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Haven't you gotten all of that at RB with Cook? 5.1 yards per carry over 300+ carries. Huge per play production in the pass game. And that wasn't really luck. They used a late 2nd rounder on a RB........which is a ton to spend on that position. Cook has been better than those guys. Injury is a factor there but Hall had a massive workload in college. Same with Travis Etienne. I wanted no part of RB's who had already put up 700+ carries in college. It is a good point to be made in this thread though.........the further you stray from the primary objectives of premium positions with a priority to those that make your elite QB look elite........the uglier it looks when you miss. I'd hate to see them draft a safety in round 1 and have him turn into an injury risk..........that would be a cautionary tale about not putting appropriate value on positions. Good safeties(like RB's) are very easy to find. Not so much the case with QB/LT/PassRusher/WR1.

It's very simple at this point...........the #1 job of an NFL personnel department is to make your QB look good. That's what changes seasons. Not safety play. That's relative minutia. The Bills have not done nearly as much as they should have in regard to supporting Allen with WR talent and we see the results with an offense that can't function properly without Allen running. I believe the running has taken a toll on his game with regard to technique and accuracy. I think some of that is on his own preparation but the WR1 of this team going forward is not a "should" address........it's a "must" address.

Important to note that there is almost always a good to excellent free agent class of safeties. For a reason. And that the Bills defense has produced All Pro seasons from two different bargain free agent safeties.

Not sure why people assume Hines will be back. 3rd string RB with a blown out knee isn't worth $5M.

Yeah I saw that game too. He was a promising QB in an era when there weren't many good prospects coming into the league.

It's all fine until TSW finds out a dog was injured........then it's a gotdam tragedy!

Yeah he's been much more a possession receiver than a game breaker as a rookie. Hopefully that changes. They went deep to him twice in the last game. Maybe some of that opens up the intermediate a bit more. I think he's been a little easier to bring down than you'd like to see from a big target like that........but otherwise he's looked as advertised. Natural hands, quick transition from receiver to runner, good and instinctive route runner.....

Oh you don't like it when you get a taste of your own medicine, do you? Classic. What about me saying that Tua NEEDS elite playmakers to be anything above replacement level.....ie "nothing"........ have to do with Josh Allen not needing more receiving help to reach his ceiling with his much higher floor. And possibly extend his career etc.. The answer is nothing........they aren't related. There are QB's you "build" around like Mahomes and Allen.........and then there are QB's you have to "put" around a foundation of elite playmakers to elevate them above their lower floor/potential. Tua is certainly the latter. There was a time when he offered more of an all-around game as a prospect at Alabama..........but the leg and hip injuries........followed by the concussions and need to avoid contact.......have turned him into a QB with significant limitations and durability concerns.

I would *guess* Samuel gets 3 years $35M or so from a desperate team with a young QB to break-in. He's a better, more versatile player than Cole Beasley was after 2018(4 years $29M) and the value of WR's has increased greater than the salary cap since that time. So I don't think he gets south of $11M aav. That probably pushes him out of the Bills range. Ugly free agent class.

That's meathead speak. I thought you were in the medical field. Usually you hurt because something in that area is injured. There are varying degrees of the same injury, no? You can also be injured but not "hurt". Thurman Thomas played his entire NFL career with a full torn knee tendon.

Knowing that his back is hurting him might incline certain tacklers to risk penalty to body slam him to the turf in hopes of knocking him out of the game. Simple as that. Everyone is playing hurt.....generous of you to acknowledge that after denying the possibility prior..........but that doesn't account for to what degree it is impacting their ability to perform.

It was noted that he had a back issue about the time that his production started to drop off. It's not something he can't practice and play thru obviously so they likely don't see the value in reporting it........but it could be significantly impacting his game. Pretty common for us to find out AFTER the season about these things. No advantage whatsoever to divulge unusual discomfort that might be slowing him down.

I believe the games usually had to be sold out at some point on Thursdays to prevent a blackout. That was especially difficult with short notice determined wild card games like that one.........but especially since the Bills just got destroyed and battered with injuries in the finale against the same Houston team the week before. Back then you had to call or line up at the ticket office to buy the tickets. If you called you had a lot less control over where you'd sit. Blacked out games were often near full capacity because there were always thousands who wouldn't buy tickets if they could watch from home. I think they extended the blackout date to Friday for this game but still didn't sell out. After Houston jumped out to that lead they had outscored Buffalo 62-6 over 6 quarters of football.

Josh Allen doesn't have "elite playmakers".........has he been "nothing" this season? It hasn't been pretty and it's taken a toll on his body........but he's still willed himself to be a fringe MVP candidate and leads the NFL in TD's.

Ok so you are saying Tua is as good as Patrick Mahomes? Your ignorance is duly noted.

I hope they pay him. But I wouldn't. He's nothing without elite playmakers. If I were with Miami I'd let him play out the 5th year option. Draft his replacement in this draft. He's meek, he won't make any waves thru the process.

Because he's not even on an NFL 53 man roster? If he makes your top 6 out of camp next year either something went very wrong or he had a huge career shift. There are always "futures" contract signings.........but the likes of Andy Isabella, Tyrell Shavers and Bryan Thompson chances of making the 53 and sticking........let alone making any notable impact.........should be considered very small. Reality is that they could end up with only Diggs and Shakir as WR under contract heading into March who have played regularly in the NFL.

So you are saying that you realize Diggs is probably just playing thru an injury that he can rehab from in the offseason.........but think Beane is going to ask him to take a paycut after another 100+ catch 1100+ yard season?

Oh they will have to sign some vets in UFA. They only have 4 WR under contract for next season........and one of those is Shorter who has never played an NFL down.........and that number will drop to 3 when they dump Harty prior to his $500K roster bonus coming due 5 days into the beginning of UFA.

The offense has sucked the past two weeks. If they play as poorly as they have in those games this Sunday night they will likely lose..........and then the season could well be over. I don't think they will........I expect them to play up to the competition enough to get a W.......so there is your next game talk. But because their pass game has been so bad and gotten progressively worse thru 16/17th's of an NFL season.......... it's not too early to discuss how it's going to be addressed in the coming months. There isn't much runway left.......we know what they are at WR at this point. Sharty and Sherfield aren't changing their narrative. Davis isn't going to fool anyone with a big game or two any longer.

Yeah I agree. And if they f#ck around with scrub types like Harty and Sherfield in UFA again then hopefully they come away with 3 out of this draft. Problem is that the teams that have 3 excellent WR's are displaying just how valuable those assets are. Which is why there are going to be 6-9 WR's in round 1. That's going to really thin out round 2 and beyond. There are still going to be some good receivers then but it's not going to be shooting fish in a barrel like when guys like AJ Brown and DK Metcalf dropped in the draft because teams were scared off by some bad receiver drafts following the strong 2014 class. They may not be able to get a second high profile WR prospect in round 2 because of the demand..........but they need to keep the WR position just as valued in later rounds at it is earlier rounds. Doing that with CB allowed them to get Christian Benford.

Yeah I think he hurt it after a play trying to push Leonard Williams in the back of the end zone in that scrap where Williams blindsided Spencer Brown and knocked him to the ground.

Then he set the terms of his release. It's standard for veteran contracts to become fully guaranteed if the player is on the roster in week 1. So it doesn't materially change the dynamic of the situation. Not permitting a player to play elsewhere when there is runway left in the regular season isn't something the NFLPA is going to agree to. If only because one game auditions can result in major career and financial gains for a player. Rob Johnson cost the Bills a 1st round pick to acquire largely off of a 1 game audition in 1997 where he threw for 344 yards and 2 TD's.