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? Of course we have talent gaps. Just about every team has talent gaps. That's the whole point of a salary cap, to enforce relative parity. I also freely admit that water is wet. I think Beane gives out too many mid-value contracts to league vets in decline, but that's his only real downside and the Bills have a very good overall roster despite that.

McD gets to be "coach for life" because the Bills are an extremely good team every single season and their units often perform above their talent level.

The number of you absolute geniuses on here that seems to assume that if we change coaches we'll just gently stroll our way into a Superbowl win is mind-blowing. The Saints under Payton with Brees, one of the all time greats, regularly missed the playoffs. Phillip Rivers was an incredible talent and didn't get many opportunities in the postseason relative to his ability. It's unfortunate that we happened to ascend at the same time as another dynasty, but it's where we're at. If there were some magical Chiefs-destroying coach in this league, he would be employed and *regularly beating the Chiefs.*

Say it with me: Practice. Squad.

The data is what it is, fam. This is frankly an embarrassing way to conduct yourself.

Our defense has never been a terrible unit under McDermott. There's no reason to think it would be any worse than last year and there's a good chance it's better.

This does numerically back the idea that the Bills give out a ton of midrange contracts to midrange players relative to the league. It's provided great stability and continuity that has led to sustained success, but it may well be leaving us too resource-strapped to take more FA/trade swings at elite players to get over the Superbowl hump.

Allen really didn't have to put his body on the line much last season. Other than his early-season hijinks leading to the broken hand and Amari Cooper missing the new player orientation about whether or not you let Allen involve himself in backyard football pitch backs ("NO"), there were very few of those moments. He does it anyway sometimes, because that's what makes him happy, but it wasn't necessary last season.

This, but unironically. Y'all gotta get over yourselves.

In a bizarro world where the Bills don't have Allen but have a top 10-15 QB instead, they're likely still division favorites and certainly perennial wildcard contenders.

Thank you for this! Posters should be requires to read this and pass a quiz on it prior to posting in threads about practice squad signings.

My takeaway from a lot of posts on this forum in the last few days is that many fans here do not understand how practice squad rules have changed. This is a fantastic PS signing that gives the Bills all of the benefits of Poyer's experience without having to invest a roster spot or any real resources to have him around. And if three safeties go down we have a body that can hold down the fort for a couple of weeks.

Interesting. Plays Safety, too. VERY curious who ends up getting the boot, and from what position group.

It allowed him to get into the building and start working out at team facilities etc. prior to cut-down day. Basically just got a two-day head start on season prep for him.

I mean if he did, based on what I've seen of Ciarlo's girlfriend that bitterness may be warranted. Seriously though it's WILD how aggressive folks get towards these players.

This is way too early to say on Bishop. He's had a couple of injuries and one bad play in preseason when matched up 1v1 with a good slot corner. I think he's looked solid and you can see the athleticism and tools the Bills were looking for when they drafted him, if he can keep reducing his mental errors he has all the talent to be a quality starting safety. Y'all gotta learn to give players more time. Bernard going into year 2 was a somewhat similar story, and he ended up being very good that year.

Thin in what way? Genuine question, we seem to have the appropriate number of bodies with a mix of veteran/early-career/developmental players. Our backups aren't world-beaters, but backups rarely are.

Yes-- he'll be on the Practice Squad. He was signed to allow him to start working out etc. at the team facilities prior to creation of the Practice Squad post-cuts.

Bills (initial) final 53: Official Buffalo Bills' Instagram post

Yeah, can't return until Week 5.

Genuinely, that's a good-looking roster. Once our CBs are back to a reasonably healthy state I don't know that we have a true hole unless Bishop full-blown crashes and burns. Can't wait for Week 1!

Brandon Beane has the chance to do the funniest thing

Just fell to my knees in a Wegmans

Uh, yes? He's a second-year safety that would be rostered on the vast majority of teams in the league.

Man, are you sure some of y'all are actually fans of this team? It's one thing to discuss things that make the matchup tough and reasons why we could lose, but acting as though we're a drought-era team that can't hang with the mighty Ravens and not one of the best teams in football year after year is WILD.