JohnNord

Hyde’s been fine when he’s on the field. One area that’s dropped off has been his ability to find the ball. He has 0 INT’s this season and I can’t remember him coming close this season. At the same time, it seems like he’s done a good job preventing deep passes as usual.

This is incorrect. I think you are confusing 2018 with 2008. The Bills had a ***** ton of cap space and signing free agents wasn’t a problem. They just signed a lot of bad deals.

That’s why I never bought the “doesn’t show up on the stat sheet” line. They were never great stopping the run when Stsr was active. Benjamin was a trade…he did not sign a free agent contract. But even if you threw Benjamin in the mix, I’d still pick star. There’s no doubt Benjamin was disappointment but unlike a Star or even a Murphy, his contract was short term and didn’t end up hurting the team for years

100%. Browns defense is legit. But I think the Flacco Cinderella story is going to end early in the playoffs. Not only has he been helped by great field position since taking over, he’s also been incredibly lucky on some of his throws. This was on full display last night against the Jets.

That is such an odd choice. What on earth are they doing honoring him?

I feel he was ok in 2018 too but it became clear early on that he wasn’t going to be any kind of impact player. The excuses stated for start then and continued throughout his tenure in Buffalo. My guess is that he’s a pretty good human and leader. The Bills didn’t want to make him look bad so we got “he does things that don’t show up on the stat sheet.”

After seeing Star Lotulelei in action, it quickly became clear he is tied forBrandon Beane’s biggest FA bust along with Trent Murphy - also signed in 2018. Star’s calling card was that he was a space eater that could occasionally flash as a pass rusher but he didn’t do that in Buffalo. But you know who did? Daquan Jones! Jones is the player that Beane thought he was signing in Star.

100%. It then becomes they only won ONE Super Bowl. New England won 6, KC won 2, etc

This totally makes sense. Over the few years, the share in the local Buffalo market has been insanely high. Unfortunately at #54, that viewership is a fraction of the audience that bigger markets get .

I’d compare Jones more to Linvall Joseph, the only other 1TDT on the roster and is exclusively a space eater at this point in his career. Even coming off an injury I think it’s feasible that Jones can match Joseph’s current play (as well as the others in that spot) on the interior and even provide a better pass rush as well. The reason why Joseph was signed in the first place was because the depth of Phillips, Settle and Ford are best played at 3TDT. They can play 1 tech but are average at best and quite often below that. If he could play at 60% it would be an upgrade. I’d agree that he’s probably not going to get many reps on Sunday. I also get why fans would want to temper expectations after seeing Von Miller struggle to recover but it’s important to not that this isn’t an ACL recovery and he isn’t 35. Also it’s important to remember to make space for him on the roster, the Bills released veteran Germain Ifedi who’s been rostered all season and was their later season insurance policy at RT. The team doesn’t do this - or they at least wait a week, if he wasn’t in a good spot. Either way, if the Bills can get into the playoffs, Jones is going to help this team. This is good news

Make no mistake about it…IF he can get close to where he was playing at in Week 3, this move is going to be big. Between Tre, Jones and Milano, I always felt that not having DaQuan was the biggest loss to the defense. Even worse bigger than Milano. This is going to help the defense for sure Different players, different age, different injury. So you’re saying this is a bad comparison?

Less athletic Dak with less of arm

Tyreek is a special player with elite speed that the end offense is built around. There are a lot of fast WR’s but few Tyreek Hill’s. Once he leaves, I think Tua and the offense will need to evolve.

Part of the problem was Bills fans and WGR hosts believing that the NYT playoff odds were predictive of the future. The fact that the Bills have less than 20% in week 10 meant absolutely nothing.

2 solid 1 technique players that can help spell each other and allow Settle, Ford, and Phillips (hopefully) to return to their natural positions

That’s what I’m thinking but hopefully he makes it back to Buffalo That was the country of Germainy

The ride is over for Germain, who ALMOST made it the entire season on the active 53 man roster without actually suiting up one game. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him re-sign on the PS roster if he clears.

Yeah that’s why I wasn’t sure about Ifedi. Jonathan to IR would definitely make sense.

There’s no chance in HELL they release Cam Lewis given his role on defense as the first sub at safety and NCB as well as his role on ST. I agree it’s probably down to Anderson, Ifedi, or Jonathan. They love the potential of Jonathan and are high on Anderson. I’m guessing maybe Ifedi thought he was the insurance policy all season.

I’m hoping for it. It makes you wonder who gets released… They aren’t cutting Ty Johnson. The Bills like what he brings on special teams and in the offense. Also, he’s one of the few players on the team that can be trusted fielding kickoffs

The only problem I have with that is that you want to slowly increase his reps. IMO this is easier to do in NE than it in a likely “must win” situation in Week 18 Where did you see the “word” that Jones was targeting a W18 return? Joe B and a few others thought he’d be active this Sunday.

Makes sense but they need to make the playoffs first. Also you don’t want to just start him after a 3 month layoff. He needs time to shake off the rust. You don’t want him doing this in wildcard weekend.

Hope so. I think he’ll need to ramp up and NE is a better choice than Miami

Say what you will but I still can’t write off Mahomes and Kansas City He suffered a knee injury that probably should have sidelined him for a few weeks. He missed one game. I think the knee is holding him back. Also he is 34. We’ve always wondered when he’ll start slowing down and we might be seeing that now.

Wow… this mean no Jones against New England They had an open roster spot that we all assumed was going to Jones. He might not be ready to return which is a bummer