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We'll find out, but I would strongly suggest that another early playoff ouster in the wild-card or divisional round, especially now with KC not as strong offensively as they've been, and while Cincy and Jax are better, we're still better, IMO the wheels are going to come off if that happens, the fan & media sentiment will begin to swing in the other direction. It's a huge season for several reasons. Let's hope for the best and see how it unfolds. You know my views, I'm not in on the old Carolina staff and IMO McD in his quest for ultimate control, has bitten off more than he'll be able to chew. But I'm also hoping I'm wrong. OTOH, maybe we'll finally bring a Lombardi back to Buffalo.

It's funny you say that. I'm one of those types that distrusts everything until it happens, or in this case there's an actual point-of-no-return. Here's my issue, we know that Pegula was going to move if he didn't get public funds, that's been made clear. But he's only in for what he gets from the public, namely the combined $850M. Very little of that has been spent, negligibly. We have a new dig housing project going on near where we live, several hundred homes, and the amount of equipment they have for the excavation and earthmoving is ten times what we've seen on the videos from the team. I questioned in that video that I linked a few pages back, on the team's youtube channel, that there's not very much equipment there. That has me scratching my head. I've seen more equipment in building small strip malls or townhome tracks of 20 homes. I would think that they'd be moving on this as fast as they can, and the digging it would seem has to be the most finalized part of the entire shebang. So why isn't it further along is the question. If you could see how much they've done in that housing community, it doesn't even approach being a comparison. I'm skeptical as we speak. At the current rate there's no chance on earth that they finish in three years, it'll be a miracle. Until at least half of that money is spent with Pegula on the hook, I'm not going to be at ease. I know this post will get slammed, and call me paranoid, but something's amiss. Maybe it is simply that they really aren't as far along in planning as they wanted to be, but again, that's odd too as you say, like they're hiding something. I mean what, one single excavator and one big Titan truck? Seriously? There's a good dozen of each in the housing community being built near me, plus earthmovers, D8 dozers and a bunch of other stuff. But think about it, right now, with the suspect cost increase so soon after inking the deal on the stadium, and what, already almost 40% of the total expense, Pegula's already on the hook for what he's getting from the state & county. He could cut now and save himself nearly a billion dollars. If it escalates anymore, even more. I know this is going to get red x's and thumbs down, but just sayin'.

Maybe I'm off, but I thought that they said something about it still being a work in progress, which is why more detail isn't available. I thought it odd to begin construction on something that isn't even fully finalized. Meh, maybe I misunderstood. [shrug] I suspect that so many fans are going to be pissed when the new price structure comes out.

Let's see what ours looks like in real games first. Likely agree, but I'm fine for the moment with Dawkins, McGovern, Morse, and Torrence/Bates for L to R. Brown is the wild-card. I'm hopeful. I'm not as sold on McGovern as everyone else is, but let's see. It can hardly be worse than what we've had if Torrence is anything. If not, then I suspect all hell's gonna break loose in terms of scrutiny and criticism by season's end. This is a pivotal season in terms of PR stuff and fan/media reaction. Let's hope that was because of his injury. We got what we got at this point. The rest will work itself out after the season. Time to kick some ass.

