Mr. WEO

It could be argued that LA and BALT were not very impressed with his post-injury film

Post injuries, 2 of those teams let him go in the same season. He's likely less a Tre, more like a deuce at this point...

LeBron James=Frank Gore

yeah read that. No conclusion for comparison is even possible

Probably hoping to make through the season before the end times come. https://awfulannouncing.com/ufl/ratings-paint-bleak-picture-week-3.html Ratings down 33% form the poor numbers of last year. 3 of 8 HCs already bailed out (Wade!!). "Through 12 games this season, only one has seen both teams score over 20 points. 10 out of 12 games have seen at least one team score 12 or fewer points. The UFL is not producing an attractive brand of football. Individual player stats look just as ugly. Five of the league’s eight starting quarterbacks have completion percentages under 55%, with several sitting under 50%. Only one quarterback has thrown for more than two touchdowns through three games. The league’s best rusher is averaging a meager 63 yards per game."

axing Rodgers in person was a far better look than hiring this bum in the first place. we only heard his version of reality (I mean, come on...) during his regular session with the ultimate sycophant Pat McHillbillie.

In the end, Beane doesn't care about that. It's a business--he knows this far into his regime that he has to deliver at least a SB appearance. Fans absolutely won't care about off field stuff if there's a Lombardy--no fan base would ever loose a wink of sleep over that. Beane has shown he has the ability to whiff on a late 1st round pick for any or all of the reasons you listed. He might as well TRY to pick an actual elite player-even one with issues off the field. Reid has no problem focusing these kind of guys when it counts, you know.....

he hardly played in BAL. not a single PD after thanksgiving. he was down to 20 +/- snaps for most games, a tackle here and there against teams that hardly pass (Steelers, Philly) or just terrible at it (Giants).

there aren’t many buyers in western ny in the 1 million plus market…

Beane will offer a 1 year contract to half of the guys he has traded/cut/let go the last 4 years over the next 3 years

Buffalo is a very hot market---in the 250-500k range. This place isn't comparable to any of that.

I'm willing to bet all 1.95 million the owner did not start at that price. More likely Miller wanted 2 million and was told that was a psychological barrier for buyers who would be looking to invest that much for a tract home in Buffalo NY. A reduced price?? EVERY home in that area will sell for below asking. There is a very small number of buyers who would be shopping there in the 1.5+ mil range. There aren't any bidding wars in that neighborhood. Ask Beane. It always amazes me that NFL players would dump so much money into what is almost always temporary housing--in an area like this. Far better off renting a nice place nearer the city center and just walk out when you get cut/traded.

I don't understand your criticism. the client sets the price, the realtor advises. if the client wants this ask, they list it. If Miller wants to list at that price, that's the listing price--no realtor in upstate NY is walking away from this client. you let the owner see the listing rot as the weeks go by and then you counsel them to reality. This is simply how it's done everywhere.

no the realtors understand their markets. they often sign with clients who do not.

$388 a foot to live in the middle of nowhere on just over an acre in a house that traded for $160 less only 3 years ago?? lol where are the comps getting that? biggest recent sale (a year ago) on street over got $212. Beane took a $450k haircut on his nearby much bigger place only a year and a half ago. There's nothing in those pics that show any kind of upgrades that could bring that bump. It's a nondescript mcmansion--gotta the love the brick in front....and vinyl in the back! The upper middle class house mullet!

classic Beane 2.0 move lol

Well...the Bills have won 74 games in the past 6 seasons, 5 AFCE titles in a row---is that not "a winning culture"? yet they cannot beat the Chiefs in the playoffs--getting bounced 4 of the past 5 years. in the past 7 seasons, the Chiefs have won 90 games, 7 Divisions, played in 7 AFCC games, won 5 of them and 3 SBs--a culture of winning for sure. Two teams with "winning cultures"...with vastly different results. So how is establishing a winning culture meaningful? Why can't the Bills beat the Chiefs when it matters if the Bills culture is so solid? Steelers, Ravens, 49ers---all teams with a culture of winning...but so what? Where are the championships? Why there only 1 dominant winning culture int eh NFL for years running? It's simple. It's a rare combination of an elite HC and QB. We saw it for years in NE. Swap out Reid for McD and the Bills would have at least 2 parades on the news the past few years. "Beane & McD pretty much sign only guys who support and strengthen the culture. Bad boys don't just damage the benefits of a good team culture, they also tend to do things like not learn the playbook, get suspended, get arrested, and otherwise not add value equal to the level of their physical gifts." Von Miller was arrested and suspended. Then Beane signed 2 FAs who were immediately suspended for PEDs--one of which he knew about and signed anyway. He did that without regard to some made up "culture"--he did it because he figured the team could use them. Lot of posters he salve the annual elimination to the Chiefs by mocking their players' character. It's all just sour grapes.

