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Strong is the superior player, even as a rookie. Tre White was benched by the rams last year; they even paid him to play for ravens. He is a stop gap player at best. He’s a great teammate no doubt, but he suffered two extremely serious non contact leg injuries in the last three years. He is not the same player who once played a rough brand of one on one defense. McDermott, in his wisdom may play White, as once played Humber instead of Milano. But it will cost the team touchdowns .

McDermott seems to love overpaying washed up defensive tackles. He collects them like vintage cars. He brought in Lotulelei from Carolina, just couldn’t stop paying him no matter how little he did. Now Dequan Jones, who was not a $5M player last year either. At least this kid is cheap. They draft two tackles and an end, no pure safeties in sight. Clear out the dead wood coach. “Everybody’s grabbin’ , nobody's tackling…grab,grab, grab …”

Our cream puff safety play is so tiresome. The lack of upgrades through FA or the draft is a failure on Beane and McD’s part. Hancock can play safety reportedly but we haven’t heard anything about his being given any opportunity. The money we have tied up for jags like Jones (trash last year) & Samuel (still useless) should been re-allocated for new safety talent. I never liked the resigning of Tre White ($3M). They over paid him and Hamlin ($2M). Those dollars are wasted. Keeping the status quo was a terrible planning. Make a bold move Bills. Pry away Kyle Dugger or poach Israel Mukuamu (no idea about the kid) from the Panthers PS. Get your pro scouts off their asses.

Our safety play continues to be soft and mediocre. It’s stunning the Bills invested in jags like Rapp, Hamlin, Lewis. Bishop is not impressive at all. They should have drafted a top four safety ‘25 rather than Sanders, or Jackson. Since you brought back the marshmallow boys you now need a banger. Instead of wasting $$$ on Dequan Jones and Curtis Samuel, go get Kyle Dugger. No senior citizens. The rams are loaded at safety. Make a deal Beane. Don’t tell me a new player can’t learn the system, they can’t stink worse than what’s out there now.

Baltimore became the first team since 2000 to lose after leading by 15 points with possession and under 10 minutes in regulation (those teams had been 53-0 coming into Sunday). ESPN had a stat: the record of teams losing by 15 with four minutes to go in a game historically was 3-2200 (approx). Buffalo won because they made plays in those four minutes and Baltimore failed in critical moments. Monken’s offense torched us all game, then he got conservative. Harbaugh should gone for the first down the last possession. Instead of trusting the unit that put up 40, he trusted the one that allowed the Bills back in the game. Thank god the Bills have more faith in themselves, than I have in them. And thank Christ for Josh Allen.

Like a good neighbor Jake Fromm is there….

I would love it if the bills could move Samuel for a late round pick to a team like the Vikes, that needs receivers. Unfortunately, there’s not much to recommend him since he’s been here. Let it be Moore. To keep Samuel, the bust and let Shavers get scooped by some other team would be the Billiest of Billsey moves. We want and need speed yet when we have it, we squander it. Come on Beane do the right thing. I know you read this garbage before bed or your man servant does.

The 2025-2026 NY state budget is $254,000,000B. $850 million is approximately 0.3346% of 254 billion. Hardly a dent for some happy voters with Buffalos on their caps. Meanwhile, NYC budget in 2024 was $106B with tax revenue collections of $28B. Think about that subsidy.

F the ship. We need a stud at safety.

Another regular season tail whipping for the dirty birds but alas, home for the holidays.

I love that Baltimore always wins the draft and the off-season in some people’s minds. Everybody wetting their drawers over what the Ravens do. Well, last I checked, they haven’t beaten the Chiefs during the Mahomes either. But Josh has beaten MVP Lamar twice in the playoffs during that period. So all this admiration for Alexander, a guy whose team just 86’ed him is misplaced. We have our reclamation projects (Bosa-White-Forrest), and they just signed theirs. The fact that they signed him guarantees nothing. Just like King Henry killing everybody during garbage time during the season, then standing on the sidelines while the Ravens try to come back and win in the playoffs against the Bills. (But fail)

Let some desperate team overpay because their number one corner blew out his knee. Or Snead at Rams House comes up with a prove it deal. That’s what this guy is likely to get from a good team. Only a crap team or a desperate one will pay him big money. His boat has a LOT of leaks.

Daquan Jones played poorly last year. His contract was constructed so that it could possibly be terminated this year with savings. Despite the PED brothers, the Bills have enough young players to cut him loose and still be better than last year. They need a younger defense. Jones is overpaid. It’s time.

It looks like our work is done here. In just a couple days Dalton transformed from a skinny kid getting sand kicked in his face at Beaver Island to a muscle bound, super flex he man.

I’m not one of them. The role of the TE as a downfield threat has evolved. The Bills sold Kincaid as hybrid athlete yet Knox averaged 14.1 yds per catch and Kincaid 10.1 so I think your take is full of holes. I hope he proves me wrong. The Bills can’t afford another season of underachievement from the guy.

If it wasn’t me talking, I’d say Joe Brady has showed zero creativity or willingness to scheme flat ass downfield in 24’. Conversely Dawson Knox was a downfield threat quite often last year. So what’s going on at OBD? Was Kincaid too injured to run long routes or did he lose the trust of Brady and Allen?

