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I actually do think Star is the worst FA acquisition of the Beane era. He's a perfectly okay starter, but he was getting paid to be better than that, and then you have to factor in his game-day availability which seems unreliable at this point. I know we can point back to guys like Kelvin Benjamin, Vonte Davis, and Josh Norman, but those guys didn't cost much and were mainly just warm bodies who were signed as place-holders while we built a legitimate roster. I'm pretty sure Beane and McDermott expected Star to be a real cornerstone of the D-line, and that never happened. (Edit: I know we traded for Benjamin -- I was thinking of player acquisitions a little more broadly than just FA.)

Guy seems unhappy with the Ty Montgomery signing.

Nobody bats 1.000 at hiring, and if Star is the worst FA signing we ever make we'll be doing really well.

On the outside, I am laughing at New England and their fans. But on the inside, I'm laughing even harder.

I like Phillips and I know Zimmer has potential, but we seriously upgraded this position.

No, it was two teams that each feature an elite, tier 1 QB playing at the top of his game. I know it's been a couple of years since you've seen what that looks like, so I can see why you'd be confused. Wait, what am I talking about? You got a close look at high-quality QB play during WC weekend.

Love it. Miller makes our D-line and entire defense that much better. Fantastic addition to the locker room too. I wanted him when he came out of college, and I feel like it's kind of come full circle by getting him here as he closes out a HOF career. We don't need Von Miller to make the playoffs. We're already a playoff team, and we'd get back to the postseason with or without him. We didn't sign Von Miller to win the division. We would probably win the division next year regardless. We signed Miller for one reason and one reason only -- to win a super bowl. And he signed with us because in his judgement Buffalo has a better chance of winning the super bowl than the team that just won the super bowl. Not sure how a person could be unhappy with that.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

I liked the signing, but whatever. His loss.

Sounds pretty close to JK Dobbins -- a lot of fans wanted us to draft him a few years ago. Any relation?

Busy day in the NFL. Glad we've already got our guy under contract.

TBH, I don't want to open the season against the Rams. We all know that we should have closed the season with a win over the Rams. I don't need to be reminded of that constantly heading up to week 1. I want to wake up Monday morning happy about being 1-0 after trouncing the Jets or whoever in a laugher, not spending my Friday playing what-might-have-been after beating the Rams.

No clue what FPI is, but I kind of like that the Jets are about as bad as we are good.

Nope. Stopped reading here. If the last two NE games didn't kill this narrative, nothing will.

At this point -- before FA and before the draft -- the Bills are still one of the two best teams in the conference, and probably one of the two best teams in the league. We'll be a somewhat popular SB pick in August. Not worried about the overall state of the franchise.

This one is kind of a head-scratcher since I was sort of hoping he would not be retained anyway. Oh well. Good for him I guess.

I agree. The kick-off has been over-analyzed IMO. Kicking it deep would have been a perfectly fine choice if that's what they intended to do. The defense just need to not give up two huge plays. They proceeded to give up two huge plays.

We absolutely dodged a bullet with this guy. I mean, not that Rex was a huge improvement or anything, but this franchise would probably be in a radically different place right now if Marrone had somehow been retained.

What do I care? The season ended a week ago.

With the possible exception of Russell Wilson, those QBs are all just overpaid. There's nothing wrong with Josh Allen getting Josh Allen money, but there would be a lot wrong with Kirk Cousins getting Josh Allen money. (I know Cousins isn't paid that much -- you get the point).

Yep this is hugely important. Much more so than whoever we hire if Frazier leaves.

Don't tell anybody, but the 2017 Jaguars were a better team than the 2017 Bills. Also the 2019 Texans/Bills and 2020 Chiefs/Bills. We lost those games to teams that were better than us. This year was different of course, but still.

Statistically, somebody needs to read up on drawing sweeping conclusions from small sample sizes.

I get why people feel this way. During the drought years, I watched the Bills every Sunday at 12:00 CT and then played video games or something the rest of the day. In a typical season, I probably watched about half a dozen non-Bills games. That includes the playoffs. I never even saw the Philadelphia SB, for example. That all changed in 2017. When the Bills are actually in the playoff hunt for real, I just feel a lot more invested in the various storylines going on in the league and what's happening in games involving other teams. It sucks that the Bills are out of it, but the Chiefs and Bengals are both major characters that are going to be coming back in the next season. We'll be seeing them again, so I'm very interested in what happens to them in the next few weeks.

I saw this article too and just rolled my eyes. I have a very high opinion of both Burrow and Herbert, but I don't actually believe that any coach -- including the coaching staff in CIN and SD -- would actually pick either of those guys over Allen if they were building a team today. I mean, come on. That's not just me being a homer. If you had asked me last year if I would rather have Allen or Mahomes, I would have picked Mahomes.