BADOLBILZ

It really might come down to "the heart wants what it wants". No matter how much data illustrates that individual RB play is not a key factor in team success.............they.......just.........can't........resist.......wanting to use the most irrational means and capital to attain their favorite RB's. This RB infatuation always lingers under the surface but the further people get away from the actual season...........when it's mostly clear you don't want a Josh Allen having the ball taken out of his hands for ANY RB who ever lived.........the more they start playing "football on paper in the minds".............suddenly if they had Nick Chubb instead of Devin Singletary the team could score 8 TD's every 7 possessions. By spring it's utter fantasy........and it's not just them runnin' bax.........they've talked themselves into Trent Edwards being able to run a no huddle offense and all we need now is a big run stuffing DT opposite a stud RB and the Bills will be "unstoppable".

Well one of the signatures of Buffalo area pizza is lot's of sugar in the sauce..........which causes puzzled looks from a lot of outta' towners the first time they try it. Mixes great with spicy cup and char pepperoni but if you are used to more traditional sour sauce then Buffalo pizza can be off-putting for the sauce.

Just pick up 6' 6" 340# Jordan PHILLIPS off the street when the Cardinals release him in the next month if you want a player that size with "off the charts physical gifts" that you can't trust to live up to them. At least that Jordan has actually played well in the NFL at times and would likely be dirt cheap. Or wait until late in the draft and take a shot at one of the other equally gigantic but unsung DT's that are available in this draft. Save your #1 pick for someone that plays a position with a $30M aav ceiling because there are always good run defending DT's available for reasonable rates in UFA.

Ridder doesn't even have a traditionally "strong" arm IMO. He reminds me a lot of former Miami Hurricane and one-time extremely overhyped talent Brad Kaaya.

Yeah a lot of people think Reggie White was the best DE of all time............and Erik Williams made him look like a bum. Once threw a full blanket on him in a playoff game.......zeroes across the board statistically.

Cool! Don't put a roof on the Caesar's Sports Lounge in the new stadium either.........let's make gambling more interesting too!

It seems like when guys fall out with McDermott some kind of practice habit issue is often at the core. Being a "process" guy he probably sees a player who is careless on the practice field as a threat to keeping the rest of the team focused. Hard to argue with the results as a whole.........though there are certainly times when they've clearly not used their best personnel.

Yeah he's a 3T only..........he was worse than 2021 Vernon Butler at 1T..........and assuming they re-sign Zimmer(which might not be assuming too much) he wouldn't seem like a lock to get a lot of snaps.

I can only chalk up the ridiculous notion to the fact that Beane was extremely careless with cap dollars in 2018-2019 and some fans still think that paying a $6M to a backup LB or washed up Josh Norman is some kind of going rate for low impact additions..........and therefore $7M isn't too bad for a shot at a former "generational RB" talent. Beane was AWFUL at the cap for 2+ offseasons..........terrible...........$5M-$7M deals for reserve OL........all kinds of wasteful.........and he's still too kind to some of his own players in restructure deals.........but even if only out of necessity he's been a lot sharper with the pencil in signing key players and adding talent from other teams now that he has less cap room to work with. He's done a 150 if not a full 180. People really don't seem to understand that $7.2M for any RB in 2022 is a TON..........let alone a guy who has been useless for the past two years.

I was having fun with your strange.........but always popular on TSW............choice to isolate one opposing RB from a crowd of RB's when he is basically just a durable, average production per touch RB. I literally sit in the lower bowl of the stadium where the age demographic is very much like TSW...........and every time an opposing RB runs for 3-5 yards there is an audible frustration in the crowd.........and when the Bills RB does the same it's "meh" or "throw the ball our RB's suck!". The RB on the other side of the fence is ALWAYS better to people who grew up in an era when handing the ball off to the RB was a more aggressive and logical offensive decision than it is today. And for some reason you even started down the path of Marv Levy with the "Only 3 things can happen when you throw the ball and 2 are bad" line of thinking........which is so very clearly no longer true. So yeah.......that's why I made the joke about you pandering to bygone notions. The league hasn't changed again over night..........even handing the ball off to a 5 yard per carry Nick Chubb is still more of a necessary evil than a dynamic offensive decision.

You should watch yourself............that is a football-free personal attack...........and I am guessing some kind of ppp garbage at the end. In my 23+ years of experience here.......people who have started chasing after me with increasingly less football related takes soon disappear along with their desperate, stupid opinions. Just saying, keep being football ignorant if you want........but compose yourself. The reality is that no team with a young All Pro MLB is in need of trading their top pass rusher for a much lesser player in Tremaine Edmunds. That's common sense. And any thread where there isn't a LT option in a very strong draft early for tackles..........well it's obviously just a "let's draft for immediate need" thread and that's an absurd way to approach round 1.

