BADOLBILZ

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

We all know that productive RB's can be found anywhere (though Beane has expended early draft picks on 3 of them). Are you predicting that Blackshear is another Austin Ekeler? Ekeler earned his job on a lesser roster than the one the Bills have now but more importantly he excelled both at RB and on special teams. The route to making this opening week 53 man roster for Blackshear and Duke Johnson is to not only produce at RB but to push Taiwan Jones off the roster with their special teams play.

More totally made up sh!t from Skrewball. It's not like Miller didn't take every opportunity in the weeks following his signing to point out that the Rams didn't offer as much but that he still almost pulled out of his deal with the Bills to re-sign with LA and that he would have liked to finish his career in Dallas but they showed little interest at his price point. The Bills offered him the most money of the teams he was willing to go to.

You were done when you insisted in @Coach Tuesday thread about Dion dishing on Ford that it was no big deal for Dawkins to criticize his teammate like that and insisting that Ford would absolutely agree that his attitude had been sh!t. The leap on the latter was a fact-free attempt to shout down the fact that his teammate called him out. A day later, he's dealt. Another L for ol' Skrewball.

Getting a 5th for the mess that is Cody Ford is a win.............but man, the paltry production from second round picks by Beane is a thing. It's been a thing with some other Bills GM's too............and I actually think there is an explanation for it. IMO, there is probably something of a letting down of the guard after spending months focused on that first round pick..........and a bit of "we're playing with house money" in round 2 undertone. I've seen it with people at big auctions.........their focus is to buy the property..........and then after they get the property they get a bit euphoric and make a bunch of bad decisions regarding the next round of assets and it takes them a while to regain their bearings. It's often a good time to steal something that the primary bidder shouldn't have let get away. The way Beane treats the second round is very, very needily. And that approach is not the best way to get the BPA. People can talk about how moving around the board with trades makes it all work out just like BPA...........but if you know you are willing to use round 2 of the draft to fill immediate needs I believe that impacts how you stack your board in the first place. It becomes corrupted by need. I think when the pressure to find someone who can start immediately comes off.........you start seeing more sound decisions and good value.........even if they aren't all HR's. I've liked Beane's work in round 1 more than any Bills GM ever.........but round 2 has been a dead zone production-wise for Beane so far.

No.....RT was not "in fact" "the position Ford played during OTA's, training camp, and preseason" Ford got shifted to guard in preseason. That is the fact. Ford wasn't doing well at RT. Nsekhe at RT and Ford at RG looked like it was going to be the starting combo...........don't try to horsesh!t your fellow posters........the games are still available on NFL+. With Ford at G........they suddenly had a logjam and someone had to go. It was Teller or Boettger...........and Boettger had worked hard to cross train at every position on the OL(whether he was any good at them or not)..........so he was kept and Teller was dealt. So yes.......Cody Ford failing to seize the RT job is why Teller was traded.

Is this a good time to point out that you quit your 26 year season tickets because the Bills made a coaching change after the 2016 season? You just can't grasp the nuance of following a pro football team...........it's all or nothing with you. No amount of ridiculous takes like the one I'm responding to above are going to be enough contrition for that utter disloyalty...........you know that but you are trying to sell the rest of us on it and some of us know better. It's always going to eat at you that you didn't believe in the McBeane regime........at least we can hope.

I agree..........but one of the aspects of this is that for the first time we actually got to see a GM using bad process to make a draft pick when Beane selected Cody Ford........thanks to "Bills Embedded". Beane said he couldn't sleep the night before that second round because he was so desperate to move up for Cody Ford. There was nothing about Cody Ford that should have screamed "must have". He was a guard with RT flexibility. Those are very different than an offensive tackle who could possibly play the left side. His RAS was terrible and his tape was "meh". It was Beane's "Reggie Ragland" "off the bus starter" moment. I think he learned from it. If nothing else.......not to be so candid on Embedded. In retrospect the funniest part about that episode was Beane saying Bobby Johnson was doing backflips about getting Cody Ford. Gold!

Moved him at the top of his market. One more Dawkins interview about him and it might have been a conditional 7th. 😉

A lot of the rag weed is maturing and seeding out right now, which could be the problem. Or it could be related to people cutting it and making it airborne. Farms have to cut it down before the seeds mature so it doesn't turn into a bigger problem next year........so there is a lot of chopping going on in fields just for that reason. Dry years like this really allow ragweed and other very drought-resistant weeds to overtake grasses and clover..........and some areas of WNY have been absolutely bone dry past few months.

