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11 hours ago, SoTier said:
How long are some TBD posters going to keep beating the same dead horse?
The Bills didn't draft McConkey or trade up to get Thomas. Deal with it. All your continual whining changes nothing.
Well, as with life in general, the hair-pulling and regrets do have the benefit of helping avoid similar mistakes in the future, at least supposedly. Maybe evolution selected for such a high-degree of guilt, bitterness and regret in our species because it takes that much to penetrate our thick skull to not make the same mistake twice. I assume Beane has an outcomes-assessment review in place where his staff considers why they made the mistakes they did, going back years. I'm sure it's more efficient than hundreds of pages of posts declaring how idiotic certain picks were. But, given the thick-skulls theory, maybe reading through the thorough roasting here is what it would take to persuade him not to draft players like Boogie Basham and Cody Ford.
In any even, go Keon! I really, really do not want to spend the next ten years despairing how we could have had Ladd or Xavier.
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1 hour ago, Don Otreply said:
Really?
Did you not notice the O-line this past season?
I noticed the tackles. The interior seemed competent to me, but not stellar.
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3 hours ago, Captain Hindsight said:
Oh please. Players get cut one year into a 3 year contract all the time. I want Cook to be here, but I'm not going to vilify a guy for trying to get more money.
Yeah, but what message is he sending that's worth missing all these early but still important practices? "I'm really serious, guys! I really am mad now!" It's just so juvenile. If anything, Beane is less likely to sign him if he holds out, and I see why. He loses nothing by coming to mini-camp and gains a lot, including Beane's good will.
Some of these athletes have the minds of 14-year olds.
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18 hours ago, Alphadawg7 said:
The worst play I have ever personally witnessed was watching Trent run out of bounds on 4th down on our final drive of the game instead of trying to make a play happen. Most pathetic, gutless, unacceptable play I have ever seen live in a game. She should have been benched or cut before he hit the showers.
Makes me smile to think we have the polar opposite of this at QB now. The only way Josh Allen goes out of bounds short of the marker on fourth down with the game on the line is in the air as he throws it on target thirty yards down the field across his body.
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17 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said:
Dodson #29. Good for the guy. Not thrilled he's a Dolphin now.
I wish we could have found a way to keep him. But he wasn't going to start, and he's too good to be a backup. One of the few real weaknesses on the team right now is backup linebacker. Williams is great, but Baylon Spector is either bad or injured.
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7 hours ago, SCBills said:
It could be as simple as do we pay Cook or McGovern.
Both arguably Top 5 players at their position.
What makes you think McGovern is top 5? Not challenging you, just genuinely curious. I had him as a slightly above-average player.
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41 minutes ago, Whites Bay said:
"Seasons"?! Try "Decades".
As for the Bills, I grew up in Rochester during the era of black-and-white TV on 3 stations. All we HAD was the Bills. When I think of OJ running through the snow, it was mostly from the crappy reception on the TV set.
I wasn't diehard until the Kelly era, but I remember OJ smashing a snow ball into the TV camera lens on Thanksgiving day when I was a teenager.
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Before the rule change, the success rate of online kicks was like 15% AND teams didn't need to declare them. That gave the option real excitement. But at 6%, everyone knowing it's coming? No, that's pointless. They need to think out of the box, something equivalent to pulling the goalie in hockey. High risk high reward. Maybe an 75-yard field goal attempt.
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6 hours ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
As long as these guys live up to expectations, idgaf if they dip their wings in ketchup.
Well, let's not get carried away.
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On 5/17/2025 at 10:22 PM, The Jokeman said:
Count me in the group that used to post at HyperBills. The Olof Pilar story was crazy back in the day.
I think I participated, too, unless there was another online Bills group circa 1995. I got in my first flame war with another poster and was really surprised how mean I got, knowing my identity was concealed. That was sobering.
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54 minutes ago, starrymessenger said:
I disagree. The debate is informative (at least for yours truly). On the other hand your conclusion is 100% correct imo. Personally I'm optimistic about his chances.
