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I'm sure he's all smiles today!

So, I routinely pick against the Bills in these threads so the Bills will win. Superstition. They almost never win when I pick them here. /Shrug Bills 37 Saints 20 New Orleans keeps it close before the Bills close it out in the second half. Bills up 37-13 entering the 4th when Mitch and the subs come in. Saints get a late TD on a deep ball to Shaheed.

The Giants threw money away signing Wilson in the first place. They already had signed Jameis Winston, who while not great himself is at least a guy that will keep it interesting for a few weeks before turning it over to Dart.

Doesn't matter. No matter who loses the Bills win.

Yeah, he threw it like 37 times. And Diggs only had a 3/23yards day. Heck even Mack Hollins had more catches and yards.

As far as safety goes, I actually think Bishop has been better the last two games. Still has a ways to go, for sure. But he's been a bit better. Rapp is the one that concerns me. With everyone focused on how bad they thought Hamlin was and now Bishop, Rapp has kind of gotten a free pass and flown under the radar. But, he has not been good at all. He's a liability not only for the occasional wreck less hits in teammates he is famous for, but he's just not good enough in coverage. My prediction now by the end of the year (barring injuries) Bishop will grade out better than Rapp. Not sure if Mad Max gets a starting job when he comes back unless there is injury ahead of him, but he will at minimum upgrade the CB3 slot until then. I do think if he gets pressed into start for a few games it will be hard to take that kind of athletic ability off the field. He could easily "Wally Pip" White. Once Oliver comes back it's going to help out. Jones has been sneaky solid this year. I saw somewhere Groot has (yet another) lower leg injury. Story of his career. Through the first 3 games this year Bosa is having a Pro Bowl (if not All Pro) season. Add the PED guys to the mix and I think we are in good shape. Linebacker. We will see if Milano comes back. Even if he does, I'm not sold on him being the starter. Maybe keep him for specific down and distances. But even with all that, I don't see this defense being out in position to succeed week in and week out. The play calling on that side of the ball is too passive especially on third downs. Let me also say regarding Babich. I think he is an EXCELLENT coach. I just don't think he's a great play caller. It's one thing to know how to teach the X's and O's (and he seems like an excellent teacher) but it's an entirely other beast being the play caller.

Even better... starting to sound like Tyrod is possibly the Jets starter going forward. Never good when the coach talks in past tense about somebody's role on the team...lol

I don't see the big deal. He's just pointing at D.

This is the type of game I would actually strongly consider making Gore active for. Let him absorb a lot of late game touches in a game that figures to be mostly over by the 4th quarter.

This right here. I know we would all love to see us hand a 50 burger up and thrash them. But a conservative gameplan playing mistake free will work. They only chance the Saints have is if we beat ourselves with stupid mistakes. Run the ball, keep the clock moving and GET OUT OF THE GAME HEALTHY!!!

Daboll is what Freddie Kitchens was.

Been a weird day so far. Maybe that lends to Daboll doing us a favor and winning a game for a change

Looks like he's doing both today

Oh some of the worst teams ever assembled...lol. McKay, their coach was absolutely hysterical about how bad they were too. Footballs version of Yogi Berra

Bucs in their creamsicles throwback. Absolutely love these ones.

The season he was injured most of the year, the Titans actually earned the #1 seed in the AFC. From what I remember, during his first two years as a backup he was reported to be on the trading block. Titans were looking for a day 3 pick for him. No one jumped. Then he had to start due to injury and popped off a huge game on national TV and the rest is history.

I'm watching. Are you? Or more important, do you understand what you're seeing? The second bolded part actually describes Codrington almost to a T. He's on SEVERAL occasions already taken a ball out of the end zone he shouldn't have. He tried and kicked out diving for a punt catch rather then avoid contact. He got one fumble and is darn lucky we recov. All of these things were what Hardy was doing that forced us to trade for Codrington in the first place. He has very poor decision making and sooner or later it's going to bite the Bills.

Yes a generational generic freak would be great. Unfortunately, those types are very few and far between.

I personally believe Milano is way more injured than they are letting on. Pectoral issues normally are lengthy healing processes. I of course don't know exactly how bad the injury truly is but if I was placing a bet...I don't think we see him for a while. Franklin isn't a guy that I think would be claimed on waivers. He would go to the PS and have his call ups. That would buy a few weeks. Hamlin has value to this team. He may even have more value in his reduced role as he did as a starter. He's good right where he is, 2nd team. But having a guy that's been a starter in this system on the main roster is very valuable both as a voice in the S room to help Bishop and as an experienced guy in the system if we need him due to injury in a game. He's also a pretty solid core special teamer. Lastly I don't think we even save any money by cutting him, though I'm too lazy ATM to look it up lol

Yeah I was talking about him earlier today. But you hit the nail on the head. He's fallen off from last year and the snap counts/touches show the coaching staff sees it too. The few times he has touched the ball on offense he's been gobbled up and very unimpressive. He had 9 carriers against the Jets (24 yards 2.7ypc) and only 1 carry for 2 yards against the Ravens ("adding" 1 catch for -1 yard). I could see the Bills giving him another game or two before they try and elevate Gore and see what he can do and Davis becomes the dreaded 'healthy scratch'. But here's the thing. We need SOMEONE to take a few of the carries a game away from Cook. We don't want him to handle 90-95% of the carries in offense for the season. He's not a big guy and chances are come playoff time he will be at or near the wall.

First person off this team of I were the GM when Max gets back... Codrington. He adds absolutely nothing at the CB position. And he's making a lot of poor choices on PR. He let one ball slip through his arms and has another "return" where he had to dive forward and catch the ball. Easily could have been another fumble. He made some poor decisions in the first two games as well. Who returns kicks then? Well, we have a lot of possibilities. Ray Davis could help out on KR. Possibly Moore. Ty Johnson. Shakir has done PR in the past IIRC. And little know fact, in his last year in college, Keon Coleman was one of the top rated returners in the nation. We are at a stage that with our offense we don't need to steal 6 points on STs. We need punt catchers....not punt returners lol. As far as the other two spots. I'm in favor of mothballing Milano til later in the season. He would head to IR. As far as the third spot? Perhaps Franklin.

So now we're ok with ex-Panthers?

I think it's a two fold reason. 1. Ravens. Jets. And contrary to belief...YES the Dolphins are all teams with running games that can be anywhere from very good to spectacular in a given game. Now next game against the Saints...I see less 4-3. 2. Health of Taron Johnson. He's been somewhat banged up the last few weeks. And while he's traditionally a solid run defender, using more 4-3 looks gives him less ear and tear. If he needs a break the Bills are basically saying "we like Williams/Thompson more than Ingram/Lewis"

It shouldn't come as a shock to anyone. He's healthy. It makes a difference. People here wanted to trade him for a 5th rounder last off season because he was playing injured.