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I could get behind this. But I think you’d have to change the schedule to make it fair. Imagine being a good team that opens against KC and Baltimore. You don’t even have a chance basically. Maybe run the through the division first. Then AFC divisional counterparts. Then NFC.

It’s better than no season IMO. I could get behind it if they have a play in round for every second place team in each division. So 4 teams from each Conference makes the playoff. 4 team play in round. Top 2 teams get a bye. Or a double bye if you count the play in round. 10 weeks instead of 19. All high stakes.

Doesn’t matter unless he reinvested back into oil and gas. He sold a majority of his holdings in the last 5-10 years.

I think we are just getting lost in some minutia but saying similar things. The offense still has a lot of "if's" they have also had some whiffs, especially at WR (a unit that is clearly better now, but boy where KB, Zay Jones, and Matthews bad). Nothing is an indictment yet. This year will paint a much clearer picture. My overall point was meant to be that, if we still struggle offensively this year, likely we will have the answer as to whether it is conservative coaching or talent ID/roster management (which has been an issue at times on the offensive side of the ball).

I am well aware of that. Hence I framed the progression from 2017 to 2019. WR: McBeane assembled the bottom 5 unit. And his replacements were huge whiffs. We don't have a great passing game. On paper it is a great unit at the moment.Hence the we will know more about the staff this season. RB: McCoy would have been better than Gore in 2019. It was silly. Again, not using Singletary is a head scratcher. The running game from a backs perspective was not good. Shady has lost a step, but the tires fell off of Gore. TE: You can't say "If he didn't lead the team in drops, he would have been great". He had the 4th worst catch percentage among all TE's last year. It isn't a small part of his game you can just ignore and say what if. If he does not fix it, he will be a miss. He may very well. But until he does it, he hasn't. OL: We aren't really disagreeing on OL. the right side has been iffy for some time now. QB: I didn't mention Mahomes at all. You did. Josh's peers are starting QB's in the NFL. Not just the guys he was drafted with. By the same logic, EJ was great (he wasn't). You totally skipped over the part where I said. "Unsure if it is conservative/hard headed, failure to put people in a position to succeed, or having a bad eye for offensive talent. I think we will know more this season with Diggs. If our offense looks like Minnesota's last year, it will be that we are conservative." The offense is bad until they are good. They haven't played a down yet and their last showing was abysmal. They should be better, but they aren't yet, and we don't know how much they will be if they are. I don't know what to tell you man. The FO and staff have had issues on that side of the ball. My point was that it may not be conservative coaching, it could also be talent identification. They have at times drafted, given up resources, and made some weird decisions based on who starts work/load etc. for guys who have really not been very good.

Unsure if it is conservative/hard headed, failure to put people in a position to succeed, or having a bad eye for offensive talent. I think we will know more this season with Diggs. If our offense looks like Minnesota's last year, it will be that we are conservative. If we keep misfiring on blocks, routes, catches, bad passes, it will be because we have done a poor job again at identifying talent. We have made some moves that have smoked us on that side of the ball. Some for good reason, but others are just flat out bad replacements. WR: I am pleased with Brown and Beasley. I think they are above average as a 1B and slot receiver. But Matthews, Zay Jones, and Benjamin were absolutely huge misses and mistakes they signed to fill holes they created. We still have issues in the passing game. Some is having a no. 1. some is talent (QB, WR, OL). some is scheme. RB: Letting go of Shady in hindsight was dumb. He would have been more productive than Gore. Motor is an oddity. He doesn't get a ton of touches, but does see some good production. Coaching is either wrongly not feeding him the ball, or they don't have faith that he can be a bell cow. I am not sure how else to explain it. I think either is a knock on the staff. Hoping Moss can help renew some production from the backfield. Gore and Motor are both from this regime and I would say the backfield as a unit were not terribly strong. TE: We have not had a bunch of production. If Knox doesn't fix the dropsies he could be a miss. Kroft was given a large contract (although escapable) and is injured AGAIN! Then there is Lee Smith. All these guys are from this regime OL: Upgraded. Slightly above average at the moment. Still some weaknesses, especially on the right side. Hopefully we see a huge leap from Cody Ford. QB: I don't think we need to explain how terrible 2018 was planned. Allen, Exciting guy to watch. Improving, but still below average when compared to his peers. Brought in by this regime.

Just going off the sabres because it is the same ownership albeit a worse revenue stream, will they continue to fund the FO in the same way? And if not, do we run into a similar Botterill situation where the Pegula’s say we need to cut costs, GM says no, and everybody goes their separate ways? I think that’s a larger concern than actually offering a contract.

Dude, happy we scored, said it right in the post. And yes, in the back of my mind (especially after the second drive) I worried for an offense that has had difficulty sustaining drives and finding the end zone, scored on a drive with a 40+ yard QB run and a flea flicker. The very next drive was 9 yards and a punt. Turns out, we never found the end zone again, even after getting the ball at the HOU 35 off of a turn over. The offense did not have much of a rhythm. And it ended up being the type of offensive game I was worried about. Can’t find the end zone, can’t put up points outside of a few gimmick plays.

