DrDawkinstein

Makes it all the more sweeter.

The team will likely pay it out if something like that happens. Well-run teams usually do.

Adds more fuel to the talk that he has been vying for the Patriots job.

Just updated his twitter pfp

Love it, but the 5th is Beane's sweet spot so I wouldnt be surprised if we stayed put. (and maybe even traded back form the 4th just so he can pick up an extra 5th rounder )

You're making a lot of hypotheticals and strawmen go your way in this. I never said Whaley should have drafted Mahomes. If anything, I say we should have fired Whaley the same day as Rex, and brought in both McD and Beane that January. I understand why they didnt, but plenty of teams reset their FO in January and are able to make a draft in May. Plus, it's been reported that Pegula is the one who pushed for Mahomes, so not sure the GM stays even if we do make that pick. That was simply McD protecting his incoming GM from being saddled with someone else's pick. Which is fair. But the GM should have been in place for that draft. Also, the difference so far is 3 Super Bowl wins, 4 appearances, and multiple playoff wins over the Bills. Which they likely dont do with Watson, or Rosen in 18. Or maybe they get Allen the next year and go on to win the 2021 Super Bowl. Who knows? But I'm not sure I trust the judgement of anyone who tries to argue against the point that the Chiefs would not be the current dynasty Chiefs if they werent allowed to move up and draft Mahomes.

It has played out alright for the Bills, but until we get past the Chiefs and win our Championship it will always be questionable.

Yeah, not sure it makes the Bills much better than they are now, but it does make the Chiefs worse and it's almost addition by subtraction (for us anyways).

Oh for sure. I'd even argue that was a worse way to handle it than if the Jets were to hire Vrabel and then a GM. At least the Jets know they have to replace both and will do so quickly. Stringing it along and keeping Whaley was a bad move. I understand they didnt want to lose all the scouting work, but we essentially lost out on Mahomes and directly created our biggest hurdle to a Championship because we couldnt take a QB until we had a new GM.

Pretty much. Whichever position (HC or GM) gets hired first obviously influences who gets hired into the other spot. You want guys who want to work together.

What crazy team would do that?!?

Rodgers is as good as gone. He will be cut/released or retire. Which sucks for us Bills fans as it is removing one poison piece. And if Woody goes back to England, and Chris Johnson takes over again, and brings in Vrabel, it would all be a huge step forward for the Jets.

Very good coach who I even want in Buffalo (if we pull a classic McD playoff exit). This would be very a very un-Jets move, so hoping it doesnt happen. The best thing that could happen for that team would be to hire Vrabel and Woody to go away on another diplomat assignment. Hoping it doesnt happen. Same but opposite of McDermott. He was able to actively coach and gameplan a team lead by... Ryan Tannehill at QB... to the #1 seed and a regular top team. He pulled a Belichick ON Belichick, using the rules of the game against him. He is a master of situational football. His teams got beat in the playoffs because Tannehill couldnt keep up with real talent. Where as the Bills get beat in the playoffs even with the best QB/Player in the league, because our coaching cant keep up with playoff coaching.

2019 me would be super excited for this thread. 2025 me doesnt give a rats ass.

LOL

Official team isnt out, but will be soon. And some voters have started publishing their picks. No AFC and NFC, just one top team. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/43241328/nfl-all-pro-team-2024-season-barnwell-50-best-players-picks-every-position-pro-bowl Quarterback Josh Allen, Bills I won't get too much into the conversation about quarterback here, given that we're going to be talking about a lot of the same stuff next week in my year-end awards column. I laid out the numbers for the top three quarterbacks in my column Monday, and there isn't much difference between the top two. Lamar Jackson has been absolutely spectacular, and Allen has been more consistent (while still, of course, occasionally looking like he's a space alien). They're both incredible. I very narrowly lean toward Allen, but I'm not ruling out changing my mind between now and next week. It's also worth noting that Allen isn't expected to play much Sunday against the Patriots -- Buffalo is locked into the 2-seed in the AFC -- while Jackson and the Ravens need to beat the Browns on Saturday to win the AFC North and clinch the 3-seed. Edge rusher This is always the most impossible position to sort through because there are annually about 10 to 12 players who could make a reasonable case to be considered as a first-team All-Pro. This season, Micah Parsons and Aidan Hutchinson are missing out because of injuries, but Greg Rousseau, Jared Verse and Andrew Van Ginkel have had fantastic seasons and aren't even really close to the first team, which is just unfair. The bar to get in here is impossibly high.

Pat will decline as well. As will Jackson and Burrow. The Pro Bowl has gotten to the point where it will be something like Herbert (AFC) and Geno Smith (NFC).

Completely meaningless and irrelevant. Voting is mostly an exercise of "Oh, I recognize that name".

He isnt ready for that, right now. And he wont be completely ready for it by the opener next year. But (imo) he'll be our starting FS for next season and we will have to live with the growing pains and development again next year. And I dont think it will be so bad. And after that, we'll have our starting FS locked down for the next 8 years.

It's not because he's smaller. All LBs get injured, especially MLB/ILBs. They play an ultra violent position. Zach Thomas was injured and missed games all the time, Paul Pozluszny was injured all the time, look around the league and there are a ton of LBs out all the time. It's just part of LBers. That's why it's good to be at 3-4 deep.

I expect this to be HEAVILY edited. Fun game. Fun team. Fun watch. Love these guys.

Free Safety. I think he'll grow into that as he continues to develop and learn the system. Right now, he looks like a good SS because he can fall back on his hitting skills where they arent asking him to do too much. As his awareness and IQ develops, he'll be able to transition to FS. IMO.

That would be a huge reach for Ward. But I guess they just need one dumb team (Raiders I'm looking at you...) I think this class is more like a 2013/2019/2021 class of QBs. The good news is, even if the Pats do get a handful of picks, they'll screw it up.

Not sure there is anyone in this draft that the Pats could use the #1 pick on that would scare me. So I also dont think there will be many teams willing to give up a ton of assets just to get the #1 pick from them either. My ideal scenario is we rest everyone, stay completely healthy, and beat them with our backups anyways.

Great day. Crushing Miami, Kyle gets a TD... and then Dalton does his thing. I'll never forget buying the Jax playoff tickets at halftime of our Miami game. I just knew it was going to happen. The rebirth of Bill-ieving!