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12 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:
A 4.46 is not slow lol
Modern training combine times have people thinking world class speed is slow
People running in the 4.3's is not the norm... And plenty of players in that speed whether they're wide receivers or cornerbacks are all speed with no skill
Tre white has plenty of speed when he came out in the 4.46s.. like that's running 20 miles an hour
Insanely fast... He's just not as fast as Tyreek Hill which most people are not
Stefan diggs ran a 4.45-4.46... he's not slow... Derrick Henry ran a 4.5 , hes not slow
Cook ran a 4.42... that's literally milliseconds off of Tre white and nobody would say cook is slow
But what makes you think he still can run a 4.46 after blowing out his ACL and Achilles? (He's also turned 30 in January.) He might be running a 4.56 for all we know.
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22 hours ago, I'm Spartacus said:
This is what I was thinking.
Solomon is 6ft. 1", and 247 lbs. With his speed and this size, would he fit in as a linebacker?
That's a thought. Rather than bulk up a safety like Matt Milano or Lewis Cine, why not switch a DE with speed to LB, especially if his chief purpose is to rush the passer and defend the run? Not saying there isn't a reason (I don't know), but if you're thin at LB and rich at DE, the question comes up. Would be nice to see some beef at LB when Henry is running downhill on us.
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5 hours ago, TheyCallMeAndy said:
6 games the last 2 years.
Very low pass defense production, very poor missed tackle rate (18+%) and completions percentage (80+%) during those 6 games.
Otherwise a slam-dunk signing, though, eh?
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12 hours ago, BillsPride12 said:
They said it was supposed to correlate with the Niagara Falls and Fall being football season. I didn't think it was the greatest title choice but never took it as offensive as some people did.
I didn't take offense myself, but the title is pretty clearly meant to be insulting to the team, or at least to emphasize not that they accomplished no other team ever has in getting to four straight SB but rather that they lost four in a row. Kinda dumb, in that the chief audience is presumably Bills fans, who don't want to see a narrative of how their beloved team was a pack of tragic losers, as the title implies.
8 hours ago, Matt_In_NH said:Two Finn’s down
Not sure I follow you on that one, brother.
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On 6/4/2025 at 12:50 PM, Matt_In_NH said:
It's funny, I tried to tell my Dad to watch it when it came out and he just dismisses it because of the name. It is not a hit piece at all, it really is well done and celebrates those teams.
They might have chosen a more cheery title. Why not just "Four-Time Losers"?
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11 hours ago, SoTier said:
How long are some TBD posters going to keep beating the same dead horse?
The Bills didn't draft McConkey or trade up to get Thomas. Deal with it. All your continual whining changes nothing.
Well, as with life in general, the hair-pulling and regrets do have the benefit of helping avoid similar mistakes in the future, at least supposedly. Maybe evolution selected for such a high-degree of guilt, bitterness and regret in our species because it takes that much to penetrate our thick skull to not make the same mistake twice. I assume Beane has an outcomes-assessment review in place where his staff considers why they made the mistakes they did, going back years. I'm sure it's more efficient than hundreds of pages of posts declaring how idiotic certain picks were. But, given the thick-skulls theory, maybe reading through the thorough roasting here is what it would take to persuade him not to draft players like Boogie Basham and Cody Ford.
In any even, go Keon! I really, really do not want to spend the next ten years despairing how we could have had Ladd or Xavier.
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1 hour ago, Don Otreply said:
Really?
Did you not notice the O-line this past season?
I noticed the tackles. The interior seemed competent to me, but not stellar.
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3 hours ago, Captain Hindsight said:
Oh please. Players get cut one year into a 3 year contract all the time. I want Cook to be here, but I'm not going to vilify a guy for trying to get more money.
Yeah, but what message is he sending that's worth missing all these early but still important practices? "I'm really serious, guys! I really am mad now!" It's just so juvenile. If anything, Beane is less likely to sign him if he holds out, and I see why. He loses nothing by coming to mini-camp and gains a lot, including Beane's good will.
Some of these athletes have the minds of 14-year olds.
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18 hours ago, Alphadawg7 said:
The worst play I have ever personally witnessed was watching Trent run out of bounds on 4th down on our final drive of the game instead of trying to make a play happen. Most pathetic, gutless, unacceptable play I have ever seen live in a game. She should have been benched or cut before he hit the showers.
Makes me smile to think we have the polar opposite of this at QB now. The only way Josh Allen goes out of bounds short of the marker on fourth down with the game on the line is in the air as he throws it on target thirty yards down the field across his body.
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17 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said:
Dodson #29. Good for the guy. Not thrilled he's a Dolphin now.
I wish we could have found a way to keep him. But he wasn't going to start, and he's too good to be a backup. One of the few real weaknesses on the team right now is backup linebacker. Williams is great, but Baylon Spector is either bad or injured.
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7 hours ago, SCBills said:
It could be as simple as do we pay Cook or McGovern.
Both arguably Top 5 players at their position.
What makes you think McGovern is top 5? Not challenging you, just genuinely curious. I had him as a slightly above-average player.
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41 minutes ago, Whites Bay said:
"Seasons"?! Try "Decades".
As for the Bills, I grew up in Rochester during the era of black-and-white TV on 3 stations. All we HAD was the Bills. When I think of OJ running through the snow, it was mostly from the crappy reception on the TV set.
I wasn't diehard until the Kelly era, but I remember OJ smashing a snow ball into the TV camera lens on Thanksgiving day when I was a teenager.
