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Excellent post. More recently, Cowboys stood still when Beane did a small trade-up and got a guy Jones coveted. I am all for a trade-up to get the guy you really want and the cost of a low draft pick to move up a few slots is forgotten very quickly. Yet some fans don't forget and keep lamenting that "yea but Beane had to use assets to move up". It doesn't matter when you land a Kincaid type player. I am very much convinced we will see a trade-up tonight.

Charming young man, ain't he?

Simply keeping up with the Chiefs means we will stay one step behind. We need to leap frog them. With weapons to over come the gap in coaching

Yessss. Thats my contention too -that more than "#1 WR" or "#2 WR", i rather think of our receivers are (in) capable of challenging the opposing D in every part of the field cos our QB can reach there without rainbowing passes. At this moment, we dont have that kind of field coverage from the WR room. The skillset leaves large areas of uncovered green. Hope that changes in the next 51 hours.

I am old but looked up in Google and still couldnt come up with anything. What does the acronym OOF mean?

It's near Redington Beach, close to St Pete

You estimate is that the WR room is bottom 3 right now. I honestly dont know the WR qualities of about 15 teams so I cant challenge nor agree with you. However, I took a swag at estimating the WR room quality in different scenarios. Do you agree? Draft one of big 3 + vet addition Top 5 Draft one of big 3 + another in Rd 4 Top 5 Draft 1A tier (BT Jr) + vet addition Top 10 Draft 1A tier (BT Jr) + another in Rd 4 Top 10 (maybe) Draft 2nd tier and any one else Middle of the road

If there is a large space overlooking the Falls, it will be a great backdrop to the event.

Waitaminute. Were you at Johns Pass boardwalk by any chance when one dude said "Go Bills" to you?

I agree. The guy I said that to in Tampa reacted in a disinterested way as if he didn't know why I said that to him. OTOH, in San Juan , there was a lady on the phone who did a double take at my shirt, told the person at the other end to hold on cos she spotted a Bills fan, come over to me and said "Go Bills". (Yet another case where I wished I was 30 years younger and unmarried. But I digress)

Maybe he bought the Bills hat in the bargain bin 10 years back and had no clue what the charging Buffalo was for.

Sure. But most teams don't have QBs whose throws cover the entire field. Whats the benefit of a good boundary receiver if the QB needs to get a running start and heave it with all power to only rainbow a pass to him?

By far the coolest story in this thread so far. I am mostly surprised in Wisconsin when people wearing Packers gear say "Go Bills" to me. Maybe its the kinship of fans from small town franchises.

Something different from the overload of draft and WR threads... Occasionally when I travel, I spot someone wearing Bills hat or T-shirt and of course I say "Go Bills" when I pass that person. The same happens when I have my Bills gear on. Most recently, it happened in San Juan, Puerto Rico in December and Tampa about 10 days back. I am also tempted to ask that person if he/she is a member of TBD, but for some reason never have. Mostly it is because of my apprehension about that person's demeanour and how willing that person is to a Bills conversation with a random guy. So my question is - have any of you also felt this way? WOuld you ask about TBD or just leave it at "Go Bills"? (Mods - if this thread is not appropriate for the main forum, feel free to move it)

I know you are joking but the gas from such a well is currently selling for historically low prices. The US is producing way too much natural gas right now.

Good luck with that

Exactly my thoughts. Then we can more strongly influence Beane. 🙂

He should go into the draft with broad goals in mind but not about specific players. The draft can fall in many many different ways and he needs to keep himself flexible to react. We saw this last year in trading up for Kincaid when he found out that the Cowboys wanted him. Here is where networking and his contacts with the likes of Schoen and in the Panthers organization help.

I would take the latter with a grain of salt too. With our available cap space next year, having draft picks in 2025 draft is much less important than having them this year. Plus with the long term goal of team building, we need to use this year's draft to also keep the pipeline full especially at the postions where the FAs next year are projected to be slim.

Thats a rather lopsided track record in Carolina. However, using the first two picks on O in 2023 gives me home he has changed to prioritize offense over defense. To be clear, my post was not to somehow prepare for a non-WR as our top pick. I absolutely think WR should be our first pick and coming away with a player at any other position will be a disappointment irrespective of how the rest of the draft goes. I think (fervently hope?) that Beane will do a modest move up into the lower teens. I scanned what he said yesterday and its a whole lot of nothing. Granted its just your feelings versus mine, supported by zero actual knowledge, but I think the opppsite - that Beane will trade up.

I wrote in another thread that what the Bills really need is excellence to cover all parts of the field. Speed and outside threats are sorely lacking right now and hence we dont have a full WR room by any means. If (when) the Bills add 2 WRs to the roster who can own/excel in specific parts of the skills while also doing other things, then we will have a complete room. Samuel is one example where he has played mostly in the slot but can play outside also. We need the two additions to be the opposite. So, if you use the pure words, we dont really need a single #1 WR if the above criteria can be filled. I want oppposing Defenses to fear our entire receiving corps as a whole and not one specific threat. Then we will truly have a unpredictable and dominating offense. This portfolio of skillsets will complement Allen's ability to reach any part of the field.

We already had a thread with this stupid option. Just shut this one down.

As HC, YES. as GM and HC, no. But as long as Allen is still our QB. You asked "if", but depending on how this season goes, I may even advocate firing McD at end of season if BB is still available and interested to be our HC. Put emotions aside and have a singular focus on The Goal, folks.

I wouldn't call Josh a chicken to his face. He may just come back with "I am the egg, man"