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Don’t question the Buffalo Bills’ 2025 draft picks — especially in Bills general manager Brandon Beane’s company.
Beane joined WGR 550 Buffalo Sports Radio Monday morning and didn’t hold back on hosts Jeremy White and Joe DiBiase for suggesting that Buffalo should have addressed the wide receiver position earlier in the draft.
“I was just listening to the last few minutes of your show waiting to come on and it sounds like 2018 all over with you guys,” Beane said. “You guys were b–ching in 2018 about Josh Allen, you guys wanted Josh Rosen, and now you guys are b–ching that we don’t have a receiver.”
Beane certainly made the right call in 2018 with drafting Allen over Rosen — and he thinks he’s done the same with his decisions this year to target defensive players heavily and not take a receiver until the final round.
“I don’t get it. We just scored 30 points in a row for eight straight games,” Beane went on with his rant. “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 all the postseason, no one scored more points than the Buffalo Bills, including the Super Bowl champions. You just saw us do it without Stefon Diggs, same group, how is this group not better than last year’s group?”
The Bills wide receiver corps was set and solid for years with Diggs leading the way, but had loads of question marks going into last season with Khalil Shakir and 2024 second-round pick Keon Coleman headlining the group.
But with no real star No. 1 wide receiver, Buffalo’s offense fared just fine — Josh Allen won MVP and the offense was amongst the top in the league.
While Beane had his own feelings about what White and DiBiase had to say, the show’s hosts don’t want listeners to get things twisted.
“Don’t let it be the lie that we spent the day railing the Bills GM for not taking a receiver,” White said. “That’s not what happened today. We talked about building their defense, the front seven … I thought they would’ve gone receiver earlier … [Beane] heard us bring that up and got mad about it.”
While the Bills may not have the big names at wide receiver, Beane is happy with the offense’s production — hence why he went in a different direction in the draft.
“Our job is to score points and win games. Where do we need to get better? Defense. We did that,” Beane said. “I get it, you gotta have a show and you gotta have something to b–ch about, but b–ching about wide receiver is one of the dumbest arguments I’ve heard.”
