Richard Noggin

He's right to call them out for being cheap relative to other franchises. Ownership there is brutal and completely undeserving of success in the league. Very similar to how things operated in Buffalo for a decade or two, unfortunately. He's wrong if he was complaining about how HE was being treated, specifically, being personally worth approximately $20 Million (US Dollars).

ZERO guys on IR or PUP to start the season? No way. Gotta use those tools to punt on a few decisions: SVPG and Hairston and White and who knows who else could easily NOT count towards the 53 at first. Opens up spots for Carter and/or Shavers and/or a cutdown day addition at S and/or CB, one can hope.

There would come a point in the season when every team's entire 53 is listed in some capacity, minus maybe a K or P or LS. But I suspect even those guys work through soft tissue stuff and definitely multiple contusions that would put many of us on short-term IR from our daily lives. We'd be like, "Remember that time my ribs turned blue and purple and black (then yellow and green) for like an entire winter? I couldn't sneeze, without throwing up from the pain, for months. My wife and I couldn't be intimate that fiscal quarter and now I'm sleeping in my car." Etc. Etc.

Regular season Ravens have put some whoopins on McD's Bills. Just sayin. I don't necessarily think that's what will happen, but I did say the smart money is on that (mostly because the spread/odds will make the returns favorable). You don't see any potential for the Bills to field an exploitable pass defense while also being a little flat offensively? McD's teams have had mixed results against Henry in the regular season, and Baltimore's defense has jumped all over us. I know the postseason matchups have gone differently. But getting pushed around or disrupted by an aggressive AFC Central squad is something we've seen a bit over the years, given how few teams generally have gotten the upper hand on McD's Bills. It's not preposterous.

$93 well spent

With respect to the bolded (Baltimore), I think that's a really interesting test for week one. Their aggressive, physical defense has generally given the Bills fits over the years. If there is one overarching criticism of Bills pass catchers during this era, it's their inability to beat press-man and to reel-in contested catches. Haven't disruptive, downhill defenses that dare the Bills to beat them had more success against Allen and Co.? Especially in the playoffs? I'm REALLY fascinated by the Baltimore week one litmus test. Smart money says Bills get rolled, in my opinion. All kinds of weaknesses exposed, again. All our worst fears and suspicions realized in the first game, in prime time, nationwide. Like you, I do actually see a potential future in which Coleman, Palmer, and Shakir and Kincaid are a formidable unit, but should we really expect them to win against Baltimore's defense? Also, will Brady and Co. give their players enough little schematic advantages to get that production flywheel spinning?

We look backwards at what HAS happened already, analyzing, ideally, the quantitative results and trends and patterns, and then we use all that (hopefully) to form (or often solely to justify) our qualitative/subjective assessments and comparisons and rankings and such. The thing many sports fans (and moreover, many people in general) get wrong, is that old legal and financial services TV commercial disclaimer: "Past performance does not guarantee future results." Thus, oftentimes, we erroneously qualify/judge/label some players as injury prone, while others are simply unlucky. As though the physics of football and all its millions of compounding variables are somehow controllable and/or evidence of something concretely knowable and pre-determined, some fixed quality or flaw in particular players that is more influential than the sheer magnitude of math involved.

I should turn myself in, huh?

I hadn't considered that Samuel has any trade value, but if the Bills are just looking to offload an oft-injured WR and his cap and open up space on the 53 for more versatile (in terms of STs and true boundary traits), available prospect in Shavers, maybe a mid-to-late round pick and a late round swap gets it done? Shavers has done nothing but flash in his limited opportunities over the years. He has progressed. He has boundary traits we lack outside Coleman and Palmer. Moore I'm completely MEH about. Seems like a guy who could produce from time to time with Josh Allen. So maybe as a 4 or 5 he makes it, but don't 4s and 5s generally need to offer some teams ability? I guess not always.

That deserves a "Nice."

Am I the last person in the expansive sphere of NFL fans to learn that Philly is $30 million UNDER the cap? Is their entire defense on rookie deals? Because that entire offense is STACKED with $igned $tuds. (Admittedly, I have not yet done the rigorous online research of seeing an itemized accounting of how such a sham is in fact possible. I'm still in shock.)

Bills defensive profile be like

This is what we hope will happen, for sure. One reason to have at least some hope is that the Bills under McDermott have been able to really develop a number of less-than-blue-chip defensive players, at the 2nd and 3rd levels, especially. Milano, Bernard, Johnson, Benford, Hyde, and Poyer are the best examples of this. Not a blue-chipper amongst them. But they all grew tremendously to become difference makers.