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If the Bills end up in the post season this year I think there is a pretty good chance we end up losing one or both of our coordinators next off season. Frazier hasn't had a head coaching gig since 2011-13 with the Vikings. If we put a top three defense on the field this year, which I believe is certainly possible, I think he will become a hot commodity in the league. The Rooney Rule would help get his foot in the door for interviews where he would have a chance to impress. He has a long coaching resume and I expect he will get another chance to be a head coach before he retires. I think Daboll would be in even higher demand if we see Allen continue to develop and if this offense takes a big step forward this season. An offensive minded coach from Belichick's coaching tree, and one who has shown he can take a raw QB prospect and help develop him, would be even more sought after in the market. Success brings challenges too and one of them is holding on to your good position coaches and offensive and defensive coordinators. That constant coaching turnover is one of the things that has made the New England run all the more impressive. I wouldn't mind the Bills having to deal with that problem for the next twenty years or so. I expect the Bills to make the playoffs this year. If they do, I think the odds of having both Frazier and Daboll back for the start of the 2020 season is less than 50%.

Speaking as a fellow "ginger" and bald guy who has no pigment, at all, in his entire body, McDermott is just keeping himself out of the Burn Unit at the local trauma center. I would wear a burqa with a sombrero when I go outside in the summer if I could. You look great Sean! Don't let the haters get you down, rock on my bald albino brother!!!

Of all the people for Oliver to draw in his first NFL game, he gets Nelson who was an All Pro LG in his rookie season and is probably the best LG in the game right now. I thought Oliver played well. One would think that Nelson would be able to handle the rookie Oliver in his first NFL start without any help. The fact that the All Pro LG needed some help double teaming Oliver seems proof enough that Oliver has some game. All I know is that if Oliver demands a double team, and Star demands a double team, the rest of that D-line and the linebackers are going to feast this year.

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Oliver was getting double teamed frequently during the game. If Star gets doubled as well, that is going to leave the linebackers free to shoot gaps and blow up plays at the line or in the backfield. I think Alexander, Edmunds, and Milano are going to feast this year. I agree, the defense looks scary good.

Does this "Stallion" guy have six fingers on his right hand???

Very encouraged by the O-line play. I imagine it will look even better with Morse in there. Ducasse and Bodine are not long for the roster. Both Long and Feliciano can play center in a pinch and both looked solid tonight. I think Teller is looking good and I think they will end up keeping Teller and cutting an extra player at another position to provide a little extra O-line security. O-line was clearly the teams biggest weakness last year and it looks like McBeane did what they had to do to address it which bodes well for Josh and the entire offense. If we can get one more touchdown per game out of our offense, and if our defense continues to play at this level, we are going to the playoffs this season.

I agree, it doesn't look like severe frostbite, what is does look like is that he has damaged the thickened, callused skin that we all have on the bottom of our feet. The skin is blistered, the equivalent of a 2nd degree burn. All of that damaged skin is going to have to come off. You can see where some of it has already come off revealing new soft skin beneath. All of the skin that looks yellow is going to have to come off and that is going to take some time. If he plays football now I think he is at risk of splitting the skin where the "new" skin butts up against the thickened, injured skin. If he splits the skin on the bottom of his foot he is going to be out of commission even longer. I think he misses regular season games over this. Don't be surprised if he ends up on the PUP list to start the season.

The problem with AB's feet is actually frostbite. It's now being reported that he walked into one of the new cryotherapy chambers without the proper foot wear on and got frostbite. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/antonio-browns-feet-are-reportedly-not-blistered-but-frostbitten-from-a-cryotherapy-machine/ The irony is delicious. He won't come to Buffalo, the "Siberia of the NFL" to play. Instead he goes to sunny California and gets frostbite in the middle of the summer. What a dumb ass... ? 632f009b780b6102c5fc0fa516fce455Frostbite.webp

It's gotta have Pancho in the mural somewhere.

There is running 40 yards in your underwear speed, and playing football speed, two completely different things. Case in point, just watch our 6'5" 240 lb quarterback running away from cornerbacks last year on some of his runs. He isn't supposed to be that fast. The Combine said so...

I think it was Beane on NFL Radio’s Moving the Chains show just last week saying that quality O-lineman replacements after the first quarter of the season are almost impossible to find. McDermott also stated last week in an interview in the Athletic that you build a team from the lines out. They both understand the value of the big guys in the trenches. I think this is why we will end up keeping an extra O-lineman on the 53 at cut down time at the expense of a WR or RB or some other position. I think if we try to stash any of our recently signed free agent O-lineman on the practice squad they will immediately get scooped up by other teams. Injuries on the O-line are going to happen and Beane and McDermott are not going to let the Bills and Josh fall into O-line hell again this season.

