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He’s likely to get $20 million AAV, but he’s the type of player you can replace and get 90% of the production for 25% of that price. If he wasn’t already on the team, I can’t imagine anyone would be suggesting targeting him for a 4/80/40 type deal. It’s possible that the market turns out to be softer than anticipated and he could be had for something closer to $15 million AAV. If that’s the case, I think they’ll keep him.

Rapp won that game for the Bills.

The best version of the modern era Bills was the 2022 squad prior to Von Miller’s injury. They were the best team in the league with a gap between them and anyone else. They had absolute studs in Allen, Von, Diggs, and White. That team could just line up and kick your ass, not because they had no weaknesses but because their elite talent could simply take over games. There were two conclusions that could have been drawn from that season. One was that the team should try to load up on superstars. The other was that the team shouldn’t have put so many eggs into so few baskets. Beane chose the latter. Now Josh is the only truly elite player on the roster, and they’re back to their old ways of beating lesser teams to a pulp while struggling against legit contenders. Keon Coleman is a perfectly good player, and he’s going to have a 10 year NFL career. If there’s some trait that he posseses that says he’s going to develop into a superstar, I’m missing it. Xavier Worthy is a twig. It is entirely possible that he won’t hold up physically in the league. But unless and until that happens, he is absolutely electric, and every single Defensive Coordinator is forced to adjust his game plan to account for the possibility that he could score from anywhere on the field at any given time. Brandon Beane passed on Worthy for Coleman because he was more worried about recouping the third round pick he traded away mid-season for a 30 year old CB (despite drafting a CB in the first round in 2022) than he was with finding a superstar in the first round. Now he’s traded a third round pick for a 30 year old WR (despite drafting a WR with his first pick in 2024). There is an alternate universe in which people talk about the 2022 Bills championship season saying that Von was unblockble, Tre was lockdown, and the Allen to Diggs combination was unstoppable. I simply can’t envision anyone ever looking back at the 2024 postseason saying that Keon Coleman and Amari Cooper were unguardable or that Rasul Douglas erased every elite WR he lined up against. This team is built to win the AFC East. It’s not built to win four straight games against the Texans, Ravens, Chiefs, and 49ers. The difference between the Bills and the Chiefs is Chris Jones…and Travis Kelce, and Trent McDuffie, and Rashee Rice and maybe Xavier Worthy. The Amaris and Jujus and Rasul Douglases and Kareem Hunts are important, but you can’t give up big time draft assets to backfill your roster.

The question was literally whether or not Amari Cooper will be the best WR Josh has ever played with. Of course age matters. If Buffalo signs Jerry Rice tomorrow, are you going to say he’s better than Cooper? Totally agree about not needing to be Diggs in his prime in order to make a huge difference. We’ll see if he’s a #1 WR, but he’s clearly better than anything Josh has had this year.

Diggs’s current age has nothing to do with the question, though. Josh played with him in his absolute prime, so the comparison is 27 year old Stef who was a top 5 WR versus 30 year old Coop. Even when Cooper was in his prime, there was not one poster on this board who would have put Cooper on the same level as Diggs. Just looking at their Approximate Value ratings from Pro Football Reference, Cooper’s career best was 11. Diggs has ranged from 12-15 the past 5 seasons. Cooper has had a great career, and he’s going to help the Bills, but if he were currently better than prime Diggs, he’d have cost a whole lot more than $800k and a late third round pick.

Don't understand this take at all. Bernard jumps off the screen several times a game. He's an absolute stud and the best defensive player on the team.

That’s a ridiculous hot-take. The best season of Cooper’s career would maybe be equal to the worst season Diggs had in Buffalo. Diggs was a first team All-pro in 2020 and second team in 2022. He was a top 5 WR in the league. In no universe is a 30 year old Amari Cooper better than that.

You’re being ridiculous. Amari Cooper is a good player. He’s not some generational superstar still entering his prime, and anyone who expects him to roll into Buffalo and become the savior (and there are a lot of you out there), is setting themself up for a massive disappointment. Is he going to help the team? Absolutely. Does his presence solve all or even most of the issues that the Bills will face this season? Not by a long shot. No single player would do that for any team, and if they could, they’d cost a hell of a lot more than a third round pick and $800k. Why some of you seem to expect McDermott to put his feet on his desk, light up a cigar, and start making plans for a Super Bowl parade as if there’s no work left to be done is beyond me. Seriously, what do you want him so say?

In the 2022 draft, Beane traded up for CB Kaiir Elam. Last season, Beane traded a third round pick for CB Rasul Douglas. Then he prioritized getting that third round pick back, so he traded his first round pick to the Chiefs plus a fifth rounder for pick 32 and a third rounder. The Chiefs drafted WR Xavier Worthy, and the Bills drafted WR Keon Coleman. 6 weeks into the season, Beane has traded his third round pick for WR Amari Cooper. This is a wild ride.

Nobody is taking on Elam’s contract let alone giving up assets to acquire him. You’d have to trade Elam and a pick for a lesser pick just to get someone to take him off your books.

He should have settled into the open area. Poor awareness by Williams.

What in the world is going on?

I don’t know exactly what Kinlaw said, but I guarantee the ref deserved it.

LOL

Let’s just call this a tie and agree never to speak of it again.

The Epenesa penalty was bad. If anything, his first sack could have been a penalty. I think they probably warned him and then hit him with a borderline (bad) penalty the second time.

BS call

Another play where Josh’s head bounces off the turf…

Gronk

I thought it missed in real time, but that video actually made it clear that it was good.

Tyron Smith is a corpse out there.

Maybe slightly, but it was already WAY off line.

WTF?

That pass looked like it was tipped.

Is Joe Brady Mark Davis’s bastard son?