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The Giants just doubled down on 9-7-1 where a few of those 9 wins were a lucky bounce away from being a loss. Remember the bad snap that led to the game-winning interception against Baltimore? Their week 1 win against the Titans required a missed FG in OT. It took an A-Rod choke to win in London. I think that if they were not coaching in NY, they would not have gone this route. But in NY they cannot afford a reset year like the Bills had in 2018 with a rookie QB.

I can't tell if you're joking, but Stefon Diggs is not a free agent. If he demands a trade, his only leverage would be to hold out and the tag does nothing to prevent that.

I want a source beyond the Post and something called MoSports. Edit: Here is an actual report: https://www.wlwt.com/article/police-child-taken-to-hospital-after-report-of-shots-fired/43223958

People talk about taxes or playoff losses as reasons that players want out, but I think that the two winter storms have to be playing a role. If you're not from WNY, it is really crazy how much snow there was. I mean, many of us have left and the weather was a major factor in why we moved. Why would these guys be any different?

Someone on Reddit mentioned back in January when he did this that he always deletes all the Bills content from his IG after the season as a symbolic "fresh start." It's just notable this time because of how upset he was at Josh during the playoff game and all the noise from his brother at the Superbowl media interviews.

This is a good point. The Bills signed Von Miller when that seemed impossible. The cost of Von Miller was losing Jerry Hughes. Then when Von went down, the Bills not only were missing him but also the production that Jerry Hughes gave them in 2021. It really showed against the Bengals (both times).

Problem is that this draft stinks overall, but it especially stinks at the WR position. It's also a bad FA class for WRs. All the best college wideouts were freshmen or sophomores. If Diggs forces a trade, the Bills will have to take a major step backward next year and hope for a premiere WR in the 2024 draft.

This is Sid's 17th season. He has been playing forever.

Watching the combine today, there is no WR with “elite speed” in this draft.

Does everyone forget that he wasn’t hurt in the Packers game? We lost to the Jets with a healthy Josh until the final series. The only game we lost directly after the injury was the Vikes game.

Most catchable report ever.

I think it’s cool that he’s interested in all aspects of the game. He also seems to have a really active mind, so I can see how he would be interested in taking a peek under the hood of an NFL franchise.

He'll get drafted, just in the third round. Cincinnati will still take him. They will talk a lot about draft value and then turn it into an "us against the world" issue after he's on the team. This is, after all, an ownership group that signed (and then resigned) Pacman Jones AFTER the strip club incidents. Then when he stalked a women in a hotel, punched a cop and spit in the face of a nurse at the county jail, they defended them and still played him on Sunday. There is no such thing as a "bridge too far" for Mike Brown.

This is me exactly. I’m 49 and was born in Buffalo Children’s Hospital. I was born to it’s I also remember going to Kay Stevenson”s last game against the Vikings. The fans were wearing bags over their heads and singing “Good Bye Kay” as the clock ticked down on yet another loss. I was also at Jim Kelly’s first start as a Bill. I remember him falling down, popping back up, and throwing a TD pass.

Coaching in the XFL.

He also bought a Bugatti.

Charlie Ward?

I want a RT and a RG, but if I can only have one let it be the best right guard that the Bills can get. I don't know enough about interior OL to name a player, but just that single improvement would solve a lot. It would improve not only the RG position, but also the LG because Bates could go back to his more natural spot. It could also improve both OT positions as a stronger player would be playing besides them.

Joe Burrow does this too. When the sack is inevitable, they turtle, protect the ball, and live to fight another down. I live Josh extending plays, but there has to be a middle ground where he can protect the ball better.

I made a post a few weeks ago where I dig through old mocks to see what the consensus was on Beane’s picks before the respective drafts. Bernard was the only one of the picks that have not planned out that was a reach. I mean, a lot of mocks had Cody Ford as a first rounder. Boogie too.

In that same Wiki article, it notes that 11 v. 11 football with snaps and the forward pass was considered the "Canadian" version of the game. The "American" version had a round ball, you couldn't pick the ball up, and had 25-man teams.

Nobody wants to hear this. They then fall into the trap of comparing prospects in a given draft to each other, rather than against the existing pool of NFL players. Even if you draft the top ranked WR in this class he is probably at most a WR2.

They already had that and they fired the guy.

I don't thnk that you meant to respond to me, but I could not agree more.

OL is the hardest thing to address for two related reasons: The goal of college coaches is to win, not develop players for the NFL. What get wins in college are single-read spread offenses. OL in college don't have to hold pass blocks longer than 2 seconds for the most part. Outside of the top guys who usually go in the top 15 picks, it's really hard to project them. That's why the entire NFL scouting community, not just Brandon Beane, wiffed on Cody Ford. Years ago, Colin Cowheard was talking about a conversation that he had with an NFL GM where the GM said that it would be easier to get a bunch of LBs or TEs, bulk them up, and teach them how to block than it is to undo the years of bad technique that college linemen comem in with. So it's hard to scout and hard to teach. For the most part, good OL don't hit FA and if they do you have to massively overpay. The Bengals tried to buy an OL this past offseason and they had to make a massive offensive scheme adjustment midseasont o compensate for the fact that the money invested didn't yield better results. The fact that the Bills should have made the same adjustment (go to a quick passing game and screens to slow down the rush) is a topic for another conversation. If you were to draft 7 OL in a single year, hitting on 3 would be a good yield. And I think this problem will continue to compound beause fewer and fewer kids want to play a thankless position.