Bleeding Bills Blue

Everyone said coming in they expected blitz, and it seemed like they had the jets number on those blitzes. They also played a lot of cover 2 to take away anything deep, and we were pretty content to just take what they gave us.

That was as time expired in the half too IIRC... yuck.

They were gashed in the run game in both games. They took a 4 point lead with 5 minutes left and cleveland walked down the field. Philly ran for 200+ and scored 31 points - in a windy game.

He has 3 career games with 5 targets or more - not even catches. Brown had 115, Bease had 106, Knox had 50, Singletary 41. So getting diggs 100+ is going to likely come somewhat from Brown and Bease.. But knox only caught 56% of his targets and had fewer than 2 catches per game a season ago. I think the 50-60 target range is probably realistic. He's still going to give away snaps to kroft and smith - and if they increase the amount of pass attempts... those targets go to the RBs and Diggs. He'll be boom or bust, and very TD dependent for fantasy.

Tough to expect him to get the sufficient targets to be a starter in fantasy. Too many mouths too feed. I think he can be a red zone weapon for sure though - and will get some opportunities to make plays. Allen's my starter in a 4pt per passing TD league. I grabbed Wentz as a backup - but allen is a very high floor fantasy QB because of the rushing TDs.

And kind of picked where Shaq probably should've been.

2 firsts - and they moved peters for kenny young and a 5th. Peters was 2nd team all-pro, and his extension was 3yr/42m. So they didn't want to pay peters, traded him for nothing. He gets paid a reasonable amount for 2020-2022 - 14m AAV. You then trade 2 firsts for Ramsey - who makes 13.7 on the 5th year option (so basically what peters got on his EXTENSION!), and gave him 21M AAV from 2021-2025. Is JR worth 50% more in money, and like 90000% more in trade compensation? I don't think so. Especially 1 year after trading a 2 and 4 for Peters. Just mismanagement of draft assets, as well as money. Could end up costing them - they're going to have a tough time bringing in oline talent with all the draft comp they sent out the door, and they don't have cap space to address that and kupp needing an extension.

I'd wanna get diggs going, deep crossers - they can't handle brown and diggs in man coverage at the 2nd level so just keep hammering them. Redzone i'd like to see some read option stuff with singletary/moss to avoid hits to allen early on. I'm for it - take advantage of communication issues as well. They're missing their starter at MLB and they traded an all-pro SS. The d-line is still strong there so running it right towards them probably isn't the best solution.

As do Hughes, Epenesa, Murphy.. its a big rotation, and ron rivera does the same. Just because a player starts doesn't mean that they aren't getting a fair share of snaps. It lead to a couple losses last year against cleveland and philly. I'm not particularly certain buffalo was that good at it for a while there last year.

I'm 100% on board with Beane at this point. If Allen's a miss, i want him picking the next QB to try and take Allen's spot. The marriage between GM and coach is as best as its probably ever been in Buffalo, I wouldn't mess with it.

And now 2021 is fully guaranteed (5th year options are only injury-guaranteed). Plus the extension's practical guarantees. For buffalo it prevents a holdout, and keeps the player. For Tre, its money up front. Full guarantees. Organizational commitment (he basically can't be traded). If he doesn't sign this and holds out in 2021 he has leverage to not sign, but Buffalo has leverage to move him. If he's moved to a worse fit and doesn't get an extension, it can massively harm his value.

If he was an 81 in ultimate team, sure... whatever. But to put him in franchise mode when he hasn't played since 2016 and make him an 81? It's stupid. He's going to get picked up by a random team, start, and totally ruin the like "simulation" element of the game that people like. I heard this year's madden was terrible anyway so I decided not to get it.

I mean - none of this hits the cap this year so that doesn't change anything. Tre whites doesn't kick in until 2022 actually. He plays his 5th year option year then gets 4 more after that.

It was a protection issue. They moved guys around late before the snap and the blocking got fouled up. NE actually had 2 blocked punt TDs last year. It's like the johnny hekker fake - you know its coming but somehow it still happens and works.

That too. Jeffery isn't healthy, Reagor isn't healthy, goodwin opted out. So you're looking at djax, Arcega-whiteside and hightower. Not exactly intimidating.

Goedert is still really good. I'd be concerned about the depth left behind him if Ertz weren't there though. I don't think they'd move him, and i don't think we'd be in the market at the price it would take. GB would probably be interested, i feel like houston would be too. Arizona could also use another pass catcher.

Year 1 was dumping contracts, eating dead money, and accumulating picks. I don't think it was a tank, but the goal was a faster roster flip rather than trying to rebuild. He was the highest paid player, and his dead money that year was absurd... but the books have been pretty clean since then, so it was largely a success.

NE did lose to the dolphins at the end of the year last year that ended up costing them a first round bye. The question marks surrounding the patriot offense aside, I think they're equally motivated to start a new season strong. I'd go patriots, even with the 6 point spread tbh. I just see that dolphin offense struggling, and i see the patriot offense having a successful game on the ground.

Yeah - i look at it like. All of his horrible stinker games came under dennison... Who was not a particularly innovative offensive mind. I don't think Hue did much to adapt to his skills either.

After last year where somehow winstons ball security was actually worse - but rivers threw 20 picks and fumbled 8 times. Thats pretty awful. 10th in yards but 29th in turnovers on offense. Field position is huge. Combine that with them having the worst takeaway number in football (which tends to fluctuate a bit from year to year) - Tyrod's ball security and a progression towards average in takeaways on defense could lead to them winning some more close games. The reason those buffalo teams won 9 games was typically because we were so boring and ended up net positive on turnover diff every year.

I mean, if they're going to run more read option plays, and attack teams vertically and with boundary passes... thats literally all the things taylor can do well. Allens a solid receiver, he can get open on those hitches and comebacks that the roman offense runs. They can probably move ekeler around to get him some passes too. In any case - he's much better in an offense like that than he was in a dennison west coast style offense. Give him a quick half field read and then take off. Run the ball to get in makeable 3rds.

at the very least he's an upgrade on third downs over both. Good receiver out of the backfield and home run potential.

Oh its just all over twitter and it annoys me. Knee-jerk reaction's!! Apologies if it came off crass. To me - i think its just a switch in position coaches. They won't keep a depth FB on a practice squad, but a guy working with TEs? More likely - especially if sweeney starts season on PUP.

They're not cutting kroft. There's actually more cap savings cutting sweeney or gilliam. Guy missed a single practice and we must cut him?

I mean - whos depth behind knox if not kroft? Sweeney missed all of camp. Smith is 32 and has 60 career catches. Croom is still croom. Kroft will probably never be what he is physically capable of being, but he's a better receiver/route runner than smith. And why make the team worse by moving your slot receiver? We don't really have a replacement in the similar mold of bease.