So you are just saying that Joe Mixon is "3X the player that Devin Singletary is" but not worth $12M per year that you didn't know they gave him despite supposedly knowing a lot more about him than me? Terrible takes in this thread, dave. Are you reversing the course of your past common sense to pander to the heavily 55+ TSW crowd that still thinks the 1990 brand of NFL football can be revived again if they just Billieve in them runnin' bax? Those days are over, dave. The running game is really not about the running backs themselves anymore.

What? No runnin' bax? The lower the importance of the offensive or defensive position............the more the average TSW user wants to use a first round pick on it.

What would the Bears do with All Pro Roquan Smith if they traded for the far inferior Tremaine Edmunds?

This was not an option in 2021 https://www.nfl.com/videos/smokey-and-mirrors-john-brown-scoops-screen-pass-from-turf-to-pay-dirt

While this is all true...........they really didn't have players who would be great at taking short passes for big yardage in 2021. They really could use that kind of receiver to take some of the load off of Allen and to address the defense's that are better equipped to stop the Bills from succeeding with air yards. In 2020 Daboll schemed John Brown that way...........his production in YAC was largely the difference between finishing 23rd in YAC in 2020 and being dead last in 2021. They certainly missed that aspect during that 3-5 stretch where the OL wasn't giving Allen enough time to push the ball downfield. But as I used to say to the people who would complain about the Bills lack of passing game under Anthony Lynn(despite being a top scoring offense and leading the league in big plays on offense)...........you can't throw a TD pass when you've already ran the ball into the end zone. It's not like the offense isn't excellent.........there is just an area that clearly could be improved and it's not entirely a schematic issue.

There is no moving of goal posts...........if he had run for 200 yards like Timmy Smith in the SB versus Denver it still doesn't change the fact that RB's are easily replaceable and that the position is more dependent on the production of the other 10 players on the field than any other. So what he had a lot of "touches"..............the Bengals scored just 24 points in regulation. You really think they win that game if 1 of Burrow or Chase or Tee Higgins misses that game but don't do it if a RB is out? Vegas would disagree, dave. As for their OL............it's poor but so was the Buffalo O-line for much of the year. Buffalo gave up way more combined pressures and sacks than Cinci on the season. You.........dave mcbride........ are the one always talking about sacks being a "QB stat" and those 51 sacks plus 9 more in the divisional playoff game are the reason why Cinci gets cited for having a such woeful OL. But like Buffalo versus NE in the playoffs...........the Bengals OL played better in KC than they had in prior games. You are usually more rational than to buy into total yards and percent of snaps as proof of impact............in the right conditions any back can help your team take the air out of ball and shorten games.......production per play matters A LOT.....and speaking of moving goal posts..........you have always been very quick to point out the great importance of yards per pass attempt but now don't think averaging below league average per rush attempt matters? Say what? I don't even think you believe your own BS here you just take offense to me lumping RB's together when Joe Mixon is on your fantasy team.

Spain is a lot like Jordan Phillips...........bite the hand that feeds you..........then treat the team that picks you up off the scrap heap like they are just the best! Cardinals can save $4.3M on the cap by cutting Phillips this offseason............seems like an obvious cut...........this board will blow up if he becomes available and I don't have a problem bringing him back but the Bills basically gotta' let he and his agent get a "no" from 30 other teams first before taking him on dirt cheap.........or risk being the @ssholes in the same fashion that Spain turned on them the first time they bench or inactivate him.

Yeah it's been a good mix of Sydney Sweeney nude and.........some other storylines.

More human than a human.

Don't take it personally.............Promo is only engaged when he has two things aligned............an inept franchise to defend and disgruntled fans to shame.

Was that John Wawrow asking one of his rambling 5 minute questions?

While there were only 500 fans in attendance...........they came in 500 separate cars. Cincitucky had 30K people but less overall automobiles.

It's easy to look at how the offense produced at the end and think that the OL is looking good now..........but I agree this would be the smartest use of the money. The OL struggles totally undermined the team in that 8 game stretch where they went 3-5. Even if Morse doesn't retire they have little reliable depth inside...........I don't trust Williams to be any more prepared to start this season...........there is no guarantee that Bates will be able to maintain his level of play as a starter. Job #1 is protect Josh Allen.

Yep a lot of people definitely forget the general perspective they had heading into the playoffs this year. Perspective can change FAST. After the Bills lost that Monday night game to NE people were furious and many felt all was lost. At our post game tailgate that night I detailed how it was going to go from there..........the Bills would win in NE and grind out the division title and meet the Patriots at home in the wild card game and it would be glorious to exact that revenge in those games and be 1-0 all time against NE in the playoffs. At that time a lot of fans thought the team would miss the playoffs entirely.........and even when that scenario played out A LOT of fans were worried stiff about losing that game to NE and how they would feel if they lose that game etc.........confidence was not sky high.......only in hindsight is NE now viewed as a cupcake opponent in the WC round and that a lost season of SB destiny occurred in KC.