{"id":133853,"date":"2025-06-16T07:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/133853\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T07:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:43:13","slug":"bills-receivers-bashed-for-mountaintop-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/133853\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills Receivers Bashed for \u2018Mountaintop\u2019 Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bills Receivers Bashed for \u2018Mountaintop\u2019 Problem<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Buffalo Bills as Super Bowl contenders is nothing new with Josh Allen and Co. getting as close as they ever have last season with No. 17 leading the way.<\/p>\n

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And that was with a receiver room that didn’t have a genuine No. 1 weapon, yet they still averaged 30.9 points per game. So that wasn’t the problem, right?<\/p>\n

Wrong. As we turn our attention to training camp, despite the additions of Joshua Palmer, Elijah Moore,\\ and Laviska Shenault Jr., to go with Keon Coleman<\/a>, Khalil Shakir and Curtis Samuel, some still think the Bills need more for Allen.<\/p>\n

Last year should serve as a reason to be content with Buffalo’s receiver room, but Bleacher Report’s Moe Moton is the latest to call into question the Bills’ receiver room.<\/p>\n

Moton called it Buffalo’s biggest flaw.<\/p>\n

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“Buffalo can match its rival at quarterback with 2024 MVP Josh Allen, who’s capable of making spectacular game-winning plays as a passer and ball-carrier, but the team may not have enough around its star quarterback,” Moton writes<\/a>. “Buffalo has great depth at wide receiver with Khalil Shakir, Keon Coleman, Elijah Moore, Joshua Palmer and Curtis Samuel on the roster, but who’s going to be the go-to target in clutch moments?<\/p>\n

“The Bills shouldn’t have to rely on Allen having an MVP year to reach the NFL mountaintop.”<\/p>\n

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Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (17) runs the ball against New York Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner (1).Mark Konezny-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

We are sure how many times we have to address this, but we’ll do it one more time.<\/p>\n

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Last season proved that the Bills don’t necessarily need a No. 1 weapon, although it would be nice, but with Joe Brady’s “everybody eats” mantra, things have flowed nicely.<\/p>\n

And we haven’t even mentioned James Cook or tight ends Dalton Kincaid and Dawson Knox either.<\/p>\n

Having made it to the AFC Championship game, many expect the same in 2025, and that is without adding more firepower. Plus, with just $1.6 million in cap space, for those wanting Buffalo to get a genuine difference-making receiver, how exactly would that transpire?<\/p>\n

Yes, the Bills “shouldn’t” have to rely on Allen having an MVP season to win the Super Bowl, but at the end of the day, Bills Mafia won’t care as long as they get the desired hardware.<\/p>\n

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Related: Bills Receiver Curtis Samuel Poised for \u2018Journey\u2019 to Bounce-Back Year<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Buffalo Power Ranking Is Only A Start for Josh Allen-Led Bills<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 16, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bills Receivers Bashed for \u2018Mountaintop\u2019 Problem originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Buffalo Bills as Super Bowl contenders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,8226,214,53,2086,306,1714,3029,6084,7,3027,872,599,8100,7468,8663,255,6,7536,3025],"class_list":{"0":"post-133853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-bleacher-report","10":"tag-buffalo","11":"tag-buffalo-bills","12":"tag-buffalobills","13":"tag-curtis-samuel","14":"tag-dalton-kincaid","15":"tag-dawson-knox","16":"tag-elijah-moore","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-james-cook","19":"tag-josh-allen","20":"tag-joshua-palmer","21":"tag-keon-coleman","22":"tag-khalil-shakir","23":"tag-laviska-shenault-jr","24":"tag-new-york-jets","25":"tag-nfl","26":"tag-sauce-gardner","27":"tag-the-bills"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114691925993340290","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}