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True. The reason why these sports league's keep getting crazy money is because people actually still watch sports live..........and therefore actually watch the commercials........so it's still a good investment for advertisers.

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There are a lot of counterfeit football players in this draft............you can tell a mediocre draft by the amount of bad tape/low producing guys with big track times and measurements that are getting mocked in the first two rounds. Marshall isn't one of those guys. He may end up between good and great.........but he's a high floor and high ceiling player who would give the Bills another dimension in the pass game. X, Y, Z........he can play them all........he has the size and real, legit speed.......and he's a physical blocker. @DCOrange mentioned Toney perhaps replacing Beasley.........as Allen matures they may decide they want to go big slot.......call it 11.5 personnel.

A list made by combining a bunch of arbitrarily selected measurements. His tape is just not good.

Nobody wants to pay him $8M.........and he has no leverage to get an extension coming off a bad season......nor does he have incentive to lower his cap #.

Eichenberg is a good enough technician to excel at LG and bump out to LT and be good immediately if needed, IMO. I also think Feliciano is a solid center. In the power game he was absolutely better than Morse. Ryan Bates is a decent, full sized C prospect that they've been cultivating for some time now as well. I would never use a first round pick on someone who projects long term as an interior OL. A simple rule to follow is if you take that player...........and they play up to first round expectations..........can you easily justify giving them a second contract? This is why you tend to see All Pro quality interior lineman hit free agency but that is almost never the case with the key positions..........QB/PassRush/LT/WR1/CB1........when they do they are usually replete with red flags. I've seen the "just use the 1st round pick on a RB and use him up and let him walk in 4-5 years" takes and I am sure some will use the same logic with inside OL..........but that's not a good way to approach it, IMO. Needs change FAST. Dawkins could blow out a knee........we could find out that Tre White has had stingers because he has a narrowing of the spine and has to retire........you just don't know.........so IMO you should use that first rounder(and preferably the second as well) on key, big money positions that are hard to fill..........and let the scouts do what they are paid for and find you interior OL and RB's and off-ball LB's etc.. on day 3.

I look at something like this the same way I looked at the Buffalo Sabres having a top ranked farm system in the mid-2010's. The easiest time to look like you are making hay in the NFL is when you have a QB on a rookie contract and lot's of money and tons of starting jobs to hand out to your draft picks.............just as it's easy to have a great looking farm system in the NHL when you are picking in the lottery year after year. The measure of a front office is winning big on your QB's rookie deal and THEN continuing to excel when your payroll gets bloated and you don't have the margin for personnel errors any longer. That's why the gold standard organizations are like New England, Pittsburgh, and more recently, KC in the AFC..........they all cashed in during the easiest part of the deal and won SB's with QB's on their rookie deal........but they also won before and after that. If the measure of a front office is only 3-4 years of work and doesn't require titles and is just being efficient with personnel decisions, building a loaded roster and remaining cap flexible so you can sustain it..........then maybe the Colts would rank #1. They have a loaded roster and still tons of cap space going forward.

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The first time Edelman was an unrestricted free agent in 2013 the Bills were absolutely receiver desperate and Edelman was just floating out there to be had.......all the guy needed were snaps. He was blocked by Welker for 4 years......who was putting up 110 catches and 1300 yards per year.........I couldn't believe the Bills wouldn't take a flyer on him. The Pats moved on from Welker......played it cool and got Edelman back for 1 year and $700K. He broke out with Welker gone.......and tormented the Bills for years.........glad he is finally gone.

Yeah perhaps better stated is that you can only control certain things. In order of easiest to control: 1) Your mindset and or strategy 2) Your calls 3) Your execution I thought that the Bills mindset changed in the second half.........that's the most controllable aspect of all variables.........hence why I put it as the key factor. You can't control officiating. You can influence it for or against you.......Ford influenced it against him with the unnecessary aspects of his block. But people who don't accept that you can't control officiating and let go of the need to feel otherwise are doomed to be irrationally outraged and miserable. When you don't get the benefit of a call or 3 you still have a whopping 140-160 other plays that you can control.

I get that Paye is much more in the Charles Johnson/Mario Addison range as an athlete......... and that worked for a long time in the McDefense.......and I've seen the Shaq Lawson comparisons and I think he has more pass rush potential than Shaq......but I think the Greg Hardy physical type was actually the ideal, they just couldn't find another after he blew up his career.

1) Possibly, yes. There is no reason to think that the Texans wouldn't have put up 24 second half points if they needed to. O'Brien actually coached the Bills back into the game at the end. 2) The penalty on Ford was legit......it had been called that way all season in 2019. It was an unnecessary, dumb play by a player who had been prone to mental mistakes that season. Saying something is "a reason" but not "the reason" is trying to have it both ways. EVERY play and coaching decision is a FACTOR in deciding the outcome of a close game. The Bills made a lot more bad plays/decisions than the officials. They played a terrible half of football. And it's a statistical fact that the home team gets more calls. It wasn't unique to this matchup. The Bills weren't the home team because they didn't take care of business in their two games against a very vulnerable Patriots team. Honestly, I thought we as a fanbase should have learned the lessons from 2019. The Bills didn't play well enough that day, or that season, to earn the win in Houston. Play to win not just to get a lead and hang on.......win your division or expect to have to be significantly better than your opponents in the playoffs. The Bills benefitted greatly from being more consistently aggressive in second halves in the second half of 2020.........and they reaped the benefits in the playoffs when they actually won their WC round game this year against a team that outplayed them.

