Logic Posted February 12, 2019 Posted February 12, 2019 I just don't think the Bills are/were in a place in their rebuild where it made sense to part with multiple 1st round picks. The Bears were a dominant pass rusher away from "finished product" as far as team building goes. The Bills...not so much. To not have 1st round draft picks in EITHER of the next two drafts, when the team is in need of as much talent across the board as it is, would not have been a good thing. Additionally, you're looking at not only two 1st round rookies instead of Mack, you're also looking at two CHEAP LABOR PLAYERS instead of Mack, who would have commanded a huge salary. Not only that, I think Beane wants to make darn sure he doesn't get the Bills into the same bad salary cap position they were in when he arrived. Paying Mack the highest contract ever awarded to a defensive player in league history could definitely qualify as a big step down that path. All in all, I wouldn't have been MAD if the Bills had traded for Mack, but I'm not sorry that they passed. Priority number 1 for the Bills is to protect Josh Allen and get him weapons. Trading all those premium picks for Mack and giving him huge money would have significantly affected their ability to achieve the "help Allen" objective.
C.Biscuit97 Posted February 12, 2019 Posted February 12, 2019 5 hours ago, CookieG said: I'll give a kinda shrug to all of this. In the not too distant past, the Bills paid a DE the highest defensive salary in the league. For 2 years, they led the league in sacks and probably had the best DL in the game. He himself had over 27 sacks in 2 years. And they were fun to watch. Pressure comes from the left, QB moves right just to be sacked on the right side. If the QB moves up in the pocket, he had one or two DT's waiting for him. If the DT's bring pressure up the middle...the QB gets nailed by one of the DE's. They complimented each other, they played well together. As I said, leading the league in sacks for 2 straight years, a top 5 pass D and a top 5 D overall in one of those years. Now, if these things are the end all that people profess they are...the Bills should not only have been in the playoffs, they should have been in the conference championship game, looking for a trip to the Dance. But there was no trip to the Dance, there wasn't even a playoff spot. Because the O sucked. And frankly, the O they had was better than what this team showed. And it definitely had less holes to fill, except at QB. Now giving up 2 number 1 picks and $25 million a year in cap space to bolster a D that already gave up the fewest pass yards in the NFL...idk...its a brainer to me. I see it as overkill when the other side of the ball has been severely neglected. I don't diminish the need for a pass rush...its an important part of the D, and an important part of a team, but it isn't the end all that people think it is. If it was, the players on the '13 and '14 teams and probably the '04 team, should at least be sporting conference championship rings. As it was, none of those teams even saw the playoffs. They beat Aaron Rodgers without scoring a td and shut down Peyton Manning during the best season of his career. If they had an average Qb, they easily win 10+ games and have a shot at the SB. Onviiusly, it starts with qb but to dismiss how good Mario was because our qbs weren’t good enough is silly.
GreggTX Posted February 12, 2019 Posted February 12, 2019 (edited) If the 2018 Bills had been a real heavyweight contender and were looking for that 1 win now guy to put them over the top, then the Mack trade would have made sense. However, we are still rebuilding and I'd much, much rather keep those 2 first round picks for now. To me, the best teams have an elite QB and a roster with very few, if any, holes even if they don't have many probowl caliber guys. Let's get McCoy and Allen going first. Edited February 12, 2019 by GreggTX
C.Biscuit97 Posted February 12, 2019 Posted February 12, 2019 Just now, GreggTX said: If the 2018 Bills had been a real heavyweight contender and were looking for that 1 win now guy to put them over the top, then the Mack trade would have made sense. However, we are still rebuilding and I'd much, much rather keep those 2 first round picks for now. And while I generally agree, I wonder if we draft to guys with those picks that could be packaged for Mack. Obviously it’s a lot of money but I think people value draft picks too much.
Stank_Nasty Posted February 13, 2019 Posted February 13, 2019 8 hours ago, formerlyofCtown said: Not at the cost. I would definitely take Mack for 9th overall. We need a lot more on the other side of the ball. I noticed you only responded to that point. My point is that Jerry was actually more disruptive than him this past season. Whether you or snyone else likes it or not its a fact. Our D would be amazing with Mack opposite of Jerry. Oir offense would still suck though. Its also obvious that a lot of other teams felt the price was too much as well. Hughes was more disruptive than Mack? And we are basing this all off of pressures, am I correct???.... man, I’ll have some of whatever you are smoking! Good lord.
