I think most agree with your take here. The draft is such a hit or miss thing, Beane needs to start using all of our picks and stop freaking using them to trade up.
Beyond Allen, his trade up philosophy has simply not worked out great.
This is accurate. Oliver is def one of our top 5 defenders on the team and the way Hoecht played, you could argue he may have been a top 5 defender on our team. Those are big losses.
I don’t think they will. As someone pointed out, Boldin actually signed with us, retired, then subsequently asked Beane/Bills to release him so he could sign with another team. Beane said Nope!
Hopefully he does the same in this situation.
After Slay’s comments, I wouldn’t even want him out there on the field. He would bring zero passion and probably the same effort. Let him sit on the DNR and cry.
Beane needs to go steal a CB from someone else’s practice squad.
Another question - How long can Slay contemplate retirement and keep the Bills in limbo?
If a team drops a player today that we want, did we already lose our spot in the waiver line? We need to wait until Slay officially retires?
So many questions.