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You are doing exactly as I described. Moving the target to wherever you think the arrow landed. But you are in good company. Beane and McDermott have done this plenty of times as well.

Very cool. I remember you sharing that story before and I was thinking of that when I created this post. You should send this video to him! I'm sure he would appreciate it

Well thats the end of the thread , right ? Failed physical

Sure. I have been interested in the church's backing away from the Mary thing over the last decade or so in particular. Of course there is Mary worship. Altars for her, constant prayers, even the one spoken by the new pope today. I was listening to his speech and I can understand enough to hear that he used the word intercessor in either Italian or Latin. Ever hear Jesus say we needed an intercessor? What is the rosary? Is that not a prayer to Mary. What does the Bible say about that. "Don’t recite the same prayer over and over as the heathen do,..." That is exactly what the rosary is. Don't worship the dead? What's the nonsense about relics. There's even a grading system for them., as I recall, on a scale of four. How about human body parts in church's? Know anything about that? Over 40 altars inside St. Peters to other people. So they were just "wrong" about indulgences? Why was Purgatory invented? See anything in the Bible about that? Jesus redemption wasn't quite good enough so believers need further cleansing after death, and conveniently, a market for them can be established to fund St. Peter's in the 1500's? Why is there no history suggesting anyone thought Peter was of some kind of primacy for hundreds of years, or that he was ever the head of any church anywhere. Then in Vatican 1, using the self proclaimed infallibility of the church doctrine, they claimed it had always been known. No evidence of that anywhere. How about this infallibility thing when speaking ex cathedra. The recently deceased pope said a lot of things, but never claimed it. Where is the canonization of saints justified? Now you can even get an accelerated version. This isn't any disdain for Catholics, no matter how you claim it. This is pointing out invented traditions that have no basis, just as the Pharisees added on to Mosaic law by tradition, and were chastised by Jesus for it, so they had him killed.

Sad, Jags probably figured he won’t play much this year or be effective due to injury.

Yup, that's always the first thing I check for , especially since couple years ago when they were on deaths doorstep

Wow! And Terry Pegula names Kevyn Adams as the new GM of the Bills after firing Beane.

i prefer my popes to not have a tweeting history and be more conservative with immigration, but what can you do i guess

Tragic

I was talking about him coming out of college. I don’t hate the guy, he’s from my wife’s hometown. He just got a ton of hype for a few plays, including the one where he was unblocked and a guy lost his helmet. He wasn’t a terror off the edge, but he was good at what he did. .

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Failed physical. Maybe some setbacks?

Speed, routes, and deep horizontal routes - 3 qualities clearly missing on 2024 Bills.

To be fair I remember Rivals had Clowney as the single highest rated player in his high school class across all positions. He wasn't quite like McDavid in hockey levels of hype coming out of high school, but Clowney was definitely one of the more highly regarded high school football players I can ever remember going into college.

If he has options, I don’t see Gabe jumping at an opportunity to compete for WR4/5 while likely signing a vet minimum. if he’s going to sign for that, he might as well pick a situation where he’ll get a chance to prove himself. If he returns to Buffalo, I think it happens later this summer because of injuries or if Coleman hasn’t made the progress they are hoping for. Plus Gabe has an injury now, and it might make more sense for him to try out at full strength

Agreed. I'm happy with a 4 man rotation of Groot, Bosa, Epenesa, and Jackson (with Solomon as 5) to start the year. Keep them all and come Week 7 if everyone stays healthy, you worry about making room for Hoecht then - if we even have to. Losing Miller and Smoot and gaining Bosa, Hoecht, and Jackson is a big time upgrade. We don't need to do anything else at DE and I don't think Clowney is an upgrade over what we have now.

Wasted opportunity with your title: ”Can Da Pope save Da Bears”

I’ll pass…DE is a position where there’s a ton of competition already. I don’t need a major role for Clowney this season.

Hes still a free agent, because basically every other team already has multiple WR’s with speed, besides Buffalo. They do not need to add an older, slower Amari Cooper- their WR rooms are stronger without. Buffalo has been starved for speed WR since John Brown. It’s the missing element that would make Josh unstoppable. Beane traded away a coveted 3rd round pick for Amari rental. And it was worth it. As Beane stated, the Bills averaged over 7 points a game when Amari played. 7.4 points to be precise. Think about how bad Josh played against the Texans. No WR could separate, it was one of Josh worst career games. We traded for Amari, and he was missing element. Defenses backed up, Bills score 30+ 8 games in a row. People underestimate how much Amari and Mack added to our offense, beyond the numbers.- Palmer and Moore are solid route runners. If those 2 can consistently get separation, the Bills offense will out score anyone.

A priest, a rabbi and an imam walk into a bar…

Yeah, I know all of that, what you were saying above. At the end I was just stating my views on the other aspect of this too, the over the top stuff--but you did not express that at all in your posts. (I was just too rambling I think, free writing it on a break.) And I am on board with what you say with the WR overall, just changed my mind about its significance as the off season progressed, as the defense needed an overhaul. I would now love that wideout you and others want. Hope Moore and or Palmer can together come close to that, provide some of what we want. But maybe next year the Bills go for it in the draft. Will depend on what happens this coming season.

I just remembered I have a Davis jersey. Now I’m all in.

You're honestly confusing the hell out of me. You're also asking a really dumb question. We have the benefit of hindsight with the 2023 WR room and we have no clue how good this 2025 WR room will be. So the best way I can answer the question is if you asked me to rank both WR groups before the start of each season it wouldn't be close. The 2023 WR room would look far better than the 2025 WR room mostly because we had an alpha WR1 going into 2023. Diggs was coming off a 1,429 yard season with 11 TD's. Davis was younger and there was still optimism that he could improve because of the high ankle sprain he had early in the season in 2022 as WR2. Harty and Sherfield were being sold as untapped potential that could blossom with Josh Allen as the QB. Shakir we weren't even sure was going to make the team. Right now on paper our best WR weapon is a tiny slot guy that can attack the short and intermediate areas of the field but isn't a deep threat. The rest until proven otherwise would be considered an average WR3 or 4 on most teams.

I think that this is a major part of the disconnect. Just because he doesn’t “need” a number 1 doesn’t mean that the offense wouldn’t be better with one. That’s obvious. The question becomes, can they keep winning with a bottom 5 WR room? We all hope so. Would they be better off if you plugged Metcalf at the top of the depth chart (for example)? Of course they would. You need to remember that the Bills were +24 in turnover differential last year. No other team was more than +16. Other than that no other team was more than +12!! That’s a massive gap. If the Bills even fall to 3rd best in turnover differential we are talking about almost an extra turnover a game that they either commit on offense or don’t get on defense. This is often lost in these conversations. The Bills had the fewest negative plays ever (turnovers and sacks). We shouldn’t expect that again or even close to it. When that regresses, even if it’s still good, will the playmakers around Josh be good enough to overcome it?

Faster than Coleman, not even joking