Utah John

Tre is Tre, a great player, and I don't care about these rankings. But I think what keeps him a little lower is a lack of interceptions, and for that I blame Levi Wallace. With the big gap in ability between Tre and Levi, other teams don't throw toward Tre that much. With a better CB2, Tre would get more action and more opportunities to flash.

I completely agree, that was the point at which I realized for sure that these guys know what they're doing. It took a while, not surprising considering the hole they had to dig out of, but here we are. I think Beane, for some reason, can't evaluate D linemen very well. One after another, he brings in old veterans or rookies that don't have the skills to do the job. Other than that position, though, he's a master at evaluation and at managing the salary cap.

Looks to me he's been listening to his coaches. 13-3 last year, 15-4 counting the playoffs. If you want to see a circus performer check out other teams. For what we're talking about, 20 yards is like a screen pass. The stats ought to be on throws of 40+ yards.

Probably his car had a scratch or two so it was time to move on to a 2021 Bentley. So many other players have older Rollses that his didn't stand out. On a related note, did you notice ticket prices have gone up?

That happened to me too, in Dublin California. The cops wouldn't do a damned thing. But I did get the car back. Minus a few things. Engine, doors, body panels, seats, transmission. They left the convertible top they cut through to get in, and the steering wheel they cut to get The Club off.

Probably did Walker a favor by cutting him so early. Gives him a chance to find a team with more than 0.005% chance of making the roster.

Harrison has been working out under the watchful eyes of the Bills' medical staff and coaches. If his recovery process wasn't going well, the Bills would certainly have taken action to draft other 1T players. The fact that they didn't do so tells me they are confident in Harrison's ability to contribute this year. BTW he started last year pretty tentatively, but by the last month was playing more snaps and was being effective and disruptive. I think good things are ahead for him.

When Taron Johnson did his amazing pick six against the Ravens, it was early in the second half, and the Ravens had just marched down the field. They were trailing 10-3 and were in position to tie the game. Johnson's play broke the game open. Our defense did a great job containing Lamar Jackson. But, our offense was not operating at normal efficiency. Take away Johnson's heads-up move to fill a passing lane, and the Ravens score on that play instead of the Bills, and who knows where things would go after that. And against the Colts, again, the offense looked like a car that needs high octane gas, trying to run on regular. It just wasn't really clicking. Maybe it's the play calling, where Daboll and McD chose to get conservative to avoid the Big Mistake, maybe it was Josh Allen not playing like he normally does. But this is what I'm talking about. The Bills didn't look like the Bills in those games.

Looking at that 1996 list is just amazing. Clearly the best year ever. We've often had great receivers. Andre Reed, Wagon Wheels Dubenion (after he got old), Jerry Butler, Moulds, Watkins, Marlin Briscoe, Lee Evans, James Lofton, Don Beebe, Bobby Chandler, not to mention newcomers / short-timers like Diggs, Cole Beasley, Terrell Owens, and Ahmad Rashad, and pretty good players like Stevie Johnson, Robert Woods and Peerless Price (sorry if I forgot someone who deserves to be included). The Bills spent almost as much time kvetching about getting a true #1 receiver as they did about getting a franchise QB. We all had in mind someone like Julio Jones or Megatron, huge body, great speed, great patterns, great hands. Turns out our #1 is a pretty short guy who nevertheless is a fantastic receiver. Maybe we were looking in the wrong places.

I'll feel better after the Bills win a playoff game in a convincing fashion. Both the playoff wins last year were close, tight games, and Josh Allen didn't play his best. And of course the year before that, Houston. There is no reason the Bills can't dominate a playoff game, but I really want to see that happen before I'm convinced they're SB-win caliber.

