Wayne Arnold

First, take a deep breath. Gillislee is a good backup running back. That's all he is, and backup running backs are truly a dime a dozen. We essentially traded Gillislee for Matt Milano. Not only is Milano cheaper with more years on his contract but we have no idea how he'll develop and what he'll become.

Lost in the whole "Jets suck and are tanking" narrative is the fact that the Jets defense looks very, very good on paper. Leonard Williams and Wilkerson are beasts up front. At linebacker, Darron Lee and Jordan Jenkins are very talented and both had a very good rookie seasons last year. Could be much improved in 2017. In the secondary, Morris Claiborne is a very good corner. Rookie Jamal Adams has Ed Reed potential. This game is no gimmie. I expect a very low scoring affair on Sunday.

Fans can't be upset that their team is a laughing stock?

Patriots looked like garbage last night. They played like they spent the entire offseason/preseason trolling teams and celebrating their Super Bowl. Smith looked great but I don't expect him to play like that for the entire season. All of those 19-0 predictions aren't looking too hot any more.

In other news, according to Michael Silver McDermott is the real General Manager and Brandon Beane does nothing but serve coffee.

Patriots pay too much for that secondary to be toasted like that

Gillislee is a decent player but look what team he's on. Everyone in this thread could have scored those two touchdowns.

Michael Ola? More like Michael Adios. Amirite?

Rex said Hogan was their best receiver (yes, better than Sammy and Woods) and Ragland was our best player. The dope is the ultimate revisionist historian.

You get more value by trading "talented guys on their first contracts". That's how we got a 2nd and 3rd rounder in addition to a new starting wide receiver. It was a no-brainer to trade Darby for what we were offered. Rex said it best recently: "You're playing in a defense and you got a corner without any deep ball skills, that's one reason probably Ron Darby's not there. It's hard, in that type of system you want a guy with some ball skills and Darby's a 'man-under' type of corner, he doesn't necessarily have the ball skills down the field, so I can see that move happening." Sammy was more difficult, you can tell McDermott wasn't crazy about it but they made the decision that they weren't going to spend what it would have taken to retain Sammy beyond 2017 so why not get what you can for him?

Actually that's exactly how to do it.

Like when EJ Manuel wasn't voted team captain going into the 2014 season.

Well, one of our insiders on this message board constantly referred to Watkins as 'Samantha' fwiw. That combined with his injury history and the tendency of the current front office / coaching staff to not dedicate a large portion of the salary cap to one wide receiver and it's obvious that they wanted to get something for him before his career in Buffalo had ended. Bill Belichick's first two seasons in New England (2000, 2001) as well.

Read it again. "Visited." Past tense. In that he already visited. And the Bills signed Thornton instead.

Yeah, right. The coach is immediately on the 'hot seat' and has a stain on him for as long as he lasts in the job.

Couldn't have happened to a bigger douche bag.

You honestly think these guys are the reason the Bills haven't been successful over the years? Kyle Williams is the one holding the franchise back?

I'm willing to take my chances...

If I had one wish, it would be the ability to warg into Dareus during a game between Bills and Patriots and pile-driver Brady with all 330 pounds of Dareus' weight into the ground and just end it once and for freakin' all.

So you're saying Shady should be the specials teams captain even though he doesn't play special teams? Interesting take...

The cap situation (due to garbage contracts like Dareus received, for example) prevented this team from giving Sammy the whopping contract extension that he would have demanded after this season. Therefore, 2017 was undoubtedly going to be his last season in Buffalo. What would be the point of turning down a 2nd round pick to keep him on the team solely for this season? Was this team in position to win the Super Bowl even if Sammy was 100% healthy the entire season (which has never happened in his career, btw)? As for the popular notion "the season is over now that Sammy is gone" - what was Buffalo's record in 2016 with Sammy vs. without him?

The current front office didn't create this hole. The previous one did. So in order to be successful, this front office and coaching staff are going to have to draft well? Exactly.