National media outlet names the biggest question facing the Buffalo Bills in 2025 and it'll get GM Brandon Beane fired up
CBS Sports recently outlined the biggest question facing each NFL team in 2025, and their take on the Buffalo Bills is almost certain to leave general manager Brandon Beane indignant. The national sports media outlet questioned if the Bills have enough "non-Josh Allen playmakers"? From CBS Sports: Do they have enough non-Josh Allen playmakers? Yes, […]
CBS Sports recently outlined the biggest question facing each NFL team in 2025, and their take on the Buffalo Bills is almost certain to leave general manager Brandon Beane indignant.
The national sports media outlet questioned if the Bills have enough "non-Josh Allen playmakers"?
From CBS Sports: Do they have enough non-Josh Allen playmakers? Yes, this team racked up points late in 2024. James Cook and Keon Coleman and Dalton Kincaid are solid. For a team looking to go from perpetual runner-up to true title contender, they're just betting a lot on some risky upgrades at premium spots: Joshua Palmer (passable), Joey Bosa (aging/oft-injured) and Maxwell Hairston (rookie).
Beane was questioned last week about Buffalo's decision to not target a wide receiver early in the 2025 NFL Draft and he made it quite clear that he doesn't agree with current narrative surrounding the Bills' talent at the offensive skill positions.
"I was just listening to last few minutes of your show before I came on," said a fiery Beane during an appearance on WGR 550 last week. "It sounds like 2018 all over [again] with you guys. You guys were bitching in 2018 about Josh Allen, you guys wanted Josh Rosen. And now you guys are bitching that we don't have a receiver. I don't get it, like….hold on, let me talk. We just scored 30 points in a row for eight straight games. A year ago, I get you guys asking why we didn't have receivers, but I don't understand it now. You just saw us lead the league in points. When you add [in] the postseason, no one scored more points than the Buffalo Bills, including the Super Bowl champions. So you just saw us do it without Stefon Diggs.
"How is this group not better than last year's group? Our job is to score points and win games. Where do we need to get better? Defense. We did that. So I get it, you got to have a show, and you got to have something to bitch about. But bitching about wide receiver is one of the dumbest arguments I've heard…Let's be realistic, our job, it's not fantasy football, [is not] to trot out the best receivers. We got Josh Allen. First thing you got to do is protect him. You can't have everything. You can't have Pro Bowl wide receivers and have a Pro Bowl offensive line and an All Pro quarterback and three great running backs. You gotta pick."Sure, I'd love to play fantasy football, but there's one football. There's one ball. You can't give it to but so many people. So that's where I don't understand this narrative. I felt it a little bit from a couple of the reporters. Our job is to score points. It doesn't matter what receivers, what quarterback. If you score points at the level we scored, that is winning football."
Unfortunately for Beane, the questions about the Bills' non-Josh Allen playmakers are going to continue throughout the offseason. For now, that group is what it is. And we won't know if they're good enough until we see them in action on the field this fall.