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Before the rule change, the success rate of online kicks was like 15% AND teams didn't need to declare them. That gave the option real excitement. But at 6%, everyone knowing it's coming? No, that's pointless. They need to think out of the box, something equivalent to pulling the goalie in hockey. High risk high reward. Maybe an 75-yard field goal attempt.
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6 hours ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
As long as these guys live up to expectations, idgaf if they dip their wings in ketchup.
Well, let's not get carried away.
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On 5/17/2025 at 10:22 PM, The Jokeman said:
Count me in the group that used to post at HyperBills. The Olof Pilar story was crazy back in the day.
I think I participated, too, unless there was another online Bills group circa 1995. I got in my first flame war with another poster and was really surprised how mean I got, knowing my identity was concealed. That was sobering.
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54 minutes ago, starrymessenger said:
I disagree. The debate is informative (at least for yours truly). On the other hand your conclusion is 100% correct imo. Personally I'm optimistic about his chances.
I'm optimistic, too; no reason not to be. The only reason for concern in my mind is how he played when he was presumably recovered from the injury, especially in the playoffs. He looked gun-shy to me, afraid to take a hit. Understandable, but if it's the case, I hope he's gotten over it, since Beane drafted him for his physicality. Allen mentioned he (Coleman) had put on some muscle in the offseason. That might help both physically and psychologically.
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2 hours ago, TheBrownBear said:
We had a +24 turnover differential last year. +8 more than any other team. That might happen once every couple of decades. We were 10th in total offense last year. Good, not great, especially considering a great offensive line and an MVP quarterback. We clearly lacked explosiveness and playmaking at the receiver position, and haven't done much to address it.
Exactly. This point is not surfacing enough in response to the avalanche of "The Bills scored more points than anyone, so why improve the offense?" type comments*. They were +2 in 2023 and 0 in 2022. The very low number of turnovers on offense is surely an artifact of Brady's emphasis on running the ball and Allen's maturity. But even if the trend is real, the unusually low number could easily be an outlier. Meanwhile, a very poor defense held its own by getting the ball back. Again, this was likely a point of emphasis (I think Babich even said so). Long may it continue. But just a few more turnovers by the offense and a few less on defense will likely make a dent in the W-L totals.
I'm not raining on the parade here. I realize you can't take turnover differential away and say "See? Mediocre team." They're a key reflection of the overall quality of the team. Still, they're not a factor you can usually rely on year to year. Given how explosively important they can be--turning the entire momentum of a game--a +24 differential can take you a long way. Cut that in half, say--still a healthy number--and, well, you hope that Beane's moves to improve on both sides of the ball bear fruit. I really, really do not want to see the AFCCG in KC yet again.
*I realize there's reason to think the offense might be better.
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The league giving KC eight prime-time games suggests it once again will ensure KC wins enough games to secure home-field advantage.
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19 hours ago, Paup 1995MVP said:
We need to keep up with better athleticism.
Hamlin's RAS score: 6.98. Lewis: 4.5. It's impressive the Bills went as far as they did last year with these two playing such big roles. Not saying they should have been cut, but you don't want this level of athleticism in your starters.
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9 hours ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
There's a reason Richardson is training with Josh Allen this offseason.
Evidently, that was just a rumor.
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5 hours ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
You weren't stupid for that. The league hadn't yet exploded into the all out passing league it became and the kind of hero ball, keep a play alive QB play that's made the pocket passer all but extinct.
It was true then and it's true now, 99.9% of the time if you're inaccurate in College - it isn't going to improve in the Pro's. Josh is the 0.1%. But he's the exception and not the rule.
It's been proven in recent years with the Drafting of guys like Trey Lance and Anthony Richardson that Drafting a QB based solely on size, a big arm, and some tools is practically always going to blow up in your face. Josh is just a unicorn.
Even after having Josh Allen, if we're in a situation like 2018 again and the prospects are what they were then - I'd still be against taking the Josh Allen like prospect.
He's a unicorn, but his improved accuracy didn't just happen; he made it happen by committing himself to an offseason program with Palmer (forgot his first name). If Lance, Richardson, and other big-arm, athletic quarterbacks have shown similar single-minded devotion to improvement, I haven't heard of it.
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13 hours ago, Doc said:
I've been saying that they can easily cut Jackson, Lewis and Ingram and get them on the PS. I think that with the dearth of safeties, Hamlin might make it by default, but I'm hoping someone else outplays him. As for White, he might make it just based on past history.
I can see a future starting lineup of Benford, Hairston, Bishop, and Hancock, with Strong at nickel.
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6 hours ago, Richard Noggin said:
Agree generally that McD should be trusted when it comes to the secondary, and especially with the S position.
Last year's secondary play was mediocre at best, and McDermott likely has some responsibility for it. Hamlin playing back in the end zone, Bishop failing to contribute, Douglas fading, Elam not ready at all despite three years of development, Rapp no more than adequate... You can make excuses for McDermott all day long, some quite valid. But how long are we going to give him credit for being a genius with the secondary because of Poyer and Hyde? Could it be that Poyer and Hyde were just ready to come on when they did?
Anyway, if he can't develop the players he has now, the benefit of the doubt stops and the doubt begins.
EDIT: Sorry mods: Didn't mean to divert the subject of the thread. Best-case scenario for Casey Rogers is the practice squad, which is a great best case with the current depth at the position.
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At least he's not as skinny as Kincaid.
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2025 OTAs are underway
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I like how the writer paraphrases Beane as saying, "Nothing is earned." That made me laugh.