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I don't know why people are complaining. They drafted Josh Allen.

Goes to a point you made after the draft about the DL. With Beane, it's a become this annual exercise to revamp the DL or add multiple contributors to it. Yeah, there's having a rotation, but they've signed 4 UFAs and drafted 3 more while having a 3-4 from last season who'll be in the rotation for 2025.

Welcome to Buffalo Grant. Here's your injury settlement and have a nice flight home.

If he was capable of "having big games" Jacksonville would have not eaten that 20M in cap across 2026 and 2027. Just say no to drugs...like previous players who are a shell of what they used to be...which wasn't much.

Gabe Davis is a scrap heap WR. A familiar one, yes...but still unsigned for a reason. That they're hosting him for a visit tells the story that not all is well at WR.

One of these years Beane will stop butchering the WR position. Maybe next year. Maybe 2027. Hard to tell at this point.

Most people really don't see or know how a GM contributes because it's done largely behind closed doors. Those same people will see McD's in-game decisions and player performance and focus on those elements...but what is it that got them there during the regular season? It's Beane and McD's decisions to their philosophy, their schemes, and the players who they select. That's all the off-season/behind closed-doors stuff. 2025 is going to be an interesting season for this reason. Either their plan works or it doesn't. No more room to double down because hey did that this past off-season.

Looks awesome. I did Piegan Pass and a few others 5 years ago, but still want to do the Highline Trail.

Ralph didn't get 430M in revenue sharing each year though. Also wondering if McAfee asked Beane about his wizard skills.

On Super Bowl Sunday, ESPN would air all the SB highlight shows from previous years beginning in the early morning. I think they were 30 minutes long which meant in the early 90s you could get through them all by noon. I'd watch them, all of which were narrated by Facenda though 1983. Facenda's voice is a childhood memory for me...waking up at 1am to watch those highlight shows on ESPN. Cannot believe he's not in Canton.

2025 is a referendum on this GM/HC combination playing this style. Because no real NFL team with a top QB can go 6 seasons missing the SB since said QB showed he’s the real deal. McD and Beane are on track for the Hall of Very Good if they continue on that path. But Terry likely doesn’t fire either.

Of their 22 2017-2022 draft picks who reached or neared the end of their rookie deals, they've re-signed 16. And of those, 12 got 9M+ AAV extensions. That's all well and good, but it's getting expensive re-signing all these players. Truth is, they've got to start seeing starting caliber play out of guys on rookie or value UFA contracts. They can't sign everyone to market-based deals because it's how you're cap-challenged each March. Which is what Buffalo is now. Truth is, Buffalo has not been good finding value-type UFAs which would alleviate their cap pressure. Sure, it's great to give a MLB 9M AAV, but where a team really gets it done is letting him hit UFA and either having his replacement on a rookie deal or a UFA making 4M for 1-2 seasons without much drop in play. Not easy, but that's how teams can keep have a big QB contract with WR and DE talent signed long-term. Buffalo has become a very safe team in their personnel decision-making and re-signing your own to market-based contracts sometimes is that. Not saying it'll happen, but re-signing James Cook fits there. He's a known entity and there's mild risk drafting a RB in RD3/4 who'd need to come in and learn. Or, draft a WR when you acknowledge that scouting them is hard...so just sign another Elijah Moore or Josh Palmer because there's tape on those guys.

If the 13 seconds game before the final regulation KC drive didn't tell you Josh Allen is great and and especially with excellent offensive talent then I don't know what will. And I'd say he's a more well-rounded QB now than back then. You have to have a game-plan changeup when the fastball ain't working. Going into games as Buffalo does expecting to be strong defensively paired with a quasi-dink and dunk offense doesn't always work. Have to be able to out-score the opponent when the defense is struggling.

The early 2010s Seahawks built an excellent defense, but injuries, contract extensions, age, etc. didn't allow it to continue at that level very long. And they had true elite defensive talent unlike the McBeane defensive roster. Still managed to win a SB and appear in another. The model of maintaining a defense with upwards of 15-17 starters/key depth is not and never will be an efficient use of resources when you have a franchise QB. Still, 2025 will provide the verdict on McBeane's strategy of not substantially investing in WRs and therefore Josh while going defense-heavy again. If this strategy doesn't get them to the SB, there's no more doubling to tripling down on that approach. It has to be pivoted from and they embrace a Josh-first team featuring real a real WR1 that emphasizes throwing it. Because if it doesn't and they're 6 straight seasons without a SB appearance there's no room to run.

It’s not a hard decision if he’s available in trade. McLaurin would be a great addition. Most important thing though is it hinders their cap space to add more defense next off-season and we know Beane doesn’t apologize for using much of that at DL. Besides, their WR group of multiple 3’s will be made better by Josh Allen. Don’t need a McLaurin or Metcalf…they have quantity and that’s how teams do it in this league.