BigAl2526

I'm fine with Benford's absence from the list. It keeps his asking price in contract negotiations a bit easier for the Bills to cope with. Being on a list doesn't make him a better player. What he does on the field is the determining factor, and I'm very happy with that. I wonder if the evaluation for this list is weighted toward man coverage skills. While Benford has become a pretty decent man coverage CB, the Bills' system has been pretty heavily weighted toward zone coverage.

Nothing has changed since the thread I started a couple weeks ago on the subject.

I was thinking the same thing. I don't think Gardner's play could possibly be 12.6 million dollars a year better than Benford's.

Hopefully not another rubber mat injury. They're so dangerous!

Great receiver, but it is the QB that makes an offense tick. Justin Fields has talent, but has been misused throughout his career. The problem is the Jets have a long history of misusing their QBs. I don't see any reason for that to change.

I can see the problems with the things Bridgewater was doing. Even with good intentions, the remains the possibility that people will see impropriety. Moreover, if Bridgewater is doing things to make life easier for the fifty to a hundred kids that are involved in the football program, there are still hundreds of kids in the school living in poverty who are not benefitting. Bridgewater could be inadvertently creating an elite class in the school system where life is better for some and not for others. The kids for whom life is not better are certainly going to be aware of what is happening and will probably feel cheated. Maybe what Bridgewater could do is set up some sort of foundation that will benefit all the students.

Jill Kelly really is a saint and probably deserves some credit for helping Jim grow into the person he's become. Prayers for his grandson.

There are so many possibilities for most improved it's tough to narrow it down. I think Coleman, Kincaid, Torrence and Bishop are all good possibilities. There are probably more candidates. There may not be quite as many candidates for regression. I think Daquan Jones is as likely to regress as any, though Milano is a possibility too. I just think Daquan started his decline last year and that trend is likely to continue and could even accelerate. I won't be that much of a surprise if he loses his starting job before the end of the year.

I'd love to see the Bills honor Marv a home game this fall. Bring him out on the field a half time and say a few words.

My fandom began in in 1969. There have been plenty of years when I was frustrated and angry, but never did I lose interest. In contrast, while I have maintained an awareness of what is happening with the Sabres, I have not made much of an emotional investment in the team during their long playoff drought.

I think they both make the team. Safeties on the team will be Rapp, Bishop, Forrest and Hamlin. Lewis is a utility player, not a pure safety, so I'm not counting him (his roster spot is not guaranteed.).

He's jealous of my 1100 sq ft mansion and feels the need to upgrade.

Buffalo has WRs who block. Blocking does not present a particular injury risk for running backs, but slowing an onrushing defensive lineman by half a second could be the difference between a big pass play and a hastily thrown ball that falls harmlessly to the turf or worse, into the hands of a defender multiple times during the season.

What the Bills did not do this off season is make a big splash roster move. I don't think they needed to, but I think that's probably how some people measure the prospects for improvement a team might have

The Bills thru the eyes of an Eagles fan site SB Nation is the parent organization of Buffalo Rumblings, a web site cited from time to time here at TBD. They have fan run sites for all NFL teams. This is an article looking at the Bills, one of the Eagles' opponents in the 2025 season. I thought it was interesting. Essentially, they believe that Buffalo did precious little to change the team after yet again failing to surpass the Chiefs in the playoffs. The is a reference to the old adage about the definition of insanity "doing the same thing over and expecting different results. No mentioned by name, the article says Buffalo brought in old injured veterans (Tre White, and Joe Bosa) and "warm bodies" (Josh Palmer and Elijah Moore?) at WR. No mention is made of Buffalo's focus on defense in the draft. So, are the authors right - Buffalo is destined for another playoff run that will again fall short, or are they underestimating the potential effect that newcomers could have on the team? My own perspective is that Buffalo's near misses in its attempts to reach the Super Bowl are not a reason to go into a full scale rebuild. The relatively minor retooling that the Bills have done is due in part to salary cap constraints and an effort to preserve the team's long term outlook, rather that "blowing the wad" on a one-time effort to get over the hump. I think there is still reason to believe that small changes could be enough to give Buffalo the improvements they need to not only get to the Super Bowl, but to win it. They were not that far off.