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I don’t disagree. That quote I posted was meant as a joke. McKenzie said it during one of the off-season episodes of Embedded. The context was how he can “do it all” or something like that. However, I would also say McKenzie has a higher ceiling than Beasley. Problem is, he is also more mistake prone. And when the only thing that can slow down our offense IS our own mistakes, I would definitely take stability over big play ability and I am excited to see what Shakir can give us in the slot.

“You ever seen Isaiah McKenzie vs the Patriots?” -Isaiah McKenzie

Will be interesting to watch Trent McDuffie. Sounds like he is playing this weekend for the first time since Week 1(?) Does he make their secondary better? Sounds like he had a really good off-season, then got hurt in Week 1, I believe. It's also interesting because I think he was the guy most of us thought the Bills would draft at corner, and most mocks had him going to Bills.

This would be a good time for a Top 10 highlight reel. Especially Ever since he learned to throw the deep ball, Allen has had so many ridiculous throws I’ve lost track.

Yeah, but we did have everyone else. I wouldn't be surprised if we are more banged up right now than we were in the previous three seasons combined.

As far as Knox, did he even have a hammy yesterday? Wasn't he just listed with "foot" on Wed? If so, what is up with all these hamstring injuries in practice this season 🤦‍♂️

Tremaine Edmunds.... man WTF

guess that could only mean he hurt it in practice?

Phillips finally able to start practicing again after hamstring injury, so Tremaine goes down with the same thing. Ugh. Seems to be one step forward one step back with injuries this year……

DT Justin Zimmer and CB Jordan Miller signed to PS DT CJ Brewer and DT Prince Emili released (sorry if already posted)

Usually involves being harassed by TJ watt though. They’re not the same without him

The BEST thing is... I did that reverse psychology bet thing and bet on the Ravens (since many of us Bills fans are convinced that we bring bad luck to the team), but I got in the line when it was Bills -3.5 before it went down to -3 where it was for the majority of the week, so Bills win AND I won. Love it.

Man... Can never have something good without having something to worry about this year (Poyer). Everything comes at a price lol. That said, I'll still take it. First dang 1-score win in forever... and SHAKIR looked great!

I have a feeling Ed plays, but with our injury luck at certain positions lately, it’s wise to keep an extra DT on-hand.

"Stay ready so you don't have to be ready" my a$$

Did I just hear Mcdermott say Xavier Rhodes has a hamstring injury??? Already? WTF. Well, that was completely pointless, if true.

The discussion about "who did we miss the most" and "who do we need back the most" is actually very interesting, because if you look at practically EVERY reason the Dolphins won (besides the Bills missing every opportunity of their own) it involves the BACKUPS. Center mis-handling exchanges leading to 10 points Backup DBs giving up bomb to Waddle on 3rd and 22 leading to 7 points Lack of a pass rush for the first time all season Unable to defend run at goal line It's pretty clear that "next man up" seems to work when you are missing one or two pieces, but when you're missing as many as we were, it's a recipe for disaster and Allen WILL have to put the team on his back every single time with very little margin for error.

I would imagine there are teams with depth at corner that is likely more valuable than our options in the FA pool. It doesn't necessarily have to be a "superstar". But I'm also just saying, make it a top priority to explore the possibilities, even if there are ultimately no options to choose from.

At what point do we make a serious push to trade draft capital for some secondary help? I'm not sure if our opportunity will ever be as good as it is this year, and rather than allow some injuries make us worse, we should be doing everything possible to make a trade that will not only replace Benford and/or Hyde, but upgrade our secondary on top of it. If it is at all possible, you do that instead of promoting someone off PS or signing players that didn't make anyone's roster and hoping you found a diamond in the rough. Part of what made this team the Super Bowl favorite is being one of the few teams in the NFL that has a top tier offense AND defense. With all these injuries as it stands right now, I'd argue that our defense is still good, but no longer top tier. The Rams don't win the super bowl last year without their mid-season trades / acquisitions.

My 5-year-old son - who was born the same day we hired Sean Mcdermott (1/11/17) and the same year we ended the playoff drought - announced the Bills were going to lose in the 1st quarter, when they were up 7-0. He probably did this.

Morse and the safeties about equal to me. Both took points off the board. I think if it were Poyer and Jaquan it would’ve played out different. Just not sure about Hamlin. that said, I won’t pretend I haven’t seen the Bills give up inexplicable third and long plays numerous times even with Hyde and Poyer both in there. Despite having a great defense, seems to be something that happens much more than it should

the strange thing about it is - just the season before - we were WINNING those same close games. if I remember correctly (and maybe I’m not), it was our defense that let down in a lot of the close games last season, and Allen couldn’t do anything from the sidelines. but today, that was obviously not the case.

definitely paints a target on their back, like NE last year. And like NE, we will probably WANT to see them in playoffs too. Just hope we can stay healthy. We should be able to stack W’s after the bye…. But I’m a tad bit concerned about how we will be looking going into the bye, both record-wise and injury-wise. Ravens, Steelers, chiefs… those are gonna be 3 more very physical games. Smh. I know this might sound good to anyone right now, because we all want to be 5-1 going into that bye, but I’d be plenty satisfied with 4-2 / 2-1 over the next 3……. Just with knowing what our schedule looks like coming out of the Bye unfortunately, Miami’s schedule is a lot more vanilla tho (imo) so we need the Bengals to take care of biz (I think at home?)

not sure which board you were looking at but I checked in at “fin heaven” and the general consensus was they just won a game they had no business winning. Several fans pointed out the 40 min TOP, missed fg, dropped pick six by Milano. It definitely wasn’t lost on them that every single break in that game went their way. Reminded me a lot of the Jags loss last year actually.. Anyway in just 4 days they play the Bengals. Hopefully they’ll run out of miracles on TNF.

it’s only week 2 though. That’s the scary part. Tre happened last year on Thanksgiving. I am actually confident in JJ filling in well as the “next man up” especially in this DB-friendly scheme where every DB we have plugged in has had some degree of success so far BUT… There’s only so many injuries you can take until your top defense stops being a top defense and the advantage is lost.