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Honestly I can't get pulled either way on the kick choice. I've lived thru a Bills team kicking the ball short and losing a playoff game on a kickoff return when they had a #1 ranked defense......a much more talented one than this 2021 version......... watching helplessly on the sideline. That team was also probably the best team left in the playoffs that year. Their defense was better than that of Tampa and the Bucs nearly took out TGSOT in St. Louis in the NFCCG with a scrub QB named Shawn King at the helm so Flutie or Johnson could have easily hoisted the Lombardi that year in the midst of an era where Trent Dilfer and Brad Johnson would win SB's. And as much as I feel the Bills were the best team left in the playoffs going into the divisional round this year............I think the Chiefs were clearly the NEXT best..........and I think the emotional drain from that Bills game put them in the dirt the next week. People neglect to mention that KC put up 40 the week before vs. Pitt. It was the first ever playoff meeting of two teams who both scored 40+ the week prior. And it's not like the Bills were in THEIR heads as much as KC was the Bills heads. Same let-down could have happened to Buffalo. Beating KC in the playoffs had been job #1 for 12 months. Presuming no let down is foolish. The ultimate lesson from both seasons is simple...........get the #1 seed and home field advantage. Both of those Bills teams had multiple inexplicable regular season losses Flutie at home to lousy NYG and Raiders teams..........the 2021 Bills to Jacksonville and Pittsburgh. That combined with the chips falling in a certain way elsewhere, lead to a long road to the SB for both teams.

First of all..........though the line improved late......Allen put a ton of hard miles on this season because of shoddy protection. The Bills OL gave up more combined pressues+sacks than the much maligned Bengals OL.....126 to 100. They were not good. Second.......we should learn about running it back with players who don't have enough history to justify it. So while I am excited about the potential of Spencer Brown, he really struggled at times and we graded him on a rookie scale. Remember that Cody Ford was the starting RT on the 2019 playoff team, Von Miller talked him up after their matchup, and it was assumed he was the RT of the future. Then he has been garbage since. Daryl Williams was an All Pro RT for one season in Carolina......then got injured and missed most of a year and came back the next season and played very poorly even at guard..........came to Buffalo and played excellent at RT.........got paid......and played poorly and appeared out of shape and had to be moved to guard. I think his commitment to the game might be in question at this point. Feliciano really dropped off last year after getting paid. Ryan Bates has only started a few games. Morse and Dawkins are the only two starting OL who have strung together 2 straight good season anytime recently........and there have been rumors that Morse may retire. They really can't afford to just run it back again..........that really failed miserably for 3/4 of the season.

Beane seems to know it........he put protecting Josh at the top of his priority list to the media. We the fans might be a lot higher on Bates than they are too. Not that they won't give him the high tender but I think it's clear they saw him more as a center long term and if Morse doesn't retire I don't think it's a given that he and Williams get their jobs handed back to them.

The question to me is whether Gordon is a potential CB1. If not.........then that's not the play...........and he probably isn't an immediate, quality CB2 for a SB team.........and not worth pick #25. If they don't trust Dane Jackson or believe that Tre White will be decent early season before returning to top form later.......then they should be looking to fill CB2 in UFA with a physical upgrade over Levi. That may prove impossible if the market is strong but when you are a primarily zone-based defense it's more likely that CB2's will be available than if you are heavy man-based.

Yeah my opinion of Burrow was actually much higher before the playoffs. The narrative that he was a great decision maker in the pocket with incredible accuracy and ball placement didn't really seem to be the case in the playoffs.............took implosions from Tannehill and Mahomes for him to get to the SB and right from the first drive of the SB Burrow was making bad decisions with the ball.

While Beane is generally pretty forthright...........I don't think that's the case when talking about free agent pursuit. Last year he said they weren't going to be able to do much and then he immediately got into JJ Watt bidding that was going to be over $10M either way and reportedly offered Gronk $8M on a 1 year deal. And of course re-signed a bunch of his own players. While Von Miller or Khalil Mack would cost more in aav, the first year hit could be similar. I tend to believe Schoen when he said the Bills plan to have $ to spend in UFA. His problem dates back to careless over-spending in UFA in 2018-2019 and some pay cuts and re-structures he shouldn't have done since. That's limited his buying power..........otherwise I do think he would have got those deals done. The Rams deal with Denver included adding extra draft pick value so Denver would eat some of his contract..........I don't think Beane wanted to do something like that. Might have cost them a SB run though, as you pointed out and I agree. My prediction is that they pursue 1-3 of the better free agents on the market.........an OL like Andrew Norwell or maybe Gronkowski on offense..........and a CB like Donte Jackson and an actual sack producing DE on defense. Three would eat up about $20M in immediate cap room on backloaded deals..........and leave them enough room to still re-sign Phillips and Bates. Then they try to get a bunch of Forest Lamp lottery tickets and see what happens.

It's been the case that his replacement has shown little if any drop-off every time Tremaine has been out with injury.

Nah.......RB's are pretty interchangeable........not sure why people don't get this. But Dobbins was also an 800 touch college RB........that's a lot of mileage nowadays.........and like Etienne(another favorite of runnin' back lovin' Bills fans) JK Dobbins subsequently blew out a knee and didn't play in 2021. Right now, Logan Wilson is probably the guy picked soonest after Epenesa who would have been the most useful.

