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I don’t think I have seen a player go from whipping boy punch line to outright fan favorite in such a short period of time

I think they look at it as playing guys when they are ready, but you are going to need Elam next week, so why not get him some snaps this week?

Frustrating that they can’t get Elam out there for whatever reason. Elam is by far the most athletic corner on the roster. Dane and Benford are very Levi Wallace esq

I also think last season the first time Davis was asked to be a true WR2 and I think he needed an adjustment to that role.

He is a very pivotal player, Diggs always gives you good play but the issue was the WR’s and Te’s outside of Diggs are the pivot point of the offense and Davis is the key to that unit along with the TE’s

That’s some good coordinating of that defense right there

Bills have to try and run on first down with Murray and Harris

Got to try to force them to being one dimensional

Decent first drive Josh making a lot of plays on third down. Good to get some points on the opening drive TD of course would have been better but you just want to get something early

With Rodgers the Jets were a good enough team to warrant a decent prime time slate. Six is a bit over the top but they certainly were one of the top storylines in the league going into the season. They boasted a top 5 defense, solid supporting offensive talent (including Hall and Wilson both dynamic young players) and a QB who was recently an MVP.

That’s what’s frustrating for me is that Elam played well at times last season, so the question is are the Bills other corners just playing better and It’s not that Elam can’t play effectively or has Elam regressed in some way? I know the Bills do not dress him larger because he is not a ST player and Dane and Benford start over him but I hope as the season goes on they find a way to utilize their most athletic corner who also showed flashes of good play his rookie year. Long term would they consider moving him to safety? Not sure he would translate there.

Josh has always had that level of patience when the supporting cast let’s him. 90% of the time when Josh gets sloppy and turnover prone is when he has to force the offense to get in gear due to lackluster supporting cast play. I am hoping that with better offensive line play (Torrence and McGovern are way better than what was at guard last season and hopefully Brown is a better version of himself) and the additions of Kincaid, Harty and Sheffield to the receiving core allow Josh to feel less like he has to force things.

I think DC is a typical middle of the pack NFL team. So after two weeks to work out the rust the Bills have a good team (on the road) to gauge their talent level and current level of play. The Fins at home are obviously a good measuring stick for the Bills as the Fins are a better team than the Commanders but how you fare against mid level competition in the NFL is usually a good indicator of who you are. Either way week by week we learn more about where this team is at. Hopefully against the Commanders the Bills show out

I’m all for flexing Sunday night games and even Monday Night games once or twice but flexing a game to Thursday is insane

I think the Pats will beat the Jets but I think Billy B is safe for at least one or two more seasons. Even with a catastrophic 4-5 win season this year I think Kraft brings back the hoodie for one more season to attempt to right the ship. I think the Pats honestly aren't dead in the water. They played one of the top 3 teams in the NFC week 1 and were mostly within a score that whole game. They then played a good Fins team and once again were mostly within a score. I think the Pats will win 7-9 games this season. Their defense is really good, their ST unit is good and while their offense is bad they have some pieces on that offense like Stevenson who is a very good RB. The issue is most of their games against most competition are going to be one-score knuckleball-type games which are usually 50/50 affairs. So its going to be hard for them to get past a game above .500 that way unless they get insanely good luck which at 0-2 will only have to be more insane. TLDR: Billy B will be back in 2024 and likely 2025 if he wants to keep coaching.

Has to be the training staff, the Bills during the drought (particularly during the Jauron and Chan years) were among the lead leaders in games lost to injury year in and year out. In 2018 the Bills fired their trainer ad overhauled the staff and have been one of the more healthy teams the past 5 seasons. Outliers will happen where teams get hurt abnormally but when It happens over a long period of time something else has to be contributing to it

Damian Harris, I don’t think he is going to have a huge stat line but I think he will have a lot of important short yardage gains. I think he will have 14 carries 65 yards and a TD along with a reception or two. I think the game plan for the Bills is going to be run heavy and a lot of that ground game is going to be power running with Harris and Murray.

Not really sure what they were expecting. PFF and Football outsiders grade him out solidly even during his best season he was a "Pro Bowl" but not "All Pro" caliber MLB. He also is known as a coverage LB and Has only given up 9 yards on 5 receptions in coverage as previously pointed out. Pretty much most fans stated the Bears were paying 18 million aav for a player who was more likely a 10-12 million dollar type player. Most advanced stats also stated the same type of above average to good production for elite pay forecast. I think Edumonds will be asked to take a pay cut or be released after next season. The Bears won't run up against a huge QB contract but they might want to rebuild after Fields likely fails. Edumonds won't be a bad player so he likely will take a contract closer to 10 million or get cut and take a one year deal in the 7-8 million dollar range.

Bills 27 Washington 20 I think this is a close game. The Commanders have a really nasty D-line and an offense that will likely look to turn this into a one-possession knuckleball ball-type game by playing risk-averse on offense and trying to have their defense at home keep the game close. But I think the Bills defense comes to play and keeps Washington's offense mostly in check and the Bills offense plays more conservatively and just wears them down. I think late in the third the Bills open up a 10 point lead 27-17 but the Commanders about a little more than half way through Q4 kick a field goal and cut it to one possession but the Bills grind down the clock and the Commanders don't get the ball back or get the ball back with little time to go all the way down the field and they just run out of time or turn the ball over forcing it down the field. Tight game against a solid team way, we will know a lot about how good or bad the Bills are after this game.

Smart to have some veteran MLB depth on the PS. Klein is also as plug and play as you can get as he knows the system and hasn’t been inactive that long.

I would not be shocked to see Dorsey get HC opportunities if Josh and the offense has a really good season. I however don’t think Dorsey is going to take just any opportunity much like Daboll.

I think Jordan Phillips is also out of practice but that’s due to illness. So far through two weeks the injury report isn’t too bad. Every team is going to have a few players dinged up so after two weeks the team is looking solid on the injury front.

Carr was on a 40 million dollar a year deal they signed Jimmy G to a deal worth about 22.5 per year. The Raiders felt like Carr at a huge cap number was not going to allow them to win and that Jimmy G plus having some extra 12-17 million in cap space would be better. I don’t understand it either, they could have worked around Carr’s deal and the Raiders cap is not that bad for them they enter 2024 with 46 million in space and probably 20-30 million in “fat” they can cut to make more space if needed. So carry some extra weight on a QB contract is not going to hamper them much. Just a poorly run organization

Having two power backs behind him will only help matters as they don’t have to put a huge workload on Cook. Also the power backs splitting time between them will only make them less prone to injury.

I am not the biggest fan of PFF but their data is not always super terrible. Their data matches the eye test which also isn’t always the best