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The more I learn about King, the more I like the signing. He is a latecomer to football and switched from WR to DB when he went to college. That pretty much guaranteed that he wasn't going to bee highly drafted, and would probably still be learning how to play DB when he became a pro. He's got a terrific size/speed combo and he's had some time to learn the pro game. I don't think he'll play wide that much but if he can adapt to a big nickel position, he could be just what McDermott is looking for. Niles Scott is a depth only signing IMO. He'll compete for a roster spot, but with the likes of Oliver, Phillips, Butler, and Washington all pretty much guaranteed a roster spot barring injury, and Vincent Taylor ahead of him in competition for a possible 5th DT on the roster, probably the best he can hope for is to make the PS.

Nobody knows for sure. There are those predicting Singletary will have a breakout season. I myself think McDermott is going to platoon them all season with roughly a 50/50 split by the time all is said and done, though individual games might be different. I think work horse backs are the exception in the league rather than the rule. There aren't too many Derrick Henrys out there.

Yeah, fortunately the Bills open the schedule with a couple teams they really should beat in the Jets and Miami. Yes, they are division opponents, and that makes them important games, the the Jets look like a dumpster fire, again, and I don't think Miami is far enough in to their rebuild to be too dangerous. It remains to be seen if Sean McVay can rekindle the magic in LA and how far the Raiders have come. By the time Buffalo faces the Titans, they should have the kinks worked out.

It essentially means the contract is taking the year off. Yes, the prorated signing bonus will count next year, and through the remainder of the contract, but he'll also presumably be playing, unless he retires or the Bills release/trade him.

Quincy was a good player. If his career is over, it is because of injury issues. You don't want to mess with vertebrae problems in your neck. It's a good way to end up as a quadriplegic.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that CB2 is the weakest spot on the defense. The question is, how weak is it. The answer is, probably not that bad. Levi Wallace is a known quantity. He shouldn't be any worse than last year, and will probably be a bit better. Josh Norman is hard to figure. He was playing in a Washington defense that did not play to his strengths. Maybe declining athleticism played a large role in his poor play, but it might have been more scheme and impaired motivation. Norman is not a young cornerback, but there have been a number of cornerbacks who have been effective well into their thirties. I fully expect Buffalo to address CB fairly early in the draft next year, but I'm not to worried about the position for this season.

I'm a bit surprised. No terms revealed, I presume. Beane is collecting trade bait I presume, not that Winters will be the one traded, but between Ike Boettger, Evan Boehm, Spencer Long, Quinton Spain, Darryl Williams, and Winters, it'll be hard to imagine Beane not trying to trade somebody, and I didn't even mention some of the younger guys who could play on the interior of the line.

LOL. I saw them more in the winter when I don't have flower baskets or attempt to grill steaks. I feel for you though, being harassed by a bunch of 3 ounce birds.

Our neighborhood is likewise overrun with squirrels. The other day my lawnmower uprooted a peanut seedling. We have neighbors that throw raw peanuts out on their lawns for the squirrels. Obviously, a squirrel brought one into the yard and buried it. We see a fair variety of birds in our yard regardless: cardinals, bluebirds, grackles, sparrows, house finches, robins, junkos, flickers, and mourning doves among them. Of course it varies by season. We tried a window feeder last winter, and the birds ignored it all winter. Apparently the only thing they're good for is making money for the seller and the manufacturer.

I think I'd rather the Bills wait and see if there bight be a better use for their available cap space than Winters. The still have starter level talent and depth even if Feliciano misses the entire season.

I don't see there there is going to be a huge battle between Singletary and Moss. I think McDermott wants to have a relatively equal split in carries between the two of them. Yes, the Bills will list one of them as a starter at the beginning of the season, but if they have an equal number of carries, so what? It will take time during the season to determine if either of them can be relied on to have a greater impact long term, but that is something that will sort itself out when the time comes, and not before.

