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Yeah I was thinking he might be an NFLDPOY candidate after that opener. But then he gets mysteriously injured in the next practice on a play nobody associated with the team seems to be able to remember.

I think the disconnect here is your opinion is about your "feels" about whether they should have extended him. That's irrelevant at this point. I was OK with extending him too and loved the timing because I knew he had already prepared his body for a contract run. But he was a big disappointment last year. He got pushed around and was one of the worst starting DT's against the run in the entire NFL in 2024. Hence the criticism. This year he looked like he had responded to that bad first year of his extension........but ultimately he's probably only going to play around 8% of the Bills defensive snaps this season. So, thus far his extension consists of a bad year and a lost year. Thus far it has objectively NOT been a good contract.

I haven't re-watched the debacle but Coleman did appear to be in Adam Henry's ear on the sideline after one of many failed attempts to feed Shakir. Henry appeared less than pleased with his input. Shakir ended up piling up some yards but he's been a net negative the last couple weeks.

That could be but he's been simply awful overall. Like I said, the way he is playing and Strong was trending Strong might have been playing instead by now. He's not played like a starting NFL CB this year let alone a good one. In some ways it was like the Tre extension because neither had a lot of room for physical decline before it was going to knock them far down the list.

Benford played excellent when healthy the past couple seasons. But that double concussion situation should have ended any extension talk. He literally has not defended a single pass all season. He's been the worst of any of them by A LOT.

I don't know if I'd call him "great" this year. But PFF would.........he is their 9th rated DE/edge in the NFL this season. There are still so many people on TSW who are utterly clueless about football. Benford, on the other hand, has been shite. The light is out in his eyes. He looks like he is just trying to survive the headache. That play where Bishop had to shoe-string tackle Collins last night.......2024 Benford helps tackle that guy. He doesn't want it and when he has to make a tackle he gets up looking like he's just seen a ghost. Scairt.

I'd flip the NE and Cinci results. Otherwise looks about like I see it unfolding. The wins won't come easy with this tired, fragile roster but they should get to 10 wins.

Why run at Rousseau when you can bulldoze Jordan Phillips out of the way or toy with Venus de Bosa? Even before the wrist injury they were gashing the Bills on Bosa's side. Hard to get those TFL's when they are running left or center. Last year Rousseau was 9th in the NFL in TFL's. The line aside from Rousseau is just getting blown up on the regular. Kelsy was actually terrible against the run his entire career. The board was much stupider then so there were a lot of people who thought he was a "base DE". He was a high motor pass rusher and not a good one.

The common thread is that they all signed their deals in summer after preparing all offseason like this was their walk year. The hay was in the barn. The following year when the extension began Oliver's play dropped off dramatically and he will barely play at all this season. So far his extension has been a large financial failure. I suspect the Cook extension won't end well either. It begins next season. People act like this year was the beginning. 'Twas not. Spencer has been the good extension. Hopefully he can return soon after this shoulder setback.

Benford has been among the worst CB's in the NFL this year.............Beane extending him after those two concussions was malpractice so absolutely NOT worth it at signing. They needed to let that play out. As they should have with all 4, to be honest. Rousseau will likely be the only one to play out his deal and provide value throughout. The way Benford is playing Dorian Strong might have started to take snaps from HIM by the end of this season if not for the career threatening neck injury. Oh, the lights are out. He's just a husk of what he was pre-extension.

Well, that's the market for 8 sack guys who do little else. Rousseau isn't that. He's been the best run defending edge in the NFL since he arrived in the league and finished top 10 in the league in TFL last year. They just gotta' put something competitive on the other side. They haven't been able to do that. His $20M won't limit that.

And yet, with that contract he's still their second most valuable asset behind Allen. He's a top 30 player at a premium position and a guy one could easily see playing another 10 years in the league. The bar is high because Allen has continued to will them into contention the past few seasons and contenders typically have a number of elite talents. The Bills just have the one. Rousseau isn't a $40M-$50M edge but he is in a much different category than Bernard.

You want Batman with the 30th pick in the draft or later? Then you've got to be willing go to dark places that McBeane do not want to go. The Chiefs found guys like Tyreek and Chris Jones because they were willing to take character risks. Rousseau was anything but that. His floor was high and that's all they've been able to get because they haven't been able to put enough other talent on the DL.

Yeah Shakir has been a liability the last two weeks though........which is new. I'm not sure it's the injuries as much as maybe his head being in the wrong place with the ill-timed pregnancy but imagining finding an upgrade over Shakir has been REAL easy the past two weeks.

