BADOLBILZ

This is you and other fans thinking that you are part of the roster. The reality: Most of the players on the team are either not under contract for next year or on an unguaranteed deal which provides zero "security". Your concept is totally misguided.

They've been paying him and already worked his contract multiple times. Fans have a misconception that how other players contracts are handled matters greatly to the locker room. They worry about how THEY themselves get paid and largely ignore whether someone else is being compensated equitably.

There are a number of reasons..........like the contract extensions of pending UFA Dawson Knox and extension-eligibles Ed Oliver and Gabriel Davis after this season.

He's not a good backup QB option. The people pondering whether he is as good as Keenum clearly don't follow the rest of the NFL because Barkley is flat-out terrible and Keenum can actually play QB in the NFL. It's not close. He can be a cheerleader on the practice squad or he can bounce around between teams again.

This. They made a business decision. Football is a cutthroat business by nature. You can't hide your "classy" decisions on the football field.

I'm all for compartmentalizing what happens on the field versus off of it and I am also all about forgiving people who pay their assigned debt to society. Just don't be a hypocrite like Nelius. I haven't participated in the Araiza talk because I'm not offended if they choose to release a player with a serious charge against him while at the same time not presuming the player is guilty at all until he gets his day in court. That's much too fair to everyone involved to advance discussion among the real housewives of TSW.

A jump? Your avatar is a picture of rapist Cornelius Bennett. Interesting reaction to finding out you are clueless.........don't shoot the messenger, Cornelius.

You do realize that the player you glorify with your screen name......Cornelius Bennett.........was charged with rape, *****, sexual assault and unlawful imprisonment to boot.......plead it down to just anally raping the woman without her consent. But you think you are a voice of perspective on how to feel about a sexual assault claim?

Allen played very little. Keenum played a lot and they ran a ton from under center and the OL looked effective and in sync. Josh Allen averaged an anemic 6.8 yards per attempt last season and the Bills finished dead last in YAC............but some people think that running back what they did all last regular season or running Josh Allen 10x per game like they did late in the year to cover for their lack of punch from the spread are foregone conclusions. What they've done pro-personnel wise, coaching hires and in the draft suggests a team that wants a different offensive identity.

You think they will continue to run shotgun spread all the time again........which failed them far too often last season............and I think they will line up and play the game more like they did last week. Stark difference. But whether it's "run heavy" or not is to be seen.........good play action from under center gets receivers open either way..........being good at running the ball makes the D be more assignment sound and tires them out. And you aren't getting there if you don't let your OL play downhill. These are things that become evident in season but people like yourself always forget in the offseason.

Hart signed with Tennessee after he was cut by the Bills last year and quickly he was put into the starting lineup as the Titans LT for a game at the Rams. They pounded the rock and Stafford turned the ball over and the Titans blew out the Rams. I think it was Von Miller's first game there too. Hart stinks in pass pro but he can run block a little. Hart, Saffold and Quessenberry combined to play all but one offensive snap on the Titans OL that game. The Bills are planning to slow down pass rushes the cheap way..........by running the ball.

There are a ton of ways to illustrate the importance of a #1 WR in a matchup league like the NFL. But the fact that there were 5 #1 WR types on the field in the Super Bowl illustrates how valuable top receivers have become. Kupp, OBJ, Chase, Higgins and Boyd. Boyd is the least regarded of the bunch and he had over 800 yards and didn't drop a single pass in the entire regular season as the 3rd option for Joe Burrow. Jalen Ramsey is as good as it gets in man coverage and he got run ragged by all the stud receiver talent he had to face in the playoffs and SB. The next level down doesn't do that.

Nice clip about a Buffalo kid making his way thru Yankees organization. update.........promoted to Triple A

Not to hijack the thread but while I can see missing Jaquan..........the new OC is a Hurricanes great. Others have come and gone under McD as well. What I like is that the Canes stadium has a little bit of the old Orange Bowl tied into all of it with the open end and the palms. Always thought the Bills new stadium should have a water fall feature in one of the end zones..........a lot of fans hate the Niagara Falls shots every time the Bills play a home game(especially versus and NFC opponent) but they are one of the wonders of the world and its right here.

The Mahomes/Reid Chiefs have been to 2 Super Bowls and won one of them. They have knocked the Bills out of the playoffs each of the past two seasons. They get the benefit of the doubt over McBeane because of that...............that's how victory works. But they also have built arguably the most talented offensive line in football over the course of the last 16 months or so. The Bills are choosing to add that kind of talent to their defense instead of their offense..............and then instead add a lot of spare parts and value draft picks to their offense. The investment on the defensive side of the ball has been lopsided. There is no arguing against this........dollars and high draft picks are the big chips in the NFL personnel biz.

