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No need. We have 5 maybe even 6 good corners on the team.

Unless Milano doesnt fully recover he will firmly be entrenched as a 3 down defender. With that said, I am pumped of the possibilities of Joseph, he is extremely athletic, super aggressive and loves to hit. I think he will thrive in this system and since defenses play less than 50% of their snaps outside of their "base" defense, if he performs well they will find a way to get him some snaps in particular formations. Good defensive players tend to find a way on the field.

I actually thought it was sage advice.

I thought it would take a 3 year deal in the $11M-$13M a year range to get him to re-up with us. Not too far off. The Bills end up getting him at a really good price without having to commit 3 additional years. Great deal

Doubtful but they could be somewhere in the middle of the pack and that would be a good turnaround.

They cant lay a glove on Barr. Hes too smart, knowledgeable and crafty for them and it drives them, the media and their base nuts.

I was looking through some of the predictions from the progressive economic darlings right after Trump had won his election and I thought I'd share them with you. Right after Trump had won, not sure if you guys remember but the stock market tanked by close to 1000 points in overnight trading and that prompted Krugman, our favorite economist to write a column. Politico came out with an article titled: Economists: A Trump win would tank the markets, If GOP nominee pulls off a Brexit-like surprise, Wall Street would face a Brexit-like stock plunge. Sounds ominous, lets see what they had to say: So much scare he says. Well, how about from the Editorial Page of the Washington Post. Those guys are grounded. Surely they must have had a reasonable take on what a Trump economy could look like, right? Right????? Their headline blared: A President Trump could destroy the world economy Yikes! What about Mark Zandi from Moody's Analytics. He's one of the lead advisers of the Obama Stimulus package. Let's see what he said: Oh hell, you can just read his drivel/study right here. By the way, Mark Zandi has been and is continuing to be quoted by many mainstream outlets such as CNN, NY times, Politico, WAPO etc etc as if he is some neutral arbiter and he continues to downplay the economy. In any case, I got a chuckle out of these predictions, I knew they would be waaaay off from day one. Thought I'd share them with you.

I actually like the Athletic, yeah they don't put out as much content but it's quality content.

I'm thinking they get a deal done, they gave up a lot to get him and unfortunately for them, Amari has the leverage.

The takeaway if there is any is that there may be an added level of determination to be in that sort of physical shape. It's a sign that points to commitment.

"He can run through you without being touched"

That's his opinion and now it's up to the Bills to prove all the doubters wrong.

Just the way I envisioned he'd be, methodical, organized, detailed with a clear vision. I wouldn't be surprised if Pegula views Beane as the more indispensable one between he and McD.

Even if we were to accept the premise that Whaley didn't have any say in that draft, which is laughable and at the very least he was in charge of the scouting and set up the draft board to determine the best players at each position. But just for shiznits and giggles, lets just say that Rex was in charge of the entire draft and Whaley had no to very little say, then it goes back to the point that I've been making for a while now, part of the job of an effective GM is to be able to sell your vision to ownership. Ownership has to believe in your gameplan, if they don't believe in your gameplan, then if you are a self-respecting and not desperate to have a GM-job-in-name then you shouldn't even accept those conditions and resign. Then to top it all off, if you did accept the diminished responsibility but you were the "GM", then it sets yourself up not just for failure but it hurts your GM prospects or other high level administrative positions in the league. Where is Whaley today? The XFL? You think if you were to have asked him 3 years ago what would he think if he knew that that he'd be fired as GM of the Bills, couldn't immediately get hired to any meaningful NFL exec position and had to settle to going to the XFL 3 years later, do you think that would have been almost worst case scenario? I think so. Is he aware that essentially the entire scouting staff that put in the work and setup the draft board for Shaq to be picked is no longer with the Bills? Asking for a friend

Yes, but nowhere near the amount that he ended up signing for.

