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Yeah Eric Wood was a very scheme specific player. He was pretty athletic but he was beyond overmatched against power........to the extent that a big DT literally snapped his leg when Wood tried to engage in a test of strength with him. He eventually learned how to stop trying to out-physical opponents after numerous injuries as a result of over-estimating his ability..........and just block the edges of defenders...........and that made him effective in systems where he could be put on the move later in his career.

The resident Jason Peters haters used to scoff when I told them that not only was Peters great and played a more important position but that despite being in his 6th year when Wood was a rookie that Peters would be in the league well after Wood was gone. @PromoTheRobot used to keep us constantly updated with ANY negative press about Peters until well past the point that he was a HOF'er. Of course he used to do that about Bryant McKinnie as well.........in support of the decision to draft "Big Mike" Williams instead.

Dallas and Chicago didn't release Peters..........they had no control over Peters..........he signed one year deals and became a free agent as soon as the season ended. You understand how this works, right? He and Ndamukong Suh are two freaks of nature that are much older than anyone else at their positions but have continually proven they can step in WHENEVER and play good football. They just have no interest in spending the offseason required to attend team activities or training camp. They have both just been picking and choosing when they want to play and whether they want to play with the interested teams.

Yes, that's what I'm saying. Most teams don't have 2 good tackles so why would any of them have more than 4 playable OT's and just release one?

It's a fight..........work the body and soften up the defense and then that creates time for the big punches. They throwing too many haymakers and making it easy to defend and some of that is definitely on Josh. Not stepping up in the pocket. Not putting the ball where it should be(like on the play where somehow Diggs got a pass knocked away by OLB Highsmith). Josh may be the most dynamic guy at the most important position.........but he still has a lot of room to improve as a QB.

McGovern performed "well". Seumalo performed GREAT. Still perplexed about how that UFA went down. Seumalo was probably the best pass blocking guard in the NFL by the end of last season and gets just a few shillings more than the relatively unproven McGovern. No doubt, the Steelers had a sneaky great offseason on the heels of a very impactful draft in 2022.

Yeah Brown got torched on that play. Otherwise he was solid. Guys are getting 8 figure aav contract extensions at RT for playing at that level. It's not a premium position and I'm not going to get too worked about losing a rep to a crafty vet like Markus Golden when he's holding his own against the best pass rusher in the entire league in TJ Watt. I have concerns about Brown but they are mostly injury related. Lane Johnson is a LT quality RT for Philadelphia but otherwise most good teams have big stiffs like Brown at RT. Some even used earlier picks on them. It's not going to look great if they play that "bombs away" style........they need the short passing game to work.

Hopefully the Saffold induced PTSD will dissipate now that it appears that they have some blocking inside and Allen will start climbing the pocket and taking those easy completions back.

Allen needed 3.50 seconds to be more accurate. The criticism of Dawkins play in the game is accurate............but people are really throwing themselves about Spencer Brown and he wasn't bad. It's second down and 20 something..........a good pass rushing defense isn't giving you 3+ seconds to throw there. Also, the 3rd down where Allen rolled right allowing a well blocked TJ Watt to get a pressure on Brown's side was entirely on Allen. Allen has to step up in the pocket and get that ball out. As I mentioned elsewhere too...........that play Gabe Davis made is actually a good example of why he's not a good enough WR opposite Diggs..........Gabe needs 3+ seconds to get open.......that's too much time needed for your second option to come free if you expect to execute methodically and deconstruct a defense.

Gotta' add Ed Oliver to the bad night list. Everything Ed did was trash. Seumalo threw him around like he was a practice squad hopeful and it didn't get much better for him on the other side. Tim Settle was atrocious too. He tackled Poona Ford on the long TD run by allowing himself to get collapsed. Daquon sucked too. The DT's were the worst of the worst units on the field for the Bills.

You don't actually think someone is going to cut a decent reserve offensive tackle, do you? Not happening.

Don't get too excited about Gabe...........sure he made an impressive catch on the sideline that could have been big..........but the long developing plays that Gabe NEEDS to get open and impress are also something that lead to A LOT of mistakes. Holding penalties, turnovers etc... That's why he had an 80 passer rating last year despite averaging almost 18 yards per reception.

That is incorrect. He's always been a man of very few words to the media. But this article might help you understand better why you think you remember that. https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/how-does-emotion-impact-memory

Right.........now you don't think LT's belong in the HOF. Talk about doubling down on nonsense.

As I said in another post.........you don't treat a superstar talent the way the Bills did and expect to keep them. They signed him to a RT contract........then moved him to LT.........then signed two lesser players to bigger contracts to play lesser positions. How do you think that level of treatment would have gone over with Josh Allen or Stef Diggs? You operate in good faith with superstars because ultimately they decide whether they are going to play for you or make you trade them. You probably know that NOW............ but you were younger and dumber then and probably didn't realize that NFL teams knew that Peters was a first round athletic talent but that his coaching staff at Arkansas undermined him in the draft process because they were incensed that he had declared early. They had refused to showcase his skills to that point because he didn't fit their antiquated old school ways. Peters wasn't a Rudy story that should have just been grateful to be given a chance in the NFL. He was a dominant talent that got mishandled in college and screwed by those people who were entrusted by his family to work in his best interests...........so when the Bills then tried to exploit him he wasn't down to get mistreated again. You got up in your emotions about it.........like a lot of Bills fans..........when you should have just understood/accepted that the reality was that some team was ABSO*****INLUTELY going to trade for him and treat him like a superstar. At the post-trade press conference Andy Reid said that Jason Peters was "the Peyton Manning of Left Tackles". Would you stay at the hospital or clinic you work at if you got treated like the Bills treated Peters relative to his open market worth? Not if your skills are in demand..........so you can front all you want.........you are at best a hypocrite for resenting him for wanting to work somewhere that he was really appreciated, paid what he was worth and maybe even had a chance to succeed(which he did not with the terrible Bills front office).

