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Kyle Shanahan never replaced Mike McDaniel in SF. There is no one with that job title. McDermott could do the same.

I'm going to preemptively agree that mock drafts are not worth the server space they occupy if you are using them to predict what player goes to what team. They do have a use, in my opinion. That use is to go back to see what the consensus was around a player if that player doesn't end up working out. Since there is a general consensus around there that Brandon Beane is a "poor drafter," I went back to try to see if any of his "bad" picks could be classified as reaches. Cody Ford (38th): This is perhaps his biggest failure in the NFL draft, not only because the player didn't work out but also due to the opportunity costs. I mean, just imagine AJ Brown opposite Diggs. But was it a reach? No. Ford was a consensus first rounder that the Bills got in the second. The entire NFL draft industry missed on this one. Bleacher Report: 14th pick in the FIRST ROUND: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2827208-2019-nfl-mock-draft-matt-millers-latest-3-round-picks-with-one-month-to-go Chad Reuter: 28th in the FIRST ROUND: https://www.nfl.com/news/chad-reuter-2019-seven-round-nfl-mock-draft-round-1-0ap3000001027100 Daniel Jeremiah: 14 in the FIRST ROUND: https://www.nfl.com/news/daniel-jeremiah-2019-nfl-mock-draft-4-0-redskins-land-haskins-0ap3000001027778 SB Nation: 28th in the FIRST ROUND: https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2019/4/24/18515245/2019-nfl-mock-draft-kyler-murray-dwayne-haskins-ed-oliver-quinnen-williams-nick-bosa Ed Oliver: (9th): Ed was a consensus top-10 pick (Same draft so no links). Jeremiah: 4th Reuter: 7th BR: 12th SB Nation: 3rd Carlos Boogie Basham (61st): At this point, Boogie doesn't look like an NFL player. At the time, I hated the pick because I had no idea who he was. But what was the thinking before the 2021 NFL draft? Chad Reuter: 35th: https://www.nfl.com/news/seven-round-2021-nfl-mock-draft-round-2-elijah-moore-among-5-wrs-selected Ryan Wilson @ CBS: 22nd in the FIRST ROUND: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2021-nfl-mock-draft-all-7-rounds-four-qbs-go-in-top-7-joined-by-kyle-pitts-jamarr-chase-and-jaylen-waddle/ Walter Football : 53rd: https://walterfootball.com/draft2021_2.php A.J. Epenesa: (54th): Again, he looks like a fringe NFL player at this point. I also hated this pick, but because I'm not looking at Iowa defensive ends not because I knew anything. Bucky Brooks: 20th in the FIRST ROUND: https://www.nfl.com/news/bucky-brooks-2020-nfl-mock-draft-4-0-tua-tagovailoa-falls-to-9-0ap3000001109299 Walter Football: 40th: https://walterfootball.com/draft2020_2.php Dan Schneier @ CBS: 35th. This mock also has Justin Jefferson to the Pats. Thank god that didn't happen. Reuter: 46th I could go on, but the only absolute reach that I can find in Beane's drafting record is Terrel Bernard in the 2022 draft. The Bills drafted him at 89, and the highest mock that I can find is Walter Football, who had him at 119. You could call Groot a reach, but if he doesn't go late in the first all the mocks had him within the first few picks of the second round. This is in contrast to Buddy Nix, where every pick felt like a reach. So where does this leave us? Beane is drafting guys about where the so-called experts expect them to go or is getting a bit of a steal in terms of expectations. So the problem is either scouting, Beane's inability to see beyond the consensus and trust his own scouts, or player development. I have no idea, but I do know that the Bills had better get this draft right.

When you have an offense that can score a lot of points, forcing the other team to chew up clock by preventing the big plays is counter productive. We should be playing attacking defense in an attempt to get the ball back to Josh and the offense. In the Bills case, a 7-minute TD scoring drive is really the worst possible outcome.

If the Bills were not in the division, I would so want Rodgers to go to NY just to see the back page headlines on the post.

That's what people thought in Denver too. And last year, Rodgers was an actual FA so moving on from him would have cost GB nothing. Now they take a huge dead cap hit.

That's good because the FA WRs are pure dog poop and the ones in this draft aren't much better.

Yes they did. Nate Hackett's primary job is not coaching, it's Aaron Rodgers bait.

That's of course depending on Wilks not getting the Carolina job. He and Reich both got second interviews there. https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2023/01/25/steve-wilks-frank-reich-move-on-to-second-interviews-with-panthers/

The FA WR group this year is not good. A middling guy like DJ Chark is going to get massively overpaid. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/free-agents/all/wide-receiver/all/

10 million in dead cap if you do that.

Hard to run the ball when we were down 14-0 after only 3 Bills offensive plays.

He shouldn’t need 4 seconds. This offense needs to speed up.

File this under "never let facts get in the way of a good narrative."

I have watched at least parts of every Bengals game this year, and the first quarter on 1/2 and that last game was BY FAR the best that they have played. It might just be a bad matchup, but I also think that they were extra motivated to play the Bills for a number of reasons.

I wouldn't think that Tasker and Brown would be briefed on those types of decisions. Here in Cincinnati, Dave Lapham defended Marvin Lewis right up until his firing.

Remember, Steve Tasker and Chris Brown are both employed by the Buffalo Bills not the radio station.

Before suggesting trades, you have to go check out the dead cap. For instance, trading Tre before 6/1 would only create around $350,000 of cap space. After 6/1. it would create a little under 10 million in 2023 but it would create a huge dead cap hit in 2024. There is a reason that NFL teams usually trade guys in the final years of their contracts.

I actually think that the loss that would have helped was the KC game. The Bengals got stomped by the Browns going into their bye and they used the week off to make major adjustments. We went into the bye and hit the beach.

The Bills lone TD drive was really long.

Bengals and Eagles have QBs on rookie deals, and the Bengals have their three best offensive players as well as their starting LT on rookie deals. That really helps.

BTW, the only two candidates to actually get a second interview on Carolina are Reich and Wilks. I am not even seeing reports of Dorsey actually interviewing for that job.

As far as I can tell, he did. But it's all a moot point because reports are out there that he'll get the AZ HC job.

All correct, except Zach Taylor was the QB coach for Goff in LA. He was never the OC there. He also didn't call the plays in Philadelphia.

All of these things are true: The Bills played their worst game of the season The Bills have problems in their lineup that were exposed (which all teams have in the salary cap era) The Bengals are a bad matchup. There is also another thing. The Bengals wound themselves into a frenzy over a perceived slight due to ticket sales while the Bills cancelled practice on Saturday to have "Family Day." I think that explains a lot.

Exactly. From what I understand (which is not much), the Bills D requires really high level play from the safeties in both the pass and run game. When Hyde went out, our D took a serious hit. Then when Hamlin went out and we had to play Marlowe it was too much to overcome. Also, in general our team lacks a level of nastiness that the Eagles have in spades. No one fears playing the Bills.