GunnerBill

Different strokes for different folks

Sure. He is physical. His technique is iffy though. He whiffs more than any of our other starters.

O'Cyrus was definitely our weakest OL last year.

Mahomes looks hot with the dad bod. There. I said it.

I agree with all this sadly. If Simmons is healthy and plays well as a rookie that offense is going to be more explosive than it has been in at least 3 years. Rice, Hollywood, Worthy, speed and versatility, can all line up anywhere. Would be the best WR group Mahomes has had IMO, even though there isn't a definite elite #1 like Hill was in his early years. Left Guard in Thuney's absence is a question mark, but if the tackle play is good and the center is good you can hide a shaky guard to an extent.

I'd love to be wrong. But right now the safety spot concerns me and I can see Hamlin for all the reasons you say winning out. As soon as they got to camp last year his knowledge of the playbook shone against the competition.

Yes, hints of potential. But all the flaws we have seen since were on that film too.

Even if he has seen the light he is not very good.

I did tell everyone when we signed him he was gonna end up replacing Morse.

I think it's weirder that they then want to show them off after birth...... "look we had sex and this is what we won!"

Agree. I'd take Meinerz at RG over O'Cyrus and the Bills' starters at the other four spots.

I am not accepting the Bears as a top 5 offensive line with Braxton Jones still slated to start at left tackle. They do look decent LG to RT but LT remains the most important spot and Jones is a bottom 5 starting LT.

Damar Hamlin. For the second year in a row against the odds watch him win a starting job.

Yea Cook is better than Harris. Not even close. The reason for the comparison is I was trying to find an example, even in these days of devalued running backs, of a team letting a guy walk after 3 consecutive 1,000 yard seasons - which I imagined to be extremely rare. I think it is but it just happened with Harris. That is the only one I could come up with though.

I think he will this year. Top 3 IMO.

I'm just waiting for the sex tape to drop.....

Yea that wouldn't shock me either. At best they are scrambling for the 6th or 7th seed and I could easily see them missing out. I'm not as big of a fan of their offseason as some seem to be. They've upgraded at offensive tackle and corner opposite Lattimore but they are weaker up front on the defensive line and unless Deebo can rediscover his best (and I'm sceptical) they are a one man band at wide receiver. Ertz played 17 games last year for the first time in his career, chances of him staying as healthy again I'd say slim... and then teams have a year of film on Jayden Daniels. If he regresses even slightly the offense could look quite pedestrian quite quickly.

Wouldn't shock me either. I think Benford is a top 100 player in the NFL. But the players are not always the best judges of their peers and name value plays a big part on these lists. Personally I think it will be Josh, Dion and Jimbo and that's it.

The Steelers just let Najee Harris walk after 4 consecutive 1,000 yard seasons but he currently averages a full yard per carry less than Cook. If Cook goes for 1,000 yards again at a healthy ypc and the Bills still let him walk it would be pretty unusual by NFL standards. Although I agree with you philosophically about the positional spend.

They ran a lot of coverages the Bills normally play, yep. The Bills' issue the round prior was partly the Bills didn't play a lot of coverages the Bills play. We surprised KC with a pretty un-Billsy defensive gameplan in the regular season to man up more. It worked. We tried it again in the AFCCG and Andy Reid had adjusted and just picked it apart. By finding ways to isolate Worthy in particular and Hollywood a bit on our weaker links 1v1 - especially first half. We switched back to more of our standard D in the second half and we did slow them down a bit more and hold them to a FG at the end when it really mattered, but the damage was done to an extent. We have also never had a defensive front dominate KC the way Philly's did in the Superbowl and we have never had the benefit of Andy Reid and Pat Mahomes melting down the way they did that first half. It's as poor a half as Reid has called in a long time. That is what used to happen to him in the playoffs in Philadelphia. Things would start unravelling and he'd panic as a playcaller. His QB did not help either.

Running Backs tend to make it at a higher rate than their actual importance in the league because it is still a "name" position. But Jimbo is really good and congrats to him.

I believe the latter but still think there is some merit to the opinion in the article. The Bills have again focussed their offseason effort on the Dline. That is something they have tried a few times without it paying off. Will it this time? Who knows?

Hitler, no. But Stalin had some good ideas, if you ignore the genocide.....

I think where I agree is the Bills have pursued the same "pour resources in the defensive line" strategy multiple times under Beane's leadership. This is at least the THIRD major re-tooling of that group of his GMship (and you might even argue the 4th). I would submit that the others have failed because many of those big investments have not worked out as intended for one reason or another. Murphy, Star, Addison, AJE, Boogie, Settle, Jefferson, Von Miller etc... Whereas basically the only investments in the secondary came in the draft (though granted, one was our first round pick) and some bottom end FA safeties and at receiver two mid to lower end FAs. In that sense, I see the point. This is the Bills doing the same as they have done before. I am very hopeful on Sanders and optimistic for Jackson. But let's see.

Meh. I disagree. I think he is just an athlete not a football player.