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Great post Rc2. If it wasn't for football most of these guys aren't going to college. That's just how it is. And the problem is that most of them are not smart enuf to realize the value of a free college education. The ones who do good for them. But along those lines, read the hype about college players in the draft articles. Every single one of them is absolutely diefied. They are all supposedly great prospects. Every pro workout is amazing. Every player should be a first round pick. The players are constantly fed how great they all are. Why is noone critical anymore? Give young people some reality. Just because they play college or pro ball, does not mean they are all great people or even very good football players. Set the bar higher of what's expected of people. Maybe things will change. But it starts at the top. And I will stop now, because any view that doesn't sit well w the mods on here will get you banned. There you go. From the voice of Paup. Over and out!

Alabama is planning on full capacity at Bryant-Denny Stadium this coming season. As is probably the rest of the SEC and Sun Belt Conferences teams. Maybe science is different down South. LOL

Hopefully he is a lot better then Winters who I thought was garbage. Long showed some game but his contract was too rich to stay around too long. Resigning Darryl Williams and Feliciano, and now signing Lamp Douglas and Hart as veteran competition, I don't see the need to draft any O lineman. Lets go defense and possibly RB TE and WR in the draft. Beane loves his veteran O lineman. He is an awesome GM.

Watching Teddy Bridgewater dink and dunk his way thru an NFL season is unbelievably painful. I thought he had some game with the Vikings until the terrible knee injury. But he is Trent Edwards w a tan.

I would trade Edmunds for a 3rd round pick at this point. Start by asking for a 2nd and settle on a 3rd, hopefully a high 3rd. Get rid of his mediocre play and his potentially high 5th year option. Don't sleep on Tyrell Adams. Edmunds needs competition for the starting position. Adams will hopefully give him that and then some.

That was AWESOME!! Brought me back to my childhood in the 1970's watching the NFL and This week in Pro Football w Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier. John Facenda did a lot of the narrating of the hilites. Him and Harry Kalas were tremendous. And the music is so classic. Football was almost mythical back then with the evil empire of the Raiders. The 70's was just raw brutality on the gridiron. The game is much different in the modern era. But for brutality violence and toughness that era can not be beat. (That music makes me think of all those big Raider victories with the Snake at QB. The Holy Roller, Ghost to the post, Sea of hands to name a few) Thanks for sharing that Chandler.

You make some good points especially the one arm thing... However, I just have not seen him dominate a whole lot over his 3 seasons. I was hoping w all the hype on him being this young phenom being drafted at age 20, that he would turn into a Bobby Wagner type player who just knocks the stuffing out of guys. I love the Bills and want every player to play lights out. I hope Edmunds can become that this season.

I just looked that up. Good call on that. I don't really remember much about the game. I was at the Bills-Redskins game in Washington in 2007 when we came back late on a great pass from Trent Edwards to Josh Reed, and Lindell hit the winning FG on the greyest day imaginable. Joe Gibbs was back coaching them and got a personal foul for calling two timeouts in a row for trying to ice Lindell. Moved the kick much closer. The Skins' fans were pissed after that game. What can I say. Old traditions and names die hard.

Gonna disagree with you on both. Pennington was no Hall Of Famer. Maybe on the Marshall Wall of Fame with Byron Leftwich and Randy Moss. But he never had a cannon. And Tua's arm is nothing special. Did you not watch him play last year for the Fish? Maybe its the offense Brian Flores has installed. But he sure reminded a lot of Trent Edwards with his dinking and dunking.

Would love some back up no name to come into training camp and challenge Edmunds for playing time and maybe even a starting spot. He is a weak link and must up his game this coming season. Everyone likes to say he is young. Well he is going into his 4th season. Time to man up or go play another sport.

I don't think we have lost to the Skins (and yes I still call them the Redskins) since the 1992 Super Bowl Debacle. I can see them coming in later in the year, on a cold grey windy day, and we knock the snot out of Fitz and the Redskins. And their defense was good but not as great as everyone was saying. Tyler Heinecke had a pretty good day against them last year at Fed Ex field. I put this one in the win column. We will be tough for anyone to beat us next season. And for many seasons to come.

Wasn't his sidekick Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart? Good god thats hilarious. I remember watching them in the 80's on WWE. LOL

If Travis Etienne or Najee Harris are there when we draft at 30 we need to give serious consideration to either of them. Sure we can use a little more juice on defense. But getting a big time stud at RB will help the offense big time. Drafting another AJ Epenesa doesn't get me all that excited. Heck go RB 1st round and CB and DE in the 2nd and 3rd rounds. Once you are in the bottom third of the 1st round, there probably is not a lot of difference between guys drafted there and all the way down to the 3rd or 4th round. If you are a big time stud pass rusher or stud lock down corner, you are going top 15 or 20. After that its all how they develop once they get to the NFL.

