ndirish1978

The producer is a Bills fan. The series doesn't appear to be any good but I don't think any shade was meant.

Last week the conversation was "if Bosa has a monster year we're not going to be able to re-sign him cause he's going to get a monster contract so I'm glad we drafted Landon Jackson too" and now it's "yeah pretty sure his career is over." Gotta respect the immediate woe.

Joey Bosa is made of Papier-mâché. I dunno why this guy can't stay healthy but it's probably a good thing that we only gave him a 1 year contract. On the positive side, drafting Landon Jackson and signing Hoecht helps me not feel too bad about this. Landon can spend the first 6 weeks developing as much as possible and we get Hoecht back after week 6 so hopefully Bosa is able to contribute for us when we need him to, but this tempers my expectation for him a bit.

I have a feeling he's considering retirement. Have seen several podcasts where people have kind of eluded to "knowing something from sources" but obviously don't feel it's appropriate to put that out there. I could of course be reading into that too much, but the context of the statements indicated he seemed like he was leaning towards not playing anymore.

The bolded is true, we would do better at WR5 if we drafted a receiver higher in the draft. The issue for those of us who are ok with not drafting a receiver in the top 4 rounds this year is that you would be replacing DE3 or DT3 with that pick (yes, I don't count Daquan because I think he's out). Our D-line is bad. I believe the resources were better spent addressing DT in the 2nd and 4th and a DE in the 3rd. You have the right to disagree, it just gets tiresome when a portion of the board runs around arguing that we should have taken a WR early, which is an opinion, like it's a fact that everyone who disagrees with is wrong.

Someone is still mad from another thread. You're the guy complaining about not investing in the offense and you want to cut a defensive player and push dead cap to future years to handcuff the cap. Let's just leave the issue in the other thread and decide not to like each other and not cluster every other thread on the board with this nonsense. I'm going to do it regardless but you can feel free to remain triggered.

Oliver's cap hit if we got rid of him in 2026 would be $21.585M. He's not going anywhere.

Glad to see you admit you're ridiculous. Thanks! I agree.

"Greatly prioritized" what a joke. Here's the prior 7 years in which we super duper prioritized our Defense and led to us losing in the playoffs. 2024 - 5 of 10 picks went to the offense - Even 2023 - 4 of 6 picks went to offense - Offensive Draft 2022 - 3 of 7 picks to offense, 1 pick was a punter. 3 picks to defense = Even 2021 - 4 of 8 picks went to offense - Even 2020 - 4 of 7 picks went to offense, 1 pick was a kicker - Offensive draft 2019 - 4 of 8 picks went to offense - Even 2018 - 4 of 8 picks went to offense, we traded up 2x to get Allen - Even So last 7 years we have had 5 even drafts and 2 offensive ones. Don't let the facts get in the way of a good irrational whining session though. Great example of the people voicing your argument, it's all off "vibes." You FEEL something is real, so you crack your knuckles and type your little heart out making ridiculous statements without taking 2 seconds to think "maybe I should check to see if I'm right."

4 pages and I'm surprised no one mentioned he didn't backtrack from his comments yesterday or give some perfunctory "yeah I came in a little too hot." I figured all the "it was not appropriate to speak like that" crowd would have their pitchforks out. Actually encouraged by this. WGR is a clownshow 90% of the time. I dunno why Buffalo as a community can't do better than Schopp, Jeremy White and DiBiase. They should just let the Cover 1 guys take over the programming, at least Thompsett, Prohaska, Turner and Quinn know ball.

