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I made mention of this a few years ago, every single thing he competes in, he excels. Josh Allen is a unicorn, he can pretty much do everything really well.

I agree with a lot of it, the only places I'd differ is Araiza and Dodson in blue.

Crowder is a quality slot receiver.

Typically Thursday night games on the road typically are really tough and favor the home teams much more so than normal road games. With that said, if there was ever to have a Thursday night game, the first game of the year is the best one to have.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know where Lombardo is hearing the "optimism" on Basham? I hadn't heard it, not doubting him just that I hadn't heard it from anywhere.

Shakir is viewed as a slot receiver and sometimes you can find slot gems to slip in the draft. Shakir will end up being a solid quality pro in this league for years to come.

I would love to have him but I don’t think the Bills will be able to match what he will get on the open market, unless they can get him on a one year deal worth around $8m or less. With Elam and White, I just don’t see them investing too much on another DB beyond 2022. I think the Bills will get a veteran CB but it won’t be too costly.

Personally, I think Bernard has a high floor, I think the likelihood of him becoming a player that plays in at least 50% of the snaps in this league are pretty high. Knowing what sort of team leader he is and his passion for the game and his Mental DNA makeup combined with his athleticism he just has what it takes to be an above average player in this league, I think. I think he is going to be beloved from the Buffalo fanbase in the years to come.

The offense (Allen) particularly without doubt the engine that drives the team. I agree with the idea of surrounding him with more talent because I do believe it does create somewhat of a multiplier effect in that Allen makes people around him look even better than they actually are. I have been a proponent of adding more offensive talent around him but if you look at the Oline relative to last year it is on paper better than last year or at a bare minimum a push. The WR room is essentially a wash - out goes Sanders and Beasley and in comes Shakir and Crowder and now a third year player in Gabe who should be better than last year. Then the RB’s are stronger than last year primarily to the speedy and versatile Cook. The tight ends are upgraded with the addition of Howard. The Bills didn’t have most of their failures because of their offense (aside from the Jax debacle) but because of their defense. Their defense played very well most of the year but in critical moments and segments of games it was the defense that was the primary culprit of those lapses and defeats. TN, KC, Indy and TB. The offense should have been enough to win home field advantage and against KC. Which is why they addressed it this off season.

Right, but the more accurate gauge to judge them by is not how they played the season before in 2020 but rather where we left off in 2021. Daryl Williams who I consider to be serviceable, wasn't a good tackle in 2021 but he was ok at guard. Saffold, played better than Williams in 2021 when they were playing the guard positions. I saw your argument about his lack of availability with him but my most accounts and his peers he was the better player. Mongo was a decent option in 2020, but had a really bad year in 2021. Should we judge his 2020 or 2021 year? Makes more sense to judge his 2021 year and the opportunity that was given to Bates in 2021, he not only exceeded expectations but he played at a level down the stretch in pressure packed games at a considerably higher level than Mongo did in 2020, I don't think anyone would argue otherwise. Quessenberry, even though he gave up a lot of sacks, he also had a very good PFF ranking. He's not penciled in to be the starter but I think he serves as a quality utility Lineman who can play both tackle and IOL positions. Boettger was a starter and wasn't god awful, he was just kind of meh. Which in terms of depth, meh turns into OK depth. I do think with Kromer that he may be able to get a little more out of the line than his predecessor and I also believe that Bates and Spencer Brown going into their first full year as the front runners to start should theoretically perform better than they did in their first year as starters. I am not arguing that this is the line and we don't need work but for the 2022 season, barring injury they should be a better unit than what we saw in 2021. Next year, I believe will be the year they will put some premium draft capital into the line.

I think one more Vet who can provide quality depth throughout the IOL would be a good idea and for this year we can roll with that.

A lot of teeth gnashing over the offensive line. It’s clear that on paper the O-line is better than last year. Spencer Brown going into his second year should be better than his rookie year. Bates going into his first full season as the favored starter should be as good or better than last year. Morse is solid. Saffold is clear of Darryl Williams. Dawkins is solid. Depth: Boettger has starting experience and is serviceable relative to depth O-linemen in the league. Quessenberry is solid depth for both IOL and swing tackle. Ford/Mancz/Doyle/Anderson. You hope one of those guys emerge as viable depth. Barring injury the line is fine enough. They may go after another quality depth piece in FA this year. Next year they will draft one with one of their premium draft choices.

