The Bills were high bidders for Waddle, tried acquiring Williams

[The Jokeman]

1 hour ago, Turk71 said:

The Super Bowl hopeful Bills went into the season with a pathetically weak wr room. It's not as if a great wr went down with injury...these guys were expecting a SB year with a bottom of the barrel wr room. They're just clueless while they waste another year of Allen's prime.  

Cuz our offense has been our weak point against the Chiefs in the playoffs? But I know Beane drafted Hairston, TJ Sanders, Landon Jackson and Strong cuz he knew they all going to get hurt. 

[Dr. Who]

6 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:

Cuz our offense has been our weak point against the Chiefs in the playoffs? But I know Beane drafted Hairston, TJ Sanders, Landon Jackson and Strong cuz he knew they all going to get hurt. 

Gotta hand it to ya, Brandon. You've got the magic touch.

[Rousseauisnoschmo]

On 11/9/2025 at 10:24 AM, BuffaloBillsGospel2014 said:

This just infuriates me more, Beane refuses to upgrade the WR position in this past draft then goes on to scold the WGR morning show and now was said to be in on several WR talks at the deadline and then spends all his time trying to trade with division rivals who probably milked it out just so Beane couldn’t go after anyone else, you sir got PLAYED! 

So let me get this straight. The Dolphins and the Jets had Beane and his entire staff on the phone 24 hours a day for several days leading up to the trade deadline to prevent them from trading with anyone else. There was absolutely no way Beane could find any time to talk to any other team? That's your take on this.

[BillMafia716ix]

 

57 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:

Cuz our offense has been our weak point against the Chiefs in the playoffs? But I know Beane drafted Hairston, TJ Sanders, Landon Jackson and Strong cuz he knew they all going to get hurt. 

Definitely can’t blame Beane for that. The only thing I fault Beane on was not addressing the WR1 position this offseason. But I can see why he didnt. I mean Josh did win the MVP with this same group of guys last season. Only difference now Josh isn’t play as well and he's back to turning the ball over. 
 

Going after Waddle I think he knows the error he made and I fully expect him to pull a Diggs type move this offseason for a WR1 because the Keon Coleman experiment has not worked and I think he was banking on him to step up. 

[BuffaloBillsGospel2014]

1 hour ago, Rousseauisnoschmo said:

So let me get this straight. The Dolphins and the Jets had Beane and his entire staff on the phone 24 hours a day for several days leading up to the trade deadline to prevent them from trading with anyone else. There was absolutely no way Beane could find any time to talk to any other team? That's your take on this.

 

Are you asking me a question? I have no clue what actually happened but the way it's coming off from what I'm reading and hearing is that Beane went hard after Waddle and Williams and spent most of his time with those teams waiting to hear from them and missed out on players like Shaheed, whether or not that's the truth I have no idea if you have heard something else please feel free to let me know.

[Rousseauisnoschmo]

4 hours ago, BuffaloBillsGospel2014 said:

 

Are you asking me a question? I have no clue what actually happened but the way it's coming off from what I'm reading and hearing is that Beane went hard after Waddle and Williams and spent most of his time with those teams waiting to hear from them and missed out on players like Shaheed, whether or not that's the truth I have no idea if you have heard something else please feel free to let me know.

I just think that's a ridiculous assumption that he sat in his office focused on two players to the extent that it prevented him from discussing deals with other teams. It's simple logic. Those guys are usually in the office 7 days a week this time of year. Your gonna sit here and tell me Beane talked to two teams and spent the rest of the time just staring at the phone waiting for a call back. He or nobody on his staff talked to any other team? Really? 

[ScottishBills]

17 minutes ago, Rousseauisnoschmo said:

I just think that's a ridiculous assumption that he sat in his office focused on two players to the extent that it prevented him from discussing deals with other teams. It's simple logic. Those guys are usually in the office 7 days a week this time of year. Your gonna sit here and tell me Beane talked to two teams and spent the rest of the time just staring at the phone waiting for a call back. He or nobody on his staff talked to any other team? Really? 

 

Weird sort of argument to make. You are clearly right, i think Beane could have made more than 2 phone calls. I suspect he did to be fair

 

But its also fairly obvious that he got stuck up enough on this possibility that he ran out of time on the other possible deals or came up short on his other offers because he preferred this possible deal. Weeks before this, fan board fans managed to conclude the Jets and Dolphins wouldn't trade with the Bills - so its not that surprising that fans are flabbergasted he was wasting his time on this rather than other deals. He did get played, he wasted his time on deals that didnt come off - and that even fans could see weren't going to happen.

[All_Pro_Bills]

1 hour ago, ScottishBills said:

 

Weird sort of argument to make. You are clearly right, i think Beane could have made more than 2 phone calls. I suspect he did to be fair

 

But its also fairly obvious that he got stuck up enough on this possibility that he ran out of time on the other possible deals or came up short on his other offers because he preferred this possible deal. Weeks before this, fan board fans managed to conclude the Jets and Dolphins wouldn't trade with the Bills - so its not that surprising that fans are flabbergasted he was wasting his time on this rather than other deals. He did get played, he wasted his time on deals that didnt come off - and that even fans could see weren't going to happen.

You don't want to get forced into acting out of desperation but that's the position Beane put himself in by failing to address the obvious WR problem, with the exception of Coleman, in the past couple drafts. 

By contrast look at what the Eagles did by getting Phillips as a cheap rental for a 3rd.  A 3rd they can get back as a supplemental pick if he signs a big free agent contract elsewhere. That's top-shelf GM  work.

 

[Virgil]

Whoever we take in the first round will be forever compared to Waddle.  That’s a tall order 

[All_Pro_Bills]

1 hour ago, Virgil said:

Whoever we take in the first round will be forever compared to Waddle.  That’s a tall order 

If the team plays the remainder of the season like they did on Sunday that could be something like a 1st round pick between 14 and 20. I might be alone here but picking that high would be better for the long term than getting into the playoffs only to get bounced out in the wildcard round.

Edited 5 minutes ago by All_Pro_Bills

[stlbills13]

The Bills leaking that story to make the fans really believe they tried sure backfired on them.