Utah John

Well this sounds great but I can't figure out how to select the Bills. I've looked around in the library and home pages and others and I can't find any place where I can identify the Bills as the team I want to watch. Is this something I should be able to do anytime, or only when they're getting ready to show a game? Appreciate the help.

There's almost exactly zero information in this clip that most Bills or Jets fans didn't already know. It's going to be a tough game either way.

You can't set up the taping schedule days ahead and count on the games being recorded. At least that's what the YouTube representative I called for assistance, told me. She said they've had other complaints about it and were working on it. Well, shoot, if they knew a year in advance that they'd have this business, why are they just getting to this now? I get it. The money we pay for streaming games goes toward the billionaire owners and the millionaire players. Without those TV contracts, there'd be billionaire owners and very wealthy but mostly not millionaire players. Is it all worth that?

Reading all these comments makes me wonder if people realize how badly we've been screwed by the NFL. Look how hard it is to see all the games! Look how many services you need to buy! And reliability goes out the window if a contract dispute you have nothing to do with gets a channel or network pulled off the air. We live in Memphis now and haven't had any CBS coverage for weeks via cable (DirecTV). Not just football, no CBS at all. This year we need YouTube to get Sunday Ticket, but the functionality we used to have is not all there. The hassles and the costs keep going up, and the availability and service keep getting worse.

It's great we have two very good TEs. A 22 formation would be very hard to defend against, with one of the RBs and one of the TEs a very skilled receiver. Lining up as a 22 puts a lot of strength into the running game and with our personnel leaves a very dynamic passing attack.

He played in the last two SBs, against Dallas, in his first two years, and then played eight more years with the Bills before moving to the Arizona Cardinals. He was drafted to shore up an aging O line, and he did a good job, not HOF or even WOF-worthy, but still good.

All these captains are talented, dedicated, hard-working, elite or near-elite. The Bills are trying to promote a core group of leaders to solidify the roster's will to fight. I think this goes back to the playoff loss to the Bengals, where for whatever reason the team came out flat and never recovered. The brass is trying various things to keep the team motivated through the postseason. The risk is that factions will coalesce around various players, and instead of unifying the team, there could be pockets of guys talking only to each other. I hope this works out and the team stays completely unified, while each captain seeks out and destroys slackerhood and defeatism.

There was talk recently that the Bills would lose the 3rd round draft pick for losing Edmunds in FA, if Keenum was cut by the Texans. He (and also Davis Mills) made the Texans' 53 as backups to C.J. Stroud. Does anyone know if that locks up the 3rd round pick for the Bills?

Probably not. The Jets D line is already top notch all across the board. They have other needs.

The Dolphins have serious over-the-cap problems now, with worse ones to come next year. They're trying to do what Beane is trying to do, construct a roster than gets strong and stays strong, year after year. They're facing the same restrictions Beane is facing but haven't had the same success Beane has had.

Two consecutive threads: "OT Quessenberry released", and "Boogie traded to the Giants" Boogie was probably the only DE on the roster that Q could block most of the time, and Q was probably the only OT on the roster that Boogie could beat some of the time. Fina's problem was that he wasn't built like a traditional OT. No big butt, no big belly to give him a strong heavy base. He looked more like a good athlete. Maybe everyone missed a chance by not trying him at tight end. Anyway, he was somewhat better than what Paup indicated, but not great, certainly no.

The league has gone to passing so much at the expense of rushing, but here's a thought. Get back to having halfbacks and fullbacks that all carry the ball. In the years when OJ was so good, Braxton was also a serious running threat. He wasn't just a blocker, like most FBs these days. If Cook is our HB and Harris or some other larger body is the fullback, that enables Cook to get into the passing game while still keeping the fullback in the pocket or to run. That still leaves three spots for WR/TE personnel, which coupled with Cook (or Harty) out of the backfield produces a much more complex offense to defend against.

Well, with Basham gone and Miller out, he's going to get starts and more snaps, and he damn well BETTER show us more. Without a strong pass rush, our deep hole at MLB will be exposed, and we could be 2-2 or worse by the time Miller gets back.

I hear he's a little nicked up. I'm here this weekend.

