BullBuchanan

I'd rather bring back the QB who holds kicks so that we can credibly fake it on occasion.

This one is gold.

It would be, if he were a bonafide #1. He's more of a top end #2, imo. I'm not sure he's an upgrade over Diggs even considering age.

Aggregate scoring both defense and offense doesn't mean much to me when you're an elite team. All good teams are going to play a lot of weak, non-playoff teams throughout the year. How you stack up against elite teams matters a lot more, but timing is probably the most important thing of all.

I don't like ever paying a CB big money, because you need at least 4 of them.if you have a star ona rookie deal, you can go out and get a premier guy and then fill the bottom of your depth chart with C-tier guys and you can probably still have an elite defense. You go out and pay Benford $20M and now you have Ingram as your #2 battling it out with a rookie. Even if you get decent CB play, there's still 2 more receiving threats open on any given play. I'd rather have solid Cb play and an elite man up front or on the back end. Yes, I would have signed any of the players listed above to the deals they received and kept Benford on his rookie deal for another year.

Yes, I'm complaining. Is there another option if you disagree with the approach our front office has taken? How many Super Bowls do we have over the last 5 years? How many times have we been? For me, the hope is all in the hands of rookies and guys who were disappointments last year like Carter, Bishop, Coleman, Kincaid, etc. I'll be making up scenarios for these guys to become all-pros like I used to in the drought years.

Hufanga, Holland, Milton Williams, Metcalf and even Reddick would have represented the potential for elite play at positions of dire need and they were all available. I'm sure there are other trades that were possible that didn't materialize as well. I understand the reluctance to be critical of Beane's approach because all the players he re-signed are very good football players. It's hard to look at a team with a lot of good players on it and think it's a poorly constructed roster. I hope the board is right that building a team with an old school Steelers-esque approach of having a very solid roster will net you enough kicks at the can that eventually you win one. I just don't like the odds of that approach based on the teams we'll have to get through. No. I want them to do whatever they have to do every season to have the best possible shot. Instead, Beane is sacrificing this season, just as he did last year, so that he can protect future seasons.

I couldn't possibly care less about what's "fair" when building an NFL roster. Benford is a hell of a football player, and I hope he gets all the money in the world. I'm just disappointed that we're the ones that gave it to him when he isn't the difference maker we need. It's the exact same way I felt about the Groot extension. I would have been fine filling another hole in 2026, because our goal should be trying to win a Super Bowl every year at this stage, even though I don't think that's the way Beane sees it. They could have added even a single high impact player. if you change Joey Bosa's name to Boey Josa, and judged him based on his performance alone, you'd probably find he hasn't been a meaningful contributor in 4 seasons. How has he rebuilt the core? Everyone signed to an extension has been here for months and all of the talent added are complimentary pieces, not core pieces. I've detailed my plan dozens of times.

Paying out big contracts seems to be a fetish around here. We didn't have enough money to build a Super Bowl caliber roster when Benford was making 750k. We're supposed to get better when the same player is now making $19m? If someone sees the vision of how we take a very similar team to what we had last year, and somehow get over the hump this year, I'd genuinely be interested in having it explained. For me, it seems like the plan has to be to draft 2-3 players that play at an all-pro level on rookie deals.

he put on 50 lbs in 2 years? yikes.

Any scenario that requires a Bills opponent to throw up all over themselves in the most critical moment for us to win isn't really based in reality. As a drought survivor that played that game weekly for the better part of 20 years, I've come to grips with that not being the way Super Bowls are won. We've lost the thread quite a bit ont his one though. I stand by my assertion that Groot is not a difference maker at all, and paying him difference maker money to stay puts our team further away from being a contender than had we let him walk away for nothing. Love the player, hate the contract. I'll be more than happy to eat a rack of humble pie if we somehow have a dominant d-line next year spearheaded by Groot and Joey Bosa, but it would be one of the most shocking things I could see happening to the roster. I think they'll be a usual B to B+ that looks great while the leaves are changing and looks lost and overmatched when the snow is on the ground.

Good for him. Perfect fit for them honestly. Adding Diggs will provide Maye with the ability to take the next step (if he has it in him). They probably won't be playoff contenders any time soon, so the pressure on Diggs should be low. Wouldn't be shocked to see him around 1k 6/7 TD though.

or they just grab it and kneel down at the 30 and have 10-12 seconds to go and the exact same thing happens. Our defensive coaching blunders (soft zones and off man coverage) and the players melting down/ not being talented enough two drives in a row (13s and overtime) is a far bigger problem and int he full 3 seasons following that game nothing has been improved. Instead, we're largely running it back with the same guys that couldn't get it done and giving them a far larger percentage of our cap than they previously commanded.

I disagree. You think a squib kick was eating up 13 seconds?

100% This is why I laugh off anybody that makes an argument that we were "just a play away" from winning any of these games against the Chiefs. When you're at the levels that the Bills and the Chiefs are, you've already fully optimized your roster, your gameplan, playcalling, and your gametime decision making as far as you can. From the opening snap, you're already managing the clock and you have an idea of how many scoring opportunities you're going to have and what percentage are likely to succeed. Getting that "one play" to swing your way at that level is like asking for a whole quarter to shift your way, because the margins are razor thin. In the case of the Chiefs, there hasn't been a time that they haven't had us completely outclassed in every phase of the game since Mahomes came into the league. Until that changes, I don't see us beating them in games that matter unless an insane amount of luck drops into our lap, or the Chiefs self-destruct. If they keep building their team like they have been, and keep planning and executing the way they have been, they are effectively unbeatable with McD and Beane at the helm - as good as they otherwise are.