Thurman#1

Yup, every single thing. I mean, he managed to throw in grammar problems, capitalization, spacing, typos ... I think you're right, it's really everything.

That's a lesson that teams with young dominant quarterbacks should in no way learn. Teams with Matt Stafford, maybe. Teams with Josh Allen, no.

The Vikings are $14M under the cap for 2022. The Bills are $1.3M under the cap. We are in a bit better shape, but not a lot. And Hunter would cost us $19.5M this year. Yes, it's possible, and yes they could kick cans down the road, but it would start us towards being in consistent cap problems. And Beane doesn't want to do that. Which is going to be a good thing for a lot of years. I don't see it, myself, though again it's certainly not impossible. But for a guy who's played seven games in two seasons I'm guessing it's too big of a gamble.

Or He wants to spend more time with his family. or At least he feels that way right now and is seriously considering it.

They're looking for a guy who can stop the run and be a space eater. Jordan Phillips is not that guy. Not even that type of guy. There aren't a lot of good space eaters around. Or even alive. Lots of decent 1-techs? Yeah, maybe. But that's not the same thing.

Yeah, and there's teams that don't keep first rounders and also don't win a Super Bowl. Bobby Beathard in San Diego as just one example. Not having first rounders makes it harder, especially in your future. But it doesn't make winning a Super Bowl impossible. 31/32 teams don't win, each year. Thing to do isn't look at the losers. That doesn't tell you much because there are too many of them and they lose in so many different ways. Thing to do is look at the winners. Few SB winners have consistently traded away 1sts. There are a few. But generally you want to follow the way that has produced more SB winners. Having said that, at the end of a window it can occasionally make sense. And it can reasonably be argued that having Stafford at QB puts them at the end of a window.

I don't know how they do it with those hours. It sounds like a fascinating job, but even if I were good enough to do it, I wouldn't. I already spend too much time at work, and I spend less than they do. My family's more important.

Even though you're agreeing with me, I think you overstated the case a bit. I don't think our run defense is a huge liability now. But they did have a couple of awful games against the run and a couple more bad ones. And ramping up the pressure, they are getting old or they're FAs. Horrible Harry is an FA. I'd guess he's coming back, but it's not a certainty. Star has been a good player through most of his tenure, but he's getting old and he simply wasn't the same player after Covid. Will he be what he was? Can they overlook his availability issues? They've got to be building for the future through the draft. That's the way to use the draft and Beane is well aware of it. If they like this guy and think he's a fit, he'd make a good choice if he's there. Too early to be sure whether or not he's likely to be there. Could be there, could be gone. BPA at a position of need. Space eater is a position of need. But so are WR, IOL, CB and pass rusher. But IMO if he's there and they think he's a fit, he'll be a real consideration.

Sorry, man, that doesn't make sense on the face of it. Pretty much every team has picked a DT in the first round. Plenty of those picks worked out extremely well. The most recent world champions picked Vita Vea with their first rounder a few years back and are still thrilled they did so. Oliver, Aaron Donald. Plenty of others.

"The Patriots game?" you ask? Glad I could help. Yes, the Patriots game. How did the Pats score their first TD? Remind me. Wait, wasn't it a long run? Oh, yeah, it was. So, what would the score have been if they had stopped that run? 10-7, Bills, right? So, yes, the Patriots game. And I didn't say anything about "the main reason they lost." I said, "Problems with run defense was a major factor in two or three losses this year." The reason I said that ... was that problems with run defense was a major factor in two or three losses this year. And yeah, I can see how the "big space eater makes Edmunds better" theory might be tiresome for someone who doesn't like Edmunds. Still true, though. All you have to do is go back to Ray Lewis and remember how about halfway through his career people said he'd regressed badly and simply wasn't the guy he'd been. Wackily, it was just after Siragusa left, and coincidentally it was just when they replaced that one space-eating DT with another, Ngata, that Ray suddenly became all-world again after he wasn't fighting through Gs and Cs coming right through the middle at him every play. Space eaters help LBs to run free, and that's how McDermott's defense is designed. Yup, people find plenty of really smart, true things tiresome. I get that. My kid finds it tiresome when I say, "Look both ways before you walk." My wife finds it tiresome when I say, "We can't spend more than we make." Tiresome but still words to live by.

Please. You can act like we've ignored the offense. It's still not true. You can act like the only way we can address the offense is with our first round pick. Not true, though.

