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Kincaid is fine. He just didn't have the stats of LaPorta. Torrence is going to improve in his second season. He may always struggle a bit with quick players who rush inside, but I think he'll improve some. I wouldn't be surprised if he tries to drop a few pounds to try and get a bit quicker.

I saw one sight that rated him as a 4th round value, but I think 3rd is probably the right spot at which to target him. His estimated 40 time isn't bad for a 6'2" safety - 4.5. If he's around when the Bills pick in the third (a comp pick) I'd probably grab him.

I would look hard at a trade down if I had the opportunity. Beane relies heavily on the scouting department's grading of players. There is a strong likelihood that there will be no players left that carry a first round grade for the Bills. With a bunch of free agents on the team combined with a tight cap, it's likely the Bills will want to hold on to and use their draft picks for as many players as they can draft rather than trade them away to move up and get a player with a first round grade. If I could trade down into the top 5 or 10 spots of the second round, I might take a chance on Xavier Legette, a WR from South Carolina with elite measurables. He does not carry a first round grade to most observers because he's got some shortcomings to his game. If he interviews well and the Bills think he's coachable, he could be a steal. I assume the Bills would get at least a third round pick out of that deal.

I think it is pretty well known that Highmark Stadium has pretty poor visitor locker room facilities. I think the new stadium facilities are supposed to be much better.

The E-P system that the Bills have used is extremely flexible. Not hard at all to use it for a deep passing game. If a coach using E- P doesn't pass the ball deep as often as he could, that's a matter of preference for the coach. Brady ran the ball a lot and seemed to run a high percentage of short passing plays was in part because of late season whether conditions and a desire to cut down on turnovers. In the KC game, the Chiefs have an outstanding CB duo and the Bills receivers struggled getting open. Even Diggs was having to make contested catches instead of getting separation. Aside from Shakir, Buffalo's receivers struggled with the dropsies. Josh threw one deep pass perfectly to a well covered Diggs. Diggs let it go right through hands.

Tre White may be physically able to get on the field by the start of the season, but I would be very surprised if he can actually be effective much before the end of the season. An Achilles tear after recovering from his ACL tear seems like a lot to overcome.

I figured that was going to happen (with both Johnson and Bernard). Dodson is available and Klein will have the benefit of a week of practice. Bernard would have been nice, but McDermott has proven adept at working around his missing starters. If Buffalo wins today, I think there's a good chance both Bernard and Spector will be available against the Ravens.

Competition at WR. His measurables sound a lot like Andy Isabella. If he makes the team, he won't get anything close to WR #2 reps. I assume he'd be competing for a role as a returner, gadget play guy and occasional slot receiver.

I don't care at all. Should the Bills beat KC, it doesn't matter to me who their opponent is. Both Baltimore and the Texans are potentially tough opponents. Houston has youthful enthusiasm, and proved against the Browns that the playoff stage is not too big for them. Baltimore is tough and physical and Lamar Jackson is hard to defend. But Buffalo is pretty good too.

Because he's a QB and jukes defenders like a running back, he must be faking a slide? I don't buy it. It should be renamed "The Butthead Report."

A friend of mine at church is an independent photographer doing contract work USA Today at Bills home games. He told me he had instructions to be sure and get pictures of Taylor. He recently bought a fancy new camera that presumably has the lens to reach into whatever box Taylor is occupying for the game.

Among the questionable players, it seems as if Douglas and Johnson are pretty likely to play. Bernard is probably questionable verging on doubtful to be honest. I know Doubtful and probably are no longer official injury report designations. Martin is a coin flip, but it doesn't matter too much with Haack on the PS (unless Haack pulls one of his famous shanks).

The main issue will be players getting to the facility. Hopefully the organization has the arrangements in place for emergency transportation in case of travel bans.

I don't know that I would call it the best possible move. My label would be the "safest" possible move because of his familiarity with the Bills and the Bills' long snapper both as a punter and a holder on field goal attempts.

