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Off topic, but I think the field is actually what disrupted the Eagles pass rush. They were constantly slipping on their get off. A couple reps Hasaan Reddick was pancaked by Andrew Wylie which is a sign that something else was going on. The Bills improved pass rush was a major disruption against the Chiefs in week 6 (9 QB hits, 3 sacks), before a string of injuries made our pass rush an even lesser version of the 2021 pass rush. So I still believe an elite pass rush can disrupt an elite offense, the same as it's always been. The Eagles just got unlucky with the field conditions.

With the 63rd pick, the Kansas City Chiefs select Isaiah Foskey, EDGE, Notre Dame. We drafted George Karlaftis in the 1st round last year, but with Frank Clark no longer on the team edge rusher is arguably our weakest position group. Foskey has a lot of upside and no one else is sticking out on the board for us. @Virgil that finishes it.

Yes, it was confirmed by at least one credible poster on this board that we had tried to trade up for him in the 2nd round that year before the enemy took him. Although the only play of his I remember against us is one where Devin Singletary took him for a 10 yard ride along the sideline 😁

You would take Antonio Johnson, right? I remember you saying you would even take him in the 1st round.

Play him in the box and near the LOS. His NFL.com pro comparison is Kyle Dugger. I've been saying this defense needs some size and physicality, right now it's too much finesse. Johnson gives us that element. Year one I'd expect him to be a sub package DB, maybe a big nickel or brought in for dime packages. Year two I'd expect him to take over for Poyer.

Early in the process I thought that Antonio Johnson was a possible 1st round pick for us, but I guess his stock has decreased a lot because now I'm usually seeing him mocked in the 3rd round. I would still take him here at #59. We need to start thinking about the future beyond Poyer and Hyde.

Yeah I'm not excusing the players, whether the rule makes sense or not it's incredibly easy to follow. I was just curious what the reasoning it. I know coaches aren't allowed to gamble at all on any sport, so maybe they just don't want there to be any possibility of coaches using players to place bets?

If I login to Fanduel on my phone in my company break room and place a bet, nobody cares.

I'm sure there's a legal reason, but I'd be interested to know why players can only bet on non-NFL games outside of their team facility.

Last season was last season. This year Diggs will catch some passes and some TDs and everything will be fine. I suspect if we end the season in similarly disappointing fashion Diggs will throw another tantrum. I'll worry about it then. It isn't going to affect the whole season. These are grown men living out their dream. They'll be fine.

I've stayed out of this topic because I hate gossipy bull**** but wow this story has spread like wildfire among the women of Buffalo. Women that I know for a fact don't care about football, like my wife and several of my coworkers, all they can talk about the past couple days is the supposed fact that Josh Allen knocked up a bartender. First thing my wife said to me when I got home yesterday - "how do you feel knowing your golden boy is a dirty rotten cheater?" I'm floored by how much traction this completely baseless rumor is getting. I guess I shouldn't be. I wonder if Allen is aware of it? He must be, right?

@Zerovoltz I have to ask, why the negative reaction?

22 visits reported so far.

Please make this happen Beane.

With the 31st pick, the Kansas City Chiefs select Darnell Washington, TE, Georgia. This is somewhat of a luxury pick for a non-premium position, but there is some logic behind it. On 1st down in 2022, the Chiefs ran 12 personnel 32% of the time and 13 personnel 10% of the time. So multiple TE sets are an important part of their offense. The problem is behind Kelce it is just JAGs at the position. Darnell Washington immediately gives us a true monster at the position and complements Kelce's skill set perfectly. The Chiefs still don't have a true game changer at WR, but Andy Reid is a master at changing his offense up every year. He found a way to make an offense without Tyreek Hill even more productive by getting the RBs more involved in the passing game and focusing less on deep throws. Having a blocking TE with Washington's attributes opens up the offense in another way entirely. Now they can run heavy sets that will leave defenses reeling with the threat of Mahomes' arm always being there. Pacheco running with a full head of steam behind Darnell Washington is a frightening concept for defenses. And now a red zone offense that was already deadly just got another potent weapon. The Steelers @CNYfan are on the clock.

I've developed this fantasy in my head of the Bills drafting Bryan Bresee or Mazi Smith at pick 27, then immediately trading away Oliver and trading for DeAndre Hopkins. In one fell swoop we free up $10.7 million so that Hopkins becomes affordable and draft Oliver's replacement. Defense gets marginally worse but cheaper, and the offense gets a high impact player. I'd take that outcome right now if I could. So far 20 of our top 30 visits have been reported. Mazi Smith is on that list, Bresee is not. I won't believe Bresee is a possible pick until I know he was a top 30 visit. But he fits a lot of traits McDermott would like - high athletic upside, former #1 college recruit, faced a ton of adversity over the past year (he suffered multiple injuries including a kidney infection, and his sister sadly died of brain cancer). I've been thinking in the back of my mind that Bresee could be the stealth pick no one sees coming. That's what Elam was last year and his top 30 visit wasn't reported until very close to the draft.

Yes. Signing Von Miller was a no brainer move. The pass rush was desperately in need of a difference maker, which everyone agreed with coming out of the 2022 divisional round loss. Miller tearing his ACL was an unfortunate and unpredictable disaster. Even the people who were skeptical about his contract weren't skeptical about his level of play in 2023 or even 2024; they were worried that the 2025 and beyond part of the contract would become an albatross. Which was a fair concern, but accepting short term value for long term risk is the kind of move a team in the prime of its Super Bowl window should be willing to make. It's the same reason I'm all aboard the DeAndre Hopkins train. Von Miller's contract is not the reason we aren't able to sign an offensive difference maker right now. It's all the other bottom of the roster names that I posted above. Those players are the albatross, not the highly productive pass rusher that happened to get injured in a way that can happen to anybody.

Is this statement even controversial? Arguably the greatest QB stretch in playoff history ended after two games. What else needs to be said?

Every big QB deal eventually becomes team friendly unless the QB pulls a Carson Wentz. Right now Allen's cap hit is actually quite cheap relative to his value to the team. You want to know something crazy? In real and dead cap space, the following players combined are taking up as much 2023 cap space as Josh Allen: Tim Settle Nyheim Hines Siran Neal Jordan Phillips (including dead money from 2022) Rodger Saffold OJ Howard Matt Haack Isaiah McKenzie You'll note that only half of these players are still on the team. This is the biggest failure of Beane's tenure. Not mediocre drafting. Rather, a tendency to pay well above a given player's actual value. A tendency to over focus on depth at the expense of top end talent.

It isn't about how much they've spent. It's where the money has been spent. People blaming Von Miller's contract as the problem are missing the point. Florio and Simms yesterday actually mentioned the Von Miller signing as a positive splash move. The real problem is the contracts we've given to players like Vernon Butler, Mario Addison, Trent Murphy, Rodger Saffold, etc. All of their combined cap hits are much greater than the cap hit Miller has. So the point is that the Bills should be more willing to make splash moves/signings for impact players, at the expense of certain positional depth. None of these arguments are controversial. People are just misrepresenting what Florio said.

KC is just one example. The Bengals have invested like crazy in their WR corps. 49ers and Eagles invested like crazy in their offensive weapons (and had great OLs to boot). All of these teams were objectively closer to a Super Bowl win last year than we were. It isn't about following the exact strategy that KC did. The point is we are lacking in high end offensive talent around our QB compared to the teams that are in a tier above us.