Florida Bills Fanatic

Unfortunately, stupid can't be fixed.

Their guards are also in the neutral zone consistently and move just slightly ahead of the snap. From a friend of mine that works in the NFL (not the Bills or Eagles), teams have complained about these infractions to the league but to no avail.

After watching teams select WR's in round one for many years and watching a significant number of those players not be difference makers, I've concluded that teams greatly overvalue and incorrectly evaluate the skill set of many of these players. Sometimes teams with mediocre QB play, take a chance on receivers hoping to elevate their passing game and compensate for lackluster QB talent. Many day two or day three draft picks work out with the right QB play and good coaching. Nacua and Kupp are two guys that quickly come to mind. I don't care where the Bills draft players, as long as they develop into good players.

And Greg Bell needed to get off his lounge chair by the Transit Valley Country Club pool. Just sayin'

As I watched games last season, I concluded that the important issues were really on the defense. They had one of the best offenses in the league. I never felt like they lacked the players to move the ball and score. On defense, it was obvious to me that they needed an infusion of talent. The pass rush was inconsistent and the front seven performance against the run was poor. The safety play was substandard and Douglas struggled in coverage. Injuries on defense degraded their play as the season moved along because most of the replacements were not good enough. Improving the offense will be great but may not mean as much as making significant improvements to the defense. Apparently many people see things the same way because the mainstream projections for Buffalo are to go heavy defense in the draft. I'm greedy. I want them to find a real field stretcher for the receiver room, a good corner, a big body d-tackle, and an effective pass rusher. But if they can only get three out of the four, I expect Beane to go after the defensive talent first.

For me, the worst part of the free agency period is all the hype spewed forth by media people and clueless fans. Good signings are proclaimed to be championship winning and mediocre signings are proclaimed to be franchise destroying decisions. In most situations, none of these things are true. I try to focus on opinion sources that have a proven track record of being realistically correct (that applies to posters on this site also). I look for the opinions that are based on actual research and data. Fortunately for us, there are several people on this site that do great research and present facts to help keep us well informed. Free agents become available for a number of reasons and not all of them are the result of poor performance, although some are. I think Beane has had to focus mainly on lower cost free agents, to be depth and rotational players. The starters that he does sign as free agents seem to fall into the "value signing" category. I have to admit that this free agency period for the Bills has gone pretty much as I expected. I am neither exuberant nor disappointed about any of the signings but I am hopeful that some of the guys exceed the consensus of expectations.

Obviously, this salary imbalance impacts the rest of their roster. When they re-signed Cody Ford, it told me everything I needed to know. Bad defense and a very poor o-line is not a formula to win championships. They will battle Cleveland and Pittsburgh for fourth place in their division. Ravens fans should feel very comfortable today.

Camp meat IMHO

He's solid but not "break the bank" solid. Two concussions in a very short time period may give the Bills, as well as other teams, reason to be wary. As far as being a hold out, it gets very costly for a player under contract to hold out. We really don't have any knowledge that Benford contract negotiations are going off the rails. I'm not going to be too concerned at this point.

As I recall he was injured early and tried to play through it. It is tough to give him a decent evaluation because Carolina was such a dumpster fire overall. We'll just have to wait and see how he looks in preseason.

He was a pretty good player in college. His career is a good example of what happens to a good player that gets drafted into a bad situation with the wrong coaching staff. He is a very similar player to Samuel and I think he only makes the team as a returner. I also remember people talking about him potentially becoming a third down back when he came to the league. I was surprised by this signing, so I'm hoping that Beane was doing more than just throwing crap at the wall to get something to stick. Hopefully, they have a plan.

This is a sneaky good signing. If he can stay healthy, he will improve the team's depth at a minimum. He may very well send #3 back to free agency. I'm surprised Washington didn't try to keep him.

With the DT and DE free agent signings, I think Beane will probably be looking at CB in the first round. If he brings in a veteran corner that could be a starter, he'll be in full best player available draft mode and won't feel like he has to reach for any player. This will be a great position for the Bills to be in. Without having a number of glaring holes, Beane will be able to use his numerous draft picks to move around to get players that he wants. It really is a great position to be in and it shows how skillful the player personnel operation of the Bills is. They've come a long way from the time of Buddy Nix.....lol.

Camp meat...nothing more, nothing less

I believe that you are correct. I can't help thinking that the Bills may value a young player on their roster more than the fan base does. I recall this being the case when Taron Johnson ascended to the starting lineup. Is it possible that we are overlooking somebody like Ingram? It's hard to tell since we don't see as much of them as the coaching staff does.