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15 hours ago, Simon said:
I don't believe that there is a single human being that has ever tried on a pair of skates that could individually overcome the utter stank that organization has exuded over the last decade.
At the time of the McDavid lottery the Oilers were a much worse organization than Buffalo. Buffalo had picked in the top 10 just the prior two years. The Oilers had already had the #1 overall pick 3 times in the previous 6 years. They were the bottom of the barrel. It took work for McDavid to supersede their massive culture issues but he did it because players of that magnitude don't lose for long.
And can you imagine the Bills if Allen had been a bust? McBeane get fired and Pegula never gives up full control of football operations again. Those Bills and the current Sabres would have been on parallel paths.
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9 hours ago, Bleeding Bills Blue said:
Im not sure if was a "cheap shot", as I think he's just attempting to disrupt the catch point (because he was late to play the ball -being bad/slow is not cheap). However he lead with the crown of his helmet to a defenseless player and it resulted in a penalty/fine.
For not being sure that it was a cheap shot in your first sentence you literally described it as absolutely a cheap shot in your second.
Poyer had the option of pushing him out of bounds or trying to knock the ball out legally.
It was a garden variety cheap shot, but dirty nonetheless.
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3 hours ago, dave mcbride said:
Look, if you believe that HGH use isn't rampant in the NFL, that's fine. It obviously is and no one really talks about (players or league) because it's in no one's interest to do so. But both the league and the players need it to keep the multi-billion dollar entertainment machine up and running.
You made the mistake of getting into a real-world conversation with @MJS.
Water is wet and NFL players need PED's to stay on the field.
People do not want to see what the NFL looks like without them.
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3 hours ago, MarlinTheMagician said:
I feel a need to be reassured by the board. I get a creeping fear - which can only be based on some weird, deep-seated prejudice -- that Cole Bishop may well lack the toughness to be an NFL strong safety. Maybe he looks a little bit too much like a choirboy. Maybe he is too handsome and I am secretly jealous. I am 100% rooting for him. I know he has the height, weight and speed. But I look at him and think "likely to be scheme sound." No, please! I want to look at him and say "geez, I would sure hate to be a running back and see that animal flying downhill at me. Snot flying, drool dripping, that dude is going to wreck someone." I want to think - wide receiver over the middle? Not worried about it, Bishop will get there and lay the MoFo out. They may complete one, but it will be VERY expensive for them.
Tell me I am stupid, a hater or just off base. I really liked the pick when they made it, I am hoping he grows into a silent assassin on the back-end. Even if he is scheme sound too (and I know he wasn't always that last year either). Let's go Cole - cheering for you, and want to feel stupid for doubting you. I may have to buy a Bishop jersey just to exorcise my doubts. Thoughts?
Picking a safety in the second round is generally a bad idea. It's a one contract position. Jairus Byrd was simultaneously an All Pro quality player for a couple of seasons and a bad second round pick. There are not many safeties in the NFL that end up being worth bypassing the annual chance to select a potential difference maker at a premium position. More day 1 and 2 picks fail than succeed but it's still the best place to find difference makers.
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55 minutes ago, BillsFan4 said:
Skinner has played a grand total of 11 minutes during Edmonton’s entire playoff run.
(he’s been scratched all but 1 game in the first round)
Edmonton all the way!
I’d love to see them win a cup. Not all that long ago they were the perennial joke of the NHL, and their owner was thought of as being the worst. It’s been cool to see them finally turn it around and have sustained success.
It obviously helped that they drafted + retained 2 of the best players on the planet. lol
It would also be cool to see a Canadian team get a Stanley cup win.
Yeah I've always rooted for McDavid. He really wanted to be in Buffalo and IMO he would have been to the Sabres organization what Josh Allen is to the Bills. Would have saved Terry Pegula from unfortunately and painfully embarrassing himself as a sports owner the way he has with the Sabres. That lottery announcement was one of the top 5 sports tragedies in Buffalo sports history IMO and THE worst moment for the Sabres.
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3 hours ago, RangerDave said:
It's been that way since the 1966 season when the Chiefs beat us in the AFL Championship and went to Super Bowl I instead of us!
The table turned completely during the Kelly era. Bills destroyed them in the AFC playoffs in 1991 and 1993. The Chiefs weren't really a road block again until Reid got there.
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7 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
Bryce Brown's fumble and then Jamal Charles touchdown from 4th and 1 at midfield. That was the worst game for me. 2014. Win that game and Marrone almost certainly ends the drought. And the Bills were better than KC that day. Beat themselves.