Ford did in fact play A LOT of guard in the preseason..........you claimed he did not..........that's a fact and you are quoted in my response to your "this is a horsesh*t" take" post to @Coach Tuesday. Now you are lying about it. The original plan coming into camp, of course, was for Ford to be the RT and for Nsekhe to be a swing tackle. But Ford struggled at tackle in camp and Nsekhe played very well........Nsekhe was going to win the RT job handily..........so not wanting to leave their highly invested pick on the bench Ford was moved to guard and that was going to be the starting right side of the Bills OL. They actually looked good as a tandem. With Nsekhe not available as the swing tackle any longer they felt they had to keep the more position versatile options..........and all of the other "guard" options that were kept were those guys. Ryan Bates technically became the swing tackle. But Nsekhe started coming apart at the seams physically before the opener and the two ended up having to job share the snaps at RT for much of the season(until Nsekhe went out long term) and Jon Feliciano went from being the backup to Cody Ford at guard to playing almost every snap of every game.

AND YET........ the character conscious Bills organization is full of Hurricanes.......with basically nobody from the Axis of pee-pee touchers...... Penn State, Ohio State, Notre Dame.

Do you ever tire of creating ridiculous takes like that? It's literally a thread about the player going out the door..........if ever there is a time for that discussion it's clearly now. Your problem is that you built your identity as a fan very unnecessarily on the foundation that you would show your loyalty by not being critical of ownership or management.......even to the point of making up nonsense to defend them. And then you being the smooth customer you are..............you finally chose to draw the line at the hiring of McDermott and Beane. Rather than just admitting you were wrong and adopting the higher standards and growth mindset of the HC and GM like a sane sports fan...........you are trying to go back to being the pointlessly relentless apologist. Once you've been a skeptic........you can't fit back into that role without being a phony.

I'm a big Aaron Kromer believer..........but while he has proven he can make a big difference in the running game.........let's not forget the he coached Jordan Mills in Buffalo........who was a horrendous pass blocker despite playing on a run first team with an elusive QB. There is only so much you can do in pass pro with limited talent like Mills or Bobby Hart. I am more optimistic about him working with athletes like Spencer Brown and Tommy Doyle but the flip side of that is first they need to show that they can even hold up in the pro game. They need to string together a lot of games and snaps before we know if they have the most basic and important ability. Avail-ability is exactly why guys like Mills and now Hart keep getting jobs and stacking years of service in the league.

What is the point you are trying to make with your handwringing about the Cody Ford departure? You made up a lie about him not playing guard in camp or preseason as a rookie to try to shoutdown the FACT that Wyatt Teller was traded because Ford having to play guard created a glut at the position. Someone had to go. Now you are theorizing that there is a direct comparison between trading the unproven second year Teller.........who had shown a lot of promise as a rookie.........and the well established fourth year bust Cody Ford. Read Brandon Beane's press conference transcript..........like I said........Beane admitted that he dropped the ball.......questioned his process, that we all were able to view on Bills Embedded...........and is taking responsibility for it rather than pretending he just did everything right and it didn't work out. I think maybe some of you rush to defend every move Beane makes because you are people who are used to making excuses for yourself and not being accountable as a method of self preservation. Beane is not like you..........he is a professional. But the reality is that he came into the job as a first time GM and also VERY raw as a personnel man........he had spent more time fetching coffee in his early years in Carolina than he eventually did evaluating players with the team scouts. He may have gotten the job because of Sean McDermott but the reason why it works so well is that he has the mental makeup to be a top executive. A very different skillset than his Bills predecessors Whaley and Nix who were road scouts. As an executive you need to know that the first rule of management is that it's always your fault. He gets that. Instead of making up ridiculous lies and scenarios about why Beane wasn't wrong for doing something..........maybe you folks who rush in to excuse even the most obvious of errors should listen to him for a change when he tells you he WAS wrong about making a pick like Cody Ford.

Cody Ford was the worst player on the field in that day in Jacksonville.........which took some doing with the Jags being the worst team in the league.

Yeah........IMO that @Miami game being in the first month sticks out as a day when they really want all hands on deck in the secondary. It's important to keep Miami down and avoid a tight divisional race like the one they played themselves into last year by treating the middle of the season with a lack of urgency..........and also to not let the "Tyreek effect" become a thing in that rivalry.

Who has Blackshear even outplayed though? All the backs have looked good. The solution to your concern is for the team to not use so many high picks on RB's..........but that toothpaste is out of the tube and it's not like Blackshear has blown away the competition anyway. And much like Antonio Williams before him, any production Blackshear has had needs to be weighed against the fact that he was pretty much "just a guy" over a 5 year college career.

You are really on the crazy train lately Skrewball. Like booze + bipolar meds kinda' nutty.🤪