Bleeding Bills Blue

Miami lost to Tennessee despite being up 14 with less than 5 minutes in the game. At Home. On MNF. They lost that 14 point lead, and STILL got the ball back with 1:49 left. 2 chances to either ice it, or drive into FG range to win it. Buffalo winning 4 games to make it a win and in game isn't some massive miracle. They played the chargers and patriots with Stick and Zappe and honestly played pretty crappy in both games and won. Miami is to me? A fast team with a good offense, but they're soft and reliant upon game script and home field advantage. Tua had 20 of 29 TDs in the first half of games. He also threw more picks, was sacked more, and fumbled more on the road. Then just... the nature of their road losses - Beatdown in buffalo, beatdown in philly, beatdown in baltimore, beatdown in the KC playoff game.

I'd have to agree. End of roster battles are important to push those players.

This is how i see it with 6 Q

I had more an issue with Buffalo's late travel schedule than the back to back advantage. We put our team at more of a disadvantage than they already were going to be. I'm ok with the back to back... but they should both be JAX home games imo. Also, the tottenham "turf" on top of grass was among the worst surfaces a team can play on. 💰💰💰💰

Clapp - That dead cap doesn't matter really. Rookie 5th round pick will likely have a sub 1M cap hit. Clapp counted 1.15M against the cap, the 287.5K is basically the difference between the rookie contract and clapp's. Collins has played guard and tackle in the past, the contract is pretty affordable and he's started a lot of games.

Eh - Our run game was absolutely thrashing teams at times, and i bet if you look you'll see him making solid blocks. They also put him in the bunch of 3x1's and ran WR screens and swings and he was primary lead blocker for those as well. He was always a look beyond the box score type of player, whereas diggs was targets/catches/yards. There's a new defensive coordinator at least... I know he coached under McDermott but lets see what the guy does.

He's someone a team that is bad/desperate might try mid-season. Like Buffalo and Merriman a few years back.

Teams double when they have to, its not ideally something you want to do as a defense. We will see a lot of zone this season because a man coverage plan with linebackers covering cook/davis, kincaid/knox is challenging to run, and you also have allen as a bigger running threat in man coverage. If you add a DB to the back end to man up better, Buffalo can run the ball. If the WRs can shake press and create separation though that really forces teams to play more zone. So in those zone situations you have a few different ways to attack with the skillsets of coleman (size and catch radius), shakir (sneaky athletic), samuel (Speed), as well as kincaid. I feel like Coleman will also be a good freelancer after Allen evades pressure.

Spencer brown is not a pro bowler, but he's played pretty well here. I do think savings from diggs can be put into a contract for a RT - Brown or someone else. Either way i don't know that we draft this player either necessarily. So... I'd see it as LT: Dawkins (He is 29, so i don't see him dropping off a cliff anytime soon and his contract is super adjustable with large 26, and 27 base salaries) LG: Probably not here yet -- I think this is something you can fill in the draft without spending a 1st. C : Long name guy, i give him a year probably unless you need something different at the position RG: Cyrus RT: Brown or FA

I didn't realize he was a RS Sophomore coming out so he's actually less than a year older than Shakir. After spending a little last offseason on a KR/PR/WR gadget guy, they looked to fill a similar depth role with a bargain player. They instead spent on a non-returner WR who was a RB in college and is a better football player than Harty and Mckenzie before him.

My assumption would be some level of damage to her brain unfortunately.

I always figure Shorter and Shavers are in comp for one spot. The other is likely PS bound. I suppose someone could poach, but 35 WRs were drafted in 2024 (33 in 2023). Considering our WR depth isn't particularly notable, i'd say buffalo is probably more likely to sign a player they like off of an opponents PS than to have one taken off of ours. Hamler i felt had a decent roster track if he can stay healthy as there really aren't many players on the roster with kick and punt return experience. You basically have Shakir and Samuel who both have some experience, and Johnson who has some KR experience.

All things considered, Buffalo has spent a fair amount of draft capital on offense as well as defense. WR, C, RB this year. TE and RG last year. RB and WR the year before. I'd like to see one of these players just be "the guy" though. My expectation is kincaid breaks out, but i also think shakir is going to turn some heads this year and officially graduate to full-time starter status in a more impactful way than gabe was ever able to.

Open to it - but in no rush. Like to see what else is out there come minicamp time. Presumably any WR buffalo would sign would likely be around that time, and i don't put zay ahead of ODB, gallup, or chark. So if their price tags don't come down - sure, open to it.

I thought both rapp and edwards deals were mainly depth. Neither deal was even top 10 of what was given out in free agency and from an AAV perspective both are below the top 32 at S. Interested to see what Elam can do with a new secondary coach and defensive coordinator. Hopefully he's coming to camp ready to rock.

Why? They get the benefit of massive endorsement deals much like Brady. I don't know that they're chasing dollars in the same way.

Agreed. Looking like he wants to improve his press release too which... is what an X WR might do? 😄

He's likely in competition with Hollins in that role we never seem to be able to fill (Kumerow, Sherfield) - you'd eat dead cap on hollins, but you'd fill in with a lower salary so it's probably a wash. Also potential practice squad injury reserve if he looks the part. ... Something tells me we're not "done" at the position with this signing though 🙂

Probably a tie-in to the fox news crowd? I dunno. Terry's old annoying and i can't even understand him half the time, and Jimmy is just old and out of it (he's 80).

Interesting. The Fox NFL Sunday is still rolling deep with Terry and Jimmy despite both being terrible.

I think the time of possession metric can be somewhat overrated... However... in games against Jax, cincy, and Denver - Buffalo had substantial disadvantages on time of possession. And those were games where our defense looked the most beaten. Either from inability to run the ball against the jaguars and bengals, to the turnover fest against denver, that was something that they prioritized under brady. Usually improvements on TOP are attributed to a few things though - More effective run game Improved 3rd/4th down conversions Defensive stops/takeaways The defense was able to get 2 stops... and 0 entering the 4th quarter. It's very difficult to win when you don't get stops.

It's also a hell of a 2-high counter punch to be able to just consistently run the ball down the other teams throat. We have better counters to 0-blitz teams with big dudes who can win 1x1 battles. I think we'll struggle with "sticky man" at times, but again the best counter to that is to occasionally just throw it over there. The reason we get fewer PI/DH penalties than other teams is largely because we don't throw it at them. The other counter to "sticky man" coverage is to just have a bigger WR who can fight through that.

I think Buffalo might be trying to prioritize being a more physical team, especially come playoff time. The recent playoff losses have been as much to do with an inability to control the LOS on either side of the ball as much as anything else. You want to stick to our pass catchers and hold? Well we now have multiple ways to counter and create YAC on shorter passes - either with size (knox, kincaid, coleman), pass catching backs (cook and davis), and quickness (Shakir, Samuel).

I'd say those are legit expectations. Considering what buffalo was able to accomplish with the volume of injuries a year ago and a tough schedule, i wouldn't put it past them to win the division again.

How about we let the new guys play.. a down before we blame them for previous players failures?