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My leagues have a lot of Bills fans, so most Bills players go about two or three rounds earlier than they should. For example, if Shakir is projected to go in round 12, someone will pick him in round six or seven. If Shakir fell to the right spot, I would definitely grab him though.

I now see Milano as a wash for the year. As Tre' White in 2022 and Von Miller last year have shown, rushing back too soon does not always mean that you are going to get the fully healed and ready version back. Getting any type of production is not likely even if he returns in December. The amount of injuries every year is no longer bad luck or anecdotal. Something needs to be done to find out where the staff is falling short in keeping the players healthy.

I am confident that the number three and four options this year will do much better than Sherfeld and Harty. Thrown in an improving Kincaid and Cook and there is no doubt that the ball can be spread around more. As all of us are aware, the biggest factor is what can the top two options offer. Shakir, Coleman, Samuel, MVS and Claypool do not have consistent experience as #1 or #2 targets and all have a large gap between their ceiling and floor. If they play to their potential, we could have an deep group. If they all disappoint, we could have 2018 all over again. There are a lot of variables and ways that this could go.

Project 2025 is not a Trump thing, it is from a far right group. Trump has stated that he does not endorse project 2025 (which we can both agree is a God awful idea) and is in fact against much of it. I'm voting third party no matter what so don't pass me as a MAGA, but keeping the misinformation of Trump endorsing project 2025 is the last leg that the democrats have to stand on. I understand, because the democrats certainly can't point to anything positive over the past four years, but it is still dishonest. Right now the Dems entire platform is "we suck, but the other guy is worse."

Shouldn't the ones with the second highest delegates win the bid? If so, that would be Jason Palmer who had 3 delegates after winning the primary in American Samoa. Are democrats ready to acknowledge Palmer as their commander-in-chief?

1) Bryan Cox: The all-time villain and a big part of the Bills/Dolphins rivalry during the superbowl years. One of my favorite overall moments was the second time playing them in 93 or 94 when we are about to beat them after losing the first time and Cox gets ejected. He goes ballistic, Mean Joe Greene who is a Dolphins coach at the time tries to talk to him, Cox gets in his face and Greene grabs him by the jersey, tells him to calm down and puts him in his place while Cox looks flat out intimidated. 2) Gronk: Not only burned the Bills in games but oozed the persona of the typical jock d-bag that there is always one or two of in every high-school. The cheap shot to Tre' White bright him this high on my list. 3) Vince Wilfork: Seemed to get away with at least one cheap shot every time they play the Bills. The worst was when he deliberately threw an elbow into the knee of JP Losman before a sack, knocking him out for a few weeks. I know that is was just Losman, but when you go out of your way to take out a rival's quarterback, there should have been much more than a 15 yard penalty and a minimal fine. 4) Michael Irvin: I felt sorry for him on how his career ended and he is actually okay in the booth, but he came off as very arrogant and entitled as a player, would act extremely cocky when winning and childish when losing. He always seemed to con his way into a pass interference flag on 3rd and long if he wasn't successful 5) Tom Brady: Being owned by him was bad enough, but the arrogance, pouting when losing and overall entitlement made him seem like he was insufferable to be around in real life. Mahomes and Kelce are not quite there to me at least yet. The overexposure of Kelce makes it close, but I never really had a problem with him until last year. Mahomes has a little of the whiny and pouty attitude of Brady, but at least seems to have a friendly rivalry and mutual respect for Allen.

The biggest victim in this name change will be Tony Romo who just lost 90 percent of his material for the next Bills/Jags game that he calls.

Waiting for the Intervention:Jordon episode where it shows her family saying that she is dating a much older guy who pays for her habit followed by a scene when the girl is being handed money by an "anonymous" guy in a patriots hoodie with a blurred out face and altered voice before buying her next hit.

