Straight Hucklebuck

What I see the Scouts missed is that Baker is not a good athlete. When he tries to run, avoid pressure, or extend the play, he looks so small and slow. He trips over his own feet, lacks coordination. So what they saw was accuracy and arm strength at a high-level DI school.

That’s the one where Simmons said he knew he had an interception coming and the ball blew past him anyways.

The best throw I've seen Josh make was the Dagger-Route against the 49ers to Gabe Davis over the top of Fred Warner. The second best throw was against Dallas on Thanksgiving out of his own end zone.

Like Gabe Davis, you saw his ability to separate from the first preseason game. It has translated against the starters. If the Bills are finally in the mind-set of Super Bowl or nothing, then I agree, no more holding players back just because they are young so that worn out veterans can play. Nothing against Jamison Crowder, but that's why his injury was a blessing in disguise, it took away the excuses. Diggs and Davis never come off the field, but I agree that Shakir can now rotate in with McKenzie, pushing Kumerow down the depth chart, and he's a good WR in his own right.

Go back to the Bears. When they up on Justin Fields he can come to Buffalo and study with Allen.

One thing that stood out to me with the video snippets from practice last week (the ladder drill specifically), is he is thick. The work he has put into his legs is evident. He's just a big WR, and his end-zone awareness has carried over from UCF from Day One.

Okay, but this point doesn't make a lot of sense. Callers on the pregame show were talking about hopefully the Bills are in a blowout situation, so then they can give James Cook the football and "get his confidence going". Why is it necessary to wait until the 4th Quarter to mix in James Cook? If the Bills started the game with a James Cook run, what would happen. First play, hand off to James Cook for 3-yards. We are overthinking this a lot. He can carry the ball in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th quarters. He's not some 4th Quarter blowout closer only. McDermott

I agree with this. At Georgia, Cook was a complimentary back. His Scouting Report coming into the NFL was a change of pace back, unlikely to see his “carry count get very high” due to his thinner lower half. https://www.nfl.com/prospects/james-cook/3200434f-4f15-1970-d2e5-e575c819187c

Bills fans sitting here arguing about what running back on the roster could do what James Cook did on that run. But regardless if your favorite back is Devin Singletary or Zack Moss, the facts are that neither run for 24-yard Touchdowns that often. So start with getting ineffective Zack Moss off the field and give his reps to James Cook. No Bills RB is getting 15-20 rushing attempts anyways.

Just replacing Zack Moss will be a step forward for this offense.

What stood out to me last night was 1) Bad offensive line play 2) Old Quarterbacks holding onto the ball, throwing late

No energy at all in the stadium

This is horrific football. All I can think is this is what the Bills used to look like. Trying to “establish the run”, sacks, dumping off, no name offensive players, Quarterbacks past their prime.

I mean if Duke Johnson is getting touches above Singletary or Cook, I'm not in favor of that. If he replaces Zack Moss on gameday, ok, but he should never be necessary.

Kelvin Benjamin, Andre Homes, Jeremey Kerley, Andre Roberts, Cole Beasley, John Brown, Emmanuel Sanders, Jameson Crowder. Like running back (Tolbert, Ivory, Gore, Dimarco, Yeldon, Breida) this team has a thing for older veterans playing ahead of younger players at the twilight of their careers. We hang on to these guys, but they're out of gas by Week 7, see Frank Gore v Devin Singletary in 2019 or Emmanuel Sanders v Gabe Davis in 2021.

I guess so. I'm sure the Bills will keep Tre White at cornerback. So it should be the same defense plus Tre White now.

Well the OP gave you one example of a corner that made the transition, another obvious one would be Charles Woodson. I don't know that I think Tre White's speed will be decreased, the whole argument in my mind is is there a way to get your 5-best DBs on the field at all times? Really as a reaction to Micah Hyde's season ending injury. Keeping White at corner will work as well, he gets up to speed without rushing, and there can be a rotation of snaps with the other two corners. I agree that Hamlin has looked good, and I much prefer him to the slower Jaquan Johnson.

I just thought that you’d be able to keep the physicality of Taron Johnson closer to the line, but get ability to break on footballs, instincts, and add back end speed with Tre at Safety. If you just install Tre back at corner, then presumably it’s Tre and Dane and Taron, with Hamlin and Poyer. Kaiir and Christian on the bench.

I’ve actually thought the exact same thing. It allows you to keep your 5 best DBs on the field at all times, and adds speed at Safety. Johnson is entrenched at slot, and you’re not going to take Dane Jackson off the field, so it makes a lot of sense to me.

I'm with Tom on this one. She was whining about him retiring after the Patriots-Falcons Super Bowl. I think she has been all over him to retire for years. But I think he was truthful saying he wants to play until he's 50, and at 45 he's still looks good. Throws with power still, accurate, PFF grade is still 76.5, higher than everyone except Rodgers and Hurts in the NFC. But he already has put records out of sight, and he can drive them a mile out there by continuing to play. Stay at home and do what? Take her on vacations?

Prince had a 70.7 rating on PFF.

Just get Jordan Phillips healthy again.

I'm in the camp that it shouldn't be this hard. It wasn't hard against the Titans when suddenly he got 11 carries. Or against the Dolphins when he was magically on the field for 11 plays and got the ball 4 times. With all that said, he hasn't helped himself. Of course the fumble, the drop in Miami, the drop against Baltimore. I think the compromise should be he plays ahead of Zack Moss. Right now Moss has 16 carries on the year, 4 per game. Of those 16 carries, 8 have been for negative, 0 or 1 yard.

I have no interest in Isaiah Hodgins being called up. He’s a 4.70 WR. What I’d like to see is if the Bills can get Gabe Davis and Dawson Knox going.

It was all the same script after the Ravens game from the National Media. They all got their same talking point notes handed to them before the show. All about John Harbaugh and the decision to go for the TD and then the usual Lamar Jackson apologists. No mention of Josh Allen or the Bills defense. Rex Ryan talking about how the Ravens need to go back to defense first. Psychotic.