Kirby Jackson

Not saying that we should be content but the goal isn’t a wild card berth. It is a championship. The Bills are building towards a championship caliber defense IMO. Outside of Allen and Dawkins I’m not positive that any guy on offense will be crucial by the time that the Bills are ready to compete. The OL, and pass catchers need to be better and the RB younger. If Allen looks the part this year the record doesn’t matter at all to me. 2019 comes with 9 picks, $100M of cap space and potentially a franchise QB on a rookie deal. That’s a recipe for success.

I don’t expect this team to have a great record with or without Shady. I think that I had them at about 6-10 so if you subtract him it probably amounts to 5 or less imo. With that hat being said the focus isn’t really on this year. All that matters this year is that Allen looks the part. Shady wasn’t going to be a key figure on this team by the time they are ready to compete anyways.

You mean like trading up to the 7th overall pick to get a guy? Don’t you think that the Bills are going to play that guy? We won’t know if he is good until he’s out there for a couple of years. They’ve already addressed QB.

This is more along the lines of what I was thinking but he appears to have carved out a nice niche as a pass catcher in Cleveland. My thought was similar in a young guy, with production, down the depth chart, in Tevin Coleman. He is a FA after this year. You can throw a pick their way (or maybe even a player) and give him a year as the lead guy. With all of the money that they are paying Freeman this is likely Coleman’s last year in Atl IMO.

Um, not good

It depends how you interpret the question but Aaron Maybin is probably the worst combination of assets and production. He was picked 11th overall as a pass rusher and had as many sacks in a Bills uniform as me.

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IG Update: The Poyer Family is in line at In-N-Out. Stay tuned to see if Jordan puts down a double double.

Not to add fuel to the fire but he’s at a bar now watching sports and Rachel Bush is nowhere to be found....

It’s really tough to totally ignore all that he’s done for his sister and others in her position. There are tons of examples of him going above and beyond.

Yeah, last year was odd from an offensive standpoint. Statistically, they were one of the best rushing teams off all-time the year before. The Bills could run the ball and go over the top. That’s what they did well. They kept the box clean for the running game because teams respected Sammy and Goodwin’s speed. So what did they do? Added a lumbering Jordan Matthews to run 6 yard patterns. They jammed up the running game and cleared out the WR talent. Wasn’t Andre Holmes a number 2 to start the year?!? It was just weird and it failed miserably. I’d like to think that Rico was a big part of the problem and Daboll will get more out of these guys.

It probably wasn’t my best decision. I got it a couple of years ago after a bonus check. At the time it felt like a great idea but I barely use it for fear of it being stolen. It has never made it to Mardi Gras. It’s just turned into an expensive pool bag that doesn’t hold much. It’s probably the least practical purchase I’ve ever made. In in terms of Goodwin I always liked him more than others. He had an elite skill. That is important IMO. You need to blend skill sets with your WRs. Even if he was only a deep threat, he had value. That was proven true in that he signed at the beginning of FA. He had value. He’s turned out to be a good receiver and an elite deep threat. He’s been rewarded for it. To your point, he’s another Whaley guy that got paid.

I have the same backpack but a little bigger and I’m an insurance agent. It was about $2500. His is maybe $1500-$2000. He makes WAY more than me and I’m not in jeopardy of being broke. A $2000 backpack to him is like a regular person going to dinner at Ruth’s Chris. The players that I know (who are much dumber than Goodwin) live off the interest alone. If you want to worry about a player going broke watch the way that Shady spends. When you see the $30,000 dinner bill that’s when you worry, not when you see the $100,000 car. This isn’t the 90’s anymore though. These players are much more savvy than they used to be and receive much better care after their careers are over.

I see a mini-van, sports car, van and an old Tahoe? I’m guessing that the sports car is his and the rover his mothers. If you think an athlete that will have made $27M+ (assuming he finishes this contract) is going to go broke over a modest house and a couple of cars I don’t think you know how much $27M is. I know athletes that made a lot less, spent as lavishly and live VERY comfortably. The guys that go broke aren’t the ones that buy 3,000 sq. foot homes for their mothers. In addition to that, based on his years of service he will get paid something like $75k (think that is the number) a year starting at 45 plus health benefits for the rest of his life.

He just signed a $20M extension. He’ll be fine. He can afford a decent sized house and a Range Rover. Goodwin is a class guy. He’s one of the league’s “good guys.” For all of the negative that we see and hear about the NFL it is nice to have a story like this.

This is my feeling plus Aaron Rodgers belongs.

Ha ha, you go see Trump. I’ll go hang out with a bunch of instagram models with low self-esteem. You’ve got a few years on me Aug but I will enjoy it. I’ll bring your son, @Boyst62, @Royale with Cheese and a couple of other degenerates. If Lawrence Taylor says “let’s party” I’ll be on the first flight.

I was just thinking that a bunch of drugs and hookers would make for a pretty good story.

1. QB 2. Peyton Manning because he’s the most cerebral QB ever. 3. Lawrence Taylor and Michael Irvin in his prime. I’d also like to spend some time with Mickey Mantle and the Showtime Lakers

I’m one of the last people to defend Peterman. I think that he sucks. With that being said, do we really need an All-22 to pile on? He was atrocious last year. All accounts say that he’s improved. Let’s see what happens...

I haven’t been around much but every post is pretty much the same. The OP asked for 1 sentence to describe each game and your response was about a guy that’s not on the team. I’m not sure that he will have much, if any, impact on the result of Bills games. There are threads out there to talk about Tyrod if you can’t move on. Otherwise this is a topic for the 2018 Bills, stick to the topic ?

We can rely on you continuing to talk about him though....

Oh I hear you. For me, it’s more about a new tradition. People have family reunions every year. Colleges have homecoming week. The Yankees have old timers day. It isn’t so much hearing Frank Reich tell the comeback story for the zillionth time as it is immortalizing these guys as permanent members of the Bills. Once you put on that Bills uniform you are forever a part of that community. The Yankees do a phenomenal job of that.

Oh absolutely, no one is going to pick the convention over a game. It would have to tie together. The home opener as homecoming week would be pretty cool though.

I kind of like it the day before the home opener. It is like homecoming week. The home opener is the game that people from around the country come in for every year. If you had the alumni back and did something like this it would be pretty cool.