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Yeah, I mean.........meaningless @Big Turk? That's a totally absurd thing to say after these annual swoons have routinely hampered their playoff positioning. The need for help on the boundary is not new. The moment Gabe Davis got elevated to WR2 they got less efficient and explosive in the passing game. Turning it over to him was obviously a mistake from the get-go. They've reduced the turnovers with him gone but they can't consistently move the ball in the air the way a team with an MVP level QB should. Struggles in the passing game have cost them a number of early and mid-season games the past few years.......leaving them out of a #1 seed........and then that passing game eventually floundered again in their last 3 playoff defeats. Particularly at the end of the last two, with the ball in hand and a chance to close out the game. I mean the only divisional or championship game where they've passed the ball well is the 13 seconds game and that's 1 of 7 games. People want to blame the offense for giving up a TD more per game in those divisional and AFCCG's but the offense also scores a TD less.

If teams look closely at his metrics they will see that he's helped immensely by being a pull hitter in Yankee stadium and that it's unlikely to translate into similar results almost anywhere else. So if you are giving him a 5 year deal you gotta' figure something more like his 2024 Cubs numbers.

I predicted this thread a week ago.

Why not, right? We have to live in the Beane reality.........he traded the second round pick he got for Diggs to move up for TJ Sanders in the second round. For 13 months that was supposed to be this important foundational re-stocking pick and he traded it to move up for the modest producing, 3rd best player on his college DL in TJ Sanders. These picks are not really THAT valuable in real time.

I wish the NFL had an equivalent of baseball savant data. But it's in the best interest of the NFL for fans to not know how rapidly most players "track skills" decline. I doubt Curtis could crack 4.55 on the track at this point. His 10 yard split would probably be why. He makes that hanna barbera spinning feet sound effect when he's trying to accelerate from a stop.

The cost of doing business at the deadline has increased in general. Teams like the Bills........who need other teams to eat a lot of dead money......are why. There are more high value players that are positioned with low cap numbers so as to be tradable to virtually anyone at the deadline than ever. More potential buyers drives up the price. Beane has made his bed with more than his share of very careless spending from 2018 to 2022 or so........like throwing $6M per year at backup level players like Josh Norman and AJ Klein years ago. The list of inexplicable contracts he's doled out is far too long and it's mostly just habitually paying league minimum guys $3M-$6M than it is the big deals. It would be nice to have that $5M he paid Corey Coleman for the 10 day tryout in camp. He was so, so careless early in his tenure. We are very fortunate that Pegula has agreed to keep spending. Most franchises will not.

Yeah I've been a a draftnik for decades so I value those picks but despite that I realize that the most overrated chip at a GM's disposal is exercising that first round pick. About half of them even play well enough by year 3 to justify picking up their option. And if you are drafting late, some years you get lucky and get a Greg Rousseau but more years than not you probably aren't getting a difference maker at a premium position late in round 1, let alone a star. Right now GM's want to clutch that pick.......it's gold to them..........but by the time the draft rolls around they will be telling the media they only have 17 guys with first round grades etc.. About half the time the pick depreciates DURING the draft process. But it's a hard trigger to pull because the fan base has grown to believe that that pick should always be a hit.

Stats didn't get Allen an MVP last year. Lamar Jackson's stats dwarfed his. And as a passer this year Allen is around 15th-17th statistically. The rushing TD's are nice but it's a bunch of tush pushes.......no long valiant run like when he closed out KC last year. The home loss to NE and the road loss to an Atlanta team that will finish with a losing record undermine his MVP chances greatly this year. Last year his losses were to 3 division winners on the road. All 3 reached the divisional round. And he beat the NFC #1 seed on the road. This schedule was considerably easier, that 6-2 doesn't feel as impressive because it hasn't been.

Having been fans of a franchise that had 17 years of bad culture we saw a ton of situations unfold like that.

It's not just you but it's just entirely unrealistic. Getting RID of Gabe helped the Bills transition into becoming more efficient and less turnover prone. Because he was a root cause of their problems with his bad play. In his two years as the unquestioned WR2 in Buffalo Allen had an 80 passer rating when targeting Gabe and a ridiculous 12 interceptions. For every big game Gabe catch there was a "wrong way" Gabe moment in a crucial situation where we were left by the Bills to wonder who was wrong about where the route was supposed to go. Having seen the more efficient, MVP level Josh the past two years.........I think we can ascertain the answer was that Gabe sucked. It was more of the same with Jacksonville. Made some catches downfield but was a QB killer in general. Then he busted his knee.

It's the way it always is and has been. The media sizes up teams every week. It's just entertainment so what does it matter? If you let what the Stephen A's say impact how you feel that's your own failing. I know the Bills were not the subject of national discussion for a couple decades but they've been a SB contender for 6 seasons now. You've been around too long to be noticing and lamenting it now.

Toronto is largely full of bandwagon fans of NFL teams. Traditionally Bills fans in Ontario were more from the towns in between. This dude had a good couple days with his Jays and Chiefs.

Anabolic roids are believed to interfere with collagen distribution. Which of course is what tendons are made of. It's the stereotypical thing for a roid user to pop achilles tendons. By the time he gets back on the field, after being subject to more frequent testing for the better part of 18 months, he probably returns a husk of the player we saw the last two weeks. As a Yankee fan we saw it with A-Rod after his last roid bust. The residual gain from juicing can be there for about a year but then it goes fast.

Can't disagree more with your take on DK. They'd have a losing record without him. Rodgers isn't the player he was anymore so DK has had to adapt to playing a shorter game but he's still going to finish around his usual 1,000 and have about 10 TD's. And the dude is built for playoff football. When the flags stop flying and the DB's get extra grabby DK has actually gotten better. Man would he be the ideal X here.

Yeah a 360 pound 1 tech with some pass rush ability would be nice. He doesn't track as a trade candidate as a performing second year player. They have 2 more seasons of control there and he's cheap.