MJS

He looked just short to me.

It looked intentional to me. Coverage just wasn't there.

Spencer Brown looked good on that 3rd down pass to Mckenzie. He is pretty mobile for such a big guy.

With an extra playoff team, 9-8 and 8-9 are going to make the playoffs semi-regularly (last year the Bears made the playoffs with an 8-8 record, for example). I was against expanding the playoffs exactly for the reason of non-winning teams getting into the playoffs more often. So we want the divisional opponents to get 7 wins every season. I doubt a 7 win team will get in, unless it's in a really bad division.

Where did you find that? Do you go to the least reputable sources you can possibly find? Same old conspiracies and demonizing the Pegulas for clicks.

Murray runs more than Allen. Rushing is more valuable than passing in fantasy football.

Very lame. Don't rip off the Andrew Luck thing. Come up with new things, people.

I won't predict scores, just wins and losses. Here we go: Regular Season Week 1 - Steelers @ Bills - Win Week 2 - Bills @ Dolphins - Win Week 3 - WFT @ Bills - Win Week 4 - Texans @ Bills - Win Week 5 - Bills @ Chiefs (Sunday Night) - Loss (This one goes down to the wire, perhaps even overtime, with the Bills showing they have significantly closed the gap, but ultimately still taking the L) Week 6 - Bills @ Titans (Monday Night) - Win (Bills get some revenge and blow out the Titans) Week 7 - BYE Week 8 - Dolphins @ Bills - Win (Another sweep of the Dolphins, and perhaps the Bills will never lose to the Dolphins ever again for the rest of time?) Week 9 - Bills @ Jaguars - Win Week 10 - Bills @ Jets - Win (The Jets play their super bowl and make it close, forcing many mistakes from the Bills, but the Bills rally in the 4th quarter and pull out the win. Jets fans count it as a win) Week 11 - Colts @ Bills - Loss (The Colts get their revenge from the previous playoffs and pull out a nail-biter against the Bills) Week 12 - Bills @ Saints (Thanksgiving) - Win Week 13 - Patriots @ Bills (Monday NIght) - Win Week 14 - Bills @ Buccaneers - Win (The Bills beat the defending champs by two scores, picking off Tom Brady three times. Bills fans are oddly on edge until the clock reads zero) Week 15 - Panthers @ Bills - Win Week 16 - Bills @ Patriots - Loss (The Patriots find the perfect game plan to frustrate the Bills and pull out an upset win in a close contest. Bills fans have fever dreams the next night, startling awake to images of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick laughing at them, with Julian Edelman dancing naked in the background) Week 17 - Falcons @ Bills - Win Week 18 - Jets @ Bills - Win (Blowout alert! The Bills absolutely stomp the Jets on their way to the playoffs, showing the close contest a few weeks earlier was just a fluke. Jets fans still find a way to count it as a win, somehow, and are confused why their 17-0 season didn't get them into the playoffs) Overall record: 14-3 AFC East Rank: 1st - New England (9-8) - Miami (9-8) - New Jersey (5-12) AFC Rank: 2nd - Kansas City (15-2)(1st) - Indianapolis (13-4)(3rd) - Baltimore (11-6)(4th) - Cleveland (11-6)(5th) - LA Chargers (10-7)(6th) - Tennessee (10-7)(7th) Playoffs Wild Card Round - Titans @ Bills - Win (This one is a nail-biter, but the Bills pull out the win with a brilliant final 2 minute drive by Allen and the offense) Divisional Round - Cleveland @ Bills - Win (This one goes back and forth for the first half, with Garret getting tons of pressure on Allen, but the Bills pull away in the 2nd half to glide to a multi-score win) Conference Championship Round - Chargers @ Bills - Win (Herbert isn't ready for the high-stakes match and gives the ball away multiple times to the Bills defense) Super Bowl - Rams vs Bills - Win (Bills win their first Super Bowl, crushing the Rams 42 to 28. The city of Buffalo's fertility rate skyrockets, and 12 years from now everyone is wondering why there are only two boys names in the city: Allen and Josh) Notes: The Chargers upset the Chiefs in the playoffs, forcing Mahomes to see it AND believe it. Rams upset the Bucs in the championship round giving us new photos of Tom Brady pouting while sitting on the turf. Baltimore fails to win a playoff game for the 3rd time in 4 years, further increasing doubts about Lamar Jackson as a passer and his ability to produce in the playoffs. Patrick Mahomes wins MVP despite having fewer yards and TD's than Josh Allen, causing Bills fans to angrily donate $57 million to a Kansas City charity.

