Thurman#1

$700K. We'll know by 4/18, as $1M from his 2022 salary guarantees on that date. Wouldn't call it a big whiff myself. But could have been better.

Yeah, sorry, but that's nonsense. Which we'll always get a lot of after a horrible loss like this. But still nonsense even if the emotion is pretty understandable. He's been here for four drafts, meaning you can only be sure of a good evaluation on the first draft. The rest, it's just too early to know. He's had four first-rounders, three of whom in Allen, Edmunds and Oliver are good to excellent picks. Rousseau it's too early to know, but looked good for a rookie. He's had three second-rounders, none of whom had seen four years yet. Ford looks like a bad pick, though it's still barely possible he improves. Epenesa and Basham it's simply too early to know. He's had five third-rounders, and for third-rounders he's done really well. Harrison Phillips looks like a very good pick, Singletary a good pick now that we have a functional OL, Knox excellent, Moss not good so far but simply too early to know. Spencer Brown looks like he's going to be a real bargain. To sum up, nonsense.

We should have first dibs on many FAs? I disagree. A few, yes. Guys like Olsen who's already $63M, and is near the end of his career, yeah. But that's not a lot of guys. There will be some, and that's good. But for most it will be what it always is, who is willing to give more money. And the Bills won't have much money to give next year.

Stay by the phone. I'm sure McDermott and Farwell will be getting back to you.

Get used to him. Or you'll have agita for the next twelve years or so. I don't vote in these things exactly because they so often end up producing ridiculous results like this one.

Yeah, agreed. With the rules against contact on QBs and WRs being stiffened and more strongly enforced every year, it's almost impossible to stop a smart elite QB with options at the skill positions and a solid OL from putting up points like a pinball game when he's hot. And I do think a healthy Tre makes a real difference.

Strong disagreement on needing to replace RB1. Miniscule chance of that in a year like this, IMO. Bringing in someone to compete, particularly for RB2? That would make sense to me. When the OL started playing well, suddenly Singletary got much much better. Same with finding a guy to outplay Knox. Wildly unlikely in a year like this with a cap squeeze, I'd bet. And while I'm not thrilled with Morse and he's expensive, I don't see them getting rid of him unless they've got a guy who can play at least as well, and I don't see that happening. They don't need to be teaching a new center and having OL synching being hurt at this point. Most of the rest makes sense to me, though, barring the Edmunds stuff. That guy will be here a long time barring serious injury or a change at head coach, and that's a good thing. Davis is stuck, I think. Can't re-negotiate rookie deals till after the third season. I believe that includes extensions.

Yup.

Frazier's very much worth that. We'll be lucky either way, getting the picks or having him stay. Oh, and yeah, I bet there are a ton of teams out there thinking, 'Hey, that guy couldn't stop Pat Mahomes playing out of his mind, let's not hire him.' This'n. And he will.

With no evidence, I doubt it. I suppose it's possible, but no way to know.

#1s do get open. And I'll bet he was open quite a bit and we'll see it in the All-22. But less open than Davis with Diggs focusing the coverage on him. Our guys getting open was not the problem in this game. The passing game was white-hot.

I just checked pff.com. There's no gambling. A bit of advice for gamblers but mostly various sports info. Am I missing some secondary site or something? I'm envious. I'll get there in a month or so, but right now just depressed.

Nah. The vax stuff isn't in the rear view. Way too early to say that and no reason to think he won't keep right on spouting off and being selfish. And he's on the way downhill. Not what he used to be. Still very good at zone but has taken a major drop at man-to-man. I could imagine them keeping him, esp if he takes a bit of a cut. Hope they don't. Oh, and comparing him to Kupp or Edelman is ridiculous. Was even before his productivity started to drop.

I thought it increased significantly at WR. He's never had a game like that New England game. Our fanbase saw it, I'm sure other teams will too. On the other hand, people are really overreading the significance of that tweet, I think.

We don't need a nasty D. We need an effective D. Good, effective, efficient ... that's what we need. We already are that, but need to get more so, though might well be that if Tre White had played we'd have won. No way to know. How you get to good, efficient and effective doesn't really matter. Fast, tough, smart ... generally a mix of all of them. And KC's offense didn't out-tough our D. They outran us. And they got the ball last. If we had got the ball last, we'd have won. Did our offense succeed because KC's defense sucked? Or does having one of the top two QBs in the league with good players around them in a good scheme make it hard to impossible to stop your offense when you're playing well? Goddamn, though.

Southern Honshu, Japan. The game starts at 8:30 a.m. I'm a teacher and my first class starts at 8:40. Luckily I have Game Pass. I'll be watching it bit by bit. Will probably finish watching sometime around 6:00 - 8:00 p.m, at 4:00 - 6:00 a.m Buffalo time.

Yup. Hard to say when it'll happen, but it's wildly likely.

See, this is how pitifully far someone has to stretch to argue against the obvious here. A stupid argument on the face of it, in every word. Lewis has 55 snap on defense. Tremaine has 873, 94%. Pretending an occasional role player's compares to the effect Edmunds has ... it's sad. On the other hand, those are the kind of arguments you have to take on that side of the question. So it's not all that surprising that silly examples show up here. Nor is Edmunds going to get $20M when he re-signs with the Bills. He'll make a lot, but not $20M. Severely sad argument.

We are indeed playing really well. So are they.

As long as we have Allen playing anywhere close to this level.

Nah. You want your player to think that, to say that. Doesn't make it true, but you want your guy thinking they're close.

Of course there are. For absolutely anybody, until they invent the perfect human. Josh's biggest is that he has throws occasionally where he misses by a lot, and that he takes big risks which he can often make work with his terrific arm, but when the risks and the bad throws overlap, there are often going to be consequences. Still a terrific player, though.

Where was he? Probably at the press conference same as always. And you're misquoting Jerry. He didn't say they should be embarrassed. He asked if they were embarrassed. It probably should have ended with a simple, "No." Beyond that, Jerry has zero problem writing good things when the Bills play well. Never has. Nor did he yesterday. Proof here: https://www.niagara-gazette.com/sports/buffalo_bills/sullivan-bills-celebrate-real-home-playoff-game-with-near-perfect-performance/article_a5d46d3c-059f-5e40-9b5f-27fd63be4119.html Headline: "Sullivan: Bills celebrate real home playoff game with near-perfect performance"

Too early to know. The passing game is what usually takes time to develop. My guess is you're right about Hurts, but that Tua might have a chance. But it's just too early to know.

No. They shook hands. Just went back and you can see it on the game video for an instant. But he did indeed keep his feet moving and say maybe one word to McDermott.