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The players probably/should view the grass fields as a fiscal benefit to them. Less major injuries means players can have longer careers and thus better contracts/more money.

Gonna be near impossible to enforce the health component. If the NFL cared about player safety and the quality of the product they would do the following. Add a second bye week, allows players with nagging injuries to get some additional in season rest while also adding in a longer season which should help the NFL pad out their media rights packages. Expand rosters to 60 players and no players required to be inactive. Having 7 additional roster spots and no inactive minimums allows teams to add a little more depth sprinkling in 7 additional roster spots allows players to not feel the need to "go out there" because there aren't enough backups. Suring up the roster numbers to add some extra third stringers makes the act of attrition that is the regular season a bit less tough to get through. Get rid of OTA's but include a 10-12 day "warm up" period in mid-July right before camp (this one may actually happen both sides seem to want it). But we all know the NFL just views the players as meat they throw into a grinder knowing there is a whole line of people lining up to be thrown into the grinder.

Insane that the NFL is pushing for 18 games. I hate to see the players constantly capitulating to adding games.

Falcons making two moves to really beef up their defense adding a vet pass rusher in Judon via trade and signing Simmons to sure up their secondary. Adding talent is always a solid idea (duh) but sometimes making a lot of "big moves" is also not the best sign because it could mean you don't like what you have. I think the truth for the Falcons is likely somewhere in-between, they obviously felt the need to upgrade their defense but they are also probably feeling like in what appears to be a wide open division that by adding a couple of pieces to the defense they can win their division.

I think Josh is as good as Mahomes but you have to acknowledge that Josh has not proven that yet.

Didn't DK Metcalf (whose 6 foot 4 and ran a 4.33 40) try to qualify for the Olympics and he lost to other (all of whom were considerably lower level than Lyles) track athletes by a moderate margin. Hill ran a 4.29 40 and is shorter at 5 foot 9, I really don't think he's gonna close the gap against athletes who train year round in the track technique and don't have the injury history.

Peterman must be Tom Brady in practice. If he kills it in practice he just might be someone teams like to have to give a good look in practice.

I think SVPG is on a similar path to Spencer Brown his rookie year. Brown didn't light things up in camp but he was solid in his reps. Brown played fairly well in pre-season even though he mostly played against second stringers. Then as the season started word was Brown was really killing it in practice. Then about 4 weeks into the season "word on the street" was that Spencer Brown was likely going to start at some point. Then Brown started the 7th game and was the starter the rest of the way.

After the Bills drafted Coleman I though he was possibly an Anquan Boldin type but then I heard about his comp to Higgins and yeah I agree with that comp more than Boldin.

He’s a really good player, back to back 1000 yard seasons on a good efficiency including 1300 yards and 7TD’s. Ayiuk is also in his prime having just turned 26 in March. He’s not a complete “blue chip” top guy but he’s certainly a true WR1 type player whose market is justified. That being said I don’t think the Bills will be able to afford him cap wise even if they wanted to back load the deal

They are going to break out some stuff they feel may work during the opening weeks of the regular season but it’s a wide open experiment to see what will and won’t work.

Reminded me of the Steelers week 1 pre-season game. Just looked like the team was still "shaking the rust off" and working on things so to speak.

I remember the Bills last year against the Steelers week 1 preseason had the offensive line over exposed (often just 5 blocking) as a sort of “stress test” for the line to see how good they are. I wonder if the Bills did something similar today.

One of those minor dings that are game enders in the preseason but you would have just taken a few plays off in the regular season.

Honestly glad McD played the starters for a bit, this team is a work in progress in many aspects. This team needs the extra reps. Not putting too much stock into pre-season esp a game that was 6-3 at the half. But I think McD is realizing that if he doesn't get work in during the pre-season this team may come out flat week 1.

I think people are hoping he turns in a season like he had in 2022. His line for that year was 57 catches for 690 yards with 4 TD's on 94 targets. Looking at that season he had one monster game where his stat line was 8 catches on 11 targets for 158 yards and a TD. But he actually had some other solid games peppered in that season. He had 7 other games with 40 or more receiving yards that year. Optimistically you could look at Hollins as having some of that upside he showed in Vegas. In that Vegas season he didn't have a great QB throwing to him as Derrick Carr for 15 games and Jared Sitdham for 2 games isn't a top of the line QB situation. Carr's not a bad QB but he's aggressively mid-level or even lower mid-level. Pessimistically I think you could look at that one year as an extreme outlier. His highest receiving total in his career was last year with ATL at 251 yards, 0 TD's, and 18 receptions on 30 targets. Hollins has been in the league for 6 years mostly hanging on as a special teams player before one mini-break out year with a bad Raiders team that was probably throwing a lot. I think if Hollins can be in a supped up Jake Kummerow/Trent Sherfield role where he can take in 35-40 targets and get 25-30 receptions for 250-300 yards with 2 TD's that's going to be a good spot for him to add just a little bit of efficient pop as a WR4 in an offense with a heavy TE2 and RB presence in the receiving core is a good outcome.

Every team has some minor injuries even if they are very fortunate with injuries. It's a violent sport.

Any word on how Van Pran is doing? I heard maybe about a week ago he was getting some first team reps due to a very minor injury to one of the interior guys and he was doing well. I loved the pick at the time getting him in the early 5th round when I thought he was a third round or so talent. Heard some minor positive buzz on him but just curious to see if anything else has come out on him?

The coaches and the league will say it is to evaluate depth players and to adjust the rosters as needed on the margins. But the real reason is to make money because it adds something of a value added to TV packages and owners soak season ticket holders into having to buy the pre-season games. I am sure the coaches don't mind the chance to see the backups but it has become worthless to fans. I liked the old 4 game format of the pre-season and how coaches utilized the pre-season (I don't mind a 16 game regular season I think 16 games plus 3-4 possible playoff games is enough of a slog to get through for these players). Game 1- Starters played one maybe two series. This is more of an exhibition for camp battles and the first round of cuts. Fans get their first glimpse of the starters but it is not much. Game 2- Starters play the first quarter and maybe a series in the second quarter gives fans a real "taste" of in season action. Game 3- Dress rehearsal for the regular season. Starters play the first half and then about 2 series in the second half. Game 4- Starters don't play, last chance for second and third string players to make the roster. I felt like when teams did that type of pre-season there was less sloppy play early in the season and fans got to see starters for 3 pre-season games.

I would think they probably are looking at it from the perspective of we have a rookie QB so we have the luxury of spending draft capital and cap dollars on a in his prime WR. It would also help them evaluate their rookie QB. If the Pats can get him without giving up a first round pick I would think they would strongly consider it. Personally I think it would be a bit foolish to "microwave" the process around a rookie QB but what do I know.

It was a 58 yard kick, I am not gonna hold it too much against him. But I do think the Bills should have another kicker in camp. It's possible Bass continues to implode and it would be nice to get a first hand look at another kicker in camp in case you cut Bass in season you have an option you are familiar with.

Josh and Knox are close, if Knox is willing to take pay cuts or reorient his deal if his production continues to slip I think he will have a top 3 TE spot. I don't think Josh is gonna say you gotta overpay my friend but if you got a player willing to be flexible on salary whose friends with the star QB then I think he's gonna stick around for a few more years (especially considering he is a capable player and turning 28 this season.

Is Morris not at least a solid blocker?

Seems like its more of an instance of them enforcing a currently existing rule.

That 2022 season was incredibly exhausting for the Bills. Even before the Hamlin situation what that team went through was a slog. The team was also banged up on the defensive line beyond Von's ACL injury. They just were a 0% by the time that game rolled around.