I'm optimistic, too; no reason not to be. The only reason for concern in my mind is how he played when he was presumably recovered from the injury, especially in the playoffs. He looked gun-shy to me, afraid to take a hit. Understandable, but if it's the case, I hope he's gotten over it, since Beane drafted him for his physicality. Allen mentioned he (Coleman) had put on some muscle in the offseason. That might help both physically and psychologically.
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2 hours ago, TheBrownBear said:
We had a +24 turnover differential last year. +8 more than any other team. That might happen once every couple of decades. We were 10th in total offense last year. Good, not great, especially considering a great offensive line and an MVP quarterback. We clearly lacked explosiveness and playmaking at the receiver position, and haven't done much to address it.
Exactly. This point is not surfacing enough in response to the avalanche of "The Bills scored more points than anyone, so why improve the offense?" type comments*. They were +2 in 2023 and 0 in 2022. The very low number of turnovers on offense is surely an artifact of Brady's emphasis on running the ball and Allen's maturity. But even if the trend is real, the unusually low number could easily be an outlier. Meanwhile, a very poor defense held its own by getting the ball back. Again, this was likely a point of emphasis (I think Babich even said so). Long may it continue. But just a few more turnovers by the offense and a few less on defense will likely make a dent in the W-L totals.
I'm not raining on the parade here. I realize you can't take turnover differential away and say "See? Mediocre team." They're a key reflection of the overall quality of the team. Still, they're not a factor you can usually rely on year to year. Given how explosively important they can be--turning the entire momentum of a game--a +24 differential can take you a long way. Cut that in half, say--still a healthy number--and, well, you hope that Beane's moves to improve on both sides of the ball bear fruit. I really, really do not want to see the AFCCG in KC yet again.
*I realize there's reason to think the offense might be better.
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The league giving KC eight prime-time games suggests it once again will ensure KC wins enough games to secure home-field advantage.
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19 hours ago, Paup 1995MVP said:
We need to keep up with better athleticism.
Hamlin's RAS score: 6.98. Lewis: 4.5. It's impressive the Bills went as far as they did last year with these two playing such big roles. Not saying they should have been cut, but you don't want this level of athleticism in your starters.
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9 hours ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
There's a reason Richardson is training with Josh Allen this offseason.
Evidently, that was just a rumor.
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5 hours ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
You weren't stupid for that. The league hadn't yet exploded into the all out passing league it became and the kind of hero ball, keep a play alive QB play that's made the pocket passer all but extinct.
It was true then and it's true now, 99.9% of the time if you're inaccurate in College - it isn't going to improve in the Pro's. Josh is the 0.1%. But he's the exception and not the rule.
It's been proven in recent years with the Drafting of guys like Trey Lance and Anthony Richardson that Drafting a QB based solely on size, a big arm, and some tools is practically always going to blow up in your face. Josh is just a unicorn.
Even after having Josh Allen, if we're in a situation like 2018 again and the prospects are what they were then - I'd still be against taking the Josh Allen like prospect.
He's a unicorn, but his improved accuracy didn't just happen; he made it happen by committing himself to an offseason program with Palmer (forgot his first name). If Lance, Richardson, and other big-arm, athletic quarterbacks have shown similar single-minded devotion to improvement, I haven't heard of it.
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13 hours ago, Doc said:
I've been saying that they can easily cut Jackson, Lewis and Ingram and get them on the PS. I think that with the dearth of safeties, Hamlin might make it by default, but I'm hoping someone else outplays him. As for White, he might make it just based on past history.
I can see a future starting lineup of Benford, Hairston, Bishop, and Hancock, with Strong at nickel.
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6 hours ago, Richard Noggin said:
Agree generally that McD should be trusted when it comes to the secondary, and especially with the S position.
Last year's secondary play was mediocre at best, and McDermott likely has some responsibility for it. Hamlin playing back in the end zone, Bishop failing to contribute, Douglas fading, Elam not ready at all despite three years of development, Rapp no more than adequate... You can make excuses for McDermott all day long, some quite valid. But how long are we going to give him credit for being a genius with the secondary because of Poyer and Hyde? Could it be that Poyer and Hyde were just ready to come on when they did?
