billsfan89

I think Williams is a pretty good Oline player esp at RG. I wouldn’t want to completely overhaul the line as Oline is a positional group where continuity matters most. I think Mongo will likely be gone unless he takes a pay cut to put him in line with being a high end back up.

I do also think that the immigrant population of LA cares less for American Football and the fact that both teams in LA are fairly new to the area don’t help matters much. I live not too far from LA and it definitely is a town where football is popular but maybe not the obsession it may be in other cities.

There are simply more entertainment options for Los Angeles than most other markets. Toss in the fact that a lot of people went out to watch the game (it started at 3:30 in LA) and I wouldn't be shocked if that skews the ratings.

He should retire, he played a nice role this season but is clearly not having much left. Better to go out on your terms. Not much else he has left to prove.

I would resign Philips and Zimmer as long as both are reasonable (which they should be). Phillips and Oliver are a nice pair of DT's to start and Zimmer a nice rotational player. I would post June 1st cut Star as I think the 4 million is better spent elsewhere. I would go after a vet free agent to replace Star in the rotation, it's a buyers market go buy. I would then go after a DT in the mid-rounds for depth.

The Bills were the best team in my opinion but the best team doesn't always win the Super Bowl. Been said about many seasons. Luckily I think the Bills front office is approaching this process of winning a championship in a way that is sustainable. They know the one and done format of the playoffs can lead to fluky circumstances so they are best off trying to simply be very good many years in a row and hopefully finally get that deep run. But the Bills need to be more dominant in the regular season in order to clinch a bye again. We saw what the 2 seed did for this team in 2020 in the divisional round and how playing on the road in the divisional round in 2021 was a disadvantage. Having to clinch the best record is a tall task as it is kind of luck based but there is no reason the Bills shouldn't be the 2 seed in the playoffs in 2022.

The Bengals are likely to invest heavily into their O-line in free agency and go O-line with pick 31. Had they lost to the Titans or KC before the Super Bowl that likely still would have happened. If the Bengals can get 2-3 impact starters on their O-line and get a piece or two in their secondary they should be a legit contender out of the AFC again. They got fortunate with turnovers in the divisional round and again got somewhat lucky in the AFCCG with turnovers. Their luck ran out in the Super Bowl and their weaknesses showed. Not sure where the Bengals go but I do expect them to go heavy on the O-line in both the draft and free agency.

Campbell graded out well in various advanced metrics and in the games I watched the Ravens play he was pretty good. That’s my assessment and where it comes from. I think he could still have one more good season in him.

I suspect the Bills will approach the 2022 off-season similar to 2021. I think the bigger moves will be to simply keeping the teams talent (Levi, Phillips, Mac, Bates, Hughes, and Zimmer all come to mind as likely resignings) and then make a mid level acquisition to bolster a spot on the team (similar to Sanders last off-season). The Bills will then supplement the roster further via the draft. Cap wise I don’t think they will have the money for both Miller and Campbell but bringing in Campbell seems promising maybe a one year 7ish million dollar deal?

Serious question. Was there ever an era or year where you thought officiating by the NFL was good?

Donald is a HOF player with every single accolade you can imagine for a defensive player now including a ring. At 30 he I had nothing left to prove. I wouldn’t be shocked if this is more of a Gronk situation where he takes a year off as opposed to fully retires. And yes I know Gronk retired to avoid a trade to the Lions but Gronk also had injury troubles he needed to rest up too. I think Donald comes back for one more season at the very least to defend the title but I wouldn’t be shocked to see him retire in a year or two.

I think it will be more of an outlier. The Rams got extremely luckily OBJ fell into their laps or else the Robert Woods injury would have tanked their season. The Rams undertook great risk and got rewarded greatly. But they also got extremely lucky. They got lucky to have a fairly weak AFC opponent and avoided the Packers away in the NFCCG. You always need luck in some ways but in the end you also have to look at how a method can be duplicated and it is not likely teams will see this as easily duplicated.

