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FWIW, Brandon Beane’s Draft Picks other than Allen Listed as Starters to Open the Season Gabe Davis, 2020, 4th Round Cyress O’Torrence, 2023, 2nd Round Spencer Brown, 2021, 3rd Round Dawson Knox, 2019, 3rd Round James Cook, 2022, 2nd Round Greg Rousseau, 2021, 1st Round Ed Oliver, 2019, 1st Round Terrell Bernard, 2022, 3rd Round Kaiir Elam, 2022, 1st Round Taron Johnson, 2018, 4th Round Tyler Bass, 2020, 6th Round

And then a lot of people are going to be saying we should have extended him while he was less expensive. I don't see how he'll stay on the team if he has the big season that we're expecting.

I'm going to agree with you on this.

You forgot New Stadium is crushed by 8' of snow. That is bold considering that if isn't up there like that, that they'll have to do it against the Eagles, Chiefs, Cowboys, and Chargers.

Anyone know when the official depth chart comes out?

Ahhh, gotcha! Yeah, I hear ya. Sounds about right. I'm of the opinion that the OL will be OK, notably better than it's been. The WRs/TEs are the best group we've had under Allen easily. I agree with that generally speaking. I'm expecting the O to be fine, but we'll see. As I've often said, this is going to be a pivotal season. If the OL isn't better than average this season, or at least solid average, if the D regresses, if Allen/Dorsey don't workout the kinks, and/or if Diggs gets hot again, etc., and it ends up costing us, I see a lot of heat being directed at both McD and Beane. No need to abandon ship until she starts taking on water however. GO BILLS!!! I will say, the MNF game vs. the Jets will be key. If we win all will be fine. If it's a good game both ways all will be OK. But if we lose when we shouldn't, it's going to be a really bad harbinger.

It seems to me that there's a shift in the strengths of our team. Seems as if the D getting somewhat worse, say average this season. On the flip side however, I don't see how anyone isn't excited to see this O in action. Granted, Dorsey can F it up to an extent, but if he doesn't, the potential for an enormous offensive season is there. So really, a shift from the emphasis from Defense to Offense, which in today's NFL is a good thing, a positive thing. We shall soon see. And yeah, I'm leaving room for Dorsey to do just that, F it up, but he deserves the benefit of the doubt until he does. Agree, fully. If anyone is the beneficiary it's Josh. Torrence, who looks the part, McGovern, and finally depth at receivers and two competent TEs. I'm not sure what's not to be excited about offensively. Defensively we'll take a step back, possibly more than that, but in the grand scheme it stands to be OK.

No matter how it's sliced, poor planning.

From your lips to my ears!!! I cannot agree more. Nothing wrong with Allen except the decision-making, and using up that clock more and taking 12 plays instead of 3, 4, or 5 to score, would help immensely, particularly come playoff time. Some do, some don't. Obviously I wasn't referring to you or anyone else that did a serious "write-up." The write-ups are fine. More referring to the general commentary.

Yeah, thanks, my bad. Corrected.

Harty's got a nearly $5M dead-cap hit, there's no way that they're going absorb that.

I wouldn't sweat anything yet. It's kinda funny, last week everything sucked, this week everything's great. LOL Not to get in on that emotional fray, let's also realize that even with Chicago's starters on both sides, they were terrible on both offense and defense last season. I'm not sure that it's the goal of teams to win in the preseason, seems that coaches are trying to evaluate players, or get them in real-game thinking mode anyway. My personal curiosity is what the final depth chart looks like, particularly WRT to the LBs. I'm curious what they plan on doing. The offense IMO is going to be fine, if we stay healthy, expect franchise records to be set, perhaps even a league record or two. I'm thinking Air Coryell type of offense here.

Diggs' career max is 166. Allen's career max attempts is 646. I expect that to go up slightly this season. Even at that, If Diggs were to average 10 per game that'd be over 25% of Allen's attempts. Gotta be some balance as well. Jefferson led the league last seaason with 184.

Thank you! Now was that hard. Back to my original point, somewhat subjective then.

Got it then, by your definition. No need reply "no, not like that then."

Ahh, then like how we know that our defense is great even though we're low end in the playoffs. Perhaps like that maybe.

