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Perry has a lot of value as a special teamer, while Yeldon is a 2nd round draft pick bust that the Jags and everyone else in the NFL didn't rush to sign. I wouldn't say Stanford was awful. He was mediocre and could potentially be upgraded with summer cuts from other NFL teams. But at the moment, no one on the roster is more capable backing up Edmunds than him. Joseph is a smallish, 6'1" 230 lb Will/Sam outside linebacker. Croom is unbelievably overrated among Bills fans and is probably a borderline roster cut in the eyes of the coaching staff right now. He's likely competing with Sweeney and Fisher for TE spots #3-5. No one bothered to draft Jackson in the 7th round, yet you come across as so confident that he makes an NFL roster somewhere?

It's a decent first draft of the roster. Mine only differs in 5 ways: 1. No need for Anderson as the third QB. Add Stanford as a backup MLB. 2. No need for 4 TE's. Cut Fisher and add Waddle as a ninth OL. 3. Replace Yeldon with Perry. 4. Replace Croom with Sweeney. 5. Replace Yarbrough with Darryl Johnson.

The Texans put the franchise tag on him for this year. No way the Texans are trading Clowney to the Bills for anything less than a 1st rounder, and no way Beane is willing to trade a 2020 1st when that pick will likely become an elite WR talent at a rookie salary. Most likely, the Bills will attempt to sign Clowney next offseason with the $80+ million in cap space they currently have (that's not even including the rollover cap space from this year). By the way, does anyone know how exactly the rollover cap rules work? The Bills are $30 million under for this season. Do they get to rollover all of that for 2020?

Here's all you need to know in order to understand Colin Cowherd's football opinions: NYC: #1 metro area in population Miami: #7 metro area in population Boston: #10 metro area in population Buffalo: #50 metro area in population He has openly expressed his disdain for blue collar people and small cities and feels that the NFL would be a better league if the Buffalo Bills had moved to Toronto.

His supposed lack of effort could very well be due to clinical depression. I could see McDermott's Bills being a very good environment for him.

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why do people keep calling this guy the GOAT?! Brady beats this clown by a mile for that title. This isn't even a debatable topic.

I'm embarrassed to admit that this is the most important thing in my life right now. We MUST win! This may be the only sports-related championship us Buffalonians will ever get to experience in our lifetimes. Push forward, good soldiers of Western New York!

The Bills have had 1,000+ yard rushers for 30 of their 59 seasons of existence. I believe that is the highest percentage of all 32 NFL franchises. And only the Bears (31) and Rams (33) have had more total seasons with a 1,000+ yard rusher. Also, thirteen different Buffalo RB's have rushed for 1,000+ yards: Gilchrist, OJ, Terry Miller, Cribbs, Greg Bell, Thurman, Antowain Smith, Henry, McGahee, Lynch, Jackson, Spiller, and McCoy. 10-15 years from now, the Bills may very well have 5 RB's in the Hall of Fame and among the top 30 RB's of all time: OJ, Thurman, Lynch, McCoy, and Gore. I'd put Gore at 99%, McCoy at 75%, and Lynch at 50% chance (if he doesn't retire this year) of the Hall of Fame right now. Since 1960, this franchise has always prioritized the RB position because of the idea that the weather here makes it difficult for QB's to throw with any consistency. This mindset should have become less relevant after the emergence of West Coast offenses and the modern passing game in general, but it hasn't. Jim Kelly altered this mindset a bit, but then the idea was that you needed to be a physically big QB with a very strong arm to have any success here. So for almost 25 years, management threw 1st round picks away chasing the big arm (RJ, Bledsoe, Losman, Manuel) at the expense of the more cerebral aspects of the QB position. Even now, Josh Allen is sort of a continuation of this philosophy. Although he is actually very bright and hard-working, so he definitely has a chance to buck the trend of failed Buffalo QB's since the mid-90's. Oops...sorry for the QB rant...lol... Getting back to the OP, I think an emerging consensus here is one between Jim Brown vs. Barry Sanders for greatest RB ever. I'm leaning toward Sanders at the moment for three reasons: 1. Fumbles per touch. Sanders (once per 83 touches) beats Brown (once per 46 touches) by a decent amount. Turnovers are the most important determining statistic in the outcome of football games (next to the obvious of points). 2. Quality of teammates. Football is very much a team sport. Sanders had a lot less (OL, QB, coaching, defense) to work with than Brown throughout his career. 3. Running style. A lazy analysis of the RB position might divide it into two types: the between-the-tackles north-south power back (Brown's style) and the outside-the-tackles elusive tailback (Sanders' style). Both have value to an offense. Both are incorporated in every offensive playbook. I would argue that the talent gap between Sanders and the rest of the great RB's that ran his style is much larger than the gap between Brown and the rest of the power RB's in pro football history. Furthermore, it's a lot harder to maintain elite ability as an outside-the-tackles tailback because of what the aging process and the wear-and-tear of tackle football does to the human body. Although Barry Sanders had such a low center-of-gravity (5'8", 200 lb) to complement his speed and agility that made him better suited to absorb or simply avoid the kinds of hits that wear down a RB.

