2020 Our Year For Sure

I thank you.

I like it because it locks him in for an extra year before needing to make the big franchise-altering decision, whether to give him $100m or whatever it is. Its worth a $5m raise in my opinion for an extra season to watch his health and his progress. I'd be surprised if Tyrod wants 2/$15m but for the Bills, I jump on it.

ODB is DOA. I see you.

I think we'll be marred by injuries again and win between 5 and 7 games. But still uncontainably excited for the season because I'm wrong a whole lot.

I agree with you. It doesn't sit right that the combination of Terry, Kim and Russ were so involved with the head coaching hire when none of them seem qualified. They should either empower Whaley to run the show or bring in someone they actually believe in.

For what it's worth I'm 27 and skeptical of Rex.

Thanks for the tweets fellas! Encouraging stuff. Great to hear Bush one-cut and GO. There's room for Powell if he's serious. And wouldn't it be something if John Meeks became a player?

That is profound, Bandito. I could say more but I won't bore you with my philosophy. Nice post! You too Nihilarian, thanks for bringing your perspective and the logic and thought behind it. Oh to be a fly on the wall at OBD...

Thanks, I see where you're coming from now. To the bolded, no doubt Brandon, being the ticket salesman and a savvy one at that, has his ear to the ground and is aware that Bills fans everywhere want to hear that he's not involved with the football side.

its an interesting conversation and its pretty on-point with the thread topic. Personally I can't take everything the Master Marketer says publicly as gospel. Do you think he he's always 100% honest with a microphone in front of him to the point where his words can be held up as actual proof? Not that I 100% believe Rodak or Leroi either

above: Johnny Williams, Jim Dray, Robert Blanton, Kolby Listenbee, Sterling Moore, Dan Carpenter below: Leonard Hankerson, Greg Little, Shady McCoy, Reggie Bush If a guy isn't a natural hands catcher its a difficult change to make at this stage for Hankerson/Little. On the flip side, Listenbee is, and I think he contributes. Shady I'm thinking about the same as last year and not anticipating much from Bush (there's a joke there somewhere). Carpenter I think has become underrated.

If I'm honest, I would be surprised if they kept 5 halfbacks, but if they can find a way to do that then I'm not going to complain. If Bush can still go he brings a skillset most of the others don't and my main man Roman can do some things with pass-catchers out of the backfield.

If that winds up being the case then I have no problem with it.

Also possible he does it because his passing game is just limited and not his top priority.

Also while he was Director of Pro Personnel under Nix he found starters like Kraig Urbik and Scott Chandler that nobody else wanted.

If they promise him a roster spot (which has been reported if I recall?) then they are making those decisions now.

I think I'd rather keep Gillislee or Wilder.

Its good to be able to laugh at yourself. Sounds like you're a lucky man.

Fight the power

I'm skeptical this year but somehow I'm still crazy excited. Go Bills.

Thanks again

I almost forgot how you educated TSW about Jairus Byrd's shortcomings when me and just about everybody else thought he was Superman. Fitz could hardly complete a 10-yard out let alone a 25er on time from the far hash though he was a clever, feisty little fella. Perfect fit for Chan but would be a terrible fit for Roman. Now maybe Roman scaled back some things for Tyrod in his first year as a starter. But looking at his tenure in San Francisco, it wouldn't seem to be a drastically different, far more balanced offense than what we had here last season. His passing yardage ranks from 2011-2014 were 29, 23, 30 and 30. Maybe there will be some evolution but how can one anticipate a significant leap forward? I think its a shame because by being one-dimensional we make winning harder than it needs to be. (over-simplification: if the defense fails, we lose). I'm not saying its impossible to win with defense, running, play action and ball control, just that there are coaches who can win that way and a totally different way, and we don't seem to have one of them. I also have to question, if Taylor has the potential to blossom the way a Cam Newton did, would we see that come to fruition in such a simple passing game. How can he achieve greatness when the coach is incapable of asking him to be great? Hopefully the defense is really good and we can grind out wins, because that seems to be the only wins we can get.

He and Ed Reed gonna have a rap session with that one. Cool

Did you know he went to Harvard?

astute observations.