I think the Bill's will have a top three secondary this year and teams will try to establish the run against us early. In the first three games of the season the Bill's defense is going to face Le'veon Bell, Saquon Barkley, and Joe Mixon. If we're going to win those games we will need to have our run defense show up and play hard. Our run defense was clearly the weak spot in our defense last season and it's hard to say how much better they are going to be this year. We will have Edmonds with a year under his belt and a healthy Milano back and that's clearly a plus. Just about the entire defense returns this season, in the same scheme, and I think that is a positive. Oliver will likely be the only new starter and I'm not sure what swapping out Kyle for Oliver does on the D-line for the run defense, I can make arguments both ways there. With strong cornerback play we can let the safeties cheat a bit more and bring them down into the box for run support. I think we have solid tackling safeties. Bell and Barkley in particular have also made those little dump passes and YAC a major part of their game and our defense is going to have to be able to handle that aspect as well. Bell averaged 86 rush yds and 43 rec yds a game in 2017 Saquon averaged 81 rush yds and 45 rec yds a game in 2018 Mixon averaged 83 rush yds and 21 rec yds in 2018 All three are the focal point of their offenses, especially with the Giants WR corps in shambles and with the possibility of AJ Green being out or on a snap count against us Week 3. If the Bills defense can keep Bell, Saquon, and Mixon all under 100 total yards of total offense in those games we should win. It won't get much easier after that, we play New England Week 4, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Belichick's offense continue to emphasize the power running game. Our run defense is going to get thrown into the fire this year right out of the gate. I hope they will be up to it.

If it comes down to the last WR spot and the choice is between keeping another small sized speedster, or a tall, physical possession receiver, Duke may get the nod just due to his unique attributes. Daboll seems to like having a lot of different tools in his tool kit to game plan with. The Duke is no smurf.

LOL! You're right! Watching Moorman boom it was the best part of the whole game. He sure got a lot of practice on those clunker teams...

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I think the both Bill's and the Jet's D lines have a chance to be really solid this year. Both lines will depend on the play of their 1st round rookie DTs. I'd call them 1a/1b until we see how Quinnen Williams and Ed Oliver pan out this season. I'd might give the Bills a slight edge with the strength of their secondary which should help give the D-line more time to get pressure on the QB. Time will tell. The Phish and Pats are clearly bringing up the rear.

For a guy who’s all about the money, he sure seems to give a lot of it away... I think the Bills are safe in Buffalo until both of the Pegulas are gone. I pray that’s a long time away. They both seem like good people who have their hearts in the right place. If they were just about the money the time to move the team was right after they bought it. Any fines they would have paid for pulling the franchise out of Buffalo would have been easily recouped in another larger market like Los Angeles.

Was he in a car going 55 mph when he threw it?

I agree Pete. I think that by the time we get into the second half of the season Singletary will be the lead back in this backfield. Give him a few weeks to get in there on a limited basis and learn the ropes, work on pass protection, learn the offense, and get used to NFL game speed. What better situation can a young back be in than to come into a RB room with Shady and Gore in it and no need or expectation to produce Week 1. I expect Daboll will bring him along slowly and then let him loose over the second half of the season. I think he is going to surprise some people this year.

Hey Rigotz, I am going to agree with you and disagree with you on this. Going into a game with limited film study is a disadvantage. That's a given. I think you overstate the situation though when you say the Bills will be "completely blind" in Week 1 versus the Jets. They will be playing Adam Gase's offense which they have faced twice a year for the last three seasons and a Gregg Williams defense that he has been running in the league for well over a decade. This is also Week 1 of the season, not Week 7. Every team in the league will have new wrinkles that they will put out there for the season opener lessening the value of film study in Week 1. Of any game in the seventeen week season, film study is least valuable in Week 1. I think you over estimate the value of looking at last year's film for a Week 1 game. What is clearly an advantage, and in my opinion far outweighs the disadvantage of not being able to look at last year's film, is that the Bills players will know how to execute their own game plan. I think if you asked 100 coaches, (including Adam Gase and Gregg Williams) would you rather have your team be able to execute your own game plan well, or be able to film study your opponent, I think 100 of them would choose having their players be able to execute their own game plan. Your opponent will always adjust their game plan during the game based on what you are doing or introduce new wrinkles that you haven't seen before, but if you can't execute your own game plan and make those adjustments, then your team is dead in the water.. Do you really think that in the first game of the season the Jet's players are going to know exactly where they are supposed to be and what they are supposed to be doing in a completely new offense and defense? You don't think there will be a learning curve for the Jets? Why are we optimistic about Edmonds this year? Because he has a year in the system now and understands it. He can just react now instead of thinking about what he is supposed to be doing. On the Jet's side of the line of scrimmage they will all be thinking about what to do because they will all be first year players in the system. In short, I think having the Bills in the same system with the same coaches and being able to efficiently execute their offense and defense is an advantage that trumps the Bill's disadvantage of not having last season's film to study. On the whole, I think the advantage is clearly to the Bills.

Funny. I don’t recall making that argument at all.

So your position is that the continuity of having our players in the same system with the same coaches is, on the whole, a disadvantage when playing against a team that has new coaches and players learning a new offense and defense because they can study our team’s film from last season? I believe being able to effectively execute your own offense and defense well is far more important to winning a game than having year old film to review and game plan against what you think your opponent might do. We’ll just have to agree to disagree on that point. ?

I think it’s less about preparing for what your opponent is going to do, which is a guessing game early in the season for everyone, and more about being able to execute your own game plan well. I think the advantage there is on our side.