Locks 1) Shakir 2) Samuel 3) Coleman Likely 4) MVS 5) Hollins Battling for last spot 6) Claypool/Hamler Outside looking in Shorter, Shavers, Isabella, UFDA WR's MVS and Hollins aren't flashy but they are reliable veterans. For them to be cut, you would need a combination of them performing poorly and one or two unproven receivers having a breakthrough The last spot IMO is Claypool's to lose. Hamler could surprise if he stays healthy. Isabella would likely be practice squad again. While it is possible that Shorter, Shavers or the UDFA WR's might break through, they are unproven and would most likely end up on the practice squad unless they play well above the expected level and become the next Shakir. They only way that I see them making the team otherwise are injuries or Claypool and Hamler both flopping.

If anyone in the Bills management can convince the Raiders or Seahawks to make that trade, they have earned themselves an automatic entry in the Bills Wall of fame.

No one mastered the "Backle" better than Whitner. I lost count of how many times I would watch a running back or WR drag him five yards, get a first down and then see Whitner jump up and celebrate like he stuffed him for a loss.

Player: Nathan Peterman. There were plenty of bad QB's in the drought era, but Peterman was the only time where I saw zero hope of winning. When Buffalo held the Bears to under 200 total yards on Offense but lost 41-9, that summed up what it was like under Peterman better than anything else. Coach: Rex Ryan: At least with Jauron and Gailey, you knew that they were playing with limited talent and young players. Ryan took our defense from a unit that almost got us in the playoffs with Kyle Orton at QB to a bottom 5 unit in just two years. Watching The undisciplined play and constant penalties with a team that had borderline playoff talent week in and week out was much worse to me than watching a low talent team that played hard during other drought years..

1) I ran a search to make sure that I didn't miss anything, nothing from Beasley besides his stances on the vaccine and failing COVID protocols shows up. Granted, many others with his stances were less outspoken and did not make it a distraction, but calling him the all time worst teammate or frustrating Bill to watch is excessive. 2) Yes, plenty of examples available, but that is not what you are interested in is it? 3) Never said it was. Since you clearly missed the point, I see no sense in trying to explain it. 4) You are projecting your intent on me when you say agenda. The question was about who frustrated you on game days. The way that you answered the Marrone part of the question made it clear that you were not paying attention to the question and only had one purpose and reason for answering. I never once gave my opinion on the topic, only pointed out that your answer was ridiculous. There are plenty of other places to talk politics. Take it elsewhere. Please do not reply. We both have said what we needed. I am done talking.

1) Everyone loved Beasley for the first three years that he was here, the problems with him only came after COVID. He said something against the vaccines and failed the NFL COVID protocols. That is it. He was an ideal teammate otherwise. Not a constant distraction comparable to the level of Kelce/Swift. 2) The NFL has murderers, rapists, wife beaters, and addicts. There are also people who underachieve, quit on their team and are bad teammates. Not getting the vaccine is a greater moral outrage than any of these? 3) Toxic conformity stopped being trendy more than two years ago. 4) Marrone made you the most mad during the 2013 and 2014 season games, because he unexpectedly resigned from the team after the 2014 season?

I personally see Burks as being in the same tier as the Claypool, Hamler, Hollins, Isabella group battling for the last spots on the Roster. I would not see a need to add him and definitely see no benefit to spending a draft pick on a trade for him.

Rex Ryan would have him averaging 50 points a game while the defense gave up 60 Chan Gailey would somehow get a pro bowl season out of him with a WR unit of Hollins, Isabella and Claypool but also have atrocious defenses. Dick Jauron would have Allen handing it off on nearly every snap which the exception of a few check downs to Gilliam and Morris. Wade Phillips would have them playing like contenders as Allen had an MVP caliber season until he decided to start Trubisky in Week 18 during mop up and be so impressed that he started him in the playoffs Marrone left a bad taste in everyone's mouth by walking out, but having them the verge of the playoffs with Kyle Orton as the QB was an impressive feat. If that unit had Allen, they are in the playoffs. I even think they would have made it in with Tyrod Taylor in his 2015-16 form.

