Richard Noggin

Lot of these combine QBs out there looking like ME with respect to measurables. Shameful.

I was single in Buffalo in my early 30s and again in my mid 30s. Circa 2012-2016. It was pretty decent. Was single in Dallas in my late 20s and that was definitely fine. Was single in SW Florida in my early 20s and that was just ridiculous. I don't respect a region where a guy like me can have so much romantic success. Have some dignity, Florida.

That video would not be sharable here. Truly terrible predator of a man. Imagine how much did NOT come to light...

Lots of people smile through uncomfortable situations. Some even laugh. Especially at work, in public, with high profile customers. So many power dynamics at play that preemptively absolve a potential victim of culpability.

Interesting that reports are coming out about both Addison and Hyatt, I think, dealing with injuries and planning to complete their tests at pro days. Funny how only slightly disappointing 40 times for these top prospects sets the PR wheels in motion.

The two bolded targets feel potentially expensive in FA. At least mid-tier. I say that without looking them up, but relying on my recollections of their previous contracts. I'm thinking McGlinchey gets a SOLID OT deal with term and Tomilinson gets a deal similar to what Oliver will command. Lotta cap would be tied up in those two, unless the Bills go long with term and back-loaded with allocation.

I don't think that profile fits Kromer's preference for athletic linemen. Zone blocking is what they WANT to be good at. McD has ALWAYS wanted them to be good at zone blocking. Which requires more athletic guys who work together as they move.

I don't often take a stance early and then refuse to move off it...but with Tua I have always thought he's too small, too fragile, too unable to absorb the commonplace contact of NFL violence. And his arm lacks the strength to drive the ball downfield against top defenses unless his platform is PERFECT. Even when Tua was lighting up mediocre/bad defenses, we should have all been unwavering in our concern for the man's safety out there. He's like a smaller, less athletic RG3. For some reason or another, that guy also just got blown up on hits that didn't necessarily warrant such loss of control. Rob Johnson was that way. Seemed to maximize, rather than minimize, the damage he sustained on fairly commonplace hits.

They were probably gonna get smoked in the regular season matchup, too. No way to know that for sure, but we can reverse engineer a reality where the Bengals had our number.

So is it a bad list because it's unrealistic that those players will be available at 27 then? Because it looks like a really GOOD list of 27th overall pick talents.

Just wanna bump for visibility. Solid post.

I'm of the mind that the Bills should have been favoring WRs with offensive potential, versus ST value. When you've got your QB, it's time to recalibrate your depth chart accordingly. Find ST elsewhere if necessary. Hodgins showed promise from his first camp, but had difficulty staying healthy. Also, it sure seems like the Bills wanted him to lineup almost exclusively on the boundary, whereas in college, and again with the Giants, there was a decent amount of slot production. He reminds me a little of David Nelson.

Sorry your conversion from LB to S didn't work out. Usually it goes in the opposite direction, from NCAA S to NFL LB (like Matt Milano, Thomas Davis, Brian Urlacher, etc.). Good thing Benford is a big, physical CB making the switch. Think of Aaron (AJ) Williams; limited as a boundary CB, but gifted as a SS. Say more? (Share a link?) I liked the Benford to safety idea...

Wild how many fans are overlooking or unaware of the obvious new guy in Holcomb. His title and the timing screamed DC-in-waiting...and turns out that could be true sooner rather than later

That simple 1:1 comparison only works if the depth chart is the same year-to-year, and I think we all know there will and/or should be some FAs who move on in 2023...

Those don't seem like valid comps for the Bills organization in 2023. NFL head coaching jobs with established Top-5 QB and WR just don't really open up often. It's a rare opportunity. The pretext is NOT super important.

One might argue that the job would be HIGHLY sought after, especially by progressive offensive minds. The opportunity to coach Allen and Diggs? Better jobs don't really come along.

Probably not the first poster to call *bonkers* on this matter-of-fact spending spree (~30+M against the cap in 2023 even with extremely backloaded deals and future dead cap burdens, not including a Singletary deal and without actually improving the offense at all) for a team way OVER the cap with all the above players already off the books. If the Bills pull all the cap accounting levers available to them only to tread water and get older at so many non-premium defensive positions, that would represent stagnation, to me. A lack of ideas. Kicking the can just to stand still.

That is high end irony. It's unclear here if you're remembering the recent "adjusting" with "the WR Coaching group." It didn't generate as much discussion as I'd have anticipated.

Your screen name is Buffalo Super Fan, yet you characterize the 90s Bills as relying solely on their superstar QB?! That's egregiously wrong. That team was absolutely STACKED. For that first SB run, Kelly was throwing to James Lofton and Andre Reed, and handing off (and throwing to) Thurman Thomas. Gold Jackets errwhere. The defense was loaded. There was a contingent of Bills fans back then who argued that Jim Kelly was often, in fact, holding the team back, at times. There were calls for Reich. One could argue that Kelly's ego didn't always call Thurman's number enough...like, say, in their first Super Bowl appearance where Belichick's gameplan relied on Kelly's aggressive tendencies. Even if you ignore Kelly's alleged bullheadedness, the roster was inarguably ELITE. And wasn't Gilbert Perrault part of an iconic LINE of forwards?! Weren't the THREE of them celebrated in conjunction? Hasek and Allen seem like fair examples of your take, but some of these others simply don't.

One way to put things in perspective is to ask: would Bills fans prefer the Jets land Carr, or Lamar? Our answers (and rationale) to that will be revealing. (I'm not immediately sure which I prefer; my brain wants to shout out Lamar Jackson due to availability concerns and his less-than-optimal WR utilization (stunting Wilson's progression would be a bonus). I worry that Derrek Carr, under favorable conditions, can competently steer the Jets offense. Just as long as they keep him extra clean. For a guy who wants to be a leader, he sure does appear to wilt under duress.)

Was Sugar Ray really an actual Ska band before they sold out? I mean, good for them for steering into the popular skid, but I find McGrath's TV persona to run pretty damned counter to most authentic ska band sensibilities.

Not here to dispute Woods's effectiveness last season. But I AM here to question how effective the Titans's #1 receiving option SHOULD have been, by comparison, no matter who it was, given the Titans offensive personnel, scheme, and results overall. So many baked-in excuses for an otherwise proudly-tenacious player (Woods).

You're kinda jumping the shark with the bolded part. Suddenly Edmunds is some victim of poor coaching/utilization? While Milano is simultaneously an example of positional success under the same regime?

Edmunds must be allowed to move on (barring a Milano-esque discount to return) in order for this org to begin to reign in and redistribute its cap from defense to offense. Gotta give the franchise (QB17) EVERY advantage available. Can't waste any more seasons pretending the Bills have a rookie-deal QB. Time to out-coach your "coverage"/talent on the defensive side of the roster.