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I don't think it has much to do with Coleman himself. It's been known since the draft that Hollins would get a significant amount of playing time. Until MVS was signed out of desperation, Hollins was the only player on the roster to have received a majority of his snaps outside in the NFL. I don't know if he is ahead of Coleman in the coaching staff's mind or vice versa, but both are going to get a lot of playing time outside because they are the only real options we have there. And yes it represents a massive failure of this regime to have a 2nd round rookie and a journeyman JAG as the primary outside receiving options in the prime of Allen's career. Much like this regime did when they drafted Allen, they have drafted a raw physical talent that was known to need a development track and are instead throwing him into the deep end of the pool because they've left themselves no other options. If Hollins ends up in front of Coleman on the opening depth chart, that isn't any more concerning than Nate Peterman opening the season ahead of Allen on the depth chart in 2018.

This is one thing I will disagree with. The staff has a much higher opinion of Mack Hollins than they should based on how they talk about him and how he has gotten nothing but 1st team reps since day one. When we signed him I remarked that it was a Trent Sherfield caliber signing but the team apparently brought him in to play a major role in the offense, for reasons that elude me. Having their rookie WR battle an established veteran was always the plan IMO, as it almost always has under this regime. I think it is to Keon's credit that he was able to work his way onto the starting offense from day one of OTAs. That is better than almost every 1st rounder we've drafted in the McBeane era. It sucks that he is being thrust into a larger role than his raw skillset says he should. I just hope the fanbase can be patient. Don't blame Keon for the failings of the front office if/when he doesn't immediately hit the ground running. He was always going to need time to refine his game. Of all the other WRs drafted this year, only the top 2 are expected to step in as basically their team's #1 outside WR from day one. Everyone else has established talent in front of them and will have time to develop their skills. For some reason this staff is treating Keon like Nabers and MHJ with the laughable competition they have on the roster, and that's not fair to him or to Allen for that matter.

More positive injury news:

Samuel's skill set is unique anyways, I don't agree that Dotson would be redundant. Samuel is going to be a gadget/weapon in our offense. I don't think we really have a traditional Z on our roster unless that's what we're calling Keon.

That's not true, I really liked the Curtis Samuel signing. He was one of the WRs I advocated for even before free agency started. But I still think we are thin at the position and would love to add good depth with upside if nothing else.

So that is fair. I see him as a Z, not just a strict slot, and to me he would be a possible upgrade at that position on our roster, and at the very least give us upside there. That being said I admit this all comes out of a sense of desperation about the position.

Dotson has more receiving yards over the past 2 seasons than anyone on our roster other than Samuel... Beggers can't be choosers.

I absolutely would have been in on that trade. It's crazy to me how little urgency we are showing at the WR position. The Eagles have a top 3 WR duo and they're willing to make this trade with their division rival. I really don't get it. Maybe the plan is to wait until the trade deadline and see if there's a legit #1 or #2 WR getting shipped out. Hopefully that's the plan.

Great news, especially on Samuel. The turf toe must not be too serious.

Bills specific: -No single player over 1,000 receiving yards -Coleman to lead the team in receiving yards and TDs -Solomon with more sacks than Epenesa League-wide: -Rams win the NFCW -Bears are the annual divisional 4th place to 1st place, winning the NFCN -Conference championships Texans at Chiefs, Lions at Packers

This is a five alarm fire. Our kicker is 8 of 14 in practice this week. I don't know the path forward from here but being less than 50% from 40+ yards puts us at a HUGE disadvantage, if that needs to be said. On top of the other issues we're likely to have this year, Bass might be the difference in us missing the playoffs entirely.

I understand being less optimistic but I'll never be less interested. I was interested when EJ Manuel was battling Kyle Orton for the starting job. Why wouldn't I be interested now? All the discussion here is fun but ultimately no one knows how the season will turn out. Surprises happen constantly in the NFL. Maybe Coleman becomes a superstar. Maybe Babich and Brady are wunderkinds. I may not have the highest expectations but I'm excited as hell to see how it all comes together.

