GunnerBill

At their peak? 1. Case Keenum (he wasn't at his peak when he was here so he wouldn't be my top ranked on performance here); 2. Probably Mitch Trubisky At his peak with this roster given an average 4 game run Case could go 3-1. Trubisky 2-2.

He had the best pressure rate of any DE on the team post-Von's injury last season. I don't agree that all his sacks were garbage sacks. I do agree that he is a liability against the run however. Boogie does nothing particularly well. He does nothing terribly either, but there isn't a single thing I can hang my hat on and say he is above average at X. He is just a bit below average at everything. EDIT: I agree with you on Bernard though. Unless he wins the MLB job the makeup of that linebacker room makes him the likely odd man out IMO.

The only guy I can see out there on the market that it may be worth considering is Bridgewater. The concern with him is you have to change your entire offense from Josh because he is so different in style, but then that kind of applies to Barkley too and Bridgewater is a better version of Barkley. I dunno, I feel like that must be worth a phone call to his agent?

Yea the guys they have been reluctant to put out there are the guys they haven't felt are ready. Elam (although they gave him more time as the year went on), AJE, Boogie, Bernard..... James Cook might be the one case where maybe they under trusted (if that is even a phrase) him as a rook. I think him putting the ball on the floor with his first NFL carry contributed a lot to that. Took him a while to fight out of the doghouse.

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Yea backup QB is a concern.

Interesting. He has barely had a mention in my go to sources. Though I haven't been as all over the detail of camp this year.

In order for Shaq to be the odd man out they are going to need to feel like they have his skillset covered as a gap discipline, edge setting, DE. If they do, he will be gone because he adds limited value as a rusher. But he was on this team last year because AJE and Boogie are bad at the thing where Shaq excels. Has Shane Ray done anything yet in camp?

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Between 1 and 3 much closer to 1. There are some folks on here who I really enjoy conversing with. I think there are some great people here. And then there is @Gugny.

He has nobody ahead of him. Certainly not based on 1st team reps at camp. This is Cook's job to lose. If he loses it pass pro is my guess as to why.

Edwards played RT in college. And he did a bit in pre-season as a rookie before he got bumped inside to fill a need. No idea if the Bills would go back to that but I'd be tempted to give it a try if it were me.

I had a draftable grade on him. Thought his tape was strong. Also said on here pre-draft that I thought he was a good Bills fit. It's been a real mixed bag when he has been out there on the field so far. I think he is probably a backup really. But I hope he proves me wrong.

He didn't start. The Bills started their normal oline. He did come in for a good chunk of that game when they pulled the starters, that's fair. But Miami were running for the buses by then. And yea he has done the odd few snaps here and there in other games. But I still doubt his capacity to be a long term starting tackle with such a lack of length. He would be an extreme outlier if he were.

Agree. Especially on Dion. It is why I have for two offseasons being saying LT is a sneaky need. Let Dion move inside where his body issues are less likely to affect his play and try mitigate that decline and slow the curve a bit. Edit: you mean Whitworth though. Wentworth is a golf course in south west London

Yea Jones was a good pickup and Von, obviously. But Settle? Meh. Saffold? Mess. Howard? Didn't make it out of camp. 2021 Sanders did okay. But that was about it.

No he hasn't. Not in the regular season.

Has he? I confess I haven't followed the training camp stuff as close so far this year as I have in other years but the podcasts I have listened to and reviews I have read kinda had him marked down as a disappointment through the first week of camp. There have been questions on his separation and his overall impact. Now maybe that isn't a lack of drive or a lack of work ethic but so far it doesn't sound as though there is much a discernible step forward on the practice field. I think he needed a really strong camp because since last season ended the Bills have signed two free agents and drafted a guy in round 1 who are essentially competing with him for snaps. Maybe it is not for a want of trying but I confess to being a lot less optimistic about Khalil Shakir's NFL future now than I was a year ago when I thought he would take time to get there as a rookie but really expected him to come into this camp as a clear leader in the clubhouse for the slot job.

They had that combination on the first team one day when Morse was out.

I would pick those four too. But I think Marlowe still has a shot of disrupting it.

They have ruled that out. Beane said it on OneBillsLive. MIKE is too much for him as a rookie they are going to work him exclusively at WILL behind Milano.

I think the D was a bigger factor than the O, yes. Orton moved the ball just enough and didn't commit stupid turnovers.

The history of this staff is the usage in camp tells you a lot about how they see guys. The guys that start early and make an impression early have been with the first unit early in camp. Guys that haven't made that immediate camp impression - Epenesa, Basham, Elam - have been guys they have been reluctant to put on the field early. The fact that a week in Torrence has slightly outsnapped Bates at guard with the 1st unit suggests he is very much in contention to start early.

I think your scepticisim sometimes leads you to see negatives where they don't exist. "They haven't won it all so everything must be wrong." You do have some legit concerns and questions but on other points you project your negativity onto situations and end up reaching.

Yea second half of the Green Bay game was the first time we struggled to find an offensive rhythm, and it kinda stumbled on from there. But the Bills just played terribly in the playoff loss. No explanation for it.