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    Elijah Moore Visiting the Bills today (Update: Signed!)

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    17 minutes ago, Shaw66 said:

    Yes, Deek, but this is the argument that has raged around here for months, even a couple of years.  The Bills need a playmaker, a stud I call him. 

     

    Well, I'm generally in that camp, but I no longer make that argument. Why not?  Because by their actions McDermott and Beane have made it absolutely indisputable that they do not agree with a philosophy that demands that they go get a stud. They just don't.  

     

    Would they like to have another star who is also a team player, a Josh minor to Josh's Josh major?  Of course they would. But they will not spend really big draft capital to get one, and they will not spend really big cap money to get one, either. Their only hope of getting a second playmaker is to grow one.  Draft a guy with big upside, and that's what they've done, year after year. Kincaid, Hairston, Rousseau all are big upside guys.  Oliver was too.   Bernard was a big upside guy.  Cook was.  If they don't turn into the star we all want, well, okay, but they still can play really solid football while the search goes on. And they have three or four more of those guys now, in Hairston, Sanders, Jackson, and Walker - commentators three years from now could be saying that any one of them was the steal of the 2025 draft. 

     

    They've been very clear about their system: they plug holes in free agency and they build through the draft. Moore came as a free agent, and his role very definitely is to plug a hole, to make the receiver room better. His role is not be a stud, because free agency is not where McBeane look for studs. 

     

    So, as much as I would love for a real stud show up at some position, some guy who has Hall of Fame potential, a Chris Jones or a Watt, or a top five-receiver, or Saquon Barkley, McBeane are not going to acquire that guy by overspending.

     

    I'm not going to criticize McBeane for having a perfectly logical and reasonable team-building approach just because I wish Chris Jones was on the Bills' roster. 

     

    I'm not going criticize them because there is no way that if I were the owner of the Bills I would fire one or both of them because they haven't chased after a stud. This team has had a spectacular record since taking over, they have a system, and the system is responsible for where this team is. Some people will say where they are is with an empty trophy case, but the reality is that the Bills are one of the five best-run franchises in the league, and they have the wins to show it. I'm not firing them because there is a thing here or there that I disagree with. 

     

    If I'm not going to fire them, then I'm going to accept the conscious decisions they make to run the team. 

     

    So, yeah, Moore isn't Justin Jefferson. Okay, everyone gets that. He's exactly what the Bills want: relatively cheap talent who will compete for playing time, and by virtue of his competing, the Bills will get better. That's how the Bills build and improve, and that's why I'm happy the Bills signed him.  

    I’ve not said a single negative word about the signing. I honestly don’t care. I just want a Bills player (I’ll settle for a third string TE at this point) to make THE PLAY that’s needed to get them to and over that final ever elusive hurdle. Preferably….“Just once before I die.” 😉

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    Elijah Moore Visiting the Bills today (Update: Signed!)

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    56 minutes ago, Shaw66 said:

    I agree with this assessment.  However, it's important to note that if the test as to whether a free agent or draftee would have been the difference last season or this season, then there are only 20 or 30 players alive for whom that is true, and all of them were either signed or drafted before the Bills had a chance to get them.  There was no stud receiver available to the Bills. 

     

    This is all about team building, trying to get better, player by player and position by position.  That's all.  It's a good team building move.  

    Shaw, the point is that there isn’t a player that’ll put them in a position any better than the one they were in last season. The only thing left for the Buffalo Bills to do is to have someone make ‘a play’ at the point of do or die. You either make the play or you go home.
     

    The other night I was watching one of the NBA teams (can’t remember which one) lose a game because a player inexplicably let a ball go right through his hands and legs out of bounds when all he had to do was grab it and hold on. The opponent got the ball out of bounds and proceeded to go the length of the floor for the winning layup as time expired. All I could think to myself was geeeez what a Billsy way to screw up a sure victory. 

    Elijah Moore Visiting the Bills today (Update: Signed!)

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    2 minutes ago, All_Pro_Bills said:

    Moore looks like a good signing and adds another element to the Bills offense. I wouldn't go so far to say adding him makes the WR group a strength but it also means the group is no longer a major weakness either. My expectation is one or two of these guys, Samuel, Moore, Coleman, Palmer, outperforms this season. Add in Allen's MVO level play, a healthy Kincaid, and some additional flexibility in play calling and formations for Brady to work with and the situation things look very good. With Cook's status the only big negative left.

     

     

    I agree. None of the WR/TE group are standouts on their own but they’re ALL of decent ability. I’m guessing everyone will eat again in 2025….which can be very difficult on the opposing defense. 

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    2025 Official Bills Schedule Prediction & Breakdown

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    1 hour ago, corta765 said:

    I just listed the holiday, that is a 1pm Sunday game.

    I have felt the same. If anything the finale on Xmas is more about Josh and the Bills being good vs most likely another strong opponent CIN/BAL/KC/PHI

    I was at the finale of the Rockpile. It was pretty damn cold and we tied Detroit. A more fitting end could not have been scripted. 😂

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    Washington Commanders new stadium

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    If you REALLY want to see something, google the latest images of the new soccer stadium proposed for Saudi Arabia which will sit 30 stories in the air atop their new City of the Future, called The Line. The target is having it ready for the World Cup in about eight years. Truly unbelievable!
     

    Maybe someone can copy and paste an image. I tried but it said the image was too big. 

    Bills 2nd Rnd pick in 2025 Draft : TJ Sanders - DT South Carolina

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    3 minutes ago, NewEra said:

    “A higher ranked guy” lol

    Why is that so ridiculous? We didn’t just sit there and wait for a DT. We traded up for our guy. None of us know who has a crystal ball but I look at every pick the same every year. I immediately look at the guys right behind us that were available when we picked. We’re all gonna see, but trading up made no sense to me. None! 

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