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There's that, but there's also the negative coverage, as witnessed by several threads here and the astounding belief a surprising number of folks here expressed in them. People say they "think for themselves" but especially if someone is kicked out of media that requires any source-checking and is now running their own vlog or podcast, a lot of folks somehow find that more credible and actually give more weight to it. What gets me is the stuff about certain takes are "not allowed". One recent was "we can only criticize the WR". Like, what board are you reading, dude, there are threads criticizing Allen, the MLB, Brown, Elam, McDermott, Dorsey - basically if it moves and it's connected to the Bills someone will criticize it. People confuse "not allowed" with "draws rebuttal" or "draws criticism" I guess; what they really mean isn't that their take is somehow disallowed, but that if they make it, others will refute it or argue with it and they don't like that. Durrrr, that's called discussion, and it's what the board is all about.

https://www.wkbw.com/sports/buffalo-bills/buffalo-bills-announce-winners-of-key-position-battles-heading-into-week-1 I hope that doesn't mean Bernard got the nod by sucking up to the DC - I was going to type an analogy and, well, I Just Couldn't. https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/bills-terrel-bernard-embraces-challenge-fun-at-middle-linebacker/article_72fdb00e-3560-11ee-a12a-530771806a5b.html

The CEO of Guinness, the CEO of Anheiser-Busch and the CEO of Molson-Coors are at an industry conference and go out to lunch. The server takes their order: The AB head says "I'll have a Budweiser - King of Beers". The Molson-Coors head says "I'll have a Miller - High Life". The Guinness CEO says "just water". The other two execs ask "why aren't you going to have a Guinness?" He replies "I thought if you chaps weren't going to drink beer, I wouldn't either".

The Bills overall record against the Jets since Allen was drafted is 7-3, but Allen didn't play 1 of the losses and 1 of the wins It's probably more reasonable to ask how Allen has played since Saleh took over as Jets HC 2021 Game 1 Bills 45 Jets 17. Allen 21 of 28 (75%) for 366 yds 2 TD 1 INT rushing 2 for 3 yd, 0 TD Sacked 0 times. Game 2 Bills 27 Jets 10. Allen 25 of 46 (54%) for 254 yds 2 TD 0 INT rushing 5 for 63 including 32 yd long run Sacked 0 times. 2022 Game 1 Bills 17 Jets 20. Allen 18 of 34 (53%) for 204 yds 0 TD 2 INT rusning 9 for 86 yd, 2 TD. This was the game Allen was sacked 5 times and injured UCL Game 2 Bills 20 Jets 12 Allen 16 of 27 (59%) for 147 yds 1 TD 0 INT rushing 10 for 47 yd, 1 TD 3 sacks. Looks to me like he had 1 poor game out of 4 in the last 2 years. Also looked to me like if the OL keeps him clean, we're good. Perhaps you might want to explain what you mean by "plays terrible"

LOL Kyle Brandt playing both sides, pretending to be a Bills fan while sucking up Aaron Rodgers. Kyle, man, he's won league MVP 2 out of the last 3 seasons, that's hardly an edgy or ground-breaking prediction. The Jets even signed 2 of his receivers.

I'm all for the AFCW being better. Anything that can chip away at the Chiefs so they don't go 6-0 in the division.

It's a good question. What is the percentage for other teams, especially contenders? That's kind of the key info, seems to me.

I think your information is outdated. Hines renegotiated his contract with the Bills this off-season. He counts $3.5 this season and $5.4 next season. $1M of his $2.5M salary is guaranteed. Hines is not on IR, he's on NFI. That makes a difference - on NFI, the team is not obligated to pay the player his salary or any per-game bonuses, and if they wish, they can even go after a portion of his signing bonus. I don't think the Bills are likely to do this. Word was that the Bills offered Hines keep the bonus and we'll pay you the maximum for a PS player; his agent of course wants the full $2.5M salary and $340k per-game roster bonuses. No word on if there's a settlement. There's no point in an injury settlement for a season-long recovery. The negotiating point is that the team is not obligated to pay salary or per-game roster bonuses to a player injured outside the facility, even if he's working out to prepare for football (!!!). This isn't an injury settlement, I'm not sure there's a specific term for it. So hopefully there will be a settlement, but all we've heard so far is from Beane "we'll take care of him; we want him on the team next year" and from Hines agent a shot across the bow on Twitter (I mean X) about how some teams take care of their people. These were both just after the injury.

The Bills are way below (or above, depending upon your perspective) average on dead cap. 29th in the league, meaning only the Jags, Chargers, and Bengals have less. League average is $27.66M in dead cap.

