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I agree that they might do that, even if they like what AW is doing now a bit more. OZ RB's are probably the cheapest and easiest kind to find......so subjecting AW to waivers isn't exactly high risk. They can always find another. Finding another player with DS skillset would at least be a bit more difficult............and if they want to flip a gameplan or if they have to make an adjustment to how they are being defended with a return to man blocking.........Singletary is easily the best option they have for that. However, Antonio Williams can also contribute on special teams...........so having him active adds versatility to the lineup.

Look............I don't want to like Antonio Williams...........he is a boring, straight line runner with zero wiggle or flash who I could not understand why they had on this roster last summer. Total misfit. But then they changed styles. I'm not a real fan of OZ run blocking. We were spoiled by Roman/Lynn and even to an extent by the man blocking we got in 2019(and the glimpse we got in the NE home game last season). But this is about what's best for the offense. Specifically the passing game. Daboll seems to have made up his mind. Tempo and time for Josh matter more. I am for whatever is best for JA. And Devin Singletary tip-toeing to the line hoping to get a block that creates open field opportunities that is NOT COMING is a recipe for TFL's and TFNG. You gotta' hit it or forget it in OZ. That's not been his style and if they don't get efficient at the style of run blocking they choose they are going to be off schedule and largely out of balance again. Nobody wants that.

While that's all true........the personnel for OZ and IZ is not necessarily well suited for both. See the difference between Roman's rush attack and Dennison's. Roman wanted his RB's to take the inside yards.........his lineman were "athletic" but not the more nimble guys best suited for OZ (like, say Forest Lamp). So when Dennison came in and stubbornly decided to run much more OZ..........the OL wasn't as adept at it and while LeSean McCoy was able to adapt to Roman's style he struggled in OZ. A dynamic rush offense was undermined while still technically being a zone blocking team. Do you understand why they switched last year or are you in disagreement about that as well? Rather than trying to straw man me with things I didn't say........just tweet John Feliciano and ask him if he lost 30 pounds so he could run more inside zone this year.😉

So you mean it's like north american pro soccer versus watching soccer in Europe or South America? People still pack the house to watch that minor league product in the US and Canada...........it's part of their culture/lifestyle and gives them a reason to gather and be a community with a goal.......so they suspend disbelief and enjoy it like it's high end product. The CFL is similar.......but at least there is some real violence and courage needed to play pro football. Plus interestingly enough, there are a lot of stories of US football stars going up to Canada and faceplanting. One of my favorites examples of that was Vince Ferragamo.........had a SB run with the Rams and a highly productive season with them sandwiched around a ghastly performance in the CFL with Montreal. On team with a bunch of former NFL "name" players. One of them was Tom Cousineau, the Bills former #1 overall pick in who was poached away from the mercurial Ralph C Wilson and whose rights were later traded to Cleveland for what ended up being the selection the Bills used on Jim Kelly.

Who said zone blocking was a "philosophy"...........clearly not I....so I guess that's some kind of straw man attempt to discredit the idea that the Bills have RB's that fit a particular style of run blocking over another? Here is a nice Daboll related article on the differences between man and zone blocking: https://www.rollbamaroll.com/2017/7/13/15963800/alabama-football-brian-daboll-saban-jalen-hurts-bo-scarbrough-pittsburgh-steelers-patriots Outside zone is the technique that the Bills made their primary run blocking style about mid-way thru last season. Teams often have a blocking style and stick with it..........teams accumulate personnel that matches the style of blocking they wish to use..........so obviously it tends to becomes an identity of a team's offense. But no........it's not a "philosophy" if someone told you that. As for why the Bills switched.........it wasn't necessarily a personnel issue..........they had proven they could man block in 2019..........Quinton Spain was a casualty of the switch and Singletary was lessened by it. Feliciano was better in man as well.......particularly at center where he was much superior to Morse in that regard. What it did was allow them to spend less time determining blocking assignments and allow the offense run more up-tempo and/or give Allen more time to look over the defense pre-snap.

Antonio Williams is a natural scheme fit in outside zone. As is Moss. And Breida. Singletary is not. I don't like it...........even though everyone knew it was a bad draft for RB's I felt Singletary was the RB1...........and he was excellent in a rush offense catered to his skills............but if switching to OZ continues to streamline the passing game I can live with it if they have players that fit the scheme. And Moss/Breida/Williams are fits.

Be nice if they came out of the preseason with some upside potential and years of control in the reserve groups that have been underwhelming.

Singletary might be a trade candidate in a week or two. AW is under team control for a little less $ but the same amount of time..........which might not be a total coincidence..........perhaps they envisioned this and didn't want to be in a spot where team control was a deciding factor in the RB decisions. Wouldn't get much but maybe another team has a blocked or similarly scheme misfit talent that would match up to Beane's liking.