KD in CA Posted February 13, 2019 Posted February 13, 2019 The Bills did trade for Mack....but some moron misspelled his name as W-a-t-k-i-n-s on the draft card. 2
formerlyofCtown Posted February 13, 2019 Posted February 13, 2019 6 hours ago, Stank_Nasty said: Hughes was more disruptive than Mack? And we are basing this all off of pressures, am I correct???.... man, I’ll have some of whatever you are smoking! Good lord. Disruptive for a DE would be getting into the backfield correct and that would be generating pressure. I would trade Jerry straight up for make as Mack is the better player, but facts are facts. Im not gonna go back and and forth with people who think their opinion overrides fact. Creating pressure is what a DE does. Only 2 guys did that better than Hughes and one of them is DPOY it isnt Mack. Now if QBs held the ball a bit longer or more pressure got generated from the other side it would show up as the golden stat youre looking for.
Freddie's Dead Posted February 13, 2019 Posted February 13, 2019 We should have drafted Mack. When I heard all the picks we gave up, I figured it had to be Mack. But no, Sammy. Way to go Doug.
Stank_Nasty Posted February 13, 2019 Posted February 13, 2019 (edited) 4 hours ago, formerlyofCtown said: Disruptive for a DE would be getting into the backfield correct and that would be generating pressure. I would trade Jerry straight up for make as Mack is the better player, but facts are facts. Im not gonna go back and and forth with people who think their opinion overrides fact. Creating pressure is what a DE does. Only 2 guys did that better than Hughes and one of them is DPOY it isnt Mack. Now if QBs held the ball a bit longer or more pressure got generated from the other side it would show up as the golden stat youre looking for. I've been hearing the pressures argument for hughes as a bandaid for him for 3 years now. i'm over it. the good ones get home. PERIOD. he's a nice player. solid. i'm glad he's on the team..... he wasn't more disruptive than mack. I love how you use pressures as the ONE stat to measure disruptiveness and then act like everything else is opinion. convenient. this really isn't worth the argument though because I actually really enjoy hughes for the most part. so.... you win I guess? Edited February 13, 2019 by Stank_Nasty
formerlyofCtown Posted February 13, 2019 Posted February 13, 2019 2 hours ago, Stank_Nasty said: I've been hearing the pressures argument for hughes as a bandaid for him for 3 years now. i'm over it. the good ones get home. PERIOD. he's a nice player. solid. i'm glad he's on the team..... he wasn't more disruptive than mack. I love how you use pressures as the ONE stat to measure disruptiveness and then act like everything else is opinion. convenient. this really isn't worth the argument though because I actually really enjoy hughes for the most part. so.... you win I guess? ?
Wsam4031 Posted February 13, 2019 Posted February 13, 2019 On 2/12/2019 at 7:35 AM, BillsFan1988 said: It's not a difference maker group. Mack would add that element. We're talking more hurries, sacks, picks & fumbles he's an absolute game wreaker. Most of these interior players don't even have 10 career sacks in college. The outside guys there stats are nothing special. I just don't see special players Polite not special, Ferrell & Sweat i would stay away from these prospects. Idk if this is true. I'm thinking the Bills offered 1 first and maybe a 2nd but they didn't offer 2 firsts . Conference or not the Raiders known we were worse then the Bears. They did they offered 2 1st and Hughes and the Raiders declined because they didn't wan tto trade him to an afc team. They had plenty of offers to choose from
dubs Posted February 13, 2019 Posted February 13, 2019 I disagree. It’s one thing to pay a guy that you drafted that much money to resign. It’s completely different to give up two first round picks AND pay him that money. Mack is awesome, in retrospect should have drafted him, but I think giving up that much for this team would have been a mistake.
