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Did Hauscha attempt any sideways field goals while you were there Fonzarelli?

Last year he missed 5 games to a concussion. He returned after a bye week...........so it was like 6 weeks that he was off. So basically like 42-45 days depending on when he returned to practice after the bye week.

I guess you gotta' define "on him"..........some of his best plays were extended armed grabs of vertical throws that were so far in front of him that they would easily fall incomplete to almost any other receiver on the planet. He has those Moss/Plaxico proportions and excellent tracking ability. Maybe that's all he has but that's A LOT when you have a young QB with the range that Allen has. Apparently DK has excelled at just this when working with Russell Wilson in the offseason as well. Young Big Ben and Eli were elevated by being able to overthrow Plax. He wasn't that good of a receiver otherwise so it tells you how much that one skill meant. Daunte Culpepper once threw 39 TD passes in great part just due to tossing up deep balls to Moss and the room the threat of that created. The biggest issue with DK IMO is staying healthy..........but that skillset he has is perfect for a guy like Josh Allen, IMO.

It wasn't a great free agent class but it rarely is. Also 2 of the 4 best WR in football were traded though so they can't say it wasn't a year where elite ones simply weren't available. It's just that when you push all your eggs into the "we'll fix that then" basket then you run that risk of having an offseason that doesn't matchup perfectly. Agree on Beasley. He's been pretty underwhelming player in his career and he played with a dink and dunk QB in Dak and still didn't really achieve much. As for DK I don't expect him to become a great WR but he has a special skillset that fit Allen's current state perfectly. Big arm, inaccurate, needs to make big plays to be effective offensively QB..........and having a potentially unique field stretching threat would open up the short to intermediate stuff where he could afford to be less accurate. Foster and Brown are deep threats but Metcalf is a massive target. It's not just the short to intermediate throws that Allen is not pin-point on.

You can't look at this offseason as an isolated chance to improve the WR corps...........it's been 3 years..........you were just addressing last offseason and issuing something of a pass. I know you know better but what I am saying is the truth and you know that...........they have known since the day McDermott was hired that they were going to be drafting a QB and that they were going to need to either retain or acquire very good receiving talent around him. It's that simple. After being told "they will fix that later" for 3 offseasons..........IMO it's just time to show us the baby. It's winning time........the time frame for lame excuses has expired.

You are falling into that "this offseason was their only chance to put a good WR corps together" mode. It's been 3 offseasons for McDermott. If he expended the effort on offense that he and later Beane have expended in adding quality to the defense then it gets done. Consciously or otherwise they have been pretty true to the Carolina "defense first and let the QB figure it out" team building philosophy that many feared they would bring. When you operate in Buffalo you gotta' draft and spend to get and retain offensive talent.

Let's not pretend this offseason was their first chance to put a stellar WR corps in place for their QB of the future. This has been a 3 offseason process that started out with passing on Bob Woods(1200 yards last year) and Marquise Goodwin(962 yards in 2017) and then trading Watkins(who impressed enough when healthy to get a $16M/yr deal). After 3 years of documenting their bumbling of the WR position it's past the point of it being down to just missing out on one or two guys in the trade market. This group they've assembled and developed needs to step up and be extraordinary in 2019.

The "apologist" solution to the critical WR problems in 2017 was "they will take care of that next offseason or in 2019 when they have $100M in cap space". Then in 2018 after doing very little about it was "they will take care of that in 2019 when they have all that cap space". Now it's like.........."well they signed some guys but the big stars didn't want to come to Buffalo..........what are ya' gonna' do? They made an effort." Got my fingers crossed but watching Allen's inaccuracy in practice on short to intermediate throws that are automatic for some QB's doesn't inspire confidence in me that he is ready to raise the level of an average or below average WR corps just yet. This is a guy who needs big time matchup winners right now to take advantage of the things he does well, IMO.

I don't care about the effort and the labor pains........these guys were hired to do a job and the template has already been laid out by other successful teams. The plan from the moment McDermott was hired was to draft a QB. Three offseasons to get a top receiving corps in place for "young QB year 2" is enough..........it's not just all about this past offseason and not getting an AB or OBJ etc.. I agree that they seem destined to draft a WR in round 1 next year.........but again.........that means Allen having a rookie WR1 in his extension decision year...........which is not how you want that to play out when you had at that point 4 offseasons to prevent that. My hope is that Foster becomes that guy. I know camp hasn't been kind to him but let's hope he raises his game because he has a lot of talent.

Point being it hasn't gone smoothly for McDermott with his coaching staff either. That's a lot of turnover in just two seasons.

Rome didn't have a salary cap and free agency to deal with. This build is time sensitive. I think Bills fans have come to take for granted the past two offseasons where the team was able to spend in free agency and not lose any players. It's not just going to be build, build, build the next few offseasons..........the timing of building up a team with a first contract QB as quickly as possible matters. This was THE critical offseason to get Allen everything he needs and run with that for two seasons in 2019 and 2020 while they decide whether he is worth a massive, potentially franchise altering extension when he becomes eligible after the 2020 season.

