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Do the Bills need a ‘desperate’ move to break through?

Do the Bills need to be as aggressive as the Eagles in the coming offseason? That Raiders team finally broke through in 1976, beating an injury-diminished Steelers team in the AFC title game before routing Minnesota in the Super Bowl. “Buffalo needs somebody who is just going to freaking floor it and get there,” an exec from another team said, “instead of, ‘Hey, let’s keep ourselves in it and things will break our way eventually.’ That is all fine and good, and maybe eventually you do break through, but the reality is, if you make a go-for-it move, whatever that may be, the whole building feels that and it takes everyone’s game up a level.” The Bills tried that by acquiring Stefon Diggs from Minnesota in 2020. The Chargers of the later 2000s had Philip Rivers and a very good team around him, but couldn’t get past Tom Brady and Peyton Manning in the AFC. “We also have guys coming up on extensions, so I don’t expect us to be big spenders in free agency,” Beane said.

New York Times

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