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top 10 in scoring bottom 10 in yards and time of possession We are goinjg to give up a lot of yards with our zone defense and questionable coverage LBers and secondary, Brady wil go for 500 on us one game. I say top 10 in scoring though as once the get in the red zone and compress the field the widnows in the secondary get very small so i can see a lot of din and dunking pass possession offenses going down the field in long drives and hopefully we hold them for a FG or get a turnover. Big question is our offense, if that Offensive line is as bad as it has been then we are in deep trouble.

You are correct. In the 1930s the three big sports were Boxing, Baseball and Horse Racing....Boxing and Horse Racing aren't even in the top 10 anymore and Baseball has fallen tremendously. Same thing will happen to football. You have several things really hurting football going forward, the injuries, the followup lawsuits, over exposure (we are now watching the Combine! Seriously) and the play on the field (over officiated, too many long drawn out reviews, arbitrary rules). I live in high school football crazy Texas and of fellow parents, at least a third wont let their kids 1o play tackle football and the percentage grows every year. I am waiting for football (high school first, then college) to be banned in NY, that would be the first with some headline grabbing Attorney General being a SJW hero. Football had to be saved from being banned by Teddy Roosevelt. Also waiting for former College players to start suing the universities, that is coming big time. Football will end up looking like the Pro Bowl, in other words totally unwatchable. I dont think 50, more like 20.

Sadly for the Bills, I think you might be spot on with Beathard.

No it wasnt wrong, and it is a great game to watch Peterman in Good one

If Vlad Duchesse starts they will be lucky to win 5 imo. Right now games they should win Jets (2), and Miami (H), toss ups, Broncos, Chargers, Saints all at home...all the rest we would be underdogs if they lines were set today. Every team but the Jets, Saints (8), Miamii (7.5) and Chargers (7.5) have current over/uinder odds at 8.5 games or higher, on PAPER, we have a brutal schedule I think for the Bills 6-10/ due to vastly improved coaching.

Is it really relevant to dredge up the 50+ years of Ralph Wilson owned teams to what the Pegula's are trying to do? It might be three years, to me that is highly preferred instead of patchwork mediocre to sub par teams ad nauseam.

I agree with one thing, I think Beane was a very safe move. What was bold was hiring Rex, well maybe they learned their lesson. Whaley & Watkins those are totally different debates.

Good question, I actually cant think of any other situations of teams "tanking" unless the Browns have been doing it last few years. And the term "tank" is ambiguous. I absolutely think the Bills will do everything they can with the roster to win games and I think they wlil be competitive in most, the natural parity of the NFL. It is real hard to go 0-16 in the NFL.

I agree. The epitome of mediocrity was 7-9 Dick Jauron, the walking dead, those were the most painful years for me as a Bills fan. At least Rex was entertaining, you never know what stupid thing he was going to do or say.

You got it. Imagine the buzz around the Bills next year when they have Sam Darnold, Josh Allen, etc. We might be so bad we might get our potential franchise QB and still have some high picks left to get more studs in here. If we manage to lose the first game against the Jets at home I would say we are firmly in the driver's seat for #1. Ahh such high aspirations of a Bills fan.

I doubt it. Fans by May of next year will be super excited because they have a lot of new talent and their hoped to future franchise QB, with all the new rookies that alone buys them another year. Certainly some crazies will be calling suicide hotlines but that is to be expected from a small minority, fans with common sense can see what is coming up. Pegula's aren't dumb, they realize 2 and out is the road to Cleveland Browns forever. They got a GM and a HC that young, hungry, not old tired retreads fired from somewhere else. The GM/HC are (apparently) totally on the same page, when was the last time that happened. The Pegula's inherited Whaley and the entire office. Finallly they got there guys in there now to run the show.

