BullBuchanan

I honestly thought he retired years ago. Good for him.

I use IPTV for $10/mo instead.

and they would love that. they've been pumping him up non-stop despite his consistent Zach Wilson-esque play

He's so small. That's a massive disadvantage in any fight. He absolutely would have a massive skill advantage against me but he would be giving up a lot of reach (~75"), height (maybe 6"?) and weight( Lol probably 60?), not to mention age. If I let him get close he's got the edge, but size definitely matters. If it's a sanctioned match, I probably still lose due to skill, but a streetfight? I'll take that bet.

cook at 9th overall?

We've downgraded at both Center and left Guard as of now, if camp reports about McGovern's struggles are to be believed. I wasn't at all opposed from moving on from Morse, but the lack of planning there was ridiculous. As for WR, We lost our top 2 receivers from last year and replaced them with our #3 and a rookie. Those 2 WRs + Shahkir accounted for 2500 yards and 17 touchdowns. Shakir's best year so far is 600 yards and 2 TDs nad Samuel is 850 and 5 TDs. Let's say Shakir hits 1000 yards and Samuel bests his career. You're still looking for a 10 TD improvement. That is massive. To date JA has not only been an elite QB for us, but he's been our best skill position player with 15 rushing touchdowns last year alone. He doesn't have much room to increase that number (which is far above his average), so if that comes down at all, those scores will have to be absorbed somewhere else. Who is going to do that? The rookie? Mack Hollins? Maybe Dalton Kincaid adds 4 - you're still down 6. This is of course forgetting that last years team wasn't anywhere near the top 4 teams. We don't just need to hit last year's level, we need to surpass it. I love what I've seen out of Shakir so far, but if you want to act like he's going to combine with Samuel for 2000 yards and 20TDs, you might as well just write these posts in crayon. my prediction: Shakir 850/6 Samuel 650/5 Kincaid 950/5 Allen returns to the mean with 9 rushing TDs Bills win 10-11 games thanks largely to divisional dominance and my prediction for a soft NFC west outside of the 49ers. They falter again in January and don't make it past the divisional round as they look outclassed against the Texans or Chiefs.

You have like 20 of these copium threads every year and your "predictions" never come to fruition. Probably because they aren't based in reality. Both Kincaid and Shakir should take a step forward this year, but even with a very significant one, we'll still have far, far less talent on offense than we did last season.

That's pretty extreme. I'm very down on the Bills this year, but I Think it'll be nearly impossible for them to get less than 9 wins. I think you can write down 10 wins based on our schedule without worrying too much: AZ,MIA,JAX,NYJ,TEN,SEA,MIA,IND, NE, NE. The Rams should be a win too, so even if they lose one of those that they should win, like MIA, JAX or IND, they'll still hit 10. We should absolutely sweep NE, history says we sweep MIA, and we should split with the Jets. That's 5 and SEA, TEN, AZ are dumpster fires which brings us to 8. The Rams are long in the tooth and lost their biggest weapon, while Jacksonville chronically underachieves.

My interest is also down, and part of that is expectations. For the first time since I was old enough to crawl I haven't watched any of the Bills pre-season games, because I feel like there's nothing I really need to see. I'm not even pumped about the regular season, because for us, it's meaningless. Our season starts in January, and unfortunately I haven't seen the team do anything to address our quick ends to "our season" from the last few years. Despite me being extremely bearish on our WR room, our pass rushers and defensive playmakers in general, I fully expect the Bills to be one of the top 7 teams in the AFC. I really don't care at all if they're #1 Seed or #7. If it has that much bearing on their post-season success, that's another problem. I'm not sure It's debatable that this is our weakest roster since at least 2018, and it may be worse because there is so very little elite talent on this squad.

Some might argue it "quietly" looks better.

I actually like Sam Howell a lot, but as a starting quarterback, he offers you basically the same thing that QBs 20-64 do. Any of them can win a game on a given day, but you never know what day that will be. Through my life I've seen runs put together by guys like Bruce Gradkowski, Shane Matthews, Case Keenum, Colt McCoy, and even Frank Reich. And then the very next time they played they were so awful it looked like they had no business in the league. What makes backups backups, is that you never know which version you're going to get. Maybe, if we need him, we'll get the Trubisky who scored 6 TDs to 0 ints for a 154.8 passer rating, or maybe we'll get the guy who played in Pittsburgh last year. There's no way to know and there's probably 25 or more teams in the league that have the same problem.

You just described every backup QB and 10-12 starting QBs.

This is an every year thing. The NFL doesn't have 32 capable QBs, let alone enough for us to have two. the only time that happens is when you have a vet and a rookie. Trubisky is within margin of error of most of the backups int he league. He may be "terrible", but so is everyone else. Would having Sam Howell, Easton Stick, Desmond Ridder, Josh Johnson, Jarret Stidham be meaningfully better? If our team thought it was a priority to get someone better than Mitch, they should have drafted one. This is what's out there. Take your pick.

Milano is my favorite player on the team but he's been constantly injured throughout his career and now has back to back season ending injuries at age 30. He should strongly consider retiring at this point. Even if he doesn't, we may never see the old Milano back again. It's really hard to come back from things like this in your 30s.

Well, what now?

Pretty terrible. not enough contrast. if they added some white it would look a hell of a lot better. If they were going to do a scheme like this, I'd take inspiration from the Falcons and the Bengals Black and Whites. Both classy looks

Douglas played at an elite level last year and we want to change his position? I'd rather discuss moving Ingram who is a fringe NFL player at CB.

Belichick, without question. The greatest football mind of all time.

In the modern NFL, most QBs get paid the same if they're seen as a franchise guy. They're all within the top 5-7 contracts whenever theyre up for a new one.

That list makes NFL's "next gen stats" seem very sus. When you have players with historic seasons like Hill and Nakua down in the 20s, Amon Ra, Adams, Cooper and in the 40s, and Deebo, Diggs, Waddle in the 60s, it doesn't pass the smell test.

They didn't get "burned" at all with Diggs. With him on the roster JA put together his best season ever as a pro, and diggs was in the top 5 in the league 3 of his years and top 12 int he 4th.

Absolutely at home. I find it incredibly difficult, if not impossible to track what's going on live as well as I can on a TV. Plus, without commentary the game just carries a less dramatic feel. That said,t here's no replacement for an at the stadium, game day experience, but I prefer to go to games I don't care about, like pre-season games, or those of other teams. I'd never go to a Bills playoff game or Super Bowl should they make it.

And neither do I, which is I specifically mentioned that That's the game where after he did that, the seahawks promptly marched down to the NE 1 and were a Marshawn Lynch handoff away from being SB Champs, right? Do you have any other of these examples that disprove your own point? It'll save me a lot of time having to pull up data to support my argument.

The regular season is already becoming meaningless with the changes made to the game over the last 10 years. It's all just about trying to stay healthy and figure out the best plan for the tournament.

No, you don't take a touchdown "every time". The great ones understand that. You've been wrong since it happened and you keep dying on that hill wrong every time you repeat it. Under that scenario you score a touchdown and Mahomes marches the field and does the same and you incorrectly blame the defense. Football is about more than scoring points as fast as possible, as Peyton Manning learned all too well. It's about managing the game, which Brady knew from the get-go, Mahomes learned very early on, and Manning and Elway eventually learned. As long as you and josh keep thinking "hey, I left the field with the lead", we'll keep getting sent home in the playoffs while others collect hardware.