Ok, so why are you talking him up for preseason performances then? Sounds like you didn't know. Newton was the worst starting QB in the league last year. You should be praying that he looks better than Newton.

You don't even know him, haha.

He hasn't faced regular season defenses that actually disguise coverages and game plan. Peterman always looked awesome in the preseason as well. Then he didn't look awesome in the regular season. He might be good, but people are reading into preseason games too much.

Only a 29 hour drive away!

Except the whole premise of the thread, I suppose...

Diggs, White, Beasley, Dawkins

I've never met a Bills fan that didn't know a ton about the team and didn't watch every game they could, and follow up with the team in the off season. For other teams I meet casual fans all the time. For some reason I'm in a pocket of a lot of Rams fans where I live. I know more about their team than they do. I'll ask them about their off-season acquisitions or the players they lost and how it will affect their team, and half the time they didn't even know about those things. I've met Patriots and Seahawks fans like that. Jets fans seem particularly clueless about their own team and how they compare to the rest of the NFL. But I haven't really met Bills fans lie that. Of course, I don't live anywhere near Buffalo, so the Bills fans I meet have to be serious.

In a perfect world, yes. But it's a long shot to find a good corner. Good corners usually make their respective rosters. That means we would need to trade for one, which I don't see happening. If injuries happen, the Bills will go dumpster diving and find someone serviceable to take a few snaps. I think that's the best we can hope for at this point.

The paper tigers who went to two straight Superbowls?

Maybe listen to the interview where Dawkins outlined his entire situation quite clearly and answered every single question from the media. Then tell me if you think there are any conspiracy theories.

Wow. What a fall.

That's why I would love to move on from Addison, or even, to a lesser extent, Hughes (not both of them, though). Both of them are old. I'd rather keep the young guys to develop. But we'll see.

Only 5 DE's got significant playing time and Johnson was one of those. So if you aren't a top 5 DE on the team, you need to be really good at special teams. People are advocating to keep 7 DE's. That means two might not play hardly at all if we do keep that many. BTW, I voted for Johnson to be the odd man out. I have not been talking about Johnson at all. I've been responding to people saying that McDermott has an addiction to special teamers that he needs to overcome. Never did I say we need to keep Johnson.

That entire thread was a bunch of speculative nonsense and people thinking they were just really, really smart. Turns out they were all dead wrong.

I would assume it is far less than 20% for the last guy on the depth chart, but I'd have to look it up.

And that won't happen because those bottom of the roster guys don't play. Special teamers actually do play. Any time your starters leave the field, you are at a disadvantage. If your backups leave the field for 3rd stringers, you are at an even greater disadvantage, etc. The Bills like to rotate their defensive line, yes, but they still want the best possible players on the field for whatever that situation is. A 6th or 7th DE, for example, is not ever going to be the best player for a given situation unless you have a ton of injuries. Just look at snap counts from previous years. There are guys who get virtually no snaps on offense or defense because you want the guys who are better to take all of those snaps or the majority. So, you actually gain an advantage when those guys who get no snaps on offense or defense are actually really good at special teams, because then they are contributing and you don't have to put your better players at risk playing on special teams.

Bad take. The bottom roster guys do not get playing time on offense or defense, so guys who are actually good at special teams are far more valuable with guys who are those bottom roster guys. Should we keep a guy who will get like 10 snaps on offense or defense and sucks at special teams, or a guy who gets slightly worse 10 snaps on offense or defense but rocks at special teams? This is just simple value logic. The potential value for your team is significantly higher for the guys who are good at special teams, because their snaps on offense and defense will be extremely limited regardless. And, btw, every team takes this approach. Not just McDermott.