If I had to Pick, I would say Aiyuk or Metcalf. I don't think that it is happening. Buffalo has been playing with the cap for years, and this is the year to pay the piper and eat some of that cap. Restructuring more contracts kicks the can down the road and I would rather have more cap space in 2025. In addition, I feel like we need more help at CB if we decide to spend on one more option. After Douglas and Benford, we have Taron Johnson who is a good nickel dime package CB but gets beat a lot if starting and Elam who was so green and unprepared that McDermott preferred activating a years past their prime Josh Norman off the practice squad when there were injuries last year. If injuries are an issue in the same way that they have been over the last two years,, I feel a lot less worried relying on Hollins, Claypool and Shorter as depth at WR than Elam and unproven street FA's at CB

I am not necessarily taking a leap of faith and assuming a good group. Whether or not this works is wholly based on whether or not Kincaid, Shakir, Samuel and Coleman are ready to take on larger roles. It is not a guarantee that it will or wont happen, we will have to see. I do not think that it is ideal, but much better than where were in 2018( the primary topic of the post that I responded to). I also do not feel like a declining disgruntled Diggs and a replacement level Davis were any more likely to elevate the group in 2024 then the current group. In addition, any of our top four WR options are likely to produce more than Sherfield and Harty in 2023. We took a huge risk by not coming in with a true #1. We can only hope that it either pays off or that Beane and McDermott are willing to trade for someone if they begin to think that it won't

This group is much better, primarily because nobody in the 2018 WR room was productive enough to even be a #4 for any other team. They were abyssmal. We have no clear #1 in 2024, but I am certain that any of Shakir, Samuel, Coleman and maybe even MVS as they are today could have been the clear #1 option if they were in the 2018 group. In addition, Allen has Kincaid and Knox at TE instead of Charles Clay and Jason Croom. A more fair comparison would be to the 2019 WR Group of Beasley, Brown, McKenzie, Roberts, Knox and Kroft.

It was quite the run for Cephus here. What was your favorite Quintez Cephus Bills moment? Mine was coming on here on the day that he was signed to make a witty post about him "being a gamble" and seeing immediately after logging on that at least a dozen others had the same idea before me. Thanks for the memories.

In the grand scheme of things, Buffalo did address the WR position by signing two veterans in Samuel and MVS and spending their top draft pick on Coleman. Unfortunately, it takes a lot to replace the loss of four receivers including the two who were seen as the #1 and #2. Keeping them may not have been better. Diggs' was disgruntled and his production was dropping off. Davis did not adjust to a starting role like hoped and was playing replacement level at best. Harty and Sherfield did virtually nothing so even if the top two out of the MVS/Claypool/Cephus/Shorter/Hollins/Hamler group get 20-30 catches each, it is an upgrade over those two. This was also a cap strapped year, so Buffalo needed to be creative in adding depth. They went with borderline and last chance veterans at minimum contract levels instead of mid and late round draft picks at the WR position. Whether or not that pays off remains to be seen. Allen did a good job of spreading the ball around after Brady took over, but the lack of a clear #1 is still a long term concern. We can only hope that Shakir, Coleman or Kincaid can develop into that role. In the meantime, if four of our receiver group can play consistently this season, we will be fine running this offense in 2024.

I am seeing a lot of Shakir and Shorter, but that does not quite fit the question because they both have some expectations coming into the season. This would apply more to a scenario where before the season, the player is written off and/or seen as a poster child for why the team hasn't done enough or made the wrong choices at the position. This would make the candidates players like Elam, Dorian Williams, and Some of the low risk high reward receivers that were signed. I am going to go with either Hamler or Cephus at WR as this year's Bernard.

This prompted me to look at out CB room, and I didn't realize just how thin that position is. After Douglas, Benford and Taron Johnson, it is JAG/replacement level. We really need Elam to step it up this year.

I am not ready to give up on Elam just yet. Most of us saw Bernard, Dodson and Espeneza as expendable around this time last year. Sometimes it just takes a little longer for things to click.

This is one of those "impossible to solve" math problems that will result in the quiet angst-ridden janitor solving it during the break on their overnight shift and leaving everyone shocked and mystified the next day.