Yeah he didn't track the trajectory of the ball right. I get why a lot of people think he turtled up/short armed it, but that's not my interpretation of it. Looks to me like it does to you, he expected it to be thrown into his body and didn't adjust to the poor throw fast enough so he only got fingertips on it. Kid just turned 21 and only started focusing on football a couple years ago. I'll give him some time to ramp up and adjust to the speed of the game. I'm not remotely concerned about his toughness or willingness to absorb contact.

I don't think he turtled up at all. Keon isn't afraid of contact, that's his whole game. The pass itself was just awkward. It's a wobbly almost knuckle ball, almost looks like it got tipped when you watch it in slow motion. He never get his hands on it cleanly. It's a little disappointing but I'm less discouraged by the failed catch than I am encouraged that he made a move to get open in the endzone off his release. That's the progress we wanted to see from week 1. One awkward throw dropping to the turf doesn't bother me. Here you go: You can see on the first angle he isn't hearing footsteps, he just doesn't expect the ball to end up that far in front of him and he doesn't make a clean attempt at the catch.

We just don't know that. What we do know is that besides Coleman (and Shakir to a certain extent) we have exactly zero upside waiting in the wings. So when an injury inevitably happens, we have no one that can even possibly step into the role and produce at an above average level. If say Burton or McMillan were on the team this year, the fanbase would be disappointed in Samuel's injury but excited to see our other rookie get a shot. And if we're counting this as a retooling season which I am fine with, getting young WR talent in the room now also would have set us up better for 2025. Instead we have exactly one prospect that we're banking on for the future. Like I said before there is no spin that can excuse the lack of investment. It was a known problem months ago and the spotlight has only gotten bigger in the wake of Samuel's injury.

The Chiefs scored 3 points in the 1st half and then Mahomes threw a terrible INT coming out of halftime that gave the 49ers the ball at the 50. It's nice that they were able to beat an elite team with that game script but no chance we could replicate that IMO. For a myriad of reasons we shouldn't be using the Chiefs' season last year as any kind of barometer for the type of team we need to win a championship. Pointing to the quality of their WRs is just a last-ditch bad-faith effort some make to excuse how little our regime has invested into the position.

You could play this game with our picks too. Cole Bishop - Was firmly playing a backup role before suffering an injury and now his path onto the field is questionable in his rookie season. DeWayne Carter - Firmly entrenched as a backup/rotational DT and has not shown any real flashes so far. Ray Davis - Backup at the least important position on the offense. And other than Javon Baker, every one of these WRs is playing behind a better set of pass catchers than what we're trotting out this year. Jermaine Burton isn't going to beat out Tee Higgins, but beating out Mack Hollins? Yeah I would rather have that chance over any of the 3 picks we made after Coleman.

Total myth. Name one WR that Mahomes "made." Not Toney, not MVS, not Skyy Moore. Tyreek Hill has had the most production of his career in Miami. QBs elevate overall passing production, they don't elevate passing talent.

It's pretty simple. The Bills let their top 2 WRs walk this offseason (I 100% agreed with those decisions by the way), but they had an opportunity to refresh the room with a historically top heavy and deep WR draft. They instead drafted a single WR, and spent the rest of their middle round picks on a safety, a backup DT, and a backup RB. There was no amount of spin that justified it at the time and it looks even worse now. I'm prepared for people to blame injuries when the passing offense takes a big step back, but this regime intentionally decided to leave themselves dreadfully thin at the position.

Malachi Corley Jermaine Burton Roman Wilson Jalen McMillan Luke McCaffrey Troy Franklin Javon Baker Tez Walker Just throwing some ideas out there.

The one that involved a rape accusation. Right, so this is a good example of what people are trying to tell you which is that the Bills didn't cave to "bad press." The least important player on the team was accused of rape. They made a business decision, the same one that everyone else would have made. Is it your opinion that we would have cut Butker if he was our FG kicker? We kept Beasley around after his private opinions actively hurt the team, so I'm sorry but you are just wrong about this.

Just to be clear, we're equating accusations of rape with religious opinions given at a private ceremony?

Are you really starting to love the room yet?

Hamler or Isabella suddenly have a shot to make the roster, if they expect Samuel's injury to linger. What a mess.

Awful news. Samuel getting injured is the worst case scenario on the offense and turf toes can linger. They are going to have to make a trade or do something. We cannot go into the season with potentially Mack Hollins as our 2nd best WR.