Thurman#1

If they want him, which is very far from a sure thing.

There's something there, but the bottom line is that's not a question that should be applied to one guy. That's a question that should be applied to the OL, the RB and the play call, all rolled up together. The whole offense, really, with emphasis on the OL and the RB, with an FB thrown in if the team uses one, which we mostly do not.

Doesn't make sense. Garbage time runs increase your number of runs. They don't increase your YPA. More, know what his run stats are this year in the fourth quarter when up or down by eight points or more? He's 0 for 0 in those cases. Doesn't have a single run in that kind of situation. So, nonsense. https://www.footballdb.com/players/devin-singletary-singlde01/splits Defenses absolutely respect him. They play him with the same amounts of linemen that they have with Moss and Breida. That's a result of having Josh Allen in the backfield. Do they respect him as an elite back? No nor a top ten guy. But as a solid RB who can easily make you miss? Yeah, absolutely.

He is a decent third down back. He can catch. As for replacements, that's just flat-out nonsense.

Politely disagree. IMO he's already showing a bit of regression and more injury than we've seen from him before. And there are other concerns than those performance-related.

Agreed that some time soon he won't be worth $6 mill. But he signed a 4 year deal which includes next year. Sanders, though is on a one-year deal.

Excellent player. And a doofus and a distraction, and willing to increase the odds of missing time and increase the odds of infecting others on the team due to a personal preference. Sanders has showed just those same traits. Against tougher defenders deeper in the D. That doesn't downgrade Beasley, but Sanders has been excellent. I don't think McKenzie has showed the ability to perform as well, but this team features the slot WR. The scheme is built around it in some ways. IMO they can find somebody to give them 80% of what Beasley gets in some combo of McKenzie, Stevenson and someone else. Last year the best slot in the league, this year maybe top 5 to 8 and showing signs of aging decline and injury. We'll see, but IMO there's a decent to good chance he's not here next year.

This is silly. It's not Jones' responsibility to "prove himself" in his first ten games in the NFL. Of course he hasn't proved himself. Nobody could. What he has done is play extremely well, play with a ton of consistency for a rookie and far out-perform expectations. Also out-performed every one of those drought era Bills QBs in the first 10 games in the NFL.

Not even close. Well-hyped, yes. And they deserve it. 5-1 in the last six games, and have won four in a row, including Chargers and Browns. They're over-achieving.

Good point. Fletcher was terrific. Disagree strongly. Since his bout with Covid, maybe this is on target, but since year three he's been settling in around excellent. Not elite, but not that far away either.

Yup. Allen looks likely to become the best, but for right now, it's Kelly until Allen succeeds over time. Kemp is underrated. First team all-pro twice, Pro Bowl six years in a row and seven total out of nine years of more than 20 passes thrown. A very solid guy.

It's not that the board that's not sure about Edmunds. It's that he's got a small group of haters that want a Dick Butkus in the middle. They don't get it and won't be convinced. Having said that, Edmunds would be running up against Sam Cowart, Takeo, Shane Conlan and a bunch others before you even consider the real old-timers like Stratton. Way too early to have this conversation for him and for nearly everyone in OP's post, though Poyer and Hyde might be a pretty reasonable thought and Allen certainly looks like in a couple of years he'll be in there as well. Other than Hughes, nobody's been here more than four and a half years and the first year or two didn't look good. Too early.

Quick, we're the #1 defense. Change!!!

Yup. The Bills have shown over and over again that they're best and most productive running with 11 personnel and that means three receivers. Davis is our fourth-best WR. When they run four WRs he goes in, but they're a lot more successful going with three.

What, too few of them? This is genuinely a horrible take. A few? Absolutely. Far fewer than most teams? Yup. Even for a bad take, this stands out as exceptionally clueless. They're playing better than any other D in the league right now, and Edmunds inside has a major role in that standing. And so now we're playing incredible defense with 5 DBs so we ought to hurry and change? Yeah, makes total sense.

Good player, but far from great But a lot of his lack of TDs is that he isn't in the game when they're down at the goal line. Moss is in there, or nobody and if they run it, it's Allen. You can't just hold the raw numbers against him there. He's had 6 career TDs, but out of how many runs from inside the 5 yard line? He's not our hammer, nor will he ever be. But that doesn't mean he's not good.

We're 6-3. And we've probably got the best D in football, though one or two others might well challenge us by the end of the year. Why wouldn't it be positive? Didn't you get enough negative last week? We weren't even playoff-worthy anymore to a few out there.

He isn't leverage, but that's OK because the Bills have Edmunds for another year and the year after that they've got money. And both sides want to make a deal.

You are. You are indeed in Crazy World. That's why everyone but a few nutballs disagrees.

I don't get how when people want a bad comparison they often seem to pick Pennington. And Pennington without the arm injuries is maybe a Hall of Famer. He's a sad case of a guy who showed every sign of being generational suffering an injury that destroys his career. Go take a look at how he did his third year, first as a starter. Top two in the league, probably, and he had a good arm too. Then the injuries.

We won't have the same players. We had Boettger and Ford replacing injured guys, and Williams playing at RT. As our first teamers get healthy, things should get better. Getting Knox back should also help significantly. Rotating RBs isn't a problem. That is incorrect on the face of it. Any run game is a run game, and plenty of very successful run games work from misdirection.

As you say, that isn't McDermott teams or a McDermott phenomenon. It's pretty much every team there ever was. Teams have good stretches and they have bad stretches. It's just the way things go when human beings are involved. Even the '72 Dolphins had a bad game against the 4-9-1 Bills, falling behind and barely coming back to beat the Bills by a point. Ups and downs is how human enterprises work.

Is Pittsburgh a bad team? And remind me, did Miami beat us or have we outscored them 61 - 11 this year? And how bad did they play Thursday night? There's no excuse for that Jax debacle, but I don't look at the other two games that way.

First, we have a running threat, particularly when the OL is healthy. We're not wildly dangerous or anything but we're decent. And second, it's been shown a bunch of times that play action works even if your team is not that great in running. Even if your run game isn't effective, it will become effective if the LBs don't come up when they think you are running.

I don't think it's yet clear that the NFL and the owners are the ones who released those emails. Certainly could be someone at the NFL. But it could be someone at WFT, or LVR or a lower-level NFL guy as easily as a high-level decision.