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Wow, glad he's OK. I was wondering why no more tweets after DBs running out of tunnel and no article about the practice.

Good question. Allen's 5th year option is easy: $23M https://billswire.usatoday.com/2021/05/03/buffalo-bills-fifth-year-option-josh-allen-tremaine-edmunds/ It's not as easy to find what his cap hit was this year before the new contract. I think his cap hit this year (before the new contract) was $6.9M. I got there by taking the reported value of his rookie deal, $21.183M, and subtracting his reported cap value for 2018, 2019, and 2020. https://overthecap.com/player/josh-allen/6892/ If correct, his contract ADDED to the Bills cap liabilities by $3.3M this season, but they will save $6.62M next season Hope this helps

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Chad Hall seemed to really like his new truck

TBH, I think some of the stuff Daboll picked up from Belichick and Saban may have been the kind of stuff a coach can pull off when he's won 3 SB in his first 5 years with a team. Some of the stories Derek Anderson and Colt McCoy would tell, were more than a bit off-putting. We've seen the evolution of Daboll before our eyes. I can remember in 2019 after the Patriots game where Daboll was seen screaming at Josh on the sidelines, in his presser Daboll pretty well called out Beasley and Allen and a coupe of guys - he seemed very uncomfortable with the press, kind of defensive. As the season wore on, to my view he changed before our eyes. I think McDermott has had a couple "come to Jesus" meetings with him and maybe sent him to "charm school". A lot of the stuff Daboll was saying, quite sincerely, in his press conferences at the end of last year, I'm not sure he believed at the beginning of the previous year - stuff about how a player has to believe you care about him and are concerned about him as a person as well as his career, before he's going to be prepared to believe you and take things to heart when you coach him.

Agree on the pick 6 worst. To be fair to LJ, when a pass is intercepted on the opponents goal line, "pick 6" is not the usual outcome. One QB threw a TD (1-0), one QB threw a pick-6 (0-1). So to the chap you're responding to, the difference in the game is a bit more than a pick-6.

The Jets absolutely would I'm honestly not sure about the Ravens and the Browns. I think they still believe in the guys they've got, though of course I agree with you. And it may just reinforce your point about rational thought.

The Bills were pretty obviously selling out the passing game to defend Lamar in 2019 and 2020 when they played him And the W in 2019 wasn't because that mode of defense failed, it hinged on a handful of other plays such as Judon's strip sack of Allen on the Buff 26 yd line and a couple other plays.

Didn't see this, apologies if I missed it. The line "haven't seen Chad Hall that happy since the WR bought him a new truck" can not be missed.

Just a couple little comments on the stuff you quoted: and something you didn't quote in the original article (thank you btw for not quoting the whole thing! much appreciated!): He mentions "There is still a significant gap between he [Brown] and Dawkins, though." Well, when a team has a true Franchise LT, there is gonna be a big drop-off between the starter and a raw rookie. The rookie is doing enough that Allen had time to complete 14 of 18 passes and IMO that Addison sack was some kind of miscommunication or mix-up in protection calls because Brown took the LB while Moss vacated the backfield and took no one. Don't think that was how it was supposed to work. Anyway, the point is, Jordan Devey isn't the backup tackle - if that role doesn't belong to Brown, Doyle, or Hart, it may belong to Bates or Ford - so Devey is 3rd or 4th string at tackle. And in fact, while Devey has surely taken practice reps at tackle and is big enough to play tackle (6'6", 320), the only playing experience he has is at guard and at center. Bates and Ford both have more game-reps at tackle than he does. Truth. I expect there's probably a reason for that. OK so anyway, from the stuff you quoted: If Bam Johnson had a great practice by beating 3rd or 4th string OT Jordan Devey and then another career journeyman who signed with the Bills 3 days ago, well, I'm glad he had a great practice, but pump the brakes a bit I think.

I dunno if anyone said "great passer" but "better QB than Allen because MVP" and because "winning team for 2 years" was said. That latter kind of overlooks the fact that the Bills had a winning record in 2019, albeit 4 games less than the Ravens and the Ravens won the head-to-head, but the Ravens were the #1 scoring offense in 2019 while the Bills were #23; the Bills were the #2 scoring offense in 2020 while the Ravens slid to #7. I didn't watch a lot of Ravens games, but those I watched in 2020 I saw Jackson hitting some throws I hadn't expected him to try, much less make, based on 2019. I thought Marquise Brown is pretty good and Willie Snead's not bad, but yeah, in 2019 the Ravens got 1200 yds of receiving from 2 TE. And yeah, at times in the playoff game the Bills basically dared him to pass.

I'll put it out there that if one QB can substantially improve his passing, there's really no reason another one can't. I thought Jackson took a step between 2019 and 2020 in some areas - for example, he went from 61.5 to 93.8 passer rating down the L side past 20 yds. He was still very accurate across the field from 10-20 yds. But his "money" passes under 10 yds took a hit, because defenses were keying on them and he was missing one of his favorite TE targets in Hayden Hurst. There is a point that Jordan Palmer made that how easy it is for a QB to change his technique does depend upon how engrained it is from how long he's been doing it. And from all reports Lamar Jackson and his mom have been heavily focused on having him play QB and nothing else, from a young age, with the same coaches working with him, so that does ratchet up the difficulty.

My understanding is these guys all get so amped up before the games that they don't feel things normally. At that point in the season, he may also have been taking hefty doses of pain killers for various nagging dings and dangs. So he maybe felt something (and he said warming up, not stretching) and didn't take it too seriously, but then Monday when the pain killers and adrenaline wore off...ouch city

This is actually scary. Except... practice did start at 10 am, and normally the earliest football games start is 1 pm. So I dunno. Hopefully he'll get the next one. Reporters made it sound like a challenging catch, but if McKenzie wants to take a step he needs to catch the difficult ones. Sounds as though he knows this and is working on it.

Yep!

I know! AVERT! AVERT!!!! AVERT!!!!!!!!! Jake Hollister sighting! From NYUP article: Also don't count Bam Johnson out of the DE battle (though IMO run D is where the Bills don't trust him)

That leadoff by Matt Parrino is NOT amusing, especially in the context of another player leaving with a head injury!!!!! BAD @Matt Parrino, don't scare us like that again!

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I agree that they seemed to be trying to give this practice a bit of a "game like" atmosphere, wearing game-day jerseys and pants instead of shorts etc. Don't like this though

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Diggs looked like he was feeling it afterwards - slow getting up. I hope nothing lasting. I hope one of the pundits comments on that play where Mario Addison blew by Brown Ugh, that's quite a list - were you there and can you comment on if the line was wearing the Guardian helmets? I hope Manny Sands foot is OK, we need him to build his timing with Josh Undoubtedly. I think @SCBills point, and I understand it, is that if Allen is still getting his throws off despite no Dawkins and the DL in the backfield - we can't properly conclude that the DL is gonna be good. This of course, assumes that whoever is blowing the whistle is reacting appropriately at the point where a sack would have occurred, which is problematic especially where Allen is concerned.

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