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Agree...if a star player does rise up somewhere, I hope it's on defense. Kelly was surrounded by HOF players. Yes, we need a version of Bruce. Cook is good but not a superstar. He's not even a 3 down back. For a very fleeting moment I thought players like Milano or Bernard might be that gamewrecker? But injuries prevailed. It's Josh and the minions until that player steps up. I'm praying someone from the Jackson/ Walker/Sanders group emerge?

Exactly...over the entire Josh Allen era (7 years), we have not had one game wrecking defensive player!... not one. We know 17 is a cyborg superstar who is asked to do it all. But that's not fair, realistic or sustainable. Someone else has to step up and make a play. I'm not going to ever pretend our HC is ever going to out-scheme a Reid or McVay. This team has enough talent to sleepwalk to 11-12 wins every year. But until Josh has a teammate who is capable of making game changing plays, it will be rinse & repeat.

We're going to need 0 to explode this year.

I agree and it's embarrassing and disgusting...it's almost like a "fan defense mechanism" to avoid playoff disappointment and the yearly stress that goes with it. Unfortunately the days of going for a championship as the ultimate goal are over. This will be the new normal from our fans. He already is

Well, all I know is we better pray Kincaid & Coleman don't bust. I still believe there was a path to trade up for BTJ. So what if it costs us Bishop (unproven) and a 4th round pick. Beane is a very good GM, but he has struggled on drafting the 2 most important positions to help 17 win it all. WR & DE......

So true...I've told this story several times. As a 9 yr old kid from LA, I vowed to follow whatever team drafted OJ. With each year the passion and obsession grew. Then one fateful day at 730a in the morning I'm making deliveries in Brentwood near San Vicente. Drove right by a crime scene all taped off, not knowing what happened. Later news broke and I knew the worst. My love for the Bills never wavered but being asked why a native LA guy loved the Bills, forever became awkward. Fortunately players like Eric Moulds, Fred Jackson and Josh Allen make it easy to forget 32.

Correct...1-2 yr players make 13k minimum/week. Veteran PS players make 22k maximum for 2025.

I'm rooting for him more than any player. His skill-set could really help Josh fill a hole in this offense.

So true...every day I'll be hoping for a zero injury report.

ESPN FF. WR40 YAHOO FF. WR43 PFF. WR42

It's going to happen. Should've had them for the KC game. Then the Jest game.

More like "the Hills have Eyes"...

Would've been nice to have a Karlaftis over an Elam.

Josh has averaged 28 pts per game in all his games v KC. So I apologize for my egregious exaggeration of 2 pts. We have lost 4 out of the last 5 years at the hands of KC. Kinda hard playing the Rams or Eagles in a SB if you can't get by the same opponent. And no I'm not proposing building a team to only beat KC. Obviously you need a well rounded team to attack different styles. My main point discussing Jackson v AJE is that one of our pass rushing draft picks needs to hit. If we want to win a championship and support Josh's contributions, we must enhance our pass rushing capacity. I know we both agree 100% on this. I don't know where it comes from...Solomon, Sanders, Jackson, Walker?....who knows? Maybe a draft pick next year? But hopefully it comes soon. My mistake was using the word "paramount" in this context. It is paramount that we support 17 as much as we can.

If you're going to attempt to find a worse contract than Von, you're going to have to do a better job than Dockery.

What's overstated? Don't we want Landon to out perform somebody like AJE? Isn't that something we should be rooting for? Or is the goal just process, depth, rotational stability? When we strive to draft pass rushers, we're also hoping they evolve into a game-wrecker like Bruce. Mahomes/Reid are the crisis. And we've failed to stop them. I'm convinced we definitely would've won at least one if not 2 championships if that dominant pass rusher existed. That can't be overstated.....

I will say it's paramount that Jackson can out perform the numbers AJ put up in his first 2 seasons. I realize that's not a very high bar. We have yet to hit on a great pass rusher since 2018. If we want to win a Lombardi we gotta put #15 down. Josh can guarantee you 30 pts every playoff game v KC, but it doesn't mean we're winning.

He doesn't get a bad wrap. He is what he is. A very mediocre 2nd round pass rusher who in the regular season tops off around 6 sacks. And I'm being generous ignoring his first 2 seasons. AJ has played in 12 playoff games as a Bill and has ZERO sacks. It's highly doubtful he's on the roster this time next year. He just didn't pan out.

Great, now AJ is our "break in case of emergency" option. Wonderful 🙄

$2 per episode...bargain.

The NFL wants nothing to do with parity. They want large market revenue generating teams and stars.

Most improved: Kincaid is the obvious pick. If he doesn't step up year 3, he's probably not getting extended. Most likely to regress: Cook without an extension and this whole vibe about whether he's a 3 down RB, we might see him take a step back? He's not likely getting 18 tds again.

So far Josh is hardly lighting it up. He played better with Rahm.

94-95...seemed like we we're ending our great run. I became a Bills fan as a kid from LA because of OJ and then he has to completely lose his mind. Annoying and awkward period.

I didn't know it was shark week?