Waiting Too Long a Concerning Draft Sign for Buffalo Bills
The Bills finally got a chance to help the Chiefs. Throwing in aid for the Panthers was a bonus. Helping those two at their own expense is franchise policy. The entirely generous Brandon Beane wished for more wishes from the genie. That’s a clever move until you’re homeless and starving while contemplating your stockpile.
Feeling compelled to watch the draft is taxing enough if your team goes. Watching them send every chance away is like enduring The Russell Crowe Show to see the commercial for the Terrance and Phillip movie trailer without the payoff. The simultaneous Knicks playoff game was a blessed distraction from Buffalo doing nothing. They lost. But unlike the first round, they got more chances.
The Bills are not rebuilding, they want you to believe. They also presume you’ll think they gained on the rest of the conference if you’re committed to trusting their claims. The psychological gap between a first- and next-round selection will loom over a team that skipped its chances. The practical loss goes beyond a couple slots: they also lost the fifth-year option they would’ve gotten with a first-round player, so at least there’s good news if they bungled the choice.
Keon Coleman is the consolation gift. He’s hopefully working on his speed and separation like every single draft profile says is needed unlike the flash of light that’s now Kansas City property. Xavier Worthy wasn’t available when Buffalo chose for reasons beyond comprehension to mere fans. Outsiders would’ve added a fast guy to play with the quarterback who you may have heard possesses an uncommonly strong arm.
Fans can’t criticize Beane for as long as the Bills win every Super Bowl. The rabid allegiance of a certain unquestioning segment of fans is embodied by an unwillingness to suggest that perhaps the chooser of employees could work on his personnel skills.
You’ll be scoffed at for disagreeing with professionals who act amateurish. The general notion that executives are above reproach presumes they know what they’re doing, which is an odd approach for sizing up a franchise that has a losing record. Zombified commitment applies to lauding the specifics of Beane’s tenure, which as a reminder still doesn’t feature a Super Bowl appearance despite him getting that one quarterback right. Forget stepping ahead: he did nothing to keep pace.
Atlanta loves Buffalo’s deals. Drafting a quarterback after signing Kirk Cousins was only the draft opening’s second-most incomprehensible decision. The NFL is a league of relatively baffling moves. By contrast, the Niners appreciated Buffalo’s steadfast dedication to not acquiring who they needed most by drafting a receiver of their own. It’s not just direct trade recipients who get stuff they want.
Missing out on a second Xavier was for emphasis. The Bills took another chance to trade a pick they could’ve used on a receiver for cruelty. If there were a saboteur, he wouldn’t have done anything differently.
The Bills just wanted to see what drafting last was like. And they even chickened out of that chance. They were too worried about offending karma to stay in the opening round.
Nobody needed a wide receiver more. The obvious strategy when presented with the opportunity to remedy their problem is to trade the pick to the team you can’t beat in the playoffs so they can draft one of their own. They’ll always think you were screwing with them. Coleman will spend his career being compared to the players of his type who had been available, which is his employer’s gift to him. Every game against the Chiefs isn’t already stressful without the receiver tracker.
Worthy’s family name is too perfect for screenwriters to have invented. The Chiefs sure were fine with it. As for one of the squads that dreams of overtaking them, the Bills think they weren’t helping. The team they consider a rival surely didn’t fleece them. Patrick Mahomes was already gifted perfect circumstances, in part enabled by a previous trade with the same franchise. Getting him the fastest target possible is exactly the sort of present an entitled brat shouldn’t receive.
The Bills adhere to Terry Pegula’s business philosophy of making money by never spending any. How could you get something in exchange for assets? That’s silly. Forget moving up to benefit the quarterback who deserves it, which apparently wasn’t even considered. It’s not like they could’ve gotten the draft’s very best receiver. Oh, right: you get a first-round receiver out of using a choice.
Wondering why other teams were so willing to make the deals to get employees who can catch well after running away from foes wasn’t worth pondering when there were picks to accumulate.
Beane’s steadfast refusal to address his job tasks makes Kevyn Adams the competent one. A time traveler approached me two weeks ago to tell me Buffalo was about to become a Sabres town. I foolishly laughed. Inverting franchise interest sure didn’t seem likely. Then again, refusing multiple opportunities to get Josh Allen the best possible coworkers seemed like a goal too obvious to mess up.
The Bills seem rather nonchalant about trying to prove that they’re not wasting the career of the singular player who’s singlehandedly revived franchise fortunes. They made their choice, all right. Rush was right about Freewill.
Circumstances lined up perfectly, which makes going offside even more aggravating. This year’s edition was packed with teams who haven’t stumbled upon their quarterback savior helping the Bills by selecting hopefuls, which meant the pool of other players remained full. They responded with a delay of game penalty. Wait to issue judgment another day just to be safe.
