WhitewalkerInPhilly

Bumping this out of hope

I forsee a lot of 2TE sets and Kincaid throws. Dare we dream of an effective screen game?

I don't hate the guy and he's probably going to be fine. But hey, I'll take every little thing that makes it easier for the Bills to finally grab the brass ring

I'm nervous because I'm always nervous but I'm going to break with people here: I actually like matching up the the Jets week 1 even if it is making the run up excruciating. I hate the hype the Jets are getting. I hate that after four straight years of high level play the Bills are being shunted to the side because the oldest active QB in the league is being grafted onto a team that took out record as longest Big 4 sport playoff drought. Don't get me wrong, I think they are good. They are legit playoff contenders and division rivals. But when I get down to matchups, I think it's close but the Bills have a decided edge Week 1. Garrett Wilson is a beast but Lazard and Cobb have had worse recent seasons that Gabe Davis. I would take our secondary to limit the Jets WRs to let us blitz and blitz creatively and force the Jets to stick to the run. The Jets have next to no film on Dalton Kincaid and their weak spot (on an otherwise stellar defense) is linebacker. One of their best players is a nickel CB, but that is the kind of matchup the Bills want Kincaid on. Media circus aside, Rodgers hasn't had many game reps with his new offense and it's not battle tested and we have a fresh trump card. Anything can happen but there is a reason savvy betters have the Bills as road favorites.

I've been noodling on this a while and what I've settled on what we did against Miami in our second match up: run a lot of nickel/big nickel/dime looks. Dare them to run the ball. Rodgers might have his Green Bay receiver cronies from last year but none scare me as much as the Hill/Waddle combo does. We have a recovered S group and a platoon on CBs. With an O-line worse than Miami I think we get enough stops to get the job done

I'll happily eat my crow on that one too

Part of me wants to set reasonable expectations. A lot of promising 1st round tight end prospects haven't really exploded over the last few years. Hockenson and Pitts haven't set the world on fire and it's unreasonable to expect Kincaid being better right out of the gate but I am really liking the move to 2 TE sets. Obviously I want him to be Kelce 2.0

Or he wants to win something

After getting a good look at the reports on the guy, and with what we had seen up until that point I can't imagine this move as anything but a net plus. Going in, the model seems to be to have one big hole clogger in the middle (Poona Ford) and one gap penetrator (Oliver) to let one LB attack and one LB cover (Milano). With Taylor Rapp and Taron Johnson, along with a stable of CB2 options I think the plan was to decrease the importance of MLB as much as possible with a lot of heavy nickel/dime looks. Getting a guy who can be an average state is better than what we have and will not be the lynchpin of the defense. That's going to be the safety group (I think) New coach, player over 30, injury history, cap space in a cut...yeah it's a common story. You just see it more at the opening of free agency

1) I think that Kincaid will effectively settle into a niche that Cole Beasley managed for about a decade: a reliable 3rd down chain mover, but with the added benefit of being a big body to let him be a red zone threat and get 4-6 TD a year. 2) Torrance will be a solid starter for 4-5 years until he gets too expensive and we let him walk.

Splenectomy. I'm sorry, it's a touchy see subject

It's very hard for me to be angry about signing a veteran who is even average at such a vital area of need with a setup that he can get a few weeks to fully rehab and learn the system and then pay him vet minimum.

I think that speaks depths as to the quality of the Cincy offensive line

Let me tell you: I took the odds with "Bills win 10+ games" and ran with them. In terms of expectations I think some is real and some is manufactured. The Bills play the Eagles, Chiefs and Bengals on the road. We lost a home game to a London matchup vs the Jags. As much as I hate admitting it, the Jets and Dolphins threw money around this off season and look better on paper while we split with them last year. But a big part is the 7 month long silly season and the need to keep talking about something . Which is how we got endless speculation on how Diggs is unhappy, how McDermott is losing the team, about how Josh Allen has regressed. On the flip side, national media has never gone broke hyping a NY team and the Aaron Rogers acquisition was a big splash

If memory serves there's a Marriott not far away in Conshohocken. FWIW, Manayunk is about as far NW you can go in Philly and still be in the city limits so it's an interesting place. It's been gentrified as hell since I lived there but there's lot of bars and the local equivalent of Nietzsche's

Tir Na Nog is where the Downtown group meets. Blue Light bottles will be at hand. How long have you guys been meeting there? I lived off Green Lane, close to the regional rail line for 2012/2013. It would suck to have missed you If memory serves, that bar is right along the Manayunk regional rail line. Otherwise you're taking an Uber up the road way that Philadelphians consider one of the worst traffic routes

They used to under the DirecTV model. Thanks I'm planning to share it with my sister

My stream worked on my phone, laptop and my XBox without any glitches or resolution issues. Right now I'm saying that alone is worth the money. That and no longer worrying about janky streams and viruses from sketchy sites...or so I've heard. 😝

Is you open a premise with a question the answer tends to be no.

I just got a message on my FanDuel that for a $5 bet (I was making anyway) they send a promo for $100 off

I'm probably going to bite the bullet and buy it. I complained for too long about "why can't I just buy a streaming service of Sunday Ticket?" That balking at the price now rings hollow

The NYP is frequently entertaining. It is rarely, if ever, useful.

I don't think that numbers will fully show his impact. 600 yards and 8 TD would be at the high end of expectations, and I would be thrilled if he hit that. Diggs is still going to eat, but I like this as a 1-2 punch

they did some last week in the Diamond formation. That you can switch that to 11 personnel by putting Knox in line and Kincaid in the slot, or Knox and Kincaid on opposite sides as ends, or put them on the same side for an unbalanced formation, or send one to the line to block. You can attack a lot of ways once you get a personnel grouping that you like on the field.

I mean, I would personally say that Kincaid is the best because of what it can do to the offense in terms of options. But yeah, it's pretty darn good