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I agree. I meant to note that I pulled the positions off a Spotrac and that is where they have Long listed.

Taking a look at our depth chart below, I have to say I am quite impressed with what Brandon Beane and Sean McDermott have put together thus far for the 2019 season. No one player stands out as a true superstar at this point in their career. Another poster mentioned on a different thread that we are sort of taking the "Whole is greater than the sum of its parts" approach - a lot of depth and competition for a spot on the 2019 Buffalo Bills. As things stand right now, we have 69 players on the roster with 10 draft picks to boot (I'm not here to debate if we use all 10, although I find it highly unlikely). In years past, we've brought in roughly 20 UDFA to fill out our preseason 90-Man roster, this year I don't even know if we will have enough room to bring in 10 UDFA. Crazy considering two of our biggest surprises last year were Robert Foster and Levi Wallace - Beane even made a point of stating that UDFA would always get a fair shot to compete in Buffalo (or something to that effect). Not saying whoever we bring in won't, it's just nice to know that they will have to work extra hard this season. I'm really curious to see how the competition plays out during Training Camp and while I get jacked up for the draft every year, I can't help but be extra excited this year - we're going to add 1 to 2 more starting caliber players and a heck of a lot more depth to an already deep roster. It's crazy looking at the roster and seeing all of the names who played meaningful snaps last season and realizing a lot of them won't make the roster. What stands out to me is the depth in the secondary both S and CB. They might have the deepest unit in the NFL. Now that I am done gushing, because there is still work to be done, I want to pose a few questions: Should we be targeting UDFA or players from the AAF this offseason to fill out our pre-season roster? What advantages and disadvantages are there to targeting either crop of players? If you've been following the AAF, what players should we be targeting? QB: Josh Allen, Matt Barkley, Derek Anderson RB: LeSean McCoy, Frank Gore, Chris Ivory, Marcus Murphy, Keith Ford FB: Patrick DiMarco WR: John Brown, Cole Beasley, Robert Foster, Zay Jones, Andre Roberts, Isaiah McKenzie, Victor Bolden, Ray-Ray McCloud, Cam Phillips, Da'Mari Scott, Duke Williams TE: Tyler Kroft, Jason Croom, Jake Fisher T: Ty Nsekhe, LaAdrian Waddle, Dion Dawkins, Conor McDermott G: Jon Feliciano, Vladimir Ducasse, Jeremiah Sirles, Wyatt Teller, Ike Boettger OC: Mitch Morse, Spencer Long, Russell Bodine DE: Jerry Hughes, Shaq Lawson, Eddie Yarbrough, Mike Love DT: Star Lotuleilei, Jordan Phillips, Harrison Phillips, Robert Thomas, Kyle Peko LB: Trent Murphy, Lorenzo Alexander, Tremaine Edmunds, Julian Stanford, Matt Milano, Deon Lacy, Corey Thompson CB: Tre'Davious White, Kevin Johnson, Taron Johnson, Lafayette Pitts, Denzel Rice, Ryan Lewis, Levi Wallace, E.J. Gaines S: Micah Hyde, Jordan Poyer, Rafael Bush, Dean Marlowe, Siran Neal, Maurice Alexander K: Steven Hauschka P: Corey Bojorquez LS: Reid Ferguson

Just made the change! Thanks for the input!

Afraid of the soldiers option for the reasons you stated. I had Nickels on my preliminary list as well as 15-20 other names. Breakers is actually really cool... Baseball is the sport, it’s kind of hidden in there. My apologies.

I love the feedback! Thanks for taking the time to fill this out.

Yes, it does! Thanks for going back and taking the time to adjust!

You should be able to go back and change it now, if you don't mind. Sorry for the confusion. I really appreciate your help!

Sorry... I can attach the longer one but it's not much different. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKUY3IoDd_meJDF_kJDdUIS4gfLPqSRhreqOBM5VVJQhO8Hw/viewform?usp=sf_link That's a boneheaded mistake on my part. I apologize, I titled it "Choose Your Favorite Naming Concept" and then didn't clarify as I continued. I know this stuff can be tough to interpret. My apologies.

If you didn’t like any, do you have a potential suggestion?

