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Not outside Buffalo they don't. "Great team with no QB" would be boiler plate on every story written about the Bills...

I'd keep Shaq and let Phillips walk. He'll want more than $30 million and with Star (and eventually Oliver) that's too much to allocate to DT. Harry will be coming back next year and Liuget was serviceable. Add a mid-round draft pick or mid-tier FA (Danny Shelton) and that should fill the position pretty well. Signing Shaq shouldn't be as expensive and would be a good counterbalance with Yannick in run support. I like Conklin but his injury history is a concern. He missed games in 2017 and 2018. And as McD likes to say, 'availability' is the greatest ability some of these guys have. It would be a real roll of the dice.

"...but few teams in the league would have more invested on the interior if Buffalo does re-sign Phillips." Which is why I think it's a good possibility they pass on Phillips and re-sign Lawson to a workable deal. That would be just too much $$$/assets allocated to the interior DL (even if it will be a few more years before Oliver gets paid). They seemed to get a lot out of Liuget who was a street FA. Having Harry back and maybe a mid-level draftee might be enough here. And if it comes down to keeping Star or Phillips, I suspect McBeane go with Star and let Jordan walk...

That's the first guy I thought of when I saw that clip. The NFL has a way of grinding up those kind of "personalities." Pete Carroll's about the only HC like that I can think of who hasn't been worn down by it. The rest usually disappear once other teams have had a chance to chew on them for a while...

I think it would help Josh calm down as well. Git er done, Brandon...

Lol! Always a Buffalo connection... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Rhule Early years Rhule grew up in New York City before his family moved to State College, Pennsylvania as a teenager. Rhule played linebacker at State College Area High School before walking on as a linebacker to Penn State. At Penn State, Rhule played four years under Joe Paterno and was a three-time Penn State Scholar-Athlete and an Academic All-Big Ten honoree in 1997.[1] While at Penn State, Rhule earned his Bachelor's of Arts in Political Science. He earned a Master's in Educational Psychology from the University at Buffalo in 2003.[2] .

Doubtful. There are no more connetions with McD. Let's go back to working with Pittsburg, that was always fun...

Cam's going to just love him...?

No. But the first points you made were similar, if not more daunting, to what Allen faced. As to Hopkins, once they decided to line him up outside and dare the Bills to cover him, it was a whole new game. Too bad Josh didn't have that kind of security blanket to fall back on...

Good for Jim. Hope he doesn't get it, though, as that place is an asylum...

There are at most 3 people on TSW that know what the hell they're talking about when it comes to the nuances of NFL position coaching. That is all...

IDK. Murphy to me is Eddie Yarborough with a better agent. We don't need to pay a "cog" that kind of money. But I see a great young pass rusher like Ngakoue as a difference maker (like Corny Bennett was in '87) between a very good, efficient defense and a great one capable of going far in the playoffs. Guys like Murphy come and go. We need to break the 'process' for selected players like Yannuck, just like the great Bills teams of the SB years did...

Some of those same things could be said of Watson in that game. He rose to the occasion and Josh did not. Hopefully, the light will go on in year three as it appears to have for Deshaun (although Watson has had a great deal more big game experience from collage to draw upon than Josh)....

First half, the Texans play zone and rush four. Allen sits in the pocket and stays calm and collected. Second half, the Texans play man and blitz more. Allen gets confused and eventually resorts to hero ball. The thing that will make or break Josh's career is how he learns to handle pass rush pressure. The NFL knows that's his weakness and he'll have to overcome it--or flame out accordingly... He has no idea...

And it mattered to Trent's bank account (can you say 'bonus' boys and girls), so maybe not the best comparison. IMO, Murphy's nothing more than a journeyman. The Bills need difference makers--in other words, 1 or 2 guys like Yannick. Unfortunately, I don't think McBeene will go that way, and will opt to keep the team mostly intact (what's that saying about doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?)...

I don't get the sense that we'll sign any high profile (read expensive) FA's like Ngakoue, Clowney, Barrett or Hooper. Sigh...

I think it's great that he cares. Then again, I also wonder if he's been watching too much of the Hallmark channel lately...

Knox is the little girl with the curl right now. Someday we may get to home plate with him, but right now we're only at light petting. And, as the Raven have shown, having three good TEs is a real game changer...

I'm all for signing a vet FA to be TE1. Knox still has as much, if not more, to learn about playing the position as Josh does with QB. He may turn into a top flight TE someday but right now he's just a tease. Sweeney's the epitome of a TE3 that you can count on in a reserve/ST role for 7-8 years. Everyone else is disposable.

He'll get paid, but then the knives will start to come out afterword when expectations get raised. Tre is a top-3 zone coverage CB. But as Hopkins said, he hasn't proven he's a man-to-man guy like Revis or even Gilmore...

Huh. Not what I saw. In the first half, Hopkins lined up in the slot and Tre wasn't on him, as they played zone. In the second half, Hopkins lined up outside and took Tre to school...

OP. I don't have access to all 22, but I wonder if you saw a play (that I believe was in the second half) where it was a run-pass option and Josh gave the ball to Singletary who took a 1-yard loss. It looked like if Josh kept the ball and ran to his right that there wasn't a Texan defender on that side of the field and he could have had a big, big gain or even a TD. Am I imagining what I saw, or does the all-22 back that up?