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I will be interesting to see if Josh's deep ball is accurate enough to take advantage of Cooks skillset. While he has one of the strongest arms in the league, it's not clear to me that he can throw the deep pass accurately. It's been hard to gauge when the WR group is partially to blame, but over his entire career the deep ball doesn't seem to be a strength (understanding that two deep safeties have focused on taking this away from him). Excited to see if Cooks can get separation...just imagine a defense that has to account for that and what James Cook can do with additional space. It's good to have multiple cooks in the kitchen!

I think the early soft schedule made a lot of fans think we were better than we were and the high prevalence of injuries is now making us think we are worse than we are. My concern, is if you look at recent teams that make the SuperBowl, injury luck seems to be a part of the equation. McDermott can't acknowledge this because he has to deal with the reality and move forward (and we've seen this in his replies to reporters), but at some point the "next man up mantra" falls apart. We are seeing this live this season. I think we'll be better in the next six weeks, just not sure that the design of this team has the margin for error of the volume of injuries we are suffering. I expect a 2nd round playoff loss (but hope I'm wrong).

Where's the profit in that?

I agree they seem to be pacing themselves some games. I think this manifests itself in two obvious ways: 1) How much Josh runs the ball. Game gets close, time for a 30 yards runs up the middle to take control. We keep hearing the 'break glass' euphemism by the broadcasters. 2) Resting starters. When Buffalo rested Ed Oliver, Taron Johnson and Matt Milano against the Jets because of the short turnaround with Miami later that week I was stunned that we took them so lightly. Even if we allow for Ed actually being injured, resting Taron and MM seemed disrespectful to an NFL team (even if it is the Jests, who BTW always play us tough). I get contending teams see the regular season as the round robin part of the season where you just have to do enough and stay healthy, but I am just waiting for a quality opponent where this tendency will bite us in the ass. New England is much improved, if the Bills coast or take them lightly we could easily be 4 -1

Interesting video. I struggle with the idea of the NFL as an 'entertainment league' rather than as a sports league (which they used in their anti-trust defense). I think it invites the suspicion that they could determine the outcome of games. All of this in a world where the NFL is increasingly in bed with gambling based on the outcome of its games. Imagine betting on WWE and yet no one bats an eyelash and picking their trifecta for this entertainment league! https://ublawsportsforum.com/2023/02/21/the-nfl-isnt-rigged-but-this-is-how-they-would-do-it-and-why/#:~:text=The NFL must follow its,hold match fixers legally accountable.

Maybe it's just me, I love them. Also, anyone saying their are done with this team because of a new uniform is big C crazy.

Poyer to the practice squad? I'll bet Coleman will have a swivel on his head in practice...

My gripe is not about a cut but rather one we kept. With Hawes being such a good blocker do we really need to waste a roster sport on Gillam. Many teams don't keep a FB anymore, I would train that kid up for the lead blocker role and then *poof* TE3/FB is one position and we have another roster spot for DE depth (especially after week 6 suspensions are lifted).

Well he did play at a similar level to the Bills practice squad last year...as a starter for the Dolphins, lol

So approach any GM in the league to build a team from scratch and ask them "You get to pick Josh or Tua to build around as your first pick..." and see what they all say. Tua is ok, but this type of cherry picking is a bit much...

I agree assumptions are dangerous and there are lots of definitions of intelligence. But my gosh 13 is not good...even if we account for bias in these type tests...yikes 🥺

Hilarious. Let's get revenge on the team that's never won a championship (since the merger), nor really been more successful that us (Ravens) for the past decade. All while KC just grins sheepishly in the background. How about you knock off Sideshow Bob in KC first?

You could tell he had the Bills game marked on his calendar. That wasn't the only play, you could tell it was personal for him. I understand, it's hard to get cut from a team after everything he did, but I think he crossed the line.

Coleman might disagree. https://www.google.com/search?q=poyer+hit+on+coleman&rlz=1C1GCEA_enCA961CA961&oq=poyer+hit+on+&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCAgBEAAYFhgeMgYIABBFGDkyCAgBEAAYFhgeMggIAhAAGBYYHjIICAMQABgWGB4yCAgEEAAYFhgeMggIBRAAGBYYHjIICAYQABgWGB4yCAgHEAAYFhgeMgcICBAAGO8FMgoICRAAGIAEGKIE0gEJNDc4MmowajE1qAIIsAIB8QVCxJrrasTk_Q&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:1015b238,vid:hvR1LjWFgYU,st:0

It's like groundhog day, same dam n thing as last summer!