Kincaid had a chance to change the narrative of his career on fourth down against the Chiefs. His failure in that pivotal moment was further proof he is not the unicorn the Bills traded for. I don’t believe in the kid anymore, whatever he weighs. The Bills haven’t successfully schemed him into a big play slot or a down field threat. Zach Davidson gives us the same threat on the field at a lower price. I wouldn’t care if we flipped Kincaid for 4th round pick or some other under achiever.

The cornerback draft will go down in Bills’ lore as one the best ever. I said once, I’ll say it again, Tre White doesn’t make this team. Jackson and Sanders will cause disruption when they get on the field. The only thing saving Dequan Jones are the PED boys. I like this draft. Way to go McBeane!

I’m surprised frankly. I wonder if he will even be around by the end of camp. He was a liability on the field last year. This strikes me as McDermott again valuing an old head over an athlete. ( Klein over Williams) (Hyde over Cine) His reliance on slow veteran players against the best talent has not been very successful. He took Tre’s injury pretty hard a few years ago. This, while a nice story, seems like an expensive solution for cornerback depth. How is White better than Douglas, a less damaged FA, or a righteous draft pick? I know, I’m a downer.

I love a good overpay by an AFC East rival. Especially the Pats, burn Kraft’s money boys!

The Bills are not strangers to this sort of public posturing by players. They have generally ignored press statements or kept it classy by expressing their love, like Beane has for Cook. In the end they will set a value and offer Cook three or four years. Should they remain at an impasse, I can see Cook playing on this contract through this year. The Bills could then franchise him and trade him next year. Despite what happened in Philly, GB and Baltimore this year, with bell cow running backs, I don’t see the Bills paying Cook like Saquon Barkley or the others on those teams. They will move him and use a combination of Ray Davis, Ty Johnson, Frank Gore, Darrynton Evans and/or some draftee or free agent to replace Cook’s production.

McDermott gets out coached by Reid AGAiN. Chiefs outplay Bills in playoff game AGAIN. NFL adds to our pain by allowing their referees to miss spot the ball on consecutive plays creating what appears to be a fixed outcome.

The piece below was written in 2023 when the Jets signed Fotu. He could be a younger more effective replacement for Daquan. The deal the Bills signed Jones to last year was built for his possible release this year. Buffalo can save $3M against the salary cap if Jones is cut, but there are two void years on his deal in 2026 and 2027 which will help further spread out his salary cap hit... those two, respectively, are $2.5M and $1.25M, both minimal. “However, given how the roster is currently constructed, what the Jets didn’t have was a run-stuffing presence. This is a role that Fotu can potentially fill. At 6’5” - 334 pounds, Fotu is a former fourth round pick by Arizona in the 2020 NFL Draft. His primary role has come as an early-down space eater, tasked with taking on blockers to free up others and bottling up the middle of the field against the run. Fotu appeared in 11 games in 2023, totaled 24 tackles and 14 stops, or plays that constitute as “failure” for an offense, as PFF describes it. Fotu has been fairly durable throughout his career, appearing in all 17 games during the 2021 and 2022 seasons with the Cardinals. It comes with the territory for Fotu given the role he is often asked to fill, but his presence often won’t be felt on the stat sheet and he frequently won’t show up as a pass rusher either. In four seasons, Fotu has totaled just 23 pressures and four sacks. If you go look up where his stats compare to other interior defenders, you won’t see Fotu at the top of the list, and often not even close to it. To a degree, that’s part of the gig as a nose tackle. Instead, Fotu’s presence is felt by his teammates, by helping to create opportunities for them to make plays with the attention he can draw from blockers and the space he takes up, forcing running backs to search for rushing lanes elsewhere. “Yeah, but I love it,” said Fotu about playing nose tackle. “In general, our job is kind of like the O-line. All the mess starts right there with us, up front. But the life is a nose guard, for me, it’s more of a hybrid thing because I’m moving around. “But speaking for a nose guard, you’ve just got to have that nasty mentality knowing you have to be the anchor of the defense up front. It starts with you, and it sets the tone for the rest of the line and everybody else to follow. That’s a huge part of our team.” This is a needed depth signing along the interior defensive line for the Jets. This is a heavily rotated position, one where four or even five players see snaps each week, and the Jets are working on filling out that rotation. Fotu helps create competition within that position group and fills a very specific and needed role for the Jets. This is not a move, however, that should preclude the Jets from further adding to this unit, whether that be continuing to do so through free agency or in the draft. According to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler, this is a one-year deal for Fotu that comes with a base salary of $2.5 million with the opportunity to earn up to $4 million through incentives. The cap hit for this move will be a relatively inexpensive one.”

The Wacky world of Terry Pegula is responsible for the disconnect between Beane and McDermott. They both answer to Pegula, unlike other organizations where the coach answers to the gm. So Howie Roseman would not have a guaranteed SB here because he couldn’t order McDermott to hire a certain DC or OC the way he did in Philly this past year. I have long believed McDermott has his favorites and often they are less talented athletes: Hamlin, Spector, Klein. He kept James Cook on the bench in year one. Thirteen seconds was his cowardice and poor coaching in the clutch. Could Beane hit on some more draft picks, sure. Too often McDermott has victory within his grasp but it slips out; like a waiter with a large tray filled with entrees and just as he gets to the table he stumbles. All those fillets on the floor and a plate of spaghetti on your grandmothers head.

The Bills need speed and they need it on a rookie contract, not Cooper Kupp. They should have drafted him instead of Zay Jones, but Jones was some coach’s kid and blah blah blah. Too late.