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Lot's of things need to go right to win games in the playoffs. It's a combination of luck/preparation/execution. Most plays are 50/50, and what decides who wins is a minor mistake or great play by a player or two. What I'm saying is you can't just say "well the game was trending one way so we were lucky to be in that position, and should have lost 9 out of 10 times" without acknowledging that really you can say that on the other side with almost the same consistency. Most games come down to a few plays that go right or wrong for a team. 50/50 games are almost every game until the 4th quarter

13 seconds is a bills win 99/100 times it’s played. You can do this both ways

You wonder why the Bills spent a draft pick on a guy at this position - the cap implications of a top receiver are insane now.

“There was a landline available and he left $40 on the counter! That’s enough for pizza AND wings!” -Billl

Watching Luka pass is the thing that carries him closest to Allen. Allen has the coordination with a ball in his hands to be precise. allen was a plus high school basketball player, who then went through a growth spurt and is now a 6’5 beast of a precision athlete. I think he could step onto a low end D1 team and probably be able to not look terrible. Maybe after a year or two of training he could be on the bench of a top D1 program. It would be a whole different level for NBA however.

Getting up to speed is a decade long venture. JJ Watt played hockey since he was a kid, and while he looks big and fast, he would be lost in the ECHL which is the third tier league basketball and football are completely different realms in their own right. Basketball is about 5 players all carrying similar abilities in different facets to put a ball in a hoop. Football is 11 players specializing heavily in skill sets or facets to effectively succeed in their micro role on a play against a macro strategy He would be wayyyy too small for PF maybe he can be a SG or PG with a very specific skill set. the NBA requires a longer learning period for a football player to move to as opposed to an NBA players learning to be a gunner or vertical TE

Allen couldn’t step in right now and be anything close to an NBA player. If you gave him 3 years of coaching and practice every day maybe he can not be a total fool for 5 minutes. allen has something going for him, he is incredibly smart, with quick reactions and very athletic. Maybe he could play a hybrid point guard role as a distributor. however, rivers is insufferable with his mountain top shouting about this. If the NBA had rosters of 53 plus a highly specialized role that players could map to (like the fact that college basketball players turned football players have all been TEs because that position has the biggest athletic advantage over his defensive counterpart) there would absolutely be NFL players coming over. Regardless, neither sport has a player that will ever come play hockey, so maybe PK Subban can stand on an even higher mountain than rivers to make everyone else feel lesser…

With his height/weight, the only positional options would be DE/FB Maybe a practice squad player

MVS is a bulls alum, and as a fellow alum I always enjoyed watching him play. He isn't top tier by any means, but if he comes in as a #4 that can push the boundary, there's nothing wrong with that.

Shorter is by no means likely. Hollins is likely compared to Shorter

Trash human is trash.

I suspect he will get between 6-12 games, dependent on details that come out over the next month or two. I dont think the NFL will rush to a decision on it. 6-9 games for the initial incident, and 3-6 games for the second incident dependent on details that come forward

From the embedded video it sounded like Beane really thinks this guy can be a long term center option

Elam gets another year with a new DB coach to show me what he can do. We have team control on his deal, and if he develops it's a big plus. I'm not convinced that Burks is a better option that Claypool right now. He is 24 and has shown very little. Elam has been boom bust, but at least you can say he has made plays at times. You need to see if he can harness that potential and make him more consistent.

There is no down and distance where I go "Josh CAN'T get us out of this". That is an incredible feeling as a fan. Most QBs on 3rd and 13 or at their own 20 with 50 seconds left you feel little hope. With Josh, you almost get excited for those opportunities in a sick way to see what he can do.

Chargers lost Allen and Williams Tyler Boyd is a good get, but is aging quickly Berrios is quite uninspiring and Malik Washington is a question mark Bills DRAFTED Keon Coleman, and signed Claypool and Cephus It may not be sexy, but I have no issues with the Bills taking a chance on two redemption projects to potential bring some impact. If Allen can motivate these guys in the right way, we could see a really consistent WR room. Maybe not high end, but consistent.

Burrow was on a rookie deal until recently, and all success Burrow had against the Bills (and achievements) are while he was on his deal. So they could disperse funds towards other positions while he was on that deal. Chase is on his fifth year Higgins just now is on the Franchise tag. Your point (if I'm not mistaken) was the Bengals have been able to be more successful than the Bills and have cap space right now, I'd simply point out the situations have been entirely different. The Bills were never as bad as the Bengals were, and have not had the luxury of two top 6 picks (being at two vital positions) on rookie deals for 5 years as a way to fill out the roster with available funds. Not to mention, the first year Beane came to the team he had to clear a load of dead cap, which limited the way he could turn the team around in 2018/2019. You are right, Burrow is no longer on his deal. However, Chase (a top 10 WR in the game) is $9M this year. Burrow's actual hit is $29M. Higgins even on the tag is $21. They have been able to hold core pieces for small amounts of money, and this year is their first real year of cap impact. That $23M will not be so high next year, unless they offload talent (like the Bills did). Regarding the Chiefs comments - The Chiefs are the best team in the league over the past 5 years. The Bills have been a top 5 team over the past 4 years. The Bills are like the Chiefs - they have a core piece (Allen/Mahomes) and they have other core talent locked down (Kelce/Milano/Jones/Miller/Etc.). The main difference is the Chiefs dealt Hill instead of giving him an extension, where as the Bills gave Diggs an extension and now have moved him. That's a $30M sway (and accounts for the cap you discuss the Chiefs having). It's one move. I don't hold this organization to the fire over one move. They are fixing the problem it caused, but they aren't dumb in aggregate. The Chiefs have made smart moves - the Bills have made smart moves. The Chiefs made a smart move one more time than the Bills did. And even then, it didn't look like a smart move until the Chiefs won it all this year.

The chiefs traded Hill to get away from a cap bind. The chiefs have moved players out, but have been flexible with that cap situation via great drafting and cheap FAs. The bills are emulating that to a degree. the bengals were worse than the Bills had been for the past decade in 2019-20 when they picked first overall and 5th for chase and burrow. They are losing Higgins and Hendrickson within the year, and they have benefitted from having those talents on rookie deals. in fact, you made your own counterpoint in your post. The Bengals have an elite QB on a rookie deal, which gives them flexibility. They have had two elite WRs on rookie deals, which have given them flexibility. The Bills have had Allen’s deal active for a few seasons now, and paid Diggs as a true #1. So I’m not sure what point you are trying to make here.

The overhead of that video potentially showed a reason why Franklin dropped to the 4th round. He was zig zagging all over the place

The Bills offense was top 5 at the end of the year, and was so via flexibility of the scheme week to week. The team didnt need to funnel Diggs 15 targets a game to be successful. Brady used the run game, Kincaid, Shakir and it was a better offense than the first half of the year.

I have a feeling they will go WR in the third. Guys will continue to drop

He is Gabe Davis with hands. If he has those traits, the Bills will make him successful

Worthy sprinted to the stage, and the light breeze in Detroit picked him up and he was never heard of again

If worthy makes such an impact, he isn’t the pick at 28, he is going top 10. Frankly the guy can run fast at the combine. I don’t see the separation on film, I don’t see plus hands. They will scheme him all over the field I’m sure, but worthy was not a top 40 prospect in this draft for me.

Or, people have been consistent that they are not a huge Fan of Worthy…. But posters sensationalize for the sake of making a point