Yeah that was probably the worst of the bunch. Manny Lawson lost contain on that Charles TD. Those losses all stung though. They were quintessential "culture" losses and really hurt the Bills for AFC record tie-breakers. There wasn't a big difference talent-wise between the Bills and Chiefs teams. The Bills might have had deeper rosters in all of those losses. But the Chiefs won THOSE game and they've always been a step ahead ever since because the Bills tore it down to re-set the culture and KC hasn't done the volume of stupid things that NE did to allow the Bills to catch up to them.
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21 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said:
It's always the goddamn Chiefs...
It's been like this since Marrone and Rex era's. The key losses every year that were derailing the latter day drought Bills out of the playoffs started being those against fellow AFC fringe playoff contending Chiefs. Those Bills/Chiefs matchups were fairly even talent-wise but the Bills were just out COACHED time and again and they went the playoffs and the Bills did not. Manny Lawson missing tackles, Tuel's pick 6, the game where Sammy put up like 200 yards receiving in the first half in KC and they blew the lead in the second half.........
We had a few years(2017-2019) where they weren't impeding McDermott's teams but once 2020 hit they got right back to derailing the Bills seasons, it was just later than sooner. A lot of Bills fans weren't feeling the rivalry aspect heading into their 2020 AFCCG matchup but those of us who realized how big those 2014-2016 drought season losses the Chiefs handed the Bills were did feel it.
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4 hours ago, Captain Hindsight said:
He failed a physical. I saw one report he was using a cane to walk
Rehabbin' ain't easy
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42 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:
I'd have WR as "below average (average potential)" and S as "below average (above average potential)." I think if Bishop takes a big step AND he can dovetail effectively with Rapp (I'm sceptical on both but particularly the latter) then I think safety can be above average this year. But it needs both those things to happen.
I honestly don't see a way for our WRs to be above average. Not immediately clear to me where the above average potential comes from?
Yeah the Bills safeties aren't very good but the bar to get to average talent at WR is higher. Safeties are devalued. There were close to 30 starting safeties from 2023 on the subsequent 2024 free agent market. You'd never see anything like that at a premium position. So more teams have patched together safety rooms that look like the Bills than WR rooms that do.
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11 hours ago, JerseyBills said:
Great sign. Feel like Buf would've jumped on Gabe if they had doubts with Keon.
I wonder if it's that or if it's because he was an interception magnet and Brady just didn't want him back because of that. They've already rolled the dice with Elijah Moore who was the target on 8 INT's last year they don't need another high risk target.
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1 hour ago, Brand J said:
Surprised Gabe hasn’t signed anywhere yet.
It would probably serve him best to wait for the inevitable WR injuries to accrue in camp and find a place where he's needed despite his bad hands and limited route tree. His 2025 salary being fully guaranteed by Jax already actually complicates things as I am sure a number of teams would like to give him a contract that is basically a de facto zero-risk camp invite for them. He needs to get actual playing time to get his career back on track.
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54 minutes ago, Alphadawg7 said:
I get this is TSW, so TSW is gonna full on TSW every chance it can add to the theatre of dramatics and negativity...
...but come one...its a pulled calf...hardly concerning. Its better to just be cautious and keep him out, its not a serious injury, on its own. Its just OTA's too
Its May...long time until January.
Now back to your regularly scheduled program of beating the dead horse on receivers...lol
It's hard to heal calf injuries.
You can go easy on a hamstring but it's hard to walk at all without aggrivating a calf injury.
They are so often the precursor to a torn achilles.
It's happened so often to so many big name players now that it's odd when people try to brush it off like you are doing.
The Bills have good depth a DE. That's the saving grace. Not the insignificance of the injury for a brittle old pass rusher.
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5 hours ago, ClosetFan said:
Interesting . . . None of these teams made it to the superbowl. Maybe the passing game is over hyped.
I posted it somewhere else before but the average SB winner's offensive and defensive ranking over the last decade or so was surprisingly low.
I think it was an average of 9th for both.
So there isn't really a direct correlation between very high regular season rankings and postseason success.
But over the past decade the quality of your second receiving option has been as big of an indicator that you will reach the SB as any.
That was true again for the winner this year as Devonta Smith averaged 64 yards receiving per game as option #2 for Philly. AJ Brown averaged 83. Those are big numbers that project over 1,000 in a 17 game season. The bulk totals for Hurts/Brown/Smith were down this year due to games missed to injuries but they easily have the most talented 1-2 WR pair in the NFC.
Bills fans often cite the Chiefs as an exception. Like they haven't had high end receiving talent. But 2024 was the only season since 2015 that the Chiefs haven't had two of the top 32 receiving yardage producers in the NFL.
The Bills haven't had a top 32 ranked 1-2 punch since Diggs/Beasley in 2020.
Basically, the Bills are trying to be a significant outlier. At least the 2023 Chiefs went into camp thinking they had still fringe superstar Kelce and a rising star in Rice.......who was on a 1400+ yard pace prior to his injury.
