BigDingus

"Dawson Knox isnʼt just a tight end. Heʼs Buffaloʼs tight end. " I may be getting older, but I'm still as immature as ever. This line got me chuckling like I'm a 10 year old still 😆

Just finished drafting my salary cap, keeper league. It's a strange league, we actually draft defensive players & have all flex spots. Team QB: Bills - Keeper Flex 1: Saquon Barkley (RB - Eagles) Flex 2: James Connor (RB - Arizona) - Keeper Flex 3: Josh Jacobs (RB - Green Bay) - Keeper Flex 4: D'Andre Swift (RB - Chicago) Flex 5: Aaron Jones (RB - Minnesota) Flex 6: George Kittle (TE - San Francisco) - Keeper DP1: Myles Garrett - Keeper DP2: Maxx Crosby DP3: Nick Bosa DP4: Frankie Luvu K: Brandon Aubrey Bench: Team QB: Lions Stefon Diggs (WR) - Keeper (Only cost $4 out of $225 budget to keep) Jakobi Meyers (WR) Ricky Pearsall (WR) Khalil Shakir (WR) Jauan Jennings (WR) Budda Baker (DP) I think I did pretty good. Finished 2nd place last year. My team had a bunch of players do nothing during the final week of the season & cost me my championship

Reminds me of everything else these days... Less color, less personality. Everything is either white, black, silver these days. I look at cars on the road, and almost everything looks the same. Interior of everyone's house looks the same. Restaurants & other businesses are changing logos to make them less interesting. I don't even "hate" these designs, I just look at them & think "yeah, guess I should've seen that coming."

That spelling makes it sound almost comfortable....a head cushion of sorts!

And yet they finished 11-6 & made the playoffs. Not everyone gets to play in the AFC East. They'll be better this year, while the Vikings are likely to be worse. Jordan Love was playing injured. Now they just added a star pass rusher. Their rookie WR Golden should also be very good. You may not think much of them, but I believe GB will win the division or just barely be edged out by Detroit. Either way, they'll be good.

I think it's a bit too early to tell. It's heavily dependent on what they get out of those draft picks. But the Packers believe they're in serious contention, and it's likely the Vikings take a step back this year. They should be competing with Detroit for the NFC West crown, and getting pressure on the QB has proven to be a game changer in the post-season. We tried to take a swing with Von, but it he was just too old by that time. If we had the cap space, I'm sure Beane would've considered that contract too.

I really hope next year there's a way to get us in a cap position next year where we could afford these kind of season-changing deals. The Cowboys were willing to trade within the NFC, against a team they play this year, and get rid of a player that's 3 years younger than TJ Watt. The contract is huge, but just like with QB contracts, it'll only look better 4 years from now.

Well damn, I was wrong. I was convinced Jerry would hold out & force him to stick around. Sucks that we didn't have the cap space to handle this...

Given all the jokes in this thread, nobody is going to believe me, but I've brought this up before. My coworker lives across the street from Micah's girlfriend & runs into him at least twice a week. You'd think his girl would go over to his house, but no, Micah goes & visits her place all the time. Only reason I'm bringing this up is because my coworker just saw him again last night. They only ever exchange small talk, and once he autographed a football, but just wanted to point out that Micah is still here in Frisco last I heard. It's also very unlikely Micah is allowed to visit other teams anyway, especially with Jerry acting the way he is. He's going to make Micah play out this contract or agree to the extension terms Jerry already offered.

I don't think Allen is much better as a downfield passer. He rarely hits anyone in stride, and most years he hasn't been very accurate on deep balls. Sure, Mahomes isn't throwing downfield much either, but I would say neither are very good in that area lately. Mahomes has that Brady pocket presence, where he's extremely elusive & has great awareness. Only difference is he can also scramble when he needs to. Josh is better as a legit run threat, and I think he's also better at making the best of broken plays. The biggest advantage Mahomes has is 1) Andy Reid & 2) he's great at the dink & dunk, finding the open guy who can then take a short pass into a long gain. I do think it's a bit silly how much people downplay Mahomes though. He's not putting up the numbers he used to, but despite that, he's still putting up basically the exact same passing numbers as Josh is. From a passing perspective, his "down years" are basically identical to Josh.

