Exactly.
The only position of any concern right now besides WR is Safety. Rapp could easily be the next Poyer or Hyde (He could also suck, but you get the point).
I don't know how anyone who followed the team last year can honestly be upset about any of the players lost this offseason.
If you want to be upset that they didn't wait until after the draft to trade Diggs, I can understand that.
Other than that, like Sukie said, all the guys that left are either on the downslope of their career, or got highly over paid by another team, or both.
kgun12 (04-10-2024)
For Milanos money… who wants Edmunds back? I kinda like our backup LBs that panned out.
EVERYONE should be upset, not so much that we lost guys but that we're trying to replace ALL of them with completely unproven backups. But hey, it worked ONCE with Edmunds, so no need to be concerned, right?
It's one thing to get rid of players who are clearly declining, but it's another thing to just expect all their inexperienced backups to come in and play at the same level.
OPIV constantly makes references to the salary cap and brings up the salary cap endlessly.. but he doesn't know the basic s of how nfl salary caps work lol
Almost nobody and I mean almost nobody on this board was excited when the Bills brought in Hyde and Poyer. I honk that’s where my optimism comes from. I think Beans has done a pretty good job with these accusations. Not all by most and there probably isn’t one person on this board that is surprised by your suicidal reaction to the signings. You would be negative no matter who they signed.
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Again you said 6 lost . Who? Dont mention my list. Who is the loss that is not replaced. You have zero idea how the kid will play at center where he has played before so shown… who was the big loss?
Poyer?
Diggs and his lack of big game production?
I know you aren’t opening about the Gabe Davis subtraction.
where is the massive insurmountable loss? It isn’t at center.
it isn’t at CB.
No one has any idea how the kids will play. We lost Diggs, Davis, Poyer, White, Hyde and Morse. Expecting the kids to step up and play well enough to replace all of that…. Just insanity. Yes, they were all past their prime but it’s still a talent deficit. We have no one proven to be equal or better.
It’s drought era thinking. During the drought, the team was actually good at not overpaying guys and getting rid of aging vets. The mistake that they consistently made was expecting to replace them with “next man up!” That’s what’s happening here.
Jesus dude, you’re incorrigible
Mike Edwards 2 time Super Bowl champ (replacing Hyde/poyer) isn’t a ‘kid’
Taylor rapp isn’t a ‘kid’ (replacing Hyde/poyer)
Curtis Samuel isn’t a ‘kid’ (replacing one of the wr)
Tre whites replacement (Douglas / benford) aren’t kids
I’ll give you McGovern as we don’t know what we are getting
and the two wr we need in the draft are kids
but to act like we are just winging it with replacements is just false
Rapp was the backup. Douglas was brought in to complement White, not replace him, but I’ll give you that Benford spent most of the season playing for White anyway. Samuel not being a kid doesn’t mean he’s good enough to replace Diggs. You already said McGovern is a question mark. I’ll admit I don’t know much about Edwards but one can’t replace two.
Rapp back used the Bills to a division title… crushing Fin nation.
Once again… read slowly.
Diggs. Okay a replacement is needed as a 1. He really wasn’t all that irreplaceable down the home stretch though
Tre and Hyde WERE replaced already the last 2 years. When they came back briefly… they were kinda the backups playing spot duty.
Milano will be back so LB is improved.
Poyer played un poyer-like. Easy replaced talent at its current level.
morse McGovern… meh probably will be seen as close to a wash if not an improvement. Morse is old and can’t remember where he left his keys some days,
so let’s talk about Gabe Davis… what about his stellar play cannot be replaced ?
it seems to me that you are thinking the Bills are suddenly missing the Tre, Poyer, Hyde and Morse of 2021. And Gabe from that KC game.
hell I’d rather Shakir get the Davis Balls . He will catch them at least.
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