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Familiarity can't be a bad thing. Assuming Flores runs a similar defense in Miami to what he ran in New England, and New England continues to use the same defense, that means Josh Allen and the Bills will see it for times during the season. If they can figure it out, and Josh Allen is a smart boy, that could be a good thing for the Bills going forward.

Chad Hall has been an offensive assistant with the Bills for two years. He was a WR in the NFL, having played with 3 teams over a four year playing career. I wouldn't hire him as a WR coach, and I doubt the Bills will, but it's not impossible. Matt Smiley is still on staff as a special teams assistant coach. Same deal. I'm not hiring him as my special teams coordinator, but it's not impossible for the Bills to hire in house. I don't see any offensive line assistants on staff.

Depends on who you ask. There are perhaps three or four offensive tackles who could go in the first round. Greg Little has prototypical measurabloes for offensive tackle. He has nice size and outstanding athleticism. Unfortunately, he's also reputed to be lazy and takes plays off. Jonah Williams from Alabama has just OK athleticism, but is techincally superior. He does everything right. Some people think one or both of these guys is a good value in the top 10, but there is no consensus. The next guy may be Jawaan Taylor. A few outliers think he's the best one. He played for Florida and is the most massive OT of the top ones. He supposedly has good feet, but he is expected to time in the 5.4 range, which is a bit slow for a left tackle. In some ways, he's probably a lot like Cordy Glenn. After Taylor, it depends on who you ask who the next guy is. Dalton Risner is supposed to be extremely versatile, able to play anywhere on the offensive line. Cody Ford is a road grader but lacks typical offensive tackle length. Either or both of the last two might sneak into the bottom of the first round. The next guy up is David Edwards. He's a strong run blocker, but doesn't have good feet.

Well, we know what Baltimore will do on offense Roman should be good for a QB like Jackson. Roman's expeirince with Kaepernick and Tyrod Taylor might have more than a little to do with Harbaugh's motive in making the switch. Wide receivers might become a bit disgruntledat the reduced number of receptions, though the percentage of deep balls should rise. Roman's tyheory is you run the ball so effectively that you force defenses to overcommit to stopping it,k leaving the secondary more vulnerable to deep passes.

Fine, if he's there. Bangarang has it right. He won't be.

At any given time, perhaps half the teams in the league at most have QBs that they are completely comfortable with leading their team. There is only a handful of truly elite QBs. Among the obvious have nots (and Buffalo has been a have not for nearly to decades) the most important goal is to find a good QB. At least they know what they need to do. Teams in QB purgatory have the dilemma of what to have as a goal. Is it to give the QB they have the best chance he can have to succeed? That's the easiest thing to do, but it leaves fans with the lingering doubt that the team will ever be truly successful. If they opt to focus on finding a franchise QB, there is likewise no guarantee of success, because, after all, there aren't enough of those guys to go around. That's why most Bills fans are desperately hoping Josh Allen turns out to be really good.

That's what makes it a difficult question. Whether or not Josh Allen ever logs 5,000 yards of passing in a single season, he could still be really good, and yet Mahomes in much better at this moment. Not trading is a gamble on the development of all three Bills players, but especially Allen.

It seems to be an admission that since they've been relatively unsuccessful in achieving big things in recent history, they have to celebrate little stuff.

In hind sight, of course Buffalo should have drafted Mahomes. Still, there's no guarantee he would have duplicated his KC success in Buffalo. The circumstances were very different as he would have been pressed into a starting role much sooner with a far inferior supporting cast. Trading three quality starters, all of whom may have very high ceilings is a completely different issue. I might not do that trade.

I can't imagine Arizona's GM would be thrilled with the idea. Maybe the Giants.

I'm not sure Denver can do that.

I mentioned the one item in another thread that convinces me Gase will ultimately fail. After being head coach of the Dolphins for two years he dicidede it was time to change the culture. Sean McDermott set out to change the culture the day he arrived in Buffalo. He did that because the culture he wanted to achieve for the team was ingrained in him. For Gase, culture was a tool to achieve a goal. For McDermott the culture reflects who he is. The result is McDEermott comes across to his players as completely genuine. Gase comes off as something of a fake IMO. Players will respond to someone they see as genuine, while they are more inclined to give up on a fake.