There were some people who were pretty cross about those of us with any common sense who could see that Austin isn't a rosterable NFL player anymore. He's a guy who maybe comes off the PS and gives you a few weeks of playing out the string before you and your regime get fired. Like he did in Jax last year. Nice guy but he's toast as a player. Definite validity in the pad aspect. Young players struggle when the pads come on because their lack of skill/technique gets exposed.........old one's just get physically diminished by the contact. But anyone looking for a decent PR or KOR is SOL going with Austin. He's been bad at both for almost all of his career and done next to none of it since 2016.

Well obviously they've been below average in the screen game under Daboll. Some of that is the RB and some of that was the OL and probably more of it was the scheme. Playing a lot of spread let's defense's keep extra pass game athletes on the field. That makes it harder to generate impressive gains in the screen game. With Cook and/or Duke they are improved in the receiving aspect over Singletary and Moss(who has the advantage over Cook of being an outstanding pass pro RB). But I think people are having visions of the AFCCG in January 1993 with the Bills running screen after screen to Thurman Thomas and the Dolphins not being able to stop it. Doesn't work that way anymore. The athletes at LB and in the secondary are much too fast now........and the OL's of today are much too disjointed........for the screen game to be much more than an occasional "gotcha'". What I love to see is more play action. That is what has the potential to make this offense so much more difficult to stop.........not the occasional 5-8 yard dump off to Cook. In fact spreading defense's out with Cook as a receiver sounds like one of those on-paper ideas that doesn't translate nearly as well in reality. Spread offense's are by nature inclined to be dink-and-dunk operations. DL pin their ears back, less time to throw = short throws. That's hard on the receiving talent taking all those hits for small gains and exposes you to more potential for turnover etc..

Yeah those numbers are about right..........but average ones are super easy to find.......it's not like there are only two options. Where the rubber meets the road is in the receiving aspect and throwing the ball to a slot receiver is almost always MUCH more productive than tossing it to even the best receiving RB. It's not a fraction of yard difference.......it's multiple yards. That's why the 3rd down back is basically extinct and it really limits the potential impact of a guy like James Cook as well. As for Blackshear......Duke Johnson would be a great ceiling for him........but it might be a lot to ask given his very modest college career production. Duke has been an above average runner(4.3 when league average carry in general is 4.2) and he has actually been one of the more productive receivers you will see from RB position..........his career 9.2 yp reception is notably higher than either of the receiving "fantasy RB Gods" named Kamara and McCaffrey. Duke is the perfect example of how easy that kind of talent is to find at RB though.........and the fact that teams eventually come to the realization that it's better to just throw the ball to the slot receiver and get the extra yardage.......so they tend to usually end up in good supply in free agency even if they are notably above average.

He looks more active but it's the mental side of the game that he has still sucked at. He whiffed on a block after an assignment error in the opener that lead to James Cook getting tackled for little gain on what was an otherwise well blocked play with big potential..........and then it appeared they ran the same play Saturday and he did it again and got away with an egregious hold grabbing a rusher he allowed to come free on a long Cook run. Later got a stupid hands to face penalty. He's been a sh*t show since he got to Buffalo and it will be quite the feat if he overcomes all of it.........his poor attitude and lack of accountability(see Dawkins comments), his lack of athleticism(see his woeful RAS) AND his propensity for mental errors. The latter will be the hardest to overcome because it's not just one thing.......he is both slow to recognize the action in front of him AND he has a bad temper which costs him as well.

I'd also add..........if you are ever going to take a chance at cutting the wrong guy then RB is the position to do it. They aren't truly a dime a dozen any longer because you rarely see the best athletes play the position anymore........it's just the undersized guys who can't play any other position or the bigger guys without the hips to play in the secondary or hands to be a receiver........but the supply still FAR exceeds the demand because there just is not a lot that RB's are able to do under the rules of the game today to alter the impact of games.

Man did Dawkins throw some dirt on Ford after the game..........basically called him out for his sh*t attitude last season...........and implied that Kromer hasn't done a lot different but that Ford couldn't blame Bobby Johnson for being over-critical anymore when he was hearing the same complaints about his game from Kromer. The Buffalo media will probably let it slide but one OL dishing that candidly on another like that would be a big story in a big market.

