GunnerBill

I presume everyone is referring to @Peter - who is a fellow GunnerBill in his rooting interests.

This morning the UK Government appointed a woman name Claire Coutinho to the cabinet. Now the Bills sign a Quarterback name Shane Buechele. Who knew there were so many humans that I have never heard of?

Who?

Had forgotten all about this thread but just happened to flick past it earlier..... it was from November, literally the day before Reich was fired by the Colts. I recognised Peyton was the big fish sitting out there and would have his pick of jobs. He obviously landed one. Reich landed one bouncing straight into Carolina. The other 3 vacancies were filled by 3 of the 4 guys on my legit contenders list! I'd obviously be a great NFL owner if I was rich enough.

All Beck Water was saying there is McKenzie isn't a real cut. He is a Reid Ferguson, Taiwan Jones style "wait in the carpark" cut and re-sign. Nothing in that post was saying "he's great" just those people taking a victory lap when he was cut by the Colts were more premature than an 18 year old boy on prom night.

Good question. I don't know whether he qualifies as not being talked about but I feel really good on James Cook. Been a while since the Bills had some legit speed at running back. I think he looks more decisive in pre-season and the guard play should hopefully open up more holes.

It was like an open secret among Philly reporters at the time. Mutiple alluded to it without explicitly saying it. Don't know if it made its way out in a semi-formal sense.

Yea I'd missed Barkley going on IR.

Maybe. Pre-season hasn't borne that out but then you have returners competing for jobs. Even if there are fewer returns while that might downgrade gunners on the totem pole it doesn't apply all STers.

The problem with Wentz on your PS is he is a difficult teammate. Some of the stories about him marching around the locker room in Philly telling teammates they were with team Wentz or team Foles are frightening.

I think the conference is stronger. I don't much trust the coaching with the Chargers and whoever the coach is the Chargers gonna find a way to Charger, but one year that talented roster will put up serious regular season numbers despite themselves. I think the Jags are a rising team and while I don't love their offseason them winning 11 or 12 games and being dangerous in the playoffs is a real possibility. Where I am a bit more sceptical is the division. If the Dolphins end up being great I stand to have serious egg on my face. But I really, really don't see it. I see an offense that stalled last year after Thanksgiving that has lost the "new scheme surprise" factor and a defense that while having better coaching still has talent holes. But it isn't me being a Bills homer on that.... step back and genuinely I think they are hugely overrated. They Jets could be really good. There is reason to believe it with them. If you told me they win the division I wouldn't be stunned. But I'd price the Bills up still as pretty strong favourites. What the Bills are suffering from is the jaded reaction that a team who is always there without getting over the hump attracts. But people are sleeping on how many good players remain on this roster.

I'm not. He is a good STs player. Often the guys claimed on cut downs day are more about ST unite than offense or defense.

Don't mind that. Had a decent camp. Overtook Sternberger on the depth chart.

Reid will be back on the 53. Thanks on Barkley. Hadn't caught that. So they need a PS QB.

I mean on Boogie, Bernard and Zack Moss mine were right here. I largely agree with this. I think Boogie was just a flat out bad evaluation. That said, there were edge needy that year and that bias might well have played in earlier in the process.... you need an edge so you see more potential in guys in that class than was always there.... so their grades end up inflated so they look like BPA when they are not. Not saying was definitely that... and it was definitely the evaluation not the draft day strategy that was wrong. But I do wonder if even in that need played an indirect part.

If Isabella and Ankou are back and we can have up to six guys with more than 4 years (and therefore not subject to waivers) other vets one presumes in contention: QB: Barkley OG: Boettger MLB: Klein S: Marlowe

Yea he is but judging by pre-season not a very good one. For the "special teams don't matter" crowd it has been a tough pre-season watching Shorter struggle to fill Taiwan Jones's left gunner spot leading to two big returns and two weeks in a row seeing backups blow in the wing protection role that Gilliam does so well leading to punt blocks.

Agree. I have said it about Cincy, their challenge isn't going to be paying the guys so much as it will be doing what KC and Buffalo do year after year and creating space by giving big new chunks of up front change to 3 or 4 players including their QB in exchange for cap relief. Agree. I have said it about Cincy, their challenge isn't going to be paying the guys so much as it will be doing what KC and Buffalo do year after year and creating space by giving big new chunks of up front change to 3 or 4 players including their QB in exchange for cap relief.

Yea Brady never reset the market or anything but he was never way below market compared to say Manning, Brees etc in the same period. But in this market Burrow taking $25m would be like him playing at half price. That would be a first for a top end QB.

They have done a good job. Not denying that. But they are not a well run organisation. They are a mess. Sometimes you can blow your process and still get a positive outcome

The Bengals have a good team. They are NOT and never have been "well run".

I have often wondered what would happen if a top end franchise QB did that. Just said "$25m per, fully guaranteed will do me, no build a team around me." I have to think the NFLPA would freak. But not sure there is much that could be done.

Beane has been good in round 1. Allen, Edmunds, Oliver, Rousseau.... that haul stands with the majority of teams over that period A superstar QB and 3 good defensive pIayers who were effective starters from day 1 of their rookie seasons. I think he has been poor on day 2 largely because he has used those two rounds to fill gaps a lot. And that has led to some misses. If it turns out he missed on Elam I think you can probably put that down to the same root cause. Trying to fill gaps.

While I never agreed with the premise, this thread wasn't nuts because this regime does have form for putting guys out there to showcase. Boogie starts pre-season game 3 on Saturday. Is traded on Tuesday. Edge was always the more likely spot for a trade IMO.

They kept basically 6 defensive ends including Von on PUP. Basham was their 7th DE in their mind. He lost his job because other guys were better. Simple.