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No offense, but the guy they chose didn’t even make the list of your top 14 choices. And 4 guys you had between 3 and 9 were not the pick even though they were on the board. So not sure I would say this was “pretty close”.

I’m not putting much stock in this, this guy doesn’t have any credibility and no one else picked up this leak. All the other leaks were picked up by credible sources.

Where did you see the Bills had 4 CBs with first round grades? Got a link?

If the NFL wanted to start the hype train early for the first game they would just announce it not leak it. This is off the table now. Rams play broncos on Xmas.

Actually, I think the wide spread hate for him has significantly reduced since leaving NE. He’s become much more likable by being funny and entertaining. Think this will be a good move for Fox. May not be very popular amongst AFC East fan bases, but I think he is far less hated by the rest of the fans than he was while in NE.

Certainly possible there could be changes. That VP of broadcasting for the NFL network during that 30 min interview said as much. Quite interesting interview actually, and believe there is a link to it earlier in this thread. Said the new tech allows their systems to run new schedules nightly and see how they like them. And that in previous years schedule changes were easier to do towards the later parts of the season, but now more recently with the advancement in technology can make changes at any week just as easily. Said changes could continue to happen all the way up to just before the schedule announcement. The one one caveat though was that he talked about the increased difficulty this year with so many live events coming back after COVID, so it’s not as easy this particular year to move things around freely as these stadiums, especially the expensive newer ones built with a lot of public funds, are booking a ton of events to offset lost revenue as much as possible when events weren’t happening and also during COVID where ticket sales were lost.

Schedule release week update: So since the week is upon us, I reached out to both the people who provided the rumor/tip to me originally to see if anything new had passed their ears or eyes. And neither of them have heard nothing new up to this point. My friend at the TV Network in Detroit said it has not come up again since they were told by their boss that he was told the Bills are going to Detroit for the thanksgiving game. My friend tied into the higher ups at SoFi said they have not spoken to them since they told them about Rams week 1 opponent at home being the Bills, so nothing new to report there either. Once again, I fully trust my 2 friends with 100% confidence that they were told these 2 things, but it again does NOT mean the information that was shared with them was correct either and this still remains just a rumor and tip at this point. So will be interesting to see how it plays out come Thursday.

Yeah, Baker isnt as bad as people are making him out to be, completely over looking what he was playing through last year.

I don't this logic works...I mean no 2 drafts are the same. We can't control what DE's are available when we pick or what the quality of the draft is at DE overall. More importantly is the value we got with those picks when we made them: AJE was a projected first rounder, and many felt he was the 2nd best DE in the draft behind Chase Young...So getting him in the 2nd was great value there and easily the BPA on many boards at that point. Rousseau seemed like he was headed for a top 15 maybe top 10 pick or better after his 2019 season. He only fell to us on the fact he sat out 2020 and others moved up the ladder in the first after they had good 2020 seasons. So getting Rousseau where we did was once again good value based on his last played season. Basham was being projected as possible late first rounder or 2nd rounder by most. So we even got some value there when we picked him too. So overall, I would say we got great value in the picks when we made the picks, and can't fault Beane for taking them where he got them. And we had aging DE's at both starting spots, so we needed to add young prospects there as well.

NFLs Instagram released some matchup ideas for the opening game today and asking what the people want to see. Bills vs Chiefs and Bills vs Rams were first 2 choices. However, I’m pretty sure the opening game is always the reigning SB champs though, so some of these don’t even seem eligible for the Thursday night game. There were a few other choices too like Rams playing either Raiders, Niners, or Chiefs at home and also the Bucs vs Saints. So I wonder if responses to this would have any sway on a change or not (I bet Bills @ Chiefs might be too choice). Like would they maybe make a last minute switch based on comments to this post for the Bills to instead play at KC and do it as a prime time game Sunday or Monday week 1 instead and then have like the Niners go to LA Thursday night? One caveat here that is interesting though, is there was an unrelated leak a couple times suggesting the opening game at LA on Thursday was down to Bills or Cowboys. And in the NFLs post today the Cowboys were not included. Does that suggest it’s Bills now for sure and this post is nothing more than a marketing teaser to get people excited about the schedule release? Seems hard to imagine they would make any big schedule changes this close to the release, but you never know. https://www.instagram.com/p/CdN5Ng9JynM/?igshid=NjY2NjE5MzQ=

Saw this yesterday and thought it was pretty funny. Honestly, the Bucs version of Brady is a lot more entertaining and funny and he’s admittedly had me laughing a few times now.