I suspect the Bills will be in the market for competition to add to that group yet this preseason via trade or UFA. Jackson looked dynamic at times last year but his injury history alone made it a gamble to bank on him. DT, OT and PR/KR may possibly be upgraded via trade or signing as well. The 3rd string at those positions don't seem near competing for snaps with the reserves............and the reserves aren't exactly standing out.

And Jack Eichel may be dead set on going to his childhood favorite team Montreal.......or back home to Boston.........and since his contract is guaranteed he can half-ass it or feign disability until he gets what he wants. Don't care........giving him away in the name of culture when you likely have the worst roster in the NHL(in an expansion year, no less) would be stupid. If the Bills offered Woods significantly more money..........he stays........and as it turns out his $9M deal was an outrageous bargain...........his FMV was $15M+ per over the first 3 seasons of his deal. The Bills alleviated the miscalculation of Wood's worth by acquiring Stefon Diggs...........but it cost them a #1 pick ++.

McDermott let Gilmore walk, he became the NFL DPOY and won a SB ring. Same with Bob Woods.......became an All Pro WR and reached a SB. And he traded Patrick Mahomes to a conference rival. You can afford to make a lot of mistakes if the opportunity to fix them emerges. That was the case for McDermott.........he literally could have drafted any of Mahomes, Watson, Allen or Jackson and gotten an elite/MVP level QB. That's more cracks at dynamic QB's in 2 offseason than they'd had in the previous 2 decades decades combined. It's great when a plan comes together..........but TALENT is the most important part of the equation that makes that happen. Adams can't expect to be that fortunate. He can't trade Eichel for some average NHL'ers and expect to come out smelling like a rose if Eichel goes on to hoist a Stanley Cup in Vegas or Montreal or somewhere.

Actually haven't heard much positive at all about Addison or Lotulelei in camp. With most of their salaries guaranteed whether they make the team or not.........and likely having next to zero market for their services elsewhere........it might be an option to cut them and have them as vets on the PS to have available for injury replacements while keeping the young talent on the roster. Can pretty much guarantee that if they were cut on the eve of the season they would at least not be signed elsewhere until week 2 when their veteran minimum salaries would be unguaranteed and they would only have to be paid week-to-week. Could also see Beane exploring some trades to swap depth at one position for help at another.........like the Eli Harold for Ryan Bates trade. I'd be interested in seeing @GunnerBill use his extensive knowledge of recent drafts to put together some swaps..........like Daryl Johnson for a promising but blocked LT prospect.......deals like that.

It's literally NOT spin. It's fact. They got White and Edmunds for the most valued player in the entire league........a likely first ballot HOF QB. 5-6 years from now White and Edmunds will be wrapping up their careers..............and Mahomes will be nearing the mid-way point of his. There is no way to spin that transaction as a win for anyone but the Chiefs. Allen was a totally separate series of transactions. A negative "spin" would be to say that trading that pick to the Chiefs may have cost the Bills multiple SB wins ALREADY.

Doesn't change anything. When the only concern is getting to the QB the action unfolds a lot quicker...........the rush has to maintain some gap integrity either way.........but they don't need to pause for the threat of a handoff and that greatly accelerates the speed they can play at. Ideally you stretch the defense vertically and horizontally on every play.........that's why well executed play action is extremely difficult to stop........and 5 wide really only gives you the the horizontal aspect. Go back and watch the 5 wide stuff the Bills ran last year............it didn't result in big plays............and generally doesn't for ANY team. McDermott would love to see opposing offenses run 5 wide.......his defense......and many others.........try to get teams to dink and dunk down the field and that's all 5 wide is good for. In practice last week I saw the Bills line up 5 wide and then have McKenzie motion back into the backfield............that would be a nice wrinkle if McKenzie shows he can carry the ball out of the backfield like a Curtis Samuel. He's certainly a MUCH better receiver than anyone they have in the backfield.

The funny thing.........prior to fateful day when Bruce, Andre and Thurman got cut..........99.99% of Bills fans were in utter denial about what was coming. They didn't ever bother to understand the cap because John Butler kept pushing debt down the road.........so every offseason they would be told the Bills were going to be over the cap.........and then Butler would then find a way to extend every Ken Irvin and Sam Rogers. So they thought there was always going to be an answer. I had been pointing out exactly what the deals that Butler was making in the late 90's was going to result in............it wasn't that complicated........and even though I have some financial background and my math was right on.............I even had a couple accountants on here try to tell me how I was going to be wrong. When Donahoe came in people were so shell-shocked and in search of a savior that he was able to use the "cap hell" excuse to gut the ENTIRE identity of the team...........it was a bad situation.........but some of the cuts were simply unnecessary (Ted Washington, in particular). The narrative was "it has to be done, even now we won't have a penny to spend for several years"...........but then, of course, Ol' Whitey was shopping in free agency the very next offseason. Cap hell hit the Bills fanbase like an unforeseen natural disaster..........and then the guy who was supposed to be stewarding the team out of it was a hard-headed dipsh*t and instead ushered us into an ice age. People are still twitchy about it.