He returned the first kickoff in the opener versus Colts and had that familiar "don't want to do this" look doing it. ST's are mostly about "want-to" and that's why most of the good one's on ST are people who "need-to" rather than who are the most talented.

Obviously Brown wasn't a second round pick, he was the 93rd pick in 2021 draft. DL's Greg Rousseau and Boogie Basham were the Bills first two picks in 2021. Bates had his offer sheet matched but they weren't willing to give him the modest second round tender to avoid having to deal with an offer sheet. His deal will be cheap if he plays all 1,000 snaps per year as a starting OL should. Compare that to the deals that all the free agent rotational DL got when they are only going to play just 45% of the snaps or so. Talking about potential Davis and Knox extensions like they are moves that have been made is no different than talking about Edmunds or Oliver extensions.........or presuming that next year's #1 pick will be a DE or MLB or a Safety etc.............we may see things trending that way but what we are talking about here are moves that have actually been made in the first 6 offseason of the regime.

Best Bills preseason game itself ever, IMO. I do miss the 90's preseason tailgates before they decided to try to make the preseason about bringing kids to games though..........it was never kid-centric before that. Back then the preseason games in Lot 1 were basically "scantily clad women" day........often a bigger party atmosphere than the regular season games. Bills have done a great job giving kids things to do more recently though.........when they first started it up kids were bored AF. Can't just say it's kids day........you gotta' make it fun for them. Also noted that reading thru some of the threads I love the people comparing players to former Bills players who wore the same number but they are like "I don't know what it is......but he reminds me so much of this guy".

The Bills game this Friday will be on WETM in Elmira. Not sure why the other two were blacked out but my guess is they might only be able to broadcast one game each week and maybe they chose to show one Giants game, one Steelers game and one Bills game. It's not entirely Bills country once you leave Steuben County heading east.......there are a lot of douchebags who root for Giants and Steelers out there.

OL, WR and TE.........basically positions that usually account for 8-9 of the 11 on the field every snap. Keep in mind, it's relative........we all know how much they've put into the DL........but presuming that Elam passes Dane Jackson at some point this season.........the defensive back 7 are all on big money deals for their positions or/and were first round picks......White, Edmunds, Elam. By contrast, the Bills OL only has 2 such players(Dawkins and Morse) out of 5.....for example. No first round picks. Bates got a modest RFA deal for a full time starter and Saffold is only a 1 year flyer........something they only seem to do on offense(see Crowder/Quessenberry/Mancz deals). Maybe it works out because Josh Allen is just so great that he can make a lot of players look better than they are..........but with all the lucrative deals and 5 of 7 first rounders used on defense by this regime there is no denying they've put a lot more of their premium personnel chips into the defensive side of the ball. Personally, I'd rather the Bills have gone for becoming the first NFL team to average 38 points per game in a regular season and take my chances with a top 5-10 type defense instead of a defense that should finish 1st overall with a bullet(again, but admittedly might not because defense is the much harder side of the ball to remain consistently excellent on, see 2020). That more defense-centric approach to team building didn't work last season when the thin OL and lack of YAC receiving talent undermined them thru the first 13 games.

They've invested a lot in their entire defense. The only exception, prior to this offseason, had been their second boundary CB. Which they have now spent another first round pick on. The rest of their starting back 7 on D are all on very lucrative contracts. Even the slot corner. That is "evidence". Your perception that they haven't invested heavily in the secondary is very wrong...........they have just gotten better results/bang-for-the-buck from White, Johnson, Hyde and Poyer than they have out of their DL investments to this point.

ESPN+ is bundled with Disney+ and Hulu so A LOT of people pay for it..........just not specifically for ESPN+.

He would have been triggered by the criticism of Jauron Ball. No doubt.

When I open a thread I read posts..........yours just often contain something totally absurd in them..........and usually it's in the first sentence or two.......so no "combing" necessary. You seem to think wild exaggeration adds gravity to your point. It does not. There was no humorous element to your hyperbole........you were shouting down people questioning how much info players should share with media. If you don't mean it.........don't say it..........it's that simple. That's your bad.......not mine. As for how you want to respond to me.......do what you want........I'm not disagreeing with you for any reason other than your takes are often extremely illogical. Maybe you will be like @C.Biscuit97 who for years had angry tantrums about my criticism of his similarly illogical takes. He eventually realized I was right and grudgingly started using some common sense. Not that we let him forget those stupid takes though.