So, the Bills have this supposed malcontent, who has proven all pro talent, and who is entering the prime of his career at 27, and they hire a new coach and a new general manager, and seven games into the season, they decide they are not capable of turning around his attitude, and so they trade him away for next to nothing. And leaving themselves on the hook for a bunch of salary to boot.

I don't care if they're 5-2. It still looks like they failed and bailed. I would not be happy about it if I was a Bills fan. That's a lot of talent to just throw away like that.

The only way I can explain it is, pure ego. "We don't need to make any effort to turn this guy around, because we can get our own guys. anyone who is not on board is overboard! To heck with untapped potential! I didn't draft him, so no one can blame me when I discard him!"

It seem like the very first job of a new head coach would be to maximize the talent he has been handed. That didn't happen in this case.

Buy high, sell low. And then celebrate because you sold an underperforming asset. Yippee.

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