Probably going to be a Benford situation where Strong or Hancock end up being great DBs as later picks. However, I'm just going to hope it's Hairston, because damn do we need one of these 1st round picks to finally become a major impact player!

I thought there were only 20 seasons of the show, including this one?

None. If anything, the current roster still looks pretty thin on talent, so they could've cut down to 42 without losing much. But damn do I wish there was a better backup QB option than Mitch... I have zero confidence he can come in & hold down the fort in the case that Josh gets injured.

I'm not overreacting. They definitely don't WANT to have to use him. But I also don't think this shows much confidence in Bishop (or the safety position in general). If anything, maybe Poyer can come in & help teach these guys what an All Pro did to be successful.

Crazy that the Lions have that kind of success with so much cap space still available... and we're dead last in the league lol

Sir, it's "C'est la vie," meaning "that's life."

Don't worry, we only drafted 3 DTs the last couple years & signed another in free agency. Surely, bringing Phillips back is a good sign!

1) A lazy bum bum asked for a thread recap, as if we were AI just programmed to do his grunt work 2) A wild moderator appeared, questioned his intelligence & assumed his nationality 3) The time-crunched poster clapped back "I knocked up my girl twice in a 1 year span! Ain't nobody got time for that!" and mocked moderator's duties 4) Moderator then told the loafer to go night night 5) Mr. "I can't be bothered to read" couldn't fathom the weight & responsibilities on moderator's shoulders, so he fled the scene... presumably to take a much need nap. Aaaand SCENE!

Just watched the replay & saw a good amount of positive things. But what really stood out was how bad special teams were... I really hope they get that figured out, especially since a lot of these guys will be playing ST.

Bills are pedestrian. They eeked out wins against the Cardinals, Dolphins (requiring a 61 yard FG as time expired), the miserable Jets & Patriots, and the Rams actually did beat us. They lose to a ho-hum, above average Texans team (which is worse than losing to a "dottering" Chiefs team that beat us & made the Super Bowl), Pats, and got absolutely demolished by the same Ravens team you're calling pedestrian. They were a good team in 2024. But they still lost to the Chiefs for a 4th time in the playoffs. Hardly worthy of all the hype they're once again getting as SB favorites. See how easy it is to spin a whole season into something that sounds worse than it is?

Don't want to start a new thread for preseason games, but anyone else surprised to see Mahomes playing for so long against the Bears? Wonder if the Bills will give Allen any reps this last game.

It's going to be sad if both of the Chiefs early pick WRs develop into legit weapons. Rashee Rice looked like he was on his way to becoming a true WR1, while Xavier Worthy was developing into a big home run threat. People defend Beane's early round draft failures saying it's partially because we pick so late each round, yet the Chiefs actually pick later than us. And so far they've managed to get their D right before us, find an All Pro CB before us, draft at least one great WR before us... We already couldn't beat them despite their injuries & missing weapons, or when they had to finally play on the road, but now they continue to add great players & all while staying in better cap shape than us. Beane has had 8 drafts now, and we've only found 1 star player in the early rounds & several good - very good players in the later rounds. But we need more ELITE players on both sides of the ball. The fact this team got to the AFCCG with 1 All Pro is a miracle.

At WR? Yes. Shakir is our only consistent WR, and he's most dangerous in the slot. Then again, so is Samuel... and Kincaid... and Moore... and even Cook 😆 Can we just lineup everyone in the slot?

Obviously they'll get volunteers like they do to shovel snow. $20/hr + free chips & queso. But you have to bring your own water.

Did anyone tell McDermott "you're overreacting, it's just preseason?" Because I thought people were saying you can't read into anything during preseason?