The reality though is that empty backfield = DL can just attack the QB = quicker and subsequently shorter throws. It's the recipe for dinkin' and dunkin'.........boring offense.

Again........NONE of the picks acquired for Mahomes were utilized to acquire Allen. You can say "you know" but if you don't know that they got the picks they used on Tre White and Tremaine Edmunds with the pick KC then used to select Mahomes and the first pick of the third round in 2018...........then you just don't know *****. The reality is that the Bills traded the most valued player in the entire NFL to a conference rival.......and Mahomes then proceeded to win a SB and block the Bills from advancing to one. Even later acquiring Allen......the Mahomes trade could block the Bills from numerous SB appearances/wins.

Just have some more peanut butter

Right now, it looks like there will be significantly less quality WR prospects in the 2022 draft than there was this year..........particularly wrt speed and quickness guys. Not a drought year........but down from the past two and less quality at the top. Despite the very small # of players overall.........the 2021 class was very deep at WR using any prior draft as a measure. But I agree that they should be able to cut and PS him. The league is loaded at WR, I expect there will be many better prospects than Stevenson on the waiver wire at the end of camp. Bills might even go that route. I don't think it's a given that he is with the Bills in any capacity even if he goes unclaimed after cuts.

These practices are very competitive.......especially now with pads on........nobody is letting Knox have anything for lack of trying. I don't think his problem is gonna' be correctable by catching ping pong balls.......he might want to try hypnosis or something else before it turns into outright "yips".

Look at it this way..........when the play becomes uncompetitive.....an easy grab....Knox level of performance drops. He has made tremendous, tightly contested grabs. He excels after the catch when challenged. I assume you saw the catch in Saturday's practice.........the defenders had no chance.......but he had to leap and fully extend for the TD.........he was challenged........there was no time to think about mechanics or how bad it will look if he doesn't catch that ball. I don't see anything to indicate that his problems are broad/chronic/random...........it's a pretty specific, isolated issue and the common denominator is being unchallenged. When he is running wide open toward an uncontested throw........I believe he has shown that he needs to get himself in the same frame of mind as a contested catch situation. IMO, the way to be there is to be thinking......"this is me competing against these guys fighting for my snaps". A guy like Tom Brady can find a slight in anything and use it.........but for Knox it might be harder to suspend disbelief and think that he's in danger of losing a roster spot when you are as superior athletically as Knox is against his feeble competition at TE in Buffalo. Short, slow, physically compromised.........these TE's are not in Knox class physically He's talented.......if he gets to the next level, that could become...."this is me competing against Travis Kelce or Gronk" but for now he needs to fix his mindset when unchallenged.........because with Josh Allen at QB and these WR's he is going to be left open A LOT.

Yeah, IMO it does. It indicates that the drops aren't a physical problem..........the more time he has to think about it, the less efficient he is catching an easier ball. He's thinking too much.........competition takes a player out of his own head and serves to create productive stress in competitive people. This isn't something you need to have been a pro athlete to understand........it applies to occupations of all kinds.........and most anyone who has played a lot of organized sports has experienced the value of one's frame of mind on performance. If you are so dubious about this concept, I gotta' ask..........why do you think coaches love competition in camp? Not a believer in the steel sharpens steel way of thinking?

This should be the year for Hamilton. Been 21 years since TiCats won it all.

I was at the practice Saturday and I said it here when I got back...........it looked like he was pushing more for WR4 than in any competition with Hodgins/Stevenson. Just a different tier. He's intense and competing every snap out there. Hopefully Davis rises to the challenge. As @dave mcbride pointed out a few weeks ago........sometimes Davis seemed in his own head last season and dropped some easy ones.

When players aren't in competition they often get into their own heads and struggle with things like this. The Bills haven't provided Knox with a lot of competition since he's been there..........he's always been the only TE with all the physical traits you want. Davis also has some struggles with dropping easy ones to some extent. Hopefully the heat from Kumerow will get him focused on competing against someone rather than battling his hands. The pool of players was shallow overall.........but not for WR.........very deep draft at WR. There have been plenty of years when a guy like Stevenson goes 3rd or 4th round. Ask Buddy Nix about TJ Graham. Not nearly the prospect Stevenson was........but sometimes there have been WR droughts that last for several draft classes. 2015-2017 was like that most recently.