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Bottom line.........the Bills are both light on draft capital and promising young talent with long term team control..........and they are obviously going to be eating even more dead money this offseason the way some of these free agents are performing..........so they really gotta' be careful about trading picks now. The reason they are there is the inefficiency wrt personnel decisions. If you are offended by my use of "draft capital" in general then how about a more specific example I am sure you have never heard before: They had to trade so much for Diggs because they passed on DK Metcalf in round 2 in 2019........to trade up for Cody Ford. You hate to hear that talk I'm sure.......but that is a significant error that lead to the Bills having to spend even more draft capital to fill that void the following offseason.

Shaq is basically back to who he was in 2017-2018. The Bills milked the most out of him last year by dangling the unrestricted free agency carrot in front of him.........I think some folks confused that improved production with him being an ascending talent. I don't think Beane has done a great job here but I can't really blame him for not wanting to pay top dollar for guys with suspect football character like Jordan Phillips and Shaq Lawson.

I think it's fair to question the throwing in of extra assets. Diggs was on the block for a reason and in a great WR draft it's hard to think of anyone who would have paid more. I liked acquiring Diggs and if it took the extra picks then I am OK with it but you gotta' make up that inefficiency elsewhere. Beane doesn't. So don't be upset when your GM doesn't have the bullets to get other things done. It's very easy to be a 6-10 win team who can't beat the better teams in the NFL...........you can make a lot of mistakes and get there. Being a SB contending team you really gotta' be on the more efficient side wrt personnel. Beane has had 2 poor free agent hauls out of 3.......he's created record amounts of dead money and some truly bizarre ones(Spain is the latest). And he's made some fundamental errors on draft day wrt picks and trade-ups. There has just been too much inefficiency to get where they need to be. It's not all bad it's just not been particularly good, efficient or effective. And the narrative here has been just the opposite.

For anyone wondering why I would criticize this dude for putting his work out there.........I present to you the highlighted #1. @Logic you are here fishing for approval and likes..........I am here for in depth discussions about my hobby...........which you don't provide with your hollow fluff and inexplicably ignorant(read:lacking knowledge or awareness) rebuttals. Your arrogance and then the subsequent cries for help(highlighted #2) are a sorry combination. If you are going to LAMP.........like opening a new thread about the woes of the defense when that discussion was already active(and more involved) in many other threads..........then just write better, more interesting and informative pieces and I won't call you out for spamming the board for thumbs.

I really wouldn't be surprised if they play better later in the season. I know a lot of these guys are getting needles to be out there but the finish line is a long way away. They just look like one of those "dog days of summer" baseball teams out there and that has happened every season at some point with McDermott. It's at least a couple weeks earlier than normal but the injuries probably have a lot to do with that. The quicker and probably cheaper fix is on the offense. John Brown being gimpy has changed so much. They should be looking for a rental deep threat receiver and just let Brown go on IR for 4-6 weeks and get his legs right. When he comes back then they would just be stronger there.

In fairness the Bills don't really have the draft capital or cache of young talent to part with much in trade for a rental. Beane has been a little careless with draft capital. For example........while the Cardinals were fleecing the Texans for Hopkins.........Beane threw in both a 2020 5th and a 2021 4th this year to get Diggs.......which is nearly the cost the Ravens are paying too rent Ngakoue. The Ravens personnel department is just much better than the Bills..........they are in position to make hay because they are more efficient with their opportunities.

Then it's a veritable sister site to me now, brutha! I believe my initial post was a very fair critique of his work. If someone had done the same to me I guarantee you or @Chandler#81 wouldn't have been there to defend my honor. @SDS approved of this with Tim Graham........the explanation was that because Tim was considered a member he was fair game for direct critique. @Logic's response to my original critique was to get personal so I expanded and shed more light on the critique. Didn't get any more personal than that. Don't really care about his personal life, but if you want more info I think he created a little bio on our sister site. Keep the hot-takes coming @Logic.