Interesting…

Because it takes two to make the deal. He is most likely negotiating a relatively lucrative deal with someone to obtain his services and deciphering with his agent which place he stands a better chance to make a final roster.

Janine Talley is somewhat of an open book on Twitter. She has gone on to talk about the unfaithfulness of Darryl Talley and how he had an affair. She definitely will talk about anything and I mean anything on her Twitter account lol

There are only so many positions you can address in an off-season and the Bills addressed many if not all of them. With that said there are different levels of how you address the positions of need. Buffalo believed that the pass rush was a major area of need and they spent significant cap space to get a difference maker in Von Miller. The Bills thought they were too inconsistent up the middle so they got Daquan Jones and Settles and spent some Cap capital in that position specially considering they had to take a dead cap hit with Star. The Bills were exposed by the Chiefs speed and they subsequently let Wallace walk and added the most significant draft capital piece with their first rounder in selecting Kaiir Elam. For a year where the Bills had to do many things to create room to add some pieces they still were able to on paper manage upgrading their O-line from last year, which arguably played at an above average level the last 6-7 games that they played. You can’t always get everything you want but when you look at what they did with the overall team, I don’t see how anyone could not look at the Bills and not see an improved team. For me it boils down to two things: Can the Bills have another relatively healthy season with minimum amount of injuries? And Is Dorsey going to be an effective OC that will lead this juggernaut of an offense to continue its momentum of the past two years? If those 2 things continue, then the Bills are clearly better than they were the previous year.

One other thing that stuck out when watching all these videos of Shakir is that for his size he is a monster at catching contested balls. He seems to really have the ability to concentrate and display strong hands in these situations.

There seems to be this perception by some that the Bills aren’t investing enough on the O-line and that it may have gone backwards from this past year. That doesn’t make sense. Departures: Mongo Darryl Williams Mongo was a very serviceable depth piece and Darryl Williams was an average to solid guard this past year. They are being replaced by Quessenberry who is an upgrade over Mongo that can play either guard or the swing tackle positions. Saffold who is viewed by most an upgrade over Darryl Williams. Then you have Bates who will have the inside track at one of the starting guard spots who would you’d think have a decent chance at showing growth and improvement and Spencer Brown now going into his second year which you’d expect growth and improvement as well. The line may start off a little rusty being that you would have a couple positional changes from last year but on paper the unit should be stronger than this past year. As of right now, it appears to me that next year they will look to address the O-line with a premium draft choice or two.

Damn!

If there was ever a comp for Terrell Bernard it would be Milano. Both “undersized” coming out college, good speed, agility, downhill attackers, good coverage ability and excellent blitzers. I keep reading that this could be the replacement of Milano. I don’t see it that way at all, Milano Is a stud and I don’t see him going anywhere. I’m pretty sure if there was a Milano exact clone that they both would be out on the field a lot together at the expense of Edmunds. This defense doesn’t differentiate the roles all that much between Edmunds and Milano and from my perspective Milano is clearly the better player out of the two. Terrell Bernard has an opportunity to eventually be one of the two starting LB’s, in the meantime he just needs to get adjusted to the pro game, hit the gym hard with a similar weight gain regiment as Milano, be excellent in Special teams and show out when his number is called. I think this going to be a sneaky good pick for the Bills.

For what it’s worth

Enjoy!

I love this pick. This is one of the guys I was hoping we would get today. Great ability to separate, really good speed, can play slot and outside the boundaries but more of a projected slot and great production throughout his collegiate career. Very surprised he lasted this long.

“Draft value” according to whom? The talking heads whose job entails playing pretend GM who have no accountability with the predictions they make? The bottom line is finding players that will contribute to the overall success of the team. We won’t know that for another year or two but on the surface it appears to me that Both Cook and Elam could very well be upgrades over what we had and that hopefully Terrell can be a quality Special team we who provides quality depth and a situational piece when called upon.