I think quoting a lot of coaching clichés isn't a strong argument. What HC hasn't said these things? "Champions behave like champions before they're champions'? Ok, sure. You and I both agree the Bills behave like champions and are winners--but they have no championships despite all this culture of winning. I'll agree Belichick at least expected a culture of winning, but that evaporated once Brady left (Brady immediately imported his "culture" to a SB win for a team coached by Arians, of all people). Back in 2016, Foxsports said this: "Hue Jackson has changed the culture. The Cleveland Browns may not be winning games in 2016, but there is a different atmosphere in town now that Hue Jackson is the head coach." Cleveland.com: "Will the Browns put more emphasis on character in the draft under Jackson? We'll see." "In a national radio appearance not long after accepting the Browns job, Jackson told us why he thought the latest new regime change in Berea could make the difference when others failed so spectacularly. "Hue Jackson's in town, baby," the head coach said. Jackson was the worst HC in NFL history Cowher handed Tomlin the Steeler's "winning culture. Tomlin has pretended it is his own since. The result has been, since a SB win 17 years ago and loss 15 years ago, a team that never won another playoff game--and now it's to the point where, with the way Tomlin has mangled the QB room for the past few years, he's essentially daring Rooney to fire him. What's the culture over there? Despite Tom Coughlin's "culture of winning" (2 SBs), he was fired by the Giants (obviously he did not retire) after it somehow became a culture of losing 3 seasons in a row. He brought his culture of trust, accountability and communication to the Jags--where he was canned by the owner specifically because, according to the NFLPA, the players on that team had filed 25% of the player grievances the union received that year. "Trust"?? The NFLPA actually warned free agents against signing with the Jags due to "Coughlin's reported disregard for players rights"---oops, culture!! Harbaugh certainly tolerated and helped deify a total POS like Ray Lewis and, despite rostering a 2 time NFL MVP and racking up a ton of, his team hasn't won an AFCC game since 2012. Dungy was another regular season winner---yet I can't think of a single HC who squandered more elite talent on both sides of the ball. In 7 seasons, his teams amassed a playoff record of 7-6. They beat Rex Grossman for a SB. The Manning-Dungy combo in 7 seasons had an astounding 4 one and done playoff exits. 2 years after the "Dungy era", AI human Jim Caldwell "guided" the Colts back to the SB (a loss). What exactly was Dungy's "culture? H did like to give the starters a rest before the playoffs started (how did that often work out?). Then there's this: and this:https://www.newyorkjets.com/news/for-joe-douglas-and-robert-saleh-character-and-culture-will-lead-to-wins "I feel like we really attacked the character side of the game in our locker room, when you look at D.J. Reed and Whitehead and C.J. and Conklin and Laken," Saleh said. "They bring an edge, they're bringing professionalism, they're bringing a winning pedigree to the locker room. They've all been in championship games, they've all been with winning organizations, so it's really exciting to get those guys here." It's about the talent on the roster and the genius of the coaches. The rest are bromides and platitudes.

there's no relevance to comparing special forces servicemen and pro teams. you would best move off that, nothing there for you. The Cowboys in the 90's were full of "bad boys", but they mopped the floor with hapless Uncle Marv's "fighting for each other" (at bars, before the SB)--there's a lot of irony there. your argument has 2 logical conclusions: 1) the Bills would do better to emulate the Chiefs and bring in more miscreants off the field, who execute on the field "A culture of bad character") 2) Reid is orders of magnitude better at coaching an NFL team than McD

is he not whispering to all these guys??

We all know Beane's kink for handing out 1 year contracts, but I think the Bills are well beyond the point where they should be buying out of the day old bread bin.

agreed. he's simply not his own man

you are a regular here--this place constantly woofs on KC as a place for miscreants, criminals and addicts--yet this "culture" (presumably the opposite of the Bills) only produces AFCC and SBs. Are you saying that ANY culture (lawless or straight laced) is all that matters? That doesn't seem to make sense, but if true, wouldn't the Bills be better off adapting a "bad boy"/criminals in the off-season culture such as in KC? The one the Bills put forth seems to get axed by the Chiefs culture every year when it counts...

well, currently he's spending a lot of time defending his personality in pressers. how many other have had to do this? in college, he publicly called out his O-line, taunts opponents and jaws at refs, flashes his wealth, etc. google such: here's just one (Breer): "“I’m having a really hard time finding coaches or scouts who believe Sanders is a first-round talent, “What I keep hearing—and this has nothing to do with anyone having some personal issue with Sanders, or looking for him to fall in the draft so they can draft him—is that he isn’t a great athlete on tape, doesn’t have exceptional arm talent, and too often does things that simply won’t translate to the NFL game.” "Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders gave a blunt message to NFL teams who are considering passing on him in the 2025 NFL Draft. He’ll make note of it if he ends up falling to the Pittsburgh Steelers at No. 21 overall." Sanders said he is always going to be himself even though he knows that might rub some teams the wrong way." “That’s on the people,” Sanders said to Kay Adams on Up & Adams. “That’s on the other franchises that could make that mistake of letting me go there.” Imagine Rooney reading this before Sanders's visit, lol.... "“When I go visit these coaches and when I go to all these different franchises, I ask them truly what I think and how I feel,” Sanders said on the NFL Network’s The Insiders. “Some get offended, some like it, some don’t. Make some people uncomfortable, some people invite that." As Breer correctly points out, teams will ignore this kind of brashness, if the draftee is truly elite. There's a general agreement that Sanders clearly is not that. Plus, what owner wants to deal with his father--they will be a package deal. He's just not talented enough for this headache. Perfect fit?? Fans in the city would enjoy nothing more than feasting on a big mouth rookie who can't back it up. It would be over quick.

Youmleft out Tommy Cutlets---the only QB popular with the fans. Can you image the prospect of dropping the most immature top QB prospect since Johnny Manziel into that media market...along with his famously thin skinned old man?? This would be the fastest ticket out of The Meadowlands for the Giants' Abbott and Costello brain trust. This simply HAS to happen lol.