ComradeKayAdams

I realize this type of hindsight thinking isn't productive, but can you imagine if we had somehow paid Gilmore the money his agent thought he was worth two years ago? White and Gilmore as your two shutdown CB's would have been a lot of fun...

I agree with all of this. Both the Bran and the Night King storylines were severely lacking in detail and coverage toward the end of the series. My best guess is that this may have been done intentionally in order to set up the prequel, which I assume/hope will address many of the surrounding questions? From a storytelling perspective, I guess the point of the Night King was to rally all of the disparate and antagonistic groups of people in Westeros together and get them on friendly enough terms in order to create a better Westeros post-Cersei and post-Dany. Or something...

Are the Jets now trying to out-tank the Dolphins or something?

We play 9 games against teams on this worst-12 list: Jets twice, Dolphins twice, Giants, Skins, Bengals, Browns, and Broncos. The Steelers, Ravens, and Titans also aren't looking so ominous at the moment.

There's actually a lot of truth to this. Sadly, national media people who get paid to cover the NFL don't follow the Bills and know this team nearly as well as the average TBD'er. Examples include Colin Cowherd, Shannon Sharpe, Stephen A. Smith, Cris Carter, etc. So much of what they know about the team comes from the following: 1. Vontae Davis quitting at halftime. 2. Nate Peterman and the ensuing blowouts. 3. Josh Allen not having over 60% completion percentage in small college program. 4. 17-year playoff drought coupled with Pats winning the division and sweeping us every year. 5. Antonio Brown rejecting us. The narrative of the Bills being a joke will only change when they start winning games, and it probably won't even take much for the narrative to turn. Start the season 4-0 and watch as people suddenly start talking about us as a legit Super Bowl contender. Regarding the pass defense, there were still a few major flaws I saw last year: 1. Below-average pass rush opposite Hughes. At least one of Lawson or a healthy Murphy needs to step up. 2. Instability at the CB position opposite White. Either Wallace or a healthy Gaines can secure this spot. 3. Statistically poor red zone defense. A lot of this may have been fatigue from the historically awful Bills offense last season.

I suppose it's possible that all of these teachers are, in fact, Amy Schumer. Maybe she's just really good at escaping from the police and starting over again in another location.

Absolutely. That's probably our 5 most physically talented right there, at their proper positions, each with long-term potential. Also note that this creates an entire backup unit of Nsekhe - Spain - Bodine - Feliciano - Waddle that is probably more capable than any starting lineup we fielded last season. The sudden loss of Incognito and Wood hurt the Bills last year, but Beane has the OL recovering nicely this offseason.

That's just it: Dany has now shown to be no different than any of the other horrible sociopathic rulers that the Game of Thrones universe has ever known. Important characters in the series initially joined her cause because they thought she was a revolutionary who would usher in a new and unusual era of moral leadership. She could have easily ended the war by simply taking out Cersei at the Red Keep as soon as all the scorpions were demolished. But as she herself told Jon Snow on Sunday, she chose to rule in Westeros by "fear." This isn't some gray ethical situation here that we can all debate academically like a bunch of online neckbeards. Dany didn't just decide to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki to display strength to the Russians; she proceeded to take out Tokyo and every other major industrial city of Japan after Hirohito surrendered. The problems with this strategy are that you end up creating a lot of extra enemies that could have otherwise been avoided (all of her advisors, practically everyone from Westeros, Jon Snow) and that your hold on power is only as secure as your actual strength (1 dragon left, remaining Dothraki, remaining Unsullied). Dany is going to lose the "game of thrones" this Sunday because she played a very poor strategy in the end. Being merciful isn't synonymous with being weak.

I can't??? She just slaughtered many thousands of innocent people. I realize this is fiction, but I've always been a bit disturbed at how so many people had thought of Danerys as a "good" character. Even going back to the first season, it was quite obvious that something was off with Daenerys Stormtits.

Yeah but at least we have a lot of Johnsons on D!

Perry has a lot of value as a special teamer, while Yeldon is a 2nd round draft pick bust that the Jags and everyone else in the NFL didn't rush to sign. I wouldn't say Stanford was awful. He was mediocre and could potentially be upgraded with summer cuts from other NFL teams. But at the moment, no one on the roster is more capable backing up Edmunds than him. Joseph is a smallish, 6'1" 230 lb Will/Sam outside linebacker. Croom is unbelievably overrated among Bills fans and is probably a borderline roster cut in the eyes of the coaching staff right now. He's likely competing with Sweeney and Fisher for TE spots #3-5. No one bothered to draft Jackson in the 7th round, yet you come across as so confident that he makes an NFL roster somewhere?

It's a decent first draft of the roster. Mine only differs in 5 ways: 1. No need for Anderson as the third QB. Add Stanford as a backup MLB. 2. No need for 4 TE's. Cut Fisher and add Waddle as a ninth OL. 3. Replace Yeldon with Perry. 4. Replace Croom with Sweeney. 5. Replace Yarbrough with Darryl Johnson.

The Texans put the franchise tag on him for this year. No way the Texans are trading Clowney to the Bills for anything less than a 1st rounder, and no way Beane is willing to trade a 2020 1st when that pick will likely become an elite WR talent at a rookie salary. Most likely, the Bills will attempt to sign Clowney next offseason with the $80+ million in cap space they currently have (that's not even including the rollover cap space from this year). By the way, does anyone know how exactly the rollover cap rules work? The Bills are $30 million under for this season. Do they get to rollover all of that for 2020?

