GunnerBill

We don't agree a ton but we are in lock step on this. If I had come to the NFL 4 or 5 years later than I did when it started to have its 00s growth in the UK and I didn't have a reason to root for a team I'd be a Saints fan because of Drew Brees.

We will have Cook. The Bills, unless Josh gets hurt, will win 11 minimum and I reckon 13 or 14. I have them in contention for the #1 seed. It's a tricky home slate but the Bills are good at home and while I don't think they will go unbeaten there I'd be surprised of they lost more than 2 home games. Their road schedule is very favourable IMO. I don't see any team as having caught up. I think New England is the one that has taken a step. But if you are honestly looking at that roster and seeing a team that can contend with the Bills in 2025 I don't know what you are seeing.

Yea - it's a combination of his impatience and what @Mikie2times says about the run blitzes - the Bills are good at forcing TFLs in the run game even when they are otherwise getting gashed. It is the result of the type of defense they want to be. And if you can get Miami behind the sticks where they are reluctant to run and can't really rely on any of their window dressing motion or fakes and they just have to drop back and pass they are vulnerable. Tua as we know isn't the same when his first read isn't there and isn't mobile enough to make things happen off schedule.

The thing that sticks most in my mind is Brandon Beane's end of season presser where he (rightly) said he did a "horrible job" putting together an offense for his rookie QB.

Thats a mid 90s PSG shirt.

I forgot Matt Simms the other day. Grading myself a D- must do better.

I don't think he was close to the athlete that Matt is. But he had that gamer instinct in him so I know what you mean.

Yep. UDFA made the squad at linebacker the first Rex year, got on the field at the end of the year I specifically remember him making some plays in that finale where we stopped the Jets making the playoffs. Then he retired after one year in the league because of concussion concerns.

Fairchild might have been more of an Air Coryell guy but Greg Olsen is a pure West Coast Offense coach. I don't pretend to remember the 2006 Rams but it is what Olsen has run everywhere else he has been.

Yea he played a playoff game for the Texans didn't he? He had a summer here but I don't think he was ever on the roster during a season.

We play cover 4 and win. He wants them to leave him 1v1 yea. Hilarious.

I keep my other half in a strict under center run first out of the I scheme situation.

Yea. In the WCO the play call is more defined for the receivers. If your QB is a general the EP is better for you. If your QB is a paint by numbers guy run the WCO.

The difference between the EP and what I call the spread varience of the WCO is both verbiage and choice. The verbiage is different and in the WCO the WR rules are stricter. In the EP you rely on the QB and the WR interpreting the rules of the play the same more.

Yes. Yes it was!

Was it the fella he's had at the Jets. McElroy or something?

Miami and New England are both 7 to 9 win teams. Jets will be a spunky 5 or 6 win team.

Trubisky wasn't a Leinart level bust. Not even close. He started four years in Chicago, made the playoffs as a starter, had a winning record and a positive TD-INT ratio and it wasn't like he had a stellar roster around him on offense. Right Josh and Zach do qualify though I think.

Trey Lance?

We will go 5-1. Lose week 18 to the Jets in a dead rubber.

Definitely weaker than the Eagles, Lions and Ravens. They are probably the three best rosters in football right now. In my opinion weaker than the Chiefs too although I think that one is closer. Disagree on the two NFC West teams. I think they were weaker than the Niners the last few years but the Niners can kicking has run out of road. I think their roster in 2025 is weak. They still have more stars than us but they are ageing and with health questions and they have some gaping holes too. The Oline other than old man Trent is a sieve, the Dline is a huge question mark and they might have the worst starting secondary in the league on paper. As for the Rams... I'd take their pass rushers - Turner and Verse - over ours and their two starting receivers (although Davante does turn 33 during the season the wall is at best "approaching" for him). After that the only starter of theirs I'd take for the Bills is Kam Curl at safety, who I actually wanted the Bills to sign when he was a FA last spring.

Favourite? Matt Milano. Easy.

I think Philly has a top 5 WR 1 and 2. The rest of their group stinks, but I take the broad point. I disagree a tad on Hurts. I have him #5 and I think he is slightly underrated because his surrounding cast is so good. I accept after the top 4 guys there is a bit of pays your money takes your choice but the people putting Stafford there at this point are doing so on a lifetime achievement basis not what he has done the past 3 seasons. I think Herbert is the 5th most talented but Hurts is a better leader and plays better in the big moments. Maybe I'll have Daniels at #5 after 2025 if he can back up his rookie performance but I need more than a 1 year sample. I wouldn't bang the drum that he MUST be #5 but he is certainly closer to #5 than #10.

I don't think Devonta or Goedert are as good at their jobs as Hurts is at his. They are both good. Hurts is really good. AJB and Saquan are elite.

Meh. I'd take Brown and Saquan. But then Hurts before anyone other skill guy on that offense.