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Good list, Bandit! I only have 5 edits: 1. Yeldon over Murphy 2. Joseph over Lacey 3. J. Johnson over Marlowe 4. Kroft (no PUP) over Teller (traded today) 5. Keeping Bojorquez at the moment (waiting to see what punters get cut) As others have already mentioned: Murphy, Lacey, and Marlowe are players you can easily pick up during the regular season when injuries take a toll; Yeldon, Joseph, and J. Johnson are not. Yeldon is an interesting matchup RB who will be active or inactive depending on the defense we face each week. Joseph and J. Johnson are destined for the 7-man inactive list but have great potential to be NFL starters down the line.

Buffalo's Gaine on Clowney: would look good in Miami colors, but doesn't know what team he'd want to play for

I think our expectations for the Bills should be even higher: 10-6 minimum, barring catastrophic injuries, with zero blowout losses. The entire defense is supposed to be dominant, the special teams are supposed to be improved, the running game is supposed to be above average, both QB's should be more comfortable with Daboll's offense, the TE corps have been completely revamped, and the WR's are supposed to have gone from awful to average with serious depth potential for more. Then you look at the schedule and see only 6 games where the opposing team has more talent: NE, NE, Pitt, Cleve, Philly, Dallas. There are 10 games where the opponent should be worse: Fins, Fins, Jets, Jets, Wash, NYG, Cincy, Balt, Tenn, Den. At some point, as a franchise we need to move beyond the feel-good player stories, the platitudes about team-building and leadership, the hand-clapping, the Jesus-praising....and just ***** WIN.

Yay! Let's get the band back together!!! Vlad Ducasse is still available and we already have Russell Bodine! Now all we need to do is trade with the Saints for Marshall Newhouse and trade with the Bengals for John Miller: Newhouse - Miller - Bodine - Ducasse - Mills

If the Bills aren't ready to compete for a Super Bowl title by NEXT SEASON, then something wrong happened along the way with this latest rebuild. Rebuilds in pro football aren't supposed to take longer than 3 or 4 years. The salary cap template for this roster is such that there is plenty of room allocated for 1 elite Jim Johnson-style 4-3 DE, especially for the time that Allen is on his rookie contract.

Clowney probably doesn't want to play for the Skins because they aren't expected to be remotely competitive this year. Maybe a 3-way trade between the Bills, Texans, and Skins is possible? Does Washington have a burning desire for Zay Jones, perhaps???!!!

Nothing?! This thread is one surreptitious Randy Constan link away from having EVERYTHING.

Clowney is a premium football asset. Think bigger! Get creative! Pull John Skelton out of retirement and then trade him to Houston for Clowney.

Maybe if we don't specify which Murphy during the phone conversation, the Texans will accidentally assume Trent and then we can slip them Marcus for the official NFL transaction paper work.

I hear ya, brother. I hear ya. I've got a serious case of Clowney trade blueballsitis here and need some serious relief. Make it happen, Beane!

No need to worry. This team is being constructed so that they can afford an elite free agent DE and still pay all the guys you mentioned when their contracts are up. Keep in mind that Murphy and Hughes will very likely be gone by the time the big contracts for our youth core are needed. Lotulelei will have a very manageable cap hit by then as well. If Beane does end up trading for Clowney, I'm confident that he already thought about this and plans to keep all of White, Edmunds, Allen, Dawkins, Milano, Oliver, etc.

You are the only person on the planet who is thinking this. Everyone else on the planet believes his skill set at the NFL level is optimally utilized as a 3 technique 4-3 DT.

Also: McCoy has just 1 year left on his contract as well, Jones has 2 but he sucks so who cares, and Clowney would come with a franchise tag option where we could conceivably snag a really good pick or picks in 2020 if we aren't able to reach a long-term deal.

Because he's offering the Texans two players instead of one! Why not push all of your chips to the center of the table and make an offer they can't refuse? Throw in Tyree Jackson, Ray-Ray McCloud, Jason Croom, Russell Bodine, Sam Acho, Tyrel Dodson, Denzel Rice, any punter of their choice named Corey/Cory, and all of the locker room items formerly owned by Vlad Ducasse.

Did we get any clarity on this subject after last night? We're discussing 5 LB's for 3 spots: Joseph, Stanford, Thompson, M. Alexander, and Lacey. Who among these players can back up at MLB besides Stanford? Do Stanford and Thompson also play special teams? I think you also have to guarantee Joseph a roster spot because there's no way he's passing waivers on the way to the practice squad. So we're really down to 4 guys competing for 2 spots.

