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2 stats that NOBODY cares about, unless they are grasping at straws to justify trading the only legitimate/proven WR the team had. Shakir has been a nobody to this point to anyone outside of Buffalo. He may step up big, I hope he does, but he’s done less than Davis had when he was asked to be a #2 across from an All-Pro and he struggled. Shakir needs to be ready to take the defense’s best without much of a proven threat to take attention. His likelihood of success in jumping up to a 1 from a 3 is realistically pretty low. I’m hopeful, but he’s probably not going to be anything super crazy this year and if he is, it WILL shock the rest of the world.

From a real fan of the man and from his play, Larry Fitzgerald comes to mind. The pure football fan in me brings up others; I hate him when he’s playing against us, but TJ Watt is fun to watch, he’s a single man wrecking crew. Also used to love watch Polomolu for the same reason, just electric players. If we could take the off field things away, Tyreek, Ray Lewis, Lawrence Taylor, all come to mind. Just stand outs amongst the absolute best, it’s hard to be that much better than the best of the world, but man they did it. The best part of it all, right now, we have the single most entertaining player in the league as our very own QB. Allen is a monster and even if he has t quite been able to get the team over the hump just yet, it’s a heck of a ride!

At the end of the day, Josh Allen is the most EXCITING QB in the league. Mahomes makes better decisions with the ball and is the superior QB. Only the delulu’s in Buffalo think JA is the better QB. He’s great, but Mahomes has been flat out better.

Being so confident, I’m assuming you have something more to stand on, other than pure hopium. Right?

33 pages about a WR room “getting better” by losing a legit #1, the #2 and having never played a down together, gotta love the off-season.

Taylor Rapp, I see him as a maddening liability and a flag waiting to happen, wanted him to go elsewhere.

Basically a fast Cole Beasley.

I’m a big fan of Samuel, I worry about health, if healthy, he’s going to be the #1 and put up big numbers, BUT he could well be the dud of signings if he can’t. I’m hoping Mike Edwards beats out Rapp for the starting role along side Bishop. I do not want to see Rapp on the field as anything other than a glorified LB.

I would like to think the running TDs will come from the RBs, but let’s be honest there will be enough broken plays to get Josh 7 or 8 and then when push comes to shove, he’s going to make ***** happen late in games. I see another 12-15

Good man! I’ll be at the Miami game, in Miami this year, outside of that, you’ll have to drink those on my behalf. Go Bills!

You got a Time Machine? I’ll go back to 2018 and take you up on that. The OP said “in his prime”, not “his best year as a Bill”, so I disagree on the semantics. The fact this team has had 3 HOF WRs and a couple others that had the talent to get there but turd burglars throwing them the ball is amazing when you think about it. Is pretty amazing. This team has had, T.O., Reed, Lofton, Boldin, ampules, Stevie, Lee Evans, Diggs, etc it’s pretty wild.

The only people in the world that would agree are Bills fans who only watched football in the Kelly era. Reed, while great in his own right, doesn’t belong in the same breath as Owens.

T.O. No questions asked. He’s one of the best to ever play the game, a true Alpha, EXACTLY what this team needs. He’s a bigger, better Diggs. He would have been disgusting on this team w Allen.

And everyone outside of Buffalo agrees with him not being on it. Why can nobody here accept that he’s a good player, nothing more? He’s MAYBE in the top 10 of 3 techs, not some super star.

This would be a much more interesting season coming up as we would be on year two with a new coach, have taken a new QB this draft and we’d be hoping to make it out of the WC round for the first time in 20 years.

Yes, because the “level of talent faced” is a huge factor for punters 😂

The contract is signed, it’s active. They are on the hook for it, can’t just say “well he’s under the rookie deal until the 4th year is over, so it doesn’t count if we trade him” Yeah, that was a God awful move, which is why I don’t understand why all these teams are in such a hurry to over pay guys. Jones, like GeNO!, had no business getting massive deals. They are adequate starters at best, you can’t pay those types and have money to spend where you need to.

I would have understood it if that were his Head & Shoulder's deal, but for his play, that’s insane.

The crazy part is he got multiple contracts AFTER the record setting rookie deal. May have to use some on a kicker.

The Bills are just making sure :13 seconds never happens again, Coleman will run the clock out on his way to scoring.

If this continues, they gotta cut bait, he cost the last loss of the season, he’s just not getting it done when it matters.

I dont think Allen would have had another 1k with Hop, but I’d bet another 700 would be realistic bc Hop would have had 1k and I don’t think Diggs would have quit if they kept throwing the ball. Would it have mattered? Idk. I sure think it would have been easier on everyone if there had been another threat. My concern for this year, barring a major surprise from a couple WRs, is the D will just key in on the run and leave a safety high, basically condensing the field and making it very tough to move the ball.

Every player in the NFL has potential, until they show they are somehow special, above the rest of the guys who could take their spot, they are Just A Guy. Shakir’s very best stats are still reflective of a nobody. Yes he has POTENTIAL to be something, has not done it yet. I can’t tell you how many times I posted this about Davis and everyone sited 225 yards in the playoff game. It’s great, love it, BUT do it consistently in a prime role, that’s a different level. Shakir hasn’t done anything of substance YET, maybe he will, but there are a ton of guys who have done more than him out there and you would be sure they are a JAG if they weren’t basically the only hope for your team.

Agree to disagree on this one. I like Shakir and have great hopes for him, but he didn’t win playing time in his first 1.5 seasons. You can blame whoever you want, but the fact is, he couldn’t get on the field and didn’t make a huge difference when he did. Did he show some promise at the end of last year? Yes. Have a million guys done the same thing, even for Buffalo and never became more than a splash in the pan? Yep. So AT THIS JUNCTURE, he’s a JAG until he proves otherwise. People were convinced Davis was going to be a #1 after the back half of 2022, we saw that play out. There were delusions around here that Robert Foster could be traded for a 1st round pick after his ~4 game eruption, etc. I get it, we are all fans, we all like our guys, but let’s not put the cart before the horse. There is an argument for Samuel being a high end JAG, he’s had some success, but if he were special, you wouldn’t have gotten him here for way less than Gabe Davis money. Just be real with yourself on that. His contract tells you what the league thinks, regardless of our feelings. ALL that said, JA has elevated everyone around him, I expect him to do the same for both these guys and the volume they get SHOULD make their numbers good this year. You are cherry picking one extremely trivial stat, based on about 6 games of real action. It’s a WRs job to catch a ball. What did his catches actually do for the team is another question. He looked pretty good in a 4th/5th option tile last year, but ya know what that makes you? A JAG, because a big time player isn’t a 4th or 5th option and you can’t argue the fact that Diggs, Kincaid and Cook were options ahead of him and Davis really was more of a target than him until he found himself in the dog house late in the year (rightfully so). I think Shakir has a lot of potential, but it looks like he will be asked to be the #2 WR this year unless the rookie can jump in and start and I just don’t see that happening. I hope I’m wrong on all accounts, Coleman is an instant star, Shakir goes off for 80 catches and Samuel becomes Debo. That would be amazing. I just think we are more likely to see a similar situation to what KC dealt with early in the year last season with TEs leading the way, relying on the run game and hoping for WRs to make some timely catches vs the greatest show on turf.

I could see potentially trading some linemen away on either side for late round picks. Also wouldn’t shock me to see them go after a corner or WR if one became available.