No, you literally mocked the idea that he was going to go into the HOF because you were ignorant about his career.........and then that very night he was playing on MNF and the announcers were speaking matter-of-factly about his HOF career........it became a topic on TSW..........and you shut your pie hole about the quality of his play and now have changed your argument. And what point are you trying to make that I "(was) not calling for the Bills to find him and sign him" until he decided he still wanted to play(and the primary veteran RT competition retired and the over RT reserves have looked terrible)?

No. He didn't say anything. He and his agent let the Bills negotiate thru the media. They eventually traded him and he got paid. The Bills front office was a complete dumpster fire then. They signed him to an extension as a RT........knowing but not articulating that they intended to let their LT walk in UFA and move him there.........and then after moving him they went out and paid a free agent guard and RT more than him. They weren't acting in good faith.........and when it comes to a rare, All-Pro type talent at a premium position you have to treat that player a lot differently. See how the Bills treated guys like Allen and Diggs when they had multiple years remaining on their contracts, for example.

For reference........... @Mr. WEO has long been a Jason Peters hater..........scoffing ignorantly at the notion that he would be inducted into the HOF in recent years when it's basically a foregone conclusion for most of a decade now. His 70 PFF grade last season.......at age 40.........would have ranked the second highest of any Bills OL.......I mean Saffold and Brown were in the low 40's and low 50's for reference. And 39 year old Jason Peters' 77.5 grade would have tied Dion Dawkins for the highest grade on the Bills in 2021.

I don't think he can hold up physically to play 90% of snaps anymore. Yeah he was still doing that in 2021 but, I mean, dude is 41 now. I think you'd just view him as a way better replacement for Quessenberry at this point. Maybe the biggest thing he could do is help Dion Dawkins learn what it takes to extend his career. Dion at 28 was blocking at a level like Peters at 38. That shouldn't be. Dion should be in his prime now and he's trailing off significantly. Maybe he could help wake Dion up and help extend his career. Like I said, Bills fans think he's a malcontent because the Bills tried to move him to LT and pay him RT money and he wanted fair market compensation for the bump in responsibility...........but he's been renowned as a GREAT teammate and leader for the vast majority of his career.

I know, I know........you were one of the many people who agreed with Jeffery Littman's cash-to-the-cap approach to dealing with all players........star quality or otherwise. You guys were just wrong. And yes, they didn't win because they didn't have a franchise QB...........which was not entirely misfortune.........from their inception they were not inclined to roll dice on QB's in round 1 and money-money-money-money played a big factor in that foolish decision making. You still gotta' have star players at premium positions to advance to and win a SB. The fact that you were OK with not having them if they wanted to be paid their market value.........well, that's just not going to get you off the porch and running with the big dogs as an organization. Fact.

Yeah Crowder was at one time very good.........and played some of his best football against the Bills...........but the concept that the 2022 version of Crowder was going to be good and that Beasley was just trending down and washed is the kind of delusion that we fans sometimes create in our mind as we dream on what could be. The reality was that Beasley had a FAR BETTER season in 2021 than Crowder. The likelihood of who would be better in 2022 would actually have been Beasley by a wide margin because Crowder was trending down hard due to injuries. We see this kind of delusion re-surface with Sharty...........fans expect that he will be the version of himself that he was during the brief non-injured portion of his 2021 season.........when the reality is that he missed basically all of last year injured(as is his tendency to be) and has otherwise been a total non-factor on offense in his career. And to emphasize how much Bills fans are dreaming on versions of Sharty and Sherfield that the objective public does not expect.........the places that take bets on player production are actually figuring on Lil' Dummy McKenzie and even Jamison Crowder to put up more yards than Sharty and Sherfield this season.

He's played well every year and he's been bouncing around on very cheap 1 year deals for years now. They should have brought him in long ago. One of the greatest tackles in NFL history and unbeknownst to most Bills fans, who got sucked into his Bills era contract saga, he has been a tremendous leader and mentor for young teammates.

Yeah there was an audible sigh of relief on TSW when Eugene Parker punched out back in 2016. He sure ran circles around the clown show of a front office the Bills had back in the day.........exposing the lack of commitment to winning that was the drought era Ralph C Wilson, Jeffrey Littman and Russ Brandon Bills .

Yeah some the most amusing nonsense of the offseason is the comparing of last year's WR corps to this year's without any acknowledgement whatsoever that they are comparing their wildest hopes and dreams for an equally unproven/unproductive or inefficient WR corps(beyond the great Diggs) against the NOW proven shite that was that group last year. As you mentioned, there was almost unbridled optimism for that WR corps coming into last season. It was very much a small minority of us who were objective and observant enough to realize that the hype on guys like Gabe and McKenzie in particular was based on just 1 game for each of those players in the 2022 season versus their much larger, inconsistent body of work over their careers.

1926-1964 (39 seasons) 1993-2022 (30 seasons) No other MLB franchise has had more than 18(1968-1985 Orioles) and you'll be taking a dirt nap LONG before any mlb team could challenge either so I'm sorry if it bothers........but you'll have to take it to your grave.