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My bad, I missed that one, good catch

I think Allen was not as sharp with his ball placement last year personally. When I watched that it was something I noticed as well on a couple plays and Shakir made great adjustments and showed great focus and body control to still get the pass and give himself a chance to advance the ball. Allen always talks up how Shakir is always right where he is supposed to be and expected, and so do the coaches. So I think on those few plays it was probably not the best ball placement for Allen, something he has been vocal about improving this season himself too. But there were also several dimes Allen threw in there as well.

This team has not lost a game by more than one score in like 40 something games…I forgot the exact number, but the number is an NFL record. And when you have Allen and close games we still win a lot of games, so my floor is 10 games with a healthy Allen and I think 13 is probably their ceiling if the offense turns out to be a top 5 unit again and the D is still strong. My personal guess is 12-5 and we take AFCE assuming no more critical injuries like Milano. We aren’t as deep, so not sure this team can weather multiple injuries to key players as well as it’s had to in the past.

As a fantasy football junkie, IMHO, his ADP is maybe the best value of any player in fantasy football right now. He is so undervalued by people who aren't Bills fans thanks to Diggs, Davis, and Kincaid being so known last year that lots of people didn’t notice what Shakir was doing 2nd half of last season. It’s honestly almost too risky to wait to round 12 to get him and miss out on that value. I would say round 9 or 10 he is still going to be a steal by end of season. I got him in round 12 in my first draft and round 10 in my next 2 where the guys in my leagues were a little more savvy.

Well its almost go time! Definitely a lot more people have come around to optimism with Shakir since I posted this despite many still holding on to doubts and naysaying...but we will see what is to come now that the season is upon us! Just for a little excitement for the crowd who is high on him like me...this is a fun watch!

Is it quality though? I mean they stockpile stats against sub .500 teams and then choke and crap the bed against teams above .500 as they have only 2 wins in 2 years against teams .500 or above. They may not even make the playoffs this year.

BLASPHAMY!!!!! Seinfeld is TIMELESS...as is The Office.

All those star players are the same ones who have been there 2 years in a row. Yet they have only 3 wins total in 2 seasons against teams with a winning record and barely made the playoffs two years in a row. They beat up on bad teams and lose to good ones. And their roster is now worse as they added very little and lost a lot on defense. So not seeing how they get “better” with a worse roster when they have already been a middling team 2 straight seasons. And the AFC and AFCE are all tougher this year than the past 2 years.

I think it’s more a result of the unknown than anything. We didn’t make any significant additions to the defense while moving on from 4 starters in both safeties, White, and Floyd. Now add in the loss of Milano, and filling in these spots with low cost vets and youth has people concerned how well it will work. I think the defense has the potential to still be good, but it’s more about staying healthy for me as I don’t think we are as deep as last year and losing Milano early was a blow as Bernard is also undersized and got hurt in his first year starting. So fingers crossed Bernard doesn’t go down while Milano is still out.

Huh? Sorry, no disrespect, but this was not at all the case. Jimmy G has not looked good at all in SF. He was a statue who had horrible pocket presence and terrible vision. They won a playoff game (where weather was not a reason) because they ran the ball like 98% of the snaps to avoid Jimmy throwing it. Not even Niners fans liked Jimmy G. Purdy immediately improved the offense by a mile when he came in for Jimmy because he could actually use his legs to by time, avoid pressure, and see the field better. Even when Jimmy got paid after starting 5-0 over his first 5 games there, his stats were meh. Niner fans call him “Pornstar Jimmy” because he was more interested in banging pornstars than working on his craft. Sorry, there was no stretch of Jimmy G’s career in SF where he looked “pretty darn good”, let alone remotely as good as Purdy has been. That offense went from meh to elite switching from Jimmy to Purdy and it’s exactly why he lost his job to Purdy.

I was pretty surprised that they signed him too and more surprised he went there with two guys entrenched at top and a deep run game that’s gonna get a lot of carries too. But the trenches are a mess in Miami, and it was already why they can’t beat good teams before they got even worse.

Super Bowl.

My wife is a die hard Niners fan, and she likes the Bills, and she absolutely hates Rodgers lol. Our house is gonna be lit and AMPED UP for this game so much it might make wife go into labor a few weeks early 😂

While you still gotta respect Miami, I personally am less concerned about them this year. With a better roster the past 2 seasons than they have this year, Miami went on a late season skid to have to sneak in playoffs on final week of season. They have only 2 wins in 2 seasons to teams over .500 and one was a pretender team in Dallas, and the other was against us week 3 in 2022 under extreme heat conditions where at one point we had something like 15 players out from injuries or heat issues. Tommy Doyle had to play the final 5 snaps of the game on a torn ACL because we only had 4 offensive lineman and it’s why they couldn’t get set 1 second sooner for the game winning FG that caused Dorsey to blow up in the booth. Now Miami has lost their entire front 7 essentially without any major impact additions to the team this year. Add in a much tougher AFC with the return of Burrow, Rodger’s, Richardson, etc to go with all that already established good teams, and I think Miami has a good shot to miss the playoffs. Still gotta respect the offensive potential of course, but it hasn’t helped them the past 2 years to do much other than beat up on and rack up stats against bad teams then lose to good ones.

As with any anonymous source article you gotta take it with a grain of salt. But…it doesn’t take a leap of the imagination to think there aren’t any issues with Rodger’s and the team there given how he has handled himself this offseason. I can easily see some guys having an issue or not respecting how he has carried himself this offseason. I still think they are our biggest threat. I hope the Niners smash them week 1 and demoralize the team some. If they open with a bad loss it will magnify any negative energy that may be present around Rodger’s offseason and commitment. And then you just hope the wheels keep coming off from there. But again, roster is so good that I still have to give them the nod as our biggest threat over Miami until I see otherwise on the field.

Upon further review that’s not an accurate depth chart. Don’t mean that argumentative, but it still has Milano and guys who were cut on it. We will see who starts week 1. And honestly, like I said previously, this season, especially early, it’s going to be less about “starters” and more about “packages”. Hollins is going to play regardless, he’s an excellent blocker and they incorporate that into the offense. For me personally, all I really care about is we see Keon making plays when called upon, I don’t feel like his role must be huge out the gate.

All good, I wouldn’t shoot the messenger We will see week 1 how it plays out.

Mic drop

I dont disagree, but at the same time they have yo-yo'd in the past when not having great options at QB, but if they are winning they wont switch.

Not a surprise, but I bet it’s a short leash

lol…no he won’t

And they were backups longer than they should have been too (well not Darnold)

Yeah plus Mitch and Josh are tight too. I think he is there as insurance with Mitch recovering, but if something happened to Allen I am sure they will turn to Mitch first. Now totally possible Mitch craps the bed if he does have to play, and then maybe they switch it up and give White a shot. But other than that, I’m guessing he will remain as a 3rd option and on the PS this season at least.

Well I would even though I don't know for sure it would need to be Anderseen that needs to go. That is how much I am not looking forward to watching MVS drop balls all season. And I do like Noah Brown and kind of thought he would be a target of the Bills previously.

This for me is a surprise move. I was really impressed by him both the first 2 preseason games and he reportedly did well in camp as well. I watched the All-22 and he was impressive those 2 games (did not watch it on the final preseason game). I guess there is talk of some injury related to it, but does anyone know if there is a confirmed injury? I guess that would make more sense if so, but I hope he is either brought back after other maneuvers or at least makes it onto the PS.