BADOLBILZ

Your anecdotal evidence is folksy and fuzzy........but doesn't really provide a substantial argument in favor of your position. From December 1st until January 30th....when the AFC championship took place this year............the average daily temp drops 14 degrees in Buffalo.........and it's only that little because it becomes increasingly more overcast......which traps heat but creates an even colder *feel* without sun......... and the increased likelihood of snow fall. Obviously. Let's not pretend we suddenly don't know this. January is literally the coldest month on the calendar for Buffalo. Football wasn't intended to be played in January in Buffalo when Rich Stadium was built..........which was 50 years into NFL seasons ending in December. As for enjoying the outdoors........presuming you get 7 hours of sleep.........that leaves you 14 other hours to enjoy the great outdoors on game days. You want to watch the game outdoors..........cool...........you won't likely be the one paying the big bucks that make the deal possible 1/3 of the way into the life of the new venue.......it's going to be a generation of young fans who are used to being entertained in climate controlled environments..........not kids who grew up playing outside 10 hours a day all year round and have great nostalgia for that.

What sports were "made for" is increasingly irrelevant.........but there is a LOT of revisionist history in your takes. Football is not a winter sport. It was meant to be played in late summer and fall when school began..........but the NFL was set up to basically play right after MLB was done and wrap up the season in early December before the calendar literally turned to winter. The NFL season runs two months longer now..........and will likely end around Feb 28 not long after a new stadium would be completed. What the sport is about now is money, gambling and high intensity entertainment. That little hole in the roof is the difference between people being dressed to spend versus dressed to not get hypothermia...........and showing up for meaningless late season games...........or not. My issue is that a decision that doesn't include being able to roof the thing is a convenient excuse for the next owner to leave town.

I mean..........if you make CMC the slot receiver...........like he should always have been to give him a long career in the NFL............then taking on $12M in unguaranteed cap hits for the next 3 years isn't outrageous..........if he isn't shot from the abuse at RB he might-could be a transcendent slot receiver. For a RB primarily.........that is an awful use of funds though.

His roughly $10M annual outlays are a steal for a decent LT and still very reasonable for a good OG. And IMO, he'd be more than good at guard. He's like an All Pro guard playing LT, IMO.

I think Kirk re-signs with Arizona. I also think the WR market will be softer than some expect. Could be wrong but when you see teams start using their #1 WR to play RB it represents a shift in the opinion of teams in the supply/demand ratio at the position, IMO.

How Linderbaum tests for size and weight, arm length might affect his draft status immensely. He was 6'2" 270 and is now reported 6'3" 289.............either way, quite small for any kind of OL..............so not sure about his athletic upside. Might always need to give him a couple big body guards like Dallas did(at great expense) long ago with Mark Stepnoski...........and you really might not want a 6'4" 300# Ryan Bates next to him at guard. I know Jason Kelce has been a star at 6'3" 295 recently.........but that's really pushing your luck expecting that............it's like when the Bills took undersized Donte Whitner with the justification that undersized Bob Sanders had excelled as a smaller safety previously.

Polian was still in Buffalo when Wolford signed with Indy. The Bills did intend to match the Colts offer to Wolford but Indy put an "escalator" clause in the contract where Wolford would be guaranteed to be the highest paid offensive player on the team. The Bills couldn't match that because they had Kelly and Thomas under contract for big $..........the Colts didn't have sh*t..........so basically the Bills would have had to pay A LOT more than Indy to match the contract. Polian was furious. The league didn't void the contract but agreed that loophole was not something that should be allowed and banned such tactics in future deals. Wolford really f*cked the Bills on that deal. Then the NFL f*cked Buffalo again when they awarded 1st round comp picks to Philly and Arizona for simply not re-signing Reggie White and Tim McDonald..........the Bills had to wait a year and then got just a second rounder for losing elite LT Will Wolford to a league technicality. Tim McDonald was a safety for chrissake.

Welk was never in a room with LESS than two women.

Definitely could..........he's excellent. I just suspect that any big chips will be used on the OL or a pass rusher or *maybe* at CB2. I could see them shopping in the McKenzie aisle for a slot WR and then maybe flipping Arizona a bag of balls for Andy Isabella. James Washington has been mentioned by a couple people here as another reclamation WR project...........and he could probably back up or compete for some playing time with Davis..........maybe they even try to do some Deebo-back stuff with a guy built like that. Maybe I am underestimating the chips Beane is going to spend on WR.............McD has called the position their "fastball"...........but I just suspect it's where they will try their luck with lottery tickets.