This is a one question multiple choice survey. It should take about 2 minutes to read the prompt and answer the question. It is related to a potential naming concept for a Buffalo Sports team. There will be a short description on each and then 7 choices. I apologize for the shortened link, I know some folks find this sketchy but I assure you it's just a short Google Form survey. There is no other way for me to share the link. It is for a school assignment and I would greatly appreciate if the greatest fans in the world could help me out!!!!! Go Bills! https://goo.gl/forms/VPcjrWX2XlIwYYfq1

Fair enough. I can see both sides. You may have a point... could be them supporting Josh. Didn't think of that.

I agree with almost everything except these two points. It's on record from McDermott and Zay that the throw by Josh was not a "terrible throw" nor was it his fault he missed the wide open receiver, it was a miscommunication caused by Zay running the wrong route.

Sounds a lot like Daboll, albeit the sucesss was in college. Highly thought of by Saban and Belicheck. Ironic you’re suggesting to look past the numbers in a single season based on the circumstances the coach has to deal with... because that’s exactly what is going on with Daboll lol.

Matt LaFleur huh? The offensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans? The same Tennessee Titans who have only scored more than 20 points 1 time this year? The same Tennessee Titans who we held to 12 points? yeah, ok.

McDermott trusts Beane. They work in conjunction. I'm not sure where you got the information that our "baby GM has been begging for credit since he was serving coffee in Carolina." It's also interim GM, not intern GM. Those are some pretty disrespectful words considering it takes a hell of a lot of effort to get to where Brandon Beane is today. I don't care if the NFL doesn't have patience for Beane's approach, the Pegula family does and that is all that matters. I would disagree the Rams are the model. Sure, they had the #1 overall pick that happened to be a QB, which is one model to build a team (young QB on rookie contract and build around him with talent). They also have the best non-QB offensive player in the game. Not to mention when their regime came in they had free money to spend on guys like Woods, Watkins, etc. We weren't in that position, everything in the NFL does not happen in a vacuum lol. Our cap situation is different than the Pats and the Pats is different than the Rams and Rams different than the Packers. I don't understand your whole Spotrac thing. Sure 50% of the contracts are from Beane and 50% of Whaley... but that's just 50% of the players signed and cut... not the cap hit lol. Of course Beane is going to have around 50% of guys on there, he's currently the GM, and has had to cut guys. Nobody cares about the 38K cap hit from Ruben Holcomb or $500 cap hit from Quan Bray. We're looking at Dareus, Wood, Glenn, Taylor, Williams, Ragland, Incognitio, Washington. Those guys are 8 of the top 12 dead cap hits... all Whaley signed contracts. Sure, Wood and Incognito are unusual circumstance but the problem is guys like Dareus, Glenn, Taylor were marginally productive and eating up roughly 1/3 of the cap when they were on the active roster... if Beane didn't move them when he did, our team would be in a poor position not only this year but for the remainder of their contracts. He took a hit this year, to build things back up the way that he and McDermott believe is the best way. The whole 50% of the guys cut were signed by Whaley and the other 50% were signed by Beane doesn't make any sense. Sorry.

If you want to criticize everything the current Bills regime does, be my guest, but don’t presume to tell other what they can post. I’m really curious how they’re crappy. I’d love to hear it. They know they don’t have talent IT WAS ON PURPOSE. It’s been well documented. Just explain to me the waiver process, the NFL Draft, the Salary Cap, practice squad rules, roster rules, contract negotiations, etc. Then tell me how you would operate within those rules with your chosen offensive and defensive scheme to produce a product on the field better than what we have, with the long term goal of sustained success. Running an organization is just as much about looking ahead as it is looking to right now. You can’t try and be competitive and add pieces when you’re trying to tear it down and rebuild so that your roster is in a good position talent-wise and contract wise. If you try to, that’s when you become the Buffalo Bills from 2000-2016. Whatever your feelings are on this regime, they’re doing something different from what we’ve done the last 17 years - as proven by the fact they ended the damn drought. You may not like it, that’s fine, but you ought to at least give it a chance. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting different results, this regime figured that out. Now maybe this message board should change up how they do things , as the same people continuously come on here whining and complaining about who’s in charge and the players in place. Give it a break. Rather than tearing everything down from ownership, the players, the coaches, just root the team on. Sure get upset when they play bad and be skeptical when they overachieve, but be positive rather than call for the head of the guy in charge every time you don’t like something. You might be surprised. Let’s send someone to follow you around at your job and call for your head every time you don’t fax a paper the way they’d like. It’s ridiculous. Everyone wants to be so negative all the time like we’re still experiencing the drought. News flash we’re not. Things are different now, at least appreciate that, and try to realize what stage we’re in right now. Another arm chair analyst wannabe heard from.

