Certainly possible, actually.
I'd be surprised if it was anything more than a substance induced brief psychotic episode. But it's certainly possible. That's why you don't !@#$ with that stuff.
The "everyone does it" defense. Awesome stuff.
We know more about corruption today because we have the internet! That makes it okay because Nixon did stuff we didn't even know about!
I guess we shouldn't be so hard on the Nazis. I mean, Stalin did WAY worse stuff that we didn't even know about at the time.
The Bills did their due diligence and surely extended feelers to every FA QB on the market.
Like anything else, the answer probably lies more in the middle. They may have not been in our plans at their asking prices or we might not have been in their plans as a locale. Probably both.