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Being 5-1 is great and all, but the pressure is on #Bills GM Brandon Beane. (This is a long post but bear with me, it all needs to be said...) I don’t understand how Beane has spent so much money, so many resources and so much draft capital on the defense year after year, only for it to look maybe the worst it ever has in his 9 years? I’m not going to say that he’s bad at drafting because he does have some nice hits. My problem with Beane’s drafts is that there are not enough high-impact players at the top of each draft class. Look at this year’s draft. Two out of Beane’s top 3 picks have hardly made an impact this season. You have T.J. Parker who is a 4th OLB and sure, he looked pretty good on Sunday, but that was the first game that he played more than 20 snaps all season, and it was mainly because Bradley Chubb went out with an injury. Jude Bowry is a developmental OT who has been inactive every week, he was hurt over the summer and looked nowhere near ready to be on the field when he was healthy. It is mind-boggling to me that Beane drafted another rotational EDGE rusher over NT Kayden McDonald, LB Jacob Rodriguez or even WR Denzel Boston. All three of those positions had an easier route for getting on the field and making a consistent impact this season. We hope that some of his other picks will start to have more of a role (Bell, KEO and Kilgore), but if we expand out on this year’s draft class, 2/10 rookies are making a consistent impact right now, and one of them is a punter… That is just nowhere near good enough in a Super Bowl year. Beane then tries to mask these draft misses by overpaying mid free agents, specifically the WR room with Curtis Samuel and Joshua Palmer. Why do you think the offense looks out of sync without D.J. Moore? That’s a direct result of the GM being allergic to drafting WRs high in the draft and then not being able to develop them over the years. Even Bradley Chubb - as much as I liked the signing at the time - he’s signed for 3 years at $14.5M per year which is going to keep blocking T.J. Parker’s growth. (Not to mention he only has 1.5 sacks so far.) I like both players, but again, I do not like the asset management. And finally, I don’t understand the depth in the back 7 on defense. You knew that C.J. Gardner-Johnson was going to be a wild card, and you chose to insulate him with Damar Hamlin and Geno Stone? Hopefully Kilgore hits… Speaking of insulation, the underwhelming LB room was insulated with just a Day 3 rookie and Joe Andreessen? And you deemed CB as the biggest need this offseason but then went into the season with just 3 boundary corners, and two of them are 23 years or younger? As much as I like that Tre White is back, let’s be real… having to call him after 6 weeks is not a good sign. Beane can still salvage this season by making some big changes over these next couple of weeks, but he CANNOT flop at the deadline like he did last year or else he needs to be gone. #BillsMafia