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There have been some unfair criticisms of Edmunds........like saying his isn't physical enough........that's certainly not the case. But the criticism regarding his lack of big, game changing plays over the last 3+ season's is simply factual. And it's not just fans on a website who note it. Watch the games. It's part of his identity around the league now. People like yourself and @Max Fischer can do a ton of research trying to familiarize yourself with the Bills defense.....but to understand what you are seeing you also need to be able to use your own eyes and a little common sense as well. Milano and Edmunds don't have identical roles in the defense. They are similar but you can't on-one-hand say that they have nearly identical roles but effectively one guy "by design" makes big plays and the other does not. Edmunds is a top 10-12 MLB/ILB ...........a devalued position.........and that's OK but when you are the biggest and most gifted player playing the position in the NFL and your team traded up in the middle of round 1 to select you and you are about to become a $12M-$20M per year cap liability.........people are going to expect YOU to be the guy making plays. The mike on a defense is traditionally a mirror reflection of the (also de-valued) RB position.......and if you take your nose out of the biased Bills coverage/analysis and actually follow the rest of the league....... that's really still the case with most of the truly elite MLB/ILB's. Physically, Tremaine Edmunds is the Derrick Henry of inside LB's..........but unlike Henry he doesn't perform like a truly elite player at the position. In short, save the line of bulls*t about he's just so misunderstood for people who don't know he can perform A LOT better.

Why?

"A “splash play” in football is a play that makes a big splash—that is, it makes a big impact on the game. A “splash play” might be a quarterback sack, a tackle for a loss, a fumble recovery, or an interception." I'm not sure how you came up with this idea.......but Edmunds does not make many "splash plays". Yes, he is inconsistent.........but the most glaring weakness in his game is the near complete lack of impactful, game changing "splash" plays. Also not true.

The NFL is the biggest TV show in North America........not the biggest show or hottest ticket in the world. Going to games is a different story.....general attendance at NFL games had been in decline across the league for years prior to the pandemic. And it's become a relatively small amount of the revenue teams generate so a few empty seats isn't the crisis it was decades ago. The Bills should sell out most if not all games and there will not be much additional foot traffic from out of town fans of other teams.

So has "Reverend Rhule" and his faith based brigade changed your opinion about christian leadership in football? Rhule really wanted Jack Easterby...........if he had a QB like DeShaun Watson at the time then maybe Easterby goes there instead of Houston. 😉

Rousseau was a unique prospect. They don't all pan out..........but players like Aaron Donald and JJ Watt were mis-evaluated and then became so difficult to stop because they were unique. Phillips, on the other hand, was run-of-the-mill performer who had already retired once because of concussion issues. Excellent athlete, good movement skills for his size.....aside from not producing and all of the medical and commitment red flags he fit the mould.....I thought he warranted an early day 3 pick.

He looked woefully out of shape to me. He had that look in his eye like he had far too much booze or red meat the night before. He was a better QB than that starting for Indy. What he did better than Tua was recognize the blitz and fling the ball in the right general direction but it wasn't threatening in the least, IMO.

2. I think that they drew up this pass-rush-centric Dolphins game plan months ago. After you repeatedly beat down a division rival you have to expect that they are going to dedicate a lot of time to exacting some revenge. So they did what Miami wouldn't expect. Well done. They should have taken that approach with Pittsburgh as well, but as I said before the opener, I'd rather lose the Steelers game than the divisional game the following week.

Yeah if but's and if's were forced fumbles and pics.......... Unfortunately it's been 44 regular season games since he's produced one of the former and he has just 1 of the latter in his last 34 regular season games.

Aside from perhaps actually winning SB's.......nothing creates stronger fan bonds to a team than the idea that bad officiating or the league office are out to get "us". The league doesn't intentionally set up officials to make bad calls...........but they naturally have a financial disincentive to ever perfect officiating..........a certain amount of 3rd party human error and the subsequent outrage is quite beneficial to the bottom line. No bias necessary. So rather than ask why any rule is a rule in a game with so many..........maybe ask why your team can't follow the rule or doesn't know how to put the other team in position to violate said rule?

Don't need a dish. Excellent HD reception off an antenna in Orchard Park. We always have the local 4pm game on after the Bills game and sometimes some people in our group will just come to tailgate and then watch the Bills game on TV. Less so now that they are winning.........now everyone wants to go inside. Some of the private lots have the game on big screen in their garages too. I've caught the end of some bad games outside on those TV's during the drought. As some have mentioned it's an interesting experience hearing the crowd reactions from the stadium prior to seeing the play on tv because of the delay.

