JohnNord

Only concern about Williams is that while he’s very athletic, he’ll often get faked out and be a step behind in coverage. I can see Mike McDaniel dialing up some misdirection and trying to feed Achane both as a runner and reciever

I’ll be he returns after the bye.

This was my first inclination. But then again, are we sure the players really want to go to war for McDaniel? They already had to doomed “players only” meeting and Tua seemed to throw him under the bus in his post game interview. It reminds me of Rex Ryan in 2016 after mid season. You think the teams wants to fight for him but they didn’t give a *****. I can see this one being close but can also see it going the other way.

if he can improve a little bit as a pass catcher then I think there’s a chance he could replace Knox who is useful but highly paid. The big question make in Kincaid who has an option coming up after this season. If they pick up his option, I can see them moving on from Knox. But that’s a big “if” now

Joe is a smart OC. He’s making use of the talent that he has. There’s times when the Bills WR’s (sans Palmer) struggle with separation against good CB’s. You saw this early on in the Baltimore game and thats why I think he dialed up some screens. Going into the game against NYJ the Bills knew they could move the ball on the ground and it became a focus. So they didn’t really even need to pass. I’m guessing the reason you reason you’re saying this is because Allen isn’t slinging the ball around through the air like he did when Dorsey was at the helm. I’m fine with that

Tre and Bosa are healthy so I don’t think they’ll be sitting. But I wouldn’t be surprised if Milano and Oliver are out

I don’t think it’s anything serious. Might miss the game on a short week but he should be good long term

No it happened Wednesday in practice Yeah I feel for him. He always seemed like a very good guy. To your point, he should be able to recover from the ACL before preseason begins. But then his competition will be Ed Oliver, TJ Sanders, and Deonne Walker in year 2. I supposed he’d have a chance to compete at 1-Tech but that’s not really his speciality and there will likely be more competition. So yeah, and extremely tough road ahead for Carter who was already in a tough spot

Damn it sucks. But honestly, I don’t think he was playing much this season anyway. He probably would’ve been a healthy scratch as he was last season. I like the draft pick at the time but I’ve never been overly impressed with Carter, sans 1 or 2 plays against Tennessee last season. You can blame the injury if you want, but his tape last year was really bad. It’s not coincidence the Bills drafted 2 players at Carter’s same position this year. Beane said they were hoping to move him to 1-Tech but that’s not his natural position and I don’t feel it would have went well He never was average in the NFL. His play was below average most of the time His film wasn’t that great. He made one good stop against Tennessee

Like I said, his play hovers between average to below average. He started 14 games last season and he wasn’t really a liability. He doesn’t have any “Kair Elam games” on his resume

Damar has clear limitations. He’s a fringe average/below average starter at safety. But Buffalo has a fairly large sample size of using him in a way where he can do enough without hurting the defense. You can say the same thing for other safeties on the team. i don’t buy that Buffalo brought him back because of emotional attachment. He signed for just over the vet minimum as special teamer and insurance at safety. If they had their way Bishop would be starting. But he can’t stay on the field and when he has, he’s been bad. So if you cut Damar what are your options? Darrick Forrest (sucks)? Cam Lewis (injured)? Jordan Hancock (injured)?

I have never been impressed with Carter. Watch his reps against lineman that will be cut in a few weeks. He was blown off the ball a few times. Now compare Carter to another prospect like Deone Walker. He too was blown off the ball vs. the run. However he did show several flashes getting after the QB. He’s not ready to start but you can find a role for him. I can’t say the same thing about Carter, I'm not sure he is in the roster beyond week 8. That’s not really true. With a few exceptions, he’s been solid. There’s a lot of B’s and a few B+’s. His problem continues to be that beyond Josh, he doesn’t really have an A or A+ pick on the roster. His defense is that Buffalo has been picking toward the bottom of the draft over the past 5 seasons. This is a factor. But at some point he needs to really find 1-2 All Pro players. This is what is lacking on his resume IMO

I thought he was watching Buffalo Joe Anddreeson dropping into the wrong spot on pass coverage

He was very very bad the time he started in Pittsburgh. Mitch is actually a good athlete with a decent arm for a QB. He can do SOME of things like Josh can out of sequence. But he mostly checks the ball down or scrambles for a few yards. You don’t see many big time throws. I know it was frustrating for Steeler fans In the game against NYG I thought he did a better job pushing the ball downfield than he had in the past

There’s a few things that made me not overreact. The first is that Buffalo likely won’t be playing with that many backups. Who you play next does matter. Everyone is like “oh the starters better never get hurt.” Well yes, when you have a defense made up of 2nd and 3rd stringers they are bad. But when you take 1 or 2 of these 2nd stringers and add them on the regular defense, the play of the starters will likely elevate the reserves. Take someone like Ryan VanDemark. He was pretty horrible playing on a line with backups last night. But he started against KC with the other 4 starting OL and looked pretty decent. You game play around their weaknesses and other player strengths. The other thing is what McDermott alluded to last week. He likes to test individual players and see how they react. Normally they don’t do this dusting the regular season. A few examples I noticed: - Mike White as starter - VanDemark at LT - Codrington at CB - forced targets to Shavers/Moore - extended work for Carter and Andreessen - Cole Bishop guarding Zacchius in man The coaches don’t care about the score as much as they do seeing what type of players they have. Now I’d argue all of these players, with the exception of Shavers, failed in their individual challenges. But many of these players won’t be on the team or won’t be playing much - besides Bishop