Shaw66

Weren't great, but they were better then wgr.

I wonder how much the NFL considers this when putting together the schedule. Chargers are way, way out of whack if this is correct. That Chargers number says they're playing on short rest virtually every week. Bills and Bears are averaging an extra day per week. That isn't fair.

Yeah. There have been a variety of comments here about the schedule, but I think there's very little to talk about. I mean, sure, we all can say "this looks tough," "that's an unfair turnaround," "that stretch will be tough," but the reality is 1. There's great parity in the NFL (with a few exceptions as you note), so almost every game has the potential to be tough. There are very few easy games in the NFL, and predicting them in advance is difficult. 2. As the season progresses, there always are surprise good teams and surprise bad teams; trying to guess which they will be at this time of year is pointless. 3. Injuries always play an important role. 4. Primetime games and tough matchups are the price of success in the league. Bottom line is this: Either your team is good, or it isn't. If it's good, It'll win 11-12-13 games; if it isn't you'll be unhappy. And whether it'll be good or not is pretty much unknowable right now. Training camp is when we'll first start to understand what the Bills have, and even that will be premature. I'm optimistic, but I always am.

Can't watch it. Turned it off in less than a minute. It's like watching 45 minutes of your wife sleeping with 18 different guys.

I think that's wrong. Palmer, Keon, and Bell are sure things. They won't cut Bell, because some other team will take him. They're committed to Keon, and they have an investment in Palmer. Plus, they're all really good players. They are not sure things only because something unusual could take them out - a drug issue, a personal behavior issue, Keon going completely off the tracks. Those things could take out Moore or Shakir, too, so in that sense no one is a sure thing. But if those five are healthy and behaving properly, they are the best five and are sure things. Cooks has the worst hands of any receiver I've ever seen with a career as long as he has had. The guy can flat out get open, short and long. But he looks like a high school kid trying to catch the ball.

Really? You think he was throwing it away? That never occurred to me. That may be correct. Still, there were a lot of throws that Josh wishes he had back. He simply was not at his best in that game. I thought he lost focus, lost discipline, and failed to execute at his best, play after play. So what he got was a lot of great Josh Allen plays mixed in with some atypical what-was-I-thinking?-head-scratching plays.

The game was on last night, and what you say is exactly correct. Josh can watch the game film and see ten of his plays that could have won the game that he didn't make. Underthrew the deep ball to Cooks in overtime. Underthrew the INT after a takeaway. Overthrew Knox to win it in regulation. In the dirt to Shakir on big third down. The turnovers. A lot of plays he knows he should have made. And still, he was the best player on the field. Even when he's bad he's good.

He wasn't asked about Solomon. He was asked if there was one player who we expected to have a breakout season, and he immediately responded that it was Solomon. If he thought Solomon sucked, he wouldn't have said anything.

It's the same reason that baseball pitchers have wins and losses associated with them. It may be a team game, but one player has a disproportionate impact on the outcome. Just look at the names of the quarterbacks the Bills started during the drought, and look at the name of the quarterback the Bills started for the last seven seasons. It isn't a coincidence.

You can be sure the league has been talking to the Krafts, and the league's media and PR people are surely involved. The league doesn't want fans continuing to talk about this, and the league will be actively involved.

Rousseau said Solomon is going to surprise a lot of people this season.

I agree. For the past couple of seasons I've marveled at seeing him run wide to pressure if not take down quarterbacks who have escaped containment. He is a big athlete who can run fast. I don't predict much of anything any more, because I simply don't know. But I think it's quite possible that a year from now we're going to conclude that McDermott spent five years of Rousseau's career playing him out of his natural position, sticking a truly special square peg into a small round hole. I believe @HappyDays is the guy who's been clamoring for years for a true difference maker on defense, and maybe the Bills have had him all along. We'll see. Just for example, it seems to me that Bernard can be an even more effective linebacker when he has an athlete like Groot playing beside him.

I now think Vrabel is in trouble. A one-night fling, maybe. But now it seems there were multiple hook ups over multiple years while they both were married and, at least once, she was pregnant. That just doesn't demonstrate the kind of judgment or morality that the NFL supposedly expects of its camera-facing people. Kraft might think it's okay, but it's beginning to look like it's Goodell time. I'm guessing Mike'll be taking a step back from coaching for a while.

I've always defended Kelsay. He was better than people give him credit. He was always a useful player, just not the star that some expected him to be. Better than Epenesa. I agree that Palmer isn't the savior, but I think he'll be a useful player, like Kelsay. I think the whole story about the 2026 receiver room comes down to whether Moore goes over 1000. If he does, some combination of Shakir, Coleman, Palmer, Bell, Sherfield, Hardman and whoever else is there will be quality role players. If Moore is 600-yard guy, the passing game will look the same as last season.

That's not what I saw. Palmer had multiple catches late in patterns where Josh found him, where he was supposed to be and open. If he's healthy in 2026, I expect Palmer will see a lot of playing time.