Alphadawg7 Posted February 13, 2019 Posted February 13, 2019 (edited) On 2/12/2019 at 2:08 AM, BillsFan1988 said: When u have a great player like this that wants to be in Buffalo wants to play for Buffalo and all it takes was 2 first rd pks and some cap space . Man we made a huge mistake not trading for Khalil . Now we might spend this first on a DE that can't even play in the NFL. This class of DE's especially the ones projected to be on the board at #9 is not very good in my opinion. Just to think our defense finished #2 in the NFL but we only had 26 sacks on the season. Had we made that trade I think we had 50sks on the season and probably would of won 9 if not 10gms last yr. I realize Beane wants to build threw the draft but trading for Mack could of opened many doors for us especially in free agency. I really believe players would look at the Bills as a prime destination. We still would probably have close to 70mil to fill the holes. I'm pretty sure the Bills kicked the tires on Mack but weren't ready to pay the draft compensation required by the Raiders. Looking back man I wish we traded for Mack. Disagree. Mack didn't help them when it mattered most, advancing in the Playoffs. Our achilles heal was NOT our D, it was the lack of talent on offense. Our D was #2 in the league, and we dont just add Macks sacks to our sack total and assume all the Bills sacks still happen on top of Macks. Thats not how it works. More importantly, lets say we did have 15 additional sacks. How does that translate to 3 to 4 more wins? Thats not even one more negative play per game. Sacks are over rated stat, yes its key to bring pressure, but that sack is literally one play. And in a 16 game season, you are talking about less than 1 more per game. Yet we weren't losing because we didn't sack the QB one more time per game, we were losing because we were not scoring enough points. Mack is a great player, but he didn't help the Raiders win, and while he had an impact for the Bears, the offense still failed to advance the team. We need to invest those 2 first round picks in bringing balance to this team in getting our offense up to par. Not taking a strong unit already and making it a little bit stronger. So love Mack, but I am glad we did NOT trade 2 firsts for him. We have a ton of young talent on our D, its an ascending until already...spend the money and picks on helping the complete lack of talent around Josh on the offense. Then use the cap space not used on Mack to keep our young players in the next few years. Edited February 13, 2019 by Alphadawg7 1
BillsFan1988 Posted February 14, 2019 Author Posted February 14, 2019 2 hours ago, Alphadawg7 said: Disagree. Mack didn't help them when it mattered most, advancing in the Playoffs. Our achilles heal was NOT our D, it was the lack of talent on offense. Our D was #2 in the league, and we dont just add Macks sacks to our sack total and assume all the Bills sacks still happen on top of Macks. Thats not how it works. More importantly, lets say we did have 15 additional sacks. How does that translate to 3 to 4 more wins? Thats not even one more negative play per game. Sacks are over rated stat, yes its key to bring pressure, but that sack is literally one play. And in a 16 game season, you are talking about less than 1 more per game. Yet we weren't losing because we didn't sack the QB one more time per game, we were losing because we were not scoring enough points. Mack is a great player, but he didn't help the Raiders win, and while he had an impact for the Bears, the offense still failed to advance the team. We need to invest those 2 first round picks in bringing balance to this team in getting our offense up to par. Not taking a strong unit already and making it a little bit stronger. So love Mack, but I am glad we did NOT trade 2 firsts for him. We have a ton of young talent on our D, its an ascending until already...spend the money and picks on helping the complete lack of talent around Josh on the offense. Then use the cap space not used on Mack to keep our young players in the next few years. It ain't just about sacks it's more about pressure and causing turnovers. We lost a few close gms that could of gone are way with Mack on our team. I never said u add his sacks to our total either. With Mack and Hughes on opposite sides the Bills could easily gotten 50 as a team.
FearLess Price Posted February 14, 2019 Posted February 14, 2019 On 2/12/2019 at 6:48 AM, GunnerBill said: My top 8 edge rushers all had double digit sacks in 2018. Whos in your top 8. Theres a good possibility we draft ER in the 1st if the right one is there
transplantbillsfan Posted February 14, 2019 Posted February 14, 2019 (edited) I remember that day vividly. I was leaving work because I knew the Bills weren't up yet, then I got in my car and heard the Bills had traded up to #4. As Goodell stated the pick, I was so excited because the Bills were going to pick the local UB product Khalil Mack... and then Sammy glass Watkins was announced Edited February 14, 2019 by transplantbillsfan 1
Troll Toll Posted February 14, 2019 Posted February 14, 2019 Is he the guy that was neutralized by an old Jason Peters in the playoffs? Yeah, I’m all broken up that we didn’t give up 2 Firsts and $100 million for the guy.
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