Utah John

Long fingers! Should play the piano.

Getting drafted by the wrong team, when all you'll be is training camp fodder or a placeholder while their starter gets over an injury, is a killer for many promising players. Going undrafted lets you have a voice in where you sign, and lets you see the lay of the land about where you have a chance to stick.

A lot of those four and five star players aren't out the yin yang, they're out the door through the portal when they realize they're not going to get onto the field for 2 or 3 years, if at all, because of all the OTHER four and five star players at the SEC school. There's a lot to be said for getting the opportunity to play for several years.

Maybe he flies under the radar for the NFL, and the local team is the only one that gives him a shot. It could work out. The combine isn't the goal -- making a team's 53 is the goal.

So he's just about Matt Milano's size and speed.

I'm thinking the order might be reversed. Maybe the script writers would be more favorable for getting the Bills a Lombardi, if Allen gets established as an entertainment star. Nah, what am I saying. The NFL is completely legit.

I still remember Jim Brown walking away from the NFL to go make movies. 60 years later, the Browns still haven't recovered. Let's not go getting thoughts like that in Josh's head.

What's his 40 time?

Whatever the Bills would get for Milano wouldn't be enough to replace him with a player as good as he is. Plus the salary cap hit for trading him would preclude bringing in a FA.

It sounds good that the Bills would bring him back on a cheap contract as a depth CB, and the timing would need to be after the FA allocations are determined. But, the thing is, even depth CBs have to play, and Tre just looks slow. Possibly this was because he wasn't integrated into the Rams' or Ravens' system and was still thinking about where he needed to be, or maybe he just got injured too much and old. Tre is where Douglas will be in a year or two. Paying Douglas a lot just to watch him slide into his slow-running 30s doesn't make sense.

I'm trying to remember if the Bills just cut Hunter, or if they traded him. I think he went to a California team but I don't remember which one. Amazingly, he was picked in the same draft as Jim Kelly, two picks BEFORE Kelly.

I want to nominate Al Cowlings. The Bills drafted him number 5 overall in the 1970 draft, primarily because his very good friend OJ Simpson wanted his buddy around. He played three seasons for the Bills, during one of the very dark periods of the team's history, and ironically was traded from Buffalo to Houston prior to OJ's breakout season in 1973. Cowlings is best known for the slow speed Ford Bronco chase, with him at the wheel, after Simpson's wife and her friend were found murdered.

Rusty Jones was one of the people who pioneered diet and programmed exercise, leading to physically dominant teams in the Super Bowl years. One of the rotten coaches the Bills hired after Wade Phillips got canned, fired Jones and brought in his own guy. Terrible mistake.

I'm not sure why you'd expect Hollins to fall back. He seems like a guy who stays in shape, knows the routes, and works to get open. I don't think he's particularly old. But he doesn't play really fast, and the Bills really do need better speed at WR. I hope they can get a pretty good WR1, but other than that they're set everywhere on offense. The already have all the depth they need for O line reserves, and all the starters played well. It's defense where the Bills have already invested so much and have so little to show for it.

I said during the game that the MVP should be Sweat. Hurts played well except for the careless interception, but Sweat led the charge that crushed Mahomes like I've never seen happen before.