Here's all you need to know in order to understand Colin Cowherd's football opinions: NYC: #1 metro area in population Miami: #7 metro area in population Boston: #10 metro area in population Buffalo: #50 metro area in population He has openly expressed his disdain for blue collar people and small cities and feels that the NFL would be a better league if the Buffalo Bills had moved to Toronto.

His supposed lack of effort could very well be due to clinical depression. I could see McDermott's Bills being a very good environment for him.

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why do people keep calling this guy the GOAT?! Brady beats this clown by a mile for that title. This isn't even a debatable topic.

I'm embarrassed to admit that this is the most important thing in my life right now. We MUST win! This may be the only sports-related championship us Buffalonians will ever get to experience in our lifetimes. Push forward, good soldiers of Western New York!

The Bills have had 1,000+ yard rushers for 30 of their 59 seasons of existence. I believe that is the highest percentage of all 32 NFL franchises. And only the Bears (31) and Rams (33) have had more total seasons with a 1,000+ yard rusher. Also, thirteen different Buffalo RB's have rushed for 1,000+ yards: Gilchrist, OJ, Terry Miller, Cribbs, Greg Bell, Thurman, Antowain Smith, Henry, McGahee, Lynch, Jackson, Spiller, and McCoy. 10-15 years from now, the Bills may very well have 5 RB's in the Hall of Fame and among the top 30 RB's of all time: OJ, Thurman, Lynch, McCoy, and Gore. I'd put Gore at 99%, McCoy at 75%, and Lynch at 50% chance (if he doesn't retire this year) of the Hall of Fame right now. Since 1960, this franchise has always prioritized the RB position because of the idea that the weather here makes it difficult for QB's to throw with any consistency. This mindset should have become less relevant after the emergence of West Coast offenses and the modern passing game in general, but it hasn't. Jim Kelly altered this mindset a bit, but then the idea was that you needed to be a physically big QB with a very strong arm to have any success here. So for almost 25 years, management threw 1st round picks away chasing the big arm (RJ, Bledsoe, Losman, Manuel) at the expense of the more cerebral aspects of the QB position. Even now, Josh Allen is sort of a continuation of this philosophy. Although he is actually very bright and hard-working, so he definitely has a chance to buck the trend of failed Buffalo QB's since the mid-90's. Oops...sorry for the QB rant...lol... Getting back to the OP, I think an emerging consensus here is one between Jim Brown vs. Barry Sanders for greatest RB ever. I'm leaning toward Sanders at the moment for three reasons: 1. Fumbles per touch. Sanders (once per 83 touches) beats Brown (once per 46 touches) by a decent amount. Turnovers are the most important determining statistic in the outcome of football games (next to the obvious of points). 2. Quality of teammates. Football is very much a team sport. Sanders had a lot less (OL, QB, coaching, defense) to work with than Brown throughout his career. 3. Running style. A lazy analysis of the RB position might divide it into two types: the between-the-tackles north-south power back (Brown's style) and the outside-the-tackles elusive tailback (Sanders' style). Both have value to an offense. Both are incorporated in every offensive playbook. I would argue that the talent gap between Sanders and the rest of the great RB's that ran his style is much larger than the gap between Brown and the rest of the power RB's in pro football history. Furthermore, it's a lot harder to maintain elite ability as an outside-the-tackles tailback because of what the aging process and the wear-and-tear of tackle football does to the human body. Although Barry Sanders had such a low center-of-gravity (5'8", 200 lb) to complement his speed and agility that made him better suited to absorb or simply avoid the kinds of hits that wear down a RB.

Because these people paid attention to his body of work at VTech and to his unique athletic skills.

I'm guessing that Milano, Edmunds, and White would likely all stay on the field for any nickel or big nickel packages. Lotulelei would be the guy switched out for a third cornerback or safety. Edmunds would be the fourth pass rusher and could even be positioned right up to the line of scrimmage as a DE. This is basically what Lorenzo Alexander does, so Edmunds would be considered his successor if the Bills drafted White. But the bottom line is that Devin White is a blue-chip prospect and the best player in this draft who doesn't play DL. He won't be available at #9, but Beane is not a dummy and will select him if he does manage to drop that far. White should be #4 on Buffalo's big board, right behind Nick Bosa, Josh Allen, and Quinnen Williams.

I knew someone would beat me to a "he's too young" joke.... I'm thinking that the Bills keep 5 RB/FB players on the roster, which is 1 more than the typical NFL roster: 1. the feature RB who is also useful in the passing game (McCoy) 2. the power RB who runs mostly between the tackles (probably Gore who will replace Ivory) 3. the backup RB who is important to special teams (Murphy) 4. the developmental RB who is only on active roster in case of injury (2019 draft pick?) 5. the traditional FB (DiMarco) So as you can see, I don't think there's really a strong need for Ajayi at the moment.

The 2016 Bills weren't bums. That roster had a lot of talent and would have made the playoffs if their head coach wasn't such a fat, lazy piece of sh!t.

I love the idea! Add Lynch too so that we can market them as football's version of Eastwood's Space Cowboys: McCoy, Ivory, Gore, Lynch.