Some people just don't get it. Yes, the Bills did inherit a salary cap mess. What the hard-heads have a very very hard time of understanding is that this regime didn't hold in high regards players such as Watkins and Dareus relative to their contracts. I know that the hard-heads loved these players, even though their production over the past few years was on par with your slightly above JAG level players, specially considering that they didn't fit the DNA of the type of player that this organization wanted. I get it, terms such as "process", "culture" and "DNA" are terms that are foreign to the hard-heads and they believe these are mythical made-up words that exist only in sports fans imaginations. So attempting to explain to the hard-heads that building a team from the ground up with culture, process and players that fit their DNA is a wasted cause because the concept is too abstract for their heads to wrap around. The Bills could have decided to try to keep underperforming players such as Dareus and Watkins despite them not being the type of players that fit their preferred DNA had they been playing up to their contract levels. But they weren't. And despite all the howlings and screeching we heard from the same hard-heads of how getting rid of players such as Watkins and Dareus would spell doom, the Bills still made the playoffs. And yet when you ask the hard-heads how this happened, they shrug their shoulders and suggest Luck.

Skill set is not the right description, he isn't known for his skills, he's known for his measurables and athleticism. He's an ok route runner with ok hands.

There is very little evidence that shows that he is a gadget back. He's a compact 205 pound running back at 5'8, he carries the rock like a superstar workhorse, and has done most of his running in-between-the-tackles. He not only makes defenders whiff on their tackles which he was second in the nation at doing, but he breaks tons of tackles where he led the nation in yards after contact. Take a look at this video of this run of his and give me your opinion if this has the look of a gadget back?

I was listening to Sirius NFL radio this morning and Charlie Weiss has a show. They were taking callers from fans asking about their teams draft. There was a caller who was a Bills fan and asked Charlie what he thought of the Singletary pick. Weiss says that he thought it was a homerun pick. Says he watched all 12 games of his and concluded that he was one of the top 2 overall backs in this years draft but the best pure runner and possibly the best pure runner he's seen in the last few drafts. Says the only reason why he didn't go higher was because of he lacks top end speed and that he is as short as he is. Weiss was saying that it is nearly impossible for the first guy to tackle him, he just makes people miss. Says he is the same type of runner that Shady is. And that he believes there is no doubt that he will end up being the starting running back if not this year then by next. This matches pretty closely with what I saw. The guy has elite level vision, elite level moves/elusiveness and he breaks tons of tackles. I keep hearing from some fans that believe he is some sort of gadget back. That is the farthest thing from the truth, the only possible reason that I can think that some people hold this clearly ignorant view is that he's 5'8. The guy is an in-between-the-tackle runner. Look at his film, that's where he makes his living. He isn't some guy that is just elusive out in the open field, he has the same sort of quality that Shady does which has the unique ability to run through you without hardly being touched. He doesn't need to be out in the open field to juke your socks off, he can do it in an instant in tight spaces. I saw a stat that he led college football in yards after contact. This is a sturdy compact 5'8 205 pounder who despite not having top end speed, has a very impressive 1st and 2nd gear who can accelerate past defenders. Not only that, the dude hardly ever fumbles the ball. If anyone actually takes the time and watches a lot of his film, looks at his stats and I don't just mean the on-the-surface stats which are impressive as hell but some of the other stats such as yards after contact, ball handling etc they will see that this guy is a really good runner.

Clearly the Bill's scouting department and decision makers feel differently, but I'm guessing all your extensive and exhaustive hours researching and scouting came to this informed analysis.

It's a wonder how a player like Harmon who ripped it up in the ACC two years in a row, first team ACC could have dropped to the end of the 6th round. Something on film must have showed big red flags. Find it really odd.

If they do, Lawson would be the most likely.

I love the enthusiasm and a player that is embracing the fans, but this has to be it. No more. Beane I'm sure will say something to him For this.

He definitely is on the hot seat. I am 90% sure of it. "Hot seat" not meaning about to be cut, rather that he will be in a completely open and impartial competition with someone either at guard or tackle. My guess is that him and Nsekhe will battle it out at LT and the first hint of him losing out they will try him out at guard to attempt to salvage his career as a Bill. And even then he wont be handed the job. Generally speaking, A good big man is better to have than a good smaller man. With size comes advantages for O linemen and with size comes a relatively higher degree of being able to physically dominate your opponent than a smaller man.

This is what I thought it was without having to do a Google search. Swing and miss!