This is a different KC team this year. Toward the end of the season KC's young receivers showed improvement, especially Rasheed Rice, but they still don't measure up to what KC has had in the past. The Bills are 1-0 against this year's version of the Chiefs. The fact that it is a home game compensates in part for the improvement of KC's WRs. In any case, it's going to be a tough game especially with the short week combined with the injuries from the Sleelers game

I'd like to see a link as corroboration for this. Generally, contracts normally expire March first, so even if Bojorquez has played his final game for Cleveland, the Bills would not be able to sign him until well after the Super Bowl. Before I believe anything differently, someone would have to show me why and how Bojorquez would be available. On the other hand Araiza would be a quick easy fix. The question would be, has Araiza done anything to address his shortcomings as a punter. Hang time has been an issue for Araiza. He's got great distance on his punts, but sometimes the altitude is not very good. It's also said that in college, he gave no consideration to pinning opponents inside the 20 on shorter punts where that was a possibility. I would hope that he's been working on those things since the sexual misconduct allegations torpedoed his start in the league.

Elam has some gifts, but he is frustratingly slow at addressing his shortcomings in technique. I think the jury is still out about whether or not he has a viable future long term in Buffalo. The interception, while it really helped the Bills at the time, doesn't change the murkiness of his future.

I don't think that Josh Allen in any way shape or form deliberately faked a slide. At that point, I think things are happening too quickly to think about something like that. I do think it's possible Josh thought about sliding and then changed his mind, There's really know way to tell unless Josh volunteers and says what was going through his mind when he hesitated on that run. The league cannot penalize players for thinking. So, Zero, are you acting out your resentment that your Chiefs aren't getting to play a home game against Houston Next weekend?

This is not a bad thing for Miami. Tua is a solid productive QB. Miami's problem is Josh Allen is a unicorn and he plays in Buffalo. Nobody Miami could ever acquire is going to be able to put the team on his shoulders in crunch time the way Josh Allen can.

"Done" seems to have different meaning for different people. It looks to me as if Diggs can be a productive receiver for at least a few years yet. I think perhaps the question should be, is Diggs done as a #1 receiver who reliably shows big play ability? On that issue, I'm not so sure. Some have said, that without a potent #2 threat, teams are rolling coverage toward Diggs and he's not getting the downfield opportunities because of coverage. I'm not so sophisticated in my football knowledge that recognizing coverage is easy for me. I really have to focus on one aspect at a time, and that takes away the enjoyment of watching the whole. I think Buffalo could really stand to have a potent go to #2 receiver. That would go a long way toward showing us what Diggs has left.

From any camera angle available to the TV audience there was no evidence the ball hit the helmet of Freiermuth, but no proof it didn't. It seemed to be one of those cases where if the official had ruled it a fumble recovered by Buffalo, it would have stood in the replay, but there was no clear and obvious evidence to overturn the call they made. On another subject, I think Pittsburgh was a good team for the Bills to be forced to play Klein. He's smart, a sound tackler and good against the run. It's a tougher matchup trying to play him against KC. Bernard's skill set would seem to be a far better match for KC's offense.

Miami is going to continue being a challenge to Buffalo for the AFC East crown. They struggled down the stretch, but McDaniel and their GM know that and will be looking for ways to enable the Dolphins to finish out the season. Buffalo had issues of their own this season. They finished strong, record wise, but the offense for the most part hadn't really been clicking through about the last half to two thirds of the season. Beane and McDermott understand that and, like Miami will be looking for ways to address the problems they had. Whichever team is more successful is the one that will win more AFC East crowns in the future, unless, of course the Jets figure out how to right their completely swamped ship of New England can quickly rebuild their franchise.

KC is less formidable than they've been since Mahomes' second year in the league. I'm not afraid of them.

What I'm saying is if the lake effect was a one day event, as it was this weekend, the scheduling the game for Saturday with the option of moving to Sunday in the event of extreme weather, then you can get the game in whichever day is affected by weather without having to move the game to Monday. Does that clear things up now?

If the game were scheduled Saturday, they could have played on Saturday, and nothing would have been affected by weather. At least this time around, the lake effect snow event in Orchard Park seems to be a one day affair. If the lake effect snow had come today, then there might have been a chance for Buffalo to play tomorrow and still get a normal week in between games. Granted, some lake effect events can be multi-day storms, but at least it would reduce the chances of saddling the Bills or their opponent with a disadvantage the following week.