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Considering that Tremaine had gone like 77 games between forced fumbles you may be right..........he may have just lucked into it. Edmunds has been far inferior to the unheralded Bernard this season.......or the heralded Roquan Smith........whom Tremaine essentially replaced after the Bears traded the All Pro to Baltimore at the 2022 deadline (which has since helped transform the Ravens defense). And while Edmunds has actually has made some plays in the pass game this season.........he's otherwise been a disappointment..........his PFF grade has fallen precipitously and he's had some embarrassing moments.........like getting benched against the Chiefs. Only a dope would be trying to take some kind of victory lap for Tremaine under the circumstances.

Yeah I know we have a few still-bitter Tennessee fans here............but Pete Carroll was a clown too when he was a young HC with the Jets.........and he went on to win titles in CFB and the NFL.

Obviously, McD not getting fired. But for the people who look to the college ranks for an offensive minded HC...........Harbaugh is more defensive minded than he is offensive minded. The college HC who warrants looks is probably Lane Kiffen. He's in his prime, is with a good program but not one that can expect to recruit in the top 10 every season or have NIL money like the teams he is competing with.........so he might be poachable........and has been an NFL HC for the Raiders(briefly) and is a creative offensive mind.

If Shakir could play effectively on the boundary he'd get more chances. But if teams felt he had that potential he wouldn't have gone in round 5. With Kincaid basically serving as a slot receiver as well there is going to be a limiting overlap of snaps to some extent there. If Jordan Addison had fallen to the Bills in round 1 as they seemingly hoped........then maybe Shakir would have had a mid-career Beasley type season or something.

Fwiw.........he picked the Bills to win the SB in his his expansive, detailed full playoff prediction piece right before the playoffs last year. That proved dumb I guess but I wouldn't call him a clown. He puts in a lot of work on this stuff. The Bills have had a number of players with very good seasons but simply don't have a lot of "All Pro" candidates this year.

And they are going to need it if they are only going to pass for 150-200 yards per game and lean on the defense.

It was ridiculous that they even had to call that timeout..........it should have been a no-brainer to go to the tush push. Not only is the tush push easy money when you have a big QB..........you don't see pre-snap or holding calls on the offense on those plays. How many times do we see flags ruin 3rd down conversions? I actually preferred the tush push on the play that sealed the game with the last first down as well. They needed 2 yards so they went with a QB run play instead and then Allen gets smashed at the end. Much safer on top of the pile than in the open field where defenders can get downhill and put a helmet into you.

Fortunately I stocked up on OC killing pitchforks when the market was down post-Dorsey.........and will have kiosks ready to go post game this Sunday!

It would be nice if they had 2.........but yeah they haven't even had one with Diggs struggling lately. That's why the weekly passing yardage stats are resembling the Tyrod Taylor days despite the Bills having a stud QB now. Even more concerning is that they don't even have a single young boundary WR of note in development either. Both of their primary boundary WR's in 2025 might not be on this roster now and both could very well be in their first 2 seasons in the NFL. So yeah, it's a huge concern now and going forward.

Extend him now! posts incoming in 3, 2, 1............(even though they can't extend a player until after year 3)

Yeah and the other thing.........this year........is that he's catching the ball like Boyd. In 2021 Boyd did not drop a pass all regular season. Shakir has had that distinction in 2023 so far(after an awful, drop plagued camp and preseason). Boyd was a poor man's WR1 on a bad offense prior to Higgins and Chase arriving........I don't think Shakir is capable of that due to his physical limitations............but top WR1 and WR1B talent did allow the Bengals to use Boyd for more simple work in the slot like Shakir is getting now. The big-boy football at WR is played outside........if your offense is good out there it opens up the middle. Doesn't really work the same the other way around. So that's where some of the people like @SWATeamwho try to tally the individual value of guys like Shakir, Kincaid, Knox and Cook lose perspective.

I think they got a bit too fixated on defense at the expense of WR talent. I didn't hate the Von Miller contract and still think Elam will become a very good NFL starting CB...........but defensive talent wasn't the biggest area of concern for me going into that post-13-seconds offseason. It was WR. Job #1 is to make your QB look good. Putting their biggest chips into the defense was a gamble, IMO. They should have come out of that offseason with their future WR1........whether it were via trade or draft. What's frustrating is that they had already made this mistake in 2019 when they passed on a bunch of WR's in the draft in favor of trading up for Cody Ford.......then had to turn around and deal their #1 pick in an elite 2020 WR class to get a veteran WR1 because they'd fallen behind by passing on guys like Metcalf and AJ Brown. That should have told them in their mind that they were going to have to go back to the well at WR in round 1 in the next couple drafts........but they did not. Beane has been a step too slow at the position..........and because he was so terrible with the cap early in his tenure it's kept them a step behind.

Nah, c'mon. Boyd is a big rangy, long armed possession receiver. 6'2" with 32" arms. Shakir is a small target. He is about 6' tall but with arms the same length as the 5'6" Deonte Harty at 28". Not really an option outside because of that lack of length and when they've tried to use him on deep throws he's had trouble tracking the ball. So he is going to be a slot guy only. They've done a good job of keeping his throws short and intermediate this season and letting him do what he does best........run after the catch. He's like a RB with the ball in his hands. He's an unusual type.........it's hard to draw a reasonable comparison.

