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Did Beane mention drafting a DT the size of a mountain?

After watching that special on his injury and recovery, it's amazing that he was able to come back and play in NFL games. Nothing left to prove, and not worth the risk of further injury to that leg. He's got a boatload of money, a great family, and proved that he overcame that horrific injury.

Many other teams' fans focus on the hurdling LB'ers, crazy escapes, insane run plays, crazy strong arm throws and play the "yeah but" game. But Allen is one of the most disciplined and dedicated QBs in the NFL. His training and study routine is nuts, even by NFL standards. You don't improve the way he did since his rookie year without putting in some serious work. Since he is so freakishly gifted athletically people don't realize that as much (yet) but they will once we get to the part where Allen is leading the Bills to the Super Bowl. Then there will be time for the deep dive interviews on how he got here from his rookie season.

If a team had 2 2nd rounders in 2021 I might trade down to draft 3 times in the 2nd round, ours plus the other team's 2. That's still just 1 more pick than we would have had but 3 in the top 64. Prime lineman territory there.

You know who else dropped off last year? Jordan Phillips, the giant DT who ran wild here next to Oliver and when he went elsewhere vanished. Oliver is an exciting, quick, penetrating type DT. Phillips is a 340+ pound DT who can rush the passer. Star is an absolutely immoveable object. Not as big as I would like, but extremely strong and plenty big enough. That was a nice rotation to mix and match at DT. 2/3 of those guys were either gone or didn't play last year. That matters a lot. Oliver is going to feast this year with Star coming back AND (hopefully) the addition of another huge DT in the draft.

The thing is, you want to continue to build depth. The Bills with the addition of Pitts, for example, but no other 2021 or 2022 picks of note are not better than the Bills with a playmaker at 30 and a full slate of picks this year and next. Tre White was a late 1st round pick. I wouldn't hate moving up a FEW spots to the mid-20's if there is a guy the Bills love, because it wouldn't cost a 1st to do it.

The defense has been pretty good, and guys like Epenesa and Oliver have shown some flashes that are very encouraging. BUT I think Beane should draft a 350+ pound DT this year just to show you what he's made of!

Just wait until we get our "block out the sun" sized DT this draft and Star comes back, hopefully bulked up and ready to occupy blockers. It's a huge part of McDermott's defense. You need the giant DT to occupy so the LBers and other DT can run wild.

with QBs being the first 7 picks in the draft, other plays will slide down to us!

That makes sense, although it looks like the table was already pre-cut, WWE style, for easy breaking.

Dion was a little stiff on the table slam there... Picked him up nice and gentle but needs to take a little off the slam part!

The coaches and Josh are smart. Save the highlight reel heroics for the playoffs or Super Bowl! Allen is torching teams with his arm and protecting himself much better now. He still has the ability to do some crazy things if the play breaks down.

Malone/Massena area is the Siberia of NY IMO The mountains are too far away to really see, and it's flat, freezing cold, grey and windy 8 months of the year.

This is part of why I favor primetime games... It's nice to enjoy a case or two of beer during the game! 1:00 on a Sunday? That's excessive!

So... Looks like Donald didn't just go ballistic on some guy who innocently and barely bumped into him after all...

I agree, and I think the difference between the Bills and Sabres is luck. Same owners, except they got it right with Beane and McDermott. Maybe REALLY right, it looks like, when you add in the Josh Allen part. Is Kraft really so much smarter than every other owner, or did he luck out with Belichick and Brady, a QB even the Pats* passed on 5 times. They didn't consider him worthy of a 5th round pick. That's luck to me. One thing is for sure: we ALL lucked out with the Pegulas buying the Bills and the timeline of Mr. Wilson's gamble. The whole Bon Jovi thing was hilarious, especially his attempts to rewrite history. We all know the deal, and honestly, if Tommy Shaw or Alice Cooper had enough rich friends it might have been one of them if the idea was to somehow make WNY happy with the deal until it was time to pull the rug out and move the team.

I for one am glad that this garbage is not part of the game anymore. I can't help but think that today's players will be much better off in terms of CTE and long-term effects of injuries due to the rule changes the league has made over the past handful of years. Sadly, it won't help guys who played before that, though.

I think for the Toronto group it's mostly that the CFL is 2nd fiddle to the NFL, and they want to be in the big league. The Toronto Series was 100% about moving the Bills to Toronto after Mr. Wilson passed away. At least from their (MLSE and Rogers) point of view. It was the "in" they needed to secure the team when it went up for sale. Rogers and MLSE paid almost $80 million for a couple of football games a year and nothing else. To think they weren't going for something bigger is willful ignorance. If Mr. Wilson had passed away before Ted Rogers then this team would the in Toronto full-time right now. I think that Mr. Wilson saw what was happening and played it brilliantly. Tannebaum and Rogers had come right out and made it clear what their intentions were in 2006. They wanted an NFL team in Toronto, full-time, and were openly petitioning the NFL for a sign that it was willing to play ball. For the Bills to survive in WNY there couldn't be a Canadian team right across the border. 2 year later, Wilson makes his move: take 120+ million from Rogers over the course of the deal and renewal, and lock down Toronto as his market so no other team could relocate there. Not only did he pocket 100+ million dollars (in unshared revenues) to help bolster the Bills finances, but he also established that Toronto was the Bills territory. Assuming his estate could find a buyer willing to keep the team in WNY, it could be sold for whatever huge price PLUS he already has Rogers $120 million. It's a nice double-dip. PLUS, if an NFL team ever tried to relocate to Toronto, the Bills are likely in a position to claim ownership of that market, meaning some sort of compensation would have to be agreed to. It was an absolutely brilliant business move.

I was really surprised that Vince cut the cord so quickly. He spent years getting back up to speed, spent tons of his own money, hired seemingly competent people and the XFL was doing pretty well prior to COVID, as you mentioned. COVID threw a wrench into every business, but he had to know there would be a post-COVID. It's just odd that he shut it right down and walked away so quickly. or does the NFL merge with the CFL and admit 4 Canadian NFL teams, 2 NFC and 2 AFC, and realign to 6 divisions of 6 teams each? West, Central, East divisions in each conference like the old NFL days. You play 10/17 games in your division, with 6 crossover games from one division and a conference opponent that rotates based on division and standings.

With all the high schools in WNY playing spring football due to COVID, I have to admit it's pretty cool to see football in the spring. A spring pro league that had its stuff together AND didn't start until late March or so might work. It's great weather for football right now! The economics are the hardest part. It's expensive to run a football team.

I wonder what a typical person's actual Madden rating would be? Somehow the Browns can sign everyone in the world and still have vast amounts of salary cap space.

This just seems odd... Donald, having to know that a fight was going to cost him millions, just decided to destroy some guy who was totally innocent and bumped into him accidently? Given that both men were told to leave the club, there's probably a lot more to the story.

It's just a ploy to get down to Tampa with Brady and Gronk. Can't stand "JE11" but I also can't blame him. NE seems like a joyless place now that the winning is gone. Their own fans care more about Tampa Bay than NE, and will probably be cheering for the Bucs when that game happens in Foxboro this year.

The 2020 season was every bit as good as any other season, and no team lost a star player in a meaningless August game. These players are totally different from the old timers who worked another job all offseason and needed to get back into football shape. Preseason didn't happen and the only difference was that the NFL didn't call holding on the OL all season. With a 17 game season AND the expanded playoffs teams can afford a few "tune up" games to get everything right. Just look at Tampa Bay. They started off shaky then went undefeated the rest of the season.

I think we'll have 4. 2 on the road and 2 at home. Just please no Christmas or Thanksgiving games.