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Franklin has looked like a nice core ST add and although there are some rough edges the ST unit to me is coming together nicely. The ST unit hasn't been a crisp good unit since 2021 or 2022 from what I remember. 2023 the Bills were ranked 28th in special teams and in 2024 they were ranked 13th although I question the methodology on that once because it felt like they were a below average unit not as tragic as 2023 but probably a 18-20th ranked unit if I were making the rankings based on the metric of what I think. So far the ST Unit in two games has been fairly solid. A couple of longer returns and a bad punt but considering most teams come out rusty on special teams that's not bad. I think adding Johnston not only adds a second Bill Burr lookalike to the team but helps with better consistency on punting.

I thought the team got out of the game with no injuries. Ugh, likely gonna miss the Fins game at a minimum probably see how he is after the "mini-bye"

Knox is one of Josh's closest friends on the team and one of his longest tenured teammates (only Dawkins on offense has been here longer than Knox). I think the issue with Knox is going to be that the be how much is he willing to rework his deal? The Bills can't afford him at a 17 million dollar cap number he is a solid TE but not worth that salary, they can cut him and save 10 million as his dead cap is only 7 million. If Knox is willing to restructure his deal to where the cap hit can be around 10 million (thus only costing the Bills 3 million on the cap to keep him) I think he stays another year.

People with money get off easier due to having better lawyers. Very unfortunate two tier justice system.

Kind of reminds me of the years the Brady era Pats would lose some games in September and October but would pull it together and look like themselves by December. The Chiefs played a good Chargers team in week 1 in Brazil on a Friday (very funky week 1 on top of week 1 already being funky) and then they played the defending Super Bowl Champs at home in a tight 3 point game. I'm not saying KC doesn't look like they have issues. But I think if/when they get Rice and Worthy back that offense will look different. I also think they will add a piece on offense via trade. This just isn't looking like a big deal just yet. Now if KC loses to the Giants this week then we can sound the alarms. I think the KC schedule will go something like this. They will beat up on Giants and go 1-2, then they will lose to the Ravens and go 1-3 but they will win 3 out of 4 between the Raiders, Jags, Lions and Commanders and be 4-4. Afterwards the Bills will push them back down to 4-5 and people will write them off and I think they go 6-2 to end the season as they will probably beat the Cowboys, Texans, Colts, Titans, and split their last Division games 2-2. KC will be 10-7 and make the wildcard.

The Jets are clearly a year away at best from being a playoff team. I thought their o-line and RB's could give the the DT group without Ed some issues. Because Simpson and Tippman are good players there. But dam the Jets Oline that handled TJ Watt and the Steelers was complete handled by the Bills missing their best DT and arguably best D-linemen. The Jets issue is that they have bad ownership off the field and on the field they don't have a QB and are missing a few other pieces elsewhere (They need a WR2 and maybe one additional complementary offensive weapon and a few additional pieces on defense). Glenn is trying to just right the ship and build a culture. I think it was smart for them to tank a year and clear out their contracts and likely get a top 10 draft pick and put themselves in position to trade up for a QB and have the cap space to add some pieces on offense and defense. But their longer term fortunes are going to rest on can they figure things out off the field with ownership and how good a QB can they get?

I wish the Bills had Hoecht or Landon was more impactful as a rookie. Because outside of Groot and AJE the Bills don't have much else at DE. I like Solomon but he is a role player and shouldn't see an increased snap count. Hoecht would be fantastic to soak up a lot of snaps to keep Bosa healthy but he is suspended. Jackson was drafted for depth and development and he looks like he needs a year to cook so to speak. So the Bills best bet these next few weeks are to control the clock of games to have less overall snaps for the defense and the veteran guys. It worked out super well for the Jets game where the lats quarter most of the vets didn't play.

Agreed I am expecting a blowout, the Bills basically got the ideal outcome heading into a Thursday game (no injuries plenty of garbage time). But Thursday games are just funky sometimes. It's the fan in me that when everything seems ready for a blowout I just look for some reason to have a lack of confidence.

I think the Ravens last season utilized Tre well, he's a great CB4 who can play 35-40% of snaps. I just don't think he is gonna hold up on a heavy snap count. I think the reason they drafted two corners including their top draft pick was to ideally avoid playing Tre as a starter longer term.

Bills are a justifiable big two possession favorite over the Fins. The only thing that would make me worried is that it is a Thursday game and Thursday games are funky. But the Bills did get a lot of garbage time against the Jets, seems like the Bills didn't play the vets in any considerable fashion over over a quarter.

I think Brady actually asks a lot less of Josh than Dorsey did and than Daboll did in 2020-2021. Daboll did a great job in 2019 in brining up a second year Josh playing to his limitations then. But I think Daboll let Josh loose the last two years he had. But I think the issue with Daboll and Dorsey was they were simply asking too much from Josh. Brady in 2023 I think he turned to the conventional ground game to keep the pressure off of Josh and it worked. In 2024 Brady without Diggs went to a more distributive offense where the conventional ground game was still a big component of the offense. I am just going to enjoy this season for what it is with Brady and hoping Brady comes back but I think any coordinator that this team has to bring in has to be willing to not have Josh do everything all the time. Josh can do everything but he shouldn't "have to"

Tarron is a high end slot corner, there's a good reason he was an All-Pro, I think the issues you have with him are more so on the defensive scheme as opposed to how good Tarron is.