Yeah I agree, I think the fact that Beane says it is priority #1 means that it's going to be addressed first.........in free agency. Round 1 really isn't about drafting for need.............it's about getting foundational players at key positions...........we've even heard Beane start talking about positional value early in rounds so I think the cat is clearly out of the bag from the team aspect.........good front offices have been functioning with a hierarchy of positional value early in drafts for a long time........they just rarely say it.........most likely out of respect to the guys who play the positions further down the list. If a stud LT prospect is there at #25.......... they may jump on that even though they have already signed a starting guard in UFA. People shouldn't get caught up on Ryan Bates..........it would be great if he turns into a revelation at guard or center..........but he will be a cheap re-sign and they won't NEED to start him to justify a $2.4M tender.

Oh man that's wrong.......the pass blocking in 2021 was much worse than 2020...........they offset that in key games and finally permanently late in the season with QB runs........against the Chiefs Allen had 11 rushes in both games this year...........he even had a 15 rush game against Atlanta late in the season........those are pushing RB1 carry amounts. Not sustainable. Meanwhile a Levi Wallace level player at CB2 has proven sustainable, if not ideal. I want to improve both.......but you are whistling past the graveyard if you think the answer is to keep propping up the offensive line with Josh Allen running 10-15 times per game.

Well what cost them home field advantage this season certainly was NOT CB play.........it was the offensive line. And McDermott is 3-0 at home in the playoffs and 0-4 on the road. So while we WANT a better CB......and I do think they will address the position with a more physically talented player than Levi/Dane in UFA or the draft..........the Bills NEED a better OL than the one that was terrible in that 3-5 stretch that put them on a gauntlet to get thru the playoffs. The near 200 carry season pace that Allen went on late in the season to negate the bad OL play is a lot less sustainable than what the Bills got out of Levi and Jackson late in the season. That really shouldn't be debatable and Beane clearly knows it. I understand that the focus is on the Chiefs game but one play in a number of areas swings the result..........that very much includes blocking better earlier in the game so that the Bills didn't lose the TOP battle by 9+ minutes, leaving their defense gassed at the end.

I'm not a fan of Williams. He has always struggled with emotional issues/behavior so not a sound investment, IMO. Kirk seems likely to be too expensive to fit as a slot WR........especially when you consider that there is so much depth at receiver in the league right now. I'd expect Beane to be shopping for bargains if they replace Beasley and McKenzie in the slot.

The Bills went into 2021 with a competition between what Bills fans considered a low-end starter Levi Wallace(who couldn't get a bite in UFA) and a long shot Dane Jackson and came out of that with a top pass defense even after losing White. CB has proven to be the one position that this defensive staff can consistently coach/scheme up............so wouldn't be at all surprising if the long developed Cam Lewis and perhaps the most physically talented non-Tre White in the CB room, Nick McCloud........stepped into Jackson's role as productive players. I do expect White to be back and play at least at 2021 Levi's level early in the season while he gradually works his way back.

Well........they stink for one thing. And their division may contain the 3 most talented teams in the entire NFC in 2022 for another. WR rooms are starting to brim with talent now and there seems to be no end in sight in recent drafts.........and they already have a big $ WR1 under contract and perhaps want to set their sights on re-setting their salary cap and fielding a competitor in 2023 and want draft capital for the re-set. I'd bet against them being able to do that.........but they did build the "Legion of Boom" teams on a foundation of prior mediocrity rather than a full tank job.

Taron Johnson? They literally just signed him to an extension late in the season. So that's starters at all 3 primary positions.............in a defense where 4th round, 6th round and UDFA players have proven to be effective enough starters to finish #1 in the league in yards allowed. I'd love to get a great, scheme versatile outside CB to replace Jackson and Wallace..........but when Josh Allen was reduced to a Tyrod Taylor-esque 6.8 yards per pass attempt in 2021 and the Bengals porous pass blocking looked considerably better on paper than that of the Bills OL(126 combined sacks/pressures versus Cinci's 100)..........you damn well better know that the priority is improving the pass blocking. Job 1 of any NFL organization..........put your QB in best position to succeed.