The game was good not great, that being said the extra game needs to be accompanied by an extra bye week. Also gut the Thursday games or only have Thursday games played when both teams had a bye week. Just some suggestions while we are trying to fix football/the NFL.

Even with high picks you miss once in awhile. Ford was a big miss for sure and AJ/Moss are a bit of a concern to be misses. But overall they constantly have been finding starters and role players throughout the draft. Lots of players still have a chance to develop too.

Since 2018 minus Josh the Bills have been pretty good at drafting maybe not elite level drafting but certainly finding multiple quality starters in each draft. Break it down year by year and you will see how awful your assessment is. In 2018 minus Josh they drafted Edumonds who has been in my opinion a fairly good starting LB, H.Phillips who had a really nice 2021 and probably would have been a starter for multiple years had he not gotten hurt in 2019, T. Johnson who has been the starting slot corner and a highly underrated part of the defense, S.Neal who has been a solid ST player and depth player and Wyatt Teller a great talent for the Browns the Bills just gave up on him too quickly. In 2019 they drafted Ed Oliver who has been really good on the defensive line along with Knox and Singletary who have been good contributors on the offense breaking out in 2021. In 2020 they didn't have a first round pick but still got good value in Gabe Davis, Tyler Bass and Dane Jackson while Moss has flashed at times and AJ can still pan out. In 2021 they had a promising rookie year from Groot and Spencer Brown started at RT and played fairly well. On top of that Boogie was decent in rotation and Doyle played well as a role player to end the season. Overall I look at these three draft classes and I see a lot of impact on the field despite missing significant picks from the Diggs trade and picking fairly late in 2020 and 2021.

Bates played well to end the season at LG. Not sure if Mongo is cut due to cap constraints (although I would love to see him take a pay cut and come back as a really high end backup at G/C), Ford is likely a bench player which isn't tragic depth and Ike likely will get a one year guaranteed deal but I don't see him making the roster and just getting IR'd as they allow him to recover from his injury "Red-shirting" the year.

You probably would have to include a 2023 1st round pick, 2023 3rd round pick and a pick in the mid rounds in 2022 just to make such a trade into the top 2-3 feasible if there is value for Rousseau as a mid to late 1st. That's a lot to give up and not really sensible. It would make more sense to move back if possible into the late 20's to mid 30's to get more picks and address more depth and future needs in rounds 2-4 by grabbing more picks.

This team has been fairly good at drafting, I would rather just "let the draft come to you" so to speak. Stay at 25/57 and see what prospects are there and just pick the best. No need to move up or down the board until the mid-rounds when the team has extra picks in the back end of the draft they could use to move up. Hell I think moving down a few spots at 25 might work best if a trade down is there. Just simply no need to move up at such a high cost.

I like the hire, not much Else to say about it.

Mac is a great gadget WR but I do agree with this assessment. Even if they cut Beasley for cap reasons and let Max walk it isn’t like there aren’t solid options at the WR position in free agency and the draft to replace both.

The Titans did sack Burrow a bunch it was the turnovers that lost them that game and KC's d-line is a one man show with Jones, I feel like you can scheme around one player. Whereas with the Rams I feel like you can't just scheme around Donald with Miller and others there.

All fair points, however I think football is often about matchups. Styles make fights and I think the Rams D-line will be able to dominate the Bengals O-line and make things very difficult for Joe Burrow.

I don’t think there will be a QB max as it would be an unfair advantage for teams with elite QB’s. But will there be some sort of market correction at some point? There might have to be.

I have the Rams in a two possession win, I think the Bengals O-line finally gets exposed against the Rams dominant pass rush. Overall though I do think the Bengals hang tough but the Rams offense scores enough to make it comfortable late and the Rams defense makes a few big plays and pressures Joe cool all game.

Good for Lynn he deserves a coordinator role, I always liked him when he was here and I think he did an OK job with the Chargers.