Logic

I love it that all these people no one has ever heard of have the inside scoop, while the most well connected NFL insiders haven't heard a peep. ?

Yes. The fact that people STILL, after all these years, believe in the many-times-discredited IncarceratedBob is amazing to me. Someone even once did an entire ARTICLE exposing the dude. People still buy into his "throw darts at a wall, don't include any hard details, claim victory if you're right, delete Tweet if you're wrong" strategy. HALF his followers are bots who attack you if you question him. After that, he outright blocks you. Say it with me now: IncerceratedBob IS A FAKE!!!

I'm with you. Year two is CRITICAL for Josh Allen, and keeping him upright is the NUMBER ONE PRIORITY for this team. It's higher on the list of important factors than improving the pass rush, even though that is ALSO very important. Aside from that, I imagine the only tackle they'd even ACCEPT in exchange for Clowney would be Dawkins, and trading a good LT for a good pass rusher is just spinning your wheels, in my opinion. It just makes it so that instead of spending a 1st round pick on an EDGE next year, we have to spend one on an LT. Robbing from Peter to pay Paul.

Thanks. You said what I was thinking in a much more concise way than I did. Brevity has never been my strong suit. ?

I see two things at play: First, the media always bases its predictions off of last season's results. Even though there are multiple team-changing factors like player progression, addition and subtraction of personnel, and coaching changes, it's just easiest for national sports media -- who aren't really all that clued into the changes teams undergo, by the way -- to make predictions based off of a how a team performed last year. Second, the Bills finished 6-10 last year and have been bad for 20 years prior to that. Seeing the routine incompetence of the team and the most recent poor season makes predicting failure for Buffalo an easy proposition. We as fans may see all that's going on behind the scenes and read the camp reports and strongly believe the team will take a big jump, but the national media doesn't see/read/have emotional connection to any of those things. They just see years of basement-dwelling failure and a 6-10 2018 record and its easy pickins. Furthermore, I don't feel that the national media necessarily believes that Josh Allen will be any good. If you looked at most national media predictions, I'd be willing to bet that the majority have the Jets finishing better, despite having a first year head coach with a proven track record of losing. Why? Because the national media narrative is that Sam Darnold will be a star. Not so much for Allen. You see a few national media guys that see what the Bills are doing and predict a bit more success: Adam Schein, Brian Baldinger, Kay Adams and Peter Schrager, etc, but most are just taking the easy/obvious way out and predicting failure for a team that has seen a lot of it in the past two decades.

Once Kroft and Knox come back healthy, SOMETHING's got to give at the tight end position. They're keeping Lee Smith and Tyler Kroft, based on what they paid them. They're keeping Knox, based on how high he was drafted. I doubt they risk putting Sweeney on the practice squad, with how well he has been playing in training camp. Smith Knox Kroft Sweeney Croom Are they really gonna keep 5 TEs? If not, Croom could be the odd man out. ESPECIALLY since some of the undrafted youngsters like Nate Becker have been showing really well.

I'm legitimately curious to know what you don't like about her. Is it JUST that she's a woman, or is there something else?

So much hype over a 9-sack per year guy.

48% of the revenue goes to the players, yes. But that still means that 52% of the profits are being split between 32 men, while the other 48% is being split between 1,696 players. I have no idea. How could we know that? Fair enough. I respect your opinions. As I said, I'm not looking for you to agree with Matthews, or to approve of MY agreeing with Matthews. You know what they say about opinions...

The one about the NFL owners -- who are already wealthy -- paying only a tiny percentage of their profits to the guys who actually lay their lives on the line for peoples' entertainment. The one about racial inequality in America. The one about there being so much ego and "fakeness" that it's hard to remember who you are. The one about the money he's making no longer being worth the amount of time he has to spend away from his family. I'm not asking you to agree with me or with Matthews. I'm just telling you that I think he makes salient points, and I have no problems with anything he wrote.

The 1,123rd miserable overreaction to a simple statement on a message board.

Loved Roscoe Parrish. Every time he lined up to return a punt, I held my breath. I couldn't figure out back then why he could never seem to beat out Josh Reed for playing time in the slot. He was ahead of his time a little bit, by the way. Roscoe Parrish in 2019 NFL -- with the jet sweeps, bubble screens, and other creative offensive measures that have become part of the league -- would be awesome.

