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Not saying you’re wrong, but I just don’t understand this line of thinking. Hoping to find a HOF caliber pass rusher drafting at the bottom of each round is risky. Two late first round picks is roughly equal to a mid first round pick. Beane had pick 16 and drafted Tremaine Edmunds. He had the 9th pick and took Ed Oliver. There is nothing about Beane’s draft history that suggests he’s going to land a game wrecker in the draft, and even with trading for one, there’s nothing to stop him from trying to find another one with day 2-3 picks. Josh is 29 years old. You are smack dab in the prime of the best player your franchise will ever have. Why get price conscious now?

Buffalo should be all over that deal. Give Beane a mid round pick, and he drafts a pretty good player. Give him a first round pick, and he drafts…a pretty good player. Go get a stud. If it costs you the next Hairston, Coleman, Kincaid, Elam, etc., so be it. Just keep finding Benford, Shakir, Knox, and Johnson with day 2 and 3 picks.

They’ve averaged allowing 35 PPG in the 4 games against Kansas City and 19 PPG in the 8 games against the other 7 teams.

That’s true, but you’re looking at it backwards. The Chiefs scoring fewer points wouldn’t have made the Bills score fewer, but the Bills scoring more likely would have led to the Chiefs also scoring more. If Bass makes that kick, it’s 27-27 and the Chiefs have the ball with 1:40, 2 timeouts, and get to use all 4 downs to score. Even if they fail, there’s overtime. They didn’t need to score, but they did need to get a first down to ice the game. They got a first down. Same goes for the end of the 2024 AFCCG. The Bills final drive ended with just under 2:00 left. If they had managed to score, the Chiefs were getting the ball with a chance to score. There was also the possibility of overtime had the BIlls kicked a FG. Even trying to kill the clock, they gained two first downs and got to the Buffalo 18 before kneeling down. So yeah, there’s a lot of truth to the idea that teams can score more when they need to and play it closer to the vest when they don’t (like in the 2023 AFCCG or the 2024 Divisional round).

Quarterbacks have lower production outdoors than indoors. He had 3 games where he caught less than 67% of his targets: September 15th, Carolina: 78 degrees and sunny with 13 mph wind September 22nd, Pittsburgh: 72 degrees and sunny with 2 mph wind October 13th, Denver: 65 degrees and sunny with 7 mph wind Somehow I don’t think the elements or his hand size or his zodiac sign or whatever had any sort of correlation to his catch percentage. He’s a stud in Los Angeles, and he’d have been a stud in Dallas or Buffalo or anywhere else.

It’s pretty clearly the guys who are 0-3 in postseason games against Mahomes the last 2 seasons? Yeah, and Karl Malone was clearly the best basketball player in 1996-97.

Mahomes is 15-11 in games that he’s trailed by 10 or more at any point.

I was just going to say the same thing. Guy just does not have a F left to give. Maybe they’ve decided to push the young guys harder. Or maybe it’s sound bytes for Hard Knocks, LOL.

3500 yards, 20 TDs, and 6 INTs plus 500 yards rushing is statistically a top 5 rookie season all time. It was the second best season by a QB in the history of the franchise.

In the last 5 seasons, Burrow’s record when trailing at the start of the 4th quarter is 4-23.

Burrow can’t kill you with his legs the way the others can, and Lamar can’t beat you with the creativity that Allen and Mahomes can. As you go up the ladder, each guy can do something that the guys below him can’t.

He’s a guy that people loved to hate for whatever reason. The guy was a great player, a pretty good dude, and never got into any legal trouble or anything like that. I was always a fan.

It’s Mahomes, Allen, Jackson, and Burrow in that order then a wide gap after that. Anyone who didn’t put Josh and Lamar in the top tier is an idiot.

Benford’s concussion in the AFCCG was maybe the most disturbing I’ve ever seen. He looked downright catatonic when they strapped him into the cart.

Jealousy dating back to his 40 at the combine when he tripped over his own…well…

You don’t want guys like Chris Jones, Trey Hendrickson, Micah Parsons, TJ Watt, Jamaar Chase, etc.?

They were dirty as hell in the AFCCG two years ago.

I’ve even seen them used to heal ankles.

Good point. It’s cool to throw things on the field at sporting events. Perfectly acceptable. In fact, more people should do it.

That person is a jackass and deserved everything he got. Fans have zero business throwing anything on the field.

There have been 6 ACL injuries so far this preseason so far. A week ago, it looked like Hairston had just joined the list.

First page of the Lounge: Baylon Spector hurt Khalil Shakir hurt All these injuries are becoming worrisome Maxwell Hairston hurt But yeah, not participating in training camp is likely going to get him injured.

Even if your absurd logic were true, why did they wait until Josh broke his hand to give him the ball? He literally set the franchise single season record for TDs in a season before scoring 2 more in the AFCCG. (By the way, if you read the postgame threads, most of this board was convinced that the Bills would have won that game if they’d have given him the ball on the final, failed drive.)

Yeah, he’s stealing money from the next guy like Diggs who they just paid $31 million not to play for them and the rotational defensive linemen who got suspended for PEDs that the Bills just gave $20 million guaranteed. Why would you pay market value to the guy who just put up 134 yards and 2 TDs in the AFCCG after scoring 18 TDs in the regular season when you could save half a percent of the salary cap and give it to guys who are going to be suspended for cheating?

And players have the right to renegotiate their rookie contracts after 3 years of service.