the positions of importance, right? If you had a break it
down for the Buffalo Bills and you just looked at it and you
said, what's the
number one position? They got to address or let's take,
what's the top three positions? Let's address those first and
then we can rank them but hey, you know where would you start
if your Buffalo
When you've got a franchise quarterback and you're not
getting the most out of his talent because you only have
one receiver who's getting it done, that's the most obvious
they got to bring in receivers and we talked every year about
how there are so many great receivers in the draft, it's
becoming
like the running back position.
They need to be scouting. The hell out of the receivers,
and they need to be
try to do like the Steelers do
and the Steelers even with great receivers last year. What
they do? They drafted like two or three receivers in 2022.
Now, they traded Chase Claypool during the season, but
that's what the Bill's need to be doing coming up with ways to
create this next wave of great receivers within
the organization. And, and look, I said it kind of jokingly you
didn't react to it when I said, is
Stefon Diggs threatened by
the potential emergence of Gabe Davis,
but I can't help, but wonder and you get a complicated
package and Stefon. Diggs a guy we love, but I could see him
kind of giving that little side. I that he does. If they
start loading up with receivers, hey,
I'm him, we don't need these other guys. Well, Stefan, we do
need those other guys. Because number one, it's keeping you
from being him. And number two
I don't know how much longer you're going to be him.
We got to be thinking about having
more guys that can do what you do. It can't just be you plus
a collection of guys who aren't you? We need to find some other
guys who are you and you're going to have to
deal with that. I mean I would agree with that. I hope he, you
know, realizes that as well. I do. I mean we know, He's a guy
that wants to win.
We know that too. So
hopefully hand the ball he wants to win and he wants
the ball. Sure, I'm so I love the guy he wants, it's not just he
wants to win, he wants to win and he wants the ball. Yeah,
all receivers do that because he thinks if I
have the ball will win. Sure, sure that's fine. And you know,
I think to the point you're making where
it got another weapon or another receiver. That scared
defense is, I don't think it's going to affect his catches at
all. I don't we see plenty of teams with two, three, really
good.
Reason they got the ball still spread around in a way that
everybody's happy and really probably would make more
explosive plays. Maybe doesn't have as many caches, but has
just as many yards and
more highlight plays. That's what'll happen,
right? Diggs is awesome. He can do a little bit of everything,
but even to that point, he's not Jamar Chase, right? Jamar
Chase is at a point where they go.
Wait, he's one-on-one, we throw to him
and it's a completion or like we saw in the game, The
Defender just holds. Him and goes, oh God. She's about to
run by me. After hold him right there, but he's an Unstoppable
Force. He's become like Tyree kill or Justin Jefferson
Stefon, Diggs is not quite that. He's awesome. Don't get
me wrong but he's not like, oh, it's man-to-man. We're just,
we're going deep to digs, he's going to run right by them,
you know. So that's where I do think another explosive element
would help him out the rest of the offense out and I agree
with you. I think, you know, wide received the positions
I come to more than anything
our wide receiver.
Werner
and D line right? There's their Cincinnati the other day.
They're not worried about the Run. They're just going out
front for I'll stop the run. No problem. We can have all these
guys back in coverage and give Josh Island problems
and then, you know, flip side of that is, there's Buffalo
going. Oh wait, it's back a bowl Lyman. But damn, they can
still run on us and we got to put linebackers up in the
air gaps and cry. The line of scrimmage because Joe mix-ins
running for 10 yards a carry, you know, and they're doing
whatever they want and and so those are some Of the other two
areas of Mike that I kind
of look at with them that I think needs some improvement.
They got to do something about running back, okay?
And I don't want to it's too easy and fantasy. It feels like
it's fantasy football focused. When you say receiver running
back, tight end but when you have Josh Allen
receiver and running back or clearly the top two for me
because they need a guy like a Joe mix and they need a guy who
can bang it between the tackles. They need to settle on
one guy and let him become the guy. The guy who
will wear you down as the game goes on.
I know there's been a trend over the past 15 or 20 years to
go toward Two or three running backs. And, and that keeps you
from ever having to pay any one of them and you've got a guy
healthy every week,
maybe there's something to be said for having a number one,
number two, and number one is a guy
on whom you're running game rest and you use him and you
keep using him and you don't get infatuated with what Josh
Allen can do. You use the running back to balance out
the passing game to keep the defense honest to get them on
their heels to set up play action too. To set up those big
Josh Allen throws. Yeah, they just don't have it. Now, maybe
James Cook year to can become that
and write, but
they need to evaluate that and ask themselves right right?
Because because, hey, hey, Josh Jacobs is available in free
agency, right? And I've already seen some people suggesting
maybe the bill, she go get him and on one level. It sounds
a little too
simple. Another level. It sounds a little too simple. It
sounds very simple.
It sounds very enticing C'est quand Berkeley. Josh Jacobs
bring in a guy and make him. The centerpiece of your running
game and commit to balancing out your offense. So if you run
it effectively
then when you surgically unleash Josh Allen ho boy
there's seven and there's seven, right? There's seven.
And you don't have to worry about being down by 17 points.
