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The AFC East incestual coach-swapping the past few years has been mind boggling. Rex Ryan gets fired from Jets for being a bumbling doofus, immediately gets hired by Buffalo...where he continues to be a bumbling doofus. Chan Gailey and Ryan Fitzpatrick get run out of Buffalo, the Jets bring both of them in to helm their offense. Adam Gase flames out in Miami, so they bring him to New York and make him head coach AND GM. Mike Tenanbaum gets fried from the Jets, gets hired to be a part of Miami's front office. Meanwhile, the Pats are sitting back, laughing and counting rings. You can't write this stuff.

Yep. I mean...he completely seemed to lose the locker room in Miami. There were instances of him calling out his players publicly for lack of effort, there were players who left and were basically on their knees thanking God to be out of there. And this doesn't even make MENTION of the awful on-field product in Miami. His teams had absolutely no identity and were a real bore. And his "keen offensive mind"? Sure didn't help much. I will thoroughly enjoy watching him fail in Jersey just as he failed in Miami.

I have been saying for months that McCagnan is a terrible GM and would be fired sooner rather than later. Not that bold a prediction, I guess, since anyone with eyes could see how bad he is/was. It's funny. Looking at the Jets and the Bills, roster wise, and "stage of rebuild" wise, you'd say they're similar. Both just landed what they hope will be franchise QBs. Both followed that up by adding playmaking 1st round DTs. Both are more toward the beginning than the end of a rebuild. There's just one key difference: The Bills have a cohesive, logical, methodical front office and coaching staff in lockstep, while the Jets are basically the pre-Beane dysfunctional Bills of a few years ago. It's hard not to look at the Jets from an outside perspective and conclude that they need to blow the entire front office structure up and do a complete organizational rebuild, like the Bills did with Beane and crew. Instead, they now have a head coach who the new GM may not want, and they let the now-ousted GM spend zillions of dollars on players that their coach reportedly doesn't even want. Dysfunction, ineptitude, disorganization...pick your adjective. The Jets are a poorly run organization with a bad head coach who now also has GM duties. As a Bills fan, this is glorious to watch.

Gosh I love the Jets. Bumbling ineptitude at its most hilarious.

Seconded. With Ford perhaps being the second most important addition. Protection trumps weapons in terms of importance in my eyes.

Yeah. I may be in the minority who think that it is NOT a slam dunk that Murray has a good NFL career. It would really be something if Rosen wound up being the better pro QB.

Not only that, but I sincerely doubt that it's truly a $9 million deal. The devil is always in the details.

I agree with all of this. I especially second your notion of not yet counting out Wyatt Teller. I think the staff likes him a lot. The REALLY interesting thing is what happens if Nsekhe wins the starting LT job. You want your best five guys out there, right? So does Dawkins kick inside to LG in that case? It's hard to envision him falling out of the lineup entirely. When the dust settles, I'm guessing it's Dawkins - Teller - Morse - Long - Ford as the starting unit. Teller beating out Spain being the boldest prediction in that grouping.

I was just thinking about this. Brad Butler was arguably just SLIGHTLY above average. But when was the last time the Bills had a no-doubt-about-it, upper echelon RT? It's been quite a while. I'm honestly drawing a blank. Anyone? Anyone? It just seems like one of those positions that the Bills have been trying (and failing) to fill for at least a decade now.

I am officially in the "watch every highlight of Bills draft picks I can get my hands on" part of the offseason. I wondered about Cody Ford's pass blocking, which I have read is elite. He played in the Big 12, and lots of fans will tell you that that means he wasn't tested often against great pass rushers. Well, here's a an entire game of his against the best defense in college football. He's playing against a few guys that will likely be NFL players rather than grocery baggers. How does he do? Well...as to this game...the Sooners get down early in this one and have to pass almost exclusively. As such, there aren't a lot of run blocking reps to watch. But the pass blocking? Wow. Ford makes it look effortless. I counted maybe 3 or 4 instances of Ford getting beat by his man in this entire video. The rest of the time? He pretty much just makes it look easy. He takes great angles, manipulates defenders easily, uses his hands well, rarely gets beat around the edge, doesn't often get bull-rushed, and what I've read seems true: If he gets his hands squarely on you, school's out. This was a treat to watch, and really made me feel good about what should be vastly improved protection in front of Allen. The Bills haven't had a truly good right tackle in what seems like forever. Ford looks like he may finally be that guy.

People sure choose weird times to take moral stands about harmless charitable efforts. Sheesh.

$8 from every sale ($26) goes to the family. I do understand the company's need to pay the artists that create the shirt, pay for the materials to create the shirt, and to upkeep the website. 26Shirts.com always does this. It's what they are as a company. The create highly specific shirts for certain sports cities (Buffalo among them), and donate part of the proceeds of each sale to various worthy causes. If people want to say they should give the whole amount to the family, I'd point both to the above mentioned costs as well as the fact that numerous apparel companies out there don't donate a single DIME to any worthy causes. The company makes great shirts that are quite popular, and they'd likely sell quite well even if the company didn't give any money to charitable causes, so I find it awesome that they choose to do so at all.

Does it make you feel any better to know that dozens of donations came into the Roswell Park cancer treatment facility in Ezra's name today? I see no problem with fellow Bills fans, in an outpouring of love and appreciation, donating money to cancer research and to Ezra's family to help them re-coup medical costs. Maybe I'm crazy.

Because he passed away? Because it is incredibly expensive to fight cancer and they need to re-coup medical expenses? To help a family that is in a time of need? Because Bills fans are good and charitable people? I'm not sure I really understand your question.