Yes what the Rams put together(in one offseason) is what the Bills should have been trying to do for Allen. To some extent they did but the question is whether they added enough quality with all of the quantity(at WR and OL). The Rams really nailed the quality part of the equation with both units(and then the HC also coached that talent up immensely). I hope Foster and Brown rise to the occasion but if one of them doesn't become a star #1 who can elevate Allen's game then I think defenses will just make Allen throw into a ton of zone coverage and try to succeed with a high volume of shorter throws that he(and probably Foster and Brown) are less comfortable with.

The Bills don't even have a single proven reliable good #2 WR. Beasley and Brown have played 12 NFL seasons combined and between them they've produced 3 seasons with over 700 yards receiving. Obviously there is potential.........especially with Foster...........and Brown and Beasley are coming off unusually good seasons for them.......but thinking the Bills have four #2's out there is a leap of faith, IMO. I think most NFL personnel people would rank the Bills WR corps between 25th-30th in the league. And Watkins and Cooks had 5 seasons of 975 or more yards before they joined the Rams..........they were undisputed #1 WR's not #2's.

There has been a fair amount of chaos on McD's coaching staff. OC fired. OL coach....fired. QB coach......basically asked to leave. WR coach......canned. ST coach......fired. It hasn't been smooth sailing and the team has been pretty lousy with large negative point differentials in both seasons so I hesitate to credit their teaching too much.

Rex era 15-17 McBeane era 15-17 Rex sucked but McBeane have too. Blowouts galore, some of the worst offensive football in Bills history.........time for McBeane to turn their 3 year free run of the organization into a contender in 2019. Amazing what the Pegula's have invested to help these guys get everything they wanted........now no excuses.

Natural arm strength doesn't inhibit accuracy. Quite the opposite. It's a big advantage to start with. You're over-thinking it. A LOT. Allen is just a work in progress and his big arm is the only reason he got out of JUCO football. People act like he's learning how to walk.........he's been attempting these throws in practices for as long as he's been playing football. But for all of the teams he's played for his combination of arm/athleticism+lack of polish+ the teams lack of talent........taking small gains in the games has not made much sense. Not sure it does here yet either.........most of his good plays in practice seem to be off platform still. To me right now this is a guy who needs a great #1 WR and a top WR corps in general with an offense focused on running the ball and big plays thru the air. That would buy him a few years to gradually develop as a surgical passer. That's basically the formula that teams that are having success with young QB's are using.

He was forklifting the Bills tall guards into the backfield at every opportunity last night. Being able to get way under the pads of the guy in front of you and force them backward is a great skill to bring to the NFL. Hopefully he doesn't just settle for that and hones the rest of his game so that he can turn that pressure potential into QB hits and sacks. Hoping to see him versus the Colts starting guards Thursday night.

He's in charge but I think his personnel department has a lot more influence in final decisions than in most organizations.

See @Doc just thought "guaranteed" money was the part the team is refunded if they aren't completely satisfied. Common mistake.

Best part of the "training camp" version of TSW are the people who have their finger locked on refresh 16 hours a day who then insist that there is nothing to be concerned about when something negative is reported.

There is no need to overreact then either. It's just entertainment. But there is also no need to give anyone in the Bills organization the benefit of the doubt.............it's pro football and for these guys it's time to start winning. Excuse time is over.

Counting Morse they have at least 4 guys with starting experience as centers in the NFL. It's not like they are picking from the practice squad. But part of the problem with tearing down rosters to get "your guys" is you have to take shortcuts in pro personnel just to get your talent back to square one and that creates a lot of opportunity for mistakes. The near complete absence of success in pro personnel matters since Beane has taken over is very concerning. Hopefully some of this massive UFA class changes that but this is not a good start.

Yes they do have a hyperbaric chamber room in the new facility but of course you want players to sleep at home not during the day at the facility. Some players have them in their homes. But I think what fans sometimes don't realize is that these are still just people living in real-time like everyone else and they don't always do a great job of health maintenance away from the facility. Every player is different. A guy with concussion issues and a guaranteed $30M coming in should probably have one and use it.

Pegula's need to be pro-active and spring for a new hyperbaric sarcophagus for re-Morse to sleep in at night............that's how Bill Romanowski survived his 150+ concussions! Get one with a plaid flannel lining and Mitch will be sleeping like a baby and back on the field in no time.

Sammy? If I had my way I pick up his 5th year option for 2018 and then make that decision this past winter. Gilmore has been one of the top 2-3 CB's in football since 2017.........Tre White is coming off a down year. I had White as the top CB in that draft class..........but I would have taken Mahomes with the pick instead of trading it and taking White......... and that would have transformed the franchise and the picks and players I saved not chasing a 2018 draft class QB would have helped me improve the roster. Dareus' base salary the past two years was around $9M........not $17M......he was never going to see those big base salary numbers at the very end of his deal...........$17M is more like the cost of eating Dareus dead money PLUS paying Star Lotulelei to be a traffic cone.