Utah John

The Chiefs also gave up a lot more money that will hurt their cap space next year.

From a Miami Herald article: Tua Tagovailoa could be lost for the entire season instead of making his return last week from the concussion the Buffalo Bills caused. Excuse me? Tua drove his own head into Damar Hamlin's chest. Tua was trying to make an important first down, and he had succeeded when he wasn't satisfied with that, and kept trying to move forward when no advance was possible. The only way the Bills can be considered of causing a concussion for Tua, is for Tua to beat his own head against a concrete wall at the frustration from losing to the Bills so many times.

I think you're right that teams are opting not to go for comp picks, and that makes sense if they signed more FAs than they lost, and so wouldn't be getting comp picks in the first place.

I wonder if we could maybe get a third rounder for Josh? Or is that unrealistic? Probably no team would want him. Maybe as a backup. Screw them all.

The Bills have one of the strongest rosters in the league, even despite some drafts that really weren't good at all. So many high picks wasted over the past few years. And yet the front office continues to assemble complete rosters with no gaping holes anywhere. Anyway my point is that bad drafts keep the Bills from winning SBs, but a string of good drafts will put them into a very strong position. Good being good enough, if maintained year to year.

The only thing holding back some of these rookies is the veterans playing their positions and doing very well. Granger might have been called on to play center on another team, but McGovern seems to have figured out how to make line calls to protect against defensive stunts. Andreesen probably would be playing on other teams. I'm a little surprised Bishop isn't playing more since Hamlin is still the same, too-slow and out of position, player he's always been, but safety in McD's defense is probably the most complex position for a rookie to figure out. Don't forget that deep in McD's genes is a reluctance to play rookies. And who can argue that letting rookies just watch and learn is a mistake, when there's a veteran playing great on the field already?

It sounds like the fix is in, to keep Josh Allen out of the MVP race. What this reminds me of is people looking at weather forecasts for a week or more. Meteorologists know that weather models have almost no skill beyond about 5 days, but weather sites routinely publish forecasts out to 10 days. I guess people figure that what they see on their phone must be right (how else to explain the current political situation?) even if anyone who knows anything would tell you that it's worthless. So PFF giving grades to players is like a weather app telling you it won't rain a week from this Friday. If you decide based on that to schedule a picnic a week from Friday, or to bring in a FA football player based on PFF, you're making a decision based on nothing reliable.

The Patriots are having a fire sale, disposing of reasonably good assets at bargain prices. The Chiefs just scored a good pass rusher for a sixth round pick. I don't know the Patriots' roster but I wonder if there's anyone left that would be an upgrade over anyone currently on the Bills. Cultural issues come into play. The Bills have a great, winning culture and anyone left on the Patriots probably has had any will to win beaten out of them. Maybe the Bills don't want anyone like that in the locker room. The fact that the Pats just beat the Jets says more about the pathetic Jets than it does about the Pats. What it really says about the Pats is that they can't even lose correctly.

The Giants can't be competitive with Daniel Jones at QB. They should have given up on him years ago and moved on to a new option. Fortunately their season will end with a high draft pick and they can have a chance at a decent player. That guy, and the new HC and GM, will have some good talent but a lot of deadwood on their roster. Every time I see Jones play I'm even more thankful we have Allen. You can't have everything. Would you rather have Allen plus Rousseau, or Wilson plus Watt? In other words, a normal year.

The Chiefs are going all-in to try for the unprecedented threepeat. Right now I think any team in the NFCN except probably the Bears could beat them, but in the AFC at least UFN the Chiefs are the team to beat. The Chiefs are giving up quite a few future draft picks to get players who won't help much going forward, or even be on the team at all. They'll pay for that over the next two years, while the Bills continue to reach another peak. Sometime between 2024, 2025, and 2026, it's all going to come together for the Bills. (Hey, maybe all three years, right? Maybe it's the Bills who get the threepeat.)

The best thing about the screen game isn't the plays that worked, it's that all the opponents now need to prepare to stop it. The Seahawks tried to adapt, pulling attention away from the middle of the field. And so Allen had a lot of time to pass, and Cook and Davis had holes at the first and second levels. Quietly, this was a great game by the O line. You rarely hear those guys mentioned unless they screw up, but this game they were being singled out for praise. By the maybe-GOAT.

Yeah, Samuel might go down as one of the worst FA signings Beane has ever made. The Bills seem to work better whenever he's not around.

McD is a great DC and a pretty good HC.

Hope you're right. The Bills seem to have the Dolphins' number, that's for sure. About the Seahawks. They just folded. No professional team should have turned tail like that. They went into garbage mode at the start of the fourth quarter, not even trying for big plays to get a chance to catch up. Instead they padded stats and burned the clock while on offense, moving down the field 8 yards or so at a time, which the Bills were happy to allow. And their D just lost heart. I haven't seen a Bills opponent give up like that since the Bills beat the Pats in a playoff game a few years ago, with Arctic temperatures. Micah Hyde made a brilliant interception to put the knife in, and the Bills scored TDs on every drive to twist the knife. No NFL defense should tolerate failure to that extent. The Seahawks weren't as bad as that today, but it was clear they lost heart when they got three points total after two first and goals inside the three.

Agreed. He had no holes to run through. He showed good skills as a receiver running after the catch, but then again, as you said, the Bills didn't let him get going.