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The variance in how good our DE room can be is wild. -Rousseau contract year -Epenesa continued improvement? -What is Von Miller? -Duwane Smoot injury recovery? -Can Solomon’s rush carry to the NFL? Its realistic to think all of these can work out favorably for us, but hope isn’t a strategy and the flip side of the coin is we only have two starter level Defensive Ends for certain.

Fair .. but we’re not likely to have an easy go of it early in the season, or at all this season. Brutal schedule. Im ok if they’re confident in this group and we head into the season as is, but they better be confident.. Im fine going young, but I’m not fine stumbling hard out the gate and potentially wasting a prime year of Josh Allen. We have money next year and a bunch of draft picks next year to add cheap talent. If a guy becomes available this year, we have levers available to get absorb their contract and then extend/rework their deal to provide cap space for this upcoming season. Im fine either way, but they better have given Josh Allen enough to compete this season.

Abortion & Buying Votes is the name of the game. Economically illiterate doesn’t even begin to describe this.

Teams likely have 8 OL active on Gameday, 9 total on active roster. I do think what you say is correct, but I have to imagine Kromer is going to want VPG to have some baseline familiarity with Guard if everything goes haywire ala the early season Miami game a few years ago. Most teams don’t have backups active that can only really play one position at a strong level … we’d now have two with LT Van Demark and C Van Pran Granger. That likely would leave Collins as the guy for backup RT and both G spots without a shuffle. Not the end of the world given McGoverns flex, but also not what most teams do, having 2/3 backups being one position backups. They’ll likely play Van Demark at RT and VPG at OG a good bit this summer to try and develop their flex. Let’s just hope VPG wins the C spot because that would be incredibly ideal.

Dang.. I know there were a handful of podcasters/fans that were thinking he could’ve been our pick here.

Yup. Torrance was a RD1 Guard talent that we got in RD2 because he lacks any flex. VPG was a Day 2 Center talent according to quite a few evaluators, but due to his arm length, that’s really all he can play. Therefore he was available to us in RD5. They’re going to cross train him at Guard because if he doesn’t beat out McGovern to start the year, your backup Center has to be able to play Guard in an emergency. Nothing wrong with that .. but he’s probably not going to be great at it.

Compliment piece. My best guess for the Bills vision of this Offense around Josh Allen (as currently constructed) is to have a solid OL with a talented run/pass RB rotation. Kincaid as the pseudo #1 receiving option, with Knox as the traditional TE. Shakir, Samuel & Coleman as a trio of WR2’s.

When Elam has played, it’s been boom or bust .. and in big moments. He was, allegedly, dealing with an injury last year and (reportedly) had issues with his position coach. A microcosm being the Steelers playoff game where he got abused two plays in a row and on the third play got an interception. A year prior, in that same WC Round, was probably our best defensive player against Miami. Former RD1 pick with elite athletic traits. I’m not banking on a healthy season with a new coach catapulting him to his full potential, but I see way more upside with Elam at CB than I do Burks at WR.

QB - Elite TE - One of the best units in the NFL RB - One of the better units in the NFL, with a pro-bowl RB and a 4th Round rookie addition OL - On paper, and with Kromer leading it, likely a Top 12 group DT - Very good 4 man rotation on paper with Oliver, Jones, Johnson & Carter (Better than last year) DE - Depends on Von being able to give us Floyd's production LB - On paper, if Milano is fully healthy, one of the best tandems in the NFL with good depth NCB - One of the best slot corner in the league CB - Douglas & Benford are a good duo. Depth dependent upon Elam. Not sure I see "worst roster on paper since...". In many areas I believe we are as good, or better, than last year. The two massive question marks to lend credence to your statement are if we fall on our face at WR and Safety. Both units adding an unproven high pick at the position, to go with veterans. Samuel & Shakir having a good bit of upside, with Rapp/Edwards at safety being more JAG types who we hope excel in our system.