If you don't like conclusion-based analysis then you should quit watching sports. KC lost 3 games last season........Tampa lost 5 but finished ahead of them because that's how the system works. Edmunds doesn't make big plays.........50+ games into his career it's clearly not an aberration.

They are physically such different players..........but I see your point.......Rousseau is a bull rusher and while Reggie White used brute strength to plow over RT's Groot uses the long arms, huge hands and long strides to get them off balance. Different skillset to achieve similar style of rush.

It's not Edmunds hate.........I think he's a very talented player.........what I hate is that they put him at a devalued position like MLB that a 2017 Preston Brown or a current AJ Klein or Tyrel Dodson-level talent could man quite adequately. It's been a misuse of talent that is about to become a misuse of talent and cap space. I'd also hate Stefon Diggs at RB, Jordan Poyer at boundary CB or Matt Milano at DT.

Oh he still over-threw a ridiculous frozen rope to a wide open Singletary streaking down the sideline too. He is best on throws he can put on a line but he needs to learn how to throw with the appropriate trajectory if he is to remain a top 5 NFL QB.........and while he put some more passes in harms way today he did under throw a pass to Diggs that he put good air under that allowed Stefon to come back and make the Bills largest pass reception of the game.

Move him to MLB!

Yeah if you go back to his first career game........he records a dynamic strip-sack fumble against Baltimore. That season he actually made some plays. That player was a different guy. I'm sure he's more assignment sound at this point but I think the responsibilities he has at that position are unnatural enough to him that they have taken away from his natural playmaking ability. Planting him at MLB has been one of the more peculiar decisions in Bills history, IMO. Basically the opposite of when the team kept Cornelius Bennett at OLB for far too long when it was clear that he was a better fit as an off-ball ILB. Biscuit got accolades he didn't necessarily deserve at OLB in the SB runs.......but despite being constantly turned loose on the QB the pressures and sacks weren't coming. Enter Bryce Paup.........that position immediately rolls up 17.5 sacks.....Bennett had produced just 14 total the prior 3 seasons......... and Bryce wins the NFL DPOY..... and Bennett was really tremendous at ILB. Sometimes a staff is just wrong about how best to use a players skillset and I think that's been the case with Edmunds.

I loved his potential as a pass rusher coming out........blitzing from the MLB position and being an edge rusher are very different skill sets. But 4 seasons in........the die is probably cast for his career in Buffalo. I do expect his next team to try to move him to a pass rushing position.........Beane has had a few head scratchers but I don't see Edmunds getting $20M per year to be an unspectacular MLB.........it is devalued and more teams have a good starting QB than have two adequate pass rushers nowadays. But I will add this..........he does have that CJ Spiller aspect about him where all it takes is one team to overlook his deficiencies........and if a guy like Sean Payton can somehow not know that CJ Spiller is not cerebrally competent enough to excel in his version of the WCO despite the years of stupid football that he put on tape.......then anyone could fall into that trap with a more competent/consistent player like Edmunds.

Nobody notices when he's out. Partly because he's usually out there and just part of the background scenery of the Bills defense because he doesn't make plays...........and partly because when other players have had to step in for him they've done no worse.

So Lotulelei is tying up two blockers so that Edmunds can...........tie up another 2 blockers(?)..........so that Milano can be free to make all of the plays? Makes sense.

I agree completely.........it's almost like maybe his skillset might have been better developed at another position.🤔

Edmunds.......72 blitzes and 0 pressures in 2020. Klein.......first blitz of 2021....gets a pressure and near sack. At some point people gotta' realize that Edmunds deserves a great deal of the scrutiny he gets. Just too physically talented to not be making plays in this defense.

I'm starting to be a little concerned about the availability portion of the equation with Davis though. But that will happen when a player finishes their rookie season limping off the field and then starts year 2 that way as well.

Davis is a big key going forward.........they didn't invest a high pick in him and they haven't otherwise grabbed any of the dynamic young talent from recent drafts that teams have been loading up on. A few years ago the Bills WR corps would definitely be "elite"...........now its gotta' be considered a notch below that because of the lack of a 1B option. What they do have that some others do not is a QB who can make throws that allow them to make catches on routes that aren't actually "open" for most QB's. Davis has been the beneficiary of a few of those. Allen has really elevated the WR corps above the sum of their parts.

Everywhere, huh? Is it like that with Julio Jones and AJ Brown? Or Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf? Or if it's just receiving threats.......what about Tyreke and Kelce? Or with Mike Evans, Chris Godwin and Antonio Brown and Gronk? There are a lot of teams with 1A and 1B.......and sometimes even a 1C or 1D. The Bills have a nice WR corps but they are certainly in a different tier in terms of playmaking ability.