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Wow, 3 solid to really good O-line players in free agency. Beane is making this look easy....or all our other GM's has made this look difficult.

I think it has to do with the fear and anxiety of not achieving success. Akin to the term Billsy, I'd say we've been conditioned to feel disappointed in this team for the last decade and a half for the majority of the time.

I'm not very knowledgeable about Brown's or Beasley's run blocking abilities. Are any of the WR's better at blocking than Jones? From what I remember (which of course isn't the most reliable) Jones was able to set up some really good blocks during the year. If he is our best blocking WR that could be an important factor.

I mean, I can't really blame them.

To be fair, their investment in Manigold and Ferguson did get them pretty far in the playoffs with Mark Sanchez. Of course, they had Revis and other players but it seemed like that focus on their O-line was useful at one point.

And Roman can probably do a good job creating a situation for LJ to improve.

Yeah the writer is clearly on the Jackson & Darnold >> Allen train as both of those teams are at 5's.

Cause he has AJ and Peterman

Which in itself is a huge determining factor. The talent the Bills have as a WR, who they bring in or don't bring in will determine if Zay is the best of the worst once again. (Of course Foster and McKenzie might have already surpassed him in ability)

Yeah, EJ might be one of the nicest players we've had (and the Bills seem to mostly have high character guys for better or for worse). Here's hoping he can make it as their fake snap count specialist.

? Of course! You consistently expressed your opinions on that strategy when the rest of us had the pleasure of reading your "10 things game recaps". That's not to take away from Virgil at all, he does a great job too.

There's truth in that, though I wonder if MIA will have lower expectations than AZ. AZ went 7-8-1 the previous year and spent money on Bradford (terrible in hindsight). While they may have had lower-end talent I don't know if they expected to perform as terribly as they did.

Dick Jauron? Is that you?

I thought with the Bills he worked only with Fitz...unless you're counting that one game that Trent was so bad that they cut him afterwards. I wonder between Peterman and Edwards who is the bigger training camp hero.

He is? Cowboy fans seem ecstatic that he's gone.

I only really started paying attention to football and lurking this board in 2004, the good old days of Ieatcrayonz trolling people, so my knowledge is limited. I would say Anthony Hargrove, he had suspension issues but aside from that he seemed better as a DE than Kelsay or Denney both of whom played a lot more than him. Certain players who were undrafted or seen as ore developmental would often need opportunities to showcase their abilities instead of the coaching staff initially recognizing their talent (although perhaps they needed time to develop) perhaps Jabari Greer is another possibility.

We'll see if he makes it past training camp. At least Beane has been busy, I can't remember the last time the Bills have had four players (even if most are depth) re-signed this early.

For me, that was by far what was most frustrating about Rex as a coach. On some level I could at least justify Jauron and Chan in that they didn't seem to have much talent to work with. Rex took a great defense and made them the team's weakness.

Schobel managed to at least get pressure on QB's. He usually showed up for NE games so I probably remember him as better than he was. Denney caught a fake kick, Kelsay blocked a Dallas throw and caught it in the endzone for a touchdown.

Jairus Byrd was a Probowl player Dion Dawkins almost immediate started Chris Kelsay seemed always good enough to start Roald Darby same as Kelsey Kiko Alonso I mean, he is starting.... Reggie Ragland -???? Aaron Williams All four of these guys needed some time or change of positioning to be successful and even then were decent to good Zay Jones Josh Reed Roscoe Parrish Williams is interesting to me. For a while he seemed like a bust as CB and needed time to become good. I'm hoping Zay is similar to him.

I think Byrd is most interesting to me, as for his rookie contract he was by far the best, but then got injured and never seemed to recover. I'm curious if a 4 year great player is better than a 10 year okay player like Kelsay.

Well said, I think what was most frustrating was that Rex managed to cause our defense to significantly regress despite being know for being good at defense. PFF had an article on most improved players. The year after Bradham and Mario left Rex's scheme they both were selected by PFF as having significantly improved.

Hey all, I was thinking about the team and how much the draft is depended on. I thought about players in the 2nd round as many have been polarizing players and would be curious as to others' opinions of these players especially as some were great for a short amount of time, while others were consistently okay (some would argue better and some worse). You'll note that I am omitting players who I consider to be either busts (Hardy, Troup, etc) or home runs (Schobel, Woods, Glenn, etc). How would you rank the following players in terms of how good of players they are/were? Josh Reed Chris Kelsay Roscoe Parrish Jairus Byrd Aaron Williams Kiko Alonso (I'm not sure how he compares from a talent perspective. If I rank him guided by emotion he would be last) Roald Darby Reggie Ragland Zay Jones Dion Dawkins

This is a good answer, I think for me it was during this week specifically when the camera panned to Gase later in the game with him looking like he know he was going to get fired.

Even of the consistently good coaches most seem to have seasons that are underwhelming. Being that the average coach would go 8-8 I wonder if even good coaches are being let go for not being great as opposed to being mediocre.