BillsVet

Yeah. I'd guess people expect Buffalo to be good, but the playoffs are where we need to see it. The Bills, despite some mid-seasons swoons, have played well in the regular season but it's the post-season exits go back to. Seems the last 3 years their playoff performance regressed each year from 2020 to 2022.

I've never seen anyone conflate an issue more than you do. Inserting a little doubt here on this topic is akin to Netflix's murderer series where they leave out certain facts to create the appearance of being not guilty. Dawkins put on 5 pounds a week for 2 months...and you're talking about maintaining weight? Sure, on his frame 5 pounds a week isn't as much as a normal sized man, but come on. Even if he were injured, would it be too much to cut back a little to allow yourself to heal? Besides, Dion has shown he doesn't have a problem maintaining weight. He has a problem with adding too much. Because of the 40 pounds to reach 370, how much of it do you honestly think was muscle weight or fat? I'll hang up and listen.

The FB is a starter but poster doesn't know he's a UDFA? A guy who had a 14% and 17% snap count on offense these past 2 seasons? Not quite. The quality or better starters (top half at their position across the NFL) on that list are Allen, Knox, Oliver, Rousseau, Johnson and Bass. Torrence is a complete unknown as a rookie, so counting him as a "starter" is weak for this exercise and Bernard had less than 11% of their total defensive snaps last year. But let's include (even though Beane didn't take them) Tre, Puff Dawkins and Milano. That's 9 quality starters out of 25 total starters from 2017-2022. And of those 9, 4 are RD1 picks, 1 is RD2, 1 is RD3, 1 is RD4, 1 is RD5, and the RD6 pick is their kicker. Not a stellar draft record. More pedestrian with a franchise QB as has been mentioned previously. Heck, I'd say McD did better without Beane in 2017 save for 2018.

Perhaps assertions made recently were not far from the truth. Perhaps not. 2023 is going to clarify so much that came out of this off-season for all to see.

Does this mean you can't have a RD1/RD2 pick or high dollar UFA at every position now? What is Buffalo going to do? Because, like, finding value lower in the draft or among lesser UFA's is hard.

Fantasy football. It's the only place RB's are needed. Because I know it's not NFL fans who stopped watching after 1995.

I think it was former personnel guy Mike Lombardi who was an early NFL insider with CBS who said that fans don't care about front office dynamics. And they don't. It's the what you can see news like draft picks, UFA signings, the game results, and maybe in-game coaching decisions most people focus on. That includes the organizational relationship between Beane and McDermott. The belief is GM's picks players and coaches coach and that's why front office decision making analysis goes almost nowhere on TBD. Of course McD is running everything...it's just out of sight, out of mind.

I will always consider, in the debate about Beane's drafting prowess, how weighted that board being to defense has affected personnel decisions. Not a complete defense, just a consideration. Going back to 2021, yes they were older at DE and guys like Addison and Hughes weren't going to remain long. I always understood taking Rousseau and he's turned into a solid performer. But Basham in round 2? An older base end with limited pass-rush ability? We'll never know what went into that decision, but it didn't make sense then and makes a lot less now.

I'd like to say RD1 busts happen, but the HC seems to have found guys who could be that zone CB2 without high picks. Which makes sense, because he's a former secondary coach and been coaching defensive football for a long time. Leads me to believe there's a deeper disconnect at OBD between the coaches compared to the scheme and talent evaluators. Because unless McD pounded the table for Elam over everyone's evals, this is a bad look made worse by their positional value decisions in RD2 and RD3. First guy plays a position that should get PT in year 1 - and then doesn't play. Bernard is clearly on the way out. I don't think it's too soon to start saying Beane ain't meeting the hype anymore. And McD isn't either in whatever role he plays in personnel. Lots of work to do, covered up by Josh and Diggs.

No doubt Vegas sees the signing of Ty Johnson and DeShaun White as mitigating the Doyle loss for the season.

This requires a Deep Voice "Yeah" post.

