BADOLBILZ

Yep. DP LePew's no-longer-big-league ability and the joyless demeanor he brings with it runs contrary to the competitive, energized environment you want in the clubhouse during a marathon season. He doesn't deserve a roster spot based on ability and everyone knows it. From the top down. And that renders the competition aspect a sham. Even if it's largely an illusion, you have to make it seem like playing time is based on merit. He's been washed for 3 years now. Last year they literally fake-IR'd him in September because they knew they had to get their competitive edge back for the playoffs and it was hard to do with a worn out free loader on board. Every time they bring him back from the IL in May it's like replacing the gatorade with melatonin.

Unfortunately his actual job is playing who Cashman wants him to play. That's really why Girardi got fired......he had too many opinions on the players he was given(most notably on Hary Snatchez......who, as it turns out, just sucked and wasn't worth pandering to). Hal and Cashman have proven that they don't care about these annual Buffoone swoone's. I would love to see what a guy like Bruce Bochy or Dusty Baker or Terry Francona could do with the Yankees job. Instead, if they ever cave to the pressure during one of these swoone's it will lead to Rojas getting elevated from being a terrible 3rd base coach back to a major league manager. He may be Felipe Alou's son but once you get 9-10 shots in maybe they just start landing farther from the tree. If they fire Buffoone it will be for another yes man.

I don't know if he's can't miss yet but the furor became justifiable when he started hitting 98 on the gun. The Schlitt show will probably get an early debut date now with the Schmidt show going to the IL with forearm stiffness.

I disagree with much of what you said here. I suppose if you didn't know who Patrick Mahomes was prior to that draft season you can forgive their stupidity. But there was a Mahomes train that had been rolling on TSW since around June of 2016. @thebandit27 was the leader but I was all on board........as I always was with them finally just standing pat or trading up from their first pick to select the best QB on the board. And I was not in on Watson at all. @GunnerBill was a big Watson fan and if DeShaun's personal life hadn't undone him he likely remains elite as well, IMO. But it was Mahomes or bust for me at that point. So to pass on him and give him to the Chiefs was just idiotic and exasperating. And I always felt that he did his buddy Andy Reid a solid even though he should have been more cautious about helping a team in conference, whether he viewed them as a rival or not. The argument that Mahomes wasn't a "sure prospect" so the Bills should be excused for passing on him then just ENTIRELY discredits what the Bills did selecting not "sure prospects" Josh Allen 7th or the Ravens did selecting not "sure prospect" Lamar Jackson 32nd. It's not a valid defense unless you want to give the Bills no credit for their Josh Allen decision. And no, Beane was not at his best in his first year. The 2018 free agent class he signed was his worst. $100M for next to nothing. It basically caused the cap woes they suffer from today. It created the Bills need to push cap debt into the future at one of the highest levels in the league. Beane's pro personnel work was mostly bad that first 12 months. The Josh Allen pick was the best draft pick in Bills history, IMO. But would I have preferred to have that 1st and 2nd round pick used on something other than Tremaine Edmunds in hindsight? Hell yes. I could go on but you're just wrong about him being at his best. His first year on the job was largely a real on-the-job struggle story aside from Allen.

The biggest crime was trading the pick to an AFC rival when they themselves needed a QB. Utter stupidity. The Chiefs were a team they were literally battling with for a final playoff spot for the Marrone/Rex era. Getting Josh Allen in the next draft is probably the closest thing US pro sports has seen in prior recent memory to the Dallas Mavericks Nico Harrison lucking out and getting Cooper Flagg after stupidly trading away Luka Doncic. It was a huge save and though it was lucky to get the most talented QB at #7 overall........a guy who would have gone #1 overall in a lot of prior drafts on tools alone........Beane deserves credit for doing the common sense thing and actually going all-in on a QB prospect. By that I mean selecting a QB with their first #1 pick in the draft or trading up from that pick to do so. Something, astonishingly, that the Ralph Wilson era Bills never did. But because they traded Mahomes to the Chiefs they created their biggest road block to ever reaching a SB with Allen. It's certainly cost them 2-4 trips already. Just a brutal reminder of how important first steps can sometimes be.

