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Thanks for your gracious reply. Didn't mean to jump on you. I have a daughter, too, certainly brighter and more capable than I am, and I might be oversensitive to signs the world won't give her a fair shake.

Why Debi? Why not Tom from Tonawanda or Leo from Lancaster? Did you choose a female name deliberately, or were you unconsciously channeling our culture's poor view of woman when looking for a name that would evoke sneers? Women don't have a monopoly on stupidity, believe me.

Great take. Beane played a bad hand impressively. Diggs was washed. Between force-feeding him another year and hope for better results, Beane leveraged what is likely to be a high second-round pick next year. Between sticking with a WR 2 who had every chance to step up and didn't, he drafted a much more talented replacement. Morse is a loss, but he might have hit the wall, too, and they needed the cap space, and it looks like Beane found a capable replacement. He added depth everywhere. People forget lack of depth killed us the past two years, when the starting roster was good enough to go all the way. They still need a starting-quality free safety and another dependable pass rusher, but I agree with the OP that this WR group can get the job done. Put it this way: Add a veteran FS, and this team already looks better than the injured teams the Bills fielded the past two years. Ironically, they might go all the way when those other teams couldn't.

It's such a juicy narrative--"Bills hand Mahomes AND Worthy to Chiefs!" that it will prevail unless things develop dramatically the other direction, like Coleman is the ROY and--"and," mind you--Worthy is an obvious bust. That's not likely to happen, so get ready for the storyline to be trotted out for the next several years.

The reporters had the "Worthy impresses in first day of camp" headline ready to go before practice began and didn't bother to change it after he promptly dropped his first pass and then got injured. Welcome to the world of preformed narratives.

I thought he was a good dude, too, and I'm still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, but his hissy fit over the Gronk throwback, and his trash talk after the KC victory over the Bills in the playoffs (crowing over Dawkins' comment about how hard it is to play in Buffalo) showed no class. It wouldn't have been hard to commend the Bills, comment over how close the game was despite the extreme number of Bills' injuries, his rivalry with Allen played, etc. Instead, it was all about how great he and the Chiefs were. Same after the SB. Compare to how gracious Allen has been after losing, which is tenfold harder. It's not easy to be adulated as deity. But I don't think he's handling his fame particularly well.

I have hopes for Ingram as our fourth and high hopes for Elam to battle for a starting job if the new DB coach can reach him. He was a first-rounder for a reason. I wonder if it's time to let Hamlin go, maybe trade him to the Steelers for a sixth-round pick. He hits hard, but he always seems to be in the wrong place, at least when I saw him play before last year.

It would be all I can do not to spit on the ground if I saw him in person. He's a lying, cheating narcissist with no class, wit, or grace.

And we'll also be assessing Harrison, Nabors, Odonze, and Pearsall, all of whom Coleman may outperform. Scoff if you want, but people here and elsewhere last year would have laughed at the idea of Puka Nacua outperforming all the receivers drafted before him. We just don't know, not for sure.

That contributed to Diggs' effectiveness last year, I'd say. The Eagles hit him after the whistle a few times, and other teams, like the Steelers, figured out he's soft. I hope the Bills lay the lumber on him when the Bills play Houston.

Fool's gold.

Like all of us, Brady and McDermott saw Diggs being tossed around like a ragdoll. Davis was bigger, but of course he couldn't get open or catch, so what good is that?

I could never be a draft evaluator. The guy looks like a young Von Miller. I'd think he was a first-round pick. I mean, what else does he have to do? I realize this is a highlight reel, and evidently he's a liability against the run, but still, he looks like a first-rate pass rusher to my inexpert eyes. Yeah, maybe he should trade down from all the earlier rounds and up from all the later rounds. Pick like 20 players in the fifth round. If he hits on just seven, he'll have the best draft in the league. Revolutionary!

I think so, too. It's lacking only name recognition. Shakir was better than Diggs last year, at least in the second half of the season; Samuels has produced despite never having a top-twenty quarterback; Coleman looks terrific; Hollins should be a solid, Kumerow-type 4th. Remember, they have a QB that produced big time with no more than Beasley, Brown, and loose change. But let's not kid ourselves. Hamler, Shavers, Isabella, and Shorter are all long shots. Maybe lightning will strike. More likely, they'll go the way of Deonte Hardy, Tanner Gentry, Isaiah Hodgins, Marquez Stephenson, Tavon Austin, and Jamison Crowder.

Forgiven!