Bruce the rookie in '85 versus the guy by 1990 who was NFL Defensive POY are two different animals. Heck, he was DPOY at 33 in 1996. Didn't need training camp. People lose site of the fact that after a ruptured achilles, Peters came back to be 1st Team All Pro in 2013 as a 31 year old and followed it up as a 2nd Teamer at 32. Common denominator is guys like this know how to get it done because they know their body well enough. Both didn't need camp to be in shape and ready.

Bruce hated training camp IIRC and some fans/media took issue with that. Guy still went out that and got it done into his 40s because he didn't need the discipline and practice of training camp. His personal training habits were enough. Reminds me of regular Army people I knew that disliked the special operations community. Thought they were undisciplined, but when bad things happened they were the best suited to handle them.

As if the defenses aren't going vanilla either. Something's wrong and hasn't improved since the Divisional playoff game.

Some human beings excel in life. Some just exist until they die. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen. You see the contract Peters got after the trade? Money talks.

A lot changed in the 5 years since that pick was made. In 2018 they could afford a RD1 MLB on his rookie deal but not as a pending UFA after his contract expired. This happens every time Buffalo loses a UFA...fans lose their stuff because a known entity and/or high pick isn't at certain positions. I attribute it to fans getting almost everything they wanted for years and now seeing a team up against the cap having to make choices. Besides, why aren't you trusting the process? Why are you doubting McBeane and their brand of football? After all, you're not the GM, amirite?

That's because EJ had Nate Hackett's "easy" playbook down by mini-camp. https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/e-j-manuel-says-bills-offense-easier-learn-165504223.html

Trust the process? Or rather, believe that MLB is of lower positional value, that Edmunds' value was significantly overrated by TBD, and that knowing the defense and being instinctive is more important than having top-end physical talent with low-end instincts. I'm amazed at how many people are doubting McD now. Trust the process!

If Zay Jones' production is the standard for WR2, then that's doing JA a huge disservice and means they're still behind KC and CIN offensively. My concern is OBD considers the offense having received their share of investment with Kincaid selected in RD1. Or, that they can keep spending on their own guys. Around here, re-signing their own gets a lot of props, but it's not always what's best for the team...on the field and the cap. Buffalo needs to keep investing high picks on offense at WR to find a contributor on their rookie contract. Davis is the kind of guy you jettison looking for a replacement with better potential.

I read this post and the one below and wonder how can people be watching the same player. And then, at this point, have to consider if/when Davis plays to the level he has how it affects the offense? Is Kincaid now being targeted more and expected to shoulder a bigger load as a rookie? The low-end UFA targets Harty and Sheffield getting more targets?

Belichick going full Kenny Powers now. Went from being the guy who could get Randy Moss on the cheap and being a UFA destination to this. Next thing you know, he'll be making appearances at car dealerships.

https://nypost.com/2023/04/07/broncos-reporter-benjamin-allbright-makes-bizarre-twitter-sexting-confession/ This guy is reporting, as a Denver Broncos related show host so maybe there's an attempt to lodge Diggs loose. Or this guy is throwing crap against the wall. Probably the latter.

Diggs' dissent needs to be understood and no one really knows right now what it's all about. That is, unless individual players are always wrong and management is always correct. And if that's the case you are obtuse. McD and his staff should always be under the microscope right along with players. As for team building, I thought McD's "process" solved all team ills. After all, this is the franchise that settled on Diggs when Antonio Brown made it know he wouldn't play in Buffalo. So, roster construction often defers to pure talent.

Tell us what Diggs' beef with the front office/McD/Josh/ownership is. That goes a long way toward understanding why, 3 years in, his attitude has apparently changed.

Stop being obtuse. This isn't a 40-hour per week email job where expectations are low already. Nor is it an arena that everyone should sing kum-ba-ya now that last season is over and just hop on the 2023 Process train. WR's do diva-esque things occasionally, but until we know for sure what happened, this is normie posturing. Stefon isn't a choir boy by any means...but it's so TBD for people to attack the player first and not question the events which led to the situation. 3 seasons of no issues until that playoff game and it's all on him? Yeah.