Well said. Ray Davis is a legitimate 3-down back. He's obviously a good runner, good vision/contact balance etc., he's also decent in pass pro and is an above average receiving back. Cook is too good to not be RB1, but Ray Davis is actually more suited to be RB1 with Cook as the explosive change of pace back with WR level route running ability (not commenting on having actual WR skills until he stops dropping passes)

They’re going after those who have some money, but not enough to fight them on it. The easiest folks for the government to get money from. We all knew this would happen. This administration literally only cares about the ultra-rich, single/childless women and militantly left POC. Everyone else will pick up the tab for their pandering.

We'd likely have two Super Bowl appearances if not for KC. It is what it is. I respect what they've done, but 13 seconds will cloud judgment until they get over the hump.

Far be it for me to defend the continual coming up short due to bad breaks, coaching and players not stepping up.. However, we lost Matt Milano in that game and Daquan Jones, who was playing like an All-Pro, came back for the playoffs at around 50-60%. Clearly that made a difference in the game as Mahomes had dudes wide open all over the field due to other injuries and no healthy linebackers aside from street FA AJ Klein.

I agree with you that no WR was really worth it at that point.. we'd just be throwing them into the pile with Shorter, Shavers etc.. I do think they crushed the 5th Round though. Love the VPG pick and think Solomon is incredibly intriguing on this Defense if he translates as a pass rush specialist. Don't have an opinion on Olofoshio either way, but a lot of draft guys like Jeremiah thought he was a great value pick.

Reading a bit into the sequencing and time spent on draft picks, it looks to me that Coleman, Bishop, Carter, Davis and VPG are all expected to compete for immediate playing time.. Then we got the Terry Pegula "rapid fire" comment and they sped through the picks of Olofoshio, Solomon etc.. I don't think Solomon should be counted on as an immediate contributor but mannn I hope his pass rush ability translates. Having that Bryce Huff type player in this rotation would help.. a lot.

Ah yes, career prosecutors don’t care about politics when bringing forth cases that they campaigned on prosecuting.

Because, of course they did…

What a pathetic way to frame this. Rich people get away with stuff all the time. What I have a problem with are misdemeanors, at best, being juiced up into felonies by politically motivated DA’s going after the regimes political opps. Who gave you an “awesome” reaction for this nonsensical comparison of whats going on?.. I expect gibberish from you, but it’s sad to see someone actually think what you say has any merit.

You think posting this makes your side look better? If he wins, I hope he’s not joking and truly takes judicial revenge on those in power that think like you. We have no more norms to protect .. I could care less. Mutually assured destruction.

SEC frat bros straight wrecking these communists. Love to see it.

This isn’t even really about Miami. Those saying, “is OBJ the type of signing we really want for our WR room?” Maybe, maybe not …. We just don’t want Mack Hollins as our WR4. For a team with Super Bowl aspirations, that shouldn’t be too much to ask for.

McDermott’s best coaching job, imo, was shutting down that Miami offense in its prime after they scored on their first few drives. They can perform against Tua, Lamar types but yea.. I still have no confidence in them against Burrow or Mahomes when it matters. Only positive note I have is that it seems they recognize that and have swapped out coaches and took a guy like Solomon that goes against their traditional archetypes. Would also help if they could stay somewhat healthy going into those games.

Nothing wrong with what you say here. If you think of Kincaid as our default 1, with Knox as the traditional TE and then Coleman, Samuel and Shakir as WR2’s, you can reasonably talk yourself off the ledge, but it’s a lot of projection. On the bright side, we have a better OL than teams like the Jets, Fins and Titans.

We said this last year. They’ll boat race bad teams again. Remains to be seen if their defense has enough to stop elite QB’s and if Tua can man up against good teams when the weather turns cold.

We have money freeing up on 6/1, which I figured would be used on either WR or DE … Bringing in Claypool and Smoot is interesting as to whether it has any bearing on my assumption for either position.