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Tremaine's coverage skills are even more legendary than Kiko at this point. As the saying goes........"once you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep til noon"...........TE49 played his best in coverage in 2019........that was before teams adjusted how they attack him in the passing game.........he has mostly been caught sleeping-in-late a lot in coverage since the beginning of 2020.

I love the "he subtly created" the interception. No. He was part of a double team with Taron Johnson........which called for him to take two steps back into coverage. Heinicke not recognizing that Edmunds' coverage responsibility was most likely the slot receiver was a just a bad read......even for a young QB. Where else was he going to go from that position on that play? The good pursuit/coverage by Milano was the tougher assignment to execute and the interception itself was more of an individual example of instinctive play by Poyer. The kind of instinctive play that Edmunds never makes. Edmunds subtly created that interception the same way that the other 9 players that merely executed their job in team defense did. The lack of big plays from Edmunds has become so glaring that those who apologize for it are desperately trying to assign extra credit for executing basic assignments. Pete Prisco might want to re-visit that NFL defensive player of the year prediction for Tremaine..........3 games in Edmunds looks the same. No big plays = no big hardware.

Never give a RB a huge contract.

Yeah, they don't need a great RB. In fact, I think having an Alvin Kamara or even Christian McCaffrey would actually take the ball out of the hands of Josh Allen and his receivers more than they should in addition to causing an allocation of $ and other resources better spent elsewhere. They have the kind of RB stable they need. Adequate and cheap.

You got the highlighted right. Extending Milano was a sign that they didn't feel Edmunds was an elite player who they HAD to retain like Tre or Josh. And on the other side of the equation.........if Edmunds had played at that elite level and didn't get treated like Tre or Josh his representation probably would have advised him to hold out or not practice with the team like TJ Watt just did. At this point I think both parties know that they want to see more..........the Bills want more impact from Edmunds and his representation is going to want more than 75% of what Darius Leonard signed for.

Not only that but when you have QB's who can throw for 8.0 yards per attempt...........handing it off to a top RB for 5 yards per attempt is a much less productive play. And as good as a guy like Alvin Kamara can be out of the backfield..........he is a career 8 yards per reception guy. Better off throwing it to the dink/dunk slot receiver like Cole Beasley who will average 10+ if you don't want to push it down the field for REAL yardage. The running game has it's place but it's no substitute for a good passing game in today's NFL.

You are mixing era's. There aren't many(if any) RB's that can produce like that for long periods because those kind of athletes don't play RB anymore.........it's a devalued position so those guys play defense or WR now because that's where the money is. There also wasn't the same "middle class" of receiving TE's that there are now in the days of the superstar, long career RB's.

1. Standard negotiation talk. "We need to get your deal done now so we can pay your teammates." The structure of Josh Allen's deal wasn't going to vary so much that it would have ANY impact on whether they signed Edmunds or not. 2. You don't see any logic in that? So if Edmunds were a dominating, first team All Pro last season you don't think they would have worked out an extension this offseason? Tre White got his deal done after year 3.........not because they had cap space to burn........because he was a proven All Pro. There was no question about Tre White......his worth was established as elite. Josh Allen?.......his worth was also established as elite. Easy decisions to extend immediately after season 3. Edmunds worth is not nearly as in focus as that.........what's illogical is to claim that it is.

Yeah, Lamp not even ending up on the team was a notable disappointment from camp, IMO.

Yeah the "I always play at 305-310" stuff was nonsense.........he was a fatter and less athletic player in the prior two seasons in Buffalo. The Miami game was definitely the most impactful game he's played for Buffalo snap-for-snap. Less so this past week but still better. The downside of playing more aggressively may turn out to be injuries....................he's already missed a game with a calf injury after starting 78 straight games to that point and is now also dealing with a groin injury.......but the player he was in 2018 and 2019 was replacement level so give me the more athletic version for half a season over the traffic cone for a full one.

I know this is a popular excuse for Edmunds not getting extended. But the two contracts are no more dependent on each other than any of the other signings they made this offseason..........or any more limiting than in the consecutive transactions of signing Tre White and Dion Dawkins long term while also adding Stefon Diggs long term contract. Allen was signing his deal in 2021........and they've had a good idea where they would have to be on Allen's deal since at least the end of last season........more likely since last fall. Agreeing to the specifics was just a matter of time. If people think Beane/Overdorf were working day and night for 5 months to get Allen's deal done or that the STRUCTURAL variations of the contract were preventing them from drawing up the parameters of an Edmunds contract they are just wrong. Edmunds has not been extended because he's not forced the issue with his play..............he's still in the wait-and-see category.

I really don't know what Beane will do but I'd like to think that he won't extend Edmunds unless he makes what would be very noticeable strides. Right now 5 of the starters in the back 7 have cap hits over $9M next season..........and that's not counting Taron Johnson who they probably can't afford to re-sign.........it's hard to see that kind of investment working out in the long run. The cap is malleable but one would hope that they will be in a competitive window with Josh Allen for another decade plus and you don't want to be fighting the cap like New Orleans. Not even sure the Pegula's would be willing to do that. According to Forbes the Bills had become used to clearing $70M-$80M per season and last year they registered a loss of close to $20M (after taxes, depreciation + amortization so not necessarily a real loss but a near $100M swing in profit decline). Beane can want to push debt forward but that has to be a two way street with ownership.

