OldTimer1960

Not looking good. Too many backups and practice squad playing.

Zach Moss, like almost any RB, is dependent on the OL and play calling to give them room to run. The Bills' had, at best, a makeshift OL in the 2nd half yesterday and running room was hard to come by. I'm not saying that Moss is great, but he isn't as bad as people make him out to be. He has some power and he can make a shifty cut now and then. I think the blame is misplaced on the RBs for lack of run game.

Goodness, that’s killer.

OL is getting whipped.

Allen is going to have to be great to win this with depleted DL, no Davis and young secondary.

This is a tricky situation. Bills hired an employee (drafted) with no knowledge of the allegations. No charges have been filed against that employee (yet). They were informed of a civil lawsuit against this employee about a month ago (according to their statement). Now, I’m not saying that the allegations are true or that they are false. At this point they are allegations. What is the employer to do in that situation? If they fire the employee based purely on an allegation, that doesn’t seem fair to the employee (who may or may not be guilty). If they don’t fire him, some (many) will argue that they are enabling a criminal or that they are only concerned with winning and not about social issues. It is very easy to sit back and criticize the Bills in this case, but it is not cut and dry what they *should* have done. Again, no judgement from me whether the accusations are true or not. We must let the DA decide whether to prosecute or not and wait for the civil case to make it through court (if it isn’t settled first).

They haven’t stocked the weapon closet like the Bengals have, but Allen (1), Diggs (1+), Cook (2), Knox (3), Davis (4), Singletary (3), Moss (3) were all fairly highly drafted.

You base this opinion of Cook’s character and intelligence on what?

Maybe Gilliam comes in for that, but he isn’t really “blocking TE size”, either. Maybe you are right that they’ll bring in a blocker.

I hope that I’m wrong, but Morris is pretty small for a number 2 TE. He seems to be built a little like Charles Clay, hopefully he can contribute some as a receiving TE, but he isn’t likely to be blowing defenders off the line in the run game. While Sweeney seems able to catch a few passes here and there, I don’t think he is much of a threat and I don’t think he is a very good run blocker- maybe a year removed from a serious COVID bout, he will be stronger?

I have had my share of real misses regarding draft prospects, but I really didn’t like Shenault at all. When I watched game cut ups of him, almost all of his receptions were very short passes. Now, in college he had some run after catch ability, but in the NFL he isn’t that special at that. Maybe he can pull off a transformation to RB as Cordarelle Patterson has done.

Morris and Gilliam are pretty short for the position. I think Howard makes it for solid blocking.

Duke isn’t likely to make the team anyway. Not that he is bad, but he is behind Singletary, Moss, Cook and they’ll keep Gilliam and Taiwan Jones.

I am very happy with their performance, just trying to keep things in perspective for today’s game.

Don’t get over confident. Broncos JV team played today.

Shakir continues to impress. Howard had a couple catches, given his blocking I think he is safe. Quinton Morris’ holding penalty hurts him. Rooting for Hodgins and he had some catches, but not sure he has the strength to make it. Would have liked to see Spencer Brown play a little more. He looked decent to me when he was in. Epenesa had some good pressures. I thought Basham played well and Lawson made some impact. Going to be tough to cut down the DEs.

Howard sighting. Keenum looks much better with some talent to play with this week.

I think Cody Ford has had some road grading blocks - and at least one whiff. He has some power.

I know I’m in the minority, but I really like Motor.

Basham is very strong.

Not an impressive effort by the 1st team D there.

True - I remember the missed one to Sweeney in the end zone. Keenum did not look comfortable at all. I think a fair amount of that is that the OL was a patch-work (being kind) and a rookie WR and ST player playing WR who were matched against many of Indy's starters. If Keenum doesn't look a little better next week, I'll start to worry, but he has shown that he can play competently in the NFL, so too soon for me to panic on him yet.

Would be great if Shakir can play outside and slot. Beyond Diggs and Davis, it is a steeeep drop off to Kumerow or Hodgkin, though Hodgins made some plays today.

Encouraging that Bills’ backups hung with Indy’s 1st team O. Elam and Bedford showed well for most part. For all the talk of more multiple TE sets, none that played today were impressive. I know that most of the OL players that will be here didn’t play, but those that did were over-matched most of the game.

Think OJ Howard might be in trouble? Seems odd to see him in this late. Could he possibly get beat out by Sweeney?