Unless the Bills make an unexpected move this will be the second consecutive year they have entered the season without a receiver who has put up at least 900 yards at some point in their NFL career. For perspective, before that it had been almost 40 years since they started a season without someone who'd at least put up 1,000 in a season.
"Everyone eats" or not they are accepting a pretty low standard.
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1 hour ago, folz said:
Here are the top 10 passing teams from 2024 (by yards):
Atts Yards Yds/Att
Bengals 652 4,640 7.1
Lions 551 4,474 8.1
Bucs 571 4,257 7.4
49ers 533 4,231 7.9
Falcons 559 4,068 7.3
Vikings 548 4,043 7.4
Ravens 477 4,035 8.5
Seahawks 593 4,020 6.8
Bills 520 3,875 7.5
Rams 559 3,868 6.9
Bills were also tied for 6th in passing TDs, tied for 3rd in fewest interceptions, and were number one in fewest sacks allowed.
I think we already touched on this topic earlier in the thread but he Bills were not 9th in passing yardage.
They were 17th.
The figures you are referencing are "net" passing yards..........which subtracts sack yardage.
If you are historically great/lucky at not turning the ball over and your QB never gets sacked that's going to greatly benefit your "net" numbers.
But if you are judging the quality of talent in the passing game........remember this........the league DOES NOT subtract sack yardage from QB's individual passing yardage(or the WR's, naturally).
@Paup 1995MVP's reaction to your post reflects how misleading including sack data is. By no means was the Bills 2024 passing game an aerial circus.
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On 5/7/2025 at 8:55 PM, Another Fan said:
I liked this drink!
It's back. Kinda'.
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On 5/23/2025 at 9:47 AM, Jauronimo said:
Hes our new Lee Smith. Everyone will go crazy if he ever catches a ball.
Yeah people don't realize how much they've missed the unnecessary, drive stalling calls that you get when you use a 250-270# TE to run block instead of a real 320# offensive lineman.
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The mind blown "imagine if the Bills could use a TE instead of an extra OL" takes after the draft were precious.
Nobody needs a Lee Smith. If he's going to be out there he better catch the ball and make plays in the passing game too. The good news is that he seems to be getting good reviews in that regard.
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1 hour ago, folz said:
I think a rookie coming back from his first major injury to a much smaller role may have gotten in Keon's head a bit. He may have been a bit skittish from the hit. Worried about coming back too soon. A little depressed that his role had decreased, etc. But, again, he was a rookie. Give the kid time to grow, mature, learn, get more experience.
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If we are going to speculate on why Coleman struggled when he came back I'd say it's more likely that he had mentally checked out on the season during his recovery. Coleman is not a guy who was used to playing football in December and January to begin with. It's hard to be any good in the NFL unless you are all-in mentally and physically. I'm not directly equating the situations but Chase Claypool is the extreme example of how far you can fall in the NFL when you lose your competitive edge. I think Coleman's lapse was likely temporary but now that is part of his history that people will be watching for.
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13 hours ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
The long bomb is just not his strong suit. He hits one every now and then. But more often than not, he just misses over or under. He can throw it a mile, but he's never really gotten down being able to throw it long accurately with any sort of regularity.
Luckily, he makes up for that by being an absolute beast in practically every other facet of his game. It's not dialed up often by Brady because of that fact. They're low percentage throws.
What Allen CAN do consistently that the Bills can't take advantage of with this WR corps is throw 30+ yard passes on a line. He doesn't have great touch on throws that require air under them but he can throw to areas of the field on a rope that others have to throw with arc/anticipation. Throws that are normally way out of a QB's range to make and where DB's are very vulnerable . Allen's range as a passer of low trajectory throws actually opened up the field quite a bit for Gabe Davis, who had the size to do work downfield but little else. Hopefully Coleman can become a much better version of Gabe, at least. But unless Allen can maintain his strong arm until the end, eventually he will have to find more consistency on touch/timing passes over the top to stay among the very best in the league as he ages.
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9 years ago the idea that there would become bandwagon Bills fans was a bit far-fetched.
For years on TSW two things I often talked about that needed to happen:
1) The fanbase had to become their own separate entity from the team in the way that even longer-suffering Chicago Cubs fans had under similarly difficult circumstances. Prior generations of Bills fans would vote for or against Ralph with their wallets and that was a recipe for losing your team and all the fun and entertainment we enjoyed around the 48 hours of sh!t football we were subjected to annually.
2) That they should pick a QB with their first pick EVERY year until they got one that could get a stadium built.
Both goals were achieved, even if not in the way you'd draw it up.
I am grateful that Josh Allen and the energy of Bills Mafia can bring us new fans.
I can remember going to local bars with friends to watch Bills pre-season games during the Rex era and even if the place was packed nobody else even knew the Bills were playing. The Bills territory was contracting and you didn't have to venture far outside of Buffalo to reach where the team was becoming irrelevant. The brand was that tarnished by the likes of Ralph, Jauron, Levy and Brandon.
