GunnerBill

Yea, whoof on that one. WTF is Trubisky doing trying to bail there? That is a wide open NFL throw. If this is the play I'm thinking of it was a designed sprint out right play for the Quarterback so I think that one he is running the route for eye candy not much more. That is a hard throw under pressure. Maybe Allen makes it but my guess is Allen runs around the defender closing and tries to pick up the 1st with his legs. Agreed. That was the one I spotted during the game too. That was a well designed concept. Unfortunately DiNucci doesn't know the playbook. The defender there is following the QBs eyes. Coleman is not as open as he looks by that point because the DB has already seen where Mitch is going with the ball.

The Dolphins don't IMO. Their receivers are better and their safties are better (can say that of two thirds of the league this year). The only other position I give them an edge is running back. Everywhere else I'll take the Bills. It was less commented upon but the Dolphins lost guys this offseason too. I can take an argument that the Jets roster is better - it certainly has some young ascending guys. That all comes down to whether the jerk playing Quarterback still cares and can still play.

I'm always excited for the season. No change here. I do think this is the weakest Bills roster in 5 or 6 years but that does not affect my enjoyment. I was excited for the season in the 7-9 years too. If sport isn't fun then stop watching. There are hobbies that play with your emotions far less so if you don't enjoy it don't watch it.

You don't follow your own logic so this take doesn't surprise me.

Because they are the only two AFC coaches to have beaten Mahomes and Reid in the playoffs. That is how he got that.

Agree with the bolded. Don't agree on starting SVP. I think McGovern has been fine. The accusation in here that McDermott had decided his plan pre-draft and so SVP hasn't been given a chance is being made by the same people who decided they wanted SVP as the starter the moment he was drafted. McGovern is the right choice for now. He has been clearly the best of our three IOL through the two games.

The three high picks I break down as so: 1. AJ Epenesa - they picked him and then spent 18 months transforming his body and play style. That was a remarkably brave approach. If his last two seasons had been his first two seasons the perception of him would be different. I'm still personally not sold on the idea of him as a starting, every down, defensive end, which limits the value. But I do think he has good pass rush upside now. 2. Greg Rousseau - I think Groot is a really good player was a good pick. The only defensive end that has surpassed him in production from that class is Jaelen Phillips and Rousseau is a better all around player. I don't think he is ever going to be a true high end pass rusher. He doesn't have the range of pass rush moves to be that IMO. But he is still ascending and his all around game is excellent. 3. Boogie Basham - okay that one was just a bad pick. It was a bad pick at the time. It's a bad pick now.

It is crazy. It is also not true. We can all write out own crazy narratives then call them out for being crazy.

They have a challenges because three years worth of decision making has undervalued wide receiver and left them with Mack Hollins as a likely day 1 starter. Even if Samuel and MVS are healthy, right now if I was predicting the Bills starters week one in 11 personnel its Hollins, Samuel and Shakir.

DAZN which us non-Americans rely on for our all22 has only got seven games from the weekend up so far and the Bills is not one, so not had a chance to go back and watch it yet, which I am interested to do for the series that the "first team" offense was out there to look specifically at the receivers. But I did watch the first half of the game back last night on the tv view and my two additional reflections on what I saw originally: 1. Van Demark played a LOT better at right tackle on Saturday than in any of his outings there last year. For all Tylan Grable has had a great camp and pre-season I think RVD is your swing tackle. Grable is here as a developmental tackle on the 53 who is the in-house option for next season if Spencer Brown walks. 2. Javon Solomon HOLY freaking MOLY. I thought he was good on a first view. Focussing in just on him second time around.... my god. He was off the hook. I do not think him passing Von and AJE on the depth chart by the end of the season is off the table if he can play like that. He won his rep almost every single down.

They traded down twice before their first pick and their "several" free agents are not looking too hot. If people don't think it is legitimate to ask questions about where we are at the moment in the wide receiver room I honestly don't know what to tell them! Sure, they were in a difficult spot cap wise. Sure, drafting near the end of the round is tough. But the decisions over the last three years that get us to a spot where we are going into an NFL season with the 2nd best Quarterback in football throwing to Curtis Samuel and Mack Hollins as our lead dogs outside..... they deserve questioning and criticising.

Yea at guard.

They would do the same again. Because the terrible choice they have is the same. Spend a year answering questions at every presser about your backup linebacker or cut him. Because for a rookie who hasn't played they are the two options. I think the league needs to think about how blunt the rules are in these cases.

We need more difference makers on the roster.

He has been good. Edwards has been okay. Torrence has been poor.

Answering questions every week about whether your punter is a rapist is not a viable option. It really isn't. It just corodes. I wish there was an alternative because I think the situation it left Araiza in was totally unfair. But there wasn't. The league should allow use of the commissioner's exemption list from the moment a player is drafted IMO.

They had no choice but to cut him. Had he already played a single NFL game he could have gone on the commissioner's exempt list and the Bills could have long grassed it. That option doesn't exist so it was a choice between answer questions about whether your punter is a rapist every week for 12 months until it resolved itself or cut him. There unfortunately was no third way. I think the mob rule, trial by social media trend is one of the most damaging elements of modern society and have said so many times on here. I had at the time and have now huge sympathy for Araiza and how it played out. Even if he had done it, even if he was guilty, he is entitled to have that determined by a court of law not a keyboard warrior pile on. That is the justice system. It is precious and we must defend it at all costs. But sadly once things went as they did the Bills had no option.

Still trying to die on that "Jordan Love isn't good" hill? Yea. Take the L on that one.

I agree. And after this season I don't think the idea of trading him for a day 2 pick is ridiculous at all. It is just that as of now I am asking is a second or third round pick worth more than two years of cheap production from someone who is a proven good all purpose RB1 . That answer is no. Once the maximum balance on the other side is one more year of cheap production the balance starts to tilt. Draft picks are there to get good players. Good players are not there to get draft picks. You always have to remember it is that way around. Even as someone like me that loves the draft and would love the Bills to have 10/12 picks every year.

But not when you have a good (not elite) back at a cheap rookie contract number for another two years. Because you are not replacing James Cook with a street FA. If he wants an extension after next year and then someone wants to throw you a pick for him, sure, I see the sense. But drafting a back in round 2 (was too rich for my tastes to start with even though I like James Cook) seeing them put up excellent AP yardage numbers in year two and then selling two prospective years worth of cheap production for a day 2 pick makes little sense to me. The reason you collect draft picks is to get good players on rookie contracts who are capable of out producing them. That is what they have on Cook. So until the contract situation becomes live you don't trade that away just for another chance to find a guy that might not do that.

Not being good enough is easier to deal with. Not getting a shot to prove otherwise is the hard part. If he has had multiple try outs with multiple teams and he has just come up a little bit short... no disgrace you gave it a shot, you know you weren't quite at the level. As someone who came up just a little bit short myself of the level it takes to make it in soccer I know the feeling a little bit. And I am completely okay living with it. I remember the exact moment when that realisation that I'm just not quite at this level dawned on me and I was almost immediately at peace with it.

If he signs anywhere as a backup it will either be paid like a starter or where the starter is on a short leash. He isn't coming here for a cheap vet deal to backup Josh.

Tanny isn't coming back to be a backup. And if he is it will be someone who can PAY him. The Bills can't. I think Hoyer is shot at this stage.

Another guy I think was overdrafted, but at the right price I'd do it. They'd have to be willing to sell low. A 4th that becomes a 3rd if he hits performance indicators would be my ceiling.

Sorry the strike through had gone the wrong way. I'd counted for 5 down one from 6.