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I have trouble seeing Braxton Miller on the 53 man roster next year. I feel like he's practice squad material, that they hope after a year or two will become 53 man roster material, but isn't yet. He's a project. I have trouble believing that they'd waste a spot on someone who will not play, unless he's just perpetually a healthy scratch week in and week out. Maybe we'll just have to wait to see how he does in preseason...

Absolutely, 100% will not happen. The Bills have to save up some cap space for Taylor, Gilmore, or both. They are not taking on any big new contracts, because then they would lose those two. Going into next year without a QB whatsoever...not a good idea. Losing your best CB...not very good either...

I don't have arguments about the other four, but Marcus Peters should not have been included in this list. He's incredibly overrated. Sure, he had some splash plays, but he also gives up big plays fairly often. I can't think of a single game where he actually shut down a good WR. Watkins owned him 1v1, and only started having problems in the Chiefs game when they started rolling all their coverage towards him. I truly believe that there are two better corners than Peters on the Bills alone.

That is NOT considered a substitution. However, it IS considered a simulated substitution, and so the refs should have stood over the ball, allowing the Bills to substitute as in the case of a normal substitution. It's in the rule book. Even after f***ing that call up, the play should have been whistled dead at the snap. If there's someone 15 yards in the backfield like Hughes was, the play is immediately whistled dead so that the player doesn't come from behind the ball runner and absolutely destroy them from an unexpected direction. The play should have been called dead and the penalty enforced then and there. It should have never been allowed to be run, and that TD should never have been allowed to stand. So that's another TWO penalties added onto all the others that were blatantly missed or enforced incorrectly. If these refs ever ref a game again, the NFL has does something VERY wrong.

So we're not using phrasing any more?

I'm told in rugby that there is a ref that reviews the other refs calls in game and can overturn them. I think the NFL should instantiate something like that, so that when you have a blatantly bad call, you can actually do something about it.

Is that better of worse than their current headline pun "Vick-torious"? Or are you talking more about the fact that Vick is an ex-con?

Fully 4/5 of the U.S. get to see this game. I still haven't been able to watch one live on tv in my own home this year...stupid Iggles and Steelers...

I mostly agree with that, but have a slightly different take. I'm pretty sure Cruz primarily works out of the slot. Have Roby take him, since he's so good covering slot receivers, and let Gilmore take on their big, physical receiver Randle on the outside. Have the ultra-athletic Darby cover their deep threat Beckham. Give Darby safety help over the top (though I don't think he'd need it all the time), let the other two play on islands, and get after Manning and stop the run. Gilmore should be able to shut Randle down, Darby plus the occasional safety would leave Beckham having trouble to find space, and occasionally giving Robey some help on Cruz to potentially reduce Cruz's impact, and they'd be stuck with the run game and checkdowns. Other than Gronk, we've been good against TEs recently, so as long as we can have someone match up against their TE, and we continue to stop the run, I think we should be fairly well off on D this coming week.

Blast! I've always been a much bigger fan of the blue jerseys. The pants I have no real preference for, except not blue on blue.

Haha, I really can't disagree. Definitely just got looks at work for laughing out loud.

I don't know how many other people on here play Madden, but is anyone else upset about the way they handled the Bills? I think the player ratings are rather ridiculous, especially the speed ratings. Watkins has a 93 speed, and Shady, Percy Harvin and Leodis McKelvin all have speed in the 80s! Everyone's talking about how the Bills can field one of the fastest offenses in the league, yet Madden makes them incredibly slow. They also have Marqueis Grey listed as a FB, and a bad one at that. If you put him over at TE, he gets worse. Andre Davis, one of the stars of training camp, isn't even on the team. Jerry Hughes is listed as 81 overall, Mario Williams is only in the high 80s. And of course, they don't give you any 4-3 packages so that you can play four man fronts with Hughes, Williams, Williams, and Dareus, so Kyle Williams becomes a rotational player, and Hughes is a 3-4 RE. You'd have to go in and mess with the depth chart, playing people "out of position" in order to get your best guys on the field. I just think Madden just really screwed over the Bills. Hopefully we get some updates for them to fix this BS soon.

I'd watch that movie.

I actually went through all those throws. The Jags have been one of the few AFC teams I'd root for, after the Bills, since they came into the league. I was hoping to see something, but those first two passes were both hospital passes, then almost all the other passes were underneath throws or check downs. I don't know if that's all he was being given, but it seemed very simplistic and easily contained in the regular season. Not as impressed as the writer of that article apparently was.

Screw that. Injuries happen, suspensions happen, etc. You play whoever you play. Brady is a @$$ and deserves his punishment. In fact, he, Bellicheat, and the entire organization deserve to be punished more than they already are. If Brady's not in the line-up week 2, we'll beat the Patriots*. If he is there week 2, we'll beat the Patriots*. Doesn't matter one way or the other.

I went to undergrad down in FL, made it to a Bills game in Jacksonville (thankfully before they changed to their horrendous new jerseys). I'd always sorta liked the Jaguars since they came into the league (who didn't think big cats were cool growing up?). Their fans were pretty cool, though. I got a bunch of "Go back to Canada!" yells in my direction, but it was all in fun. Of course, it was too hot to get really rowdy, but they seemed like a fairly classy group.

Half way between Pittsburgh and Philly, I came in disliking the Steelers and feeling "meh" towards the Eagles. 7 years later, still pretty much the same thing.

Perhaps I should have named it "Vintage NFL Posters" to avoid that

Why can't the NFL have posters like these any more? http://imgur.com/a/O2626 The Jim Kelly ones are pretty awesome: Also, if they started making new ones what might you put on them? My preference: A.P. in a baseball uniform with the name "The Switch Hitter" 2nd choice: Tom Brady in Horatio Caine's sunglasses with the name "P.S.I. New England"

What I'm kinda wondering about is how big of a hammer the NFL is going to bring down on the Jags after that video came out. Unless I'm mistaken, minicamps and rookie camps and whatnot are supposed to be non-contact, but if you look at that film, the entire O and D lines were going at it, blocking and pass rushing. I'm guessing they get penalties levied against them like the Seahawks did.

When's the last time we had a prime time game at home? That's not correct. New England's bye week is week 4

Wait, Bills fans dislike the Packers? Since when? Apparently I've been rooting for the wrong team in the Packers vs Seahawks games all along! Also, I'm not really sure "My team is going to see your team in the Super Bowl, and our players will play well" can really be considered "smack" or "a hard time." Considering our post season drought right now, I think that may actually constitute well wishes.

I think we can get 4 wins out of the division, and the non-divisional games aren't nearly as bad as they were last year. The AFC South is by no means the AFC West, and the NFC North was better than the NFC East will be, especially after the Chip Kelly implosion. Our defense is going to be as good as it was at worst, while the offense got upgrades both at skill positions and coaches. The play calling literally can't get any worse than the Hackett version of the offense. If we don't get to double digits, it will be a disappointing season. 11-5

I disagree with this comment. Cordy actually blocked the guy exactly how he was supposed to, pushing him deep into the backfield, making the defender go deep into the back field than work his way back up. It's not Cordy's fault EJ backed up into the pass rush and held on too long. The play was designed to have the ball out of the QBs hands before the defender could get there. That definitely is on EJ in that video.

I didn't realize Ol' Dirty Bastard was underrated, but I didn't think he was a football player. I thought he was a rapper...and dead