Motorin'

Even New England with Michel, White and Burkhead use three backs effectively.

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I'd love to add a speed back with good hands and a powerback. We carry 3 RB's, there's no rule that says the 3rd back should only play special teams and not provide value at his actual position.

His performances against Ohio St and LSU left something to be desired. Those games left a lot of people questioning if he's soft.

I think this is also the type of draft where trading down might be valuable. All of the true round 1 targets might be gone, and the Bills probably have a bunch ofround 2 guys they really like who might be gone by the time it gets to 54. It might make sense to get an early 2nd and early 3rd and walk away with 4 solid starters in the first 3 rounds.

Don't forget drafting Terrel Troupe one pick before NE took Gronk.

Could have probably avoided a draught all together if they had paid Peters.

And John Elway and Ken O'Brien were the first two qb's taken in the 1983 NFL draft. So Ken O'Brien was drafted before Jim Kelly and Todd Blacklidge and there was no Dan Marino in the 1983 draft? It's bizzaro day.

Let's sign free agent Jamie Collins to replace Lorax as our veteran at LB. Let's trade Cleveland a 2021 1st round pick to take Myles Garrett off their hands. McD can have a come to Jesus talk with him and set him on the straight and narrow. Then let's draft Kristian Fulton CB in the 1st to add a second shut down corner, Tyler Johnson in the 2nd to be our #1 wr in training and Michael Pittman Jr in the 3rd to be our new big bodied possession wr.

Christie and Kurt Scultz went to two Super Bowls. Come on man.

The two 1st round picks and one 3rd round pick became Tre White, Edmunds and Dawkins. Sure they traded up a little extra to make two of the selects, basically a 3rd to get Edmunds and a 5th to get Dawk. But no other team got value for passing up on Mahomes. We turned the choice to pass on him into three blue Chip players. No other team that passed on him can say that, and the Bears gave up value to pass on Mahomes and took Trubisky instead... You can say you'd rather have Mahomes than an all pro CB, a pro bowl MLB and a starting LT, but to say it was the worst choice in team history is rediculous. Hindsight is 20/20, but at least the Bills made out on their end. It's not like they stayed at 10 and took a CB that busted.

The trade got Edmunds, Tre White and Dawkins.

Norv Turner

Ford and Knox should have doubled him instead of each leaving it to the other guy.

Would rather trade for Stefon Diggs.

I don't mind if Beane shells out that kid of money for a true top 10 wr, but I didn't see a lot of heart in Amari Cooper's game this year in difficult situations, like that Dallas game against New England in the pouring rain. He didn't look like he wanted to toch the ball.

Chris Watson

Honorable coach mention to Chuck Dickerson... JP Losman has to be up there, Jesus did he ever set the franchise back a decade or two. Tom Donahoe, Russ Brandon, Rex Ryan

Actually, Rubgy got the touch down from our side of the pond. It was first used by McGill University, then Harvard adopted it. And you did actually have to touch the ball down to score. That part of the rule was eventually removed in the 1890's. The reason why Rugby called the touch down a try is because you had to get a touch down in order to "try" to kick a goal. They called it a try before the touch down was invented, and it didn't count as any points then. After college football in the US started using the touch down as an actual score, Rugby adopted it as a scoring play but kept the earlier name. You still get to "try" a field goal after scoring a try or touch down...

How is Andre Roberts a top 3 we for the AFC? He only had 3 catches this season!

Schools in the Northeast were playing "mob" style games they called football as early as the 1840's. At Harvard they called it "football fightum" and had a yearly game called "Bloody Monday" where the Freshman class would play the Sophomore class. The rugby style game was still called "football" they just wanted to be able to carry it as well as kick it.

It was first used in the late 1800's. https://www.etymonline.com/word/soccer

This is super interesting to my inner nerd. Our football, soccer and rugby were the same game about 150 years ago. Or rather, there were as many iterations and rules of the game as there were colleges. In the US, as in England, the rules of the game were determined by the home team. One thing that was common was that all fields had soccer goals. In US college football, long before down and distance, and before the Touch Down was invented at McGill University in Montreal, the way a team scored was by running or kicking the ball down field and into the soccer goal. An oddity of the time was that there were no rules pertaining to how many players could be on the field at a time, and since there was no down or distance it was a free moving game, like soccer and rugby. So the home team was at a decided advantage. They would stash 20-30 defenders in front of the goal to make a human shield and block the net so that even if the opposing team could get the ball down field past their 200-300 man mob, it was virtually impossible to score. This seeming unfair practice resulted in the American football field goal posts that we know today. The posts were placed on the top corners of the soccer goals in order to prevent teams from blocking the goal with men. That's why you'll still see some high schools with soccer goals and field goal posts on top of them to this day. After 18 players died during the 1904 season, President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to cancel the sport unless rules and safety equipment were put in place. This lead to leather helmets, and down and distance being introduced into the game... In England, there were similar problems with differing rules. They decided to encode the "Law of Football," and enacted the oldest existing body in sports, the Footbll Association, or FA. The FA decided on rules that became English football or soccer, essentially making it illegal to tackle and stomp people. The schools that preferred the more violent aspects of the game were centered at Rugby school, and encoded the laws of Rugby Football. The British press, needing to abbreviate the two sports in the newspaper settled on RUG for Rugby football, but couldn't use ASS for Association Football. Instead, they used SOC, which lead to the slang term in England - Soccer. In America, we picked up on the English slang, while they stopped using so long ago that calling it soccer seems foreign to them... In short, when college football began here in the US, there was no forward pass, the ball had to be lateraled or kicked forward, and scoring happened when the ball was kicked into a soccer goal. So it was football, for all intents and purpose. The TD only came into our game after Harvard traveled to McGill in 1874 and liked the rule so much that they incorporated it into their rules back in Cambridge. Today's soccer, rugby and American football all have common origins prior to each of the games carving out their own unique rules.

Madden has a no kicking game you can play online called Super Star KO. Each team gets one drive to score. Most points win. What's really interesting is how it settles ties... The ball gets placed at the 50, and each team alternates offensive plays. 4 plays each. If one team scores a TD, game over. But otherwise the team wins who forces the ball in the opponents side of the 50 when it's all said and done. This could be a much more dramatic way to settle ties in OT during the regular season.

I'm sure he's a much better QB when the threat of being hit isn't real. I have no doubt he suffered a head injury when he got hit against the Cardinals and he was never the same on the field.

I remember games when the refs would stop play, and threaten the Bills with penalties if the crowd didn't quiet down. 80,000 maniacs pounding those metal seats and screaming their heads off! But I also think there's something to the idea that there's more pressure on the home team in high stress games, particularly with a fan base like ours that lives and ides on every play. We really know how to panic while watching a football game.