The Bills were high bidders for Waddle, tried acquiring Williams

[DuckyBoys]

He put himself in the same position yet again  You would think after picking up Cooper out of desperation last year we would be in the same situation yet again  Did we watch the same games he did last season?  What make him think Keon would take a giant leap.?  Or that this would be the year Samuel actually contributed?  Or that Kincaid could be counted on to stay healthy for any length of time?  Or that Palmer was anything more than a third/fourth option? What a dope  Not one proven boundary wr on a roster and this is how you go into the season hoping to contend for a super bowl  Just trade Josh already  Its clear you have no idea what you possess 

[T master]

11 hours ago, babulator said:

Beane was trying.

And it worked .

[Buffalo716]

55 minutes ago, DuckyBoys said:

He put himself in the same position yet again  You would think after picking up Cooper out of desperation last year we would be in the same situation yet again  Did we watch the same games he did last season?  What make him think Keon would take a giant leap.?  Or that this would be the year Samuel actually contributed?  Or that Kincaid could be counted on to stay healthy for any length of time?  Or that Palmer was anything more than a third/fourth option? What a dope  Not one proven boundary wr on a roster and this is how you go into the season hoping to contend for a super bowl  Just trade Josh already  Its clear you have no idea what you possess 

Any Bills fan that says the trade Josh Allen...

[In Summary]

In hindsight after today, there are two many roster holes and coaching issues to think getting fleeced for draft picks would have been worth it.

[Dafan]

11 hours ago, LEBills said:

I doubt they would have traded with us, but if that was the only hold up you give them a 2026 1st rounder. 

I'm wondering if the 2026 1st round pick was tied up in the offer for Williams?

[Mikie2times]

3 minutes ago, In Summary said:

In hindsight after today, there are two many roster holes and coaching issues to think getting fleeced for draft picks would have been worth it.

You trust lil baller Beane to plug the boat in the draft?

[BillsFooteball]

The only positive I see is they aren’t blind and know this is the team’s biggest weakness and that was before the embarrassment of the Miami game today. This will be addressed just unfortunately won’t be this year and that’s a damn shame 

[EmotionallyUnstable]

If Waddle was on the Bills sideline today, instead of the Dolphins, idk that it changes the outcome of the game. 

[26TrapDraw]

13 hours ago, James Can Cook said:

Jokes on them we are taking the division regardless of those potential trades.

We have a better chance of seeing God

[In Summary]

1 hour ago, Mikie2times said:

You trust lil baller Beane to plug the boat in the draft?

No

[BillsFanForever19]

14 hours ago, FireChans said:

This is the clip I saw. Not sure if there was a longer segment.

 

 

 

Thank you for this.

 

I'm not trying to bend over backwards to defend Beane. And maybe this comes across that way (though not my intention), but the reports were:

 

1.) We were the highest bidder.

 

2.) The Jets and Dolphins didn't want to trade to us.

 

3.) The high offer was a 1st in 2027.

 

4.) The Dolphins price to move him was at least a 2026 1st, no one offered that, so he wasn't traded.

 

I know this will prob make people roll their eyes, but it was never said that the Dolphins made it clear to Beane that they *would* trade him to us if we offered them a 1st in 2026 instead and that Beane made the conscious decision not to do that.

 

It's altogether possible that we made the offer, were told to go F ourselves bc we were in the division, and that was that. That the wanting a 1st in 2026 was a separate point in generally explaining no one met that and thus he wasn't moved.

 

Especially since it flies in the face of the initial report of them not wanting to help us. If it was our decision to turn down a 1st in 2026 - then they *were* willing to help us and that doesn't make sense.

 

Again, not trying to bend over backwards to defend him (as I'm as annoyed by our core as anyone). But it feels like people are jumping to a conclusion that may be inaccurate.

Edited 18 hours ago by BillsFanForever19

[Watkins90]

Sorry, if this has already been posted. 

Miami wanted our 2026 1st round pick and Beane said no. 

 

Heard Stephen A Smith say this on his Sirius XM show today. 

 

If so, da ***** is Beane doing. 

[Success]

I keep hearing this one, and hoping it's not true.

 

Like, what's the difference between a '26 and '27 first rounder?

 

Had we made that deal, we probably win yesterday, and our offense is basically saved, and we're back to being SB contenders. Waddle would have been as significant a game-changer as we could get.

 

[Gunsgoodtime]

He is too good at drafting Wrs to give up those kind of assets

[Chicken Boo]

I'm mystified by his wizardry.

[bmur66]

Giving up a 2026 1st round pick is an admission that you suck at drafting.

[jkeerie]

41 minutes ago, Success said:

I keep hearing this one, and hoping it's not true.

 

Like, what's the difference between a '26 and '27 first rounder?

 

Had we made that deal, we probably win yesterday, and our offense is basically saved, and we're back to being SB contenders. Waddle would have been as significant a game-changer as we could get.

 

Joe B said this evening on Leading the Charge that the 2027 draft class is supposed to be far superior than the 2026 class.  

[BillsShredder83]

29 minutes ago, bmur66 said:

Giving up a 2026 1st round pick is an admission that you suck at drafting.

No its not.  Billy Madison level answer here.  Nobody is spewing any hate if we go out and plug our #1 hole, for MULTIPLE YEARS, for a player in his prime, in the most wide open SB year..... is going to say "mAn hE sAyS hE sUks aT dRafTinG".......  "And may God have mercy on your soul"

 

Im ready to move om from BB, yet this stupid defend his own players, before the season EVEN STARTED, rhetoric is alive and pumping.  I guess this is what he gets for standing pat, but im so sick of hearing hyperbole about this radio station with 10k viewers determined how a Billion dollar company chose to handle itself.

[TheFunPolice]

3 minutes ago, jkeerie said:

Joe B said this evening on Leading the Charge that the 2027 draft class is supposed to be far superior than the 2026 class.  

 

Even more reason to give the Dolphins the 26 pick 

[BillsFanForever19]

56 minutes ago, Watkins90 said:

Sorry, if this has already been posted. 

Miami wanted our 2026 1st round pick and Beane said no. 

 

Heard Stephen A Smith say this on his Sirius XM show today. 

 

If so, da ***** is Beane doing. 

 

Again, what was reported was that the Dolphins and the Jets refused to help us by giving us players. That we were the high bidder with a 2027 1st. But that they wanted a 2026 1st from someone if they were going to move him.

 

What HASN'T been reported is that they told us they *would* trade him to us if we gave them a 2026 1st and that Beane decided to turn that down. 

 

If that's the case, the original report that they wouldn't trade him to us bc we were within the division doesn't make sense. If that were the case then they *were* willing to help us and we just turned them down.

 

What I believe happened is that we made the offer we did, were immediately turned down for being us and that there was no counter offer.

 

If it were what everyone is assuming it is and murdering Beane for, then the story wouldn't be the Dolphins and Jets refused to trade with us bc they didn't want to help us. The story would be that the Dolphins would have traded Waddle to the Bills but the Bills said no.

Edited 1 hour ago by BillsFanForever19