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It's division or bust honestly. The Fins and Jets are decent but nothing special. The Fins are a solid team who is mediocre at QB, the Jets are a mediocre team with a good but not yet great QB. The Pats are a well coached defensive machine but they have major issues at the QB position and other places on the offense. If there was ever a time for the Bills to expect 11+ wins and a division title it is this season. The Bills retain a strong top 5 defense, added to a solid special teams unit, and added a big weapon to the offense which should help it improve. To quote the Goonies, "It's our time."

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I was talking about a trade, Dak is on the tag and can be tagged next year. I think the only way he would go to NE would be if he got to them via a trade centered around 2 first round picks plus other assets. NE is like any other team eat up cap space and draft resources and you see a negative impact. Dak is a good QB but pay him a top 3 QB contract and you will not be able to contend in my opinion.

I went to Nashville back in February just before all the Covid craziness and I can say that Nashville is a fun town. That stadium is also in a perfect place just a short walk from all the downtown bars. But I don't know if I would buy tickets to any sporting event any time soon.

Brady routinely gave the Patriots a top 5 QB with a upper midlevel contract. Dak hypothetically would be coming with a top contract and costing big time draft capital. So I wouldn't see it as a move that the Patriots would make anyway.

That was my first thought, backup QB really is the best position in sports. As far as Barkley eh, he is what he is a decent but uninspiring backup QB. I think Barkley is a positive locker room guy so I can see him hanging around for this season and 2021 while Fromm gets a couple of years with the team to get his feet wet.

I am always one for upgrading the O-line. It would be good to have him come in and compete with Feliciano for the RG spot. The right side (which generally speaking was the weaker side) would have a lot of competition if they brought in someone to compete with Feliciano as D.Williams is already competition with Ford and TY. But I don't see it shaking out for the Bills. I think given his high level of interest and the fact that teams would be willing to hand him a starting job and a good salary (at least on a one year deal) I think he goes elsewhere.

The age requirement should stay or only be reduced to after 2 years of college. I can't see 18 and 19 year olds in the NFL working out.. I get that teams will not draft guys who aren't ready but the NFL does have a right to protect the teams and organizations from themselves. I also agree that if a player doesn't get drafted they should have the ability to come back for one more college season.

Aren’t third round picks always the last to sign because of the digression involved between the team and the player with how the contract and bonuses are structured? It seems like it is par for the course to have third round picks take a bit longer to sign. But the contract is still slotted so it isn’t likely to have a long holdout like back in the day.

I think they can only be flexed out of one of their primetime games as the flex doesn't happen until the latter part of the season.

The Pats have built up a "brand name" with football fans due to always winning for nearly 20 years. That's simply going to happen. They are also coming off of a winning season and feature a curiosity factor (how good is the Pats system or was it Brady.) It isn't hard to figure out why they got a good slate of prime-time games. I also think they hedged their bets trying to put one of those fives games into a December slot where it can get flexed. I think the Pats will be a boring team to watch, bad offense, good defense and ST well coached but unable to move the ball against better defenses. I still wouldn't be shocked if they were an 8 win or better team. Good coaching and a good defense and ST unit can carry a team with a mediocre offense.

Bills need to be 4-2 after that opening 6 games, they then need to take care of both the Jets and Pat's to get to 6-2 and split Seattle and @Arizona to get to 7-3. They then need to come out of the bye and finish 4-2 which should get them to 11-5 and a division title.

The Jets had a lot of top heavy signings which resulted in a top heavy roster. A roster that was susceptible to injuries. Any amount of injuries can overwhelm a team. However had the Jets been deeper they would have been able to withstand the injuries they did have better and maybe not put themselves in as deep of a hole as they did. I think the Bills had only 2 signings that were 9 million aav or more (Mitch and Brown) whereas the Jets had something like 5-6 in the 2019 off-season.

I don't know why they don't just have all replay reviews happen from a replay ref like they do in the NCAA. I find it stupid that it is up to the coaches digression to decide wither or not the referees made a bad call or not. It's not a big deal now that all turnovers and scores are reviewed but it is still a pet peeve.

