Simon

No teammate with a functioning cerebral cortex wants to see his QB taking on defenders. That is strictly the territory of histrionic fans.

It's working......

Slacker....

The Real New Era?

I bet you he's going to force turnovers too. That draft fell into the Bills laps perfectly.

Yeah, that might be the one.

I'm not pushing for them to force anything, I've always been a BPA guy and still am. I just think we have a couple real issues at critical positions.

I cancelled mine 2-3 years ago after having it for 20+ years so it might be an attempt to reel me back in. You guys who are already spending money on it are probably the ones they're going to ignore.

I disagree with all of that. Hughes is undersized and on the wrong side of 30, Addison has never had a 10 sack season and Murphy is not a pass-rusher. You've got to be able to get after QB's and the Bills pass rush looks anemic right now. Dawkins is fine, but Nsheke can't stay healthy and at no point has Ford shown the athleticism to play Tackle in this league. The #1 thing the Bills need to do is to protect that blue chip QB they've been waiting 20 years for and right now they have 1 reliable OT on their roster. And when you only have one good 'backer on your roster, you need another one, no matter what defense you're running. McDermott is good at maximizing his players but when you have real holes in your front 7 and your OLine, I think those are needs to address.

Yeah

I don't think that's true at all. We really need help at DE, OT and LB.

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I can't believe the Chiefs didn't jump on him. I wonder what's on film that dropped him out of the first round.

My next move with you will be a suspension . Drop it now. Same goes for you Doc. You guys are not going to foul the draft thread with name calling and a pointless ongoing argument

Drop it now or you're leaving

If you want to talk about the draft, great. But this is not the thread to lament Bills mistakes from the last couple decades. Keep it out of here.

Your title implied the deal was completed. I thought folks would appreciate it if the title stated it was still speculation or a rumor at this point.

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Thought this was an interesting interview with some thoughtful takeaways: Michael Osterholm Hap, feel free to relocate this if you think it's more appropriate for the other thread. [I see no lies, but I do ask folks who want to discuss it to click on the time stamp in the upper left corner, copy the link you obtain, and carry it over to the discussion thread] Excerpt with one of the best explanations of the testing problem. It's just not about the phone numbers and addresses for labs! For example, everybody wants to do widescale coronavirus testing today. Talking heads without any experience in testing declare, "We'll test millions of people each week, and then we'll know who is infected and can follow up." Very few people realize that the testing community in this country can't do that. We don't have adequate international manufacturing capacity and supply chains for reagents, the chemicals needed to run these tests. The reagent capability -- meaning securing those chemicals that are key for running many of these tests, whether you're testing for virus or antibody -- before the pandemic was more or less, adequately supported by a "garden hose of production." Then Covid-19 came along and the Asian countries, specifically China, demanded a major increase in reagent supplies. Finally, the whole world caught the pandemic, and now there are billions of people who need to be tested. We need a firehose to meet that demand but we can't build reagent manufacturing facilities overnight. I urge that whatever we do going forward has to be based on reality. We're not going to test your way out of this thing when we don't have tests. (...) So, we're going to have this reagent issue for some time to come, and we must understand that and come up with a plan based on reality. BERGEN: What is the role of the reagents in these tests? OSTERHOLM: Reagents in the test are like the gasoline in a car. For example, if you take a nasal swab from a possible Covid-19 case, you have to extract specific material out of that swab. So, if you don't have the chemical reagent to do that, you can't run the test. You just can't have a swab and walk into a lab and say, "Test this." For each test, there are chemicals required to run it, and it varies by which kind of test you're talking about. He doesn't mention, but a follow-on point: this is EXACTLY the sort of thing a NATIONWIDE public health response and national acts like the Defense Production Act were designed to address: Identify national needs (like the need for nasal swabs, or for test reagents, or for the chemicals needed to manufacture test reagents) and put national industry to work manufacturing what is needed. As a nation, we have the planning and logistics skills to accomplish this, given the national mandate. We also have a lot of unemployed or underemployed workers with good "people skills" who could be re-deployed as contact tracers, quarantine assistants, etc.

Kind of curious.....

Wait, that wasn't supposed to be for huffing? I must have had the wrong brown bottle......

Yeah, that's probably my biggest issue with how this team is coming together. You add a quality RT to this group and it suddenly makes you better at multiple positions up front. Then go shopping down the TE aisle to pick up a legitimate NFL starter and you're ready to get cookin.

Makes me wonder what our kids will say about us when they're 50