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Again, the big issue with Dalton Kincaid was just that he was HORRENDOUS in the playoffs. Yeah he hasn't played up to expectations but his regular season play was pretty innocuous. They barely needed him in the regular season. I keep hearing the sob stories about his knee injuries.......well he must have been playing with two sprained hands in the playoffs because the issue wasn't his running it was that he couldn't catch the damn ball.

Yeah Hailee already had a better place. I guess Josh is an Encino man now. They will probably upgrade on that too.

There is always a risk when you put someone who isn't all-about-it in a locker room of a team whose goal is to be the best. He has shown he doesn't love football. He basically refused to play in Chicago. And has shown he didn't stand on business either. The way he let his career go when he was on the precipice of getting paid tens of millions of dollars by simply producing something resembling what he was in his first couple seasons to do it......is crazy. Players kinda' HAVE to be one or both of those things to endure in the NFL. IMO this is just a guy who is facing an identity crisis. He doesn't love the game but doesn't know what else to do. I think when ***** starts getting difficult he will tap-out again just like he did last year.

Glover was pretty awesome for a long time. At one time he was the best pass rushing DT in the NFL. 2000 NFC defensive player of the year. Member of the 2000's NFL all decade team. Teller had a very nice couple years but has been in decline. I don't think that one is particularly close but Teller was definitely one of Beane's day 3 HR's.

Yeah if Paup hadn't suffered that severe groin injury he would probably have put up several more seasons like his first in Buffalo. That takes me back to Butler passing on Jason Taylor in 1997. That would have been a great transition from Paup because after the injury Bryce was never the same.

Eh.....maybe but he ate up massive amounts of credibility by being a massive head case in the prior 2 NFL seasons. It was surprising the Bills gave him a shot. I don't think people like McBeane understand self-defeating personality disorders like Claypool clearly has because you rarely see people with issues like that reach the NFL. Being extraordinarily big and fast got him a long way but once he started getting criticized for his behavior on the field he decided he was going to withhold commitment to the game and that f#cked his career but good.

People most remember Thurman in the playoffs for losing his helmet in SB XXVI. Random fans were still making jokes about that 20+ years later. Not so much the big games in the XXV or the Chiefs AFCCG or even the crippling fumble and his pouting on the bench in SB XXVIII. His last 3 SB's he rushed 37 times for a pitiful 69 yards and had 4 fumbles. Brutal. The OL didn't show up for those games either and that kinda' illustrates my point about RB's.

Urb is a middle name. Honest is the first name.

Yeah I will also admit to having a bias against RB numbers because they are SO reliant on those around them. I was talking about "premium" positions on TSW when the idea really hadn't been established in the NFL vocabulary yet. It's obvious that edge/island positions are more able to impact games with one-on-one dominance and those stats generally reflect more "individual" impact than those accumulated by a RB who needs so many things around them to go right to be great. See 2023 Giants Saquon versus 2024 Eagles Saquon. DE is a premium position. Strahan is the 10th leading sacker all-time. Thomas is the 16th leading rusher. In the postseason Strahan played better than he did in the regular season. Thurman in the playoffs was about the same player he was on any given Sunday, statistically. He had the great SB XXV and the awful XXVIII.

Yeah Revis over Kelly I don't agree with. The rest on your list I all consider no contest wins over the Bills option. Even Strahan over Thurman. Strahan set the single season sack record. Thurman never did anything like that. And I just can't give the nod to Tasker over an every down stud like Trey Smith. Tasker was more fun to watch, I will give him that. Peyton Manning over Bruce and OJ.........I can get with that logic in that what really made them great was their bulk numbers. Manning won a couple of SB's but he was only a good player in the NFL for one of those so it's largely a battle of 3 of the greatest stat accumulators in NFL history.

Yeah Moulds quit on the team in a game in Miami in 2005 because Lee Evans was getting the ball and not him. It was craziness and they ended up blowing a sizable lead with Moulds refusing to re-enter the game in the second half. That was the beginning of the end of his complicated career in Buffalo. He was a real screwball. Speaking of "balls" here is @eball throwing hate at ol' Mouldsy for demanding/forcing a trade out of Buffalo