I think people don't understand that the testing was already very lax to being with. I think people thought the NFL was doing more randomized weed testing than they were and thus are thinking that it went from being policed to open season. When in reality we are going from a token level of testing to no testing. Not much is going to change.

The Jets starters vs. the Bills starters were about even maybe slightly in favor of the Bills. But the Jets built a top heavy team in 2019 susceptible to injuries due to lack of depth. The Bills roster was built to be deep on both lines and have a lot of roster flexibility. The Jets sustained a few key injuries and their team fell apart. That's poor roster construction in the NFL esp when you have a QB on a rookie deal.

Fully agreed, but in the circumstances NFL players found themselves in prior to them fully eliminating the testing now wasn't that hard to beat the test. You got test at one given point in the year and all you have to do is abstain for 6 weeks of the year to be free to smoke the rest of the year. Not exactly a hard thing to do. But I do think that it is better to just eliminate the test and ask players to be responsible like they are with alcohol.

Weed is a mental addiction for some people its physical addiction is very low in most people if existent at all and you should be able to quit cold turkey without any physical problems or minor ones like irritability and haziness. I think the pee test is up to 6 weeks if you are a heavy daily user but yes you could beat it with just 2-3 week clean. If I were an NFL player I would do 6 weeks just to be safe as I have had friends who have failed pee test after not smoking for 30 days. Literally you stop smoking for 6 weeks and you can be good the other 46 weeks of the year.

The NFL's testing on weed was basically that you got a pee test for weed the first week of training camp. If you tested clean you didn't get tested until the next season. A heavy daily smoker like Hernandez just had to stop smoking 6 weeks before camp to pass the test then they would be allowed to smoke the rest of the year. It was basically an addiction test.

I don’t see him being anything more than a camp body, with AJ added to the DE mix the team has 4 DE’s plus Johnson (who would be the 4thDE if they carry Addison as a LB) so I can’t see this singing being anything more than camp depth unless massive injuries happen.

Aaron Hernandez beat the NFL's weed testing, I doubt many players habits are going to change.

I just don't see Billy B with a quality defense, competent O-line, and good special teams unit not getting to 6-8 wins. Their RB duo is solid and their receivers aren't as tragic as people make them out to be. Their biggest question is the QB and who he throws to. But I can easily see the Pats just asking their QB to game manage and take what the defense gives him and getting a few wins by not making mistakes and playing tight defense.

It is all about the QB in this league and I think Darnold will rival Allen as the best QB in the AFCE over the next 4 years. I think the Jets GM this past off-season has also shown to be a much more prudent approach that might help them build long term. What concerns me about the Jets is Darnold who I think will ascend to being a top 10 QB. When you have a good QB you could get to 8-10 wins fairly consistently. The Fins and Pats don't really have as good of a QB situation which casts doubts as to how they can compete long term.

The Colts in 2010 were dependent on having a great offense built around Manning. Their defense had eroded and their offense was propped up by Manning. Take away Manning and that offense collapses and they have nothing. The Patriots have great coaching, a very strong defense and special teams. The Colts had none of those things. They had a great QB and some pieces on offense. Take away the QB and the offensive pieces are less effective. Take away the QB from the Pats they still have the coaching, defense and special teams. Are the Patriots worse than the 2018 Bills? The Bills had a horrid offense but a quality defense and well coached team scratched out 6 wins.

The Colts were a bad roster being propped up by an all time great QB in Manning. Once you removed Manning the team collapsed. They didn't have a good defense and their offensive components were all connected and made better by Manning. The Patriots however are much better coached and they have been carrying their QB the past two seasons with a great defense and rushing attack in 2018. I can't see the Pats winning less than 5 games. The defense is a top 10 if not 5 defense (remember in 2018 when a top 5-10 defense carried the Bills to 6 wins), the ST unit is very good, and their offensive line should be better having several players coming back from injury. On top of that they are well coached which is a huge advantage. I just don't see a complete collapse.