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Bills, rest of NFL adjust to Covid-19-driven scouting restrictions

‘Normally, the Buffalo Bills’ Senior Bowl contingent includes General Manager Brandon Beane and coach Sean McDermott. With the Bills’ season extended by advancing to last Sunday’s AFC championship game, Beane told reporters Wednesday that he and McDermott, along with higher-ranking members of the player-personnel staff, were not traveling to Mobile. Instead, Beane said, the Bills sent 10 members of their college scouting staff and planned to have “one or two guys stay for the game.”’

Josh Allen, Stefon Diggs and passing attack keyed a revolution for Bills offense

‘Instead, what we got was a run game that was mostly dysfunctional from start to finish. Now, it’s tough to complain about an offense that scored 501 points, and coordinator Brian Daboll made the decision to move away from the run and turn the offense into one of the most pass happy in the league, but the Bills’ inability to run effectively was problematic and McDermott admitted it, saying, “I can tell you right now, we’ve got to run the football better.”’

Buffalo Bills: 5 positions to address in 2021 offseason

‘The Bills’ rushing attack doesn’t scare anybody, so if you want to contain this offense you focus on the pass. It’s unlikely that, in 2021, the Bills will abandon their pass-first mindset. But they will want to add a rushing attack that actually scares opponents and keeps them guessing.’

Bills Have Turned A Corner

‘Suppose that before the 2020 season, you had heard that the Bills would go 13-3 on a tough regular-season schedule, have the second best AFC record, win two home playoff games, and come up short on the road in the AFC championship game, all with a bright future ahead. Would you have taken that result? Or would you have instead put all of those chips back onto the table and spun the wheel?’

Bills’ GM says club may need to get creative with a Josh Allen extension, but is possible this offseason

‘”I think his decision-making has really improved, but there is still plenty of room for improvement. I thought he’s done a great job of protecting his body compared to his first two years. I think he’ll naturally continue to learn the game,” Beane said of Allen. “It’s another year in our system, Brian Daboll is likely to be back. Continuity is important at the quarterback position, and it appears to be heading that way again as we go into Year 4.”‘

Beane: ‘We’ll have to be very sharp’ this offseason

‘”We’ll have to be very sharp on each move. Every dime we spend we have to make sure we spend it wisely. And then the onus is on us to have a really strong draft. Our personnel department knows that, I know that, and we can’t fail there.”‘

As Bills games went on, so did COVID-19 challenges

‘”It was a learning experience all along, and as the stakes were raised, the stress-level was raised. Hopefully Josh Allen doesn’t get it, hopefully [Stefon] Diggs. Any of these guys that really could impact what we do an offense or defense or whatever. You’re praying to the good Lord that the guys can avoid it.”’

What they’re saying | NFL analysts share these opinions on Buffalo’s 2020 postseason run

‘My message would only be, be angry this morning, be pissed off. Because the worst thing that any Bills fan could feel this morning is contentment. ‘Great season, look how well we did, we made it to the AFC title game.’ No. Be angry, you should be there. And I’ll tell you this, this is what advantage that the Bills got [Sunday] night in a terrible night for them. Know your enemy. You know who your enemy is, and he wears number 15 for the Kansas City Chiefs, and he ain’t going nowhere. So, you can spend the next 10 years being like, ‘divisional round, title round, wild card round,’ or you can handle Mahomes. I would spend the next offseason, and every offseason after that, battling that enemy named Patrick Mahomes because he’s going to live in your house for the next decade if you don’t.’