So you thought that NYS was going to give tax money to NJ...........but then realized that made no sense and pivoted to this take? NYC area has an incredible amount of professional stadiums and arenas and the state has kicked in a fortune on those projects............and this was before the gambling tax revenue. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/nyregion/stadiums-arenas-funding-nyc.html

Yeah not really sure anyone said to sign the Draft Kings tax checks over to the cement company. The point being that the argument that the state or it's citizens don't significantly benefit financially from sports arena's kinda' goes out the window when legalized sports gambling starts bringing in billions per year for the state. And yeah, it will be billions annually within the next few. This is

It only takes one team but Campbell had 1.5 sacks and 12 QB hits in almost a full season of play last year..........he's a solid player but not a playmaker anymore........hard to envision him getting anything close to $10M. Much closer to league minimum if he wants to go to a team like Buffalo or KC who is a Vegas favorite.

Well you put a hat on that straw bale when you jumped to Milano being seen as elite............nobody had said THAT in their criticism of Edmunds. Yeah he's borderline top 15 Mike right now........league average...........that's down from top 10 last year and as you would say "can you pay $11(pipe dream) or $15M(likely with rising cap) aav for that when you have a franchise QB and a $17M CB and two $10M safeties etc..." If he's the foundation of this defense then it's a house of cards. I haven't seen that to be the case when he's been out but granted he hasn't missed a lot of games. It's all well and good to be excellent against bad and mediocre offenses............but when you can't adjust how you play your back 7 or 8 because your MLB is a robot designed for one system..........then you can't adjust to your high quality opponent the way KC did in the AFCCG against Buffalo last season.......or how Cinci did in the second half against KC this year.

LA fans are much more serious about the results of deep rooted teams like the Lakers and Dodgers than they are all the carpetbaggers.

Milano is not an elite LB. But talking up Edmunds like he is.........that is pure fiction. He showed some flashes of improvement this year in the games against much weaker opponents.............but that never materialized into improvement on the whole.........and really he hasn't shown nearly enough progress since his rookie season.............and this year a minor influx of young ILB's and some others improving pushed him down the ranks around the league. If they could deal away Edmunds and sign DeVondre Campbell for $6M-$7M aav I'd be all over that and the average football fan doesn't even know who that dude is.

Didn't Ralph once sell a horse that went on to win the Derby?

So just go out and get a Tony Siragusa and the Bills have another Ray Lewis on their hands? Edmunds simply doesn't make plays in any aspect of the game. As @GunnerBill noted in the AFCCG.........one of the big problems Patrick Mahomes had was that he didn't have Logan Wilson on a string in coverage like he did wrong-way Tremaine.

It does seem HIGHLY unlikely IMO that Edmunds will suddenly become a fast thinking, instinctive reacting LB and therefore become capable of making the big plays he to this point has not. But not impossible.........Demario Davis and DeVondre Campbell would be examples of guys that became much better all around LB's 4-5 years into their careers after being low quality starters on their rookie deals. The Bills made their mess with Edmunds and got themselves impaled on a $13M contract for 2022...........now they gotta' hope he corrects his issues..........I wouldn't touch his contract.........let him play it out and hope for the best.

My son had a Kyler on his little league team.......which was refreshing as every single other kid had a first name that ended in "en". I do wonder if there were parents in my youth who lamented every kid being named Mike, Jim, Joe, Dan, Don or Tony.

I'm convinced this is either a cleverly disguised "dome" or "am I getting old or is it just everything" thread.

Yep. The timing is absolutely perfect to demand the state cough up those brand new ill-gotten gains to fund a stadium. And do it before the cost of dealing with all the addicted gamblers in-state becomes more obvious.

I'm inclined to definitely keep Zimmer if they can get him in that $1M range. I do expect Jordan Phillips to be released by Arizona and a 30 page thread about it, though..........and he might be looking at a minimum deal if he doesn't get someone to bite on paying him incentives. I'm on the sign Von Miller train.........I expect he will re-sign with the Rams though. I'd be interested in a Khalil Mack trade but think it would have to look like the Von Miller to the Rams trade.........multiple 2nd/3rd day picks.........not a first........and that might not incentivize Chicago to send Mack back to Buffalo. In the draft for DL I am most interested in a low investment big body like Marquan MacCall or Noah Ellis on day 3 to back up Harrison Phillips. Interested to see how Minnesota DE Boye Mafe moves up based on combine/workout numbers. He finished the season strong and then had a big Senior Bowl so he might no longer align with where the Bills might be able to draft him on day 2 or day 3. He would be a nice guy to add to the mix if you get a player like Miller or Mack and have him develop behind a similar physical type. Key is interesting though..........he was a potential #1 overall long-term projection pick early in his days at LSU..........definitely not lacking for physical talent/traits. Even if just for the Halloween party he throws.

Actually, I do share quite a bit about our parties........so yeah, I guess I am. Enjoy your honeymoon lover-boy. (I'm still on mine 25 years later so there's my darling over-share) But try to remember the Tony Bolognaviches out there...........those who have ruthlessly clawed their way to the top only to find there is nobody to share a 2 for 1 Jimmy's John's sandwich deal with.

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Ramsey is definitely annoying and yeah there was surely satisfaction when he nearly blew that Tampa game and then when Higgins whiplashed him. And I am all about not spreading the virus but the neck gaitor when it's 75 degrees in the house and nobody else has a mask on was also. As for the short pass option...........Smudgy Perine isn't what I would have had in mind.

Sometimes going for the jugular means having the patience to methodically call and make plays that give you the best chance against a defense. The Bengals offensive game plan......full of slow developing pass plays.......made little sense. The Higgins TD versus Ramsey was just a broken play that would have been flagged and then overturned by the sky judge in every prior game this season so they really just caught a break on that. Credit to them for taking advantage of the Rams inexplicable choice to blitz there.........but in reality Ramsey had that one well covered. And as @Hapless Bills Fan mentioned earlier the pic of Chase running past Ramsey begs the question did Chase OPI him to get to that point as well. 4th and 1 and they didn't have a good short pass option?