Ethan in Cleveland

I know people think I'm negative but I can't help myself... 12-5!

Same issue then as now. Levy was outcoached by Parcells. Washington and Dallas were just physically better and beat down our soft defense. Sound familiar? Reid owns McD in the playoffs. The defense collapses every year going all the way back to the second half of the Texans game. McD is on his 4th OC and 3rd DC. We missed out on Harbaugh. I've said anything less than a SuperBowl appearance this year and we should move on from McD. The problem is Beane has screwed up the WR group so bad, that McD almost gets a pass. That said I'm convinced McD forced Beane to trade Diggs. Some teams are in QB purgatory. I'm fearful we are in HC purgatory and only an epic collapse will force Pegula to move on.

1. The defense pads the stats against awful QBs. The Bills have consistently faced some of the worst QBs in the NFL often times playing the 3rd string QB. It's really remarkable how many times McDermott's defense has faced God awful QBs. 2. The defense and offense is soft. Bills play a finesse defense and offense. It works most of the time and Josh is the great difference maker. When it matters though the Bills get bullied 3. Josh owns Miami 4. McDermott is a fraud and gets outcoached in the playoffs

According to Gunner's research the most in the NFL the last 4 years... He posted this in another thread. That has led to cutdown day resulting in the Bills losing guys they would have liked on their practice squads. I knew they were top 3 in that category, I'd heard that in a podcast but I thought it was with the 49ers and the Ravens... it turns out it is the 49ers and the Jets (anomaly, more to come). Since 2020 the teams who have had the most roster claims on guys waived at cutdown day are: 1. Buffalo Bills (10) 2. New York Jets (9) 3. San Francisco 49ers (8) =4. Kansas City Chiefs (6) =4. Philadelphia Eagles (6)

Better at RB and if Miller is healthy probably better at DE LB is mixed. Last year Bernard was a question mark and this year Williams is. So probably a wash. WR is far worse. Diggs had 31 catches in the first month of last season. This group will be hard pressed to have even one guy with 15 after a month. If Samuel has to play hurt with a lingering toe issue this is the worst WR group in the NFL. TE is looking very good. Kincaid has a legit shot at 100 receptions and Knox 40-50. If used correctly they could break record for combined receptions for a TE group. DT has a chance to be better as well. I like the top 3 CB this year over last years group. Wish McD would give Elam a chance to start. Guy makes plays. PK is the same person but he looks to be getting worse with every kick.

I think we are all tired of the "this guy can play special teams" narrative. It would almost be palatable if we were even any good at special teams, but we arent. Terrible punter, shaky kicker, and who really cares about the rest.

Having no players claimed adds further evidence the roster is just not as good as it was in years past. There are probably 2 or 3 guys on our roster right now that would clear waivers. Usually they have been cutting guys including late round draft picks that at least get picked up somewhere.

Fair enough. Wonder how much he has left I'm too lazy to look it up. Did he make the bengals 53?

He's more of a gas station scratch off ticket than a lottery ticket

Brown so far is at best an average RT. He still has much to prove to get a second deal. Injuries have held him back no doubt. He has gotten better. But if he had a 10 and that is supposed to mean something, how does he last until the fourth round and still struggle moving his feet in pass protection? Oliver is a good to very good DT with zero pro bowls and no where near a top 10 draft pick talent. He is not really elite at anything - size, speed, or strength, and has been injured a fair amount. He makes a handful of plays and can dominate at times. He lacks consistency and again has no physical trait that is elite. Knox is the most physically gifted TE the Bills have ever had but that is a bit back-handed as the Bills have had the worst collective history of TEs in the league. Not a single ProBowl player since the merger. He is one of my favorite players, but either due to injury or lack of consistency he wasn't even good enough to keep Beane from drafting a TE to replace him.

Outside of Allen I can't make a good argument for another player that is supremely physically gifted on this roster. Beane and McD have built a roster of scheme specific role players with very few that can win individual match-ups. Even worse with the exception of Kincaid and Cook most of the next tier guys are on defense - Oliver, Rousseau, Johnson, Douglas, and the corpses of Milano and Miller. In almost every case save Herbert in LA, the other top tier QBs have at least one and sometimes more than one top end talent. As always our only hope is Allen, but he is going to need Brady to scheme some easier throws and build a consistent ground game outside of Allen scrambling.

Zach is on the cut list

Good story. Hopefully he only sees the field during 4th quarter blowouts

Lol what does that mean? Thank you for a job or thabks for the opportunity after getting cut???

Is Hardy hurt or did he get cut?

Correct if you don't count IR for Hodgins

The only way you keep 4 TEs is to get rid of Gilliam and play one of the TEs as a FB. MVS will make plays for this team and is far more important even as WR5 than Morris or Davidson will ever be. Davidson vs Morris makes little difference. If I had to choose between the two, I'd probably go with Morris. Has Davidson done anything in the games? Seems like he is a standout in shorts but disappears when the pads go on.

Petrified of the status quo...most definitely! Nothing worse in life than doing something just because you always have done it that way

Hmmm, I don't know. My guess is the board is 50/50 on this. Almost no one wants Trubisky anymore, but many don't want to part with any draft picks. I'd make this trade or perhaps give up a 6th and get a back a 7th.

Hard to tell. Looks dirty like helmet to knee but then it also looks like he hit him in the thigh... What is stupid is playing your starters in the preseason. Please go ahead and try to convince me that Seattle player needed that rep. If these coaches had their way they would still be doing two a day full contact practices with no water. They are so slow to evolve.

Agree!

Both things can be true. He's better than Jackson. He's qthe second best QB in the NFL and at times he easily plays as the best QB in NFL. In my mind there is no question. I don't care about MVPs. Unlike others I think Lamar is a good QB. You just listed a bunch of playoff and HOF QBs and Allen's INT% is higher than all but Favre. I guess we can go down the semantics road and argue what is overblown. We can also bring up the fact before Bass missed the kick against the Bengals Allen fumbled on that drive and Morse(I think) had to recover it. Does anyone really think Allen doesn't need to get better protecting the football? He's already at worst a top 3 QB, but 3 less turnovers a year will make him even better. Oh and he still needs to get better on deep ball, not that we have a WR that can get open deep this year...lol

59 career fumbles as well which is 6 more than Lamar It's not a perception. He turns the ball over too much. It's ok to realize Allen is the best QB in franchise history and still state that he has to get better in certain aspects of his game.

Top 100 - Allen, Taron Johnson, and Cook Bills have a bunch of guys that are just below that level and a few that are ascending - Oliver, Rousseau, Dawkins, Douglas, Kincaid, and Torrence. Miller and Milano can be if they bounce back from injury Shakir if used correctly looks like he could catch 100 balls and could crack the top 100 next year

Lol...I probably should concentrate at work more and not be posting ...