Richard Noggin

I was referring to being a season ticket holder, actually.

I've always thought of my weekly Sunday suffering with the Bills as a form of worship. Now that I've been back in the area for a while I'm actually attending the Orchard Park mega church gatherings on a subscription level.

Absolutely brutal. But then again, gotta overcome.

Trauma builds personality.

Wasn't Davis a STARTER while Sherfield was a backup?

Oof. Doesn't look good on either. Many murmurs of Dublin game. And Gramps gonna have to push through a bunch of 4 o'clock games this season, methinks

Watts and Bosas get old fast. Maybe something to do with "training" habits/intensity. Or just the way it goes.

Davis moving on to Jacksonville was addition by subtraction. He and Allen were so rarely on the same page. Which is a shame, because when they were on the same page, they created some explosive magic. No way should he come back. But alas, it's not impossible. They like to get the band back together.

Or he might be a golf enthusiast who trains like a QB rather than a TE. To be fair, Travis Kelce has never been a weight room guy either. But he's a little bigger and more athletic naturally, and obviously just better. So bad comparison except when you look at physique. Kelce is built like a Serbian basketball star.

Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone

I'll allow it. Fair enough metaphor. But that video! First three picks feel like absolute HOME RUNS when you absorb the positive reactions from the players and the org. Got some tingles watching the video. Darn near best case draft haul for first two days.

Understandable

Not to mention Dorian Strong, who just feels like a Benford-ish fit if he brings it. That's a serious infusion of high-end DB talent/traits/pedigree/production. Along with Forrest entering the S competition; hope he gets a fair shake at it. They identified DL and DB deficits and filled them in a draft nicely designed to do so. I wonder if a pure S pick was at any point tempting. CHECK THIS ANALOGY DAMN: drafting a true S in first half of 2025 draft could have been blocked by the presence of Bishop (2nd rounder year before) and Rapp (decent starter signed for 2 more years), the same way Coleman (2nd rounder year before) and Samuel (signed for 2 more years) could have blocked a more significant draft investment at WR, even though WR is a much more premium position than S, and Coleman and Samuel have not done a ton for the Bills to date. The Bills lean pretty heavily on player development. Pessimists will say that kind of hope isn't a strategy. Optimists will say that guys drafted on the first two days are just that certain set of circumstances away from outgrowing their ceilings.

Deone Walker's strength at this point in his development is not really run defense. To date, he's been much better rushing the passer. 2023 college tape, Senior Bowl tape, injury recovery with NFL strength and conditioning, plus the promise of intensive NFL coaching, projects a high ceiling overall for Walker. But he's not a plug-and-play run stuffer at all right now.

This is an awesome breakdown. Thank you! But this is also where the science leaves off and the art of football analysis picks up: how much of this was the ghost of Amari Cooper's previous threat influencing or revealing defensive coverages? And/or how much of this was Amari Cooper's actual performance and production? I think if the Bills don't have an obvious matchup nightmare "#1" WR going into 2025, which they don't, that's fine...but on one hand it obviously limits an offense's ability to dictate/predict coverages, and on the other hand it allows Brady and Allen and the Gang to continue to evolve their Everyone Eats/Total Futbol offensive approach of spreading it out. Kind of like the NBA's triangle offense, which has since proliferated. Do the Bills have a Scotty Pippen and a Steve Kerr and a Horace Grant to run the Triangle with Josh Allen? Still looking for Pippen to step up, I think.

5'2" 350 can't find it

I WISH I'd had the huevos to walk away from being a founding member of Steely effing Dan, only to go on to even more popular success/acclaim. I'd personally prefer being an elite 70s studio musician who worked with everyone, to being a leading 80s/90s comic actor. But come on. What lore.

From your lips to dad's ears. Which are also my ears. You get it. Feels at times like the coaches need the wakeup call just as much as the players. But either way, it's a thing we all see. And moreover, some years, by that 2nd consecutive loss, things have looked surprisingly bleak. Even the improbable optimists among us, myself included, have questioned our faith. (this concludes all religious double entendres)

I've always seen it as the 2-game Midseason McDermott Reckoning, where the team's sins all get exposed, especially the defense, and even more specifically the RUN defense. McDermott can then have a come-to-Jesus moment with his team, and they rise again, enlightened...and go on a wicked run to the 2-seed and a KC or Cinci defeat. Came a little early last season. And the 2nd consecutive loss this time was more fluky and frustrating than anything.

And I'm not...

In a standing section, aisle seats are great. Move about more freely, more space, etc. But in a section where everyone sits, aisle seats mean getting up to let people by, OFTEN. (We moved our seasons after one year in 2nd row of 300s on an aisle right at the mouth of a tunnel to concessions and the ramp. SUPER awesome ingress/egress experience for games, but man did we have to let people in and out of our row all the time. Not enough room to simply tuck the legs. Gotta get up each time. Plus all that sitting. So now we're row 28 at the goal line, Bills side. In the new stadium we'll be row 23 at the 20 yard line, Bills side. Both middle of row. Won't be covered and don't really care about that. There will be places to escape rain and still watch the game, if necessary. Or you can just dress for it and stay put.)

You're still expressing your "concern" about a football player being engaged to an actress? Unreal. Like, literally sounds robotic and unreal.

And/or press-man across the board and send or simulate pressure relentlessly, especially on passing down-and-distances. Lack of downfield danger/speed lessens the cost of losing a 1:1 battle in the secondary. Could mean a contested catch and tackle rather than a TD.

This sounds mostly right to me, although there is both a guy like Hardy (no S flex but def returner candidate) and a guy like Hancock (most talented/best traits by far of this trio) in this mix. Hardy's STs value is likely to determine his roster candidacy, and who he replaces in that scenario depends on how well he plays DB too. (Could be Codrington, of course, but could also be a WR6, or I guess a DB ahead of him, like Lewis, if he looks ready to provide reliable DB depth.) His position flex is valuable, and probably valued even more by this org than some others.

This is embarrassing for you. "Take some time and do the research" wtf. "The videos" LOL