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McKenzie has never had a year in his career as good as the 2021 harty had on the dumpster fire passing game saints in only 11 games lol Crowder hardly even played…why is he now retroactively getting talked up? Why are we comparing our expectations going into 2022 with what we have now when we played a full season with those guys? Gabe Davis is still gabe Davis for better or worse, crowder never played and is gone, mckenzie was bad and is gone. We added the best pass catcher in the draft,a receiver who was ramping up in 2021 then got hurt last year, and a pretty capable player from a division rival that we likely have a lot of insider knowledge of. how can that not be better than what we saw on the field last year?

TEs typically take time to develop because they need to pick up the blocking schemes…that’s not really relevant for Kincaid. harty had 500+ receiving yards in 13 total games(1 start) on the worst passing offense in the league in 2021. He got injured last year and everybody forgot about him. I would take that over McKenzie who couldn’t put up those numbers in one of the best offenses in the league. crowder I wouldn’t even consider as he missed pretty much all of last season. I think it’s hard to call this season anything other than an upgrade at wr even with modest expectations for Kincaid.

It was really a tale of two half seasons last year. Things started going south when von went down because the secondary was too banged up already to hold up in coverage. Tre working his way back from the acl injury, poyer playing hurt, no Micah hyde. I’d expect things to go differently this season if most of these guys are relatively healthy come playoff time. prior to last season I don’t think we really had the pass rush to slow down the chiefs

I still don’t get how the Floyd signing isn’t talked about more by the national media lol is it because it was late in free agency? once von gets healthy this dline is gonna be scary

I think we made huge strides this offseason but it was mostly sneaky good signings that the national media doesn’t pay any attention to lol they only care about the big name splash signings. leonard Floyd and Taylor rapp were pretty big gets and I don’t see anyone outside of buffalo really talking about them

The Gillette stadium sign not being centered with the video board is going to drive me nuts

I don’t think the Miami offense is gonna snap right back to how good they were the first third of last season. It’s been overshadowed by the tua injuries later on but defenses started to adapt to tuas tendencies and things were getting more difficult for them as time went on. They didn’t really improve at coverage linebacker either which hurts them against us and their offensive line is virtually the same without a lot of depth They had a good game against us late in the season but our defense was pretty much in shambles after von went down we just didn’t play a lot of high power offenses in the second half of the season the playoff game was a bit of a fluke as far as our offense against them goes, we were a few near misses from racking up tons of yards and points but virtually everything that could go wrong did without Ramsey for most of the season, the dolphins didn’t improve even close to as much as the bills and jets this offseason

They don’t like admitting how wrong they are and all the analysts said he’d just miss the start of the regular season originally lol

Duane brown is like 40 coming off surgery and becton is never healthy…they might have huge problems at tackle. Could be a huge downgrade from the packers oline

I think the dolphins offense got somewhat figured out midseason and it’s being sold as tua concussion related but probably isn’t. Tuas good at getting the ball out quick to his first read in the middle of the field and when that starts to break down he can’t really go off script.

Hurts is kind of a victim of his own team…that roster is just absolutely loaded so he’s probably always gonna get ranked below guys that we have watched carry teams single handedly I think if you swapped josh and jalen the bills would get worse and the eagles would get better but there’s no way to prove or disprove that hypothetical obviously

That’s still one of the statistically flukiest losses in NFL history I’m pretty sure lol it’s crazy to even think about i wonder if part of Frazier getting let go is player development. Our young guys at LB and safety just haven’t been improving it feels like.

I think some of the issue is offensive line talent seems to be waning with the college game becoming all spread offenses. I don’t think someone like saquon gets you much more value than an average rb when your team can’t run block to save their lives lol in the passing game a skill position player/qb can have a much bigger impact solo imo

I do think at least part of it was josh losing confidence in the offensive line and he got into this mentality of ‘it’s only a matter of time before a hold or sack derails this drive so I better pick up chunks when I can’. He seems much more willing to hit the checkdowns/underneath throws when he’s not running for his life on a majority of plays. He seemed to lose some accuracy post elbow injury too which makes some of those tight window underneath throws a little dicey. of course he is a gunslinger as well no question lol but I do expect things to return to some normalcy next season.

Floyd was pretty impactful in the playoffs for the rams superbowl run. Here’s to hoping him and von get another one that was a pretty big name signing late in free agency and it was just overshadowed by the dhop business

That’s what it felt like to me…you get some inaccuracy protection by being able to overthrow receivers and the defense. Those throwing windows on a lot of the underneath stuff look huge on the broadcast angle but they are often a lot tighter than they look.

They certainly have much better pass protection also which opens up a lot of the playbook And we match up better with the chiefs than the bengals imo lol. Turnin into a real rock paper scissors situation.

The division is harder but we sleepwalked through a few division games last year so I’d expect our division record to be at worst the same

I am surprised that others aren’t more into the Floyd signing. The pass rush absolutely fell off a cliff after von went down and it seemed like it was masked some by the second half of the schedule being a bit easier/other afc east teams having offensive line struggles. If cincy got all their injured olinemen back and we got daquon jones and von miller back I gotta think we come out ahead in that exchange without even getting to Leonard Floyd being in the mix. Of course we still probably lose the game though because our offensive line was garbage too but that’s for another thread lol you could’ve dropped prime jerry rice on that bills roster and we still would’ve lost that game. Poyer I’m genuinely not sure about as he was playing through injuries most of the season. Safety play seemed like a huge issue after the hyde injury though so idk how much we could afford to lose him. It seemed to me like he has a good year considering the circumstances but all anybody will remember is his bad game against cincy which is understandable

If the case was just ‘a 17 year old girl snuck into a party,lied about her age, and Matt had consensual sex with her’ (which I’m sure is what the bills own investigation accurately concluded) I severely doubt there would have been any public outcry or pushback from the nfl at all it was the other prove-ably false details in the diary that caused this to blow up.

I really don’t understand it either. Like yea I can see not being vindictive because he could’ve avoided the situation but what does he really have to apologize for? Someone a year underage snuck into his party and lied about her age…California would never even bring that to trial.

Probably takes awhile to corroborate that with multiple witness accounts…he would’ve needed some rock solid alibi to prove what time he left and arrived somewhere else quickly without relying on witnesses.

DT depth murdered us against cincy last year so it’s tough to dislike this signing

The division is tough but we underperformed in the division last year I’d say. the division record from last year will likely remain the same. Also last years schedule looked very difficult on paper going into the season and it never shakes out the way you think it’s gonna.

Are you replying to the right person? Lol idk where I said Kincaid ‘only’ plays slot. He can play virtually anywhere a wr or TE can play making him an ‘easy mode’ for an offensive coordinator is what I said 😂