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Adrian Peterson. His nickname is “All Day” or just “AD”.

An available, healthy Murphy returning to form would be huge for this defense.

I legit thought Sal was wrong with the $70M figure. He was not (obviously). Here’s a link to Spotrac for those of us who are having formatting problems with the list posted: https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/cap/2018/ It is not unusual to have a lot of dead cap when there’s a purge of players. Add in a few recent mistakes and some bad luck and that’s what you get. However it should be noted that the current dead cap number for 2019 will rise as players get cut, traded, etc this season.

Crap. You’re right.

Funny thing. My wife ran into some of Knox’s family this weekend while we were on vacation. Buffalo came up and they asked what to do here since they were planning to come up. When she asked why they said their son just got signed by the Bills and they wanted to see him play. Also said that he had been in Cincy and is a TE. Has to be Knox. They seemed to think that the Bills are a big upgrade over the Bengals. Nothing notable other than that except that she said they seemed nice.

I’m just trying to figure out what a WR who is worse than Corey Coleman looks like. If the NYG trot out someone like that AS A STARTER then I’m not sure why they’re bothering to show at all. In all honesty for weeks 1-4 they might line up their top three WRs as Shepard and some combination of their 5th round rookie (Slayton) and cut down pickups and/or traded players.

I believe you. It’s just idiotic on the part of the NYG. Or maybe they were just trying to give him some public support while they remained hopeful. Dunno, but he’s not a viable NFL WR. Saw that here and in Cleveland. Fast as hell, but can’t catch and never bothered to try to learn how to be a WR.

Coleman would’ve been lucky to make the roster. No way he’d start. Okay. It’s the Giants. There’s no way he should be starting in the NFL. But there is the matter of Sterling Shepard‘s broken thumb. He might not be 100%. As for the positive test. He can make any excuses he wants, but they won’t impact his suspension. The rules are clear.

Gotta get that QB. Whaley never did. I wonder what Schwartz’s defense could’ve done here with a stud QB and quality offense opposite it.

Both the player and the team sign the contract. Should they both have to honor it?

It seemed like your focus was on roster depth. Quality depth is good, but the focus of building a championship team should be difference makers. That’s all I’m saying.

If your goal is to win a championship then you need elite players. If a bunch of them get injured then you are out. If you don’t have them in the first place then you are out. Serviceable replacements are needed, but those are not players that are going to get you to a championship. Your elite players are the ones that’ll do that.

Careful. That might be the one game during the season that he actually tries.

That’s a different argument. Having good depth players is better than having poor ones. But that was not what the OP said. He said that a team is only as good as it’s weakest link. That’s very different. Kelvin Benjamin was our starter (sadly). Replace him with a difference maker like Deandre Hopkins or OBJ and you see what I’m taking about. Lots less to worry about who our 4th or 5th WR is in that case. The depth of the roster is for special teams, developmental and role players. You want them to be serviceable when pressed into action, but except for Nick Foles which of them wins you games?

I agree. Ridiculous to put a raw rookie QB behind that OL with that WR corps. Ive been saying that for close to a year now. I have my doubts about Allen, but he certainly showed me something last season. He performed better than I expected under those circumstances. He’s got a chance...... I do like the Dorsey hire. Someone like that needs to be on the staff. He’s a good choice.

Honestly, in today’s NFL with the hard salary cap it doesn’t really work that way. It’s about fielding as many difference makers as possible (including a QB) to go along with solid starters and good role players. The bottom of the roster means little.

Maybe it was sarcasm? There it is

It would be extremely concerning if this was not Allen’s team this year. I’m glad he checked that box. Guesstimate the odds at whatever you choose, but the Bills took their QB and pushed in with him. That was the correct thing to do. Now we find out if it was with the right QB. Buckle up!

What do you see his role as? Assuming specials and subs. Dime? Only things I know about him is what I read on draft sites.

I miss Carl’s takes so much. This is a reasonable take. It’s optimistic, but very close to my prediction. I’d split the Jets series and say 9-7 or 8-8 if we lose to Baltimore, but, hey, who knows?

He didn’t say “only”. He said he was “a main reason”. Big ego? Obviously. Correct? Also yes.

This is correct. Lots of fans want the players to all be humble, which I get. Boisterous truths can rub people the wrong way. I get that too. But OBJ is right. He was one of the few things making the NYG team watchable. They were and continue to be a train wreck. I don’t blame him for wanting to get out of there and go somewhere he has a chance to win.

You honestly think that Mayfield came up with the Pats moving to 2 to draft him all by himself? That would’ve been something from his agent. Incidentally, I heard a rumor that Belichick loved Baker and that the Pats were investigating how far they could move up if he started to fall. It was one of dozens of predraft rumors everyone hears, but it sure fits here. I am surprised he didn’t say Broncos at 2. There’s a video of his draft day party. Just minutes before the draft officially started his agent tells him that they Broncos have a deal in place for 2 and that they’re taking him there.

Don’t blame him. Gotta have that deal signed first.

That is sad