Of course QB is important. But getting the right QB is what matters. And you need the pieces around the QB to be successful, including the right coaching. The Bills have done a great job coaching up Josh Allen. Putting a scheme together that plays to his strengths, and surrounding him w talented WR's and a solid O line. But with all those good pieces in play, we still fell short of the Super Bowl because our defense was not good enuf front to back. (Yes Levi Wallace for all you Levi fans is not a solid starting NFL CB. He is not the worst, but his lack of athleticism is a problem) So yes QB is very important. But you sure as hell better have a defense that can bring it also. But there is far too much hype about a lot of QB's that come out every year. Lets see what they can do when there are defenders on the field covering their receivers and trying to knock their heads off. (Which unfortunately is not allowed any longer) For every Josh Allen there are far more Josh Rosens. And scouting is definitely not an exact science. What were the Dolphins thinking drafting Tua in the top 5? He has no arm. Lets call him the lefty Chad Pennington.

You need to relax bro. Its more football. That's not a bad thing on any level. To get that worked up about it, that's not good. Try focusing on other sports in the offseason like the NCAA Bball tournament or Nascar. It will take the edge off. Most of our lives are full of stress. The NFL going to 17 games is not stressful. Go take a big hit and calm the F down.....

What does the health of one's family have anything to do with playing college football? Football players are far away from their family on campus. They are not living at home. So not sure what that has to do with any of it. My kid played college football last season. He wasn't worried about the health of his family. He was worried as was his family about him rehabbing his knee to be able to play again after a serious injury at the start of the 2019 season. (Fortunately he came back strong) Amazing that the pandemic is still a topic for discussion on any level. As for Star he missed out on one hell of a 2020 Bills season. But hey if he comes back and plays well, I welcome him back opt out or not.

But neither Miami or NE has a QB on their roster right now that can throw a football more then 10 yards in the air. And we have Josh Allen and a whole bunch of talent. We will be ruling our division for years to come.

I am not sensitive. I just get tired of people complaining about McDermott signing guys he used to coach. But I do understand your point. Not real impressed by Addison Butler or Jefferson (who did come from Seattle) last year. Hopefully with a year under their belts in our system Addison and Butler (who I thought started to come on more towards the end of the season) will be a lot more productive.

At #30 I go DE or CB if one that is highly rated is available. Otherwise I take Najee Harris or Etienne. I hear a lot of talk about Singletary and Moss having a lot of potential and it was the O lines fault last year that our running game was mediocre at best. I disagree w that narrative. Neither Singletary or Moss has any explosiveness. If we had taken Dobbins w our pick in the 2nd round we would not be having this conversation, and could be focusing on DE and CB right now. Lets hope Epenesa brings some game this year. Not expecting Nick Bosa, but dam he was a big timer at Iowa. He needs to step up his game!

Miller is meh. He wouldn't make our top 5. Looks like he is in high school still. McKenzie is underrated as a receiver. He is quick enuf to make DB's look silly.

That cliche has kind of worn thin by year 5 of the McDermott regime don't you think?? Lets see who Emmanuel Sanders played for previously in his career... The Panthers? Nope. The Steelers Broncos 49ers and Saints. How about Jacob Hollister? The Panthers? Nope... How about the Seahawks and Pats. What about Matt Hauk? The Panthers....Nope. So we don't JUST go after former Carolina Panthers. And some Panthers have been pretty decent btw. Daryl Williams certainly comes to mind. And Starr has been pretty solid also. And AJ Klein certainly had some strong moments last season. The one blight from Carolina was Kelvin Benjamin. And he was a first round draft pick back in 2014. So he did have talent. Unfortunately he had no desire and was fat.

You are talking about Richard Sherman like he is in the prime of his career. He is barely hanging on right now. He has a year, maybe two left. He was getting toasted last year. And Gurley can barely walk at this point. Who wants a washed up RB with arthritic knees?? Free Agency is a lot of hype. But the guys you mention don't move the meter all that much. Not sure whatever happened to Clowney. When he was coming out, people were talking about him as the modern day Bruce. He is a physical specimen. But certainly has never lived up to the hype. Funny how a guy like Kyle Williams drafted in the 5th round ends up having a much better career.

That was Brady in his early years w the Pats. He had Deion Branch and David Givens. (all before Gronk Moss Welker and Edelman) And he still won 3 Super Bowls. I would spend some money to build an O line. I seem to recall Daniel Jones running for his life a whole bunch last year.

Great points boxcar. And we don't have boatloads of money to sign the big name guys either. Hollister is a solid NFL player. And we are not a TE based offense anyways. Only so many balls to go around. Good signing!

Thanks for sharing that. Very interesting data. If I am the Bills I don't do the 5th year option. If he has a big year, we can try and resign him long term. If he does not have a good year, we let him walk after year 4.