BuffaloRebound

This is not an offense that’s gonna bully a defense. This is a finesse offense. And those are the offenses that win in today’s NFL. That said, the guys upfront gotta do a better job. From all accounts they got man-handled by Steelers. Same story against Chiefs.

Waller might be the player I’d like most to add to Bills if we could add any player from another team. Physical beast who catches everything and punishes whoever tries to tackle him.

I believe in McDermott. Time for him to put Daboll on a shorter leash. We played a soft brand of offense and right into Steelers’ hands. Same against KC. We can still be a pass heavy offense but sometimes you gotta grind out 4-5 yards a pop if that’s what defense is giving you.

4-5 yards a carry is fine. Take what the defense is giving you. Make them commit more to the run. Daboll is like a 3 point shooter that continues to hoist contested 3’s when the defense is leaving the lane wide open. Mix in a few drives to the hoop to soften up the defense.

Josh is human. And it’s only human nature that a guy who just got paid the way he did to prove to everyone he deserves that money. Seems like the way to win games like yesterday is to take the underneath stuff, keep moving the chains and matriculate the ball down the field. It’d be nice if the Bills gave him more weapons to do that like a physical Tight End and RB, but you gotta take what the defense is giving you. That’s 3 straight sub-par games from Josh and the offense.

this. Josh aint Mahomes and we don’t have a chain mover at Tight End like Kelce. That’s 3 straight bad offensive games from this offense. Good teams take away what you do best. Daboll gotta start mixing it up.

We are still too much of a 1 trick pony. Josh is awesome but we still need either a RB or Tight End that can move the chains against the better defenses. All our skill players outside of Josh are on smaller side and can be bullied by physical defenses. This wasn’t addressed in offseason.

I don’t know. He was pretty drama free with the Pats. Teams with bad backup QB’s could regret not picking him up and a 17th game means an extra game where your starter could get hurt. I think not being vaccinated is the deal breaker. Can’t have a backup QB who’s not available when you need him. If Barkley was still our backup, I’d want Newton but your backup QB has gotta be vaccinated.

So at worst, 9 out of 53 not vaccinated. That’s 83% worst case. Makes me feel a little better in terms of players being available.

This reminds me of the Edmunds debate. Thumping MLB’s don’t exist anymore. Bills seem to have decided that unless you have a Waller, Gronk, Kittle, or Kelce, it’s better to get an extra WR on the field than a mediocre Tight End. We’ll see if they’re right.

Question… do veterans have offsets in their contracts like rookie deals do? Kinda crazy the Raiders guaranteed him $3.2m and are gonna just let him walk without taking a regular season snap. Makes more sense if the $3.2m can be offset by whatever he signs for with his next team. If there are no offsets and he’s willing to play for under $2m this year, I’d bring him back to Bills and thank the raiders.

60,000 is probably a negotiating tactic to get the government to pay more money if they want it bigger. But 60,000 probably the right number.

I think this is end of line for Cam. Can’t see anybody picking him up. And bring unvaccinated certainly isn’t helping.

Texans and the NFL are lucky that Watson is due $10m this year and not $30m. Probably worth it to then eat $10m to kick the can down the road or until somebody trades for him and he becomes another teams problem

Doubt anybody wanted to pay Addison $4m. And cutting Addison is the same as keeping him salary cap wise.

Edmunds issue is his ball skills. His length and speed shrink the field, but the book on him seems to be you can still throw his way because he doesn’t make many plays on the ball.

Pretty amazing article. It suggests that teams are better off being bad against the run to coax opposing offenses to run the ball more frequently. Crazy times.

Hard to draw any conclusions from preseason. Looks like we’ve improved the pass rush. Our non-Josh run game looks like it’s been emphasized. Jury still out on improvement. I think we can be stouter against the run when we want to be with return of Star and some bigger DE’s. Tight End still seems like a weakness.

Ertz to Bills and Watson to Dolphins. Book it.

NFL players gotta chase the money. Their careers are so short. Shaq would be a nice $4-5m per year vet option once Addison and Hughes are gone.

He tried to get Gronk. The rest of the elite TE’s in NFL weren’t highly drafted or big money free agents. Seems like a position where you gotta either be patient or lucky.

We’re getting dangerously close to it being time to cut our rapping smurf. Love his play on the field but Bills can’t have a guy on team leading the anti-vax crusade. It’s clearly giving cover for other Bills to not get the vaccine and is now a huge competitive disadvantage.

I don’t think it’s a safe bet anymore that all 16 make the Final 53. Bills can’t go into season with that much uncertainty. This week had to be wake up call for Beane. For example, you can’t have both your 1 Techs unvaccinated. You gotta take the vaccinated player over the unvaccinated where you run the risk of both guys on top of depth chart risk being unavailable. Sucks that this is a huge story for Bills.

I’m kind of shocked the owners aren’t pushing harder for mandatory vaccinations. A lot of employers around the country are heading in that direction if they haven’t already done so and 99.99% of them don’t pay their employees anywhere near what NFL owners pay their employees. And that doesn’t even take into account the much higher risk of unvaccinated players not being available to play. Crazy that owners aren’t making this a bigger issue.

If they’re only keeping 4 DT’s, no way 2 of those can be Star and Butler as proven by what just happened.