MJS

This is one of the earliest plays I remember as a kid. This was probably the first season of football that I can really remember being old enough to get interested in the Bills and football: Flutie mania was a lot of fun. And Eric Moulds was my first favorite player. Loved seeing him play.

Each year is a new year. We'll see how the division actually performs.

"Random" is actually the hard part. It's very difficult to get a truly random, representative sample. You overcome that somewhat by getting a larger sample size. It's not random because you are only getting those who are willing to participate. Also, the location you take the tests introduces bias. The gender of the person administering the test, etc., etc. It can only truly be random if you choose a random selection of seats all around the stadium and require the people in those seats to test. So, researchers do the best they can and just try to get as large of a sample as they can, hoping it is somewhat representative. This study? It probably just took a few samples and called it good. There's no way they actually did an adequately statistically significant job on this.

That has been the theory. I'd still bring in a vet to compete with him.

I don't even think it needs to be a big influx. Get a good #2 receiver. Move Bates back to LG. Bring in a good RG. Draft a tackle or sign a tackle to compete with Spencer Brown. Davis goes back to being the 3rd/4th WR and flourishes with less attention from the defense. That's all you really need. You can do more, of course. But the offense doesn't need an overhaul. It needs some key pieces.

When you have players who can't execute the offense, things look disjointed. When you call a play and Allen takes the deep bomb over and over despite underneath routes being there for the taking, things look disjointed. I'm sure Dorsey can improve. It was his first year. But the offense needs more talent, especially a better oline. Once you have good players who play well together, it's amazing how your offense can just click and get into a good rhythm.

They are the exceptions, not the rule. Tom Brady was drafted in the 6th round. Does that mean we should bank on a 6th round QB? Go bring in some talent. If Shakir is good, he will be the cream that rises to the top. If not, oh well. He was a 5th round pick.

Aren't you guys sick of projecting superstars out of 5th rounders? Maybe Shakir will be more, maybe he won't. Chances are he won't. Go make a real investment in the WR room with a high draft pick or a trade.

So, why are we blaming Dorsey? If the receivers dropped so many balls, how is that Dorsey's fault? Seems like Dorsey did his job. He produced the 2nd best offense in the league with receivers dropping passes and an oline that lacks talent.

I'd like to see that methodology.

Shakir is not a speedster. He is a 5th round draft pick. Maybe he develops, maybe not. We need proven players or high draft picks.

It's obvious. The Bills have put a TON of money into bringing state-of-the-art equipment, techniques, and training to help their players. Players do nothing but rave about everything the Bills have done to help players recover from injuries and get back to 100%. The Bills seem to be very cautious about bringing players back too soon. Then there's the Dolphins...

Injuries piled up. Injuries send ripple effects throughout the entire team. A team can handle having one or two starters injured, but once you have 3, 4, 5, 6 etc, it gets less and less manageable. The Bills had a ton of starters out on defense. Everyone looks worse when that happens.

I like the look of the traditional positional numbering, personally. But I really don't care that much.

The Chiefs moving up doesn't mean the Bills wanted McDuffie over Elam. The Chiefs can do whatever they want. It doesn't change what the Bills are targeting. More likely, the first round corners were getting slim, so both teams moved up to get them them before someone else did. Elam is awesome. The Bills should be happy with him.

Aren't Poyer and his wife both from Florida?

Overrated and overpaid.

I think the Bills target certain position groups with the draft and others with free agency. Oline they have heavily targeted using free agency. Defensive line has been both. Linebacker has been the draft.

He answered this. He said "what's the point"? He had everything he needed there, so why go spend his money elsewhere?

So it is 60/40 in favor of the defense. It's hard to take the WR numbers as they are because they traded a 1st round pick for Diggs, which was a slam dunk. They also traded for Kelvin Benjamin, and that was NOT a slam dunk. We are due for some offensive investment in the draft, especially at receiver.

Defensive scores because they are more rare and the defense is at a disadvantage due to the rules. They are the most exciting plays in football, in my opinion.

Just goes to show how stupid that Watson contract was. It's now affecting everyone else. Luckily, we got our guy signed up already. Maybe Jackson is just trying to go the Kirk Cousins route so he can hit free agency and head over to the QB starved NFC.

Let's just start new threads about any little thought that pops into our heads...

I'm done with the McKenzie experiment, personally. I do not want to see him back.

He had crap QB's throwing to him too.