Again, I probably should have defined things, but I meant strictly in terms of scoring. This team has already done that in 2020, putting up 43 more points than Kelly's best team did. I don't see why we cannot beat that this season. We'd need to average 31.3 PPG to achieve that. Denver holds the record for most points in a season with 606 in 2013, so if we can manage 38 PPG we could beat that. Here's the thing, 2020 was Allen's first season coming out. Our receivers were Diggs in his first season with Allen, Beasley, Davis as a rookie, and Brown, McKenzie if you want to include him. Knox was in his second season and posted his worst season of the four he's been here. Then we had Knox/Kroft. Now we have Knox/Kincaid. HUGE difference there. Now we have Diggs after three seasons with Allen, Davis in his fourth season, Harty, Shakir, Shorter, and Knox and Kincaid. I'll take that last batch with their experience over the prior batch. We also had Singletary in his second season, also his worst, and and Moss. Advantage goes to Cook/Harris. No question, I'll be disappointed if we're not 1 or 2, and honestly, IMO if we can't beat the Chiefs out with Kelce at 34 and a bunch of mediocre to average WRs that they have, then it'll be a travesty. We were 2nd in PPG and would have been 2nd in Yards had we not missed a game, behind KC in both instances. If we're not 1st or 2nd then something's seriously wrong, whether it be an injury situation or Dorsey not cutting it. Of our last four playoff games the past two seasons we have produced in three of the four, obviously the Cincy game was horrific, but we at this point should write that off as what it was following what had occurred. Let's simply leave it at that in a "not crying over spilled milk" kinda way. But see above if we skunk the playoffs again. Our problem in the playoffs has been our #1 and #2 D playing like a 25th ranked D therein. Not the offense. Completely agree too, and agree with the above, the Kelly-era OL puts this one to shame, but stay up on that, Torrence and McGovern should do wonders for us. Right now it appears that we have average or average-plus players in four OL spots. Obviously Brown is a huge questionmark. And yes, the WR-ing core lacks "eliteness," but all we need is five solid WRs. Beasley wasn't "elite." Davis was a rookie. Brown, ... average on a good day. We shouldn't and don't need three all-pro WRs to make it go. We didn't three seasons ago when we finished a mere 8 points, or 1/2 PPG behind Green Bay in scoring, and look at their WRs that season. Their second best WR was Valdez-Scantling, an incredibly mediocre WR that finished with 690 yards and 6 TDs. Unimpressive. We can easily do better. Again, hinges on Dorsey and luck with injuries, OL playing better than it has, not even necessarily like a top-5 OL, just notably better than what we've had. Agree on Cook/Harris, but again, it's a passing league primarily, so how Kincaid plays will also factor in heavily. I see us being the best offense in the AFC easily. I see KC dropping down a few spots. Kelce can't do everything. We should get a good glimpse as to how good Mahomes is with a mediocre/average cast of WRs apart from Kelce. I'd say top-5. Agree otherwise, but if Allen & Dorsey sync, then buckle up and prepare yourself for some broken records!!!! GO BILLS!!!!

If Dorsey can keep from putting his head up his ass this offense has the potential to be the best in franchise history and rival the best all-time in the NFL.

Seems to me that Sherfield's the 6th WR overall at present, the most likely to be knocked out by another. I don't think he will be, but Diggs, Davis, Harty, and Shakir are locks. I can't imagine that they'll waive Shorter, their early 5th-round draft pick, who was the second leading WR, only by a narrow margin, in his last two seasons at Florida, with siht running QBs that were among the worst passers in the SEC. IMO his ceiling is higher than most think. That would place Sherfield, who despite any narratives, hasn't done much to distinguish himself in four seasons in the NFL, as the most likely one to be surpassed, especially since the only two behind him whose names I've heard about from Camp, Isabella and Johnson, are in his spot on the depth chart right behind him. The fact that Isabella is after Harty and Shakir as a specialist may be concerning for Sherfield.

We're going to miss Edmunds. The move was probably best for both however, us as well as Edmunds. I suspect that he'll flourish in Chicago in a traditional MLB role. We obviously didn't use him that way.

And those that seemed to think that Williams would end up at MLB, or that Klein was anything but a depth player at this point in his career. Maybe he'll move up, but based on this chart I at least feel vindicated in my positions about the starting players. Same for Poona Ford whom IMO many overrate. Again, poor planning. I'm not sure that it can reasonably be spun any other way.

Do you post your rankings anywhere besides here?

Regarding the Day 1 prospects, how often do you come up with an analysis that differs from the typical media take?

Train commute?

You must be retired, LOL, that's 2 months of full-time work. I typically spend time only on the picks we make. At least the day 1 & 2 guys. I didn't this year, just read the profiles.

Be kinda funny if he got his bell rung and then pulled a Jim Marshall.

