RunTheBall

This is a great pick up for insurance assuming Bernard doesn't work out. We just need someone who doesn't suck in that position and he's probably an upgrade over Bernard/Dotson. The guy had better stats than Tremaine, not that stats are the best indicator. As long as we have someone at MLB who isn't a complete liability we are good, and I think Kirksey provides that. We aren't looking for a Tremaine replacement as his best traits were elite physical ones not instincts.

I’ve started popping Xanax before I come read this board. Week 6 was always the logical return date, and that’s AHEAD of schedule. I’m sure Basham will take up the slack (oh wait….) Floyd/Rousseau is a good starting DE pair to start the season. I think Floyd is going to surprise a lot of people. McD wasn’t going to unleash him in the pre season

I was a HUGE Edmunds fan when we drafted him. Thought we’d be set for over a decade with a potential perennial All-Pro manning the middle of the D. Each year I got a little more disappointed. I was convinced Beane was going to extend him because of the constant praise we heard and the fact he traded up to get him. We could have extended him, the fact that we didn’t says A LOT about what McBeane thought. Edmunds is what he is. He isn’t going to all of a sudden make this big leap in year 6 into the LB we all wanted him to be. The fact is, linebacker isn’t a premium position and they made the call that Oliver at DT was more important than Edmunds at LB. I’m glad we didn’t extend him at the price he got. He’s better than anything we have on the roster currently though (besides Milano), so McD better have a scheme in mind to make up for that this season. I think he does. I think we will see a lot of Rapp and Neal in a big nickle/dime look on passing downs. I don’t think we are looking for an Edmunds replacement because you can’t replace those physical traits.

Thank God for the non-vocal majority of Bills fans who don’t tweet or post on this board. Otherwise you’d think what was once the best fan base in all of the league had devolved into an anxiety ridden, whining, entitled bunch of sky-is-falling Pats* fans. Here’s a reality check - the Tops shooting did not impact the play on the field. Kim Pegula’s cardiac arrest did not affect the play on the field. Losing to Miami in the heat did not affect the play on the field later in the season. Hamlin affected the play, Josh’s injury affected the play, Roger Saffold and Brown sucking affected the play. Getting out coached in every aspect by Cinci affected the play. This team did not handle the pressure of being crowned SB favorites. The vocal fan base is so anxiety ridden, so desperate for a SB win that it’s severely impacting the discourse to the point that every single practice snap is over analyzed to death. Talk to me after the first quarter of the season. Then I’ll be able to form an opinion on what this version of the Bills looks like and make a prediction on their future which will likely be completely wrong. Even if we had the consensus best team by every clown “analyst” out there we’d still have less than a 25% chance to win it all because no one wants to think about the role LUCK plays in getting there. Does the ball bounce your way in an important game? Do the refs blow a call in your favor at a crucial moment? Does your normally reliable RB cough up the ball (Thurman) at the most inopportune time? So much luck comes into play but we can’t quantify it so we ignore it. That does not mean getting clearly outcoached, which happened last year against Cinci, isn’t a valid complaint or concern. I feel bad for those who feel in their hearts that if the team doesn’t win the Super Bowl then everything before that was a failure. They miss out on so much great football and fun because “the regular season doesn’t matter”. My heart gets ripped out every Sunday when they lose but a Thad Brown tweet about a mid August practice doesn’t have an impact. Enjoy the ride.

It’s obvious Beane’s strategy was to upgrade the interior O-line, and he did. If the pressure is coming from the outside, Josh can dodge it and he’s one of the best at improvising outside the structure of the play. Dawkins is solid at LT as much as some like to bust him. Given the lack of competent tackle talent in the league relative to its demand, you have to pick your poison. Would I love 2 all pro bookends at tackle? Of course, but that’s not realistic.

That’s motivator McD talk right there. That’s coaching. We know MLB will be a weak link and will probably be an open competition all season. The defense isn’t going to be the same without Edmunds so the MLB will not be asked to do as much. That slack will be picked up by the big nickle/safeties/scheme change. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a package with 1 LB, Johnson and Rapp on the field. Isabella is going to get a practice squad spot. Either that or a parking lot cut agreement if someone unexpected goes on IR.

When I was in college in the 90s it was ESPN 24/7. Not for the personalities, although they had some great ones, but because it was sports news. About 15 years ago they moved away from that into more sports entertainment. Now it’s just a complete and utter clown show with blow hards pushing a political agenda. The only thing I watch ESPN for now is live sports, that’s it. What a disappointment that network turned out to be. Even College Game Day is a shell of its former self.

With the limited information available, my initial impression is he is looking for more cash. As more information becomes available, that is subject to change.

Didn’t the father sell his fast food franchises for 200 million? So we are supposed to believe this family took in Mike when he was a kid because they wanted to get a small percentage of a movie that would be made after he got into college (which they helped), made it to the NFL and made tens of millions as a LT? Sounds like Mike blew all his money and is looking for some cash to me but as always, need more information before drawing a firm conclusion.

Does he have the drive to improve his mechanics/weaknesses and does he have the head to understand NFL defenses? It will take a couple years to figure out

She suffered from global brain hypoxia from her cardiac arrest where as with your stroke there was a specific area of the brain that got lack of blood flow/oxygen. Most of her recovery has already taken place in the first month or two but people aren‘t statistics so only time will tell. I doubt she ever works again but what’s more important is she has some quality of life with her family and being able to go to the Bills practice is a good sign.

IDK but pulling up like that with zero contact after planting the foot has Achilles written all over it. Hopefully not for Burrows sake

Fins Down! Don’t like to see players hurt in training camp but Miami fans have become so obnoxious lately. I think Ramsey was living off his reputation for years.