Farley would be great if his back checks out. I think Paye lacks the length and stride of an elite edge rusher...........he fancies himself as a Myles Garrett type but his arms are like 2.5" shorter.........and I don't see the feet of a more productive short, stocky rusher like Carl Lawson either. Also I do have some concern that we haven't seen many(any?) of these African born lineman really become great yet. If he had all of the measurables and production it wouldn't matter but when you are trying to rationalize going against what you see on the stat sheet and the tape in favor of some other athletic measures........ I do wonder about the importance of growing up feeling that football was important and having community pressure to succeed in players pushing themselves to greatness in the pros.

The Bills blew a 16 point lead and lost the game because they lost their urgency on offense in the second half. Not because of officiating. They had the Texans on their heels but once Houston realized they didn't have to worry about the Bills scoring again and had plenty of time to run the ball at the Bills soft interior DL the Bills were in trouble. I was actually surprised they managed to keep the score tied in regulation as poorly as they played. They played a similar style early this past season until it cost them the Arizona game...........after that they stopped taking their foot off the pedal and were rewarded for their aggression.

Good example of a smart, instinctive, aware player cleverly circumventing the rule.........versus a mental mistake factory like 2019 Cody Ford. Johnson clearly knew the rule so he didn't turn to face Edmunds and draw the attention of the official(smart).........felt the backside pursuit of Edmunds(instinctive).......made a snap decision to fake that he was being forced involuntarily backwards by the defender in order to intercept Edmunds(aware).

Flutie loved Buffalo so much that he hadn't been back to Buffalo in 19 years when he showed up to promote the re-boot of Flutie Flakes.

Landry was in front of Aaron Williams r On this play Josh Allen was in front of the defender.......Ford came from behind and to the side Both defensive players saw the blocker at the last moment but it wasn't enough time to defend themselves. Ford did not need to lead with his shoulder he just needed to extend his arm and delay the defender for a split second and there would have been no penalty.

It's a good rule that was too broadly defined. But that was how it was enforced all season. Cody Ford struggled with mental errors all season, this was just another. All he had to do was set a screen. By throwing his shoulder into the defender he unnecessarily put himself in that seasons range of penalty. For people who think it's a bad rule........consider this: The Bills just invested a second round pick in AJ Epenesa........he came out of games twice last year with head injuries...........how much of a blow would that be to the team if his career were ended by one of these blindside blocks that the league is wisely trying to rid themselves of?

That's because it's not AT ALL an admission that it was called wrong..........they called the play the exact same way as they had called it all season. It's simply an amendment to how they want it called going forward..........giving the official leeway to not make an auto-call when a blocker throws a less-than-full shoulder into a blindsided defender. But it would be stupid to assume that you won't get a penalty for it now.........more often than not the blindsided defender is in a very poor position with regard to making the tackle...........so without that very broad definition of a blindside hit......defenders will just be taught to embellish the hit and draw the flag. The bottom line is that if you are in position to throw your shoulder into an unwitting player then you are capable of making a less violent block. The same people who b*tched about this were crying like babies when career long cheap-shot artist Aaron Williams had his bubble gum and popsicle sticks spilled on the field by a traditionally legal but dangerous block by Jarvis Landry. You can't have it both ways, ladies.😘

Butler tried hard to land Lawrence Phillips as well. That was a hot topic on TSW at the time.

Sorry for late response: 1. Johnson and Hardy both sucked when the Hardy situation was relevant. He wasn't on the team when Johnson started getting the snaps 3 years in. 2. True that I did forget that Gailey and Nix did the almost unthinkable and decided to take an entire season to evaluate Dick Jauron's last roster. That kind of incompetence........an utter lack of urgency or respect for the investment of the fanbase...........is something we should never forget. 4. I wanted to like SJ13. I go to every preseason game so I was very familiar with him and knew he had a chance to be a decent player. Gailey absolutely maxed out his talent. But SJ13 was not able to handle success. He was costing his team with the penalties.........and putting pressure on himself with the self-promotion.........pressure that resulted in mistakes on gameday. The lead-up to the Pittsburgh debacle was his self-aggrandizing all week. He was a textbook definition of a selfish, losing culture player. As I said.......it didn't end in Buffalo.......he took his show to CA and it continued. 5. I get to say it because I lived it. Maybe if you had a 15 year old future attorney adamantly argue to you that "cash to the cap" wasn't a cost cutting measure you would understand where I am coming from. I really felt terribly for those kids.......it was CRUEL. The lack of commitment to winning took a toll on an entire generation of Bills fans who really had no experience with what good stewardship even looked like........let alone the details needed to be a SB contending franchise. The good news is that once you see it.......you should be able to pick it up fast. And like I said.........I think those people know now that a screwball like Stevie Johnson wouldn't have a place on a Sean McDermott team.

Yeah I see his ceiling as a more agile version of Andrew Whitworth.............who IMO would be a lock HOF'er if he had played in a big market or on a great team during his prime. Whitworth played a lot of guard early in his career before becoming a very good LT.........which is likely how Eichenberg would start out in Buffalo.

Yeah, maybe he can physically play 1T.........but that position really requires a lot of personal sacrifice/selflessness and that makes it an easier said than done proposition. Barmore likes making plays and flexing......he doesn't strike me as a guy who would be content absorbing double teams. Jordan Phillips was 340 and he was absolutely terrible at 1T. If they don't have the want-to they won't be playable.