UKBillFan

We faced JAX too. Remind me how that went?

In fairness, 50 of Mahomes’ passing yards came in OT when Josh didn’t have a chance to take the field. Deduct them and it’s 329 & 68 with 4TDs vs 328 & 69 with 2TDs and a rushing TD. There’s a reason so many say the game was the height of QB brilliance, and neither deserved to lose. With Josh, the key this year will be to maintain the superb plays whilst raising the floor from last season. Jacksonville, Indianapolis, to an extent Pittsburgh, Atlanta when he was a brilliant at running but struggled to pass… Hopefully we have improved the O Line and running game from others to help him out. Get his passing percentage completion back to 2020 levels and we should top the AFC, all other things being equal. He has the potential to be the best QB to ever play the game - the talent is there.

Because the other option was a struggling Howard?

Heck no - we're still the Bills, even if we're one of the Super Bowl favourites. Did it help us last year?

Is that where I've been going wrong???

I trust TBD posters more than I trust Google!

Are the captains voted for by the players or chosen by the coaching team? Was there much said about Ferguson losing the role? Sorry for the questions!

Playing pass protect in college is different to playing pass protect in the NFL. He has the mental ability to do it; he understand what he needs to do. Can he translate this against players who have better physical attributes and more experience? That won't be just a question for us but all rookies across the NFL. Hopefully he can.

It feels like we're going into the season with more questions than we had a week ago, for some reason. They'll be answered one way or another on Thursday.

As I tend to know what's going to happen before it does, it doesn't usually affect me, but perhaps I should try it. 😅

They'll have to work out whether Michigan are fantastic or Colorado dreadful.

I can really sympathise with Kim. Sad fact, my feed for the Bills is slightly behind for the televised games so, if I read something bad is going to happen on here, I quickly turn off. If I didn’t see it, it didn’t happen. If I’m watching a replay, and I know we’ve won, I’m not so fussed.

I don’t think the Rams beating us would be that much of an upset? Not doing us down, but they’re the Super Bowl winners, with a strong roster, at home. Not sure what the odds say at the moment but a Rams win wouldn’t shock me at all, even though it wouldn’t mean anything for the season in the long term.

Agreed - if you make it a quadruple or switch the RB for a TE and include Knox then it’s a different proposition.

Nope, no metric system, it’s me being awful at maths at 1am. 😁

In what is surely not a shock to anyone, Marquis Stevenson to IR to make way for Sam Martin’s arrival.

Only a one year deal. Is that usual for a punter?

As you mentioning drafting, ours has been pretty good since the McBeane era began: 2022: Six of eight retained on 2022 roster - Elam, Cook, Bernard, Shakir, Benford and Spector. Planned to be seven. Tenuta picked up from waivers by Colts. 2021: Six of eight retained on 2022 roster - Rousseau, Basham Jnr., Brown, Doyle, Stevenson and Hamlin. Wildgoose picked up from PS by Jets in 2021, then Commanders via waivers in 2022. J Anderson picked up from PS by Eagles in 2021, then Giants via waivers in 2022. 2020: Five of seven retained on 2022 roster - Epenesa, Moss, Davis, Bass and Jackson. Hodgins on PS. Fromm was picked up from PS by Giants in 2021, but has since been cut and is a free agent. 2019: Five of eight retained on 2022 roster - Oliver, Singletary, Knox, J Johnson and Sweeney. Ford was traded to the Cardinals this year; Vosean Joseph plays in the CFL for the Tiger-Cats and Darryl Johnson is with the Seahawks. 2018: Four of eight retained on 2022 roster - Allen, Edmunds, Johnson and Neal. Phillips is with the Vikings, Teller is with the Browns, McCloud is with the 49ers and Proehl is a free agent after being released by the Giants earlier this month. 2017: Three of six retained on 2022 roster - White (PUP), Dawkins and Milano. Jones is with the Jaguars, Peterman was cut by the Bears yesterday and Vallejo is with the Cardinals. So out of the 45 draft picks selected under McBeane, 29 are on the current 53 man roster or listed on the PUP, one is on the Practice Squad (so three quarters of the picks are still with the Bills), ten are playing elsewhere in the NFL, one is playing in the Canadian Football League and four are currently free agents, though we planned to have one of those on the roster for 2022. Maybe this is nothing out of the ordinary but, to me, I’d say that’s an exceptionally good success rate.

You'd think so. It's a week to opening game tomorrow; it'd be nice to get a punter signed within the next 24 hours.

Perhaps Martin is asking too much considering the cap space. Maybe we'll move on to Berry, Long, Newsome etc.

Honestly? Lost the will to live.

Though, as said earlier (on another thread?) would Martin have travelled to Buffalo without knowing we'd meet the lowest offer he'd accept?

Gabriel Davis, Isiaiah McKenzie, Ed Oliver, Dane Jackson...

If that's what we're doing then I bow to McBeane - great move.

You'll have to narrow it down a bit - Ricky Martin, Steve Martin, Max Martin, Chris Martin, Todd Martin, George RR Martin...?