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Not for nothing https://www.statecollege.com/articles/local-news/watch-bo-nickal-micah-parsons-and-others-run-hills-with-logs-and-struggle/ Watch Micah Parsons get made to look a fool by PSU wrestlers. I mean I get it - wrestlers are just different. I dunno how this turns out, but this dude is gonna make some folks look silly in some of the workouts and maybe even the field

I was born in India in 1979, and immigrated to Buffalo in 1981, where my Dad, Mom, Brother and Sister were already living, as my Dad pursued his PHD at SUNY Buffalo. The Buffalo Bills & Jim Kelly were a big factor in helping us assimilate into the country, and feel like we belonged here (IHOP also helped). As a family, we rooted for the Bills every Sunday. As a family, we grew to love football, because of the Bills! Even when we moved to Scranton, PA - my Dad bought an antenna to stick on the roof so we could pick up the Binghampton CBS to watch the Bills, and when that didn't work we listened ot Murph. The Bills are my first and true love in this country. Ain't nothing gonna shake that

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-patrick-mahomes-outsmarts-the-nfl-by-appearing-in-beer-commercial-thats-not-technically-about-beer/ This is how hard NFL players have to work to be in Beer commercials. So look, I'm not huge into social engineering from our big entities, such as the NFL - but there's a health risk that needs to be weighed here, and the fact of the matter is that gambling is addictive, and has massive repercussions on our society. The NFL, and other sports, should not be promoting gambling like this, and normalizing it. If people wanna gamble, fine, but don't market it is a family activity. You don't do that with Alcohol, drugs, and sleeping with escorts - why would you with gambling?

Great Question! Shakir is the true inside/outside weapon in this offense. He’ll play a similar role thag Diggs played from 2020-2022, when he still had his deeper speed. I see him running 80% of his routes as short and intermediate, and often lining up as a z to Keon Coleman’s X, with Kincaid running the slot, and the other 20% the deeper seams, posts, etc When we want to threaten to to take the lid off I think we bring in MVS to be an outside guy and shift Shakir inside. whoel Khalil isn’t as talented as Diggs, I think he’ll do a lot of damage

I think we blitz Bernard and Milano a lot more this season Guilty lol

For me, I think this bills defense will center around their linebackers - Bernard and Milano. Less zone play, more man, more disguise, more blitzing, more asking them to be sideline to sideline playmakers. The secondary, I think, will be more safety first then ever. Just so little speed back there outside of Kair Elam, so it’ll have to be zone heavy. That also leads me to thinking the front 7 is gonna be the “identity” of the D. Finally, I think Matt Milano is going to end up as the face of the defense this season. He was playing at an all-pro level before breaking his ankle, and now he gets a legit robin to his Robin in Bernard. Really excited to see the different things they’ll do

This past off season, the bills lost 3 potential Wall level defenders. They over turned a bunch of dline (though kept their starters there), and now have a new DC hired from within. The season prior they let the QB of their defense leave in FA as they couldn’t afford to keep him. For the past 4-5 seasons, the bills have had a reputation for a fundamentally sound, tough, but blue collar defense led by their safeties and a rotating cast of characters on the DLine. What will the identity of the defense be this season? Aggressive? Sound? Playmaking? Who will be the leaders?

Been proedicting this wouold happen for awhile, been saying it since FA & Draft netted Samuel and Coleman. Love the potential of this offense.

Rex Ryan drove me absolutely insane. It’s 3rd down? What’re gonna do? Send 8! How about 2nd? Send 8!! I hate DCs who love to constantly blitz. It utterly deleverages your defense

I was considering adding him!

For sake of discussion, lets stick to the first 4 rounds of players the Bills picked this season, but first let me hit you with some data: I created a defensive metric called defensive splash plays, which is the sum of sacks, pass breakups, and INTs, broken down by Position and Round (I've only included Safeties and DTs). As an example, 2023 3rd round DTs had .45 splash plays per game in aggregate (Kobie Turner Y'all). For RBs and WRs, I just used scrimmage yards per game (bonus - can you pick out James cook's leverage without thinking about when he got drafted?) So - the Bills have 4 player whom conventional wisdom suggests will play this upcoming season. Keon Coleman (2), Cole Bishop (2), DeWayne Carter (3), and Ray Davis (4). I offered the data just as a reference point to answer the following 2 questions: What are your expectations for year 1? Can they beat the odds and still produce in year 3/4? We're all Bills fans here, so I'm more curious why you think they'll beat the odds, rather than if.

I’m going on record - this is gonna be the best offense of Allen’s career to date. Versatility in the WRs. Solid OLine. An OC who loves the deeper stuff, a legit game breaker at RB…it’s all there

So this happened in 21 and 22

I honestly get a lot of 2022/2023 Packer vibes with this group, through that group needed some time to develop into what it is today

I think a better word for this is versatility

Fair enough!

Well I guess I disagree with you on what defines a field stretcher. For me, it's any WR who a DC has to worry about downfield beyond have single coverage because of their ability to win deep through a variety of ways, which includes speed, route running, body control, length and point of attack. Shakir checks the box in the first 2. Cole Beasley had nice burst, but wasn't fast enough to blow by guys deep, tall enough to create separation, and didn't have the kind of body control Diggs had to create space even with someone on him, downfield. (that's one of Diggs' elite traits, and the one big thing we'll be missing this season)

he's there to compete for the back end of the rotation Locks: (3) Samuel, Shakir, Coleman Likely (1) : Justin Shorter Intermediate to deep Guy Competition (1) : MVS, Chase Claypool, Tyrell Shavers, Mack Hollins Speed/ST Guy (6) : KJ Hamler, Andy Isabella Why wouldn't you consider Shakir that? He's a 4.4 40 kid. We asked him to do other stuff because Davis and Diggs were locked into their roles. But this season he's going to get a healthy dose of the 2020- 2022 Diggs role which was basically any route in the playbook. He's gonna be a deep threat, and so are Samuel and Coleman. At least that'll be the roles they'll have, until they show they can not

They in fact have 2.5 now as all 3 of Samuel, Keon Coleman, and Khalil Shakir will stretch the field in different ways. But Shakir is so good in his first 15 yards the Bills likely won't ask him to run too many deep stuff. But if they do...

Game recognizes game in this case. Can't believe that nimrod in NY couldn't make use of him

Curtis Samuel exists

It is MAY. By what basis does "hindsight" apply? Are you from the future? Are you a time traveler? Are you neo? Are you the One?

Has the roster of posters been filled?

It was right there for us to see this whole time, how did we miss it?

Dont think this matters outside of QB