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45597769/picking-best-nfl-draft-picks-ever-every-slot-common-era-1967-2024 Interesting article. The highlighted are my added notes to the ESPN story.........so here are the Bills and some Bills related one's with 3 McBeane related all-time picks mentioned right in round 1 and some actual McBeane greatest picks later in the draft: 7. Adrian Peterson, RB (2007) The last non-quarterback to win the MVP award, Peterson led the league in rushing yardage three times in his career: 2008, 2012 and 2015. "All Day" was my pick over Champ Bailey, but watch out for Josh Allen. He and Peterson have the same number of MVP trophies and Super Bowl appearances ... for now. (Allen will own this spot soon and probably deserves it already IMO). 10. Patrick Mahomes, QB (2017) Our first active player is Mahomes, who somehow easily clears Rod Woodson, Terrell Suggs and Marcus Allen despite being maybe halfway through his career. A two-time MVP, three-time Super Bowl champ and three-time Super Bowl MVP, Mahomes will likely build a compelling argument for being the greatest quarterback ever by the time his career is done. (McDermott dealt this pick to KC and ended up with Tre White and the 1st round pick they then traded up from to select Tremaine Edmunds) 22. Justin Jefferson, WR (2020) Thank goodness there were no Hall of Famers to snub with the 22nd pick, making Jefferson an even easier selection for me. Never forget that Jefferson holds the record for most receiving yards through two seasons of a player's career (3,016) -- as well as through three seasons (4,825), four seasons (5,899) and five seasons (7,432). Guess which record he'll hold at the end of this year? (acquired pick as part of the exchange with McBeane for Stefon Diggs) 42. Rob Gronkowski, TE (2010) Four Super Bowl rings. Four first-team All-Pro appearances. A uniquely dominant prime as a pass-catching tight end with elite blocking ability. (The Buddy Nix Bills selected the Troupacabra instead of the local product) 70. Fred Warner, LB (2018) Easy pick here, as Warner will go down as the best linebacker of this decade and one of the best linebackers ever. (unfortunate that Warner ended up being so much better than Edmunds and the Bills traded a second rounder to move UP to get Edmunds) 73. Jason Taylor, DE (1997) Another Hall of Famer was also selected at pick No. 73 in Bears DT Steve McMichael, but it's tough to hold a candle to Taylor. A winner of Defensive Player of the Year (2006) and Walter Payton Man of the Year (2007), Taylor had both a dominant prime and a long stretch of viable play. (This one hurt me to my core during that 1997 draft......the Bills picked Marcellus Wiley over him. Wiley was a nice player but Taylor was the HR pass rushing OLB they desperately needed for that defense. It was a frustrating stretch in the 1990's where John Butler did not take advantage of the abundance of quality 2nd and 3rd round pass rushers available to 3-4 teams. This one hurt double because Taylor became a Bills killer.) 75. Russell Wilson, QB (2012) Tough break for OT Terron Armstead, who is one of the best third-round picks ever but isn't better than this Super Bowl-winning, Walter Payton Man of the Year-winning quarterback. (Russ is kind of a joke now but he was one of the best in the league for a long time. Buddy Nix famously traded up to take the awful TJ Graham at 69 thinking he could get Wilson in the 4th round. What an a$$clown of a strategist he was. https://billswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/bills/2020/07/22/buffalo-bills-david-lee-claims-wanted-draft-russell-wilson-dak-prescott/79402255007/) 86. Andre Reed, WR (1985) Another odd density of Hall of Famers, as pick No. 86 carries Reed, Rams OT Jackie Slater and Saints kicker Morten Andersen. Reed is an easy selection for his seven straight Pro Bowls and 16-year NFL career, 15 of which were in Buffalo. Don't worry -- my kicker picks come later. (Finally the Bills have a winner. The best 86th overall ever. I gotta agree. Jackie Slater is tough to beat though he was also great). 111. Terrence McGee, CB (2003). (A win for team Donahoe. We are at the stage of the draft now where there are some not-great all-timers mixed in with HoF types). 134. Kyle Williams, DT (2006) (Levy/Modrak struck gold with the pick traded to Houston for Eric Moulds). 148. Khalil Shakir, WR (2022) ( Khalil may never live up to the @Alphadawg7 hype but what he's done is good enough to be the best 148 ever. McBeane's 1st official win but Allen will eventually be the best #7 overall.) 171. Gary Anderson, K (1982) (I guess this win for Buffalo would be Norm Pollam and the rest of the strong but largely forgotten group of scouts that Chuck Knox brought to Buffalo from his Rams days. Greatest kicker pick ever according to article and foreshadowed in the Andre Reed pick write up. This one sticks hard in the craw of one @BUFFALOBART who still holds Anderson in great disdain for intentionally failing his way off of the Bills roster) 185. Christian Benford, CB (2022) ( That's 2 all-timer day 3 draft picks for McBeane. Fingers crossed his brains aren't scrambled from those concussions and can have a long career.) 253. Roland Hooks, RB (1975) (The pickings were slim at 253 apparently. Certainly the most unlikely Bill to find on this list.) 255. Don Majkowski, QB (1987) (The Buffalo born Magic Man looked like the real deal there for a brief time.)

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.