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The guy that fell into The Pit and flipped off the police may have been a neurosurgeon. The guy that's been throwing the dildos onto the field in the past was probably a urologist.

A team can have great WRs but if they don't use them optimally then you'll never get the most out of 'em. Someone mentioned it the other day in a thread, but Allen's going to have to expand his playing to hit the open guys underneath, in the flats, and on the outsides short-medium and we'll be fine. If Brady/Allen don't do that then we leave a lot on the table regardless of who our WRs are. Allen did it best in '21 but still not exceptionally well. All the great QBs have done that well.

Nothing beats the Curling championships.

That'll make Josh a consummate QB. S with you, that's what I've been looking for.

We'll find out more this fall.

White hasn't been a factor during the time period cited, he's contributed zero to our rankings even. Even more fiendishly, besides Milano in the '22 season, maybe we can ask the others why they haven't been able to step up in the playoffs in those past three seasons. Milano also wasn't a Beane pick. IDK, maybe you think they have, which is fine. But their stats in those games speak otherwise. Von Miller in his two playoff games: 0 sacks, 0 TFLs, 0 QB Hits Hyde in his four games: 1 INT (Mac Jones) in a blowout, nothing else. Bernard in his four, pretty much nada. Daquan Jones in his three, 0 sacks, 0 TFLs, 1 QB Hit (Thompson) with a few assists otherwise. That's why. No one's happy with it. Benford? We're expecting him to step up? He's been on a rookie contract making less than Davis did.

No doubt. I'm simply going off of what was publicly reported, BN articles and the like. From a quick google ... Under terms spelled out in a memorandum of understanding between the state, county and team, the Bills could walk away at any time, unless a judge blocked them. If they leave in the first 15 years, they would have to pay the state and county the $850 million invested to construct the stadium and another $13.3 million in capital and operating assistance for every year they occupy the stadium. If the team moved after 15 years, the penalties would “steadily” decrease, according to state officials. https://www.investigativepost.org/2023/01/26/weak-relocation-clause-in-bills-lease/ With the way teams are increasing in value, and given some of the wealth, both municipal as well as market wealth, that simply doesn't seem to be "ironclad."

What, you think that the Pegulas will offer partial refunds? LOL They have a lifestyle to maintain and it's a safe bet that that wouldn't fit with the Pegula Family Values. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ LOL

It's interesting that you say this. McD is heralded as a defensive guy, guru type/expert by some. And while regular season is one thing, playoffs are really another notably more important one. Over the past three years, KC with their 8th, 16th, and 2nd ranked Defense, has allowed an average of 21.9 PPG in the playoffs. Over the past three years, us with our 1st, 2nd, and 4th ranked Defenses, we've allowed an average of 25.8 PPG in the playoffs. KC has faced the following QBs: Allen twice, Burrow twice, Jackson, Hurts, Lawrence, Tua, Purdy, and a washed up Roethlisburger in his last game ever. We've faced the following QBs: Mahomes twice, Burrow, Mason Rudolph, Skylar Thompson, and Mac Jones. 8 of KC's 10 playoff games over the past three seasons they held their opponents to 24 or fewer points. Half, 5, to 21 or fewer. 2 of 6 of our playoff games over the past three season we held out opponents to under 27 points. Mason Rudolph and Mac Jones. FWIW But it's reasonable to question why our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd ranked Ds can't come close to performing like KC's 8th, 16th, and 2nd ranked Ds can. It's not just the offense. It's great that we have top ranked Ds in to win the regular season, but why the massive dropoff in the playoffs. We do not rank favorably generally speaking in relation to all teams in terms of playoff defense.

The cost for the team to leave, as it's been explained, is that all they'd have to do is reimburse the state/county for the $850M given them. Whether that's enough to anchor them here long-term remains to be seen. But given what teams have gotten in the past to move or stay where they've been, and with the overseas market opening up, it shouldn't be beyond comprehension that at some point another locale would offer a package that includes that amount to relocate.

I'm tellin' ya. We'll have to see what kind of rookie production the Draft spits out, but it's doubtful that we're going to get much after June 1st cuts. Seems that we may be closer to pre-Diggs QB/WR production than during the past four years. The one certain thing is that we knew that Diggs could start slowing down at any point, yet Beane made exactly zero signifiant attempts to address it before or even during it occurring. Now they've been forced to trade him, which we learn by the day now how all of the "don't panic, all is well" PR was lies. None of this should have come as anything of a major shock to Beane, yet here we are with our pants down around our ankles on the situation. It will be negligent if we do not draft a WR in round 1.

Davis showed up in '21 at least.

Exactly!

Beane drafted Josh Allen, and for that he deserves credit. Most say we wouldn't be winning without Allen. Stop and reflect on that before reading further. ... the moment that the topic involves Beane not doing such a great job otherwise, he gets defended. We can't have it both ways. This team wins because of Allen. We lose in the playoffs because no other player routinely or consistently steps up then. We've had better or at least comparable rosters in the past during the drought years, we've never had more than an average QB and often not even that. Coaching is obviously implicated as well.

Sadly, that's the hallmark of this era Bills in the playoffs. No one but Allen steps up with any consistency whatsoever.

Beane needs to provide those players and/or McD & Co. need to coach them to get that out of them. If it's a simple matter of simply getting any player(s) to do that, it's one thing. Or is the lack of talented players that are capable of doing that it's entirely another. Perhaps both. Manny people don't see the talent on the field that's capable of doing that.

Uh oh!

Who knows, because he was squawkin', Brady's design, Allen's choice, etc., I'm not sure we know or will ever know. Look, this is a more complex discussion than something with a boolean answer. I take heat for suggesting what it is. But I do recall while watching the later season games, asking myself why Diggs was lined up near the line, when the ball's snapped making a slant into the LBs. That's clearly not his gig. For example. I'd like to take a look at all the targets and where those passes ended up. Not every incompletion is a drop. I don't believe that "drops" are even an official stat, and different sources have different ways of counting them. But allow me to ask, on the dropped pass in the KC game that Diggs is taking heat for, to start, it was underthrown and he had to spin around, but aside from that, did it look to you as if he had lost a step?

Nor is defining and entire season on one or two plays. What I'm suggesting is just what was said, that players don't simply see a one or two year diminishment in play in a week or two, essentially overnight. That's ridiculous. Implied is that there is another reason(s).

It's more likely that Beane works for McD practically speaking, but reports to Pegula formally, with McD working for Pegula more directly. Beane was hired on McD's recommendation. We now have an ongoing conflict-of-interests.

It's unimaginable that he fell off from one game to the next as the narrative suggests. In fact, that's a fool's take. Barring an injury, and throughout NFL history, that's not the way diminishing play works.

Given the lack of candor and extreme secrecy regarding responsibility for massive failures from this staff, you're just coming to this conclusion now? 🤔

It's a great forecast, let's hope it's true. Would be a first for a Beane draft pick though.

Looks like the Chiefs will be in the market for a WR in three weeks.