JohnNord

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

His record was 9-7, 9-7, 4-11-1 That last season was an absolute train wreck that saw him embarrass Philly by deliberately tanking. People want to say that Marty or Marvin Lewis are comparable…they are not. McDermott has more post season success than both combined. I’ve always felt John Fox was the best comp. He took over a Josh McDaniels dumpster fire and got the team to 8-8 with Tim Tebow and actually won a playoff game. He then won 13, 13, and 12 games. Of course that also included a SB appearance where his team was blown out by a lesser opponent. He was fired shortly after. With Peyton Manning on his last legs, Johnny Elway hired his best friend and OC to run the team as well as his former head coach Wade Phillips to run the defense. Elway relied on experienced coaches he knew well and previously worked with. Also in the case of Kubiak, a coach already on staff. He didn’t hire the “Ben Johnson’s” of the world to start over.

I lived in the Philly/NJ area when this decision was made. There was a lot of talk that Andy “couldn’t win the big game” in the background and that followed him to KC until recently, but this is not why they fired him. In 2011, Andy finished 8-8 despite winning the division the previous years and building superstars on offense like Shady, Desean Jackson, Jeremy Machlin etc. So he got a second chance in 2012 ans ended up going 4-12. One of the worst teams in the NFL. 8-8 and 4-12 is what got Andy fired. It wasn’t the belief that he couldn’t win them a Super Bowl. Philly felt that Reid’s time had run its course and that they needed a change.

You are correct. What annoyed me is that we all could recognize some of the mistakes from McDermott - just as we could with Josh, the entire defense, Gabe, Cook etc. Yet, everyone just wanted McDermott using the catch all phrase “because he’s the head coach.” It wasn’t nuanced realistic criticism either - it got the point where people were saying McDermott was “Dick Jauron with Josh Allen at QB.” In the end, he has his flaws like all NFL coaches do. Is he good enough to win a Super Bowl? That has yet to be seen. But you really can’t say he isn’t a good coach in the NFL. He’s proven that “The reasons so many think the chances the McD ever wins a Super Bowl with the Bills are extremely low have been posted with lots of data, statistics and reasons like maybe 100 times.” If this is so easy to find, show me the data. And don’t use the 33rd team article about QB/Coach combos which doesn’t speak directly to any individual coach.

It’s hard to say - there’s been two examples where the Bills were locked in as the highest seed they could get in Week 18. In 2019, they chose to rest the majority of starters against NYJ knowing they had the 5th seed. I don’t know if the coaching staff saw this as a benefit as the Bills lost in Houston the next week. In 2020, the Bills were locked in as the #2 seed. They really had nothing to play for but McDermott still elected to play most starters for a half and they completely dog walked Miami to keep them out of the playoffs. In 2021 and 2022 they needed a win for the AFCE (2021) and to keep the neutral site playoff game with KC (2022) So there is evidence of the Bills taking both measures in years past. My guess is that the starters would play for at least a half. The Bills had a later bye this season and I almost feel it would benefit them more to keep playing.

He does - also for the fact that he was a former 7th round draft picks who rose through the NFL ranks with an unorthodox route running style. He was never in the conversation for too 5 WR’s but he was special. Much like a Lee Evans, it makes you wonder how his career would have panned out had his prime years been on a winning team.

that’s a good way of putting it. He’s at 725 yards and would really need to have one monster game catching deep balls like Amari Cooper. Those 0 rec games killed his chance at having 1,000 yards.

This is why I told people not to freak out when the Bills were 5-5 and 6-6 and NYT has them at 16%. It was as meaningless as saying the Bills the highest probably of winning the Super Bowl last year. These so much that could happen over 7-8 weeks. I remember someone was arguing with Jeremy Whotenfrom WGR on the validity then and he was like “well….these are tens of thousands of simulations.” Now with two weeks left you can see what has to happen for scenarios and how likely they are to happen - knowing that the better team on paper doesn’t always win.

I’ve noticed this too. I don’t think it’s bandwagon as much as it is they feel brave enough to wear Dolphins gear without ridicule

Hoping for a Ravens victory though I am scared they are going to blow it and that Miami somehow finds a way to win this game even without Waddle. The bye for Miami would be huge but out of all the playoff contenders they have the least advantage on their home field. It seems to be about 60/40 Cowboys on Sunday in one of the biggest home games of the year. But as it pertains to the Bills, none of this matters. Just keep winning. It’s hard to win 3 games on the road…not impossible.