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Who should the Bills be talking to rather than Davis?

So why do you think the Bills are talking to him? Rather obviously McD and Beane think the WR room is inadequate to the point that Davis is a viable option. I mean, most of us here have been saying the WR room was lousy for months.

Fair. We know he's capable of having big games though. Like I said, as long as he's not the #2, which God help us if he is.

Preseason, the magical time when Jimmy Spags and his beloved j e t s are on equal footing with the Bills. A fleeting time, ephemeral, really

Also, the Bills just don't have a lot of physical, aggressive guys at the skill positions. We're big on finesse. Davis is a blocking machine and brings a little bit of nastiness that we seem too polite to broker otherwise

Theoretically he wouldn't be the #2 guy and would be used somewhat differently, more like Mack Hollins was last year, who, coincidentally, showed up for the KC game. Not sure who in the current WR room besides shakir are going to do that.

No. Next draft will be all safety and DL. We'll pick up some scrap heap WRs in FA that everyone will lose their minds over in the offseason only to see in preseason games why they were on the scrap heap

The Bills need more players who play big in big games. That's Gabe Davis. There's zero reason not to do this

Between some of the guys appearing to just go through the motions, and some other flailing desperately about but being completely physically outclassed, yeah, that was tough to watch.

Yeah i mean AFCC game they gave up 32 points, but the memories of the ravens game can keep us all warm at night

jimmy spags kicking us in the nuts when we're down, perfectly on brand

It would seem that we'll be an all D draft next year too, we'll need a couple safeties and probably some more DL. At what point does this become success limiting?

His defenses have always lacked the killer instinct, and can't seem to make the big plays in the biggest games. Being bailed out constantly by the Offense has become the hallmark of the McD defense. Agreed that the Baltimore game is going to tell us a great deal about the season.

Its a really unsatisfying D to watch

What I dont get is this idea that only the Buffalo Bills are keeping their powder dry, while every other team is going 110%. Was Cole Bishop explicitly coached to take wrong angles and be 5 yards off the play?

This is my worry. Bend and then break is something we've seen before.

Bishop starting to look like a bust to me. It wont stop McD from putting him out there but I have a feeling we’re going to regret that

Somehow, despite all the draft capital spend on the DL, we don’t have the horses to put pressure on the QB. I’m not sure what can be done schematically to compensate for personnel. We’re told that McD is a defensive genius, and if you don’t believe it just ask him, so we have to assume the scheme is optimized for the players and we have a season of the opponents converting 3rd and long over and over.

Headline tomorrow “The game was not as close as the score indicated”

Well its preseason blah blah blah God this is just gross

Either our heavy investments in defense are able to stop KC in the 4th quarter or they are not. When the chips are down, they have not been able to, which ultimately is an endictment on the regime from GM to coaching to players. Someone said something about game wreckers and that’s absolutely right. Von was supposed to be that guy, I don’t know that we have one now. Bosa? Maybe, if he can stay healthy. Otherwise we’ve got a few B+ guys but someone’s got to make a play.

Nah, but I've been watching football for 50+ years. The level of cope here that somehow the DL is going to be different this year than last is just silly.

Coach McD: “Boys, make sure you don’t win any one on one battles, it’ll give away our strategy for the season!”

no you dont understand it's reverse psychology, this is actually the greatest D line that's ever existed, but they'll keep pool sharking the opposition year after year and lull them into a sense of complacency then around 2040 BOOM they'll get a sack

Correct. Soft soft soft, waiting, hoping for a turnover. Seems like they could do that without spending the entire draft on D