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To recap what I have seen here as a lot of valid points: He's been hit A LOT in a relatively short career, but 8 years of beatings are no joke. He was never labled an elite passer, good at best. He doesn't appear to have his legs under him right now. If they are done, so is he. If hes just getting back in shape because he missed a ton of time with the shoulder, he may be fine. The shoulder... we aren't doctors, but is he full strength? For me it comes down to seeing if he can get his legs back under him, if he can, he'll be ok. If not, he is done. How long it takes the Panthers to admit it/ be able to do anything about it are the real questions. Rosen might be available ?

Woof.. great point. I have to think there will be a HUGE pressure from the NFL to tell them to get it together, this is embarrassing. If they have the balls to tread it, maybe it doesn't matter. If they could pull another high first and second this year, plus a 1st and chenge from next year to trade out, they would have SO much ammo, but then again, they could go a Raiders and not net anything with it.. risky business.

A 2nd is about fair vs his former draft status, look what Rosen brought back. That said, he looks to be an inside corner, not really the outside guy the Bills could use. I wouldn't trade a 2nd for that position. If they see a guy that can play outside or slide to FS, then yeah thats fine. If theres one think I know, McDermott has forgotten more about DBs than I'll ever know, so that's all him. Its a great value IF he's the player you want/need and you can pull him for a second. That's 4 years of high end play at mid tier money for a 2nd round pick. I could see a contender being willing to fork over a first if they see a difference maker, a low first round pick for a high end contributor makes sense, but again, thats not the player I see him being.

What I didn't realize is Zay had his guy really beaten, the throw made him stop. Very different from what it appeared in live action. Good point as well, that's exciting to see. Also great recognition as he looked to plug on gap and saw his lineman was going to be there, let it go before engagement to be ready for the next guy. I can see why they thought so much of him. Obviously, this is just one play, but good stuff!

You are about as bright as a black crayon.

Didn't need to look at tape to watch him running past contain on the outside and the Bills getting gouged for runs..

Eli could Shred this secondary, he was dropping dimes against Dallas and NO Im not kidding. He was playing well, that O is going to be solid this year. The D, this far a joke. Depends on which Bills team gets on the bus.

I remember a year starting off 5-1 with all the wins over joke teams and barely scraping by.. Trent Edwards was the bext Joe Montana and the Bills were a sexy team in the Power Rankings.. then reality hit.

Based on preseason where he routinely blew contain, its surprising to see he had such success at it. I'm not going to sit around and analyze tape, but I wonder if this is all valid or an agenda being pushed by the author.

All I know is Singletary needs more touches. He took a ton of snaps, barely touched the ball and accounted for almost 100 yards. Daboll needs to adjust something there.

The reason the run game popped was not having Gore run into the back of his linemen. Singletary came in and bounced to gaps, which I have to believe were not the schemed ones based on the arm which he was carrying it in.

Thats a great story, I had no idea where he came from. Good on him.

I was all about Hock and pissed Detroit took him, was not and still am not sold on Oliver. What I really wasn't expecting is for them to let so many WRs go by, then Singletary, seemingly out of left field. That made zero sense to me, I think Beane was done with Shady and just never said it, signing Gore, Yeldon and then spending a pick on Singletary screamed it. I was high on Hollywood and had some fasination with Hakeem Butler / Harry, so far Hollywood started with a bang, tough to say how it will all play out in the end though. Not surprised to see Fant struggling early, he never blocked, the NFL requires it. I was high on Knox, really glad we nabbed him, hope he can live upto his physical abilities, he could be an absolute steal.

According to reports later, I'm not sure that is a accurate. The way it was exllained is he got a 1 Million guarantee at signing and weekly roster bonuses that total 9 million in guaranteed money as long as he is on the roster. With extra bonuses on top for performance that could take it to 15M. Theres a HUGE difference between what was originally reported, as Sportrac has it a d the later explaination of it. Being that he's a known trouble maker, I find it hard to believe BB wouldn't structure the contract accordingly. If he didn't, awesome, but i have my doubts.