Yes, he tried again, the four teams that are left, all have
that divisional round. Well yeah. But you're saying that
the four teams that are left, have that?
Oh, Joe Mixon. Okay. Boom. Big Game. Divisional way up to
Middle. Joe Mixon! Boom! Boom. But we're worried about that.
Oh, we got to stop Joe. Oh, s***. Jamar Chase is wide open.
Right. You know,
you're exactly right.
You know, you look at the Chiefs, what do they do this
year? We've all talked about it all year. It's made them
a different team. Isaiah Pacheco between the tackles. Holy crap.
Oh, wait, Mahomes gets hurt, not a big deal. Look, they got
another Avenue to,
you know, pound you up the middle, make plays that way.
Help out Chad Henne, right? The 49ers in the Eagles. We know
that's what they do McCaffrey
and no Eagles do it a little differently with the I'll
Sanders Jalen hurd's combination but
to your point again,
you know, there they have that element, right? And then they
have other guys on the outside Debo, are you kiddo? Whoa! AJ
Brown Devante Smith, Dallas Goddard
oh my gosh, you know, you know, then the guys in Kansas City
and then of course Cincinnati. So
again there I mean I think it's when you really start to talk
it out as glaring that, you know, when we start to compare
them to the other teams are talking about here and you go.
Yeah. Wait. Back those guys aren't the same as the guys you
just mentioned and
they certainly don't have that. Mike. You're right.
Remember when Christian McCaffrey
first was believed to be available.
Yeah Builder and I
should make a move for. Yeah. Right? And and
I just I feel like
How do I put this without? Pissing people off. Any more
than we already have.
I feel like when those opportunities arise, the bills
realize five minutes too late. They should have done it.
That they get caught up in their fears
and hey, it was a calculated Risk by the 49ers, a two or
three or four and a five to absorb that contract for a guy
who's got a recent injury history, that's the nature of
the position.
It's not the player. It's the position, right? The position
gets guys injured and if your brand and being in your
thinking, this through your thinking, man that's a lot to
give up
by way of picks and cash for a guy who met sprained his ankle.
The first game he plays with us and he's never the same. So
we'll go Christian McCaffrey
light will go naheem Hines
and then never use him
that I keep coming back to that disconnect.
Now he him Hines was there
was there Junior version of Christian McCaffrey and but for
the two touchdown Returns on kickoffs in week 18,
I'd look at that. Trade and say
what, why, why did you even bother what was the point here?
Why did you even bring?
Him onto your team,
you didn't use him,
you didn't use them away. We thought at least the Colts,
I mean the Cults used in more and it felt like they weren't
using them enough. Now he's gone basically a wall and
the bills offense. So
so again,
I just feel like these windows open
and some teams know when to jump through and some teams
know
when not to do it. And other teams are standing there,
wondering what we should do while someone else does and
I feel like the bills are that team.
I'm that standing around wondering what we should do.
While someone else make that big move,
that makes a big difference last year Von Miller and obj.
Rams win the Super Bowl this year. Christian McCaffrey
49ers, very well-made when the Super Bowl
that, that's another thing that I think, is more institutional
with the bills that they need to fix that. The next time
Opportunity Knocks. They better answer because somebody else is
going to. Yeah, sure, Eagles, AJ brown, right? I mean it, you
know, you can hit on that. That was a certainly, I know that
was the offseason.
It wasn't during the season but it was a big move.
Of to kind of put them over the top
to give them that formula where we go men. It kind of seems
indefensible at times as far as what they do.
So yeah, I think we had done a lot of good things. Again, I'm
a big fan of what they're doing in Buffalo. I am
IA, you know that
I've always been Shawn McDermott fan,
I like what they do on the defensive side of the ball.
And of course, I love Josh Alan. And I like a lot of
things on their offense, but there has to be some change.
Their, I think to your point,
It's got to be a little bit more, there's got to be
else. We got to be worried about some guy that can run up
the middle. There is no worry there. They got to add that
other weapon in the passing game, you know?
And and they're not far off, they're not far off but
it's not an easy solution. I think is the biggest thing is
not easy to find those four or five guys that are all going to
make sense, money-wise and difference making wise and put
it all together
to put out a product that I think we're talking about.
We'll see what they can do. They're pretty smart group.
They've done something pretty damn good up there in Buffalo.
But yeah, their eyes are on the Super Bowl and their fallen
short in that department.
Well, they've turned around a team that was mediocre at best
for 20 years, right? But that's the problem when you when you
constantly teased and entice your fans to think you're
finally delivering on that thing they have wanted for so
long. And that's
one of the big common threads between the Buffalo and
Minnesota fan bases. You can either as a fan, you can
circle the wagons,
you can sit back. You can say
we have full faith in
the powers that be and we're just along for the ride. Ride
or you can you can start asking some tough questions about what
we're doing, because the years go by quickly,
you got one season at a time before, you know it, five,
seven, ten seasons of Gone by. What do you have to show for
it? Are you Patrick Mahomes, Tom, Brady, or are you Philip
Rivers, Aaron Rodgers?
What do you automatically have to show for it? When it's all
said and done and I'm already seeing the Philip Rivers
comparisons
to Josh Allen just by way of career.
Ultimate outcome.
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