Alright MAJBobby, you win this one. Have a great Sunday man. Go Bills!

I did read...you've posted 4 times in this thread and nowhere did you mention Phillips or being happy with the win. You must run your mouth so much that you don't even know what you say and where you say it. You should trade trademark "Cup of Process" it's quite clever. Another positive contribution from you.

You've said nothing positive until this post, and you still managed to be negative. If you're happy with a win, then you have a funny way of showing it. Yes, you're a blowhard.

No counter to the points? Obviously not because you're a blowhard.

Don't care about personality... well then you don't understand any sort of team game, which breaks down to individual people and personal interactions. Titans offensive coordinator Matt LeFleur is a Shanahan and McVay disciple, supposedly one of the most innovative offensive minds in the game today... their modern NFL offense got them a whopping 4 field goals against this McDermott coached team that you despise so much. Just support your damn team and the next time a big time position opens with the Bills coaching staff, throw your resume in the pile - I'm sure they'll give you a long hard look.

I can't believe this guy is still allowed to have a job. He may be 56-27 since coming to KC during the 2013 season, but he is only 1-4 in the playoffs. Not to mention his handpicked QB, Patrick Mahomes, is only 13-26 for 142 Yards on Monday Night Football. His defense is one of the worst in all of football, and doesn't look any better tonight against journeyman Case Keenum. I can't believe he is still a head coach, he's the worst in all football! Not to mention he fooled that Pegula Family into hiring Sean McDermott, the second worst coach in all of football! All of these "intelligent" people who make millions of dollars a year have no clue what they are doing. I suggest they start listening to me and everyone on this message board because we really know football.

I’m just curious why culture is BS? You realize developing a culture is huge to the sustained success of an organization, not just in sports, but any organization. The military is legitimately based around culture and without a doubt our military is the single best run organization in the world. It all starts with culture. If you don’t have 100% buy in of the concepts valued by the military you don’t make it, it’s imperative for your peers to have 100% confidence in you. It starts and ends with accountability, attention to detail and strong values. No different than what is commonly associated with successful sports organizations. The same stuff McDermott preaches here, and has begun to successfully implement. Watch how those guys reacted last year on key plays in big moments, it was different than any other team. Taiwan Jones spin move against Oakland on a key 3rd down comes to mind. Our 3rd string RB makes a key, but not crucial play, and the entire team mobs him? That’s not fantasy land, that’s real stuff. That means something to a group of people. It’s not just Madden where you plug in everyone who is 99 overall and win a Super Bowl, or fantasy football where all that matters is the number they produce at the end of the day. All 53 guys in the locker room, the coaching staff, the training staff, the front office, they’re all people with real emotions. You can’t just shove them on the field and say go play with nothing to really play for, this is just a job and they get paid roughly the same if the make the playoffs or not, definitely not enough of an incentive money wise to get all 53 guys to buy in and sell their bodies out in order to play more games and put their body on the line. Also I can’t stand listening to the whole narrative of how the team got lucky to make the playoffs. Nothing is given, it is earned. They practiced every day, they played every week and they had the required amount of wins to make the playoffs. That means as the Wild Card team, there were 10 teams in the AFC that they were better than, and therefore earned the right to go the playoffs. They did what they needed to do in order to get in, 10 other teams did not. Plain and simple. It’s indisputable.

Meant for it to be a comment on his post. Way to contribute something substantial.

If you can tell me clearly and 100% correct how the following things work I will listen to your post, because then you obviously understand what it takes to formulate a "plan". Salary Cap Waiver Process Free Agency NFL Draft The NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement Managing the 53 Man Roster Managing the Practice Squad