It is interesting to compare Gase and McDermott. McDermott from day one has stressed the "Process," and transforming the culture has been an integral part of that process. I think he's been largely successful, and we have a reasonable hope that the Bills are going to have a major uptick in on field success next season with the maturing of our young players and a successful off season. Gase attempted to institute a culture change at the start of last season. He's now looking for a job. The difference is that McDermott believes in process and culture to the degree that it is part of him. For Gase, it's a strategy to adopt if other things aren't working. It simply means McDermott is more genuine than Gase. I think genuine has a better chance of being a winner.

No. Seattle is up there and I don't have much love for the Giants or Redskins. I don't have real strong feelings about most NFC teams, but I certainly don't dislike Green Bay.

You want to give them a good laugh?

It's been relatively silent as far as interview rumors for Buffalo's coaching vacancies. I want to remind my fellow posters that it was much the same a year ago. Beane and McDermott seem to run a pretty tight ship when it comes to front office leaks. We may not hear much at all before the actual hirings.

With Kubiak being retained as OC, I imagine that Sean Kugler will be retained as offensive line coach. Sean McDermott will likely have to look elsewhere to fill that slot.

Without the Bills, my postseason priority list always boils down to ABBB. Anybody but Brady/Belichick. I am kind of rooting for Anthony Lynne and the Chargers.

Before free agency and the draft last off season, Buffalo had a good bit of size, and not a lot of speed. Robert Foster was an afterthought who was not expected to contribute much, He would be a fringe player on the team. It became evident the Bills' receiving corps didn't have a lot of playmaking ability, so they jettisoned the beached whale (Kelvin Benjamin) and Andre Holmes and went small and fast. Foster, BTW isn't that small. At 6'1" he's pretty average for an NFL receiver. At the end of the season, they had very little size at receiver. Duke Williams adds a little bit back to the lineup, but it's uncertain whether his CFL success will translate to the NFL as his speed is well below average for an NFL receiver. I thinkl Buffalo will probably target size, but Iwould like to see them try to get one of the speedier big guys like Butler or DK Metcalf. I am eagerly waiting for the combine to see how fast they really are. Butler, BTW, while he appears to have long speed, doesn't really have short area quickness to creat separation underneath. In that area of the field he depends on his strength, size advantage and catch radius (all of which are impressive) to outbattle DBs for the ball.

I did not predict that Josh Allen will be like Aaron Rodgers. I was essentially saying his ceiling is unknown because as a raw QB, it's very early in the game for Josh Allen. He has a potentially very high ceiling because he has ideal physical traits, is very smart and just starting to learn how to make those reads that Rodgers is so good at, and he wants to be great, and is willing to work for it. The operative word, however, is "potential."

There are several prospects I'm wary of, but I can live with assuming Beane and company will do their homework. They include Greg Little (athletic left tackle , but questions about consistency and work ethic), Hakeem Butler in the first (overdrafting), Jeffery Simmons (character issues), Ed Oliver (bad for locker room) One pick for Buffalo was in a mock I saw today - it made me gag a bit: Byron Murphy. I also don't want Greedy Williams. Both might be good CBs, and teams can always use more good CBs, but with the emergence of Levi Wallace, and some other guys providing at least decent depth, I have to believe there are players at positions of greater need who have at least as much value, if not more. Devin White is another player who gives me the same feeling. Clearly Buffalo is going with Tremaine Edmunds in the middle, and Matt Milano is a lock to stay in the weak LB spont. Yes, Zo is 35, but he had his best year in 2018 and he wants to ploay another year. If Buffalo needed a linebacker now, Id be fine with it, but they need other positions a whole lot more.

Maybe that fact has something to do with the current Bills search for two new offensive assistants. I know that conventional wisdom is that you look for quarterback whisperers to promot to OC, but a good WR coach can be a crucial contributer to offensive strategizing too. Yeah, defensive line coaches are too inclined to want to run the ball all the time.

Interesting. He's had very little exposure to the NFL. He spent a few years as a player. I don't know othat he ever started. I wonder what his contribution would be in terms of Xs and Os. Presumably he'll hire an OC with NFL experience. Maybe he'll sit down with that OC in the crafting of an offense that blends a generous portion of college concepts with the traditional NFL fare.

Josh Allen's ceiling is not known,. but it could be extremely high. Think Aaron Rodgers. On the other hand, while it's early, (by a couple years) it would not be shocking to see Trevor Lawrence become the top overall pick in the 2021 draft. It that's the case, he's not going to be known as "poor man's" anything.

Foles is only a backup, but bet on him to go somewhere as a starter. He's better than most of the starters who are losing their jobs on their old teams.