You won’t hear from Kim again unfortunately but her influence was not nearly what this board likes to pretend. Who cares that this guy got fired? Terry has the bucks, Terry makes the decisions (good or bad). Doesn’t matter who has the President title nothing is getting done with out the owner’s blessing.

It’s very simple newcam - I still give McD a lot of goodwill and slack for taking one of the worst franchises in the league, a perennial loser for 17 years, and turning us into Super Bowl contenders in a couple years. It was very apparent before Josh was drafted that the franchise was improving quickly. Has McD made mistakes? Absolutely. The entire team is built on continuous improvement, being “the best version of yourself”, and you can’t tell me that McD can’t learn from his mistakes like players do. You are one of those “what have you done for me lately” fans and that’s fine, I’m just on the other side of the spectrum. I’ve been through the bad, the ok, the horrible, the Super Bowl years, the drought and now back to consistent playoff contention. I’m not one of those guys who thinks the season is a failure if you don’t win the Super Bowl. I enjoy watching meaningful football in December and January, I had too many years where that was a pipe dream. So yeah I’m horribly disappointed when we get bounced from the playoffs earlier than expected but I then don’t start yelling “burn it all down” like many on here (not saying you hold that opinion).

I’m really glad McD is taking over the D. I think it will answer a lot of questions going forward and given both KC and Cinci have more talent on O, we need to be able to stop them a few times during a game. I think coaching makes a big difference in the playoffs and we’ve definitely been outcoached a lot. Dorsey got absolutely destroyed by Anarumo. Frazier was outcoached in almost every playoff game except NE. Dorsey has a year under his belt, and now McD is calling the plays. We will learn a lot. I agree with extensions. I’m one of those guys that would infuriate those who want McBeane fired because I agree with Beane when he says he wants to be competitive for the long term. I’m one of those guys who thinks a lot of luck needs to fall into place to win the Super Bowl and I’m not willing to throw away coaches who’ve been to the playoffs nearly every year they’ve been here. As long as they are learning from their mistakes and not repeating them then I’m willing to give them time to grow and improve. Why people think players can get bettter from year to year but coaches/GM’s can’t is beyond me.

I should have been

Just for the record, I was wrong on Edmunds, and I was wrong on Oliver. So for future reference just take the opposite of what I say and you'll know what's going to happen.

Do you think Beane is just bad at evaluating DL talent then? Oliver is meh, Basham is a dud. Epenessa is meh, Rousseau was a solid pick at the end of the first. Just curious because I don’t think our defensive has lived up to the resources we’ve poured into it and either Beane or Washington owns that. They shouldn’t need a first ballot HOF DE to make it a dominant unit with all the picks/money poured into it (obviously Von’s health is the key to our D-line this season)

I’m a McD fan but man if Ross Tucker didn’t make a seriously compelling argument about why McD isn’t a top 15 coach. He did a brilliant job laying out the rationale, mainly McD being consistently out coached in the playoffs. I love McD, I love everything he’s done for the franchise and city. I’m not throwing in the towel in any way but it’s on my radar that there’s a possibility he isn’t the guy to get us to the promised land. I hope I’m wrong because I love McClappy. This is going to be a big year.

Ed is a dud. He’s either going to continue his meh play and get paid by another team or he’s going to have a monster contract year and get paid by another team. Can anyone tell me if Washington is any good? Has this guy developed anyone to their perceived potential? Is Beane that bad at evaluating DT/DE talent or is Washington unable to bring the best out of these guys? One of those has to be true

I love Beane. That being said, the inability to put a friggin dependable wall in front of your franchise (and soon to be greatest in franchise history) QB has been disappointing. Last year was disgusting watching Saffold act like a turnstile with his “o’ley!” Blocks, and Spencer get torched repeatedly by speed to his outside. Josh has been asked to do too much and has made this garbage line look better than it is, and it looked like crap.

It’s different when you are from Buffalo. No other fan base has the depth of love/passion for their team than the Buffalo Bills. I was born in WNY but have lived away for 25 years. My kids were each born in New England and within minutes of popping out of their mom they had a small Bills football next to them on the C-section table. My girls are now 16 and 18 and are the definition of die hard - wearing Bills jerseys to school in Rhode Island throughout most of the drought when Pats dominated us and when we finally broke it they knew what it meant to be a real fan through thick and thin. I love the Sabres. Not like the Bills but I watch most games and follow them closely. Don’t care about Basketball (Braves left when I was real young), don’t care about baseball. Went to Syracuse so I follow the Orange. Went to grad school at UB so I follow the Bulls. That’s it. It’s the emotional connection to my hometown and our teams that mean something. I can’t imagine just picking a team and saying “this is who I root for”. There’s nothing wrong with that, I just don’t get it.

I disagree. I think Dorsey had already been figured out at that point and had yet to adjust. The elbow injury just complicated matters. By that time, teams knew our O-line was a sieve, Davis was a 2 trick pony with no ability to get separation in the short/intermediate areas, McKenize was a failure in the slot, and Dorsey would abandon the running game quick. So what did they do? Defenses knew they only had to jump the first 2 reads because by then someone on the O-line would have lost their individual battle and Josh would be forced into hero mode. They doubled Diggs consistently and just played Davis deeper knowing he wouldn’t get a short ball. The reason the O still produced is because Josh is just so damn good at hero mode that he consistently made things happen off structure. At times it seemed like Dorsey’s whole offense was “Make something happen Josh”. I’m very concerned about Dorsey’s ability to utilize all the weapons we have on this team.

How do you know its the month of May? Birds are chirping Grass is getting green Leaves are sprouting TBD Armchair GM Draft Gurus start rolling back their over reaction hot takes faster than a bank robber reversing out of the parking lot