This roster is a disaster however…..

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

8 minutes ago, Chaos said:

Jackson is playing like crap with no heart, and the coach is a dinosaur.  It’s not complicated. 

I mean I was responding to ‘the ravens were never favored to win anything/have never been considered one of the great afc teams’ which is categorically false 

 

this board gets a little odd to me at times…the original post was twisting the ravens collapse into ‘not a big deal’ as a way to take away from mcd/beane somehow but you’re perfectly entitled to not like mcd/beane without bending logic like that haha ravens were frequently labeled the best team in the afc 

 

We are like 1-2 weeks off from bills fans begging for ravens losses because we were so afraid to see them in the playoffs and now we’re going ‘eh they have never been any good’ 😂

[colin]

45 minutes ago, All_Pro_Bills said:

I think Beane overvalues his draft board vs. the grades given by other teams on certain players which has him consistently trading up and chasing a player and drafting for need. In the 2025 draft, he traded the team's 2 2nd rounders to Chicago for the 9th pick in the 2nd round to pick DT Sanders. He's been a serviceable rotational DT this year.

 

The Bears used those picks on an OT, Ozzy Trapilo, and DT, Shemar Turner. A DT that graded out on par with Sanders. So in theory, staying at 24 and 30 the Bills could have filled the DT need and selected another player at another position. Only 1 other DT went in the 2nd round, at 11 to the 49ers, before the 30th pick. Its hindsight but its also a good example of the value of staying put and not spending premium picks on trade ups in the draft. 

 

ya, i think he likes taking 'clever' risks.  it has worked from time to time, and we end up w more picks than we can roster a lot, so i see why he makes moves.

 

tbh, i think what he did early, big giant moves to get allen, edmunds, and diggs, are the way to go.  it's what the rams do, they had no 1st round picks for like 9 years or something, and were always trying to trade up to draft specific guys they loved (like the DE they got the year before last).  they see it as go for gold, or just take who is where you pick.  

[TFBillsfan]

Hopefully they can get at least two impactful starters out of this next draft. Preferably WR and then S, NCB, LB and DE are all in play. 

[Einstein's Dog]

3 hours ago, finn said:

I focus on the negatives, too, but give Beane credit for giving us, in no particular order, Oliver, Bishop, Walker, Hoecht, Bosa, Thompson, Hairston, Kincaid, Hawes, Shakir, Cook, Benford, the entire offensive line, and of course number 17. Most teams would snap these players up in a heartbeat. He's also provided quality role players, filled holes deftly (Prater, Wishnowsky), and, as GunnerBill pointed out, over time built a deep roster, with players like Trubinsky, Knox, Ty Johnson, VDM, Hancock, and the many recycled oldsters on the team. Picking very late in the draft every year (late on the waiver wire doesn't help, either) it's not surprising he's found it hard to find impact players, but he has done an admirable job filling out the roster, overall.

 

The glaring, neon-blinking, jaw-dropping, almost unforgiveable exception of course is wide receiver. That's the big hole on his resume. If he turned out right on either Coleman or Palmer, we would be the Super Bowl favorite, hands down. But he wasn't right. He could not have been more wrong. It's not much of an exaggeration to say he is asking Allen to play with a nice line, quality RBs and TEs--and NO wide receivers at all, aside from Shakir, who is like a little 12-year old asked to support his five younger siblings.

 

Put it this way: The Bills might have the worst set of wide receivers in the league--and still be the best team. That's both a testament to Beane's work as GM and an indictment. 

 

I agree with you, and really don't understand how people look at it much differently.  Beane has done well overall and people really need to compare him to other GMs and not to their own version of perfection.  All GMs make draft mistakes, all teams have some weaknesses.

 

As to the WR problem.  It is more recent than forever - remember at one point we had Diggs/Brown/Beasley. 

The real surfacing of this fiasco has been post-Diggs.  I don't even think Coleman was meant to be a WR1, he just needed to be WR2.    Getting the FA A Cooper was meh.  And one of the worst moves, IMO, was the Palmer deal - was he really thinking that was WR1 material?   Maybe Beane thought it was a stop gap until he did another in-season trade (ala Cooper but only a little better this time)

 

I think Beane might be feeling a little heat to get JA a top tier WR, and that's a good thing (Beane's public admission to trying for Waddle was telling IMO).  I hope the pressure is such that it results in bringing in a proven WR (not the hope of a draft pick).  I think it will, Beane is a smart GM.   Not to get ahead of ourselves but the off-season will be exciting in that regard.