No_Matter_What

I am nervous AF. From the moment schedule was released I had a bad feeling about this game. Everybody and her sister expects us to win but it is NFL and Darnold is good. FWIW even if we lose I expect us to finish 11-5 or better so my bad feeling are tied to this game and this game only. Hope Bills prove me wrong and win big time. Go Bills!

Ok gotcha. But I assume this gameday "promotion" doesn't necessarily mean that they will be on active game roster (is it 48 this year?), does it? And if they actually play, do they get some extra pay or only those 12k or less they get on PS?

How is it with Zimmer? Lewis replaces Norman on 53, but what about Zimmer? Or you can have more on roster on gameday?

I think I read somewhere that Von Miller is the last player from Broncos 2016 SB roster still on the team. So if he misses whole season Broncos won't have a single player from SB team after just 5 seasons.

SAR is a genius, I love how he claims in every other post that they beat us twice last year. I really hope that we win something like 33-10 since I would like to hear his take and explanation why they won again.

What does being a team captain mean? Serious question.

Haha nice troll job from whoever it is - at least for everyone who expected to find out how our Oline will look line on Sunday 7.00 p.m.

I fully understand what you are saying in general, and I do agree. One simple question however: If from any reason Tre didn't (or haven't? I suck at this) sign until today, do you think that right now he would be telling this agent - ok man, I know we were thinking 18 AAV, but look now JR signed for 21, we need to sign for 21,5? I think answer is no and that is my point. But I also think you can in fact dodge the answer by saying that there is a reason why Tre signed reasonable real PRIOR Ramsey, and that reason is that he (i) wanted to reset the market but at the same time (ii) wanted to sign reasonable deal and intentionally signed it before Ramsey precisely in order to avoid any races. This might be the case and then we are both right

You know 100x more than me about NFL but I respectfully disagree with this. Tre KNEW that Ramsey and Lattimore deals are coming soon, and he KNEW that at least Ramsey will sign for more after him. And he still signed the contract and looked genuinely happy about it. I didn't have time to watch his press conference after signing, but from couple of reactions I read here it is clear that he is smart and humble man, happy with what he got. Why do you suddenly think that his mentality is same as Ramseys and he NEEDS to sign for higher AAV than everybody before him? He did sign for highest AAV at that time since there was no other reasonable option (asking him to sign for less would be insult on Beane's part). I know you don't mean it that way (and I also know that you might be right), but to me the notion that Tre would NO MATTER WHAT require to sign for more than Ramsey (if he was signing after Ramsey) is almost like an insult of Tre personality. I think Tre signed the deal knowing that something like this is coming and was fine with it, because he doesn't care about money and money only. If he did care about money only, he'd wait for others to sign. On a side note, Rams are crazy and Beane is a genius.

Gross.

I have predicted this to be a surprise loss since the schedule was released. I don’t know why, just a gut feeling. We are much better team, but somehow I feared that things won’t work first game, Allen starts badly and Jets will be playing much better than expected. To be clear, I thought this would be a small bump on overall great season (12-4). But I don’t know now. We just seem to be so much better that it is hard to imagine we could lose, so I’ll go with something like 17-13 Bills after a sloppy game. Anyway, I would love us to crush them 33-10. Sunday can’t come soon enough! Go Bills!

How much do these PS guys actually train with the team? I mean will he actually be in any interaction with Arians and can he learn something from Brady?

2 question regarding Hodgins. 1. We can use him this year right? After 3 games or 6 games? 2. He has to be in fact injured to be on IR right? Does the league somehow control this so teams don't abuse this?

Great deal for Bills. This cemented my belief that Milano will stay for less than market value too.

Does this mean its over for today?

But deadline is not today but tomorrow 4pm afaik.

I don't know why but I feel little sorry for him (from football perspective). I think he was always in bad situation and didn't get proper chance. I'd say Chicago might be a good trade partner. Trubisky is likely bust and Foles is not a long-term solution. Rosen could get a shot there.

I guess you never heard of Vontae Davis 😉

It really sucks that W6 vs Chiefs was moved to Arrowhead. Hopefully we get some other game at home instead.

Have we ever get a rumoured player under Beane?

You're right if the gap is too big he'll probably leave, I just think that money will not be priority for him.

I know many people have this mentality but I don't get it. Money isn't everything. I rather play for 10m somewhere I like it than for 12m in dysfunctional organization like Jets under Gase. And most money for Milano almost 100% won't come from some contender, but from some weak team which is run badly (paying 14m/y to Milano proves this point imo). Would you rather play for Jags for 14m or for Bills for 10m with a chance to contend every year? For me its a no-brainer. For me working environment > money and even moreso when millions are involved. One yearly salary sets you for life (if you are smart enough which Milano definitely seems to be) so additional millions become quite irrelevant. I really don't get what's the point of chasing every penny when you can play with familiar players, in proven scheme, in friendly environment for McDermott in a team which scheme apparently suits your skill set and has a chance to compete every year. But I get that its more likely that Milano might seek money too, I am just saying that my gut feeling is that he won't and signs team friendly deal here.

I still think he stays for roughly 10m. He seems like a guy who values other things over money.

Gunner nice prediction, I think you have solid feel for the possible flow of the season (although you are little to cautious for my taste). I do my own later but couple of comments to yours. 1. One thing that really stands out is Bills scoring. You have us average 21,2 points. In my book it means that either Daboll or Josh really suck, since I expect us to score 25+. If we score 21 on average then Diggs addition was useless or Josh didn't take another step or Oline sucks or Moss isn't an upgrade to Gore or something else was clearly wrong. I am no expert but it doesn't seem to me that we play tougher defenses than last year (tougher opponents for sure). 2. As a result of the above I think we win one game you predict us to lose and we will win some less close than you predict - e.g. Steelers could be 24-16 instead of 17-16 and so on. 3. You didn't predict any blowout other than Jets, and there will be some. I think Chargers are the main candidates, followed by Dolphins, Raiders, Rams or Pats. 4. We will also get our asses beaten somewhere in the season, like Eagles last year. I think Seahawks at home could be the game (after finally beating Pats). 5. I love that you have us win with Bass' 56 yarder. I think that's about to happen. I also agree with you that Bass misses some shorter kicks which we were used to be perfect by Hauschka (and we might even lose a game mostly because of this). 6. I agree with your take on Chiefs game - close loss in a shootout. I guess I might predict a win but shootout loss is most likely. Esp. after slugfest in Nashville which is to be expected. 7. I didn't understand your take on W17 - do we play starters, including Allen? EDIT: Ok I see you already reacted to 1, so I expand a little on it. You have slightly misleading numbers, since overall you predict 25 points more than last season, which is only 1.5 more than last season. And if you predict starters to play W17, it is even more, since Barkley led offense managed to score 6 points W17 last year. All in all, you predict roughly 1 more point than last year, which means you almost don't predict our offense to be better (which surprises me). As for defenses we face - 6x division, Steelers, Titans and Broncos remain on our schedule and I guess they might be equal or slightly worse (mainly Pats and Jets, with Broncos and maybe Dolphins being better?) On the other hand, NFC East and Browns, Ravens and Bengals will be replaced by NFC West, Raiders, Chiefs and Chargers. I agree that on paper those defenses look slightly better, but it is close - at least Ravens, Cowboys and Eagles were also top 10 defenses. I appreciate your opinion on this.

I guess I missed it but what's the reason for the reporting limitations this year? Why can't they report who lines up where? (I know there are some guidelines but I don't know why)