GunnerBill

It is a flaw in the methodology I have discussed before with @JGMcD2. I think it is a decent method for looking at drafting success but I think it over rewards finding contributors and under rewards finding superstars. The Bills miss in the draft way less than your average NFL team. Even with Elam in terms of true misses for 1st, 2nd and 3rd round picks it is three guys: Ford, Boogie and Elam in six drafts between 2018 and 2023 (too early to call anything on 2024).

They could do worse than Moore. Probably could do better too, but I think he'd be at least a credible hire. It's different having a 65 year old coach to hiring one.

I have seen the "Witten is a former Cowboys tight end just like Dan Campbell. Witten was always smarter than Dan Campbell and Dan Campbell has done great in Detroit!" Sure. Campbell also spent 11 years paying his dues including a spell as interim HC in Miami and a number of years as Assistant Head Coach under Sean Payton. I think that's better prep than than Witten's "Jerry likes me" case for the job.

Probably a Rooney Rule interview, but Jerry does like a Head Coach he can dictate to and Leslie probably fits that mould. As for would he be a good bridge HC... 4 or 5 years ago, I'd have said possibly for a dysfunctional franchise that needed an adult in the room. There was certainly a time when I thought the Bears made some sense. But not now. He is 65. I think his time has passed.

Kincaid was 2023. 2022 was Elam.

Played his best game of the year on Sunday to my eye. I think he is done after the season but I'm hoping to goodness that he has been saving himself for the playoffs as his swansong.

Oh okay. Why's that?

Agree with most of this but also I just love the roster building element of the sport. I love that as much as I love the games. So yea, even when the Bills are a playoff team still with a chance of lifting a Lombardi I confess January hits and my brain starts to be in draft season mode. I'm watching tape of prospects most nights. I don't think being into what happens with next year's roster necessarily means you are pessimistic or not enjoying the ride of this season. I think it is possible to be thinking about both.

Hmmm. I think this might be good news. Sounds like Zay Flowers is going to struggle to go Sunday.

I was making a joke based on the slightly schizophrenic Bills fan reactions this week.

The Ravens are both "a bully" and "scared to come out in the cold."

Oh for sure the Bills dodged a bullet with him but he had 9 years in Pittsburgh, had 1,000 yards plus in 7 of them and the two he didn't were his rookie year and a year where he missed some time injured. He was the most elite end of elite for most of that period and only the very final year there did anything come out about him being problematic. Maybe there were always issues and they just never leaked, who knows (?) but a 6th round pick who puts up seven 1,000 yard seasons, four of them with double digit touchdowns too and is a four time first team all pro? He is one of the greatest draft picks in Pittsburgh Steelers history. Regardless of his career going totally off the rails once he left there.

They are the exact same voters. When Mack Hollins is your best receiver at getting open.....

There is no argument. He was. Without doubt.

Flo and McCown as a package deal is a decent idea for the Jets (and I don't mind it for the Bills because as good a coach as I think Flo is Josh used to eat his Miami defense alive). Ryan Grigson getting another GM job would be insanity of the highest order though.

The 2022 class is our best since 2018 (Josh and Taron) despite missing on our 1st rounder. That class has been critical in moving towards the Allen Bills 2.0

AB at his peak was the best non-QB in football. Diontae Johnson is average at best.

Average player, terrible teammate. I have said it every one of the previous times in the last 10 months a team has got rid of him. This is number 4. That is surely that?

He played well on Sunday.

He's gone.

He is still the best corner in football. The Bills caught him with a nice design on the Samuel touchdown.

I never said it was the only way to distinguish yourself. Our guys have other strengths. They bring size, physicality, Hollins is surprisingly short space shifty for his size and is pretty smart in making himself available to his QB and Keon is a beast with the ball in his hands. I still think you need a separator, particularly who can win on the boundary and I think Amari looks like a sticking plaster solution to that and they will have to revisit it in the offseason. But in response specifically to why are we not seeing more receiver separation my answer is: because of who we have at receiver.

I think he has found ways to get guys open. Could they improve, sure. You can always improve. But I think the overwhelming reason our WR separation rates are as they are is because of who we have there. Coleman didn't separate in college. Hollins has never separated in his 8 year NFL career. They have been our two primary boundary receiver most of the year. Expecting them to transform into guys they have never been is unrealistic IMO. There is still hope you can improve Coleman's separation a bit. He is still young, he is a rookie and some of it is coachable. But it was never going to happen overnight and with Hollins he just is who he is at this point.

That was entirely forgettable.

There is an additional candidate there now with McCarthy. They will hire someone with Saints links though. That is Loomis's MO.