In 1986 the NFL had players by the balls. I believe Kelly and his agent actually tried to get the Raiders and Steelers to trade with Buffalo for his rights but back then players had no leverage whatsoever to force such a move. And he'd already lost a bunch of money getting stiffed on a good portion of his Houston/NJ USFL contract.........Bills offered him the big $ and they were the only game in town so that was that.

Ryan Groy is a good example...........but Colin Brown was even more of a fools gold situation........he was the 340 pound mountain who looked really good at center in place of Eric Wood in 2012.........so they re-signed him to play LG and he almost single-handedly destroyed the 2013 Bills offense because he was so impossibly bad. His 2013 was probably the worst season of guard play in the past 50 years of Bills football. I have my fingers crossed about Bates but he's going to be cheap enough that he can just be "in the mix" and not penned in as a starter based off a few starts when Josh Allen was pulling out all the stops to move the football.

The rationale that Gunner and I are talking about is getting a good LT prospect and then deciding whether he or Dawkins is better in camp and moving one of them to guard. I'm assuming Dawkins would be the LT for at least next season.........but that's an every down player either way. Not all LT's can transition inside........but that is mostly evident in footwork and hand traits on tape that indicate if the player plays well in tight spaces. From what I've seen........including some actual guard play in place of Incognito as a rookie.......Dawkins is most certainly one of those guys. He's BEEN a fringy Pro Bowl alternate LT in what might be his prime 2019-current........but I think he might be an All Pro at LG. Then if your LT misses time you have another LT talent on hand for the most important position on the line..........rather than moving Brown and plugging in Doyle and making both tackle positions considerably worse(Doyle is REALLY raw and I love Brown's potential but he isn't even good in pass pro at RT yet and he wasn't a LT in college either). I don't expect a top LT prospect to be left at #25 but I didn't think Rousseau would fall to #30 at this point in the draft process last year. It's still a distinct possibility because there are a good number of them. As for the other positions............I'm all about getting a tremendously fast RAC guy to add to this offense.....OR..........signing Gronk and drafting another TE in mid-rounds and going 12 personnel and just using Diggs and Davis as the two WR's in those sets. So as much as I value adding a WR........that 3rd WR might not be an every down player..............and of course there are more options there in UFA than there will be at tackle.

They are all pretty well known, day 3 prospects.............people aren't talking about them because they don't project to be studs. Jones in particular has been around forever.........dude's like 30 now........he's like the Van Wilder of receivers who really can only return kicks.

I like the NFL's plan.........let's teams like the Bills know which players don't wear tinfoil under their helmets and might actually be available for both Patriots games if they are drafted.

Who's making decisions for him? I haven't seen anyone say he needs to call it quits. I trust @GunnerBill when he says he's heard from people who would know that Morse was contemplating retirement. If that's the case.......well you're probably an old Marv Levy fan, right? You know what he says about "thinking" about retirement? And even if he isn't retiring.........the Bills have to decide whether they want to retain him for the full $11M+ cap hit or save $7.5M by letting him go and replace him with another player..........like Ryan Bates for $2.4M........and perhaps use the balance to address the position in UFA where a new contract could net them a talented, younger player with a very low initial cap hit. They could extend his contract at age 30.......or add a voidable year.......or ask for another pay cut.........but those kinda' scenario's have not panned out for Beane in prior exercises. And these decisions gotta' be made over the next month because Morse has roster and workout bonuses.

He's missed two games..........and a month of camp with concussions since coming to Buffalo........and he missed time with the prior 3 concussions in KC........if you want to say his concussions are no big deal than that's just a "you" call. To most everyone else his history is a serious concern. And he's also 30 years of age this season........I know every "the OL is fine, patch these other perceived holes" type on this board thinks that our lineman are going to have the longevity of all-time greats but in reality 29-31 is usually when it's over for starting OL. Look at the league's top rushing OL under Greg Roman in Buffalo........with the exception of the deranged Incognito...........Mills, Miller, Wood and Glenn were all done or have been reduced to reserve roles around between 29-31. As for Feliciano starting over Bates at C in 2020...........of course.......Feliciano was a well paid veteran free agent acquisition with game experience at center.........Bates was early into his second season with little game experience.