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This is a strange post to say they neglected the position and then list 4 things they did to address the position. You may not like what they did but there is no need to mischaracterize the steps they did take. Shakir was elevated last year starting with the Tampa Bay game and out performed Diggs and Davis in the process, Samuel was a priority as a free agent and got the biggest deal of the offseason and Coleman may have been the 8th taken but he may have been much higher on the Bills draft board which would make the 2 trade downs irrelevant. Giving a new chance to other "busts" to fill out the bottom of the group and maybe stash on the the practice squad or use on special teams is a smart, lower cost approach. I recall no advocates here for retaining Hardy, Sherfield or Davis for a $13M AAV cost. We won't know what this group is until they play real games with QB1 running the show. This was to be the case regardless of what they did or did not do to overhaul the position.

OK. Just to back this up. A comedian at the Lucille Ball comedy festival in Jamestown, Opey Olagbaju, who spent part of his youth in Nigeria made a joke about this last night. He claimed that the championship T-shirts of losing Super Bowl teams would end up there and by the 4th year they had gotten tired of getting them. He claimed he once told the joke with Andre Reed in the audience.

This is a commonly held belief about Cam but if you do the research there were two isolated events that ruined his right shoulder. One was a tackle attempt after an interception and the other was TJ Watt driving his helmet into Cam's armpit while in the middle of his throwing motion. I do not think cam showed much decline as a runner but his arm looked like it was wrecked during his time with the Patriots. Watt hit on Newton Tackle attempt versus Chargers

Not likely to be 120F on the Bills sideline given that it's a night game.

Among the players that don't make the cut to 53, the Bills should have some decent practice squad options and it matters because they pull WRs off the practice squad every year. It's as if Beane made a mental note that signing Beasley and Brown back to the roster were desperation moves of a kind that reflected poorly on his roster planning. Many of his moves this off-season seem geared toward preparing good players to stash there too.

Zone read option runs had to go. Josh makes a misread against an unblocked edge defender and he is flirting with disaster. I never want to see a Joey Bosa type defender cork screw him off his feet and hip drop him like a rodeo event ever again. QB power runs, draws, and sneaks seem way less risky. Scrambles where he can see the field well, use the sideline or time the slide correctly are much safer. Josh just needs to better choose how the play ends.

I have thought much the same but I do not think it's a trend that puts WRs in the same tier as RBs. This may be a trend for teams with a QB at 20 to 25% of their cap and it's likely more of a necessity. Top WR prospects are still drafted very highly and the top guys are getting 10 to 12% of the cap on their second contracts. That is very much not like RBs. So this may become the operational thinking for the better teams with elite QBs on a 2nd contract but it certainly is not a league wide one that applies to all teams in all situations as seems to be the case for RBs.

The entire lower bowl stands for the entire game. My knees won't allow for that so my seats in 227/228 are much appreciated. The latter section is only 5 seats wide which is also much appreciated. Pretty decent views of both jumbotrons, in the shade on the hottest of days and mostly well behaved fans.

this all I could find so I think the answer is no.

Looks like Joe graduated in 2018 and he wrestled 220 then. He was at 195 for most of the 2016-2017 season. It is easy enough to verify using the archived results at Armdrag and the links there to Matburn and Trackwrestling.

Just to mention that Shaun Dolac is coming back to UB from Utah State. He made first team All-Mac in 2022.

Outstanding HS wrestler at Lancaster. I was also very impressed by West Seneca East's Shaun Dolac's 2022 All MAC 1st team, UB season. He entered the transfer portal and signed with Utah State early in January. I went to see his Utah State profile and then find that he went back into the portal a week or so ago and is returning to UB for his last year. Crazy times in college football.

This may be true but we all suspect Beane was really, really upset that he didn't get a 3rd round comp pick so let's consider the value in making it right when done wrong.

Think of all the combine interviews and 30 visits for players they did not draft. For every Beane comment about liking Coleman's 40 time because it meant they would have a shot at getting him at their draft spot, there are 100s more about other combine players.

These videos do reveal some of "the process," sugary baked goods included. We only get to see the parts that they want us to see or that they can let us see (we probably can't see comments about players taken by other teams, for instance) but even the UDFA signings process have a process. Beane cares about every player he puts on the roster. I think it really bothers him when he loses out on his coveted players. It explains the trade ups he's made over the years more than anything else, imo. Small investments to make to ensure the player you wanted didn't go to another team and you have lingering feelings of regret.

I love these highly edited, extended PR videos and look forward to them after every draft. Very well done and we get to see some of the decision making process and the draft room interactions. So, we do learn something from them. Sad Kim still can't be there to offer her home baked cookies to the room and have McD make a face when he was offered. Link: Inside the Bills' 2024 Draft

Let's hope that Keon Coleman is the 2018 Josh Allen of the 2024 WR prospects. I think I phrased that correctly. The conversation feels like deja vu all over again-ish as it's the rematch of the analytics crowd vs. the scouting community. This leads the discussion to whether he is self aware, can take coaching and is willing to do whatever it takes to shape his skillset to be successful against the best of the best and allow his freakishly rare athletic abilities dominate opponents.

In my part of the world the story is told that Shane Conlan got the last scholarship offered in that particular class after PSU recruiters watched him play a HS basketball game. Seeing this, Keon shows elite body control as he drives the lane, does the 360 dunks, etc. That seems like a good skill that translates for a bigger WR to separate and make himself available for the ball. I can't see how he would be limited. Teams might have a problem matching up the right kind of defender with him.

Hey Augie, I do not know your profile but my sense is that as a 60ish, white, American man there are certain cultural references that I (we) should make known to our younger brethren and we need to slip these in to threads wherever they fit. So well played.

Isabella and Hamler are similar in that they were smallish, fast, early day 2 draft prospects that failed on their original teams which have proven to have been rather poor situations. There's a good chance that the Bills liked them in their draft years and are thus willing to give them a chance within their organizational walls and see what they might unlock. There is such a thing as bad luck with injuries and poor environments where one's career begins. Josh repeats his dad's "bloom where you are planted" mantra but there are some franchises that are asphalt parking lots surrounded by overfilled dumpsters. Little chance to make roots and bloom there. They are also decent candidates for one or two of the six veteran slots on the practice squad. Remember the Bills 2022 season when they were running thin in their WR group heading into the playoffs and brought Beasley and Brown back late in the season? I think Beane might be inclined to do more to prevent that from happening again.

This is a knee-jerk reaction to the "traits" of a draft prospect reminding them of a past player that was a "failure." Big bodied, "slow" poor separator from FSU = Kelvin Benjamin. Toolsy but inaccurate QB that is not pro ready and needs patience and growth = EJ Manuel. See how that works? Ben Solak of the Ringer about to come on WGR and tell them why Coleman is a good fit and how the reading of his analytical profile lacks context.

Tee's RAS:

The idea of trading for an established WR who is due a second contract is appealing to some. Tee Higgins has been a name that has circulated. Coleman shares a very similar body type and athletic profile with Tee. I haven't seen any comps to him but I'll say it seeing some would be happy if we made a trade for him. In many athletic respects, Keon has him beat.

Plus, there's the added entertainment value of seeing heads explode with another trade down. Say there are 5 teams in the bidding and they're chewing on it for another 8 hours, someone should offer something sweet. I said Carolina because of the Dan Morgan thing and #33 was theirs to begin with, but I like your ideas just fine as well.