Were those guys excellent playmakers last year? Not really. Their losses are overrated. Last year the defense was remarkably healthy and had as easy of a schedule as they've had to face in probably 40 years........and still they had stretches where they got tattooed by opposing offenses. This year the sledding is a lot tougher and the injuries have really taken a toll as well. I agree with your take about the needing playmakers though. They don't have that and really haven't had them in some time so when they are banged up or are making assignment mistakes the lack of that guy or two who can cover up for those issues is glaring.

It's a problem. And I think if you look back on the worst stretches of Bills defense in the past 4 seasons, unfortunately Jerry Hughes going off script is a common theme. Hughes is hurt by a lack of interior pass rush this year.........some of that was having Jordan Phillips just diving thru gaps like a massive Kyle Williams and some of it is the blitzing LB's not being able to do so this year.........but he's just playing way too out of control. They had a nice plan using Addison as a spy a few times and he did a good job of cutting off Mahomes scrambles........I think the near Josh Norman interception was one such play........but in general there have been way too many plays with lack of contain.

1) I bluntly critiqued your work. You fancy yourself an article writing journalist published on an outside media outlet. Journalist articles get critiqued here. Nothing I said was "childish". Your work is just not good and I pointed it out. It reads like a middle school essay assignment and is not informative, not thought provoking and not entertaining. Last year you tried to do 10K word essays after the games called "extra points" or something that read like a play-by-play of the game..........and when nobody responded you would self-bump the thread. That's just bizarre. If you are just fishing for attention on this site that's not a crime but if you are directing traffic off-site the quality of your content is most definitely fair game. 2)Just post it here then. Why are you asking people to go off-site when all of the inspiring content is right there? I can guarantee you that @SDS doesn't want you directing traffic off site like that. I mean Bleacher Report was banned here for years and at least the content there was entertaining. 3) You have posted 1/3 as much as me because I have been here over 20 years and you are a recent addition to the forum. "Logic". This is what I mean about you lacking self-awareness. You don't know that you are illogical and often can't come to even common sense conclusions. You think you are a lot more interesting than you are. People read a sophomoric article like that and they think "bless his heart, he's tryin'" like maybe you are just not too bright.......meanwhile you are convinced that you are killing it. It's quite comical. If you feel a need to expand on it or ask me more about my personal life.........just go to PM's. If you want to be a journalist.......get a thicker skin.

They've been a VERY poor tackling team that is also sometimes just atrocious against the run for 4 seasons now. In general it has worked.

I know it's probably very hard for you to believe........but honest........it's just plain boring writing. What's more is the poor taste directing people off-forum to some knock-off fan site that you post on. You are just laughably self-unaware. But at least you are consistent.

I would compare the possibility of Watt coming to the Bills to when the Trent Edwards-lead Bills were trying to get Tony Gonzalez from KC. We were pretty bent about TG re-buffing the Bills interest........... but turned out that Matty Ice and squad was in-fact much > Dickie J and ol' Trend Downwards. On the surface any objective observer is going to put 5-7 teams clearly ahead of the Bills wrt SB chances. Trading for a player with much less control is more likely.

I'd say this article is the very definition of bloviation. Who is your audience? Fans who didn't watch Bills games this season? It's just your specialty....... "look at me" self indulgence. If nothing else try to remember that brevity is the soul of wit.

It's a disheartening style for the fanbase and you have to think the players feel the same way. Those are the games where guys like Hyde and Poyer and White go home and tell their families that the front office just didn't push the right buttons with the personnel decisions in front of them. The defensive backs in this defense have been making far too many tackles the past 4 years. It's gotta' be discouraging for them to be this far into a regime and not be better at pressuring the passer or stopping the run.

The HC who put together a humiliating play-not-to-lose gameplan...........was going to play for overtime options? C'mon now. They spent the whole night stopping punches with their face and were simply hoping their exhausted D(15+ minute TOP disparity) could get a turnover and hopefully the Bills offense playing 4 down football could score a TD in the closing seconds and escape with a one point win.

SUPER-Star you mean. Getting him back next year will be like having another first round pick!

Yep. This happens every year with McDermott's defense.

