Dr. K

Frank Ryan had a Ph.D. in math.

If he wore a F-Trump hat, he's smarter than 70% of Bills fans.

Doesn't the price make a difference?

They should probably take the shot, but they will indeed pay the price if whoever they pick is a bust. Look at the grief Whaley got on Manuel (who did not cost them much of anything--they traded DOWN and got him, and Robert Woods in the bargain) and on moving up to draft Watkins. No matter how justified--and after the years of bad QB play the Bills have suffered, it is definitely justified--drafting the wrong QB will define Beane and McDermott. Especially since they dumped a lot of talent to obtain these draft picks in the first place. This is not a strong roster right now.

If I hear "The Process" one more time, I will go homicidal. To this day I have heard no rational explanation of what "The Process" (cue heavenly choir singing hosannahs) is other than "we do it our way, stop questioning it." This is no different than any other management team in football. The proof is in the personnel and coaching choices made by the GM and coaching staff. McDermott in my opinion has earned some respect from the results he got last season; Beane I am more skeptical about, though I expect they are on the same page about the big decisions so six of one, half dozen of another. Clearly Beane & McDermott's plan was to get rid of everybody who was on this team before they took over, regardless of talent level and productivity, stockpile draft choices and build their own team essentially from scratch. They want "their guys" and they've gotten them. Fine. But I don't see how anybody can look at the Bills roster and not at least have some misgivings about what we see. Maybe an adequate offensive line with drop from the skies in the first week of June and they will hit on every draft choice or the QB they trade up for will start like a house afire. But from this corner of the room, it will be a miracle if they win five games next season. That's fine too, if they have built the foundation of a better team, but the proof of that has yet to be seen.

One person's realism is another's negativity. We'll find out soon enough. I'd be happy to be wrong.

I'm beginning to think that 2018 will be the season when the team hits the rock bottom that many expected to see last season. The vast personnel turnover, the purging of all of the pre-2017 draft picks, the likelihood of a QB who is new to starting or even a rookie, the decimated offensive line, the dearth of linebackers, the terrible receiving corps, no depth behind McCoy. This looks like a 3-5 win team. I think the future after that looks brighter, assuming they have drafted reasonably well in 2018 and have established a good quarterback for the future. If not, Cleveland Browns territory.

As of right now, and even assuming the draft goes well, I see them being younger next season but not winning as many games. Too much talent was cut or given away or otherwise lost. This is not a talented roster. It's too early to make predictions, but I'm not expecting more than 5 or 6 wins next season.

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There are so many holes in this roster now, with the dumping of talent last season and preseason and the losses since the season ended--they are down three starters in the o-line alone--that Beane is going to have trouble assembling an adequate roster despite his eleventy-seven wonderful draft choices and increased cap space. If there is a "process" at all, it's going to take at least a season to bring in and coach all these new faces, and have a shot at increasing the overall talent level of the team. It's good and necessary for the team to get younger, and it's too early to guess how good they will be next fall, but as of now I will be surprised if they come near winning nine games next season.

The strategy: Drain the roster of talent. Try to fill the holes with third string free agents and rookies Pray that every player you draft can start. Depend on the fans to drink the kool-aid.

I don't feel good about the Bills giving up four or five picks to draft one of these QBs when more than half the time QBs drafted in the top ten are busts. They have too many holes--many of which they created themselves--to fill on this team.

For pity's sake, who hired Dennison? McDermott is responsible. They are hurting for a right tackle and they get rid of Glenn, creating a weakness. They did not need to do so. Now they have to scramble to come up with some barely adequate--if that--replacement.

Build the O-line? McDermott & Beane came in and changed the blocking system, turning an successful o-line into a mediocre one. Then they trade away a first rate LT in order to move up in the draft so they can get the fifth best QB available, then try to fill in with a couple of failures off the scrap heap. "The worst center I have ever seen."

Exactly. And they tell us we should "trust the process." Such colossal BS. These guys are blind squirrels trying to find a nut who think they are Einstein.

"Bodine is the worst center I have ever seen" --longtime Bengals fan.

I do not trust the process. "The Process" means just putting some mystical name onto the judgment of McBeane, and I have no reason to think they are some magical wizards of roster building. In fact, they have made any number of questionable decisions. They have cleaned house in some cases but in others have shipped out first rate talent and replaced it with mediocrities. Case in point: the O-line is shaky and getting old, and yet they get rid of a pro-bowl LT and pick up a center who my longtime Bengals fan friend calls, and I quote, "the worst center I have ever seen."

One of my old friends is a diehard Bengals fan. What he says about the Bills' acquisitions from the Bengals does not speak well about McBeane and "The Process": "McCarron is a great leader, smart, relatively accurate, arm like a wet noodle. Hope the improved draft position turns out well. Bodine on the other hand is the worst center I have ever seen."

Exactly. The obsessive roster purging makes no sense, especially when good tackles are so hard to come by.

This makes me ill whenever I think of it. The Bills would have been so much better off. Instead, the idiot blowhard out-of-control Rex show.

I remember that Jordan push-off. It used to drive me crazy the number of fouls that never got called on MJ.

Thank the Pegulas and their hire of Sexy Rexy.

No. Too much an egotist to be a coach. Has a great player ever become a good coach?

Kaepernick. The fact that he is not playing for somebody already is a black mark against the NFL, in my opinion. I do not understand why so many people have their panties in a knot about the quiet protests he and other players have made. This response is idiotic. Millionaires can protest the treatment of other people. Just because they are rich doesn't mean they have no empathy. Plus, a black man in the U.S. can find himself at risk in certain situations (where a white many would not) just because of the color of his skin no matter how much money he has.

The last thing we need to add to an officiating system so shaky it is on the verge of collapse is another variety of judgment call.