Depends upon the contender but at times you are definitely mistaken In any case, we aren't having a competition on OL. It's Dawkins-McGovern-Morse-O'Torrence-Brown If that isn't getting it done, then we'll see change - same as other contenders do, especially if they have injuries to contend with

I Get It. Just sayin' I don't mind sharing some tweets, but we can't replace what Yolo did with one ordinary human's contributions. Need 3 or 4. Not wanting to carry a bone, but just for anyone who's interested you can see tweets (or X's or whatever they are ) through a web browser, no app necessary (but it is requiring you to log in now a days - can use a google account, not necessarily your primary lol) Dalton Kincaid. James Cook. Deonte Harty. Dawson Knox. Trent Sherfield. Latavius Murray. maybe even Davis, if he's open short and quick? Any of these guys. Just don't alternate between targeting Diggs, and throwing long, low % throws, to Davis.

Fair. I missed the memo, but that's not a surprise. Is Hackett thought to have had any input into the design of the offense, or was that thought to be all LaFleur? Y'know, in the time it took ya both to whinge about this, ya coulda gone to Twitter (I mean X) and found some content to share.... I miss Yolo too, but I'm trying to be part of a solution, not part of a precipitate. JS'n

I would say the issue is not his neck

That last kind of thing (McDermott says a player won't practice, but he's out there) has happened before. I think there are two reasons for this: 1) the player is out there for warm-ups and position drills/1:1s, which is all the media is allowed to watch - but does not participate in the team part of practice 2) the trainers communicated to McDermott that a player was injured and needed to be held out, but then after treatment and warm-ups the injury improved to where they said "OK, let's give it a try and see where you are" Pretty sure today is likely to be a walk-through in shells for the team portion, so it's a practice an injured player could handle in theory. We don't owe the NFL an injury report until tomorrow, so we won't get any more info.

TF did I just hear? https://youtu.be/A6uLBUOjkXQ?si=HeUFoIIjZR1SMt-2 6:13 in, in case that doesn't work. Coach McDermott just said that there isn't a lot of film on Hackett and Aaron Rodgers together; said that they've been around each other, but not in the roles they're in as OC and QB. But, Hackett was in GB for 3 years as titular OC!!!! 2019 - 2021 During those 3 years, GB was 13-3, 13-3, and 13-4 and Rodgers went to 3 probowls and was 1st team all-pro 2x and league MVP 2x. What TF is McDermott talking about? Is he implying actually, Matt LaFleur was the OC and Hackett was OC "in name only"? I hadn't heard about LaFleur calling the plays etc., but did he? Is that why people felt Hackett was so unqualified to be Denver's HC? Or is McDermott confused, which would not be a good sign (and seems unlikely)?

Good point. But keep in mind that Poyer and Hyde can interchange roles. So you could see Poyer as FS and Rapp taking the SS role, with Hamlin subbing in situationally. Or, you could see Poyer and Hamlin as the starters with Rapp subbing in situationally.

PSA: Hamlin started 13 games for the Bills last season, during which the Bills compiled a record of 10-3. I don't think he's back to where he was quite yet, but then, he took a couple games to pick up last season.

I'm not sure how "nobody seemed to even realize he was hurt" Dane Jackson was injured and taken off the field. Micah Hyde was also injured and taken off the field - he only played about 2/3 of the snaps. It was in the media after the game that Hyde had gone to the ER. McDermott said in his presser that he'd called Nate Breske, the Bills head trainer, to find out if he should go to the hospital and was told both Jackson and Hyde were being sent home. I think the severity (shut him down for the season) was a surprise, but the fact of the injury (which uncharacteristically had him out for 1/3 of the game) was not.

Not good. Not good at all.

I now have a Peter Gabriel earworm: https://youtu.be/OJWJE0x7T4Q?t=110 "All you do is call me.....I'll be anything you need" "I wanna be....your sledge hammer"

Oh, you never know. He might have friends somewhere - like maybe 2 on a Dolphins board and 1 on a Pats board, if there are Pats boards.

In contrast to most of Maddy Glab's pieces which I find kinda lame, this one had some genuine funny moments. Dawson says "best way to describe Kincaid is as a Golden Retriever" Like "Air Bud", really good at football - but still, a Golden Retreiver. Dalton politely agrees that he has "Golden Retriever energy". He then "returns fire" by describing Dawson Knox as "Dad, he's the Dad of the group". The 27 yr old 'club action Machine" Dawson is hit to the core: "Wow" "Feels like my rookie year was yesterday" But the fun really starts when discussing Dalton's hair routine. I'm a little concerned about how "Golden Receiver Energy" will hold up against press man coverage, tho

So here's a little point about the "bend not break" "measure success by points allowed" Bills defense. In 2021, the Bills D was #1 in both points allowed, AND yards. 2020, 16 in points, 14 in yards. 2019, #2 in points #3 in yards. 2022 is requires more work to correct for # games played in pro-football-reference, but I make it #2 in PA and #6 in yards (by 18 yds per game vs #1 & #2 teams) Point being, the Bills D historically doesn't seem to be doing a disproportionate amount of "bending" in allowing yards vs. allowing points. Where we've had a problem is in throttling other teams in a handful of tight moments in big games - 13 seconds, Vikes game etc Well, and the Bengals divisional debacle last year which, contrary to narrative, was a horrible fail for the defense.