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Who gets the credit for that Sack? God knows Von can't get credit for any positive play he makes around here.

There's no way we can field a powerful offense with these weapons....

Bills games are a family affair for me. If I don't watch the game with my old man, he gets legitimately disappointed. It's one of the only things we bond over and have in common. There are times where I wish I could just watch on my own and relax at my place. But I know I'll miss these times when he's gone.

Good to have a contingency plan in place. But we really should have just taken the medicine and moved on. We could have signed Jake Bates (Lions) from the UFL or Drafted Will Reichard (Vikings), Cam Little (Jaguars), or Josh Karty (Rams). At this point, even if Bass continues to be the player we saw last season and through Training Camp - the options to replace him aren't going to be much better.

Josh is Coordinator dependent? How does he figure? Because we fired one coordinator midseason?

Idk about that. The WR market is insane and there's not a trait that drives price more than youth coming off a Rookie contract. If Gabe Davis and Darnell Mooney got 13m a year, I don't think Khalil Shakir with the skills he's been showing on National stages, coming off of his first deal - is going to be a small contract market. He's a Slot, so that could help. But it's not going to be a bargain, especially if he wants to test his market.

Agreed. Though in spreading them out, it can only be this coming offseason or the following offseason. Which then brings Greg Rousseau into the equation also. Good problem to have and we have all those players through next season regardless. But keeping all 5 is going to be tough proposition.

I do too. The issue is that Draft Class has so many Post Round 1 hits, are we going to be able to extend them all? Benford may or may not be Priority 1. All these players were Drafted in the same class and all their contracts come due at the same time. And they're all going to be pricey. James Cook Terrel Bernard Khalil Shakir Christian Benford

I was bullish on Braelon Allen in the Pre-Draft process for us. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed that we went with Davis instead. But I trust Beane to get the guys he thinks fits the team and schemes best. I like what I've seen from Davis in the Pre-Season and the few spots we've deployed him during the Regular Season. Hopefully he continues to ascend and makes me look silly for wanting Allen instead.

Gotcha. Honestly, he scares me so little - I didn't even think of him. Decent player, but people were really saying he was going to wreak havoc on us? He's a guy somewhere between AJ Epenesa and Greg Rousseau to me.

I quoted this before, but now that I've watched the whole video - with all due respect to you, this is NOT a good breakdown. He said some jaw dropping stuff in there that had me wondering if he was one of the NFL Doctors in Will Smith's 'Concussion' movie or was vying to be the next fired "Independent Neurologist" patsy for the league. A guy losing consciousness and going into the fencing position doesn't mean it's a severe concussion? That flies in the face of every other concussion specialist who's spoke on it. Just because it looked bad doesn't mean it will be a multi week, prolonged absence from playing? Are you kidding me? You'd clear him in a week? These analysis' seem more in line with the reality:

For his future and his future with his kids, I really hope he retires. This is his 4th concussion in less than 2 years. They say it's 3, but we all know he took one against us before the infamous first Posturing/Fencing incident. No concussion is good. But this is the second time his brain has made his body react in this horrifying manor. I honestly worry for his life if he continues. And there's more to life than Football.

I assume you mean Jordan Poyer? But you're talking about sacks and not interceptions, which would lean more towards the name you posted. But he doesn't play for the Dolphins. So.... I'm just lost all around 😂

Like I said, you're one of a handful of posters I really respect the opinion of on this forum. But this is just odd to me. I can understand saying one game doesn't make a season. I can understand saying you felt Rousseau was more impressive by volume. I can understand saying that you think it was a mirage and time will show that. But I can't fathom, watching the game, not noticing him getting regular pressure, and then ignoring video evidence and statistics post game by fans and analysts alike - to argue he was "meh" - especially in comparison to what he was last season and what you said he definitively is.

Idk man. I have a lot of respect for you and generally agree with most of your posts. But it does seem like you put your foot in the ground this offseason when it comes to who he is and now are purposely being unfair to his performance bc of it. You banged the table all offseason that he's toast, shouldn't be here, and balked at anyone (me included) who said it was even a possibility that he could look remotely close to how he looked on Sunday. Now you're downplaying his play on Sunday and saying "well he looked better, but better than toast still isn't much" when your argument was always he is what we saw last season and isn't going to show improvement. It's fair to say it was just one game and that one game shouldn't dictate anyone being right or wrong about what he'll be this season. But to say he was "meh" and that his sack was just given to him by Rousseau feels like a bad faith argument. He was noticeably getting pressure often in the game and a QB with lesser mobility probably would have yielded more than 1 sack from Von. Again, just one game, but compared to what we saw last season and what you said he was - there was a night and day difference from him in Week 1.

Idk how you watch his performance and his demeanor last night and say "I wish we kept him". I understand emotional attachment to players. But you don't keep players just bc you like them personally. And the prevailing thought of every fan league wide last night watching his play and looking at his face was "this is heartbreaking, he's done".

It was really bizarre. I realize Douglas is a very underrated CB that locked down good WR's last season. But you would think he'd be looking his way as his first read with the WR core they have and what they paid to get him. Maybe his first throw hitting him in the hands and him dropping it put him in Kyler's doghouse for the rest of the game. But it was unbelievable to me that a.) We let MHJ run wide open to the endzone and b.) Kyler was scrambling around looking for an opening and didn't even look at him.

A lot of those runs at the end were also when they knew we were trying to run out the clock a bit. Always harder sledding uphill in those situations.

I think, considering this is an almost entirely new set of WR's, that the start was promising. But like some of the more high profile accounts putting their line in the sand that it can't/won't work too soon - it's a little early to be pulling receipts the other way too. I liked seeing Khalil Shakir continue where he left off last season. Today you could see why Beane wanted to keep him remain a focal point and get more reps. Coleman had a pretty decent first game. They seemed afraid of him as evidenced by multiple PI calls on him. And the sideline catch was impressive. I was surprised to see Mack Hollins working inside as much as he did. And he exceeded expectations today. And hey! MVS held on to the ball! 😂 It seemed to me that coverage was focused on Curtis Samuel and Dalton Kincaid - as they were for the most part invisible today. I suppose on the outside looking in if I were a Defensive coach for the opposing team, that's who I'd single out on the roster too. Good to see other guys making the most of their single man opportunities. Ultimately, I think that like I said earlier this offseason, it's not a lot to ask for Keon Coleman, Curtis Samuel, Mack Hollins, and MVS to provide more than what Diggs, Davis, Sherfield, and Harty provided us down the stretch. And like I said, I was impressed that there didn't seem to be much lapses or miscommunication for a brand new core in it's first game. Will they improve with more continuity and be enough in a shoot out against the best teams? That remains to be seen. Fingers crossed tho.

He had to take off from the Miller pressure regardless, which led to it.

"Wasn't overly critical - I just said we'd never win a SB with a coach I called a pu$$y" 😂

Rousseau rightfully deserves most of the praise on the Edge. But it was really good to see Miller in the backfield so often and come up with a big time sack. He might not return to Pre-Injury dominance, but today was night and day to what he looked like last year.

Right? All he has going for him is a strong leg. It certainly isn't accuracy 😂😭

We don't know that we didn't try to sign him back. No team was going to sign him mid season. If you're Matt Araiza, are you re-signing to the team that let you go and has a veteran under contract that you'd have to compete with or are you signing with the Super Bowl Champions who have a hole at Punter and are just going to give you the job?