TheBrownBear

I actually agree, Greg. Just using those home wins as a template and working from there. Point being, I think we should win 13-14 games, but it never really shakes out the exact way you expect it to.

Reminder - every single team in the NFL has a road game at Buffalo penciled in as a projected loss. So, start from there, and then give us three road wins at Pats/Find/Jets and all we need to do is win at Chicago and Detroit. And I like us to take 2 of the 4 against Ravens/Rams/Chiefs/Bengals.

Just wait until he's spilling the playbook to Bellicheat.

I haven't been this upset since Leif Larsen was released.

Marquez Stevenson is a thoroughbred. Unfortunately, his blinders are affixed directly in front of his eyes.

Matt Haack and Taiwan Jones for the #1 pick. Make it happen Beane.

There's other guys with more speed and agility that make you say "wow", but there's something about the combination of Burks' strength, hands, deceptive speed and highpoint ability that screams AJ Brown or Eric Moulds to me. I feel like we haven't had a real big physical receiver in forever. The guy just looks like a football player to me and he's the one I want if we go the receiver route in round 1.

Yep. I was like, "Holy sh*#! This kid is a freak!" watching that play. Juking Alonso (i think it was him) out of his shoes was also an early "WOW!!! LMAO!!!" moment for me.

Yeah, I don't understand it and it's frankly an idiotic move on his part. Look at the guys who are considered some of the smartest dudes in the league - they all have agents. What does that tell you, Lamar?

It's honestly pretty damning of the kid's judgment/decision-making.

I'm 43, born and raised in Buffalo, and we had season tickets from 1988-1995 (when I moved to California). I'm basically in the sweet spot for the OP. Obviously, I'm obsessed with the Bills and have been since they announced Kelly would be coming to Buffalo after the USFL dissolved. I had tons of opportunities to meet the big 90's stars, tossed a football around with Andre Reed on the Rich Stadium turf and even appeared in a commercial where Jim Kelly picks me up and lifts me in the air, etc. So, it's hard for me to say either way, but I'd have to think that the team being so good in my formative years has influenced the intensity of my love for the team. For instance, I'm a hockey fan, but never had the same level of interest in the Sabres (don't get me wrong, I've always followed them and was insanely excited when the LaFontaine trade was announced, loved Mogilny, Pat, Andreychuk, Housley, etc), probably because they were mediocre in comparison to the Bills at that time.

He's a better prospect. Started over JJ in college (#1 vs. #2). 5th pick of the draft (vs. 22nd for JJ). 13 TDs as a rookie (JJ had 7 and 10 respectively in his two seasons). 18.0 ypc. Elevated his offense/team to playoffs and SB in first season. Extra year on his cheap rookie deal. And I don't see him backsliding. If anything, I expect him to put up MONSTER numbers next year. No brainer for me.

If you want to go with that reasoning, Jamarr Chase is just as good as JJ and has an additional year on his rookie contract.

Is this the greatest offseason in franchise history? (Offseason only - forgetting what immediately preceded it, of course)

Clearly we are trading Josh Allen for Baker Mayfield.

I wouldn't say it should always be a Josh run, but yes, his running ability is one of the things that has made us so potent on offense. Go back and watch the Pats and Chiefs playoff games. Without Josh's running ability and our willingness to lean on it, there would have been many more opportunities to bite our nails while watching Haack barely escape a blocked punt.

I feel horrible for laughing at that.

Yes. Must be devestating to be "punished" by a powerless anonymous message board member posting from their parents' basement.

I will never begrudge another human being for following their heart and doing what they believe is best for them. Let's move on and stop embarrassing ourselves

Okay. I think that Tua is a "legitimate starter" in the vein of of Kirk Cousins, Mac Jones, David Carr, Jimmy Garopalo and others. Meanwhile we have Josh Allen. So,we win 3 out of 4 games vs the phins, where does that leave Miami?

Can you imagine being a fan of another team when you've got to go against Josh freaking Allen? Honestly, that must be a terrible feeling. It blows my mind that we are now considered, far and away, the favorites to win the Super Bowl this coming year. We are that big bad team that is expected to wreck the league. Really fun from a fan perspective. Let's hope our guys can deliver on that promise.

It's hard to overstate how important Josh's postseason performance this year was in all of this. We knew we had a great, HOF type QB on our hands, but I think it took this year's playoff performance to really catch the eye of players around the league. Watching those two games, they were probably like "damn, that's a cool cat, fun guy, great teammate, and an unbelievably all-world freakish talent, with the stones to deliver in the toughest moments on the biggest stage. I want to roll with that dude and help him get over the top." Buffalo's awesome fanbase is just the cherry on top.

I've seen this stated a bunch of times by different posters to diminish Watson's stats, but it just isn't true. That Texans team lost a ton of 1 score games that were back and forth the entire time. Games that they lost on the final possession or where they held a lead or were tied heading into the 4th quarter. It wasn't compiling numbers against prevent defenses. His numbers are legit. And their defense absolutely sucked. Not worst in the league, but they finished 30th that year.

I mostly agree. He's a damn fine quarterback and certainly a top 6-10 guy in terms of production. The thing he's got going against him is that he hasn't really been a winner in the playoffs and the 4-12 season just stands out as being really odd. I know that O'Brien purposefully submarined that team, and some historically really good QBs have been on losing teams (for example, Elway in 1990), but I have a hard time believing a truly elite QB/leader would produce a 4-12 season. I mean, can you ever imagine the Bills losing more than 9-10 games while quarterbacked by an in-his-prime Josh Allen? They are paying him to be Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Mahomes - a guy that always wins regardless of the roster. I just wonder if there isn't a little more "Dak Prescott" to him than Mahomes, Rodgers, Brady, etc.

Sorry, but you're wrong. Given the roster, he was absolutely NOT TERRIBLE in his final six starts of his rookie season. He put up 13 TDs, averaged 287 ypg and went 3-3 during that season ending stretch with Robert Foster and Zay Jones as his receivers. (And it would have been a 4-2 record if Clay doesn't drop that gimme at the goal line in Miami). It wasn't revisionist history or us just relying on the "eyeball test", his stats back up the claim that he was improving and actually fairly good by the end of his rookie year. Yes, there were still hero ball moments and the accuracy wasn't the best, but, assuming your viewing wasn't colored by a pre-existing agenda, you could clearly see that Josh was going to be a very good player at a minimum.