Fair enough. Just so you know, the shirt was an older design from 26shirts. It was brought back today by popular demand in light of Pancho passing away. They didn't make the design specifically to capitalize on the tragedy or anything.

I realize there is already a thread about Pancho Billa, but I figured this would get buried, and this was a better way for everyone to see it. Maybe we can get a pin for a day or two? A portion of every sale of this shirt go to Pancho Billa's family. Available 5 days only. I am not affiliated with 26shirts, I just thought this was a cool thing to share. This shirt design was an older one that has been around for a bit, but they brought it back by popular demand today after being flooded with requests by Bills fans.

These awesome shirts are back on sale for 5 days only at the link below. Proceeds go to Pancho's family, as I understand it. I ordered mine and will be wearing at proudly at the Bills' home opener this year. RIP Pancho. You represented everything good about #BillsMafia https://26shirts.com/collections/buffalo/products/buffalo-comeback-pancho-power-may2019

Numbers wise? Completion percentage around 59% 3,200 yards 19 TDs 15 INTs 500 yards rushing 10 TDs Bills have 11-5 record.

head scratching post.

It makes sense. They're ALREADY breaking in THREE rookies at the position, not to mention continuing the position transition for Jason Croom. To have ALSO had a guy in the room who was trying to convert from tackle might have been a bit much. To instead replace said player with an already accomplished blocking specialist, great locker room presence, and veteran on whom all the youngsters can lean seems like another well thought out, logical Beane/McDermott move.

I dug that episode. Game of Thrones has always been about moral ambiguity and shades of grey. There didn't used to be just "good guys" and "bad guys". The books (and earlier seasons of the show) delighted in skillfully showing you that no one is either all good or all bad. As the show surpassed the books, they sort of moved away from this and into black vs white, good guy vs bad guy storytelling. Well, last night's episode was a return to form when it comes to moral ambiguity in the lead characters. We all wanted to see justice finally served to Cersei on a wicked platter of some sort, a violent and memorable death. Instead we got her being held by the love of her life, with the audience left to feel only pity and sympathy for her. We all wanted to see Dany be the conquering, moral hero we've all been rooting for. Instead we treated to shot after shot after shot of the relentlessly gory and horrifying fates of the innocent people upon whom she was wreaking havoc. Jon Snow obviously was a poster child of sorts for this moral ambiguity. We saw him decide in real time what he was and wasn't loyal to, what he was and wasn't willing to do, who he really was as a person, etc. I've been critical of some episodes this season, and I share some of the concerns about the breakneck pace at which they've chosen to end this story. Last night's episode, though, I really liked. It achieved a nearly Shakespearean level of tragedy, heartbreak, and tension. Well done by Benioff and Weiss.

I'm sad to see Jake Fisher go, but I get it: In the absolute BEST CASE SCENARIO, Fisher would've become Lee Smith. Lee Smith is ALREADY Lee Smith. I also think this front office and coaching staff highly value the idea of having at least one veteran, lead-by-example guy in each position room. Not that Kroft couldn't have been that guy. But boy, having Lee Smith as a learning resource for the two rookie tight ends should sure speed up their learning arc when it comes to blocking.

Like others have said, you're adding leadership by example to the tight end room. You're also adding a guy who can show these youngsters (Knox, Sweeney, Moral) a thing or two about being an effective blocker. Blocking Tight Ends are obviously not most football fans' favorite players, but they are quite valuable to both the run and the pass game. Lee Smith is a top 3 blocking tight end in the NFL. He may be the BEST blocking tight end in the NFL. I see the final roster shaking out at that position thusly: Kroft Knox Smith Sweeney It's not out of the realm of possibilities that Croom makes the roster and Sweeney goes to the practice squad.

I wouldn't say "all", but then again, you're ScottLaw, so I'm not surprised that you would. If you're going to ding them for their failures (KB, Peterman, Vlad Ducasse, Anquan Boldin), its only fair to also give them props for their successes. That's called objectivity. And you know what ? Their offenses have been generally poor overall in season 1 and season 2. Let's just put that right out front. It still seems only fair/reasonable, though, to weigh the hits with the misses. Dion Dawkins is a pretty good tackle. Not elite, but pretty darn good. And after they saw that Andre Holmes and KB weren't working out at WR, and that Allen functioned better with WRs who got better separation, they quickly course corrected and brought up Robert Foster and brought in Ian McKenzie. Now they've also brought in John Brown and Cole Beasley, and while the jury is still out on those two, the odds of them being "flops" seems low, since they're already proven as worthy contributors in this league. Mitch Morse looks unlikely to be a flop, too. And as you stated, Josh Allen seems so far to have been a good decision. While this staff has made mistakes, they have also been quick to own those mistakes and fix them. Rick Dennison? Not so good, gone after one year. KB and Holmes? Not getting it done, gone and replaced with younger, speedier options. The o-line? Wasn't cutting it, so they signed 6,000 o-linemen (including the best center on the market) and drafted a 1st round caliber offensive tackle. Robert Foster's a big one that they should get credit for, too, by the way. They basically got #1 or, at worst, #2 WR production out of a rookie UDFA receiver. They found him, acquired him, coached him up on the practice squad, and brought him up to the main roster. He was a game changer down the stretch. That's big. The ability to find that type of game breaking talent in undrafted free agency should count for something. If you're going to bring up the bad, you should bring up the good, too. Otherwise you're just being a real ScottLaw.