Which I'm sure he would do, if the Bills brought him back. He is available unless another team has grabbed him.

PSE got to be a very big and complex organization, and with Kim not there to bulldog things, I think it's just too big for Terry to handle alone. The parts of PSE other than the Bills and Sabres will just have to find new homes.

It was very helpful for You Tube to show yesterday's Bills game. I was able to try to watch the game, and couldn't get it to play. I spent about an hour on the phone with a You Tube rep, and we finally got things straightened out. I would be royally pissed if I'd wasted an hour of a regular season game doing that.

That's, cool, but I'm less interested in that, than I am that he sounds like a good high-ceiling project at a position the Bills need and the Browns gave him up for only an anonymous RB. We've got RBs to spare. I wonder if Beane was trying to make this deal and just lost out.

The mystery isn't why he keeps getting cut. The mystery is why he keeps getting signed.

To me, the happy news is that Benford as developed into such a good player, not that Elam hasn't. Elam is not a complete bust, just a guy who's not developing as much as you'd expect from a 1st round pick. He'd probably be playing if Benford hadn't refused to go quietly into the night.

Thanks for the reminder. IIRC Fred used a stiff-arm on his run.

My guess is that the Bills have too many leaders, and not enough top dog Leaders. At least half a dozen players have the career resume, skills, and personality to be respected and listened to by the others. But every year there's a playoff game where no one single person steps up and tells the entire team to shape up, play like the're capable of, and let's go get this game won. The Bills took the lead against KC with 13 seconds to go, and no one stepped up to say, OK, this isn't over, let's play smart and play hard. We only need two or three good plays from the ST and D, and the game is ours. Instead everyone just figured, we're the mighty Bills, this is our year, and what could go wrong? The Cinci playoff game last season was shocking. How on earth could the Bills, who'd struggled all year to try for the top seed and now had a home playoff game, and who knew the Bengals O line was a mess, NOT pull it together and get out there and win? I think all the second tier leaders all figured the other guys would get people motivated When Damar Hamlin died (yes, for a short time, he was dead), Diggs tried to get everyone fired up, but he didn't read the room. The team was in shock, and no one was willing to get back in gear and play. I think Diggs was disappointed and embarrassed by that, and if there's a lingering problem between Diggs and the Bills it goes back to that. This is a case where no one was wrong. Diggs was intent on winning that game, and he thought the team could rally and put the bad start and Hamlin's injury behind them. He was right to want to try to do that. The rest of the team was also right, not to want to do that. So the problem as I see it is there is no top dog Leader. That person ought to be Josh Allen. When Brady was with the Pats, he made it a point to introduce himself to each player as they onboarded. Hi, I'm Tom Brady. Of course they knew who he was, but it was the way he went about it that made the rest of the team follow him. (The Pats problems since Brady left are probably as much due to the loss of him as a leader, as it is as an on-field QB.) As great a player as Josh is, I don't think he's making the effort to bring the team together. He's out there dating, making commercials, living the good life of a crazy wealthy, single young man. Who can blame him? I don't. But at the same time if he was willing to forgo some of those pleasures, the team would be tighter and better.

I think if you move fast you can still get $50 off the season price. I don't have a You Tube subscription but I did get Sunday Ticket. Not sure yet how this will work. I thought by now I'd get info from You Tube about how to watch games on their channel, but so far nada.

The Jets D is very good, but the O is full of holes. Very good QB, very good WR1, two very good RBs, and that's it. Lousy O line, no other threats at WR or TE. Double Wilson, stack the box, and attack Rodgers -- and the Bills have the players to do all that.

I look at this way. If Josh Allen is injured for a game or two, it's fine that the backup is a game manager. Depending on who the opponent is, the backup could still lead this strong team to wins. But if Josh Allen is injured for a lot of games or for the year, the Bills are cooked. In this case, it's better to have a project with talent to grow, who will spend the rest of the season learning to play QB. Maybe that guy remains the Bills' backup until his rookie contract runs out, or if he looks really good the Bills can trade him for more than they paid for him. The 49ers gave up a ridiculous amount to draft Lance and it will be hard for their brass to swallow giving him up for cheap. But if they think Darnold is a better backup that says right there that they missed this one badly.