DapperCam

Idk about healthy, he had a terrible hip injury last year that required surgery. Gotta think it’s at least a little stiff. One of my favorite players of the drought Bills, wish we could have made the playoffs with him. Would be cool if he retired a Bill.

They started incorporating checkdowns to Singletary at the end of the season and it seemed to really improve the offense. (Although these were 5-10 yard “check downs” so I’m not sure if they count for this stat).

Maybe we should extend Knox now before his price tag goes up.

Maybe some covert recruiting…probably to spend time with his bud Knox as well.

Our top weaknesses last year: Offensive Line Williams: Pretty bad all year, especially when he was at tackle. I think he pretty much lost the Jags game for us. Isn't even signed to a team right now. Feliciano: Got benched and couldn't stay healthy, now signed with the Giants I guess to be their center? Ford: Not good at all. If he got cut, I don't think he would stick with another team. Brown: A lot of potential but didn't play very well. Morse: Good in pass blocking, not a good run blocker. The guards next to him have been pretty bad, so it is hard to judge him fairly. Dawkins: Was pretty bad the first half of the year. I'll chalk that up to COVID. Offensive play calling Just weird for the first 3/4 of the year. Refused to run, refused to take underneath stuff. When they did choose to run, it would be up the gut for nothing. Tons of stalled drives which didn't make sense based on our talent. Didn't get McKenzie involved or Gabe Davis. Bad red zone play calling. Alternated between running Allen to death, or not running him at all. CB2 Levi Wallace got picked on all year. Defensive Line (Sacks and Run D) Bills were middle of the pack for sacks. Considering the weak schedule we faced, the amount of cap/draft assets spent on the D-Line and the quality of our defense otherwise, this should have been higher. Run defense was also middle of the pack. I think this is because the interior of our defensive line was all over the place. Star was in and out of the lineup, and Harrison Phillips wasn't a true nose tackle. Addison and Hughes also didn't set the edge well. Edmunds seems to always pick the wrong gap (maybe he's just doing his assignment, I don't know). Punter Haack stunk and was the worst punter in the NFL last year. He cost us the Steelers game with his slow as molasses release. I think those weaknesses are the same as our current weaknesses, but we tried to address them: Offensive Line Jettisoned Williams and Feliciano. Retained Bates by matching his offer sheet Extended Morse (meh, but better than creating a hole at center) Hopefully Dawkins will be better for the full season with no COVID Hopefully Brown will be better with another year of experience Signed Saffold to hopefully improve on Feliciano/Ford. Hired Kromer, probably the biggest thing here! Offensive play calling Daboll has been replaced with Dorsey. Hard to know if this will be better or worse. CB2 Drafted Kaiir Elam Kind of surprised no vet CB added, maybe that will still happen... Defensive Line Jettisoned Hughes, Addison, Star, Butler, Harrison Phillips, Zimmer Added Von Miller, Jordan Phillips, Shaq Lawson, Jones and Settle Punter Drafted Araiza. He'll still need to beat our Haack in camp TLDR: Will rookie Elam be better than veteran Wallace? Will Saffold/Bates be better than Mongo/Williams? Will Dorsey be better than Daboll? Will Von Miller/Lawson be better than Hughes/Addison? Will Jones/Settle/J. Phillips be better than Star/H. Phillips/Zimmer? Will Kromer be better than Bobby Johnson? Will Araiza be better than Haack?

Maybe if it is very clear he’s lost the room. Otherwise I think he’s earned quite a bit of slack before his seat gets warm.

Both taken at the very end of the 2nd round. Look at the bottom of the second/beginning of the third the past five years or so. It's a 50/50 chance that those picks are total busts let alone immediate starters (for any team, not just the Bills).

Didn't Epenesa kill Tua? I see some nice things from Epenesa, especially speed when he gets near the QB. He doesn't seem to get playing time, so I don't think he's impressing the coaches much.

I don’t really understand seeing him as a third down back this year with an increased role as the season goes on “limiting his ceiling”. He’ll get his chance to prove it, and the Bills probably hope he’ll show he’s the guy for the following season when Singletary’s contract is up. Motor has already shown he’s a good every down back though. He will be tough to unseat by a rookie.

Without the 13 seconds debacle I think we win the SB, so I have to disagree…

A little bit of a reach in my opinion, and we probably could have gotten a little bit more positional value out of this pick. I think he'll be our 3rd down back if he shows that he can be a good pass blocker. I expect 5 or so runs per game and 3-5 targets (that's about 15% of the offensive plays). I'm thinking screen passes, slants, wheel routes, etc. Singletary will still be the every down back IMO. If he shows he's really dangerous, I could see carries and targets increasing as the year goes on. Singletary is in the last year of his contract, and Cook will be given the chance to take over the #1 role next year.

I think he would really have to be bad in training camp to not beat out Haack. We already know that he can flip the field with his leg and Haack can’t. Bills are going to be going for it midfield this year on 4th down IMO, so the directional touch stuff is less important. Haack’s net avg was 38 yards last year. We could punt from our 40 yard line, Araiza could boom it for a touchback and that would be a net of 40 yards already beating Haack’s numbers. Not to mention the gain when we are punting deeper than that.

I think Wydermyer could make the roster. He pretty much has to beat out Sweeney, which is totally doable. Also probably has to show he can be a regular or special teams for this year.

We have the best QB in the league. If the o-line plays well we’ll have the #1 offense in the league. They were hot garbage 2/3 of the season last year. Another wildcard is new OC, but I think he’ll be good.

Seems like a reach. I'm guessing special teams to start. He could be Milano's replacement, we can get out of his contract in 2 years. Could be some medium term thinking going on here.

We draft at the end of the 2nd round. We’re no longer in “premium” pick territory. And depth OL and LB could definitely contribute by rotating in and out. How many different permutations of the oline did we see last year due to injury? Epenesa and Basham couldn’t get on the field because they stink. Not because of lack of room.

Saffold, Edmunds, and Poyer could be gone next year. So I could see G, MLB, or S. I could also see WR, RB, or TE (depending on how they think a Knox extension will go). I also have no issue burning picks to trade up.

Look how far he's fallen. Character concerns may have disqualified him altogether. He may not have even been on their board.

It's possible another team was trying to trade into the same spot, or would have traded with Cowboys to scoop us. There certainly have been a lot of trades tonight...

WR contracts exploding is causing all of this nonsense.

They should extend him and Knox before the year. They are both going to have huge seasons and I hope they don't price themselves out of Buffalo.

I also remember him and Hyde getting caught up in the traffic at the line on several of the long runs we gave up. Not sure if that is by design or what, but we must have been near the top of the league in long running plays given up.

He has a rag aahhm!

This guy keeps getting signed to NFL teams, it’s wild to me.

Oliver is going to get paid big time. I could see the team walking away from giving him a huge deal. I guess it depends on the cap.