17 years, what is another one, at least we have a plan going forward, we have a GM and Coach that are on the same page, Ownership is giving them any tools they need including time and we are going to have one hell of a draft next year. Get to see how some of our new talent works out. So what really is the difference if we go 4-12 or 7-9, Who knows, maybe McDermott can shock us, God knows he cant be as bad as Rex. I bet we can actually get players substituted on time and wont make laughably bad decisions with challenges. Also McD better start fixing this penalty situation, if he cant this team might be unwatchable. Anyone with great expectations this year deserves to have the hopes dashed simply out of pure stupidity.

That is probably the way to solve it, to put it in a Golf analogy like Jim Furyk's golf swing which is wretched but it is the same consistent wretched so it works for him. There is so much work to be done with Mahomes I wouldn't even know where you would start. I remember when the Bills brought in an alleged QB guru Lee to fix some of Ryan Fitzpatrick's mechanics, which of course ended in failure, no improvement. Trying to redo Mahomes is going to be monumental task. If Alex Smith goes down early in the season we might have a real shot at the #1 pick in the draft, I think Mahomes playing this year would end in total disaster,

That is great video of him versus Cinci. 90% of his throws he had at least one foot off the ground. As many others have posted, his footwork is deplorable, a clinic in deplorable, he throws off balance constantly, no patience in the pocket. But at least in College he got away with it because of his incredibly strong arm. Has anyone ever seen worse footwork in the NFL, I haven't. It is going to be interesting to see if he can turn into a franchise QB, I am betting against it but I can see why KC took the chance they did.

I didnt understand the Cardale pick either, I recall Rex was gushing about his athleticism so i wonder if it was more of a "Rex pick". That is the type of attention seeking draft pick he would do. Cardale will never be a good starting QB unless they have a gimmick offense, he would be good in limited wildcat non-sense. And if Watkins is true to form he will get hurt, or at least miss some games. I put the over/under at week 7 for him to miss.

It would have been a much, much bigger mess to keep him on the team and even worse, actually have him start. His performance last week was pitiful to watch, Players aren't stupid, they saw what he had to offer, Everyone realizes Boldin was way past his prime. I don't think the lockeroom will be a mess nor do I think it is an embarrassment to the FO, they took a shot and it didn't work out, I cant blame them for that. Lockeroom would have probably been a mess had they kept on over the hill player that cant contribute. Only real question I have is did the Bills work out AQ before they signed him, if they didn't than it is embarrassing for them.

I liked the Peterman pick a lot, rd 5 after all, ,he may not be a franchise QB but he looks serviceable in the NFL, hard worker, good leadership skills. I think Peterman will have a long career in the NFL, probably as a backup.

Playoffs before Eclipse. Bills make the playoffs in three years as 1) Brady finally retires, 2) The Bills new franchise QB picked in rd 1 2018 is ready for prime time

Teams will pretty much abandon the run versus the Bills and attack the zone defense secondary. Brady might be able to pick up 500 yards against us, he will dink and dunk us to death on long drives. The defense will get better as the other team gets into the red zone and the field is compressed. Offenses will gain a lot of yards and chew up a lot of clock but hopefully wont score TDs in buckets. Meanwhile with the alleged Offesnive line we have how long are they going to be on the field. Our defence will get worn down in games and throughout the season unless the offense clicks. Teams with an accurate short-intermediate range passer and quick release will do very well against the Bills

Yes, I believe this is most likely what happened.

Can you imagine Ducasses starting against the New York Jets, my God, I think that turns maybe our easiest game of the year into a toss up.

I don't understand why some people are upset and/or surprised at all by this. His display the last game was sad to watch, slow, sloppy, he clearly did the correct thing. Next up to retire needs to be Vlad Ducesse.

5-11 And that counts 2 wins versus the NY Jets who officially mailed this season in already.

this isn't the 1960s when players used TCs to get into shape, NFL today is year round staying in shape, no excuse for him not to be in shape. I would love to know if the Bills just interviewed him or actually worked him out running routes. If they didn't that goes on Beane big time. Cant get separation in todays NFL good hands don't mean anything and he certainly looked anything but quick off the line yesterday.

On the play that Darby intercepted the Ball Boldin looked like he was stuck in Molasses, did nothing on that. Unless he posses some kind of "mentorship" I think he has to go.