Because these people paid attention to his body of work at VTech and to his unique athletic skills.

I'm guessing that Milano, Edmunds, and White would likely all stay on the field for any nickel or big nickel packages. Lotulelei would be the guy switched out for a third cornerback or safety. Edmunds would be the fourth pass rusher and could even be positioned right up to the line of scrimmage as a DE. This is basically what Lorenzo Alexander does, so Edmunds would be considered his successor if the Bills drafted White. But the bottom line is that Devin White is a blue-chip prospect and the best player in this draft who doesn't play DL. He won't be available at #9, but Beane is not a dummy and will select him if he does manage to drop that far. White should be #4 on Buffalo's big board, right behind Nick Bosa, Josh Allen, and Quinnen Williams.

I knew someone would beat me to a "he's too young" joke.... I'm thinking that the Bills keep 5 RB/FB players on the roster, which is 1 more than the typical NFL roster: 1. the feature RB who is also useful in the passing game (McCoy) 2. the power RB who runs mostly between the tackles (probably Gore who will replace Ivory) 3. the backup RB who is important to special teams (Murphy) 4. the developmental RB who is only on active roster in case of injury (2019 draft pick?) 5. the traditional FB (DiMarco) So as you can see, I don't think there's really a strong need for Ajayi at the moment.

The 2016 Bills weren't bums. That roster had a lot of talent and would have made the playoffs if their head coach wasn't such a fat, lazy piece of sh!t.

I love the idea! Add Lynch too so that we can market them as football's version of Eastwood's Space Cowboys: McCoy, Ivory, Gore, Lynch.

Injuries aside, the expectation should be for making one of the wildcard spots in 2019. And if they don't make the playoffs in either 2019 or 2020, then Beane and McDermott should be fired.

Nah. More like defending the concepts of forgiveness and redemption - concepts on which civilized society depends greatly. Simmons is a sincerely apologetic 1-time offender who committed the offense as a teenager. He's a potential blue-chip talent who is a perfect fit as a 3-tech 4-3 DT. We'd be wise to at least not write him off so quickly on the basis of this one offense.

OP nailed it with the 1964 AFL Championship game. It was the greatest Bills game ever played, in terms of both its impact on the franchise and on the history of the NFL.

Yep. The Steelers were indeed an absolute joke for their first four decades. If they did a complete NFL franchise ranking that took into account 1920-1965, then no way would the Steelers be #1. The Bears and Browns in particular would would fare much better. The Bills would do a little bit better because of their AFL mini-dynasty.

And yet the Hardly Boys of Two Bills Drive keep on overlooking this simple clue... Clay is as good as gone, and it has nothing to do with the $4.5 million salary cap savings. It has everything to do with the fact that there are likely only going to be 3 precious TE roster spots, and Clay isn't worth any of the 3. Croom will take one spot, someone in a very deep 2019 TE draft will take another, and a free agent who - unlike Clay - is able to stay healthy and hold on to footballs will take the third spot.

The NFL tradition of recycling tired coaches who have repeatedly failed is another reason why the Patriots continue to remain on top. Rather than see more innovative coaches rise through the ranks, we get more of the Rex Ryans and Dave Wannstedts and Danny Crossmans to play the Washington Generals role to Brady+Belichick's Harlem Globetrotters.

What GAME are you talking about? The glorified flag football one where only the quality of the QB matters? Or the one where running the ball, defense, special teams, and hard hits also matter? I prefer the latter, but it is no longed played in the NFL. My loyalty to this garbage, corrupt league (you fu*king KNOW the Patriots are still cheating in some way...9 of the past 18 Super Bowls? 13 of the past 18 AFC Conference finals? Bullsh!t) runs only as strong as my devotion to the Buffalo Bills. I'm not watching the Super Bowl, though I will periodically check in on the score.

Yes! Extremely productive college career, captain on a championship team, protypical size for a 4-3 DE, equally excellent in defending the run as well as rushing the passer...what's not to like? Bosa, Allen, all of the blue-chip DT's, the typical demand for QB's, and other teams' needs means that this top-5 talent could easily drop to us at #9. And he definitely fills a need since Hughes, Lawson, and Murphy could all be gone by 2020. Also, the Bills were only 26th in sacks this season with 36. Great thread idea, by the way. I'm interested in reading everyone's "man crushes."

Buffalo Bills football from 2000-2016 is all a giant poopy blur...but Leif Larsen was a full era before Jasper. He was the guy John Butler drafted instead of Tom Brady back in 2000 because he could wrestle polar bears or something. Jasper was a 2011 Nix guy.

If it's extra draft picks we want, I'd rather just trade down. If it's Blake Bortles as a #2 QB that interests us, I'd rather just keep Barkley. If it's excessive cap space we're looking to recklessly fill, I'd rather just overspend on offensive linemen. If it's the Jaguars franchise we're willing to help, I'd rather not help them because of Marrone and the 2017 playoffs (and the 1996 playoffs too).