GunnerBill

I think 8 counts as one score.... given the chance of a 2 pointer. I think they'd need to have lost by 9 to be out of the reckoning for this stat. EDIT: D'oh ignore me. I see it specifically states more than 6. I thought it was just 1 score.

To give a name that hasn't been mentioned Maxwell Hariston, Corner, Kentucky who caught my eye last season on a couple of occasions. He is carrying an injury currently and I thought he struggles some against South Carolina last week - we had that game live over here - be he is tailor made for an NFL zone defense. Hoping he can get healthy and bounce back because I think he is a guy who with a good year could sneak into day 1 contention.

Yes Groot extension is the other easy cap button to press. He is due $11.5m in 2025 on the option. An extension at least halves that if not more (you probably do a smaller up front bonus to amortise to keep 2025 low then a big option bonus in 2026 that is a foregone conclusion, same as with Spencer Brown's deal).

Nope. Samuel cancels out Dodson. I have already factored the formula uncertainty in. The Floyd one is pretty certain to be a 5th. It is right in the meat of 5th round territory. Davis is technically a 4th based on the known elements of the formula but I think that likely ends up as a 5th for the reasons you state. My prediction at this point is it will be two 5ths.

Looking at that play if BangedUpBills is right it is nothing to do with size. Just a freak occurance. Arm sorta gets caught behind as he pulls away from Jones. That could happen to anyone at any size. A month would have him back just in time for the Jets. If he can't make the Jets and the Bills are say 4-2 after that game I think you leave it another week (Titans home when you might not need him) and you are looking at Seattle on the road at the end if October.

Agree. I hated taking him off the field last year to bring old man Murray on to chug straight into the pile. Cook is slippery. So long as the blockers give him a chance he will find a way to get it done.

Diggs didn't look too "bad" last week. Indeed I think he is at this point exactly what you say Hill would be. A legitimate #2. Not me arguing for the Bills to keep him btw. It was time for all parties. But Diggs already showed last week he is not finished as a player.

Not in all those, but sure, Jones is a difference maker. It's a regular season stat but even including post season it is once in 49 games and even that is incredible. To play 49 games in the modern era of the NFL and only once lose by more than a single score. Especially when you look at the period in question when the Bills have lost star players to long term injuries - Von, Tre (twice), Milano (twice). I doubt that regular season streak will ever be beaten tbh.

After Hollins Coleman is our next best blocking reveiver. So even though he is still learning he is already better at it than Shakir, Samuel and MVS and that is contributing to the snap counts.

No we don't get Troy we get the ESPN reserve crew. I am an Orlovsky fan though. He is one of the best analysts around at the moment IMO.

Not much dead cap in 2025 - about $4m from Tre White. But at the moment we are still looking like being tight against thencap depending on where it lands. I think on Spotrac's estimate about $4m over. That is probably conservative as an estimate. My guess is we will end up just under the cap number but needing to do some work if we want to sign free agents and to sign our draft pool. Von't contract is the easiest place to go for that but a renegotiation with Josh to give him a new deal but lower his $43m cap hit is also a strong possibility. At the moment I believe we have EIGHT draft picks: 1 x 1st 2 x 2nd 1 x 3rd 2 x 4th 2 x 6th But we will also get two comps for Davis (either a 4th or a 5th) and Floyd (a 5th). So we will end up with TEN picks and eight in the first five rounds.

I don't really know why it's called that but it's just a word NFL defensive coordinators have taken to using for all out pass rushing dlines with defensive ends inside as tackles.

Spags doesn't have offers to be a Head Coach. Been there, tried that, didn't work. That's like the Bills keeping Leslie all those years. Both Babich and Brady are seen across the league as bright young coaches. Both had offers to be coordinators elsewhere this offseason and both are going to be coaching on a successful team because the Bills are a good, well run, football operation. They will get their looks at some point. Especially with 6-8 vacancies every darn year.

Hell of a stat. Sean McDermott is a darn good football coach.

The contact was almost with the instep and while I don't know if it was tipped I also don't know if it woulda made much difference.

Next week they will be on the hotseat. Don't worry about that.

Because my phone decided to switch itself off to do updates and so my alarm didn't go off when it should have and I slept through the first quarter?

I think there is some truth to that. But I also think it was right from the snap he looked faster. Reactions and all.

Yea he is a more traditional bigger end who slides inside on passing downs. I also wonder though if AJE's height and length against two shorter Quarterbacks the first two weeks have been a part of the plan?

just watching the pick six again..... 3rd down, obvious passing situation NASCAR package on the field: Von, Ed, AJE, Groot and it was AJE from that interior position that flushed Tua out and forced the throw away. We have seen a ton of that NASCAR style look through two games compared to how much Frazier and even McDermott went to it. I do wonder if part of it is we don't have a natural backup 3T to Ed. Carter is there on the depth chart but he isn't really a penetrator he is more a 1T/3T tweener. So in previous years where they maybe felt Ed and Phillips was enough interior pass rush on 3rd and long they'd rather bump AJ inside. I like it though. They are our four best pass rushers. On critical obvious passing downs why not use all four of them?

Bishop made a great play in the endzone in man coverage. I know that was because the starters were out by that point but I wonder if the way you get his feet wet is as a man coverage matchup option in redzone defense for the next few weeks before chucking him in as a full time starter? Shouldn't underestimate the impact on a rookie DB of missing almost all of camp. The biggest question for me is Edwards or Hamlin for now alongside Rapp? Their intention was clearly for that to be Edwards then Hamlin took his chance. By midseason Bishop will be starting, but I think they'd be right to take their time.

I've just watched his post game presser and given the shock over Tua maybe I should cut him some slack but at one point he said "I think about what if we'd won this game by 30, what would that mean?" WTF is this dude taking?

I'm not sold on that yet. I'm still where I was when this thread was started. Come back to me after this season when he is a year away from possibly walking for nothing and I'll have the conversation. He would need by then not to be clearly our second best offensive weapon behind Allen though for me to do it.

There is a point in that thread that has Bills relevance.... once Tua is on IR they may very well try and sign Mike White off our Practice Squad.

Certainly could. Doesn't have to be, but could be. But you'd want to go and look at what you are doing and evaluate it.