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Lawrence Guy seemed extra salty, which is excellent.

Sure I can agree with that and the BUFF/KC example you gave. I really don’t think that’s indicative of QB matchups in the AFC or NFC week in week out though. I mean, the Bills in the AFC have played their fair share of humps at QB the last two years as well. Even in the playoffs (Skylar, which they were fairly close with most of that game.)

Good first attempt - looks pretty reasonable to me although just reading the tea leaves from beat reports and how he played (at times) last year I think AJE is a solid lock.

I’ve already said I do not. I think he deserves to be in the top 15, top dozen maybe. He’s only put up 1 year of solid work. He could regress. He could get even better. Who knows? But as far as this NFC/AFC thing, again, Hurts isn’t playing head-to-head against other QBs when he’s on the field, so I don’t know how that fact really affects his standing. He’s not as good as Allen, Mahomes, Burrow, maybe Herbert who knows. But those guys being in the other conference don’t affect his level of play (on an individual level) in any direct way. I’m not talking about wins/losses nor did I ever bring them up before. W/L is a team stat, not a QB metric. Hurts goes directly up against monsters like Micah Parsons twice a year, who apparently is so driven to be the best LB of all time he’s drilling his QBs in training camp. He’s facing Nick Bosa maybe in the playoffs (also on that list.)

He also boosted his comp% 5 points, had 6 ints on 460 attempts, rating over 100, etc…My point is he improved a lot over 2021 and people shouldn’t discard it. And yeah it’s a QB desert over there in the NFC right now but I can’t really ding him for that fortunate circumstance. He’s gotta go through the other teams’ defenses, not their QBs.

whatever you say guy.

Look I agree with @MJS and other that Hurts is ranked on this thing too high after only 1 very good season, but I’m just a little mystified by so many here that seem committed to giving this guy little to no credit for his and his team’s success. Sounds like a hater parade to me.

didn’t two other teams in his division make the playoffs?

also true. I mean, are current players qualified to judge their peers for something like this? Of course. Are they all completely impartial? Hell no.

Wasn’t sure I was even doing that but go ahead. I think I was making a statement about the respective rosters overall (and the perceptions of each) but you tell me what I am thinking and doing so I can jot it down 🤡

Agree for now about Hurts but if he continues to improve (he made an immense jump from ‘21 to ‘22) he won’t just be in the same area code they’ll be neighbors. Yes I concede Philly has built an excellent team around him but so does Allen doesn’t he? At least that’s what people tell me.

someone will surely correct me if I am wrong but yeah I think they air it first on NFLN and then it gets posted everywhere.

Still a little low for my tastes but definitely reasonable.

We just guessing here? Week 5.

Yet another reason why they need to just can preseason games altogether. Honestly just read the recaps and/or the tweets from the beat writers after the game if you can’t watch them live. You ain’t missing much.

More assumptions. We don’t know if Brown was suffering a chronic issue. Even if it was, we don’t know if his surgery completely remedied it or not. We don’t know if his episode the other day was related to prior injuries, the surgery, both, or neither. When Brown acknowledged his offseason surgery, he was asked to elaborate and declined to do so. So unless he changed his mind and talked to you, or you got a peek at his medical records, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Every other one I’ve ever visited is practically unreadable between the ads, tags, stickers, user flair, etc… so this place wins.

I say it because I have no idea if this issue is chronic - neither he nor the team has said anything of the sort. Nor was it severe enough to keep him out of subsequent practices. I don’t really put much stock in how bad “it looked” to a bunch of fans and reporters.

He’s been back and practicing. Obviously it was nothing serious.

National outlets probably want to focus on new faces in new places for preseason. The Bills are largely the same as last year.

Trading Teller was an isolated mistake. There’s no indication they will do the same with Elam. Which can’t even be known at this point, since we, and the Bills, didn’t know Teller would turn into a pro bowl guard. So even if they did trade Elam (which they won’t) there’s no guarantee he would turn into an excellent corner somewhere else.

i’d put my concern-o-meter at about a 1/10. Right in that “who gives a ****” range

yeah, I mean maybe. I’m of the mind that this whole “grit” stuff is almost 100% BS and talent wins out in the end. So long as most key players are checked in and not completely belligerent to the cause, if they’re good enough, they’ll be fine. far as I’m concerned you can chuck “eye of the tiger” in with “grit” “culture” and “process” on the the big bonfire of boomer aphorisms and kill them dead.

I come here to read what @GunnerBill has to say about the team and then laugh at the rest of the “experts” and “business geniuses” and “mensa members” on here. Best of both worlds really.

I mean, all that being almost certainly true, the guy must have been a colossal pr*ck.