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So actually I'm okay with passing on Worthy, I wasn't convinced that he was anything more than a gadget (still not). Jury is still out on Keon. I'm actually mostly frustrated on passing on Zay Flower and BTJ in back to back years when they were just a few picks away. We trade up for Elam and Kincaid without hesitation, but on an elite, explosive wide receivers, Beane's like nah, no thanks. Zay and BTJ were great receivers, not just a speed threat, it was obvious to anyone that watches a lot of football. Cannot understand what Beane and co were thinking.

This is delusional. A ton of weapons outside of Cook? What on earth are you smoking and can I please get some?? We don't have a single weapon that anyone has to game plan for outside of Cook, and even he has his limitations (I support what Beane is doing in contract negotiations there). That's not debatable, we have nobody that can take pressure off Allen. Those continuing to pound the "but #2 scoring offense" are missing the boat, Josh Allen is the sole reason the Bills offense is good, it would be off the charts if he actually had some weapons. Josh Allen making heroics up and down the field is not sustainable, and everything will have to go perfect for us to make a Super Bowl. Even the offensive line, while very solid, looks a lot better because JA avoids so many sacks. Don't kid yourself, it's him and only him. We need another weapon on offense that actually scares teams, and have for the last 3 years.

I think everyone is discounting that Cook very well may hold out to start the year. We need another option. We have zero weapons on offense outside of Cook. We can't keep putting it all on Allen's shoulders, it's so hard to win a Super Bowl that way, everything has to go perfect. So frustrated with Beane's approach to the RB and WR room. Literally nobody scares you.

I'm not opposed to adding Moore. Just disappointed once again that we are heading into a season for the 3rd year in a row without a single offensive player (outside of Allen) that even remotely scares you. Nobody worries about our offensive skill players, period. Allen will do what he does with JAG receivers, so I get not overspending , we don't need to be the bengals. But to not have a single explosive (and starting caliber) receiver for years and years is infuriating. Watching Beane just say "nah" when Flowers and BTJ were right there a couple picks away back to back drafts, but then he trades up for corner and DT with questionable value time and time again, just unbelievable. Anyone with even the slightest bit of football sense that watched those kids (Flowers, BTJ) play knew they were starting caliber and explosive out the gate. Just so frustrating. All on Allen once again this year. Everything has to go perfect to win a Super Bowl.

Forget Moore or Coop, they both have no chance at being an explosive #1 receiver. Watching Beane pass on Flowers and BTJ when they were just a few picks away is demoralizing, then seeing it happen again with Golden this year is almost too much. Beane is really out of his league with scouting receivers. Max Hariston was a fine pick and good value, but there was SO much depth at corner, we could have gotten a starter caliber in round 2 easy. Why do we refuse to bring in an explosive, good receiver??? It's like Beane keeps trying to double down on it, and our offense once again goes into a season with literally ZERO players that scare you outside of Allen. Just disappointing.

Brashard Smith please!! We need some type of offensive weapon out of this draft. Cannot believe we are being so neglectful. The only single skill player on our offense who even remotely might scare you is Cook, and he may be sitting out this year we have to prepare for that. We have to take a swing at receiver in the first at some point. Watching Zay Flowers and BTJ almost slide to us in back to back years and doing nothing is so defeating. Really hope Golden doesn't do well or else we may have to admit Beane isn't as good as we think.

Emannwori would be amazing! I'm not about reaching for a safety just for the heck of it but this kid is special. I watched him a lot in college, and I'm a Clemson alumni so I hate South Carolina but this kid would quickly be one of the best players on our defense. Our safety group is WEAK right now. Need at least one gamer back there.

This is not going to be popular but a young Sammy Watkins on this team would actually be amazing.

IF he somehow slides past 5, it would be malpractice to not pick up the phone for Beane and at least see what it would take to move up. That said, it ain't happening.

I generally agree with all of this. The biggest leverage Cook has is hurting the Bills this upcoming season by sitting out. Davis would be a huge drop-off, his ceiling is very limited, and frankly we should never go into a season with Davis as the RB1 or even the RB1b. Ty Johnson has produced at every opportunity though and I would be curious to see his numbers if he got every opportunity Cook got last year (plus still remaining the third down back). Johnson as the primary, with Davis and an explosive mid round rookie as depth would be very intriguing to me, and I would guess the combined production would look similar to Cook last year. My biggest concern though, despite not wanting to pay Cook $15m+, is the he is our biggest weapon outside of Allen. Cook is not elite but he's the only guy on our offense that even remotely scare you. Shakir is very solid but nobody is having to gameplan for him. This is where Beane has failed in not brining in an explosive top end receiver, year after year after year. Even with diggs we constantly should have been searching for an explosive high end #2 project at WR in the draft. That's on Beane for discounting the position.

Cook is very good but safely not elite. Elite players don't come off on the field on third down, period. Mostert had over 20 touchdowns but that doesn't make him elite. TDs are often very situational. If we give Davis/Johnson got more goal line carries Cook would have had closer to 10 tds last year. Never pay a guy coming off an obvious outsized production year. Look what we did with Knox, absolutely terrible contract, worst of Beane's tenure (Von was not a good contract, very risky but absent the injury it prob would have been fine). Cook is good and has improved, and that's what difficult is some of the crazy production last year was him truly improving and ascending, but not all of it. I would very much like to keep him but not at anything more than $12m per (unless it's very short term). You have to remember that Cook benefits greatly from Allen and our Oline. Arron Jones is a great comp. He has similar skills/style to Cook, and look he had one year at 16tds and has never come close to that TD production since. Beane is being smart by holding strong here, Cook is not Saquon Barkley.

Can't believe all the complainers here that are "outraged" over this. The NFL is the most popular sport in America, and has one of the best products in the world. This is not debatable. Of course they are going to try and maximize value. If the Bills play (or heck even if they don't) every single one of you will still be watching, to act otherwise is ridiculous. Get over yourself and pay $10 for a month of streaming. Just thank the Lord we still have football for the time being. The only people I feel bad for are people that have to work on Christmas.

Hahha okay buddy

Love how you are cherry picking the stats. 15.1 YPR in the playoffs sure, when you include a couple big plays that enlarge the averages and include sweeps ands screens with run after the catch etc., but are those really "catches"?? Look at Worthy's average depth of target for all of 2024, 9.1 yards which is very low compared to WRs league wide. Keon had 15.2, almost double!!! His targets were a lot harder to catch, were further down the filed by a wide margin. Worthy should have had more avg distance considering he ran plenty of fly/go routes on deep shots, he has no intermediate game and is not a complete receiver. Actually watch the game film my man, and I mean all of his routes, not just the highlights and cherry picked stats. Sure, you have to watch him on the gadget play and respect his speed deep but he's not good enough at the receiver position yet to be on the field full time, even in Reid's offense, maybe he will get there but the odds say no. This has nothing to do with Coleman, who knows where his development will go. https://www.rotowire.com/football/player/xavier-worthy-17687 https://www.rotowire.com/football/player/keon-coleman-17732

I never said I'd rather have Keon or that Keon is better, I was responding to your point that Keon never could have caught 19 balls in the playoffs (sure he could, if he was force fed like Worthy was on a squad with depleted receivers, that was my point, any NFL receiver can do that if force fed). Worthy was definitely better than Keon his rookie year and way more explosive, nobody is hating on him and nobody said they would rather have Keon. My point is he is still more of a gadget guy for Reid to scheme up than a bonafide starting WR. Rice and Holywood Brown will be the leading receivers, I'm sure Worthy will eat up designed screens and sweeps and short passes and have some explosive plays, but he doesn't scare anyone as a pure receiver.