Actually, I would say Devin was actually substantially better. In the 7 games Devin got 13-22 carries, he scored 7 TDs and stats during those 7 games projected over a full season would be 1400 yards rushing and 17 TDs. And this was with an OC who was allergic to running the ball in the other 10 games, in a bad run blocking scheme, behind an OL that struggled with run blocking a large chunk of the season. Now that being said, I do think Barkley could really go off here in Buffalo. Last year is not a fair year to judge Barkley on coming off his injury that takes a lot players a full season of playing before they really get back to form. And he was also stuck on a bad offense, with a bad OL and bad QB. But...I don't think we need to spend the money, we have Devin and Cook as a 1-2 punch now, and Devin did quite well when he was actually given meaningful carries. And with Kromer, Dorsey, and the addition of Saffold, the line run game likely gets a boost this year too. Thought it could happen early in offseason when I thought Giants might have some interest in maybe Cole Beasley (which given he is still unsigned, seems like they don't), but once he was cut I thought the chance of a Barkley trade pretty much dried up completely.

No offense, but it’s time to let it go. You are openly admitting here that you are more interested in trying to some how prove you were right about Hall over anything else. And what’s even to prove? He was the highest graded RB in the draft by just about everyone, so it won’t make you some guru if Hall has a good career in the first place. It means you had the same opinion of just about every single draft analyst no and mock drafter in the country. It also doesn’t mean the Bills even made a mistake taking Elam over him if both have good careers. So no disrespect, who really gives a 💩about some Jets player. It’s a Bills board, I don’t need to follow his career on a Bills board. I’ll save that for my fantasy football draft prep. We didn’t take him, let it go. We probably would have in the second, but he didn’t make it there and we took Cook who is the RB we all should be following here on this board who is also an exciting prospect who could be awesome in this offense. 2-3 years from now is Elam isn’t living up to his draft status and Hall is killing it, you can start a “I told you so” thread. But keeping this thread alive moving forward is just silly.

To be fair, Levi Wallace took blame on behalf of the players and himself of losing focus on the field a bit coming off that high of the would even go ahead TD. Almost impossible to put that on McD. Coaching only takes you so far, players human real time emotions are not in his control. Additionally, what McD called on the kickoff was not executed and was a failure of his ST coach, who has since stepped down to make a lateral move to a lesser team as a result. I get the whole buck stops at the top philosophy, but there is only so much a coach can do before the execution falls on the hands of the players and coaches. For me, I hold the ST coach and then the players on the field much more accountable for what happened over that kickoff and those 13 seconds.

While I do agree he can be impactful more this year than even before potentially, I think this gets said too much above and that it’s not entirely accurate. Not only is Edmunds 5th in the NFL in tackles since entering the league, but Edmunds is also 5th in the league at tackles for loss since entering the league. I would consider TFL a pretty impactful play. IMHO because Edmunds doesn’t get “sacks” he gets this label that he doesn’t make important plays enough. But he also plays off the ball a lot almost like a 3rd safety. So I still say I think what people are most disappointed in with Edmunds really is more about how he is used than his production. Because he has the stats showing he makes a lot of plays.

Or…we don’t want to pay him and drafted 2 CBs already

People need to move on about the fourth round pick. I’ve never seen a more insignificant obsession ever. Worse yet, we STILL got the SAME player Beane would have taken in the 4th by trading up to top of 5th to get him.

Disagree, and if you listened to Beane's interview the very thing he said his mistake was in regards to Teller was that he didn't give him enough time. He then emphatically said he would not make that mistake again. Hard disagree here. If you think Beane has any sort of ego about this, then you don't seem to know Beane very well. Every GM in football has a resume full of busts that come from everywhere in the draft, including first and second round picks. Its part of the job, nobody bats a thousand. But trading away a kid too early that goes onto quickly become one of the best players at his position in the NFL is a lot harder pill to swallow. Adding salt to the wound, Teller plays a position that is still a position we need a long term answer to still. You had that kid, your staff tried to develop and evaluate him and you missed something. Drafting a kid in the 2nd, these coaches have nothing on them...no hands on coaching, never seen the kid step onto a professional field, etc. Its just a calculated guess. First off, no disrespect, but saying he "started 7 games" is not a barometer of him being a bust or not. If that was true, Cody Ford would not be considered a bust. Second, you need to go listen to the Beane interview, he literally said Teller wasn't doing well and not looking like the right fit when they made the decision to move on. And he said his biggest mistake was not giving him more time. I mean, Beane isn't going to jettison a 5th rounder who was doing well at a position of need, so. no offense, but what you just said here is contradictory to the staffs impression of him. You are obsessed with this ego thing. Its Beanes job to get the most value out of all our assets. Whether its using a draft asset to pick a player or trading a player for draft picks or other players. What on earth does that have to do with his ego? Ok, this here is just a narrative you have created, not at all what the coaching staff felt. Teller wasn't better than all 3 of them by the end of the season. You just saying that doesn't make it true. You seem to have this notion that Teller was playing great, but Beane decided to trade him because it boosted his ego to get more than he invested in Teller back in trade. Beane is here to win SB's, not make ego moves. Not a chance he trades Teller if he was playing better than our other guys. Sorry, but his is just a narrative you created to support your opinion, but its completely contradictory to the front offices decisions and opinions. First off, he volunteered the info, he wasn't grilled on it. He literally owned the mistake (instead of trying to blanket some excuses to make it look like it wasn't really a bad call at the time) and identified the key factor in what he did wrong and how he will correct that moving forward. His number 1 mistake was not giving him enough time, and said he wouldn't make that mistake again. And Cody Ford was not even mentioned. But you look at that logic with Ford, and it makes sense why some fans are still up in arms about Ford and puzzled why he is still here. First off, he wasn't a total bust, there were some times especially early where he looked like he had some promise. He has also struggled a lot too, but he has also switched positions from college to the Pros which a lot of people over look. This over exaggerated response of yours above that I bolded is just silly. Literally no one has even remotely suggested that, nor has anything Beane said or done remotely suggested that. Its just another over the top statement thats unnecessary here. In fact, what I and just about everyone I have seen discuss Ford have said that this is probably his last chance and his most important camp of his career. Its reasonable that they are interested to see if Kromer (widely considered one of the best OL coaches in the game, if not the best) and a different blocking scheme can help Ford get back on track. But make no mistake, his job security is long gone, and he is going to have to earn his roster spot if he wants to stick around. There is no GM in history that is a GM god. No one bats .1000 in the draft of personnel decisions. Widely considered one of the best all time, and often the best GM all time, Bill Walsh traded up to get JJ Stokes in the first and called him the next Jerry Rice. He also said Jim Drunkenmiller had Joe Montana potential. Beane is already considered amongst the league bests right now, and many (myself included) see him as the top GM in the NFL right now. And that will only get more widespread and cemented when we hoist the Lombardi Trophy for the first time.

As much as I like Shazir, I think people are over looking Crowder too much. I don't think Shazir takes Crowders starting slot spot this year unless Crowder gets hurt personally. Not a knock on Shazir, he is our future slot guy who I think will be very good there, but more a credit to what I think Crowder can do catching passes from Allen, plus his experience. McD doesn't typically like starting rookies unless they flat out beat out the vet or he has to. We have brought most of our rookies along slowly who had good vets ahead of them with the one exception really being Rousseau last year who surprised a bit to take the starting nod week 1. Although, DE was still a heavy rotation even so. And I agree he is more suited for the slot, but if we had injury issues on the outside, he has some versatility to play outside if he had to. But I do think his primary role in the NFL will be in the slot.

Maybe Barkley as our third QB is who I am thinking

I think Shakir is gonna surprise you once you see him on the field. He is versatile and could help more than some think if there is an injury. And yeah, I wouldn’t rule out Sanders being brought back if there was an injury and he wanted to play again. Thanks, and I was talking about Devin Singletary

Not to knock Sanders, but I think we were a better offense once Sanders got hurt and gave Davis the window to play more. Beane even referenced how one mistake they made last year is not getting Davis involved more earlier in the season. Additionally, both Sanders and Beane have gushed about Davis and feel he is in line for a big season. Sanders, despite playing with some truly elite WRs, went so far to say he is just built different and is a Pro Bowl level WR. So I actually think Davis today is better than what Sanders was last year. Again, not a knock on Sanders, more a compliment to Davis. And I still think Crowder is being under estimated in terms of what he is capable of in this offense. So I personally think the WR group is better this year compared to last.

Ok this got me to literally laugh out loud, well done hahaha 🤣

Yeah I have seen some speculation and things suggesting he could make that transition at some point too. But I don't think thats something they will look at doing this year the way Beane spoke about him post draft though.

Thanks, yeah fixed it as it keeps autocorrecting to Bernard on me