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Williams was excellent in his rookie year, and it was a major disappointment when he showed up the next year unable to compete. Not having him available as expected hurt the team. If he's really making a comeback, I'll be shocked. RBs don't sit out a couple of years and make it back.

Money is a consideration for players, of course, but their organization also is. The Bills go out of their way to show respect to their players, and that contributes to the good morale and close-knit bonding that the Bills have. Who knows, White might leave some day, I hope not, but someone could offer him a ridiculous amount of money, and how could Tre turn that down? But I think it's likely that he'll be happy staying in Buffalo and getting paid hugely for doing so.

Khalil Mack made the list, of course, but how is Von Miller unanimous while Mack isn't?

This is just schoolyard stuff. If Hopkins joined the Bills, he and White would find ways to work together. Probably, going against each other in practice every day would make each of them even better than they are already, which is at the top of the league.

Well it's certainly the offseason, that's for sure, if we're worried about the relative rankings of some of these guys.

Future performance is not guaranteed by past results. But, what else do writers have to go on, who have to write SOMETHING during the offseason? Some of the players who got the lowest grade (have a lot to prove) were injured for most or all of their rookie years. The writeups still said they were expected to be great, and yet they got that low grade. So, the writeups are a good evaluation of each player's situation, but the grades are silly. As for Oliver, I have always wondered if he's heavy enough to play DT in the NFL. It looks like he's going to do well despite being a little on the light side. It might help him to get even better when he has Harrison back next to him.

Incarcerated prisoners do have rights. They are sentenced to a certain term in prison but that does not mean they have to endure unsafe conditions. Paying their penalty to society does not mean being locked up without the means to avoid communicable diseases, or not having access to testing (and millions of us outside of prison shouldn't be deprived of the chance to get tested due to the administration's incompetence, either). To respond to njbuff, prisoners are still citizens. Of course they are. Felons lose some rights, some permanently and others temporarily, but they do not lose their citizenship.

This is not a new situation, but the Skins will likely want to move on before long. It sounds like this is a pissing contest between player and team, and they're both willing to absorb pain in order to give pain to the other. Williams had a cancerous growth on his head, which led to the confrontation with the team. If that's all cleared up, he should be a great addition to the Bills. Move Dawkins to RT, make Ford a swing reserve. Next year, Ford starts at guard.

The Bills built the defense first, but even that was not always good in 2018. The Bills started 2018 as one of the worst teams in the league. They were getting blown out over and over because the offense couldn't hold on to the ball. Also remember the opening part of the 2018 schedule was brutal. The Vikings upset was a feel-good moment but the fact that it was so shocking shows how most of the league felt about the Bills. By the end of the season, the team was much more solid, and I agree McD deserves a lot of credit for keeping the players moving ahead in the right direction. I keep pointing this out, but the Dolphins' 2019 season was a lot like the Bills' 2018 season. Started out really bad, and got better with a strong coach. Miami is going to be really tough this year if they get a QB.

What a team, what a defense, what a great player. And what great uniforms. Seriously, I think those mid-60s unis were the best the Bills ever had.

They spelled Rutkowski wrong. I thought they got Paul Costa's initial wrong (D Costa) but then I realized the Bills had two players named Costa. I don't remember the tackle, D Costa, but I do remember Paul Costa.

As a Utah fan, I saw a lot of Zach Moss. He's an inventive, powerful runner who I think would be a good complement to Singletary. He is not really fast but he gets through gaps with quickness and power. I think he'll be a very good NFL back.

We had a LT who was better than Dawkins, Cordy Glenn, and he's available again.

Bone on bone is agonizing. Knee replacement as soon as he hangs them up, and that should probably be now. No one should endure that kind of pain.

Brady wants to win another championship and he doesn't think NE can do it. So he went looking for a team that could, maybe, although TB? A lot of other NE players looked around and concluded the same thing Brady did, and now they're ex-NE players.

I've been saying since November that the Dolphins are building a strong core. They were incredibly bad at the start of last year but despite having lost all their talent they pulled together and were winning tough games at the end of the year. Of course, Fitz, so there's a ceiling. But they have loaded up in FA and will have abundant draft picks. The Dolphins could be what everyone expected the Browns to be last year. The Browns sucked because their coach was in way over his head, and there were too many prima donas and too few lteam-firsters on the squad. I don't think the same problem will arise in Miami. Their coach is very good. I honestly think the AFCE will be a two-team race for the next several years, between Buffalo and Miami.

Did he leave because of our FA signings? Or did Beane get those other FAs because he knew KJ was on the way out? I think Johnson played well last year, but since he still couldn't displace a struggling Levi Wallace maybe the coaches had a better picture

Cordy Glenn is available after the Bengals cut him. Probably would come back for less than he was getting. He was better than Dawkins at the time we traded him. One of them could play RT and let Cody Ford be a designated backup until he can beat out one of the other guys. This wouldn't be an all-in move but it could provide good insurance for the O line.

I don't really want the Bills to go all in on a single year. I really like McBeane's approach, to build a sustainable structure that dominates and becomes a long-term magnet for talent. I would not be surprised if Beane has a 5 year plan, for how he'll handle future player staffing to remain OK with the salary cap throughout. Going all-in is sexy and all, but every decision needs to be evaluated in terms of this year and subsequent years. This is not the year, anyway, with the AFCE playing the AFCW and NFCW. Too much travel. No AFCE team will have a great record, good enough for a first round bye, and I would be surprised if any wild card teams come from the AFCE. I think the Bills win the AFCE and make it to the AFC championship game, where they'll lose in KC. 2021 will be the year of the great record, and the SB, I think.

Well, we had Gordo, aka Karlos Williams, after he ate himself out of a job.

We can't add too much new to the mix without destroying things. Diggs has something of a reputation as a me-first guy. This is actually pretty typical for top WRs, John Brown being a nice exception. If we drop Diggs into the locker room and still have the team-first mentality going on, he can get on board and all will be well. Add both Diggs and AB at the same time, with the two of them competing to be top dawg and both of them dissing John Brown, and things are gonna break.

If you're looking for someone to break Nathan Peterman's record for interceptions in one half, Winston's your guy. If you're looking for someone to keep things afloat until Allen returns, NONONO.

If it feels weird, you're not that old. It used to feel normal.

They traded three picks, have their previous six, and pick up one (a 7th) from Minnesota. I think the 7th is going to be a trade sweetener for Beane to move up to grab some particular player he likes. At the end of the process I think the Bills will end up drafting 5 or 6 players, which is about all this roster has room for.