You ask how their inability to stop the run caused them to lose to KC? And you're really not sure of the answer? Problems with run defense was a major factor in two or three losses this year.. The First Pats game, the Colts, probably one or two more. We win even one of those games and we play the Chiefs in Buffalo. That's how our inability to stop the run caused us to lose to KC in the divisional round. Not that I'd mind WR, OL or CB. Or pass rusher. Not a bit. But a great space-eater instantly makes Oliver and Edmunds better as well. Star's availability issues are real and had consequences. He wasn't the same guy after Covid. IMO they'll absolutely consider this if Davis is still on the board when we pick.

That's the kind of guy they have there historically. Fans don't love it, but McDermott has always had an eight-guy platoon system. And his front seven is light and the way he wants to get away with that is to have that one guy in the middle who's absolutely huge at 1-tech and is generally a 2-down guy. That's the McDermott system. Don't know whether they will or would take Davis, of course, but he's absolutely just the Bills type.

Agreed. Wins is a team stat. How the QB plays, QB stats basically, that's how you judge the QB. Or how you do it with stats anyway. Rodgers has played three out of 22 playoff games with a QB rating below 90. He's been very good in the playoffs.

Defender was not tied up with a receiver. I mean deep in the end zone, that guy might have been, but shallow and just slightly outside Rodgers a receiver was doubled and the one guy was outside him and not tied up. He could easily have fired off outside. And it was Delaney, a CB. He'd have had an excellent chance of catching up to him. He was actually about two steps outside of Rodgers as Rodgers threw. Just went and looked on Game pass. Delaney would have had an excellent shot at making the play. He runs a 4.46 40. I don't like Rodgers. He's a jackass. But he was presented with two very very tough options.

2021: 4 offense, 4 defense 2020: 4 offense, 2 defense, 1 STs 2019: 4 and 4 2018: 4 and 4 That's how it's gone for the Bills in the draft. And that's how you'd expect for a team that is primarily a BPA drafting team. FA is different. That's where you pick your position of need and go find somebody. I get that you didn't really expect all offense. But I think they'll be about half and half, as they generally are.

Yeah, Derrick Henry now might not. But Derrick Henry as a rookie absolutely was. I'm with you, though, draft mid- to late-rounders fairly regularly.

Every year I'm with him. Sooner or later I end up supporting one guy or other, but IMO that's the right answer. BPA at a position of need.

Yup. Particularly on a team that is going to have a limited number of runs, RB isn't a position you should spend too many resources on. Is he the long-term solution? Over 5 - 8 years, who knows. Maybe. Over 2 or 3 years, yeah, he very likely is. Upgrade? Yes. They should be looking to upgrade RB2 and RB3, both from inside and outside of the roster. If they somehow cheaply find an upgrade for Singletary in later rounds somehow ... fantastic. This also. Very much.

You people are genuinely sad. There is no thread you won't thread-nap in pursuit of the desperate urge to express a stupid opinion. It's like watching those sovereign citizen videos on youtube.

Saquon's $7.2M this coming year. Good player. But in our cap situation, I think he'd be a no thanks. Bradberry is about twice that. I'd give maybe a 3rd for Toney. Maybe. Maybe a 4th. If that wasn't enough to get him, I'd live with that. Availability is a serious concern with the guy. He only played in ten games last year. I wouldn't consider a 2nd for a moment.

The Russian mafia? In Boulder Colorado? Seriously? More likely drug paranoia. Jeez, what a shame.

YAC is not a receiver stat. It's a receiver / QB / route stat. All of those have a major effect. Let's not pretend it's only about the guy who is catching the ball. And in our case, not a hugely important stat. The bottom line is simply this ... how many yards are picked up on each pass? Doesn't really matter how much of it is air yards and how much YAC. The point is how many yards are gained. Our offense is really effective and productive, particularly in the passing game. That's the key thing. Teams that run a lot of screens get more YAC in general. Same with bubbles. We don't throw a lot of those. Same with bombs and sidelines that are NOT back shoulders. Near the end of the year Allen had a few bombs that weren't back shoulders, but early he was over-throwing long balls. Much better to have Allen throw back shoulders or float it more so the receiver lets the DB back in the play but gets the long long completion. This isn't a problem. It'd be good to get more but as long as the pass game is working as extremely well as it is, it's a secondary issue. We're 11th in yards per completion. That's solid. Last year, 10th. Our pass game is extremely effective. That's the important thing. If we get more YAC, that'd be fine, but it's far from crucial. EDIT: I see everyone's already said it better than I did. Great.

Yeah, I guess we are talking about you a bit. There's a guy down the street who I generally talk about dog dirt a lot with, because there's one area where we see a lot of it.

Is there such a thing as a crusade for the sad?