I just read his Instagram post, and I had absolutely no problem with it. He makes lots of great points. ?‍♂️

Agreed. In 2018, Zay Jones had more touchdown catches (7) than the following players: Robert Woods, Odell Beckham Jr, TY Hilton, Larry Fitzgerald, Julian Edelman, George Kittle, Alshon Jeffrey, Brandon Cooks, etc, etc. Considering the absolute abomination that was our 2018 passing game, that's pretty damned impressive. While I agree that Zay Jones needs to step up and be a big time playmaker THIS YEAR without fail, it is silly to write him off completely at this point. Absolutely silly.

I just can't imagine a world where Vosean Joseph doesn't make this roster. This staff is not one to give up on a 5th round pick in his first year. I think Joseph will be just like last year's 5th round pick, Siran Neal: He'll make the roster even though he doesn't play on defense because he contributes on special teams. Then, with a full offseason to bulk up and learn the nuances of the game better, he'll be ready to contribute on defense NEXT season. Johnson, on the other hand, is more of an open question. I'd like to think that if it's a "tie" between him and Love, they'd go with Johnson, simply based on youth and upside.

I'd be willing to be there will be at least one player on the final 53 that is not currently on the roster.

The thing about preseason is that YES, it's true: the games don't matter. HOWEVER... All things being equal, wouldn't you rather that the team look great in preseason than not? So they came out defensively and absolutely throttled a team with no Andrew Luck or TY Hilton (nevermind the fact that Buffalo had no Hughes, Hyde, or Alexander), you're saying "so what?" Well, imagine if they looked really BAD against a Colts team with no Andrew Luck. Looked like they were all giving top effort, but got absolutely smoked by a team without their starting QB. How would you feel THEN? It could be like the Lions-Pats game, where the Lions got outgained in yardage 459 to 93, and outscored 31-3. How would you feel THEN? All things being equal, I'll take the outcome that features the Bills defense executing their scheme well, filling gaps, form tackling, dominating the opposition, and winning most of their individual positional matchups. Final score doesn't matter in the preseason, it's true, but performance on the field is what you want to see, and that's what we saw against Indy.

There are some players that just don't practice well, but show up big when it counts. McKenzie seems to be one of those guys. I'm hoping Foster turns out to be that way, too, because he sure doesn't seem to be impressing on the practice field this offseason.

McKenzie ran a 4.47, but I get your point.

I'm just curious...are you basing this on anything in particular, or is it pure conjecture on your part?

To be honest with you, I'm warming up to the idea of trading Zay away for something useful. I wouldn't have thought it was a reasonable idea before, but there seems to be a good 3-way competition going between McKenzie, Ray-Ray, and Phillips. If they can get a useful depth piece or 4th round pick for Zay, they ought to consider it.

The fact that he was drawing double teams in his very first NFL game caught my attention. The thing about the Bills' d-line is that it's a "pick your poison" situation. If you double Ed, Star and Hughes get 1-and-1s, and both men will usually win those. If you devote more attention to Jerry or double Star, you leave Ed 1-on-1, and you have to like your odds in that situation if you're Buffalo. Kid's gonna be just fine. By the way, I'm not sure if anyone else mentioned yet that former 5x All-Pro guard Willie Anderson weighed on on Twitter, as well:

Opinions can't usually be wrong. This is the exception.

Right on. I used to get offers to smoke alllll the time when I was driving delivery. I took the first few people up on their offers, but I quickly realized I couldn't possibly get through a shift if I kept it up. In addition to driving, I also ran the deep fryer, so anything that required frying (mozz sticks, chicken fingers, wings, etc) was up to me. My favorite "trick" used to be to intentionally include extra of whatever wings or mozzarella sticks or fries I was putting in the container for a delivery run. If they ordered six mozz sticks, I'd put eight in the container, etc. Then, on the delivery run, I would very caaareeeffully reach into the container and take out the extra goodies I had included and eat them. I mean..I made sure not to touch the other food items. I'm not a monster. It was still a dick move on my part, though. Sure paired well with the frequent smoke-outs, though! ?

Wow. That is legendary ***** right there.