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Elam isn't going to be able to start in this league if he can't stop being grabby. It's plays like that that make the coaching staff gravitate towards Dane Jackson, at least they know what they're getting from him from play to play.

If Houston is amenable to trading Davis Mills I would do that right now. Kyle Allen is awful.

Okay take Cook out of the game please

Richardson doesn't look ready.

I try not to get on rookies too much for interceptions but his was really bad. Throwing an interception because you try to do too much or thought you could squeeze one into a tight window or misread a disguised coverage, those are acceptable or even necessary rookie mistakes. His interception however he clearly just didn't see the defender at all, he had a clean pocket and was facing a vanilla preseason defense. That combined with his awful S2 score, you can't help but wonder.

The advantage he has, similar to Josh Allen as a rookie, is that he can use his pure athletic ability to cover for gaps in his skill set while he figures out how to play QB in the pros. It's going to be a wild ride throughout his rookie season and likely continuing into next year. Beyond that it's all up to how hard he works and how well the coaching staff and front office build the team around him. If I were him I would hire Jordan Palmer yesterday, if he didn't already.

I love what I'm hearing about him at training camp, but let's wait and see if he can keep over a 60% catch percentage through the first 5 games or so before we think about extending him. Even then I might be inclined to let him walk next year. We're going to be tight against the cap for the next few years so we need to reserve our big money contracts for true proven difference makers. If Kincaid makes a big impact from day one, that lessens the need to pay a WR2 big money. So let's just wait and see where it goes from here.

They didn't have much of a chance. Burrow had the ball out of his hands in 2 seconds because of our pitiful defensive scheme and coverage. We gave him easy answers and he took them. No DL can get pressure that fast.

Updates from Matt Parrino and Ryan Talbot:

Those kinds of difficult concentration catches have been totally missing from our offense the past couple years. We finally have a guy that can make those. It's going to make a huge difference.

Can't wait to see Kincaid's first action on Saturday. Too bad it will be with the lesser Allen throwing the ball but I'm sure his skill set will still pop off the screen.

12 personnel 📈📈📈

Updates from Matt Parrino and Ryan Talbot:

Yeah we have to start making some tough decisions. We should do what the Steelers do and draft a WR every year. Let the WR2 walk, collect a nice comp pick, plug in the new guy, rinse and repeat. Extending Davis now is a gamble a team with a better future cap situation could take. For us it's way too risky IMO.

It's because Spector is the one unknown on the depth chart. I've seen Dodson in coverage, he isn't good enough. This is year five for him, I doubt the light is suddenly going to go on. Bernard looked completely overmatched to me in his limited reps last year. Nothing I've heard about him at camp this year eases that concern. I don't typically give up on players this early but I think they just blew that pick. It happens. So a small part of me hoped Spector would come out of nowhere and at least give us starting caliber play at the position. The reality is that MLB is going to be a weak point for us this year, no getting around that now. It's a little scary having no starting level talent for a key position but I suppose most teams have to deal with that somewhere on their roster.

Not sure if I should read anything into this but Ford is listed behind Settle on the first official depth chart released by the Bills.

Well, I just received some unfortunate (but not devastating) news from my usual source. Von Miller apparently has a grade 2 strain (tear) to his upper left leg (not the same leg as his ACL tear). This was described to me as a "compensation injury," i.e. he likely injured it because of overcompensating for the opposite leg of the ACL tear. I was told it will put him back "a little bit, not months." My source says this almost certainly rules out a week 1 return but week 6 is still potentially in play. Most likely scenario is he will be put on PUP to start the season and the treatment will just be general rest and rehab to the affected area.

Again I will admit I don't know how fair it is of me to compare a WR with a TE. But to counter your point I will point out that true GOATs make their hay in the playoffs against the other contenders, and that's where Kelce makes the biggest difference compared to Diggs. Diggs' playoff stats since 2020: 75.3 YPG 5.3 receptions per game 61.7% catch percentage 0.29 TDs per game (this is honestly an awful stat) Kelce's playoff stats since 2020: 101.8 YPG 9 receptions per game 83.3% catch percentage 1.1 TDs per game The thing about Kelce that makes him a GOAT is that NOBODY shuts him down. Triple cover him and knock him on his ass and he still might score a TD on the play (this actually happened in a game last year). Kelce is comfortably a tier above Diggs IMO. Diggs is still elite in his own right though, no question on that.

GOATs are in a tier of their own. It's like saying Tom Brady and Philip Rivers are in the same category as both being top tier QBs.