Thurman#1

Von Miller. We do cash in once in a while. Just not lots and lots of times in a while. People keep saying this, that we can afford it. That's correct, but beside the point. I can afford a Lamborghini. As long as I don't mind jam-packing my credit cards and living under a bridge the next few years. The question is whether it would be good judgment to bring the guy in. It wouldn't. Yeah, if you re-structure a lot of guys you could keep rolling forward as long as you weaken yourself at other positions, same as I can pack the credit cards on the Lambo. Same thing with things you can rationalize. Sure you can. Same as I can rationalize that Lambo. Doesn't mean either one would be using good judgment. It's not just that we're $6M under the cap for next year. It's that we're only $19M over the cap (27th) for 2024 even with only 30 guys under contract yet for that year. Throw in Hopkins on top of it, especially if we were to re-sign him and we'd be under serious pressure and would have to start creating holes at other positions.

Yup! And I love your name.

What was fluky about that sack fumble? They got through easily and when that happens, you're at risk for precisely that, especially the way Allen was holding the ball there. That was far less a fluke and far more a fail. I mean, you can say the TD part of it was fluky but the sack fumble wasn't. I don't see how anyone could say the offense looked fantastic. They constantly put our D in terrible situations. More good than bad, and that's a key point, but fantastic? Nah. IMO if the offense was in fact best, it was more that there wasn't a lot of great offense in these six games. The defense on the other hand looked excellent.

He looks OK. Not special, but OK. Yeah, this exactly.

I see, it's a search you made on that site? Thanks very much. I really appreciate it. It's hard to see everything, as it's a subscription site. Hard to see how other teams compare at each distance category, for instance. But as far as statistical significance, the numbers are large enough in each of the four categories to be legitimately significant to a reasonable degree. Without comparison numbers to other teams it's hard to see the ultimate meaning, but ... Thanks for the link. As I say, I appreciate it.

They aren't "criticisms." "100%, I just personally would like to see the deep shots dialed back a bit This was not a reel to show how Allen made the wrong read every single time. Simply to show that Josh Allen has open options at various levels of the field (on both successful and unsuccessful plays)." - Mirsky, a bit further down the chain Says he's pushing back on the idea some are pushing that Allen is being forced to go long by Dorsey. Specifically, in one tweet, "Pushing back on the idea from people that Josh is forced to throw it deep bcuz of play calling or the way things are schemed up." - Mirsky again, a little further down the chain.

OL rankings are extremely subjective. Where are you getting this 27th number?

IMO there's a good chance that Brown's injury (ankle, I seem to remember?) is still holding him back. We'll see next year, but that seems likely. But there's not much excuse for Saffold. He just seems to have lost a half a step in pass pro.

I'd love to see these stats. I always wonder whether or not the numbers have much statistical significance. Where did you find them? Link?

We're 6th in the league. https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/opponent-third-down-conversion-pct Fans remember really good and really bad plays, but we tend to file successful 3rd down stops as "of course" and not remember them, whereas failures get filed under "I can't believe it," and are easily remembered. We could always get better, though.

Never thought I'd see that, but now, maybe. Lamar is really good, but the Cousins contract showed that even with a good QB you don't want to fully guarantee a contract. Carr to Baltimore would be interesting. Lamar's situation is why sometimes you really do need an agent. Not everyone, and not all the time. But sometimes and for some people.

If this is really important for all of you folks, there are a lot of teams out there for you to root for. Make the switch. But the Bills aren't changing. Nor should they. Statistically speaking it's really really hard to put a really good defense on the field with consistency. Defenses regress to the mean more quickly than offenses. Yet this team has managed really good defenses year after year. Deal with it. Or switch. If you're a Bosa fan, the Chargers would welcome your fanhood. Aaron Donald? The Rams won't reject your allegiance. If you want your best players on the field for as long as their conditioning allows, root for SD or LA. There are plenty of others. All the Bills have to offer you is a really good defense year after year.

We need one? Nah. Not even close. Do they kick us out of the playoffs if we only win by a bit? Do we play on the road the next game? It'd be nice. It'd help us and them relax a bit earlier in the game. But it's not anything we need.

Having read this thread, I now realize how absolutely awful our offense is. I only wish you guys could be the coaches instead of the ones we have. That way we'd be a bit better than we are now. Our passing offense must be way below average in DVOA, hunh? No? Oh, well, we'd be higher than #2. Maybe.

The guy was consistently breaking team rules and rolling up lots of fines and being a distraction. He wasn't re-signed here till he called us himself and said his mea culpas and that he wouldn't pull that kind of crap this time around. The Bills said the way he handled things was wrong, they didn't say that with words, they said it by not bringing him back till he called us and showed he had a new attitude. Looked like a new man at his PC this year. That's why he was back. Nothing wrong with expressing your opinion in a free country. But also nothing wrong with saying "See ya later, have fun expressing yourself elsewhere," when a guy is determined to be that way. He has 4 TDs. If you can't recall any big plays, that's your memory.

Beasley was available most of the year. To anyone. And finally we didn't call him, he called us. Humbly. Demand isn't overwhelming for the guy. Might have been a few years ago, but not now.

Doc, that was utter destruction of nonsense. Great stuff.

Dude, he absolutely was a big time player. Huge, actually. Was he elite? No, but he was excellent. Everybody gets their share of coverage sacks, but Von did not get more than his share. Only problem with him as a pickup was the injury.

They really do not need to draft all offense, whether you use a pronunciation mark word or not. Very very unlikely and by absolutely no means necessary. I doubt they even go all offense in the top three picks, myself. They've always tended to split nearly evenly between the units. Most likely they do that again. The franchise tag for LBs next year is predicted to be $20.9M, all on next year's cap. Again, not a good option. And yeah, they need to invest around Josh. But defense is also investing around Josh. A good defense makes it easier for the offense.

I'd argue that their first a couple of years back is Diggs, who is on the offense, obviously. My guess is WR/OL/S/Edge as biggest priorities, with a BPA philosophy.

Happy to see that, for Tua's own sake.

Yeah, and we're (some of us anyway) are debating signing Hopkins. Wacky discussions are kinda what many to most of us do. Tremaine leaving is a lot more likely than us picking up Hopkins but until it actually happens still a long shot.

You act as if there's a chance of this. I mean, it's not flat-out impossible, but it isn't the type of deal they do for many reasons, money, picks, and not enough balls for both guys. His age. The probability he'd be a very expensive rental, which they don't give valuable picks for. Likelihood extremely low. It's fun to imagine, so there's that.

We are in our window now, and it's not going to last forever. You're dead right on this. It's only going to last the next probably 12 - 15 years, up till Allen starts serious regression. We really don't need reminders. I don't think many are forgetting.