In general, the fans that this Josh Allen era creates will be the people sustaining the franchise 10-15 years from now the same way that the kids of the Kelly/Bruce/Thomas/Reed era Bills sustained the organization thru the 2000-2017 drought years.
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On 5/22/2025 at 4:17 PM, Kirby Jackson said:
Haven’t read the whole thread or any of it so sorry if this has been discussed. What did we expect him to say about Dallas? “I liked the last place better.” Of course he is going to say what he said and we shouldn’t care at all.
As for Kaiir the person. He’s a fantastic human being. We know the family of Sophia. You’ve all probably seen the story whether you remember it or not but it’s all genuine. That guy would call her, show up there, I’m told that he still keeps in touch with the family. There was nothing fake or contrived about how he handled that situation and how that family feels about him. You see things like this when ESPN does “my wish” but this went on for what was left of her life (and still to this day). He’s a world class human being. We should all hope that our children grow up to be like him. https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/remembering-sophia-sophia-the-fierce-benintende
He, his dad and uncle are an enigmatic bunch. There are people that swear they are fantastic human beings and at the same time you have self-destructive issues with the law and coachability problems. Kaiir's self destructiveness is just a bit more 1st world than the prior generation who grew up with less. It's great that he is so kind/compassionate/caring for those less fortunate than he. You find people like that at all socio-economic levels. From the upstanding to the most criminal. That's just one aspect of their humanity.
What's applicable here is that Kaiir just didn't make the effort for his employer, his teammates or the fans in Buffalo. It's one thing to struggle to win a starting job it's another to then not even feel compelled to contribute on special teams. That caused a spiral here because they couldn't activate a backup DB who wouldn't play ST's. He alienated himself because he refused to do the dirty work and earn those opportunities to cover receivers every week. He was already financially set from that first contract and he knew he'd get another shot elsewhere because he was a first round pick so he didn't feel compelled to lower himself to the level of a guy like Ja' Marcus Ingram. Now he's basically a 6th round pick for the Cowboys so I expect him to re-adjust his expectations of himself.
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17 hours ago, Doc Brown said:
The Bills have to approve everything that HBO's allowed to put on all the episodes so it's up to them when it comes to the WR discussion.
My understanding is that teams have less control over editing of HK than you think. They have to claim that the information they want edited out creates a competitive disadvantage for them.
And for the people who point to HK training camp edition teams not having great results that season.........up until this season teams that had made the playoffs the prior season had been exempt from HK for a long time. That had helped the Bills avoid it since they had been to the playoffs 7 of the last 8 seasons. So you weren't seeing SB contenders in the TC edition. That's the primary reason why the records weren't good.
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4 hours ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
I don't think it would be something that would be covered... except for that WGR interview. Because of that, it's definitely something that will be brought up when they're highlighting Beane and talking to him.
Actually, now that I think about it, myself and a couple others thought at the time that it felt like a planned thing by Beane as a publicity stunt. Highlighting it on the Draft Embedded made me think that further. Now I'm starting to wonder if Beane didn't know this was coming down the pipeline and did it in part bc he thought it might make good TV for Hard Knocks.
I put the likelihood that the WGR clip is shown and they discuss the discourse over WR at like 95%
I don't think Beane voluntarily put a bullseye on himself.
The WGR thing was pretty much a steam of consciousness thing where he was kind of all over the place torn between talking sh!t about how smart he is(Josh Allen 2018 draft) and making excuses why he can't pay a WR and then dropping the "I signed Joshua Palmer" flex at the end.
But yeah, the questions about the WR position will be addressed in Hard Knocks.
It would be one thing if it were questions about the safety position that Beane was yelling at local media about...........but putting some extra focus on WR also gives HBO an excuse to keep more focus on QB1.
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3 hours ago, dave mcbride said:
Good post. More importantly, we now have ~24 years of evidence, and being on Hard Knocks appears to correlate with a 99 percent plus rate of stasis/mediocrity/decline. The Bills agreeing to this is flabbergasting to me.
I think they just finally ran out of excuses and the NFL forced it on them. They've dodged the first 30 or so of these reality shows. The training camp ones, the in-season, off-season and the Netflix QB and WR docs. Maybe surprisingly exempting them from an international game this year was a concession? But either way I think they would likely have avoided it if the league gave them a choice.
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Cole Bishop Toughness
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It's not 1996 anymore though.
Back then the CBA allowed for 6 year rookie contracts.
Cole Bishop is under contract for only 3 more seasons.
If your first and second round picks aren't starting by year 2 of their 4 year rookie deals it's a greater concern than it was in the 1990's because your entire roster is turning over faster than it did then.