GunnerBill

I think that is right. I am less sure that by week 9 the analytics will be showing that DHop is winning those routes. I have only seen snippets of him this year but he has definitely looked like he has lost something. Maybe some of it is "want to" as much as "can do" but that is my pause for thought. At a cheap price I'm in. But if that price has to escalate to convince them to eat money... that's where I get a little more wary.

They are only going to do that if what you are offering them is enticing. Why restructure to eat money and then trade him for a 6th? Doesn't make any sense. Now if someone is giving them a 3rd? Then I can see it. For a rebuilding team is a 3rd worth eating a few mil for? Yes. I am just not sold he is worth that at this point but I haven't sat down and watched a Titans game beginning to end yet this season.

His base is $8.2m even if we trade for him half way through the year that is likely to be $4m plus. That is every penny we have left in cap. I don't think that is doable. If it came for a throw away pick and manageable on the cap - sure.

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The problem was never the philosophy. Almost all the top teams do it. It was the talent identification. Size and level of competition. But I agree his talent should have been gone at least a round earlier even with those questions.

Good memory.

I absolutely think he is in line to get paid after the season. He is playing at a really high level and I don't think you want to go into his final year without getting something done. I could see it as a summer extension (similar to Spencer Brown) rather than a spring on. Those smaller rookie deals don't offer much scope for cap savings when you extend them so it is easier to get through FA and the draft and then look at where you sit before putting a contract structure together. At the moment there are basically threee tiers of AAV for CB contracts. A small group of $21m plus guys - Surtain, Ramsey, Alexander and at some point next spring Sauce will reset that market. Then a tier of guys in the $19m territory and then a big gap to the $13-14m guys. If Inwas Benford's agent I'd be pitching him in that $19m group with Sneed and Jaylon Johnson. The Bills might hope the fact he doesn't quite have the name value yet might save them a $1m or so AAV. But if he can snag a few more INTs this year... get 4 or 5 for example then that ball production will demand compensating.

Dude can ball.

Yes.

Barbara started early this morning....

Agree. I said it in the GDT on Monday night. His ball placement on those moving laterally short throws has really improved even compared to 2020 and 2021 when he was already an elite QB but struggled at times with those plays. It is part of the massive improvement in YAC we have seen. It isn't all of it - type of receivers and type of route play a part too. But those sorts of throws are an area Josh has improved even since his breakout.

Yea and I feel the way you do about Tyrod about Fitz. He just played on much worse Bills teams.

I know you don't agree but that is how I felt about Tyrod. I hated watching the Bills those years. He was enthusiasm sapping. When you know a guy isn't it and he is being propped up it is depressing.

And concussions / general injury history. I always liked Edwards though. I had a 2nd on him the year he came out.

He is cheap. His relative lack of financial clout is the reason he is cheap but he is cheap.

I think a few points: 1. You are seeing some - through two weeks 80+% of the Saints offensive success was running and play action pass. But equally the master at stopping that style is Vic Fangio and there are a lot of NFL defenses at the moment trying to run his scheme which takes some of that away with a lot of old school bear defense looks. 2. There are not many teams willing to go under centre a lot because it makes it hard for them to execute everything they want to in their offense and shotgun play actions don't tend to drag linebackers up in quite the same way because it is easier to keep their eyes on the football. 3. Offensive lines man, offensive lines. I think part of the reason the offensive football is so dink and dunk at the moment is the general standard of pass protection I have seen through three weeks is absolutely brutal. And that is making teams reluctant to have their QB under center and turning his back to the rush too much. We are being spoilt by good OL play in Buffalo at the moment. There are not a ton of fanbases experiencing that.

Yea that was a tough catch. I agree with what others have said in that type of catch being an issue for him generally but the over the shoulder down the field catches he dropped last year were right in his hands. This one wasn't quite. It was catchable but it was not an easy catch he was at his limit in terms of his stretch. I think very few running backs make that play tbh.

I don't understand what this means.

I'm not re-litigating it but I haven't changed my view on that play.

One quiet summer afternoon I ended up flicking my tv on to find the America's Game of the 2006 Colts. I remember from the very end of the episode Tony Dungy saying he felt the 2006 roster was less talented than some of the early 00s Colts teams but they just bonded and gelled as a team and that was what catapulted them to their Lombardi Trophy. That is actually the team I now think of when I think of this Bills squad - all worldly QB in his prime who despite that hasn't yet made a Superbowl in a year where he has lost some pieces of his stellar supporting cast... let's hope the outcome is the same!

That sucks. Kid has looked good in his limited reps. Still, Van Demark was their swing tackle all of last year so they are not in too bad of a shape there. If Grable goes on IR I imagine Gouraige gets the call from the PS. True, it doesn't, but the calculation is generally if you are sure they will miss more than 4 then you IR them, even if you don't "need" the roster spot immediately. Reason being if you need the roster spot 2 weeks later and then you IR the injured guy that is when the clock starts. When it's in that 3-5 week window teams are sometimes willing to take the risk. Any more than that it almost always means IR.

No his two sacks the last two games have been legit. I mean Walker Little really sucks, I'm still stunned he was a 2nd round pick, but Von flew past him on that play like he wasn't even there! People can hate on me for my honest opinion on week 1 all they want. I'm not the only person who wasn't bowled over by it. It was his lowest pass rush grade of the first three weeks by PFF too. I'm more than happy to give Von his flowers for Jacksonville and even more so Miami (he was exceptional in the Dolphins game). I don't think he was anything special week 1 and he got a freebie sack. I just say it how I see it.

I think he is a very talented offensive play designer and a good playcaller. I do think he is a bad Head Coach though. You can get so far by being a clever Xs and Os guy. But eventually as a Head Coach you have to be able to lead. And that is McDaniel's issue IMO.

Yep. We are seeing what was entirely predictable for the Bengals. Keeping that team together requires paying people and then being willing to give them new money each year to spread cap hits and Mike Brown is cheap.

I was more optimistic than most on Brady. I had zero concerns over McGovern. I was worried about the receiver situation. I think our OC has schemed around a weakness brilliantly so far. But I still think it is a weakness. I need to see them succeed in a shoot out where they get forced into pure drop back passing where their shifts and motion etc counts for less. That is the remaining hurdle for me. If I can see them pass and pass successfully when everyone in the stadium know they have to and is playing to take it away then I will relax over the receiver room. As it is, win one of the next two and they are all but guaranteed the playoffs IMO.