If the team quits on him they will fire him. Secondly yes he seems to be an ideal OC. Not sure of the fit with the scheme but he would not be the worst Brady replacement. I also am hoping Daboll gets fired with the Giants and the Bills can get him back

He really didn't seem like someone who was going to be a good leader. I think his offensive scheme while not quite the revolution some thought it would be (turns out it was mostly having two dynamic WR's and some fast RB's in a good scheme made for a good offense) is still pretty good. And when Tua plays more often than not they do score. But I think leadership and process is something that is so critical in coaching. And McDaniels just doesn't have that.

Bosa's issue in recent years has never been he's not a good player. Last year Chargers fans said he was very good when he played (which was 12 games) but he was just a notch below his once dominant self and he got hurt. I think the Bills were more than comfortable signing up a very good player at the cost they signed him for and just hoping they could try to keep him healthy or at least get a good chunk of the season out of him. It's only been two games and he's been mostly good, the test is gonna be durability.

The Fins seems like a mess, the Bills if they could piled up a 3-0 start and get a "mini-bye" would put themselves in a very strong position heading into what looks to be a softer stretch of the schedule. Home game against a reeling divisional opponent, Bills gotta "get fat" and build a lead on their divisional opponents here.

I hear what you are saying in that despite the Bills getting a lot of points thus far in weeks 1-2 it feels like they are at times struggling to move the ball and the offense feels "difficult" at times. But I watch some boring Josh Allenless football when other teams play and most NFL offenses are a struggle to watch a lot more so than the Bills. It's rare that a team just has a breezy offensive effort. NFL defenses even ones that aren't elite make it hard to score. The Bills even before they "turned it on" against the Ravens scored 25 points a pretty healthy number for a game. The Bills against the Jets only scored 3 points on a short field via turnovers they scored 27 on fairly lengthy drives. I do think Brady has to do two things. One is make the in season adjustments to the offense to keep it from stagnating. Two is "save" some of the best stuff for the post season like Andy Reid does.

I didn't notice that either. For some reason I thought he was inactive (even though I read the inactives before the game) but it is good to see him active and even playing in garbage time. I loved him coming out of the draft and it seemed like he had a prototypical marinate for a season rookie year. I was excited to see him in camp and see how he was gonna look year two but he was hurt almost all of camp/pre-season. Very frustrating for him but good that he's back in the fold certainly helps interior O-line depth.

Week 2 was about as good a game for the Bills heading into a Thursday game. The Bills dominant performance turned the last quarter into garbage time which allowed the vets to rest. They also were able to give Taron a week off and Ed as well. The Jets away have been a 50/50 knuckleball type game the last 3 seasons but this year they managed to get a very dominating comfortable win. This secures a 2 game lead over two opponents in the division and a 1 game lead overall. No major injuries from what I saw (other than Cam Lewis whose injury didn’t look like much). An absolute peach of a Sunday.

That’s if Worthy stays healthy but yeah I would imagine KC if worthy and Hollywood Brown stay healthy probably feel comfortable with Rice being their big addition so to speak. But if they get an injury there it would be a consideration for them certainly

Hard to choose this week because so many people had good games. Bosa dominated this game he’s gonna get one as should Cook and the oline.

The Bills took care of business against a divisional opponent away and a divisional opponent that in their house always seems to play a tight game. The defense looked more like the improved unit fans thought it would be. The Jets offensive line is a pretty good unit and the front 7 handled the Jets and kept their good RB’s from getting going. Offense executed a good game plan. special teams also looked crisp. Very few if any injuries just a good Sunday

Pretty cool!

I remember the Bills losing a lot of games by big margins during the drought. Yeah they choked some games here or there like any NFL team does but I remember more often than not they would just be outclassed by good teams.

I think the only time you should play more conservative on offense is once you have a 3 possession lead and the game starts to get below 8 minutes and you have the ball. Let's say you have the ball at your own 30 and there's 8 minutes flat left in the game and you are up 17. Running the ball a couple of times to try and kill some clock and take 90 seconds off allows you to ensure there's only 2 possessions left for the offense most likely. Then on third down depending on the distance you can either run it again and take another 40 seconds off or throw in a 3rd and medium/long situation and even if there is an incompletion you still took some time off to shorten the game. I think with a 2 score lead the grinding of the clock probably shouldn't occur until you are hitting about 5 minutes left in the game. As if you are up 10 with 5 minutes left and you run the ball twice you either eat up two timeouts or you press the clock down to 3.5 minutes left and you make it very tight for there to be 2 possessions left for the opponent. "Garbage Time" in the NFL does not exist for the vast majority of the game. Yeah if you get up 4 scores and have the ball with a quarter left yeah maybe grind the clock then but for most of the game you have to build a lead unless you get to a ridiculous 5+ possession lead.