billsfan89

Not as bad as I remember but you can tell she got significant work done

I have seen people on twitter with blue check marks that have 2k followers. The purpose of the whole Twitter check mark is for people famous enough to be impersonated. Someone with 2k followers is probably not someone with a large enough following to be impersonated. Bottom-line the Twitter check mark is meaningless, they hand those things out like candy now. As for Tomi she definitely would be jealous of AOC's looks if she didn't get that plastic surgery (seriously check out her "before" photo, woof.)

The teams two biggest needs outside of resigning some of their own talent to extensions or outright are WR1 and a prime time pass rushing DE. Unless Amari Cooper hits the market I don't see a true WR1 hitting free agency. But there do appear to be some quality edge rushers that might be on the market and the Bills will have the space to responsibly add a big time pass rusher while not jeopardizing their ability to resign and extend their own talent both in 2020 and beyond. Luckily the 2020 NFL draft does appear to be a good one for WR's according to those who track draft classes. So I think they can find good help at WR1 via the draft. Their other needs like a run stuffing DT and a OLB can be found for a more moderate price.

Trubisky is more than likely a bust. I thought they got him going to the point where he would be a startable QB on a good team. But he looks completely lost. I know the Bears supporting offensive talent has regressed but he shouldn't be that terrible. They are likely going to bring in a vet QB to "compete" with him next year and boot him out after declining that 5th year option.

31-24 Browns, away game against a talented underachieving team with a dual threat running back combo kind of makes me very nervous about the game. I hope I am wrong but I think the Bills will need to put up some points to win this game and the Bills offense can do that but I just don't think they will.

It is worth a try at this point.

I think the "impact" of this signing could be a positive however I am not so sure this is such a slam dunk as many here are thinking. Liuget was a beast on the Chargers but got released off of an injury. Then he got signed by the Raiders but was so ineffective that he got released. I don't hate the signing as I am not sure who else was on the market that could be better. But I just don't see him as a savior for the run defense either. Hopefully he helps improve the run defense but I am not expecting that.

Josh has improved tremendously in the short and intermediate range, he has regressed somewhat with his downfield passing. I think weighing both elements of his game I would say he has improved overall. I am very curious to see how he improves or develops the rest of the way. Through 8 games he has already shown significant growth.

I thought he would still be an effective player as a Niner, zone corners can get away with a bit less athleticism with disciplined play and smarts. But I didn't think he would be a lock down corner again. I thought he would be a borderline pro-bowl type player for a few seasons but he is almost back to his Legion of Boom form.

I think they have to play Oliver on pass rush downs. I think honestly he is doing well on passing situations. But he is a bit of a liability in the rushing game. I think he can get eaten up by mauler guards. Now I do think that long term he can be a 3 down DT but he needs a full off-season of NFL strength and conditioning to beef up a bit without losing his quickness. I think if adds that little bit of size and strength he could be off to the races. I think at this point it is best to just rotate the other 4 DT’s on the early downs and short yardage situations while using Oliver on 3rdand 2ndand long situations.

I do love that this story is getting more attention.

On my eye test Spain has been decent but nothing fantastic. I think Feliciano has been much better.

They have an LB on the PS but they only have 5 LB's on the roster (3 starters 2 depth) kind of weird but they needed to make a move to strengthen the middle of the defense.

I love the fact that effort seems to have been made to address the issue.

Talent is a great start but talent alone doesn't win games. You first off need the right talent. As we learned with Rex you can't shoehorn in players better suited for a 4-3 into a 3-4. Secondly you need the coaching to properly prepare and train that talent. Finally you need a coach that builds a culture that helps overcome the struggles that any NFL team will encounter. The Browns don't have good coaching despite having a lot of pieces of individual talent on their roster.

I do agree that the NFL is going to avoid putting a team full time in Mexico for many reasons safety included. I think they will continue to play games there and market heavily there. But overall they won't want to make a full time commitment to that market until they prove they have the money in that market to support a full time team and the safety issues are mitigated more.

The NFL wants London badly. The UK and Mexico remain the NFL's best international growth opportunities. The NBA has China as a huge growth market. The MLB has Latin America and Japan. Even the NHL has Eastern Europe and Scandinavia as growth opportunities (and the NHL is of course huge in Canada.) The NFL has struggled to find an international audience until finding recent success and growth in the UK and Mexico. I think you can safely say that the Jags will sooner rather than later be moving to London. That's just the truth of the matter. I don't like it as I hate the early London games but the NFL needs that international growth to expand its revenue (The US market is oversaturated.) Mexico City would present less challenges but I think they don't have the same rabid fanbase as the UK (I would say the NFL would prefer to continue to build that more slowly before rushing a team there, but in 10 years expect that to be the big push.) Honestly London would present a huge logistical nightmare (I think they would have the team do 4 game home/away strips.) But it could be done. I hate the London games but the only way I think they could do it is if they added an extra bye week to the season (16 games in 18 weeks) and used the bye weeks to pad out the travel schedule either giving teams bye weeks in-between London games or out of London games. Adding a second bye just seems necessary and would improve player safety (more time for nagging injuries to heal.)

