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In an era where these guys barely hit anyone in training camp, and the entire purpose of the preseason now seems to be to stay healthy, the number of injuries is really unbelievable. I doubt you could have this many injuries if guys were in pads, running suicide drills in two-a-day practices.

I believe the Bills passed for less than 1000 yards that year. Incredible.

Thanks! These guys arrived in WNY a year before I did…Chef’s Restaurant! Good to know it’s still around…

Yes, and we also have outstanding OT depth, with Grable and VanDemark…Brown is the least of our injury concerns.

The five starting o-linemen missed only one game last year. And really not many offensive skill position injuries either…Cooper, Coleman and Kincaid missed a few games, but that’s it. Almost unprecedented.

Fare enough…

Fair enough…Glover’s been gone for a while and my memory of him is faded…

It’s amazing how many first round slots have generated only one or fewer hall of fame players after all these years (by my count, at least eight). To my eye, the third round looks stronger than round two, but I didn’t do a close comparison. One other Bills pick that should have made the list: Wyatt Teller (166) over Leroi Glover. Teller picked by Beane the same year as Josh Allen…

You forgot Larry Centers (115) who had two very good seasons for the Bills during the darkest years of the drought.

Deshawn Watson

It depends who the substitute QB is. If Allen goes down and Mitch Trubisky plays the whole season, it’s a different answer than plugging in a lower level NFL starter, like say Geno Smith or Brock Purdy. With those guys, 11 wins is possible. The Bills’ o-line is top 5, maybe top 2 or 3, in the NFL, and that raises the floor considerably…

As far as off season thread topics go, this one is in the top 10%…

That’s just not true

LOL, they were basketball players

Wait, you’re not suggesting that Antonio Gates or Tony Gonzalez (or Vernon Davis, for that matter) ever blocked anyone, are you?

Know what’s really funny about Kyle Pitts? The players who the Falcons could have taken instead of him…to name a few, Jamar Chase, Penei Sewell, Pat Surtain, Micah Parsons…a truly abysmal draft pick, and a perfect example of why the Falcons are an utterly irrelevant NFL franchise.

Can confirm. A Falcons’ regular season game gets about 50% as much attention there as the Univ. of Georgia spring scrimmage (no lie).

By my count, at least 4 rookie receivers clearly had better rookie seasons than the greatest WR prospect of modern times…hell, if he hadn’t gotten hurt, Keon Coleman would have been breathing down his neck. 🤣🤣🤣

In rugby, when the ball is near the goal line, the team in possession often forms a scrum and simply tries to push the ball over the line by shoving the other team backwards, just like the tush push. As you may recall, until fairly recently, it was a penalty for another offensive player to "aid the runner" by pushing him forward. No idea why or when that ancient rule was changed. And no, a simple pitch play isn't really a rugby play (perhaps more of a Rugby League play), although it certainly happens in Rugby Union, too.

Harrison was the Card’s unquestioned WR1, the 4th overall pick in the draft, and the alleged best WR prospect of the past decade…amazing that his numbers were roughly equal to the Bills’ 5th round slot receiver…

Correct. He’s not very quick or explosive…massively overrated—and overdrafted—because of his college helmet and his father… So far…

It’s a rugby play that has no place in football. Get rid of it.

Next up: “Dak Prescott is the most amazing QB and leader I’ve ever played with…”

Makes very little difference. Some teams that get late byes are already all but eliminated, so the bye does them no good at all.

No reason they can’t beat the Steelers and Dolphins. That’s actually a pretty easy opening stretch.