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Weird, it didn’t stop the Bengals pass rushers last week.

Apparently winning the AFC East gives Beane a lifetime pass.

No, they usually don’t even make the playoffs

You’ll be waiting a long time for Oliver.

Hear me out….

Someone’s not doing their job.

If you’re going to have a “name only” thread title, is it too much to ask that you spell that name correctly?

I keep thinking of Dexter Lawrence…

I have no doubt that a lot of "experts" will pick the Jets or Dolphins to win the division in 2023, assuming they are able to stabilize their QB situations. I think it will be good for the Bills to be considered an underdog again.

Guys who are asked to lose or gain weight after they are drafted are by definition “tweeners”.

Parcels believes in drafting big bodies; Beane drafts tweeners like ‘lil Ed and Epenesa. I agree. The run schemes were awful. RBs were not the problem. Cook looked good in the second half of the season.

Which also means we can't expect anything from Von Miller until 2024, when he'll be 35.

I don't know if you've heard, but Von Miller is turning 34 in a month and tore his ACL for the second time. There's a pretty good chance he never plays again. Did you see how Tre White (who is 8 years younger) looked coming off his ACL surgery? It would be downright delusional to expect anything from Miller in 2023, just like all the OBJ hype this year.

Certainly possible

I think it’s both. Have to say, though, Beane looked very defensive in his presser. He’s definitely feeling some pressure, and rightfully so.

Agreed. Chiefs don't match up well with them either. I expect the Bengals to smash the Chiefs on Sunday.

How do you think this team gets past the Bengals and Chiefs next year (not to mention the Jets and Dolphins)? Do you thinks McDermott will get smarter? That Dorsey will figure out how to scheme up a running game and short passing plays? That Beane will suddenly draft a bunch of plug and play offensive linemen? Epenesa and Basham somehow leap from replacement level players to stars?

You can call it reaching; I just call it poor drafting.

That's an odd way to look at it. Given that the Bills have their own superstar QB, don't you want a coaching staff and GM who will figure out a way to beat the Chiefs and Bengals instead of coming up short every time? Sounds like you're good with an early playoff exit every year, since those other QBs are really good...

Sorry, but when your franchise has one of the three true franchise quarterbacks in football, standards are a little higher than in the Trent Edwards/JP Losman years...

And is there any question that the Monday Night Bengals game would have ended the same way (or even worse) if the game had been played to its conclusion?

Ok

Brady wasn’t traded; the Bucs got him for “free”, so that’s obviously not what I was talking about. And of course the Wilson and Watson trades have been nothing short of a catastrophe for their teams. And the Rams look like they might be the worst team in the league next year, and for years to come.

These sorts of trades haven’t worked out too well recently for the teams acquiring the big name QB…

I don't know if any of that is true; I never heard about it pre-draft, but of course Simmons had an ACL injury that hurt his draft status. What I do know is that both are now game-wreckers and the next game lil' Ed changes will be his first.