Yeah, not sure about the Jets and Fins. Miami's taken 5 of the last 6 with their only loss having been last season when Skylar Thompson was playing in his first game, @ Jets. Those two teams seem to consider the other the primary rivalry in the East. It was Bills v. Miami years ago when it was Kelly/Marino. Also, it could be that the people you cite seem to think that McD's not as good a coach like so many in Mafia land seem to believe as part of their assessment. As for us, no reason to be concerned about the Fins, which Allen owns, and if we lose to the Pats it'll be our own fault. But while we've beaten the Jets in 5 of our last 6 matchups over the past three seasons, last season they were our two worst games offensiveyl speaking, and we averaged only 18.5 PPG to their 16. We averaged 29 PPG against them under Daboll scoring 27, 27, and 45 in three of those games in the two seasons prior. We'll see what Dorsey has planned. Either way, IMO that first @ Jets game may end up being a lot more significant than many realize, per our exchange.

Right, just like we know who was ultimately responsible for "13 Seconds." LOL Season's right around the corner, cuts on Tuesday. The day approacheth.

But you expect me to break things down in avid detail at times. Sure. I also didn't realize that to break down in a sentence or two how you define "defense stinks" as being some arduous time-consuming task. ... given how much you post otherwise. Just sayin'.

It's definitely going to be an interesting season from the perspective of the division. This is the first time in a couple of decades that there's been some relatively stiff competition among the four teams. It's exciting, and whoever comes out on top will be more prepared for the playoffs. I can see all four teams finishing with winning records and within 3 games of one another. It's gonna be a cool season.

Well, OK, but it would help to define "the defense stinks," and "a very bad season." Those are subjective measures. It almost sounds as if you're saying that if the unimaginable occurs, then he could be fired. I suppose, but that's extreme. Also, define "stinks"? What, ranked out of the top-10? Worse? What ranking would it take for that to occur in your mind? Also define "very bad season"? To me a "very bad season," given that we have Allen, would be fewer than 10 wins, going less than 4-2 in the division. Barring an injury to Allen, I find it all but impossible that we don't make the playoffs, even if only as a 6th or 7th seed. I don't envision that most coaches with Allen, Diggs, Davis, Knox, Kincaid, Cook, Harris would miss the playoffs entirely, on any team otherwise, even with a 20th ranked D. But yeah, I'll take the opposite tack. I don't think that our D is going to be very good at all. Average-ish as I've often suggested. IMO ranked somewhere in the teens. But it's sucked in the playoffs anyway, low-end there as I've statistically laid out before, and if there's one thing we've learned it's that offense is what wins championships more often than not these days. The Chiefs won last season with the 1st-ranked offense but the 16th ranked D. The year before the Rams won with the 7th ranked offense and the 15th ranked D. The year prior to that the Bucs won it on offense also, scoring a perfect 31 in three games and 30 in their other playoff game with Brady, they had the 8th ranked D. D isn't necessary for a championship, why the team is so much more focused on the D, while being another issue, is problematic given that until this past offseason they've all but ignored the offense, and the OL in particular. After the heavy draft investment in offense, people are going to be looking for a commensurate improvement there. If that happens, I see no reason as to why we can't still be 13-4, or let's simply say have 11+ wins, even with a very average D. As you've no doubt read, I'm of the opinion that this offense is going to set records this season, franchise if not league. Even if we don't do that but end up with the #1 Offense, and the 18th ranked Defense, I'd view that as bery successful and IMO it would take us to another division win and the best chances for playoff success since our D goes flat and doesn't cut it in the playoffs far more often than not. Pegula would look like a jacka$$ if he fired either McD or Beane, under pretty much any circumstances after giving them both extensions months ago when their contracts had one more season beyond this one as it was. One of the largely held opinions by many in both fandom and media was why he gave them that extension with another year after this one remaining. I also envision him giving those guys at least one mulligan. OTOH, the one thing that could derail the train as it were, IMO, is if we go say 2-4 in the division with Belichick, McDaniel, or Saleh outcoaching McD to the extent that the national media notices, and how would they not, and we finish say 3rd in the division, even if we get a 7th seed, I can see the fans and media forcing Pegula's hand. But I see absolutely no circumstances under which Pegula would fire either after this season w/o being forced by public/media/fan pressure/opinion. It does seem that whatever happens, McD/Beane are here, or not, as a tandem, going to share the same fate if it comes to that.

Sure, and you'd know who was coaching well and who wasn't. Let's stay in context however. Citing playoff seeding as an end-all-to-be-all indicator as to how good a coach is, is taking some liberties. Especially when the team is in a division with three other teams that aren't good, and that otherwise hasn't had schedules of any worse than average difficulty.

He's got is for 3 straight home loses in October. Wow! I can see all four teams finishing within say three games of one another though.

Not sure whether it's been mentioned or not yet, but apparently Miami is the current likely landing spot for Taylor.