The manner in which he collected sacks was basically about GPS......he is great at locating the QB and if that QB steps up into the pocket he is quick to disengage and a sure tackler. That's what those sacks were like at Miami. And he absolutely will be a 10 sack guy opposite a bendy pass rusher on the other side. The Bills have just never had that for any sustained period with Rousseau here. I mean, even a later-Bills-career Jerry Hughes who couldn't finish a sack to save his life would be enough opposite Rousseau to trigger a flurry of stats. When Bosa and Epenesa were playing better during that NE to KC stretch Rousseau was more impactful but now that Joey is Venus de Bosa out there and Epenesa is playing like he's a afraid of contact the side opposite of Rousseau is a sieve and teams are attacking it.

For reference, the cap is expected to be between $295-$300M. Not great, Beane.

Oh the window isn't closed on Josh Allen. But the easiest years of his career to win are absolutely gone. Literally. Last year they were still sorta' in it with the weak division etc.. But this year they are officially past that. Unless they find the rare difference making HC and GM combo to help overcome their talent deficiencies and/or find some elite talent to help offset the impending $50M cap hits for their QB........ they are probably going to have to get lucky and clank one in from the rough from here on out.

Oh for fuxake stop with the spoiled nonsense. That's just not what is happening here. Fans are angry and sad that this window has apparently closed and the organization has wasted Josh Allen's prime. . The odds of them ever having a player like Josh Allen in a first contract + extension-year-cap-hit-pushes window ever again are slim and none. It's just like the reality that there is not a chance in hell that they will ever be able to field a roster like the one's they had in the late 80's and early 90's. This is second time the Buffalo Bills have squandered a gift that should have yielded a dynasty. Now they might win a SB some other way but the organization has had two extraordinary windows of opportunity and they've blown both of them. That makes people sad. I don't necessarily feel as distraught as some because I remind myself that it's just entertainment and I have a lot of other interests..........but if you can't put it in it's proper perspective it's easy to understand the frustration.

Yeah the Texans have the best combination of pass rushers in the league and Allen holds the ball for an eternity. That's the formula for a pressure on every passing down. That said..........the defense not pressing and tackling the Texans WR's with 9 seconds left in the half cost the Bills 4 points. I'm astonished that they played off on that critical play. Just take the penalty and force them to kick or go for it from half the distance or even the 1. Those 4 points were literally the difference in the game. Just brain dead defensive coaching. And THAT said.......in the grand scheme.......this is just an old, slow, uninspired, injury-prone roster. They are the 1994 Bills re-incarnate. Except instead of still having capable stars in Kelly, Thurman, Bruce and Andre........they are carried by Josh Allen. Bad pro personnel decisions and cap work have greatly reduced their margin for error.

He's still a starting caliber, top 50 edge in the NFL. The Bills have been playing DT's TJ Sanders and Daquan Jones edge snaps the past couple games and they have been just awful. It's a bad situation.

With Bosa playing with one arm and Epenesa looking like a f#ckin concussion zombie on the field last Sunday the current, still-effective version of Clowney would be a Godsend.

Be more constructive with your feedback, please. Probably just a language barrier thing.

Yeah the easy way for me to remember that is the year T-Sizzle Suggs got himself released from Arizona in the final few weeks of the 2019 season so he could return to the Ravens for a playoff run. He was infuriated when the Chiefs claimed him. He ended up on a Chiefs SB winning team.

I know people are concerned about the run defense but it tends to get really hard for any team to run the ball in the postseason. Run defense is about effort and execution and the Bills are bad right now simply because of a lack of those two things and that's very controllable. The 2017 Bills defense post-Dareus trade couldn't stop a regular season run to save their lives...........but in the playoff game in Jax their run defense would have sent the run-first Jags to Cancun if they just had a Sammy Watkins or Bob Woods to throw to and put some points on the board. What's REALLY concerning is the extremely poor pass rush the past couple weeks. They are going to have to get creative because they probably can't even win a WC game on the road if they don't rush the passer better than that.

As team building has became more of a science.......it's moves like the Herschel trade that allow ANY coach to be good. Without McNabb Andy Reid never takes off as a HC in Philly and without Mahomes he gets fired after the 2017 playoff choke against Mularkey. Obviously Belichick without Brady ends very differently. If Johnson had stayed at the U he would have done what Saban did at Alabama. He had elevated that program so far that they won 2 more natty's after he left on the strength of his recruiting. And if he doesn't leave Dallas they win almost certainly 4 straight SB's. So yeah, all he did was quickly re-tool a Dolphins roster that had put all it's chips into old vets for Shula in 1995 and get to the playoffs 3 of his 4 seasons there. But he was absolutely a GREAT HC.