Each player's team built their offense around their skills and both played great last year. Here's why I would take Mahomes over dearly beloved Josh Allen: performance in the playoffs. Allen played poorly in the loss to the Texans. He didn't play particularly well in the playoff wins over the Colts and Ravens, and he looked bad in the loss to the Chiefs. The only time I've seen Mahomes not play really well in a playoff game is last year's Super Bowl, when the Bucs pass rush against a team with a banged up O line dominated, and created a very un-Mahomes type game. When Allen shows he can consistently play great in playoff games, I'll change my vote. Which direction will Allen go in? Toward Mahomes' level? Or to Carson Wentz's level? A couple of years ago people were saying about Wentz what they said about Allen last year. Then the bottom fell out. I do NOT think that will happen with Allen, who has worked too hard to fall apart now. But the point is, predictions are hard, particularly about the future. (Thanks Yogi.)

If playing in the NFL is your dream, you do everything you can to make it a reality. These players have been working almost every day for years to get this chance. Of course all those guys attended.

What team has a spare $15M laying around at this point in the offseason?

He's a poor man's Ryan Fitzpatrick, a guy who can come in and make things interesting for a team, but not a guy you can win with. Ironic that the Bills had both these guys in the lineup while our quest for a real starter was underway. But really there are a lot of equally sort-of-competent QBs out there, being paid pretty well to be available.

Check your math. 213 days ago was a lot longer ago than the playoffs.

It's hard enough for Bills fans to know much about the Bills' salary cap, let alone what's going on with another team. Big picture, though, the Texans were a playoff team that was good but not competitive with the Chiefs. Instead of trying to get better they seem to have decided to crash the roster, purging all the talented players, so they can now tank and then rebuild. The Sabres can show any other sport how badly that can work out.

Who'd give their kid a name that sounds like what vultures eat? (carrion)

No team plays an entire season without some injuries. The extent of injuries to key players will reshuffle the order of dominance. Any team that loses its starting QB for more than a few games is just not going to be competitive. Any team that loses more than two players at the same position is going to struggle. We're just going to have to wait and watch.

And if he gets beat and tries to catch up, we'll have...do I need to type it?...a Wildgoose chase.

I think this is pretty much the nail in the coffin for Cody Ford at tackle. It's looked all along he was better suited to play guard anyway. There's gonna be a problem with roster spots for O and D linemen. Beane wanted to draft guys who could mostly watch for a year, but how many roster spots can e set aside for watchers?

Keep in mind that 37.7% of statistics are just made up on the spot. As for the UDFAs, if that's the situation you were in, would you sign with the Bills? Trying to break into a deep, strong roster -- that's not playing the odds. They would have much better odds signing with a poor team where the depth chart isn't so intimidating. It's the opposite with veteran FAs, who are likely to want to sign with the Bills if the Bills come calling. These veterans figure the Bills are going places, plus the Bills know what they're doing, and if the Bills think the guy can probably help the team, it's worth the shot.

Honestly I was thinking the same thing. Well, not the DE in the second round part. But it would all depend on his quickness and agility, to see whether he could run good routes. OTOH the coaches keep praising up Dawson Knox's skill set. Maybe this is the year Knox gets it all figured out.

Smaller, quicker (except for Star) is fine until it's not. We need more beef.

I've been saying for a month that the Bills are drafting for the future. That's what Beane said in an interview just now. He's figured out what holes he'll have to address in 2022 and 2023, not in 2021 when he's got starters he likes all across the board already. My personal choice, one that I see no one else mentioning, is a safety, to learn from Hyde and Poyer and to be prepared to step in when either of them loses the step that we all know they will lose eventually.

Thanks for adding Tomlin to the list. I think that with him, the list is complete. The thing is those guys are all much more experienced. McDermott sometimes fails at game management, but much less now that he used to. If he can keep improving himself, that will get sorted. The overlooked factor in our McBeane love is the contributions of veteran players like Lorax and Kyle Williams. Once the cancers had been removed, these guys really stepped up and taught the younger guys how to win. They both deserve to be on the Bills' Wall for what they did at the end of their careers