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Who do you want that is reasonably available? Would you rather have players that aren’t good instead of injury risk players that are very good? I don’t understand, truly.

Outside of a star pass rusher (who may or may not be available) I think Olave increases our SB odds the most the second he is traded to us. Combined with his injury risk, he may be the most realistic best upgrade available. It’s not without some risk, but I’m in the “nothing ventured nothing gained,” camp

I also still somehow think DJ Moore is available. He's been a round peg in a square hole basically his entire time in Chicago and I'm not sure they love him there. Now his salary is a bit tougher to get around at $20M, so prorated without us ripping up his deal, he would still be expensive from cap perspective. But at 28 and expensive, he may be closer to mid round pick and some stuff in trade comp.

I'll be completely honest, I was never a Ray Davis fan so it doesn't bother me too much, but I get your point. @Kirby Jackson to get us back on track, I select Chris Olave The setting: His option has been picked up for '26. He has not signed an extension despite being extension eligible. Which means he's gettable. The Saints may not be sure to pay him with his concussion history. Olave may not be sure to re-sign with the Saints because they are a trash can. Who knows. What we do know is that Garrett Wilson and Jamo, both in his draft class, have gotten extended already. Wilson got $32MAAV and Jamo got $26M. Have to assume Olave will want that ball park. His salary for 2025 is also quite light. The Bills would be on the hook for mostly his salary as the Saints only save about $3.3M on trading him but likely less with prorated games. Now, what does a 1k yard receiver with a concussion history and a pending massive contract cost? Maybe the DK Metcalf package? a 2nd plus? I'd do that in 2 seconds.

Which means we may need to open a roster spot by trading a running back for a late round pick?

Unless we are running 6 DL packages, we aren't getting two defensive starters around the deadline. Larry O and Hoecht aren't starting over the other guys, they will be rotational pieces.

Beane has traded a 3rd for Cooper and a 3rd for Douglas and Moss and a 5th for Hines over the last 3 seasons? He may be the most active GM at the deadline lol

If Lamar plays and looks okay Sunday, I’m gonna have some side eye tbh. As someone who kinda vehemently disagrees in the quitter narrative that @DrDawkinstein is pushing, it’s honestly a bad look to me if he plays lol

Ah yes, those successful picks Boogie and Big Cody who were traded for peanuts before their rookie deal was even finished.

To the OP, I think his seat is hot in the way that McD make take over playcalling. not sure he’s in danger of being fired. McD was taking over play calling from Leslie Frazier when the defense was playing much better.

The counter take is that the “stars and filler” means you can lose a lot of filler before it matters. Is the Bills defense better off with Tre and Hairston healthy and Benford hurt or Benford healthy and both Tre and Hairston hurt?

Bizarre take. Just totally out of left field. We had like 20 years of lifeless football to watch. I don’t think anyone who lived through that doesn’t realize how much better it is now. To relate all of that to the Tyreek Hill injury is just absurd though

They have to make sure he doesn’t have compromised blood flow. when a knee goes that way, you are at risk for actual terrible problems outside of football injury stuff

@Big Turk Justin fields has 5 yards passing vs the Dolphins. Maybe he’s just a horrific QB

It’s very funny to me that the prevailing theory is that if the Eagles called us up and offered us Brown and Smith for Coleman and Palmer, we would say yes but run the exact same offense and give them 4 targets each per game.

Yeah, my guess is the Bills don’t remain next to worst in the league in rushing defense for the whole season the further we get out from that Derrick Henry game, just like they don’t remain first in passing defense the whole season the further we get out of the QB murderer’s row of Tua, Rattler and Fields.

They used to say this about the Eagles too and the Eagles just built an extremely talented roster. I’m betting that following consensus picks in rounds 1-3 works as long term strategy at least as well as following your own scouts tbh.

What matters is points he says. The Bills are 22nd points allowed per drive. Literally bottom 10 lol. after spending a whole offseason investing in defense, because they were below average at 18th last year. I have perspective for days for you my friend.

The Bills are 12th in yards per drive and 22nd in points per drive on defense. They are 31st in rushing yards allowed. They aren’t good and are definitely one of the worst rushing defenses in the NFL, and the worst rushing defense Buffalo has had since 2017. Cool talk about lacking perspective lol

To be fair, we pick late in rounds and it’s harder to find instant contributors.

That’s not what I asked.

The Steelers did play Justin Fields too. Do you think the Bills have the best pass defense in the league (as their ranking suggests) or do you think they have been ungodly bad against the run (the second worst in the league) and also played some crappy passers that inflated their passer yard ranking? I know what I’m picking lmao.

We played Justin Fields, Tua and Spencer Rattler….

Folz around January 30th ”who could believe that the Bills would fall to 0-5 vs the Chiefs in the postseason and the defense would get shredded again, maybe a few more 90% defensive offseasons with McD’s right hand man picking all the players he wants will change it!”

And like keeps being said when we were 0-2 against KC and 0-3 against KC and 0-4 against KC, KC isn’t going anywhere. We are missing 2 starters. Oliver and Milano. Hairston didn’t beat out Tre for the starting CB spot. the suspended players aren’t going to be full time starters. Unless we somehow start 6 DL players, this take makes no sense.