Yeah he's effectively filled the role as WR4 that Gabe had in his first couple seasons. He does it differently, with YAC instead of getting over top of the defense like Gabe.........but effectively similar results........he stacks up yards when defense's lose track of him. Problem is the WR2 Gabe continues to be a disappointment and Stef Diggs is playing like a shadow of his former self...........and the 3rd option is either Cook or Kincaid and a RB and possession receiving(at this stage) TE aren't as impactful in those roles if the 2 main ingredients aren't excellent. It's why, despite some promising young talent they have their worst WR corps since 2019.

It's hyperbole to say that Edmunds was considered "bad". He was just a huge underachiever in Buffalo........and Terrel Bernard is showing exactly why. McDermott's defense should make a star out of a MLB............it made Preston Brown the leading tackler in the league in 2017 for chrissakes.........but Edmunds could never do everything from the position. Bernard has restored what should be "the norm" at the position..........a ton of tackles and big plays of all sorts. Edmunds has astonishingly made some plays in coverage this season..........but that's the only change. His production around the LOS is still anemic.......tackle numbers still low........0 sacks 0 QB hits and just 5 TFL to go with 1 FF and 1 FR. Bernard has not only produced his share of INT's...........but 6.5 sacks, 10 QB hits 9 TFL and 3 FF and 3 FR. If a player with Edmunds' pedigree and Edmunds' body had done that he might be looking at first team All Pro. Bernard has only further exposed the deficiencies in Edmunds game...........trying to paint it any other way is foolish.

They need stud WR's. Fact. This is a deep draft for WR but I think there will be a bunch of them taken in round 1. They likely won't get multiple potential starters.........but that's what they need..........and it's a critical need.

I'd say they need to draft 3 they can roster from this class. They probably aren't going to be able to bring in any upgrades in free agency. Time to make moves on that market was when guys like Hill and AJ Brown were put on the market. Now everybody is seeing how dead in the water your offense can look without at least 2 stud receiving targets............and how much better having a 3rd can make a roster look.

Yeah the first deep throw to Diggs was an easy opportunity for Diggs to stop and take the PI with the DB running with his back to the ball. There has been a lot of that with our receivers this season. Usually more Davis than Diggs but there has been a lack of awareness in the moment. Perhaps Diggs thought the slight chance that the pass just barely got thru the defender was worth risking getting nothing out of the play............PI stats don't go under WR yardage you know.........but you gotta' take those big gimme yards by fighting back for the under thrown ball.

Josh needs a lot less golf and a lot more work on his mechanics and chemistry with his receivers this coming offseason. He talked about getting back to his offseason mechanics training in the postgame today........but he's clearly not putting in the work he was prior to the 2021 season. After 13 seconds I think he thought he had neared the pinnacle of his profession but he's regressed back closer to Cam Newton 2.0 than the passer he was then. Time for him to get serious about winning before his own talent regresses back to the pack.

I believe it's a back injury for Diggs. I think it was reported that he had a back injury earlier in the season. But also, Brady has killed the pass game in general. Everybody but Cook looks worse in the pass game with Brady than they had with Dorsey. The sample size is just small enough and people are still feeling sated about the Dorsey firing that they haven't gotten around to their pitchforks just yet.

No. But if you are going to try to be a punctuation Nazi(in addition to your other glorifications of The Third Reich).........you could begin by knowing that it's not called "repeating dots" ..........it's called an ellipsis. Also, be sure to use periods at the end of all of your sentences so that you don't look hypocritical or hilariously ignorant.........or both. You're welcome.

Shoulda' renamed it the Unified Football Organization.

It's not implausible that they could add both Ifedi and Collins to the PS. During the season they might prefer to keep some young guys on the PS but going into the playoffs you probably want more veterans who you can trust to step in and start the next week in the event of catastrophic injuries. They aren't risking much by releasing young players from the PS this late in the season. They've basically been unclaimed free agents all season, have no runway left to show themselves off in practice with other teams and are just going to be signing futures deals in the January.

It's probably just the old uniform number flashback. They don't play or look anything alike when playing. Shakir is a herky-jerky RB-type athlete who plays like a small target. Sanders was a very fast and smooth operator but also had a large catch radius because he was acrobatic in his prime. Shakir is #10 and people identify Sanders as #10 from his best days as a star with Denver.......it was thought he'd be #10 with the Bills but he chose #1.

I just want to run it by @Beck Water and @DabillsDaBillsDaBills and make sure it's OK to sign him........since he was questioned regarding the shooting death of a then pregnant GF(he was uncertain if he was the father at that time and had to take a paternity test). Which is all why he wasn't an early draft pick, as he was expected to be. I mean the police said he wasn't a suspect so it's probably cool, right? But then again they have apparently never identified a suspect of any kind in the case either. So there is that whole "never been proven innocent either" thing.