What do I say? I hope Zay can stay another day if he chooses to play the right way and be versatile like Ray-Ray. Like in a top/bottom gay way? Nay! In a Steve Tasker "slay" way so to keep The Turk at bay and earn his pay beyond next May. Only then with that pay, can Zay go cray-cray with a "bae" who resembles a young Faye Dunaway first with some foreplay and then later sway with a full glass of chardonnay and spray his....okay, so my post has gone astray and there are board rules I should obey, so - yes - Zay can eat some hay or make things out of clay or lay by the bay or, hell, even watch HBO's Game of Thrones Rams-ay flay another enem-ay. Is the Lions game today? Oh, it's this Friday! Yay!

Even worse, the ice cream place had no dairy alternative options. The team is almost 75% African-American, and up to 75% of all African-Americans are lactose intolerant. By my calculations, about half the team must have been shitting in their pants on the bus. Perhaps our tonsured head coach is actually a neo-nazi skinhead racial dog-whistling Trump-supporting white nationalist who doesn't care about the nutritional needs of black people?

Allen is the new Williams? We could also use another Carter, Johnson, Jones, Lewis, Murphy, Phillips, or Wallace.

So here are the team rankings of the games on our schedule, in order from toughest to weakest: 1, 1, 6, 8, 9, 12, 16, 19, 21, 22, 22, 27, 28, 30, 32, 32

I think the 1964 Bills are ranked too low at #94. This was arguably the strongest AFL team during the entire 10-year AFL history, yet they're only ranked here as the 7th best AFL team. Moreover, this team was arguably the second most important to the AFL-NFL merger aside from the 1968 Jets.

For perspective, only 22 players had double digit sacks last season. Also, the top sacking defense had 52 last year. The Bills were near the bottom at 36 (1 less sack per game from being elite). Here's a sample template of how the Bills could get to 52: Hughes - 10 Murphy - 8 Oliver - 8 Alexander - 6 Lawson - 6 rest of DL - 6 Milano - 2 Edmunds - 2 Poyer - 2 rest of DB's - 2

I count 10: RB: McCoy, Gore DL: Hughes, Lotulelei, Murphy LB: Lorax, Milano DB: Hyde, Poyer, White Everyone else on this roster probably needs the reps in some way.

Every NFL roster has an active 46, an inactive 7, and then the practice squad. Why not keep Wade among the inactive 7 and have him learn the game there? Who gives a flying ***** if we keep him over Perry, Yeldon, Murphy, McCloud, Wesley, McDermott, Love, Yarbrough, Lacey, Marlowe, Lewis, etc. on the 53-man roster? Players such as all of the aforementioned will be readily available as free agent/practice squad/waiver wire pickups throughout the regular season. Wade has elite athletic skills and is already 28.3 years old. How much more NFL career time does he have left? Put him on the roster and give him a chance to play in November and December when injuries take a toll.

So 41% of this list played at least one season during The Drought Era: 2 P - Mohr, Moorman 2 K - Christie, Lindell 3 QB - Flutie, Bledsoe, Fitzpatrick 3 RB - Henry, Jackson, McCoy 6 WR - Moulds, Price, Josh Reed, Evans, Parrish, Stevie Johnson 2 TE - Riemersma, Clay 6 OL - Fina, Ruben Brown, Teague, Peters, Wood, Incognito 9 DL - Hansen, Ted Washington, Pat Williams, Schobel, Kelsay, Kyle Williams, Dareus, Mario Williams, Hughes 1 LB - Fletcher 7 DB - Winfield, Clements, McGee, McKelvin, Jairus Byrd, Aaron Williams, Gilmore With all of this talent, you'd think the Bills would have slipped into a wild-card playoff spot once or twice over a 17-year period... More likely, this list is engaging in what I call "recency bias." Obvious examples: Josh Reed, Charles Clay, Trey Teague, and Chris Kelsay have no business on a top-100 all-time Bills list.

In 1965 only, the deal was that the AFL Champions were to play the all-stars from the rest of the 7 AFL teams during the AFL All-Star Game. This technicality aside, I still would argue that the mid-60's Buffalo DB's were the best in franchise history. I like the OP's thoughts here, however. This current group absolutely has the chance to be the best ever in franchise history. White is ready to emerge as a first-team all-pro. Hyde is already borderline. Poyer is already Pro Bowl caliber. I need to see a lot more from Wallace, but he already has shown glimpses of being Pro Bowl caliber. And the other 6-7 guys provide incredible depth, most notably Taron Johnson as the nickel.