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After our 3-0 start I posted that I’d be stoked if we came out of the next three games 5-1. Also I wore a Bills sweatshirt a couple times this past week. So I’m pretty sure these last two are on me.

Combination of turf toe and horrifically poor usage.

Josh probably thought he was throwing to a competent NFL WR with at least bare minimum NFL speed.

Notably Allen was 0-5 passing after his head bounced off the turf.

Agreed. But it could’ve been done differently. They have really set Allen and the offense up for failure.

It’s worth listening to the media that parrots the company line. It’s easy to spot them since they all seem to get the same memo at the same time and say the same thing. The “everyone eats/we are gonna spread the ball around” shtick started like that. All it told me was that the team wanted me and the rest of the fans to believe WR wasn’t going to be a problem. And when they have to sell the fans that hard on something like that, then we should all know it’s gonna be a problem. Because they know it’s a problem.

He stopped taking my calls after I told him not to draft Elam.

It’s ridiculous that Hollins is seeing the field at all, much less as much as he is. But there are better answers to that problem than Doubs and his attitude.

Easy. Because Diggs was an elite WR and Doubs is nothing more than a complimentary WR. It can be worth taking the chance on a problem child if the talent warrants it. No reason to do so when it doesn’t.

I don’t see how acquiring him could possibly go wrong.

Difficult to blame Beane while looking at the overall body of work. He put enough talent on the field to win it all, but coaching has blown that. As for this season, it was a planned step back and financial reset. I believe that it was originally planned for next offseason, but injuries to White and Miller plus Diggs’ push to leave caused the Bills to move it up a season. McD and Beane have both been given extensions so I expect them both to be here for the rebuild. I think we’d have to see a big catastrophe and/or McD would have to lose the locker room for Pegula to move on from them. As for this season, there’s still time to make a trade for a player like Amari Cooper. fingers crossed

That’s some serious revisionist history. 90% of this board was in denial about him pushing his way out, thought he was untradeable and said we needed his talent on the team. That only changed AFTER he was traded.

No. We are saving almost nothing due to Miller’s reworked contract. Between salary and active roster bonuses Miller will lose about $375k. That comes off the Bills cap, but another player will replace him on the 53. The league minimum salary for a first year rookie is $795k. Four games of salary at that rate is $187k. So the most cap space the Bills will save is about $188k.* * Edited to add: A player that we are already paying who is coming off IR would not add to the cap. We could get the whole $375k in savings in that case.

Amari Cooper is the obvious choice if the Browns continue to struggle and he becomes available. The “everybody eats” shtick is just being done out of necessity. The Bills need more talent at WR on the outside if they want to compete in the playoffs.

For the record Stroud has been asked that question many times and usually includes Allen. Why do you care? The Texans game is going to be tough if we don’t get some players back at close to 100%. If Dawkins can’t go or is hobbled, that’s going to be a problem. Ditto with Shakir. No Von Miller to provide pressure for us. A banged up back seven isn’t going to help us either. Hopefully we’re getting healthy there, but who knows who will be able to suit up. About the only bright spots are that the Ravens didn’t manage to injure Allen despite their dirty play and Houston will be without their top two RBs and Tunsil - though Tunsil has been a penalty machine this season so it might be better for us if he is out there. Hoping for the best, but this one worries me.

Not sure what Allen and CJ actually thought/think about Diggs, but both know the right thing to say to the media. CJ has the advantage of only having to do it for one season.

That would certainly help explain why he never even touched Van Noy. Edit: Rewatched the play and Dawkins did manage to push Van Noy in the back a little bit as Van Noy hit Samuel. He then chased down Allen and stripped the ball while tackling him. I am not arguing that this was a good play call, but if Van Noy gets blocked then it would’ve had a very different outcome. If Dawkins was already injured and the team knew it, then it was an indefensibly bad play call.

Who I haven’t seen discussed is the player with the worst performance on that play - Dawkins. He completely whiffed on his block and his assignment blew up the play. It prevented Allen from running back across the field to his right, which looked to be the design. It not only took away that option, it forced a quick throw and got him hit.

The Jest’s issue is that their owner is a train wreck. They obviously aren’t the only franchise like that. Sometimes those teams stumble into a FQB like Joe Burrow and that gives them a chance even when they undermine that player with their other terrible decisions. Sometimes those teams manage to build up some real talent too. The Jest have done that. But when they win it is in spite of their owner, not because of them. I am just happy to have one in our division because it helps us in the long run. This is a good time to remind everyone that the Jest are tied for fifth place in number of AFCE titles.

He was surprisingly poor in the game I saw some of. There are some network executives who could lose their jobs over this kind of poor. He should have been brought along at lower levels of football prior to doing NFL games. I’m sure that he’ll be given time to develop, but right now it’s very rough going.

As a blocker, no. As a receiver, Kincaid has an ability to set up defenders and get open that Knox doesn’t have. I think he’s going to need outside threats to open up the middle of the field for him to shine though. Also we will need a TE that can play in line unless his blocking continues to improve. The biggest issue this team has is the construction of its receiving corps. A trade for a WR that can threaten on the outside would be huge. If we can’t do that then the MOF will stay congested and we will have to rely on Allen to buy time and play superman.

1. Yeah. NFL teams are often vague with injuries, especially to their QB. When I heard “ hand” injury, I assumed they probably meant broken finger. 2. Good catch. That would explain it. 3. They played some 4-3 against Baltimore. For example, on their second drive they had Morrow, Spector and Williams on the field together. I saw Ingram out there in a 4-3 as well. As for seeing the combo you mentioned again, I don’t know that Milano will be back next season. As sad as it makes me, it seems like the Bills might move on. 4. Torrence needs to get it together for sure. I don’t expect them to make a change anytime soon though. They’ll let it play out for a while, which is the right way to handle it. 5. They really should get a kicker on the PS.

Just looked at his contract to see how much cap space this will help the Bills. Not much due to the reworked contract. Only about $364k. But that led me to this thought. This looming suspension might have been why Von was willing to rework his deal. His break even with the incentives was 10.5 sacks. It looks like he will hit that - even if he misses 4 games. If he does, then he will come out ahead on the restructure by almost $4M. That is due to his lowered salary. Signing/restructure bonuses and incentives aren’t lost during a suspension. Only salary. That sucks.

Agreed. Also not his first issue of this sort.

Oliver seems to have developed into an above average player overall, but he’s limited in the run game. He’s undersized and uses quickness to get by OLmen. It is what it is. Again, I don’t think this play was on him. I think it was on Williams and/or the safety (Hamlin?).