MJS

I'm fine with whoever they want to have on the practice squad. The practice squad has such a small impact on the team that I don't think it matters a ton. Obviously, it helps a little, but one spot on the practice squad does not impact wins or losses in the slightest.

On a different post, yes.

I didn't mention you, did I? I was referring to those fans who talk badly about Schobel.

Good for you.

Why does Schobel get hate? I don't get it. He was a good player for a long time on a crappy team. He didn't. It's just a bunch of strange Bills fans who find strange ways to get slighted by people they don't know.

Pro football is just infinitely better than pro basketball. Fight me.

I asked earlier in the offseason what everyone was seeing in Hollister. I had my doubts that he was anything other than a depth player. I think people just got excited because he played with Allen in college, but I never saw much substance behind the expectations of him being a significant contributor on offense, or especially in supplanting Knox as our #1 TE.

And that's the other aspect. 90's throwback merchandise would sell very well. That's a huge motivation to include those. A new design is a monetary risk, and an unnecessary one.

That's literally what a throwback is. It's supposed to look like the Kelly era. The current Bills uniforms are for Allen's era.

That's my preference, but I'd be totally fine with a red 90's throwback rarely.

It's not about hating change. Everyone LOVED the change when we got rid of those hideous new uniforms from the 2000's. It's about maintaining brand integrity and something that legitimately works great.

The Bills have a great brand and image that I am not interested in changing just for the sake of change. New does not always mean better. But if you don't feel that way, that's fine. But what the Bills currently have is great. It would be very difficult to create something better, and very easy to make it worse. So chances are, changes will be worse.

I'm interested in having the 90's red helmets, the 60's throwbacks with the standing buffalo, and the current helmet. That's all. I'm not really interested in experimenting with anything new. I think what we have now are the best uniforms we have had, so all that's left for me is to pay homage to the 60's and 90's teams with two sets of throwbacks and leave it at that.

So why didn't he miss a bunch of time last season?

Built over a decade ago.

His contract was front loaded. He got paid a ton up front. He is not underpaid. This is the contract he agreed to. Plus he hasn't been a factor lately because he hasn't been on the field.

I'm assuming everyone was cramped. They probably want larger, nicer seats in the new stadium.

Ben always looks good to start the season. If there is a time they could beat us it is in the first few weeks. I think it might be a close game. But I expect the Bills to win.

Hey, for you old timers the Bills already won a couple back in the AFL days. For us youngsters we've seen nothing but garbage football until McDermott rolled into town.

I thought Cam was supposed to be so much better this year and the only reason he sucked last year was because of his COVID brain fog. Guess he sucks like we all thought.

7 pages of non-cuts. Come on, people.

Thanks. I screwed myself last year by forgetting to make the picks a couple times. I'll try to remember every week this year.

These look like 16 game projections, not 17. I don't care about the other two, but here are my Josh projections: 4,900 Passing Yards, 42 Passing TD's, 600 Rushing Yards, 7 Rushing TD's.

Makes total sense. He would still be buried on the depth chart after this year with Epenesa, Rousseau, and Basham all ahead of him at least.

Yeah. In a perfect world you would be able to stop both, and I think it is possible to do that to a certain extent. But there are going to be situations where you play the pass and risk giving up runs, and vice versa. In the red zone you have the luxury of devoting more manpower to stopping the run because there is much less ground to cover for the pass. Their secondary was also allowed to play very physical against our receivers, something that the officials cracked down on in the Superbowl against Tampa Bay.