’s. If Kim does not come back, that leaves the running of the tram to his children. Only 1 of which i’ve ever seen involved with the Bills in any meaningful way. How do we know him? How many times have you met him? I have only once. I don’t know him at all. Reporters likely know him more than fans do. We only see his public persona.

As I said, that isn’t cash. It’s counting the new infrastructure (such as roads) required around new Walmart stores, employees getting public assistance, tax credits, etc. Not cash given to Walmart by the government to open stores. Not even remotely relatable to the nearly $1B in cash equivalent the Bills are receiving.

McDuffie missed around 40% of the season due to an injury. Thats part of the reason the KC pass D was bad. But McDuffie himself was very good. It will take tremendous strides this upcoming season for Elam to even catch up to where McDuffie was last year.

With those coaching staff, I don’t see it. We were decimated at CB last year and there were stretches where Elam struggled to see the field more than 1/3rd of the time.

Why does it not surprise me that the Bills allegedly want another tiny receiver.

Yep and if you watch the behind the scenes footage of when the Chiefs moved up, the shock on Beane and Grays face was incredible. I'm actually surprised they didn't edit that part out. Beane also said that Elam was the last player with a 1st round grade on their board. Which either means they had McDuffie graded higher OR they had McDuffie as a 2nd round grade. Which might be even worse, considering how great of a rookie season he had. A friend of mine who reports on the Bills say the Bills had the players graded fairly evenly. Taking that info into account, combined with what Beane said about Elam being their last first round grade, plus the video of them being shocked when KC moved up, tells me that the Bills would have taken McDuffie.

Denial isn't just a river in Egypt

Some posters will deny this, but I 100% believe that this is what happened. Bills wanted McDuffie.

Immediate impact with a WR? I wouldn't be so sure, at all. Diggs & Davis are locked in at the top 2 spots. Shakir is #3. Hardy is locked in at slot. Only chance a WR gets on the field much is if we are in 4 or 5 WR sets. Look how little we used Shakir last year.

Not a natural route runner, sure, but pass catcher? Dude has amazing hands.

The more I research this player, the more I like this pick. A monstrous 6'7 player that some people think could even be a linemen if he put on weight, but runs a 4.5 and has incredible hands. Is a powerful blocker, so would help our average o-line, and huge frame for contested redzone catches. I would much much much prefer the upside of this player (he could take the league by storm, ala Gronkowski) over another standard 6 foot WR, that even at full potential, isnt going to be much better than "good". EDIT; 4.6 actually - not 4.5

That’s the thing - I don’t see any round 1 talents past pick 23 or so. We are getting bad value either way. No way Hyatt is even a #1 pick in many draft years. In fact, I think there is a good chance he slips to the top of the 2nd round. I think Washington goes in that 25 to 42 range. Not very often is there a gargantuan 6’7 tight end that some think could even be an offensive lineman, but also has incredible catching skills (even if underutilized in college). I think he could eventually be much better than Knox, and may take the league by storm. edit: Matt Miller says there are only 19 first round talents in this draft. So maybe I was being optimistic by saying 23.

Great work as usual, but i’d rather have even Darnell Washington over Hyatt.

Well said. It completely lacks charm. A truly terrible design.

Source? Don't think that happened. You might be able to find money going towards improvements of roads, or tax credits - but I see no evidence of the government giving Walmart billions to build stores. Again, source? This is much much much much different than cash. Getting a tax credit to reduce the tax burden on a businesses land to incentivize them to come or stay, is way different than handing them a check for nearly $1 billion dollars.

Brady had won 3 Super Bowl’s before the DB rule change occurred and before the league began to crack down on QB hits. Thats the most impressive part. Brady won SB’s in BOTH era’s. Remember when Nate Clements knocked Brady’s block off? One of the most savage QB hits in memory and Brady won the SB that same year.

Nothing against Montana, but anyone downgrading Brady is just hating. His sustained excellence for 20 years will never be seen again.