The thing is, it's not better for the player. This is similar to a franchise tag, except if the team activates it, the player cannot refuse to sign it and try to force a long term deal. They are under contract, period. They now have no leverage to negotiate a long term deal for more money at all, there is nobody to bid against the team that owns their rights, no possibility of movement. No player looking for a real "prove it" deal is going to give up their rights to free agency and let the team control their future, its a horrible deal for them. Players are after guaranteed money, the more, the better. Getting stuck to a one year deal is not in their best interests. This is exactly why players hate the franchise tag, they get stuck with one year of guarantees and absolutely nothing beyond that. If they get hurt, the team decides their too old, etc. They are out on their ass with nothing. In a long term deal, you get paid money upfront in exchange for giving up your rights to movement. In exchange for the upfront portion, the team has you locked down to the deal at the current market value until the end of the contract, usually both sides feel pretty good about it. The team is the only one who wins in a one year deal, their risk is minimized and they get all the benefit, even moreso with a team option, if they want out, boom its over, if they want the player they have the power to keep them at a minimum risk again, player takes all the risk. Its stupid for a player to agree to it, which makes Brown taking less than shocking, but his agent must have pulled the wool over his eyes in an attempt to get paid himself.

Because the power is given soley to the team in this arrangement, only a desperate player would accept those terms. In this case, if The Pats want to keep him they guaranteed his rights to themselves by offering 20M, BUT its unlikely they would want to pay that much to him bc market value is going to be lower, so they can either keep him at slightly above market for a year or leverage the fact he can't go anywhere to force him to take a short term deal for reasonable money. No sane player would give up their rights like that. Being foolish/desperate for "guaranteed" money, which he didn't get, by the way, led to this.

They didn't guarantee *****. 1 Million at signing and the rest is set up as game by game checks, if he is on the team he gets paid, otherwise he's out on his ass.

Oh i hope the opportunity presents itself for a free run on that douchbag... preferably by Poyer, but I think Oliver would be more fun on a nice bubble screen.. flat out destruction.

Whats funny is the team he torched for 150 in a half was Kansas City and nobody could figure out why we didnt feed him the ball in the 2nd... now he puts up 175 with KC in the 1st half and doesnt break 200 yards.. crazy. He had one helluva game, but a 2nd half player he is not.

I thought the first half play calls where borderline insane, not because they were all passes, but they were not all that successful. Running into the strengths of the D w Gore made no sense either. Singletary obviously hit holes that he wasn't scheduled for, unless he hasbt been coached to have the ball in the right hand, which I doubt.

I felt the personnel choices were far too conservative and the tendency of playing not to lose vs playing to win came back late. A first dow. On the final drive guaranteed the win, didn't bother even trying to get one. Singletary off the field and run right up the gut, I hated that. It was nice they appear to be letting Allen take charge a bit, DiMarco got way too much feature action for my liking. I was hoping to see more use of the dynamic playmakers. Its week one, lets see where it goes.

I'm a little lost how 17.5 YPR is poor, but ok. Guy is on pace for 1100+ yards on 64 carries lol.

Actually, thats spot on. Brown has been streaky for his career, hopefully in a more featured roll he is a little more consistent. Beasley looked bad yesterday, caused the pick 6, got hit in the head with the ball, got next to nothing fir yac bc he chose to fall down instead of run. I saw the lack of yac in the preseason and thought it might be preservation, I hope its not a sign of whats to come, if so, McKenzie needs to take his spot and he needs to be sent packing.

He was impressive, good adjustment to the ball on the TD and got through PI to catch it too. He had a good game, hope to see more of the same.

The win counts, but I am not saying this was a good game, when it was clearly a horrible performance from both offenses. I guess we could give the credit to the Bills O for actually scoring 25 points because Allen threw the touchdown to Mosley and Gore scored the safety, am I doing better now?