Weekend at Tua's

We agree that many don't bother to read the reality on some prospects. This stuff is freely available on multiple draft sites. Most of it stems from the same handful of sources, most sources don't go out and do their own research on 300 and some draft prospects. It takes a while to do a thorough analysis on a player including view key game films, review the statistical data, etc. Most simply defer to the Mel Kiper's and other draft "gurus" online which . I estimate that it takes about 6-8 hours to conduct a fairly thorough analysis on a player, and that's a full-time job for someone intent on doing a hundred or more players. Most schools will provide the video of a particular player and only every play he was involved in on O or D if you ask them, but that's still a couple of hours, particularly with replaying, slow-mo, etc. Some stuff is online, but I've not seen it en masse to that extent. I always find it amusing the people that claim that they watched every team's draftees play in college. Point being, that the info is already out there and it all essentially aligns, at least insofar as positional possibilities, etc. I'm not sure how "quasi-MLB" would work though. I suppose Lloyd could "fill-in," but if it's only a "quasi" role, ... It definitely raises questions. My issue with the current situation, and now that we've agreed on Williams and Bernard, is that Beane has made no plans for the post-Edmunds Bills. I know that you disagree, no need to give me a red-X, but it's readily apparent to me that never having drafted an ILB/MLB with any significant chance of developing into a starter, nor having picked one up in free-agency at any point, is an issue. How big of one we shall soon see. We agree entirely on the bolded part above. Where we differ is in that from what I've seen, he'd be a liability, a weakness in the D, perhaps not a huge one, but one nonetheless if he ended up starting at MLB. I don't think that opposing OCs and the QBs that we face would have a lot of difficulties exploiting him. He's not improving nor getting any faster at his age either. There too we'll have to wait and see. On the official website however he's the starting SAM, so that doesn't say much for Bernard or Dodson either. I don't know how current that is, but it was empty about a week ago. Also, consider, if Klein were that good, why has he bounced around on practice squads several times over the past couple of seasons. He's technically been on Chicago, Baltimore, and the Giants. Starting caliber LBs simply don't get bounced around like that. We are in alignment there, but I don't see that situation lasting very long, although as discussed, not sure what the solution will be. Perhaps simply a weakness in the middle. Thanks for the exchange!! Stands to reason though as well. I mean he's only 28 and this will be his second season back. I'd expect him to be at least 80% which for him would still be above-average. Hopefully "his old form" and 100%. Agree though, it's encouraging based upon reports.

Well, that is what every single draft profile on Williams says, I haven't found one, and I've looked at a good dozen that says he's even capable of playing MLB at all. I have no idea why so many here were saying that he'd end up playing MLB. We were just talking about how coaches say anything. LOL At the end of the day, if we have a MLB that's perpetually getting run through, over, and around, it would make sense to make some kind of adjustment. That's a bit harsh for Bernard, although I've already seen enough that he's not going to start at MLB with anything that below-average performance at the position. As ot Dodson, I don't disagree in the least. Hence the issues at MLB. But all along they've said that those two are 1/2 on the depth chart. After that are Klein and Spector. I know you're bigger on Klein than I am, but do you see either of them starting there with any particular success? I don't. You know my take on the matter otherwise. I'm told that this was all planned out.

We'll know very soon what's going on at MLB. I wouldn't consider that they don't try to eliminate the position altogether in favor of two OLBs. They're always so giddy about versatile players and confusing D looks, they may try something like that. I wouldn't do it, but it may be better than using an undersized MLB that simply doesn't have the umph to get the job done. You know MO, that it's going to be an issue. As with rags, we hope we're wrong. But there's nothing in the draft profiles of any of those two recent draftees that suggests they're capable of playing the position. Bernard was a reach in the 3rd according to most draft profiles. We'll see what happens.

That's what I meant. Bad humor apparently. With Jones he realizes the value of a passer. Yes yes, easy chief. Poor attempt at humor on my part. Geez ...

It's probably Belichick. He seems to know all bout the importance of QBs that can pass well to win. He has a degree from the school of hard knocks

As usual, what bothered me is the statements made to the public as if some of us are stupid. Peterman giving us the best chance to win ... whatever. Taylor would have been much better. I realize that they have to play the media game, but there's often a fine line between humiliating yourself and looking like a buffoon and couching statements to try and deflect.

You can cut 'em yourself too, it's easy. They cost a lot less that way. If money's no object, yeah, just buy 'em cut. Those generally are pretty good sized Wings. If you're pizza oven is a convection oven that's a pretty good way to cook 'em. Air fryers, aka convection ovens, are also good. I prefer deep-frying mine in lard, much healthier that way, they also taste better and don't stick together like they do when I fry them in soybean oil/vegetable oil. It's difficult to find lard, I get mine at a local meat processor for about as much as vegetable/soybean oil costs. You really need a deck/patio or garage to fry though, stinks up the house if you do it inside. ... unless you don't mind living in a Wendy's. LOL

Also depends upon the size of the fryer and how many wings are packed into it. I've found that spreading them out cooks them better and more quickly. IOW, instead of cramming 18 wings into a fryer without much space left, try 10 or 12, they'll fry up faster and get crispier more quickly, and I've found that they actually cook faster (more per hour) that way.

Leaning towards how Belgian (European) Pommes (fries) are cooked. I'll have to try that at home sometime.

That's it right there! 10+ years ago they were a good size. Then everyone got all amped up about bigger wings and they started breeding 'em differently. If they're too big you take a bite or two and all the surface crunchiness is gone and all you've got left is white chicken on a stick. Not much difference between that and a boneless breast piece of chicken.