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Cody Ford has played over 80 games in the league, most of them as a starter. He also was a key component in the trade up for the 2018 draft and that pick was then packaged in the trade up for #7 which resulted in Josh Allen. So that wasn't too bad. Singletary was a mid round 3rd who has over 5,700 career yards from scrimmage. Epenesa was #54 overall and will probably play 10 years in the NFL. Solid player, not a waste. Basham is the worst pick. Moss was 86th overall. Not the best pick but still in the league. I'll give you that one. I still say that's an excellent track record.

Agree with other people on: Epenesa - not a wasted pick, he got a 2nd contract and is a productive player. Singletary - was a good player for Bills and continues to play in the league. The Douglas trade was a 3rd for Douglas and a 5th. Don't remember who they got with the 5th. Douglas was good, he was a player rental for '23 and that worked out well. His play fell off last year but that was a "trade for now". Cooper - Everyone loved it at the time, maybe it didn't work out as planned but also a trade for now and they did get to the AFC Championship game. Basham didn't pan out, Moss either but in 7 drafts if you have 14 picks in the 2nd and 3rd rounds (they may have had more) there's only 2 that didn't really work out (and Moss has played 4 years in the league) that's a very good track record. And there have been some really good ones: James Cook, Spencer Brown, Terrell Bernard, O'Cyrus Torrence, Dawson Knox, and the McDermott year it was Dion Dawkins. All core players.

No surprises this year - I picked other.

at least 1 year too early to even have a clue on how good the 2024 draft class will be. Check back this time next year and see how the 5 mentioned (Coleman, Bishop, Carter, SVP, Grable) are doing. No one knows at this point including the Bills coaches and Beane.

Two things: 1. preseason football is brutal. 2. If the rest of the league watches this game film, the Bills will not have any problem getting players back on the practice squad after cuts to the 53.

I think 51 are locks: QB - Allen, Trubisky RB/FB - Cook, Johnson, Davis, Gilliam OL - 5 starters, Anderson, VanDemark, Grable, TE - Kincaid, Knox, Hawes WR - Shakir, Coleman, Palmer, Samuel, Moore Offense locks: 22 DL - Rousseau, Bosa, Jackson, Epenesa, Solomon, Oliver, Jones, Sanders, Walker, Carter LB - Milano, Bernard, Andreeson, Williams, Thompson CB - Benford, White, T Johnson, Hairston (don't think they IR him), D Jackson, Strong S - Rapp, Bishop, Hamlin, Lewis, Hancock Defense locks: 26 Special teams: Bass, Robbins, Ferguson ST locks: 3 That leaves 2 spots. One will go to OL, if Van Pran Granger comes off PUP it will be him, if he starts on IR it will be Lundt I think Shavers is #53.

Fun to watch. Loved: 1. The Russell Copeland TD they show the graphic that Kelly is 1-14 for 4 yards and 3 Ints before that play. 2. Ditka disgusted and spitting after the TD. Allen's throws are effortless. Fergy - underrated. Lofton - probably the best pure athlete that ever played WR for the Bills. So smooth. Honorable mention to Jerry Butler. I think I was 10 when they drafted JD Hill. I thought he was going to be the next Paul Warfield.

Preseason record in Kelly/Super Bowl era: 1988: 1-3 1989: 1-4 1990: 0-4 (best chance to win it all) 1991: 2-3 1992: 2-2 1993: 2-3 Totals: 8 wins, 19 losses. Regular season record over those 6 years: 70-26 And the starters played a lot more back then than they do now. I vaguely remember talk that Gale Gilbert was looking better than Jim Kelly one year (Art Wander comment?). In the Super Bowl years they didn't run no huddle in preseason. As McDermott said in presser, on a scale of 1-10, how much game planning did they do? 0-1. Amazing reaction over the weekend.

Probably as close to 0% chance of this happening and for good reason: Start with who is better. I can think of 4 probably for sure: Reid, McVay, Shanahan and Kevin O'Connell. Then maybe most would say John Harbaugh and Sean Payton, though McDermott has as good or a better track record over the past 10 years. Both of them have Super Bowl wins over 10 years ago, but how relevant is that? I'd say push to slightly better. There would be a couple, like Dan Campbell and maybe Sirianni, that some would favor but I think those are a push at best. Common thread with all of the above? They aren't going to be available probably ever. So if you could upgrade that would be good. Otherwise you're taking a shot with a hot coordinator or a retread or a college coach and hoping for a better result. All of those would be a crapshoot. The Bills are arguably the 2nd or 3rd most successful team in the past 6 years (KC, Philly). McDermott and Beane are going nowhere and that is the right thing.

So reminiscent of Brandon Reilly, Da'Rick Rogers, Naaman Roosevelt, _____________ (fill in name of WR camp darling of past who never really made it). The Bills historically keep 5 WRs, there are 5 that are pretty much locks given their skills and contracts. It's much more likely that Shavers, Virgil and Prather are on the practice squad and they each get 3 call ups to play special teams or cover a WR injury. That covers 9 of 17 games.

It really comes down to the 4th year. A 2nd round pick is not getting released in year 2, so more than 50% is guaranteed (signing bonus + first 2 years). There is probably a very low percentage released before year 3 so with salary escalations and bonuses, realistically around 80% is essentially guaranteed. It's the last 20% that is up for discussion.

The 43rd pick signing is great for Bills. At 88% of contract guaranteed and Sanders being the 41st pick, they will probably be at 90-92% and get the deal done. Contract will probably be around $10.5 million over 4 years so every 1% over 88% is worth $105k in guaranteed money. In the grand scheme of things, it's not a lot so it shouldn't take too long to get him signed (and everyone else from 34-42).

This was the first time I looked at the total chart. My seats are in the $8k section (Bills side). Overall, I think they did a pretty good job pricing the PSLs, they covered the spectrum very well and as mentioned by others there is a level that is accessible for a wide swath of fans. I viewed the $8k/seat (I have 4) as not bad - amortized over the life of the PSL it is $267/season, which as it turns out is going to be just under the cost of a regular season ticket. I knew the game tickets were going to go up a lot and was more concerned about that. Mine are going from the current about $180 (I think, never know how to factor in the preseason games) to about $300, which is a huge jump - 8 regular season game cost per ticket up from about $1,440 to $2,400.

Everyone has mentioned the best ones. Hall of Famers + Allen: Bruce Smith, OJ, Allen, Thurman Thomas, Joe D, Billy Shaw, Andre Reed, Jim Kelly. That's 8. Bennett, Talley, Moulds, Smerlas and Hull are probably the next ones because of their combined longevity, excellence and value to the team. Smerlas should be a borderline HOF veterans committee consideration. He was even T5 for DPOY once and I think 3-4 All Pros and 5 or so Pro Bowls. We're at 13 The last two I would put in the group are Tasker and Kemp. Unique players without the stats of others. Tasker redefined special teams players and Kemp was the leader on the 2 AFL championship teams. That leaves a lot of guys out but that's how I would put together the list. The one I would question the most is Kemp but fairly evaluating QBs from that era is difficult. Look at the stats for Unitas, Starr and Namath, but they all meant a lot to their teams. The 3 I think of that would almost certainly would have been in strong consideration for the top 15 if not for injury would be Robert James (who you could make a case for sneaking in at 15 or instead of Bennett or Talley), Sam Cowart and Jerry Butler, in that order. I think Cowart would have been better than Bennett and Talley

If you think that's challenging, the Oklahoma City Thunder (roster of 15) have Jalen Williams and Jaylin Williams.