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Not sure if serious…. But PFF ranked Martin 13th overall last season with a 70.8 grade so it would seem we are good.

I’m confident that the Bills will be a 10 win team or very close to that. The Jest could light it up or implode. My money would be on the latter, but they’ve got talent and if Rodgers stays healthy they could win the AFCE. The Phins are a good team with talent too. A lot rides on their new defense and play of their OL. Less variance than the Jest, but more than the Bills. Beating them twice would be huge with respect to winning the division. The Pats may have found their QB, but even if that’s true they don’t have much in the way of talent anywhere else. I hate that we play them twice two weeks apart at the end of the season. I’d rather get them early while teams are healthy. Attrition over the year could bring talent levels close enough that they could steal a game if they get some bounces. Hopefully they’ll have thrown in the towel by then and be coasting to the end of the season so we get two easy wins. I can see them with a top 5 pick next year.

I might watch SNF games live, but on Monday night I’m much more likely to watch 2 or 3 condensed games from Sunday. It really minimizes the dumb announcer banter plus no commercials. Plus I get to bed at a decent time. If the MNF game is good I will watch it during the week. I love my NFL+.

I’ll settle for some degree of consistency between the Bills and other teams. There are always nuances and differences, but standards usually seem very different.

The Phins “folded” in the 2022 playoffs cause they had Skyler Thomson playing QB. That was a whopping 3 point loss to the Bills. They “folded” in 2023 because they lost every player that could rush the passer to injury. I am not saying that they have it all figured out. They certainly haven’t proved anything close to that yet. But that’s two seasons lost to one of the same excuses I hear here ad naseum - injury. Why give McDermott a pass on that (for longer no less), but not McDaniel?

It’s not that I think Beane should get off scott free. I don’t. He should go along with McD. I’m just not 100% certain that he will.

Yes, that’ll probably be the way it works initially. Once owners get a taste of PE money they’ll want more and more of it. 10% is only the beginning. I wonder which team the Saudi Wealth Fund will get a chunk of.

Yup. For now……

McDermott is not going to hire anyone that brings in fresh ideas and does things their own way. That’s why so many hires have been from within. Even if Brady (or another coordinator) fails, it’ll be more of the same. He’ll just hire another coordinator to do things his way. There won’t be any metamorphosis until we have a new HC. That likely means a new GM too. Until then, things will be done McDermotts way.

Really? I don’t think it’ll be all that different compared to what it looked like under Brady last season. Schemes always get tweaked from year to year, adjustments need to be made for changing personnel and Brady will have a chance to put more of himself into the scheme, but I doubt we see a whole new, more beautiful animal.

I’m not going to respond to all of the OP’s points one by one. I think some have varying degrees of truth to them while others are pretty far off the mark. I am confused by the OP’s “metamorphosis” comment though. Yes, there is an ongoing jettisoning of veterans. But the other things he talks about aren’t happening. So where’s the butterfly? That’s the thing about a metamorphosis, it’s a development into something better. While often necessary, simply swapping out older players for younger ones isn’t necessarily a path to getting better or becoming something different and new.

I literally got so bored I quit reading it. And I’m doing nothing right now.

We took our shot and missed. We’ve taken some others that have hit. Such is the NFL draft (and basketball and hockey).

The Ravens need help at b/u QB. Huntley played for them for years so methinks Cleveland is trying to move him to any other team for whatever they can get. A late round pick swap would get it done.

Yup. Noah Brown is a guy that’ll get snatched up by a team that either doesn’t have 5 NFL worthy WRs on the roster or loses one to injury. He doesn’t make much sense for the Bills as he is a possession WR, not a field stretcher.

Small, straight up zone corner but could be depth here or somewhere else

Note: It is not a foul if the blocker’s opponent initiates the contact above the waist, or if the blocker is trying to slip or escape from his opponent and any engagement with him is incidental. The RB looks to have pulled up so the contact was pretty incidental. in any event the assertion was that Teller’s block was illegal/dirty. He couldn’t have known what the RB was doing behind him.

Just because we want a better QB2 than Trubisky doesn’t mean one is available.

There is nothing dirty about that cut block. And the RB didn’t engage until after Teller cut him. Perfectly legal block of the type you’d expect in that situation. What we have is a Seahawk fan upset that one of their players got hurt.

“significant” depth at WR? lol

Mike Brown’s too!

The Bengals will let Higgins walk and pay Chase. I wonder if they’ll tag and trade Higgins next offseason rather than let him hit FA tho.

Justin Jefferson got $35M AAV so a deal just shy of that was expected. But, yeah, that is a lot of money/cap.

Lamb. Parsons is a fantastic, elite player, but there are a lot of rumors that no one in the locker room would miss him if he got traded. Probably next offseason since he’ll be a free agent.