I understand that you wanted a WR. It's also possible that they brought in people they needed to meet with at a position of interest to check on their personalities and to test their processing speed. It's entirely plausible that several players didn't "pass" the meeting process and were simply not around to be picked at the value of pick they had been assigned. I don't really agree with the "he wanted a WR so it's a valid criticism to say they failed by not taking a WR." You can see the need for a field-stretching receiver but value the players available when you pick lower than another available position. Teslaa was projected to go in the 5-6th and went in the third in a trade up right before we picked. Not sure what you want Beane to do, throw away the value on his board to take a WR? The earliest spot I can see for them to have taken a specific-role WR over a position of extreme need would be 170 with Jordan Hancock. If you listen to Bean's interview on OBD he said the pick the scouts got the most excited about value was taking Hancock. They see him being a big nickel/safety and see a need to replace Cam and they thought that was more valuable that getting a WR 4-5 so that's a direct response to your opinion, they disagree. To give a specific response to a general complaint I see a lot of people making here I am copying this over from another post I made yesterday: These are the WRs selected after we drafted Walker. Arian Smith 110, Jaylin Lane 128, Jalen Royals 133, Lambert-Smith 158, Tory Horton 166, LaJohnTay Wester 203, Jimmy Horn 208, Tommy Mellot 213, Tex Johnson 235, Ricky White 238, Kaden Prather to us at 240 and then 3 other jags. I liked Lane, Royals and Horton. Let's see if we could have gotten them assuming teams would have traded us a pick in that range Jaylin Lane pick 128 - 20 pts, Jaylen Royals pick 133 - 18 pts, Tory Horton pick 166 - 9 pts At this point in the draft we had added CB, DT, Edge, DT. To trade up for Lane or Royals we would have needed to give up these players: 173 Jackson Hawes, 177 Dorian Strong, 206 Chase Lundt To trade for Tory Horton would have cost us 170 206 and 240. I would have been happy had they done that, but they didn't and if they wanted Horton they could have traded 3 picks to get him. It's also possible the teams at 160-165 didn't want to trade with us. I don't see "hypocrisy" in any of that. We traded a pick for a receiver cause we thought he could help, he didn't help all that much. We replaced him with a younger receiver they expect can actually contribute. Beane NEVER acted like WR was not on the table, he reacted to two morons complaining about a draft that fell heavy on D and acted like we ignored the most important position, if you listen to their whining right before he went on that is what was happening. That is what annoys me about the contingent of fans hand-wringing and acting like Beane did anything wrong, he did not. He didn't say we didn't need a WR, he said specifically in response to their claim that he devalues the position that we took value in the draft and we scored 30 pts in each of the last 8 games. We didn't lose in the playoffs because we didn't have a vertical threat, we lost because the Defense was garbage.

Understood. Elam was a big miss. It must have become pretty obvious to them that Elam just didn't have the tools or mental makeup to do well in their system. Defensive players generally have a shorter time to adapt to systems because as a rule they usually expect to get production earlier on that side of the ball, which makes sense.

Because they drafted Kincaid and Coleman with their first pick the last 2 years, they need to get better. We know who we have on defense and Defense has been awful when it counts in the playoffs. If you want to quickly improve a team overall that has a B+ offense, A+ QB and a C- defense it's pretty clear you upgrade the defense to B or B+ and you're going to get dividends because they are dragging the team average down.

You are correct, I was not counting Ogunjobi because he is suspended for the first 6 games. We have 2 DTs, we drafted 2. We don't have to keep 4, we can keep 5 and Carter will be inactive on gamedays unless there is an injury. Do I think DT was a bigger need than WR? Yes. You don't, it's ok for us to disagree. I agree that we are missing a vertical threat, though I think Palmer can do things down the field. I have addressed this in a post in another thread. There were 3 down the field threats available to use after drafting Walker, I believe drafting a bigger replacement for Cam Lewis and adding a 3rd TE with a blocking specialty was more important than getting someone like Noel or Royals, I presume you would not. I would note that Beane said the pick the scouts were most excited about falling into their laps was the nickel/hybrid safety from OSU so it seems like they had him rated higher than the 2 receivers. I liked Horton, so that seems to be the only guys who we could have picked but didn't.

I was responding to a single point made by a single poster.