Bleeding Bills Blue

Considering this was negotiated with some of the better agents in the business, Cook's probably got his hands tied up a bit.

The Bengals have to actually make the playoffs again for them to be as dangerous as they claim.

There were other games though. Burrow won one. Lamar ofer. Herbert and Stroud. Nothin. Everyone else. Nothing. This is sustained dominance over everyone. Til philly I guess.

Yeah - the playoff problem is the chiefs. It's been the chiefs. Its everyone else in the freaking AFC's problem too. They have played in 5/6 super bowls and 7 straight AFC championship games.

Maybe they're doing a little tyrion lannister thing to find the leak - tell 3 suspects 3 different things and see what comes out 🙂

So... Benford - White - Hairston - Strong - Jackson - Ingram - Hardy - Codrington I really think the team has the depth to overcome. Jackson is far from good - but i had him as a PS fill-in call-up more than anything else. This would come more down to strong, ingram, hardy.

He was on the practice squad a year ago... i don't see why he wouldn't be able to be rostered there again.

29 TDs (another 6 in the playoffs), across 5 seasons is pretty good. From his draft class thats more than anyone other than Jefferson, Lamb, and higgins. More than Aiyuk, more than Pittman, more than jeudy.

Kinda their kincaid type of move tight end. They tended to use him and Andrews interchangeably.

I assume he's a hold-in while he gets something added to his deal?

Carter was banged up all year last year, and I haven't seen him to say - he's put on weight or strength to be a capable 1T starter (i know he had a pec injury last year which is tough in that position, and even when healthy enough to play you're limited in the weight room). And then Walker while huge - is a rookie. It's tough to just dump the presumed starter so that we can sign a player who is already currently under contract. AJE makes more sense to trade potentially but that really requires solomon to take his job.

AJE and DQ would both require trades - acquiring team would take on the base salary.

Yeah - Moore is on a 1yr deal, and i think Samuel has a reasonable dead cap to move on from so.. probably more likely next year than this. He's probably wanting to get on the field this year so his 2026 deal has some cash in it.

I totally forgot about ogunjobi being on the team.

Nobody is going to sign someone to put them on IR. So until he's healthy you won't really know. I would assume he catches onto a PS later in the season when healthy to get some time to acclimate to an offense, and I expect it to be a team with a weaker depth chart where an injury probably puts him on the field pretty quickly. Think MVS when he was cut in buffalo after the cooper trade. He likely needs some kind of "prove it" deal next offseason assuming he can get a clean bill of health. DJ Chark keeps getting jobs, and when healthy davis still has traits teams covet in a depth WR - sideline awareness, red zone threat, and a plus blocker.

I mean the best thing for a rookie QB isn't weapons usually, its a run game, and an OL keeping them upright and confident. If they're worried about protection it won't matter much who you're throwing to. They used their last 2 first rounders, and then 2 free agents this year so they clearly want to address it - but this was a brutally bad unit a year ago and cushenberry is coming off an achilles. Bill Callahan's a good OL coach though so if they're smart they're going to go pretty gung-ho on running the ball and keeping Ward out of trouble. They're an interesting team though - #2 in defensive yards allowed, 30th in points allowed - turnovers were a killer for this team (they lost 52-14 to the lions and gave up 225 total yards). I tend to think teams do come in with conservative game plans against teams like this (the jets with wilson for example). Like the only way were going to lose to them is if we turn it over so lets just not turn it over. Their offense was that bad.

Same. Spencer Brown also plays on that edge quite a bit. I like getting under another teams skin like that. Hopefully some of the new defensive linemen have some of that same mentality.

He just wasn't prepared for... Pittsford? 😄

I suppose some definition of "great" is in order but what i can find of solid WR's who didn't light the world on fire in year 1 and 2: Thielen 2014 Lockett 2015 Kirk 2018 Aiyuk 2020 Collins 2021 London and Shakir from 2022

I'd say this was tied in with a few things: More quick hitters contributes to fewer turnovers - and more effective quick hitters. Big bodied guys like kincaid, hollins, and coleman blocking was an improvement. Diggs was also really bad at the WR screens/swings. More throwaways and effort around mitigating turnovers Improved protection and pocket mobility leading to the leagues fewest sacks allowed A running game that allowed them to effectively manage the game More ball control just leading to fewer plays - Buffalo ran the 5th fewest offensive plays but had the 2nd highest points per drive.

Gabe's average depth of target was considerably higher (about 15 vs. about 11) - and you throw more interceptions (and incompletions for that matter) the further down the field you throw the ball. Not to say they weren't in many ways tied to Gabe, but its a bit more nuanced than just INT's vs. targets.

I think the thing that would put the current team over the top beyond Allen... who is the trump card... would actually be McDermott. He's always wreaked havoc on bad QBs, and no one during the bills draught team is particularly good. Like is it Fitz or Bledsoe? Turnover central. Tyrod? Even at his best he was still manipulated well by good defenses and pressure schemes.

They hit that number last year with Von getting 4, and Solomon, Toohill, and Smoot combining for 4.5. So i went with the over.

I think the challenge there was fit with a boundary receiver who's a plus blocker. None of that is really his game, and depth wise they had Shakir and Samuel. They've since added Moore as another similar type of player to McConkey. Is McConkey as effective a player when outdoors, or when its cold ? It's a small sample size, but the splits suggest - no, he is not - https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/McCoLa00/splits/2024/. And that was with this slate of outdoor games: New England, Cleveland, Denver, Pittsburgh, and Carolina. So 3 of the worst teams in the league, and 2 playoff teams where he had 7 catches on 14 targets for 77 yards and 0 TDs. It's hard to say one way or another with a really small sample, but i do think sub 9" hands can be an issue with a cold wet ball.

Yeah, his shot was last year though. He got injured and didn't crack the depth chart or make the PS. That means Buffalo liked MVS more than him, and liked hamler and Shavers on PS. Adding Palmer and Moore over MVS/Cooper and Hollins, and its really hard to see him making the team or making any level of impact here.