oldmanfan

Make sure you keep the guys on the roster now that you definitely want to stay, even if it's a year early. Poyer, White, Hyde, Milano would be priorities. Then decide which of the O linemen proved it on their short deals and extend them; very hard to find quality O linemen these days. Then look at a WR or pass rusher to target.

As always a nice Shaw column. It should be an interesting season, with young guys developing on both sides of the ball, and some vets around to help led the way. People are going to be focused on Allen as the QB, and I only hope folks realize young second year QBs are still going to make mistakes. As many as last year? One hopes not as development occurs. Still, my one wish for the season and the board is that we do not fall into nitpicking every throw Allen makes, or every cutback Singletary makes of every missed tackle of Edmunds as if it means they're a bust, or every great play each makes meaning they are HOFers. They're young, the team although spiked with veterans in some areas is still somewhat young at key spots. Let's look at the totality of things as we go forward.

My daughter is moving to Orlando in October. Do we have a Bills Backer chapter?

I think Gore beat him out for the veteran role. Simple. Hope Shady does well in KC, no ill will towards him at all. Hope he does great until we beat him in the AFC championship game.

Hope so.

Why are they out there then?

One could argue they should have traded him last year.

Why did we keep him all offseason? Because Beane and McD felt he’d be a big part of the equation. Then Singletary and Gore came on strong. ?

$$$$. Teams knew they could get him for less if he got released. Plus if any team thought he was still that good and their clear answer they would have made the trade and paid him 6 million. Seems like folks including the Bills see him as a complementary piece at this point in his career and not worth the bigger dollar.

A small fraction of guys seem to have been claimed thus far. It speaks favorably that talent we had to let go gets picked up quickly.

It is a good thing that our cuts get signed elsewhere. Speaks to the talent we have.

Glad Duke is staying.

We’ll see, just like the Bills will see with their retooled offense. My guess is the Chiefs will fold just like Reid teams ultimately do every year. Just a question of how far they get before it happens. Why do you spend so much time on a Bills message board anyway?

I used it first about the Chiefs. They spent a fortune on their Offense but their defense is not good. It will come back to bite them.

Interesting take

That was a bad move by Ralph. But if you go back and watch that game Johnson didn’t play that bad.

True. And the player shouldn’t complain about the fines they get when they hold out either.

I agree. But Shady at this point in his career isn’t forcing the opposition to game plan for him either. There is only so much you can do in one off season. I think the smartest thing they did is to revamp the O line. Especially given the paucity of O line talent in the league. Hopefully that triggers a better run and pass game.

The willing belief to lump a team with a new owner coach and GM to 20 years ago defies any logical explanation.

Here is you in a nutshell. Anything other teams do is great, anything the Bills do is terrible.

I’m still surprised by Shady, but I wonder if part of it is wanting more north-south runners to avoid putting Allen in 2nd or 3rd and long situations. Shady can break stuff off but also when he dances can lose yards.

He had a nose for talent but he also put us in cap hell. The real story is that Ralph wanted to keep him and tried to get him to commit but Butler was evasive. And he was evasive because he was negotiating with SD while under contract with Ralph. Go back and read what happened at the time.

Let’s be careful about lying about what happened. Butler was negotiating with another team and got caught.

They negotiated that in the CBA. The players don’t like it they should blame their executive team.

Ralph fired Butler when he found out he was negotiating to go to SD behind his back.