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The unusual way the Bills use LBs compounds the challenge.

Players were given an extra year of eligibilty due to the pandemic.

We saved a cool 400k per year going with McGovern. He was only 7.6 per season, and is several years younger. McGovern may well end up being the better signing. Interesting how the Steelers seemed to be focusing on building a great online for Kenny Pickett, rather than focus on defense and let Pickett carry the offense by himself. Very odd of the Steelers.

Literally everyone (in the true sense of the word literally) understands PFF is one data point. Your wisdom is non-existant. Your leap to the conclusion, that people who disagree with you are worshipping one data point, is so ridiculous, it is only exceeded by the ignorance of your comment.

hmm

Initially this was intended to be a bit tongue in cheek. I had assumed that this first phase of free agency may have seen more activity. But I guess as the first phase of free agency concludes, Conner McGovern is our big move, with a couple of million of cap space left for a small move and enought cap to sign the draft picks. Really hopeful that Elam, Cook, and Benard can have first second and third round rookie impact in their second seasons. If that happens (and white returns to preinjury levels, and Miller comes back to pre injury levels) we should be considered championship contenders.

Stefon Diggs was also controllable for five seasons. What is your point?

He would be over drafted at 27, and won't make it to 59. I would be ok with him at 27 though, and thrilled at 59.

Beast of an athlete. But he seems to project as a project. NFL.com considers him a practice squad player. SI says he is a 6th round prospect. If he was there in the fifth, I would take him. But he is a flyer.

Seems he could be stronger. 11 on bench press seemed off. maybe a bad day. NFL grades DJ Johnson at 6.14. He is definitely not a shmoe.

Many of the posters here who are overreacting have been fans for 30 or 40 or 50 or more years. I disagree with a lot of people who post on this board. But there are no fair weather fans who post on this board. If you are referrning to people here, you are just a pretentious holier-than-thou person, or don't understand what "fair weather fan" means.

Fans are customers. Every single one is entitled to their personal opinion of whether or not the team succeeded. Its a strange customer relationship, because most fans will continue to buy the product they are disappointed in. From a management perspective success is measured by owner happiness. Full stop. Owners tend to have some concern for fan's opinions of where things are at, but they are the final arbiters. The average NFL coach lasts a couple of years. A few outliers like Jeff Fisher can last 20 years without winning a championship. That vast majority of owners wouldn't have kept Fisher for that long. In the end, its all measured by money.

We didn't get him in the 7th round though.

The Cincinati game definitely influenced my view. Going into the playoffs, I thought the Bills were the second best team with the primary difference being Reid being a much better big game coach than McDermott. We were so badly outcoached in the Bengals game, only a week after being outcoached by a clearly less talented Miami team, that is hard to come back to the idea, that we are part of the big two. The way we were outcoached, to me, was reminiscent of the Bills outcoaching the Raven's and giving the better teams in the league the blue print to beat the Ravens. I feel like the Bengals have exposed to the other good teams in the league exactly how to beat the Bills. And for all of its success, the McDermott regime has always seemed more stubborn, than adaptable. Hopefully I am either wrong on that, or that this changes.

Success for most sports fans is against expectations. For example, I am a big St. Bonnies basketball fan. An A-10 title and/or a trip to the NCAA's is a successful season. A bid to the NCAA tournament is not a successful year for North Carolina or Kentucky though. Its a bit different in the NFL. Texans fan's are not going into next season expecting to win a super bowl. Nor were Bills fans 10 years ago. Its kudos to the McBeane regime that the have rasied the bar. But the bar is raised. After the 2020 season, no one expected a regression to losing in the divisional round of the playoffs. But due to 13 seconds we finished further back in 2021 season than the 2020 season. However most fans were expecting at least a return to the championship game in 2022, and we fell well short of that goal, getting spanked in the divisional round. The bar has been somewhat lowered now, most Bills fans will be happy to get to the AFC Championship game next year, and will consider a super bowl appearance a great season. I think people start looking being upset with sports managements when they are realistically need to lower thier expectations in the near future. So 31 teams don't feel. Without reviewing the results, I would guess about 8 teams a year exceed expectations enough to consider the season a success.

With this statement you are saying Jeudy is the missing piece to winning a super bowl. Absurd in the extreme.

And that is exactly my proposition. I guess people are not familiar with the phrase "Dark Horse"

Beane has wizarded the cap hit for josh down the road. 47 mil next year, 56 the following. Only 18 this year.

Did you read the write on draft buzz. Not aligned with your conclusions at all.

I am not disputing this, but other than Beane bitching about Josh taking too many risks, can you link to any actual examples. None jump to my old mind.

Edmunds was once an athletic freak project (except not as big , fast or strong as Beal). Did you have pacheco identifed as a 7th rounder last year to be a difference maker for the Super Bowl winner.

Without Allen, Diggs doesn't matter in the decision making for Beane.

https://www.nfldraftbuzz.com/Player/DJ-Johnson-TE-Oregon Projected 7th round prospect. Negative seems to be he is 24 years old. HEIGHT: 6-4 (89%*) WEIGHT: 260 (98%*) HANDS: 9 (21%*) ARM: 33 4/8 (74%*) SPAN: 80 (92%*) FORTY: 4.49 (C) (95%*) SHUTTLE: 4.51 (P) (9%*) 10 YARD SPLIT: 1.59 (C) (70%*) DJ Johnson from Burbank High School was rated a 4-star recruit by ESPN and handed a 4-star grade by 247 Sports. After high school, Johnson joined Oregon after being heavily recruited. Elite athletic skills -- Made Bruce Feldman's Freaks List at number 4. He wrote "Johnson had a dominant showing in the Ducks’ spring game, making five TFLs and four sacks. Those numbers are as jaw-dropping as the results the 6-4, 275-pounder has produced in the Oregon training program, posting a blazing 22.88 mph on the GPS to go with a 455-pound bench and 655-pound sumo deadlift." Tougher between the tackles than many expect. Fluid and quick drop into zone, covers enough ground to be Tampa-2 "MIKE" and knows where the markers are. He has the strong core and powerful hands to shed blockers, and he shows excellent instincts with the ability to quickly locate the ball.

Except for Brandon's Beane's entitlement to rest on the laurels of the brilliant Josh Allen pick forever apparently.

Trade all of our top picks for a 1,2&3 next year plus some later round picks this year. We are running it back with the old timers this season, Morse, Miller, Hyde, Poyer, and have all of last years draft picks who didn't get to play last year. Plug them in, sit this years later round picks behind them, and be prepared for next seasons inevitible reload in the draft: