RunTheBall

This is a great move. First of all, Phillips was one of the only guys who showed up on defense against KC in the Championship game. That alone should give everyone the warm fuzzies because NONE of our guys on D tend to show up in the big game. This has everything to do with Carter, he’s gone, and no one else. Jordan is keeping the seat warm until Larry O is ready to come back. Walker and Sanders look good but they are rookies and you need more veterans than just Jones and Oliver early in the season while the rooks get up to speed. Once Larry is ready to come back they will reassess and unless Jordan is lighting it up he will go to the PS. Idk why everyone has sand in their vaginas. I’d rather have Philips than Carter. That’s another Beane bust. He’s a 3-tech and they are trying to make him into a 1-tech. Never gonna happen. Hopefully we get a late round draft pick instead of just cutting him. Stop bashing Trey White. The man has a roster spot as long as he has a heart beat as far as I’m concerned. Is that good roster building?? F-no. I don’t care. He will be ready week 1 (unless we get a vet corner then it’s worse than I think) and will hold the fort down the first half of the season until Max is ready to roll. I firmly believe Trey is going to make some plays for us this year and host the Lombardi at the next Trey White Goalie Academy function.

McBeane aren’t cutting Samuel or Moore. That leaves maybe one spot for Shavers. I don’t think the kid could have done any more to prove he belongs on the 53 but he may be a casualty of CB injuries like a previous poster said. He better get in the training room and massage Tre’s “lower extremity injury” day and night to improve his chances of sticking

I’m kinda shocked so many of you still put any stock whatsoever in a pre season game If we beat them by the same score instead of getting whooped, I’d feel the exact same way as I do now about the team. I don’t start drawing any conclusions or start trying to predict the future until I see them play 3-4 regular season games

I watch a lot of UB football. I went there for grad school and my dad has always been a big booster (love coming home to free, close parking and box seats haha). I digress. Dolan is a better LB than Buffalo Joe but not by much. He’s better in coverage, where I think Buffalo Joe is a little more instinctive in run fits. Buffalo Joe, Dolan, and Jimmy Cialo (?) are the same type of player. You can only have so many of these guys on your team. There’s a reason he went undrafted just like Joe and Jimmy. I hope he does great in Dallas. I wouldn’t have had a problem throwing a 7th round pick on him but the only reason you are hearing so much about it is the content bros are all up in arms because they wanted the story and narrative. I love Pat Moran but that guy has his head so far up Dolacs ass when Dolac burps it sounds like Pat’s voice. Nate Geary has also been on that rant but no one takes that clown seriously. Maybe he sticks, maybe he doesn’t, but back up linebackers who play special teams are a dime a dozen.

Andre showed up in the playoffs. Diggs disappeared. Andre is a HOF Wr, Diggs won’t get close. There’s not really an argument here.

I want to preface this by saying I love Diggs, I appreciate what he did for us, and I’m pissed he let his ego get in the way of what could have been a lifelong legacy as one of the best WRs in Buffalo. His name would have been on the Wall of Fame. He was the perfect WR at the right time for Josh to reach his potential. I don’t think for a second that Jefferson would have had the same impact on Josh’s development that Diggs had. Unfortunately, his window was short and he valued individual stats over team success and couldn’t handle the transition to Josh being the face of the franchise. He wasn’t willing to accept a smaller role as his skills diminished and forced himself off the team and hasn’t done jack sht since. If he would have bought into McD’s mantra that it’s the team before the individual, he’d have gone down as one of the greatest WRs in Bills history. Anyone who tries to compare him to Andre Reed needs to seek mental help. Andre is a Hall of Fame WR, Diggs will never get consideration. Anyone who watched Eric Moulds and isn’t just looking at stats knows he was a significantly better WR than Diggs, although a different type of WR. Teams schemed to take Andre away in the playoffs, he still made plays. Diggs fell short. Sneed ERASED him in the playoffs one on one. That’s not an elite WR. Diggs is just another of a long line of WRs who had a good few year stint then drifted off into obscurity. He could have cemented himself as a Buffalo legend but he chose to be a btch, force his way off the team, blow his ACL and now play for the Pats*.

Andre Reed is a Hall of Fame Wr. Diggs won’t sniff the Hall of Fame. So while your stats are nice, and you put he disclaimer of “different era of football” (which it was, and he had to share the targets with a HOF RB in Thurman) Diggs couldn’t sniff the jock of Andre.

Perfect game for McD. Completely meaningless in terms of the score, but he gets to evaluate guys individually. He also gets to re-focus the team with a little pre-season wake up call. I expect a great week of practice, especially from the marginal guys fighting to make the team. Bishop is a concern but again, he hasn’t practiced in weeks so let’s see where he is after a full week of practice. I do not want to see Hamlin start again. I think Justin Simmons is still out there.

Switch the rounds Elam and Benford were taken in and I think your perspective will change. McD is a DB whisperer. Besides Tre at the end of the first round, he turned Hyde/Poyer into pro bowl safeties, took Benford and developed him into a solid #1 CB. He made serviceable CBs out of Dane Jackson and Levi Wallace. He developed Cam Lewis into a solid contributory player. Hell, he took a completely unathletic Hamlin and turned him into a starting safety (certainly uprgradeable) I think the body of evidence is that Elam just didn't’ get it here for whatever reason. It isn’t a lack of coaching skill thats for sure. Some guys just need a different environment.

After the Williams deal it was just a matter of time before this got done. 12 mil AAV with 30 guaranteed is fair to both parties. Cook may not be valued that high by other teams but as important as he is to our offense, an extra million a year is peanuts considering how much the cap goes up every year.

How can this be any team other than Miami? I don’t care if they are 2-16, I hate that team more than I ever hated Brady (who owned us) because they are the anti-Buffalo. South Beach, warm weather, bling, SOFT PLAYERS, and a completely delusional fan base who doesn’t bother to show up to their games. Hard Rock putting AFC East Champs on their hotel before the game was even played. There was nothing better for a regular season than being 3 games down with 6 to play and then ripping their pathetic hearts out in Miami to win the Divison. HAHAHA Fk Miami! As for KC, we just get out coached and out played every time in the playoffs. That’s not on them, it’s on us so hard to be pissed at them. Yeah, they get every call their way but we’ve been fighting that battle against almost every team for 2 decades so we know that going in. I blame McD’s defense first but the reality is, Josh has had opportunities to win 2 KC games in the 4th quarter and didn’t get it done. Yeah, Diggs and Kincaid dropped balls but there were plenty of plays before that that could have been run better. I do think he got screwed on spots last season though.

Tasker kinda sucks but I don’t care, I love that guy. For all he did for us he can mash marbles in his mouth as much as they will let him, all the more power to him. Kinda like when we first signed Tre back and everyone was like “He’s WASHED” and I said I don’t give a sht if the man is on one leg I’d make a roster spot for him. Not the smartest way to field a team but I like being able to root for guys who I love and think represent Buffalo. Just so happens Tre isn’t washed and will be a solid #2 until Hairston is ready. Steve can smoke stogies and screw up analysis for the next 10 years, I don’t care.

It’s just one pre season game so my pronouncement may have been a little premature I based that on the horrendous angle he took on the Giants receiver who had huge YAC because Hamlin took the wrong angle and then got blown by. When Dane Jackson got torched on the TD, Damar looked like he had cement in his shoes as he jogged to the sideline watching that sweet TD toss by Dart. IDK what his responsibility was on that play but he wasn’t close to providing help. He did have some good run fits though

I only look at individuals during pre season. I don’t care about the score. 1) James is getting paid 2) Walker is the real deal and will get significant playing time this season 3) Tre White was making business decisions out there 4) Tauron Johnson was not (dumb) 5) Shavers made the team 6) Jackson is a project, I’m glad he made that stupid Offside in the pre season 7) Sanders had some plays, showed some potential 8-Bosa is a beast still if he can stay healthy 9) I love the way Frank Gore Jr runs the football 10) Davidson didn’t help himself 11) Buffalo Joe is backup MLB. He’s everything McD loves in an undersized LB 12) Mitch / White doesn’t matter. If Josh is out for any length of time we are done 13) Ty Johnson with the 3rd team outplayed Davis with the 1st 14) Damar Hamlin is horrible, he’s slower than last year if thats even possible. He should not be on the team

I’d offer Cook a touch above the Williams deal and if he balks, run him into the ground this year. All the leverage is with Beane and the Bills. If Cook holds out, he loses money and doesn’t show what he can do on the field again. If he wants to risk playing this year without an extension then give him 75% of the snaps. If he balls out, good for him. We always hav the franchise tag but I doubt Beane would ever use it on a RB because of the hard cap implications.

Cook is going to sign. The Williams contract just set the market for non-Henry/Barkley/Early CMC running back contracts. It’s 11 mil/yr AAV. I’d guess Beane will accept a little more than that to get the deal signed and continue to send the message that Buffalo drafts and retains it’s own (unless you suck like Edmunds, ha!). It won’t be more than 12 mil/yr.

Cook will sign for an 11.5-12 mil/yr AAV for 3 years. This is all posturing

Tua is a good dude and a good QB. He’s not a very good or great QB. He does not elevate the play of those around him which great QB’s (Josh, Mahomes) do. It’s well known what his limitations are - off script plays, throwing deep outside the numbers, so good teams take away his first read and clog the middle. It’s not that complicated, and a lot of teams don’t have the talent to do that. If McDaniel stuck to the run a lot more and Miami invested in their O-line instead of paying bajillions to wide outs and washed up CBs they’d be a better team. McDaniel can’t help himself with the play calling and their GM is an outright disaster and must have pics of Roth with a goat because there is no reason for him to still be employed.

I think they will extend Torrance before McGoven because he’s younger, a draft pick, and on a skyrocketing projectory. Unless McGovern is willing to give a team discount which he’s been fairly vocal about not being interested in.

Parsons isn’t coming. This is how Dallas players have to negotiate with Jerry. Cook will be signed within the week. I’d guess 12-13 AAV Torrance will be extended, they will try with McGovern, Edwards will walk at the end of the year. We have too many up and coming O-lineman on good contracts to extend Edwards.

Eh, you have to have your hands on the leg to feel the ACL (or lack there of) so you can’t tell from the video. That didn’t seem like excessive laxity by the inaccurate eye ball test. If they thought there was any question of an ACL injury I have to believe they’d have gotten the cart out. I’m not too concerned about al these injuries. Let’s see when it gets closer to opening day. McD tends to be very conservative especially early in camp. These guys are all acclimating, he’s not going to push anyone and possibly worsen an injury, especially roster safe guys.

I think this is the first summer in 3 that Tre wasn‘t rehabbing some injury. That’s a big deal especially as players get older. Tre White Goalie Academy is back!

You know how this is going to go. Tre is going to start, and at some point Max will take over after he’s “earned it” according to the McD criteria. Will that be by the end of camp? Who knows. We were still going to need a cost controlled, long term solution at CB2 so I still think Max was the correct pick.

Yawn. Wake me up after the 3rd regular season game and then we can start drawing some conclusions. 3 days of camp without pads and people are drawing conclusions. Hilarious. The only thing you can take from this so far is 1) Josh will probably start at QB 2) Bishop is a starting safety, it’s his job to lose and 3) They are going to make Max earn the #2 CB spot. Shocker. (I love that Tre is looking good so far. Love that man)

I know we all like to sht on the Jets but this is a good move by them. Wilson is a top 6 WR in the NFL. The Jets have very little talent on the offensive side, they don’t have to pay a franchise QB, so why not spend some money on the best guy your team has? Good for Wilson for getting his bag. He might sniff the playoffs at some point with Glen as HC but I doubt it. Maybe he will be one of those guys who after this contract is up goes cheap to a good team so he can feel what winning is like.