No. Totally incorrect. The capital gained in the Mahomes-pick trade yielded Tre White and the Chiefs 2018 1st rounder that they then traded UP from to select Tremaine Edmunds. That cost an additional second rounder. So they didn't even get Tre White and Tremaine Edmunds for Mahomes........let alone Allen. None of the Mahomes trade capital was used to get Allen.

The 2017 Bills were the worst point differential AFC team to make the playoffs in almost 30 years. His decisions to trade Dareus and bench Tyrod blew up in his face big time. They needed some incredible luck to back-in at 9-7. That was just a fluke. But you need a little luck when you are a nobody HC trying to turn around a team with a terrible losing culture. They got it. Since then he's proven he's organized and his process works if you have a great QB. That should net him a top 10 ranking.

Tankathon has them drafting 6th in first mock! https://www.tankathon.com/nhl/mock_draft

Yeah Pittsburgh getting a little better and Miami getting a little worse is certainly good for Buffalo. As always, the Bills likely need to avoid the typical McDermott mid-season swoon to earn home field and the bye for the first time.........but if the Chiefs and Ravens can go 4-2 in division that could be the difference.

Only circumstantial evidence was needed against OJ and the Patriots for court and punishment. By your standard, no "actual" proof just a lot of circumstantial evidence. You are just being obstinate pretending court and a lost draft pick means anything more. What I didn't know at the time when I presumed the NFL would be asked to look into this.....and what you conveniently ignore......is that the spring 2017 Panthers were covering up one of the biggest ownership scandals in league history. Jerry Richardson would be forced by the league to put the team up for sale later that same year when the scandal got too big to contain. They weren't in any position that May/June to be demanding an investigation of their former DFO Brandon Beane even if they felt aggrieved.

1) In the same way that the evidence of any Patriots cheating or the murders OJ was accused of was just circumstantial. We don't know. 2) The common knowledge part was that the Panthers believed the Bills had accessed their draft information.........don't conflate that with any other part of the argument. 3) Whether you had a point other than to argue......we don't know. It's your word against evidence that suggests otherwise. 4) As for maligning Beane's character..........he's a high ranking executive executive in a bloodsport renowned for it's greed........the NFL generates $20B+ annually......lying and manipulating is part of his job. Even telling fans that your organization doesn't have the financial ability to make any big moves and then signing a Von Miller to a $20M aav deal was lying and manipulating. Expecting him to be different behind closed doors or with people he's negotiating with would be stupid.

We've actually probably had a few but they likely got deleted. There was a period of time when some people thought that posting a "f#ck this place, I'm outta' here" farewell rant on a message board had gravity and didn't just make them look like a hilarious quitter. Had to be an insincere thank you or two in there at some point.

"We all" was mostly from the Carolina end. When your team is the one stealing information it's considerably less of an issue from your perspective. See Bills fans fixation on perceived Belichick-era Pats cheating against Buffalo. Anything Buffalo Bills complaint related was a non-issue to NE fans for almost 20 years let alone the period where an employee of theirs was believed to have recorded other teams signals. We technically never had any proof whatsoever that the Patriots used any information they stole against the Bills. So I guess they didn't. Right? There are always going to be those who will disbelieve the obvious despite a mountain of circumstantial evidence. You don't think McDermott used Carolina draft intel that was shared with him and you believe that Beane was totally unaware that he would be the Bills GM for those 4 months. That's yours to believe. Personally, if I thought I might be getting the job with my hometown team to work with people I know I would probably hold out for that job rather than join a team that just executed about 40(?) free agent acquisitions/draft picks/UDFA's/futures signings etc.. that I didn't have any input on in the previous 4+ months. The first season on my record I had little to even do with the roster construction. What's not to like about that? But if the glove doesn't fit.....Chans must acquit.

Radim. Gradim. Elevadim. Tradim.

If you don't believe what was at the time common knowledge then feel free to research it. Those in their organization felt the Bills had inside information to know when to trade in front of them. DURING the draft. It was a larger point of discussion in Carolina. To quote @HappyDays at the time: "Things have really changed since McDermott took over. The guys we traded up for didn't visit with us here. They aren't from schools we usually draft from. They supposedly were on Carolina's board and their assistant GM is supposedly coming here. Sounds to me like we threw out the scouting reports our team had and went with what Beane and McDermott knew from their time in Carolina. This is absolutely nuts that this is happening." It was very un-Billsy to be the pointed end of screwing.