He's shown flashes of being able to make these throws............the throw to Brown in the finale against Miami was another example. Then others he overthrows by 8-10 yards.........which is astonishingly inaccurate for a top NFL QB. I know he's worked on the mechanics of the throw and a good foundation is important but he needs to get a better feel for it within his arm. Control can be improved with the rest of the body but command of your pitches comes from being to make subtle adjustments from the shoulder down.

The fact that an extension isn't done already says A LOT about what they think about Edmunds. Those who think the Bills absolutely love what they see are oblivious to this rather obvious point...........if he had been playing like the All Pro they expected he'd be they probably would have let Milano walk and would have given Edmunds a huge deal this summer. Being able to extend both Allen and Edmunds from Beane's very first draft class would have been a huge feather in the cap for the GM. Picking Edmunds option up was only a mistake if you were hoping to get a comp pick for losing him though...........you are right that he has little trade value with that figure, modest production and looming free agency but someone with a glaring hole at MLB, a lot of cap space and no intention of wasting a 1st round pick on a devalued position would likely take him for at least a day 3 pick.

Yuck it up Mr. "nobody understands statistics like me". Tremaine Edmunds has played about 400 more defensive snaps in his career than Matt Milano. 😙 That's about the equivalent of 6 more full games of snaps. Not remembering that Milano has missed A LOT of time over his career shows a real lack of awareness on your part..........uninstinctive posting. Milano has come away with 12 turnovers in less snaps than Edmunds has taken to produce just 3. Keep thinking that all turnovers are random though...........turnover differential is arguably the most decisive team stat in the NFL so I guess winning is random as well.

Regarding the Bills game plan to let Chase Young go wide.........they simply copied the gameplan the Chargers(then NYG) had for him. Not so much clever as competent use of copy cat game planning.

Tillman has forced the most fumbles by a back 7 player since it became a stat, which is what we are talking about, yes. The technique that White used to cause that fumble Sunday is named after him for a reason.

Yes. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/T/TillCh20.htm

This is the same mistake The Big Cat made with his "heat maps" when defending Rex Ryan's defense in Buffalo............trying to explain away an inherent deficiency using a statistical field that does not take into account individual player strengths and weaknesses. While team fumble recoveries.........and to some extent turnovers.........can seem random or fluctuate greatly from season to season.........certain players are clearly exceptional at creating them AND coming away with the football. Undeniably.

You are confusing "perfect" execution with the minimally successful execution. Perfect execution is baiting Henicke into throwing into the double team and making a play on the football............getting him to move to his second read and putting the responsibility on Milano to handle the much tougher coverage assignment was the least that Edmunds should have accomplished. Again.........Milano had the much harder job and Poyer made an alert and instintive play. All Edmunds did was combine on a double team to take away a very short pass option. As for the "Beasley makes LB's look silly" take.........sometimes.........but other times he gets bracketed and Allen should be moving on to his next read. Heinicke did a poor job of recognizing the coverage pre-snap. Where else was Edmunds going to go if he didn't blitz?

Now Edmunds has elevated his game to being a Tre White clone too. 😆 We'll be looking for that Tre White "Peanut Punch" next.............oh wait...........no that's right, fumble recoveries are totally random........no correlation between a well-timed, intentional stripping away of the football from an offensive player fighting for extra yardage......and the subsequent alert defender anticipating the possibility of such.......must be a highly unexpected and random occurrence. Funny how the same guys keep making all the random big plays...........as I was watching that Milano recovery I was reminded of the Poyer/Milano strip/recovery that was overturned at the very end of the Colts playoff game. I had no idea this stuff was totally random.

FIFY Second most receiving yards produced per game (117.6) in a non-strike shortened season since the NFL merger.

While it's true that you can get great pressure without sacks..............against Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady they will need to actually be able to get close enough to hit the QB on passing plays. Presumably they are one or both of the stumbling blocks to winning the SB this season.........and that's how you beat them. That's just common sense at this point......anyone arguing otherwise is a dope. The only additions they made to the defense were to address that deficiency............so trying to undersell the value of actually taking down the QB at this point is more than a bit off-key.

I'm still holding out a glimmer of hope that he will turn the corner........because probably 90% of his issues are in the speed of processing/decision making and after 3,000 snaps as an NFL MLB you'd have to hope that the game would slow down enough for him to put himself into position to make plays. But it's definitely getting discouraging when week-after-week he doesn't. Erik Turner isn't doing himself any favors with these examples of Edmunds sneaky greatness.🙄 He literally did the bare minimum you need from any LB on that play.

Yeah, let's face it, it's more the spirit of the rule that people are opposed to. The vax card is just a frickin' piece of cardstock. If they said you had to have scannable e-vax card that would be a different story but until further notice the lack of a vax card will only keep the very least resourceful people out of games.