ROCBillsBeliever

Avast! A Lee Smith sighting on the starboard side!

It may or may not be related to the vernacular "pwns" that the youth use: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pwn&utm_source=search-action TOP DEFINITION pwn PWN (verb) 1. An act of dominating an opponent.

Geographically speaking, Detroit is downstream of Flint, so there's that 🤷‍♂️

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There... I fixed it for you.

A couple of thoughts: -I know there's a lot of people saying we need a speedy back. Keep in mind that we have Wade (if McBeane like what nobody is seeing but them and the team), who is electric, in terms of speed and jukes. Also, speed backs without much else in their repertoire tend to go a bit later. We should be able to get one in the 4th/5th. -Run-stuffing DT is a major need, but they can be had in the 2nd and 3rd, even into the 4th. Don't need to blow our first pick on one. I wouldn't be down with it. -CB: Always a need, and yet McD can find a CB on a moonless night in a sugar cane field, with no flashlight. I feel fine with 1-2 in the 5th/6th/7th/UDFA range. -LB: Prime need, but like the Run-Stuffing DT, they tend to be an under-valued (and hence, under-drafted position). UNLESS a pure, cannot-miss stud is there in the 1st, I'm okay with one in the 2nd. -DE: Strong need (Murphy is toast, and Addison & Hughes will eventually need to be replaced). We also need a speed-rusher type, as Epenesa is more of an edge-setting power guy. I feel like since these type of players are a confluence of both the highest team need and draft-value, we should (if there is an excellent one available) take a speed-around-the-edge DE to groom under Hughes. -TE: I don't see it as so big of a need as many on here. If we take one or don't, I'll be fine. -Good position to address in FA, if we don't get one in the draft. -S: Sneaky need. If there's a good one who falls, 3rd-5th is my target range. -OT: It all rests on the Darryl Williams question. This becomes our need #1a/1b (to DE-speed-rusher), if we cannot hang onto Williams. -OG/C: We have solid guards on this team, and better-than-average backups. I say 5th/6th round mauler. Now, what picks do we have? 1,2,3,NO 4th (Minny),5, 5 (ZayDayPayDay),6,7,7* (Marshall Newhouse - Nobody seems to know if we will get this pick or not, but Carolina is bad this year, so it would be a higher 7th). With that in mind, rough-outline of 2021 draft: 1st Round: -Scenario 1: We resign Darryl Williams, and draft a Speed-rush DE -Scenario 2: We don't resign Darryl Williams: BPA between Speed-rush DE and OT 2nd Round: -I'm going LB, UNLESS there is a markedly better run-stuffing DT available. -(2a = LB / 2b = Run-stuffing DT). 3rd Round: -Pending pick in the 2nd round, I would pick whichever of the two positions (run-stuffing DT or LB) we passed on in the 2nd. -(3a = Run-stuffing DT / 3b = LB) 4th Round: -Package Newhouse 7th and the Minny 5th (early) to move back into the 4th. -Snag the best S / Big-Nickel we can land. 5th Round (our original pick): -OG/C (5a) -Speed back (5b) 6th Round: -OT (Developmental / drops for random reason / small school / high up-side) 7th Round (our original pick): -CB - Hey, we landed Dane Jackson, last year, in the 7th... Were he not injured at the end of the Cards game, he may have batted two TD's out of Hopkins' mitts, and won us the game! I'm saying, I wanted Jackson in the 5th or 6th, last year. I think this kid will be good. McD and his CD wizardry will find us another good, potential piece, here. Okay, so that's a lot of speculation, and a trade, but I honestly would be completely happy with this. In past years, I have ragged on the Bills for going heavy on D picks, early. Not anymore. Our O has arrived, and our D has been patchwork this year, due to underwhelming additions and a regression to the mean, when it comes to injuries. You can mark this post, and refer to it. I'll probably get looking more at specific players to fit these positions after the Bills win the Super Bowl

But... but... This cannot be true! I've read it on here that you can't improve accuracy, that Josh is inaccurate, and that PFF decides what NFL quarterbacks can and cannot do. How... how did Josh do this?

Unfortunately, that's probably going to be the case. Ah well; we can hope, can't we?

Does anyone recall the interview / article with Milano, where he talked about his penchant for minimalism? The guy literally has like three tee-shirts one pair of shoes and two pairs of jeans. He has almost nothing in his apartment. He's not about "things" or high-priced anything. Maybe, if he really likes it here--who can tell, other than his coaches and teammates?--he might take a team-friendly deal. It seems in line with his nature. Just a, hopeful, thought.

My favorite gem from this: "Buffalo, however, responded to its challenge in impression fashion by upsetting Seattle with a 44-34 victory at Bills Stadium." Can you actually be a journalist... a PAID journalist... and write that sentence? I guess all you need to succeed in New England is a blinding love for the Pat******s...

Since any game the Pat***** aren't playing the Bills. #justsayin

That may have been the case

I was drinking it all in: Gorgeous Sunday in Western, NY; the Bills mauling of the Seahags; topped by a dessert of Tom Brady pouting and tossing lame-duck INTs late into the night. I don't think a better day could have transpired!

@Hapless Bills Fan Troll-On-Ice. It's a delicacy they rarely serve at Gillette. You need to know the right ref guy to pay to get one.

There... I fixed it for you.

@Warcodered For the tribe of trolls on here? That is going to cost a bit... Wanna start a Kickstarter, LOL?

@ngbills I am sorry that you feel this way. Here is some relief for your feelings:

@Puckman5 Welcome to Two Bills Drive. You may have taken the wrong exit, and we would be glad to refund your toll. The Buffalo Sabres hockey forum is located at the following link: https://www.sabrespace.com/community/forum/1-the-aud-club/ Have a great season! Go Sabes!

So, what you're sayin is that 9/10 Pat******t wins over the past 25 years were also embarrassing, because of the volume of cheating they did? No? Okay... Cool. I like lying to myself and mainlining crack, too.

@YoloinOhio A desperate Hoodie is my favorite Hoodie. That was the play that made me feel like, for once, the Dark Lord Himself was, in fact, scared that he might lose. I look forward to many more occurrences of said feeling.

Where was the horse-collar block/tackle penalty call, against the Pats, on Oliver? Ask Bob Kraft's millions...

Did ever occur to the "Why do we keep bringing in Ex-Panthers?" crowd that this is a COVID year, and logic would tend to indicate that it might actually be slightly more difficult to get to know potential signees. In past years, I, too, have laughed at the Carolina Express. In this oddball year, with all the restrictions on bringing players in, it actually kind of makes sense to bring in people you have worked with in the past. Just a shred of logic to chew on.

@Ed_Formerly_of_Roch I guess the silver lining, here, is that pass-rushing DT's are drafted early. Run-stuffing behemoths, with little statistical impact, tend to drop to later rounds. We may be fortunate in that we have guys like Oliver and Jefferson, who are more pass-rushing DT-capable, and our need is in a less-draft-expensive role: run-stuffing two-gappers. Just a note of positivity in the sea of negativity we've been swimming in.

I think we're just loud, in general. Squeaky wheel gets the oil.

And many more that aren't in the rulebook, but somehow manage to slip by the (Graft-paid) refs...