Anyway, if he can't develop the players he has now, the benefit of the doubt stops and the doubt begins.
EDIT: Sorry mods: Didn't mean to divert the subject of the thread. Best-case scenario for Casey Rogers is the practice squad, which is a great best case with the current depth at the position.
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At least he's not as skinny as Kincaid.
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On 5/2/2025 at 2:29 PM, Ethan in Cleveland said:
Leodis ran a 4.39. He could run with almost anyone. But he was too dumb to play the position.
J.D. Williams was fast, too, and we know how that turned out.
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11 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:
They simply haven't been good enough on either side of the ball when it counts.
Greatness isn't PPG or YPG, as I'm sure you're saying. It's making the plays in the clutch. Last year, despite the 4th down blitz, Allen threw a catchable ball. Kincaid dropped it. The year before, Allen threw a perfect ball to Diggs. Diggs dropped it. In the 2022 regular season, Allen threw arguably the most beautiful and clutch ball of his career against the Jets, a 60-yard dime to Davis with the game on the line. Davis dropped it.
Lesson: the Bills need more clutch receivers, aka great receivers, in the most accurate definition of the word. I happen to believe Shakir is one, and that he would have made that catch in 2023 in the end zone if Dawkins could have held his block a microsecond longer. I also think Ty Johnson may be clutch, as Hollins proved to be, surprisingly. (Naturally, Beane dumped him.) Palmer? Coleman? Samuels? Knox? Ronnie Harmon, out of retirement?
If only Allen could play quarterback AND receiver...☹️
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3 hours ago, Gregg said:
McDermott does seem to get outcoached by Reid in the playoffs. I would have fired him after 13 seconds but the only opinion that matters is Terry's. He likes having Sean and Brandon as his HC/GM. I still say it doesn't matter how well Allen plays as long as the defense continues to disappoint, they will never get to a Super Bowl. Allen will be this generations version of Marino/Ewing. Hopefully with all of the changes on defense it will lead to a better defense that can do their part so the Bills can finally bring a championship to WNY. This fanbase deserves one.
You might be right. I'm thinking that if McDermott fully cedes control over the defense AND this year's draft picks make a difference, they can do enough to push the team over the top. That Baltimore game was pretty heroic on their part. I'm assuming that was all Babich and no McDermott, and that might be unfair. Like all Bills fans, I'm just fed up with the annual fold against KC, and it really does see that Reid is getting the better of McDermott, as you say.
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12 minutes ago, Gregg said:
One player no matter how great cannot carry a team to a Super Bowl. It's impossible. The Bills are going to get over the hump with Allen continuing to play well and having the defense step up and doing their part. If that happens then the Bills will get over the hump and get to a Super Bowl. Barring any serious injuries, they will most likely face the Eagles or Lions if they do. I think this is the year Detroit represents the NFC in the Super Bowl.
An excellent point, if I had claimed that Allen can lift an otherwise mediocre team. But that's not what I said. I said Allen is capable of lifting an otherwise very good team that has stumbled in the playoffs every year because McDermott is just not a playoff coach. He finds a way to lose, every year. A defense that steps up, as you say, will certainly help, just as it did a few years ago when one of the best in the league. But the players (and maybe a few key coaches) need to overcome the fecklessness of their head coach, to basically marginalize him, induce him to go stand in the corner once the playoffs start. Led by Allen, I think they're finally ready to do that.
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I think this Bills team, with a better secondary and d-line and a settled identity on offense, can beat anyone. On the other hand, even with this new team, I can also see them losing to Chiefs, Ravens, and Bengals in the playoffs, with the advantage of having Allen once again neutralized by the disadvantage of having McDermott.
My hope for the season rests on this: I think Allen is finally going to prevail over the ineptitude of his head coach. I don't think he can play much better than he has, but I sense he is finally fed up. This is a fully realized, enormously talented player at the absolute peak of his career who will not longer tolerate losing. McDermott will haplessly steer this team to second- or third-best every year if Allen lets him. But I don't think Allen will, not anymore.
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They might have chosen a more cheery title. Why not just "Four-Time Losers"?