Scott was an undersized 3 tech coming out of college at 295 lbs. Being a small college guy, he probably didn't get the coaching to become a polished player technique wise. He has added about 25 lbs and is now seen primarily as a 1 tech (Buffalo's need at the moment). Whether or not he has upgraded his technique depends on the coaching he got last year and his ability to learn quickly. I wouldn't write him off because of what he was coming out of college. It's pretty much a given that a player from Frostburg State isn't going to have a huge impact as a rookie

I think Darryl Williams at RG is the most likely way Buffalo deals with this. Williams should play at least as well as Feliciano. This does IMO make it more likely Ford stays at RT and starts. I expect him to make a significant jump in his second year.

I won't get into rankings besides agreeing with another poster that there are lots of good cancer hospitals around the country. What I want to say is that most cancers are not rare exotic cancers requiring cutting edge medical treatments. Most cancers that are caught early respond well to established treatment procedures. My wife survived (10 years so far) her stage 2 breast cancer after surgery at Sisters Hospital in Buffalo and chemotherapy provided by an oncologist in Chautauqua County. I'm still cancer free 3 years after stage 2 lung cancer following surgery in Sayre, PA and chemo in Corning, NY. What good cancer centers may provide are better diagnostics for early cancers. Standard mammography for instance can miss a lot of stage 1 cancers because many women have what is called "dense breasts" and tumors don't show up well at all against normal tissue. There is more sophisticated testing available at good cancer hospitals. My wife had a mammogram 3 months before she found a lump herself. In my case, doctors didn't pay enough attention to a spot in my lung on CT scans taken for other reasons, or my cancer would have been diagnosed at stage 1, possibly 3 years earlier.

As per the league agreement with the player's union there won't be any practicing of football stuff anyway until August 17. Right now it was to be on field strength and conditioning and teaching sessions in the classroom. The team is saying they can do the teaching virtually, and the conditioning work isn't worth the risk of COVID-19 spread.

Taylor has a good shot to make the roster with Lotulelei opting out for the year. Williams is going to have a tough time making the roster even if he hadn't landed on the COVID-19 list. If he doesn't have a problem with COVID-19 past the middle of August, he'll be able to practice in pads.

Until August 17 there are no actual practices. There will only be on field strength and conditioning. Beasley gets to spend his time getting treatment. He'll still have to participate in whatever teaching takes place, however it happens - meetings, online, virtual, whatever. Hopefully by the middle of August he'll be ready to go.

Maybe he can make an example of himself and can his *** to teach the rest of the team how important it is to practice good COVID prevention steps.

From the Bills' perspective, this is hardly a blip on the radar. From Ike Brown's perspective, it's terrible. He's already on the fringe with only the longest of shots to make the team, and now he's isolated for three weeks in a training camp situation where there won't be any preseason games to show his stuff. Time to think about who he can audition for next year. Maybe if the XFL can get cranked up again in the spring he can play a little then.

Interesting that they adapt all the mocks to their own format rather than just give you links to websites. I still use Walter Football's database - https://www.walterfootball.com/draftdata.php and Mockout - https://www.mockout.com/nfl-mock-draft-database/ though Mockout hasn't bothered to start their 2021 database yet.

Assuming 8 cuts (I counted 88 on the official roster), here's my 8: Cam Lewis (with apologies to UB fans) Ray Ray McCloud Del'Shawn Phillips Victor Salako Brandon Walton Jonathon Woodard Bryan Cox Josh Thomas I didn't want to cut a couple of those guys, but that's the way football works. There are tough choices sometimes.

I wonder how this will affect Christian Wade. The Bills have a roster exemption for him, meaning they could have gone into training camp with 91 players (They actually have only 88 on their roster if I counted right). The new rule mandating a cutdown to 80 if they all practice together was enacted to make it easier to "social distance." That could in theory supersede the roster exemption.

Coming out of college he was very fast, close to elite measurables. If he can void injuries and still has some of his athleticism, it sounds like a good addition.

Yup!

I can see where someone like Fluker would be reluctant to defend himself from a violent partner because at 350 lbs and strong as an ox he could easily cause serious injury, and then it would be way too easy for his partner to have him charged.