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Braden Smith is a rookie along with Quentin Nelson. Ryan Kelly is a third year player, and Glowinski is a fourth year player claimed off waivers a year ago. With good coaching and a smart GM, it doesn't take years to build a dominat O-line.

It is pretty amazing to get two rookie starters out of UDFagency. I'll bet there aren't any other UDFAs on that all rookie team, except for maybe special team guys.

I'd rather see him as head coach of the Dolphins than DC for the Jets. If the Jets got a strong head coach, that head coach could supply the discipline and focuss that woulood enable Ryan to build a touch defense. When he's in charge, discipline and focus become pipe dreams.

My assumption is that he has info on schools visited, and then simply names players from those schools. There are indeed other prospects who played at Ohio State, including WR - Parris Campbell, DT - Dre'mont Jones, and CB - Kendall Sheffield.

Here's recent (yesterday) mock for you. Buffalo trades down with Miami, (trade within division is unlikely) and picks up a third this year and a fifth in 2020. At 13, they draft Jonah Williams. https://nflmocks.com/2019/01/03/2019-nfl-mock-draft-miami-uses-rival-to-end-ryan-tannehill-era/9/

My thought as well. Culley came to Buffalo because it was an opportunity to coach QBs, something he's wanted to do to fillout his resume. He would probably not be very happy at being asked to switch to WR. That, plus the fact that from all indications Allen likes him and he is apparently being developed the right way makes swtiching him sound like a bad idea, tantamount to trying to fix something that doesn't need to be fixed.

Charlie Campbell at Walterfootball .com is a Jawaan Taylor fan, but then that's not a great recommendation to have.

You never know when we might need a drop.

It depends. What will the weather be like where your home is, versus the site of the pro bowl? With just a 2.5 hour drive, it's probably not worth it. If you can escape a blizzard and take a week of vacation, go for it!

Yarbrough is a hard working player with a good attitude, but he's limited athletically. As Beane builds the talent level of the team, fringe players like Yarbrough are going to be replaced by better ones. The player I wonder about is Trent Murphy. He clearly underperformed his contract this past season, but from appearances that was mostly due to nagging injury issues. Beane needs to decide if 2018 was just a bad year for him as he tried to come back from a major injury or he's just going to have chronic injury issues.

In most cases, an abusive person is always going to remain an abusive person. I always hold out the possibility of persons making a real change, but I have to see a reason for that change before I'll believe it. I haven't seen anything that suggests he has not been and isn't still a habitually abusive person. If I'm an NFL GM, I'm staying away from him for the foreseeable future.

Absolutely, but having lost, in whatever form it took, the position of the Bills in the draft and schedule wise, is remarkably better on the back of the results of one game.

To a degree, I agree. I think Shady will stick around next season, but I think one of Beanes off season projects will be to find some new (and younger) blood at the RB position. Shady may have as many carries next season as he did this year, but I think that number is probably down a lot from previous years. Somebody else is going to get more. As far as getting a younger version of Chris Ivory is concerned, they may already have him in Keith Ford. Ford is a bit shorter, and almost as heavy. He's got decent quickness and good speed, but he is a power runner all the way. He was, I think, a five star recruit coming out of high school based on both measurables and production. His college career got derailed because of injury, and he had an issue with fumbles, but Brian Daboll has found him to be an extremely hard worker, and in late season games where he had quite a few carries, the fumbling didn't seem to be an issue. I'm not sure that the Bills will target a pile driving type RB. I don't want them to necessarily draft a 170 lb scatback, but there are some good, well rounded backs Buffalo can pick up after the first round.

Shady is about as instinctive as a runner can possibly be. I can't imagine that Kelly Skipper would come in and say to him, "OK, Shady, I want you to unlearn everything you thought you knew or felt about running the ball, and do it my way." I can imagine how well that would go over with Shady. (not well)

The hold can affect accuracy on a field goal attempt. Distance? Not so much. When a 40 yard field goal attempt falls short, but is on a line that would put it between the goal posts if ling enough, that's not the holder. The place kicker either has no leg, or he's hurting. I don't think old age suddenly robbed Hauschka of leg strength. Therefore, I think he's hurting. The sudden drop of of kickoffs going into the end zone late in the season is further evidence of that.

Since Beane has no direct connection to the way players are being coached or the way players are playing, when he takes responbsibility for the product on the field, it has to be a personnel issue for him, but process of elimination. In other words, "I hired the wrong people."

Too early to speculate about stuff like that, for me at least.WEhen he has a 300 yard game, I'll give it some thought.

The turnover for Buffalo at punter is highly unusual. Punters are the usual PK holder on most teams for two reasons. First is the relative stability at the position most of the time. Second is the fact that punters, more than anyone else on the team are accustomed to catching long snaps. I expect next season, Buffalo will continue the practice of using their punter as PK holder, and they will have the same punter through the entire season. The turnover at PK holder obviously had an adverse effect on Hauschka's kicking, but I can't help but think that something else is going on. Kickers typically have a long life span in the NFL. Their legs don't just fall off after 10-12 years. I'm not saying Buffalo should retain him. I think that's a decision they should and will make in training camp next summer.

The only linemen I'm sure are staying are Dawkins and Teller.

I don't know that there is any practical way to get solid answers as to who dug up the old tweets. Not knowing who, I don't know how much point there is to speculating on the motive. As has been suggested, it could have been done out of personal malice or the competitive world of player agents. I suppose it could have been some political extremist- some liberal who thought Allen should be punished in the court of public opinion, or even a white supremist who thought Josh Allen might be a fellow white supremist at heart and could be forced out in the open by digging up his past.

I think Steve Tasker likes his current situation too much to get into coaching.

A good GM listens to all kinds of smart people when making personnel decisions.

I don't think anything is set in stone at this point. I'm sure Beane has the personnel staff looking into all the possibilities. Their final course of action will depend on who is available, with what skill set at what cost. As far as the draft is concerned, there are a whole bunch of big receivers this year. There are a few small speedy or quick guys, like Marquise Brown, but I think Buffalo already has guys that fit that description in Isaiah McKenzie, Ray Ray McCloud and Victor Bolden. My own thinking is that they would ideally want to have both kinds of receivers, and if they can find a guy who is both big and fast, that would be frosting on the cake.

Not at all, but an elite WR combined with a somewhat less competent QB can lead to vulnerabilities on offense. If you've got an elite WR and QB, you're going to be fine. If you can only have one, you're almost certainly better off with the elite QB and a group of decent WRs. He might become an elite WR.

They might, Johnny, and I wouldn't mind if Buffalo drafted one of them and it did happen. Where I think the whole concept is overrated is in the whole process of a QB reading defenses and deciding where to throw the ball. Sometimes when a QB is not as skilled in reading defenses as one would like, he will tend to "lock on" to his #1 guy and force the throw, even if other receivers are more open. I would rather my QB have the ability to makes reads and enough confidence in most if not all of his receivers so that a defensive strategy of taking away the #1 receiver cannot work.