The problem with the Browns is a combination of a tough early schedule and bad coaching. The Browns are as talented as the Bills in my opinion (the whole "on paper" argument) but the Browns have had tougher opponents and aren't as well coached. Coaching in the NFL isn't just the typical things we associate with coaching, things like being prepared to play, penalties, and situational awareness along with game planning. It is also having the right schemes and talents suited for the scheme. Cohesion in talent and scheme is insanely important to a teams success. Then there is just the culture that surrounds a team and allows them to bounce back from adversity. There is a reason that players "playing hard" is considered to be at least a sign of good coaching. The NFL is more than just accumulating talent. Almost any coach needs a degree of talent to win. And talent needs good coaching to win. The Browns are learning the hard way how important coaching is. Their skill position talent is among the best in the league, their QB is a young top pick coming off a successful rookie year, their defense has a lot of talented players including a lockdown corner and a prime time pass rusher. Yet they sit at 2-6. Their schedule can be to blame in part of that but they lost to the Broncos and Titans both of whom aren't world beaters. This team is a mess and honestly it is do or die for them on Sunday at home. They can looking at their schedule (2 games against the Bengals, 1 game against the Fins, and games against the Cards and Steelers) they can go 6-1 to end the season and finish with 9 wins which gives them a shot at the playoffs. But if they go 2-7 the best they can finish is 8-8 which won't make the playoffs and will end their season more than likely disappointingly.

Just move the Chargers back to San Diego, those fans supported the team and San Diego in addition to being a beautiful city is a large market that can support a team.

IF the Bills were to cut Star (and I am not sure Liuget is that kind of player) what are the cap ramifications? Do they carry more or less dead money into next season? Is there any benefit to cutting Star this season as opposed to next? Just curious. I don't think McD is looking to replace Star and I think he holds onto him out of bizarre loyalty he shows some vets. But if they were considering that type of move does it have any benefit cap wise?

That's not shocking a teams whose strength has been defense and has had a mediocre offense the past three seasons tends to win games when opponents don't score a lot.

I think 10 wins for sure gets you a wildcard spot. The Colts I think get to 9-10 wins. I think the Steelers, Raiders, and Chargers are all possible competition to get to 9 wins. I don't see the Titans or Jags getting past 8 wins. So if the Bills can get to 10 wins they sit even with the Colts and ahead of the more fringe contenders who have 4-5 losses already and some of whom play each other. In the end just beat the Browns and secure win 7. Far too early to look ahead.

B- a solid game where he did mostly managed the game and closed it out when needed. The coaching left 3 points on the board due to an idiotic decision to run it up the middle on 4th and 1 when they had failed many times to get a 1 yard game thought that same message. Josh avoided turnovers and came up big when needed (his only fumble was due to an idiotic play call.) He and the offense did stall at times and they let the Skins hang in the game. However overall I think Josh did what the gameplan called for and did it fairly well.

I thought Rex put him in the wrong situation in 2015 and 2016, his pressures and sacks were way down in both years. In 2017 it was bizarre because he looked like the same player he was in 2014 but he just didn't get sacks, the pressure numbers and the metrics against the run were good but the sack totals were low. 2018 was his best year under his extension. 7 sacks isn't a spectacular sack total however he was the heart of the defense and his pressure numbers were much improved for the second straight year. In 2019 I think he has been closer to that 2017 version, getting pressure but not being nearly as dynamic. I think in 2020 he has to fall into a rotational player or at worst the second pass rush option. Murphy has not gotten it done, Shaq is a JAG and there really isn't much else off the edge. Ideally I would still resign Shaq to a moderate deal in the range of 6 million to be a rotational DE, Murphy should be cut outright you can save over 7 million on the cap by cutting him dead money is minimal. I think they need to address the edge rush and D-line as urgently as they addressed the O-line last year. Getting a top DE like Ngakoue, resigning Shaq or getting another rotational player and adding a run stuffing DT is the massive overhaul needed for the defensive line.

I would assume it is a candidate to be flexed. The Bills could easily be 9-3 or 8-4 going into that game. The Ravens are likely going into that game leading their division. Matchup of 2 of the more successful and overlooked QB's in the 2018 draft class. I could see NBC flexing that game easily. However that's a long way away. Hopefully the Bills just beat the Browns.