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Great news, especially on Samuel. The turf toe must not be too serious.

Bills specific: -No single player over 1,000 receiving yards -Coleman to lead the team in receiving yards and TDs -Solomon with more sacks than Epenesa League-wide: -Rams win the NFCW -Bears are the annual divisional 4th place to 1st place, winning the NFCN -Conference championships Texans at Chiefs, Lions at Packers

This is a five alarm fire. Our kicker is 8 of 14 in practice this week. I don't know the path forward from here but being less than 50% from 40+ yards puts us at a HUGE disadvantage, if that needs to be said. On top of the other issues we're likely to have this year, Bass might be the difference in us missing the playoffs entirely.

I understand being less optimistic but I'll never be less interested. I was interested when EJ Manuel was battling Kyle Orton for the starting job. Why wouldn't I be interested now? All the discussion here is fun but ultimately no one knows how the season will turn out. Surprises happen constantly in the NFL. Maybe Coleman becomes a superstar. Maybe Babich and Brady are wunderkinds. I may not have the highest expectations but I'm excited as hell to see how it all comes together.

Yeah he didn't track the trajectory of the ball right. I get why a lot of people think he turtled up/short armed it, but that's not my interpretation of it. Looks to me like it does to you, he expected it to be thrown into his body and didn't adjust to the poor throw fast enough so he only got fingertips on it. Kid just turned 21 and only started focusing on football a couple years ago. I'll give him some time to ramp up and adjust to the speed of the game. I'm not remotely concerned about his toughness or willingness to absorb contact.

I don't think he turtled up at all. Keon isn't afraid of contact, that's his whole game. The pass itself was just awkward. It's a wobbly almost knuckle ball, almost looks like it got tipped when you watch it in slow motion. He never get his hands on it cleanly. It's a little disappointing but I'm less discouraged by the failed catch than I am encouraged that he made a move to get open in the endzone off his release. That's the progress we wanted to see from week 1. One awkward throw dropping to the turf doesn't bother me. Here you go: You can see on the first angle he isn't hearing footsteps, he just doesn't expect the ball to end up that far in front of him and he doesn't make a clean attempt at the catch.

We just don't know that. What we do know is that besides Coleman (and Shakir to a certain extent) we have exactly zero upside waiting in the wings. So when an injury inevitably happens, we have no one that can even possibly step into the role and produce at an above average level. If say Burton or McMillan were on the team this year, the fanbase would be disappointed in Samuel's injury but excited to see our other rookie get a shot. And if we're counting this as a retooling season which I am fine with, getting young WR talent in the room now also would have set us up better for 2025. Instead we have exactly one prospect that we're banking on for the future. Like I said before there is no spin that can excuse the lack of investment. It was a known problem months ago and the spotlight has only gotten bigger in the wake of Samuel's injury.

The Chiefs scored 3 points in the 1st half and then Mahomes threw a terrible INT coming out of halftime that gave the 49ers the ball at the 50. It's nice that they were able to beat an elite team with that game script but no chance we could replicate that IMO. For a myriad of reasons we shouldn't be using the Chiefs' season last year as any kind of barometer for the type of team we need to win a championship. Pointing to the quality of their WRs is just a last-ditch bad-faith effort some make to excuse how little our regime has invested into the position.

You could play this game with our picks too. Cole Bishop - Was firmly playing a backup role before suffering an injury and now his path onto the field is questionable in his rookie season. DeWayne Carter - Firmly entrenched as a backup/rotational DT and has not shown any real flashes so far. Ray Davis - Backup at the least important position on the offense. And other than Javon Baker, every one of these WRs is playing behind a better set of pass catchers than what we're trotting out this year. Jermaine Burton isn't going to beat out Tee Higgins, but beating out Mack Hollins? Yeah I would rather have that chance over any of the 3 picks we made after Coleman.

Total myth. Name one WR that Mahomes "made." Not Toney, not MVS, not Skyy Moore. Tyreek Hill has had the most production of his career in Miami. QBs elevate overall passing production, they don't elevate passing talent.

It's pretty simple. The Bills let their top 2 WRs walk this offseason (I 100% agreed with those decisions by the way), but they had an opportunity to refresh the room with a historically top heavy and deep WR draft. They instead drafted a single WR, and spent the rest of their middle round picks on a safety, a backup DT, and a backup RB. There was no amount of spin that justified it at the time and it looks even worse now. I'm prepared for people to blame injuries when the passing offense takes a big step back, but this regime intentionally decided to leave themselves dreadfully thin at the position.

Malachi Corley Jermaine Burton Roman Wilson Jalen McMillan Luke McCaffrey Troy Franklin Javon Baker Tez Walker Just throwing some ideas out there.

The one that involved a rape accusation. Right, so this is a good example of what people are trying to tell you which is that the Bills didn't cave to "bad press." The least important player on the team was accused of rape. They made a business decision, the same one that everyone else would have made. Is it your opinion that we would have cut Butker if he was our FG kicker? We kept Beasley around after his private opinions actively hurt the team, so I'm sorry but you are just wrong about this.

Just to be clear, we're equating accusations of rape with religious opinions given at a private ceremony?

Are you really starting to love the room yet?

Hamler or Isabella suddenly have a shot to make the roster, if they expect Samuel's injury to linger. What a mess.

Awful news. Samuel getting injured is the worst case scenario on the offense and turf toes can linger. They are going to have to make a trade or do something. We cannot go into the season with potentially Mack Hollins as our 2nd best WR.

Von plays a premium position and has an un-cuttable contract. I'm sorry to be the one to break the news to you but life isn't fair. Punters get zero benefit of the doubt, edge rushers get all of the benefit of the doubt. That general concept applies everywhere in life, not just the NFL. Genuinely I feel for Araiza and what he went through but the Bills aren't to blame. They made the only choice available to them.

The entire NFL "surrendered to the mob." Any team could have signed him. Instead it was a full two years after the initial accusation before he finally got his second chance. Every single team, the Chiefs included, would have cut him during the initial media storm. It isn't fair but punters can't have baggage and remain on an NFL roster. I'm just happy he was exonerated and got his second chance. I couldn't care less about who the Chiefs' punter is.

He's after Spector on the depth chart though, it's just that Spector was injured so Andreessen got the start. My instinct is that he will still be a PS player and I don't think we're in real danger of losing him on the waiver wire. I think McDermott will want one of Morrow or Jones on the roster to have a vet available in case of emergency.

I think the hype has gone too far. He showed outstanding run instincts and good tackling, but you need to play pass coverage sideline to sideline to play MLB in the modern NFL. He didn't show anything like that against the Steelers. There's a reason he's the 3rd MLB on the depth chart.

Good news on MVS:

Garrapolo had them in the Super Bowl 🤷‍♂️

I have a much lower opinion of Purdy than most people. Him being an MVP candidate was laughable. I think he would look above average in exactly two offenses - the 49ers and Dolphins. Certainly he would have looked better than Trubisky did though, I probably oversold what I was trying to say with that comment.

I don't want to absolve him of blame, his performance speaks for itself, but it is consecutive years of backup QBs performing poorly for us in the preseason. Other teams' backup QBs are able to pass the ball in preseason. Case Keenum and Kyle Allen have gone to new teams and looked better in their preseason opportunities than they looked here. So my larger point is that if we are expecting something like Purdy stepping onto the field and leading a stacked offense with an elite offensive coach to a top 3 offense, that is not close to realistic. It will be an impressive accomplishment if we have even a top 10 offense even with Allen missing zero games.