I mean the only TD was on a drive with some unstastainable/gimmick plays. Our QB caught a TD pass and ran 42 yards on a sweep. You can’t count on those all game long for chunk plays. We passed twice for 11 yards (excluding Brown to Allen). I was obviously excited to score but at the time was worried about how we got our chunk yards and score on the drive. We had the lead but weren’t terribly methodical on the offensive side of the ball. I don’t think it was so much of a change in game plan, as much as it was the Bills catching a few breaks.

At the very least it should quiet the “Josh was supposed to sit a year to work on his mechanics/fundamentals”. Seems like there is a chance that he might finally get to do that.

The issue is pro athletes need far more efficiency in their respiratory systems. They’ll lose a huge amount of aerobic capacity, which will effect strength and speed. Which will effect some for whether or not they make a team, get snap count/performance bonuses, or if they’re in a contract year, lifetime earning.

My GF and I were talking about this. We live together and own a house, so we might be doing it backwards. But we were both like, “for $5-10M I’ll see you in 6 months” now imagine if you’re playing for a new contract.

The NFL and NFLPA need to come to an agreement here. It’s in everybody’s best interest. As camps begin, players and staff need to hunker down in their teams home city, and go full Cuomo with a “stay in place” that either includes family or their family stays away. I have spoken to a few people at the Olympic Training Center who have come down with a COVID. It’s been a few months past recovery and they are really struggling to keep up with full volume and pace because their aerobic capacity is still far from normal. They’re starting to show some concern even 400 days out from the games.

I second this. I have a couple dolphins fan friends, they’re generally good sports. My GF grew up a NE “fan” she’s coming around and becoming more tolerable. We use the pats blanket to line the dog crate Bills flag hanging from our house.

Opinion from a DA friend. Probably a plea down, otherwise it would have been released.

Leseans peak with the Bills is by far much better. But Hughes belongs in the hall of very good in terms of longevity with us and productivity. I am going to go Hughes on this one, just because he's been an integral part of our defense for 2 playoff births, and still is heading to 2020. Shady was the best player on the team on either side of the ball. But resulted in one playoff run, and the offense has grown without him. Had we kept Shady last year, I would probably vote him. Cutting him was stupid. He very much still had a place on this roster. He might not have done much on a stacked KC roster, but he would have still been our bell cow last season instead of Gore. I would bet my mortgage we would have gotten more production. That whole thing was wild, keep pushing Gore, even though he was toast, use Motor but only in spurts. Cut Shady for now real reason other than not crowding the room. That is one of the head scratching moves this FO has made that I cannot wrap my head around.

Right. But going off what I stated before, if the FST is done with my back to the camera, it’s not really in my interest to do it. Take it, you decide I failed, get pulled in and now have “bad credit”. Or, don’t take it, get hauled in anyways, and instead of having bad credit, I have no credit. Which is better.

I posted earlier how I don’t think it will happen, but my guess is weighted lottery based on the previous years draft order.

Curious/Questions Can you decline field sobriety tests? And if you can/do, what is the outcome? Or specifically refuse unless you are facing the camera?

Literally zero people on this message board are going to stop watching the Bills. Players on the roster have been kneeling since 2016. If you’re fanatical to post and lurk here, you’re not going anywhere. I’d be curious to see the metrics from this site for 2016 against the average for things like posts, new members, clicks etc. Also OAN is getting brought up. It might as well be 24 hours of Alex Jones. It’s not news. It’s not FOX, CNN, or MSNBC. It’s trash, absolute trash, and shouldn’t be taken seriously...ever. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/one-america-news-network-staff/

I think you have a fair point, but I think you are giving it too much significance. It is a simple comment sort of made in passing. Ugh, I hate this. Obviously everybody in the NFL is obviously better at everything football than basically everybody in the country. Part of the fun of being a fan (especially in the offseason) is having an opinion on things. While true, it is a BS retort to post on a team message board.

This is way overblown. I quickly googled articles to refresh my memory on this, and it seems the ratings drop was much-ado about nothing. The NFL ratings are in line with the drop in viewership with all pro sports in the US. Including a sport like NASCAR that doesn't have any kneeling. Over half of those who said they wouldn't watch due to kneeling also stated that they do not follow sports to begin with. https://www.tampabay.com/sports/football/bucs/politifact-trumps-mostly-false-claim-that-nfl-ratings-are-way-down/2338751/ Also, Sr. VP of Research for Fox emphatically says that kneeling is not a reason for drops in games. Also states total viewership in 2016 actually GREW! https://www.si.com/media/2017/08/31/colin-kaepernick-nfl-ratings-cbs-study-sean-mcmanus

I fully agree with you here.

If the NFL wants the season to go off without the loss of anymore revenue (empty stadiums), they need to work with the NFLPA and get an agreement for quarantine for entire rosters.

Anybody else find it interesting that Pegula is 0-fer on Pittsburgh guys with the Sabres (and I guess Bills if you count Whaley). I have had my criticism of McBeane. But watching the Sabres circle the drain for a decade is a good reality for how bad this organization could get. Pay McBeane whatever the hell they want. Forever 9-7 would be better than the decade of trash Terry has put on the ice for 10 years now.