Bills Dad

I don’t post much but if I may offer a thought... Good depth signings and short deals. I may be wrong and I’m sure some may correct me but many of our depth pickups have been pretty short deals. This, to me, may signal that we are going to be aggressive in the draft and go after a quarterback that the management believes in. This may signal some amount of regression this year but we have to “trust the process” here, right? I think I have heard that we now could have upwards of $80-$90million in cap room next year after our recent moves. These short term deals are cheap stop gaps to fill holes that we may not be able to in the draft then next year we can be aggressive and build around a young stud quarterback. And i I also see us continuing to invest in defense for more long term. If we have a good defense in place we won’t be asking a young qb to win every game for us. Again, to me, this seems like a smart way to build rather than the “draft a QB and he’ll be our savior” mentality that teams like Cleveland seem to maintain. Whew!...sorry...I’ll post again in a few years. GO BILLS!!!

Hi all! Longtime forum reader but new participant so I hope I'm not breaking any rules or committing any online faux pax. So I'm watching the Dolphins/Pats game last night and I get to thinking about how to better build a team for long term success like the Patriots. How do they consistently bring up new people that step up and produce? It got me to thinking about new ways(or maybe not new ways, I don't know) to build a stronger team for ourselves. Are there rules against sponsoring an athlete to train and learn in an environment that indoctrinated a player to be ready to plug into your system in the future? Let me explain. There are many training centers around the country that top level athletes just outside of the NFL system participate at to train and try and be ready to make a professional team. What if the Bills or any other team were to open their own training center and sponsor athletes to train for most of the year to develop them into our next generation players? Pay them to train essentially and in the meantime we could indoctrinate them into our system by teaching them the basic concepts of our team philosophy while bringing their skills along. No where near the specifics of what a practice squad player get as far as play book but just general professional football concepts that are catered to what our team does. You compensate them with housing, maybe a dormitory style living situation with the other guys and a stipend for living expenses, nothing huge but enough that they don't have to work - just train and learn. At the same time you can be developing coaches that will become future pieces of the staff. Think about a video quality person or something from your team that you think may have potential in the future. You give him experience by putting them in charge of certain aspects of these players development in turn developing their own skills as a coach. It's almost like a military system. Recruit, indoctrinate, then deploy when ready. I'm trying to keep this as short as I can so of course there are many holes in this idea but I think you all can grasp what I'm saying here. I don't know rules that govern the NFL so maybe this is way off and could never be done but if not, why do you all think? Just trying to throw out a thoughtful topic on a bye week. Once again sorry if this is somehow bad etiquette on my part and feel free to publicly shame me. I can take it...I'm a Bills fan...

The Number would only mean something to me if we knew how many accepted penalties there were through 3 games last year. Anybody Know? I do agree that there seems to be WAY more penalties called this year. Its making the game difficult to watch.

Damn you common core!