Phillips was a penetrating beast but just terrible against the run other than that occasional TFL. They tried to put him at 1T but he never played with much balance and he just couldn't do it.......he immediately gave up his shoulder and got washed whichever way the OG wanted him to go. Liuget was more of a 280-290# guy and also pathetic against the run so your memory is off there. Star was a net loss against the run as well and whatever they lose in size with him they got back in the 340# Vernon Butler. Their two best run defenders at DT last year were Oliver and Harrison Phillips. They are both back but neither is at full strength. People forget that this team has been totally trampled in the run game at times in every season since McD has been here. Remember Philadelphia coming into Buffalo and throwing up 200 on the ground last year? And it was the inability to stop the Texans run game that sparked their comeback in the playoff game. At least the poor run defense yesterday had the excuse of being because of 6 man boxes all night.

John Brown's injury has been the single biggest personnel problem. Losing Milano has hurt far more than it should have but this team's new identity is as a high powered passing offense and prior to John Brown getting gimpy(admittedly not uncommon in his career) they were just rolling up points. The best bang for the buck they could get at the trade deadline is probably trading for another veteran WR like Kenny Stills or Will Fuller from Houston that could fill Brown's role as an X or Z opposite of Diggs and let Brown go on IR for a month or so until he's healthy. I think as they get closer to the playoffs the defense will improve whether they add personnel or not.........the focus and intensity on the defensive side of the ball aren't good right now and that's a significant part of their issues. It's become rather standard operating procedure for the defense to get discouraged and go on a mental vacation for a few weeks every season under McDermott.

Star was a traffic cone when he was 29........a man who only occupied one blocker and couldn't disengage to make a tackle........a net win for the opposing offense........easily the worst $ investment of the Beane era. A year older he wasn't going to be any better. In fact he most likely would have been inactive last night. Tuesday night they held the Titans RB's to 97 yards on 30 carries.......3.2 yards per carry is excellent run defense........a full yard below league average. So if they wanted to be stout against the run last night they would have just played Harrison Phillips............what they wanted were plays in the backfield.......hence Zimmer........tfl's and pressures to assist their coverage game plan. They got a few of those but ultimately the rope-a-dope didn't work due to lack of execution on third downs.......in coverage. Some of you are so slow on the uptake it's laughable...........people literally needed McDermott to go to his presser and tell them that the strategy was not to give up 40 points before they realized why the Chiefs were gashing the Bills for 8 yards per carry.

The Bills DT's have been getting pushed around in the run game since the Dareus trade. Guys like Vernon Butler and Harrison Phillips are plenty big and talented enough to fill the shoes but the problem is that this has been a coverage team for 3 years now and the front 4 isn't getting pass rush and the back 7 isn't what it has been in coverage. Getting plowed in the run game is nothing new for a McDermott defense........but that TD pass to Kelce on 3rd and 11 is not something we are used to seeing. It's a combination of factors but it is not that they lost two tremendous run defenders. They miss the backfield disruption of Jordan Phillips but he and Star were both lousy against the run............Edmunds has had plenty of opportunities to flow untouched to ball carriers he just always runs himself out of plays. But I think at this point he's not even expected to be excellent in run defense. He's supposed to be good in coverage and there just appears to be enough tape on him now that he is being targeted there as well. The last KC scoring drive the two biggest plays were blown coverage responsibilities by Edmunds. Tough asks of him........but he's asked to do a lot in coverage because with his physical gifts he was supposed to be a superstar.

K-9 you sorry ol' hang-dog. If they win next week against the dog-assed ones they will be 3-0 in division.

I expected this game to be frustrating........once it was clear that they were playing not to lose........which is not the kind of football I care to watch........ I was certain that they wouldn't break form until the end of the game. And they didn't. And had the Chiefs done the incredible and actually fumbled and lost it.....then the Bills probably would have taken a late lead and this board would be talking about how close they came to beating the Chiefs if Mahomes hadn't made some great play on the final drive of the game. I got in a full 1:26 episode of Fargo(minus commercials) between the breaks in play so at least I was THAT entertained.

That's just his first year cap figure you are looking at. They could cut him right after the season.......and get out of it with only $10M of cap space spent for the one season. It's pretty much going to cost them $10M per year average.