Bills wide receiver Cole Beasley went the way of Terrell Owens last season. The former member of American’s team in the Cowboys made his way to North America’s team in Buffalo via free agency.
Beasley previously called it a pretty easy decision to sign with the Bills. He cited wanting a new team that’s going to give him more opportunities than Dallas would give him. But wait… let’s flash forward a year.
The Bills traded for wide receiver Stefon Diggs this offseason. If he’s at the top of the depth chart, that slides Beasley down, right? Does he now regret his decision to join the Bills?
Maybe there’s a point about the depth chart to be made, but there’s no weight in the latter. Beasley is still happy he left the Cowboys for the Bills last offseason, giving plenty of reason why.
“No because we throw it a lot more here than we did in Dallas at that time. We had DeMarco Murray and Zeke and we were really feeding those guys as well, so there was way, way, less opportunity there. And then in that offense, I was kind of just limited to just third downs, so that just made it even tougher because then everybody just knew where it was going on third down. So this [Bills] offense is just way different,” Beasley said.
And that’s not the only justification Beasley made. Maybe he’s not with the world-wide known Cowboys anymore, he’s with the Bills. Beasley is 31 this season and knows he won’t play forever. He wants to win the big one, and Beasley said a move like Diggs is a step in the right direction toward finding a Super Bowl appearance with the Bills.
Admittedly, Beasley said that thought process might not have been the one he previously had in Dallas. Numbers meant something to him then. Whether it was Sean McDermott’s “process” or something else we don’t know, but Beasley explained things have just changed for him now and he’s coveting team above all else in Buffalo.
“I don’t know, I can’t really say like… It just seems like it was one day. I woke up and I was like ‘I don’t care what anybody else outside of here thinks anymore.’ Too many people get caught up on that now a days,” Beasley said. “I just made up in my mind that nobody matters except my teammates, my family, and that’s it.”
But hey, it might not even matter how Beasley feels, anyway. Buffalo offensive coordinator Brian Daboll discussed Beasley, specifically, last week and it sounds like the Bills’ slot expert is still very much in the plans.
“I’ve always had a lot of confidence in Cole,” Daboll said. “If (opponents) play heavy guys outside, then that usually opens up stuff inside. If they play heavy inside, that usually opens up stuff outside.
“I feel very confident in Cole with what he can do. But there’s a lot of guys on our team right now that are working to establish a role. No question I feel confident in Cole and the things that he can do inside.”
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