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Taylor had a useful skill set. I didn't hate him. However, I thought his ceiling was not high enough to enable the Bills to ever be a serious threat to do anything in the playoffs, or perhaps even to make the playoffs. For that reason, I was never opposed to getting rid of him if the Bills could find a QB with a higher ceiling. Fortunately, they did.

I think Himes could do some good things if he had more opportunities, but at this point I think the coaching staff has decided to use him primarily on special teams for his return abilities.

I think Cook starts. I think Elam is in the competition, but I think the competition is real with Jackson and Benford. I think McDermott places great trust in experience, and Jackson has by far the most experience of the three. Elam has to prove he's better than both Benford and Jackson, and the difference has to be noticeable. I think Shakir is a long shot to start. Gabe Davis really needs to drop the ball (literally and figuratively) for Shakir to get a shot. I think the coaching staff still believe in Davis. Beane certainly does. By the way, Shakir wasn't any more sure handed than Davis last season. Slot receiver is going to be greatly devalued this upcoming season IMO as Kincaid is going to fill that role. He'll be a tight end playing slot receiver for the most part.

If the games were home games for Buffalo, it might hurt ticket sales for the Sabres pre-season game but that wouldn't be a big deal. I don't expect that the Sabres depend of a lot of revenue from pre-season ticket sales anyway. Washington is enough larger as a market, I don't even know that it would move the needle in Washington Capital ticket sales.

This is good news as long as Josh Allen himself is OK with the ranking. The more QBs get paid, the higher it will drive the cap. The higher the cap goes, the smaller the percentage of Buffalo's cap will go toward paying Josh Allen. The smaller the percentage of Buffalo's cap being spent on Josh Allen, the more money is available to sign quality players to maintain team excellence and keep playoff aspirations intact.

If you read the article carefully, while it says his 40 time and broad jump compare with the best ever at the combine at that position ((TE) it doesn't actually specify that he achieved those measurements at the combine. I'm guessing he had a pro day somewhere. Since St Thomas is a division III school, they probably don't have a college wide pro day. Perhaps he hooked up with a nearby Division 1 school for his pro day. I presume he tried out and did well in the tryouts for the teams where he's been signed, the same way he landed a spot on the Bills.

This is a non-issue as far as I'm concerned. Beasley is gone and Josh Allen is going to be around for a long time. For the most part his teammates seem to love him and respect his leadership. That's as much as I c an hope for as a fan.

Buffalo has stalled in the playoffs for a few years now. That makes pundits reluctant to keep favoring them. The NY Jets and Miami gave the pundits alternative picks for the division title because of their strong off seasons. It's their right if they want to pick somebody besides Buffalo. I think Buffalo wins the division but it is certainly getting more competitive.

He was a WR in college and has run a sub 4.5 40. He has bounced around the league for a while on the fringes, but if you're going to stick a guy on your PS for emergencies, I think you could do worse.

Technically, I think the Bills could reach an injury settlement with Davidson, release him and then re-sign him. I don't think they have any reason to do that. There is a risk of another team picking him up on waivers. He's still a raw kid. If there are injuries that force the Bills to add a tight end, I think they probably would look for a veteran. It's not going to be someone who is very good, but it would be someone who could at least know how he's expected to play.

He's tall and pretty athletic, but a fringe player none the less. His ceiling at least this year was probably going to be the PS. Opens a roster spot, so Buffalo will probably be adding somebody to fill that roster spot for training camp.

Bill Belichick is probably asking the league if the Patriots can acquire the canceled mini camp practices of a couple other teams so he can extend the Patriots' minicamp.

Did he bring cookies?

There have been some clues that Diggs is unhappy, but does anyone have a clue why? I can't figure out why Diggs won't be more specific about what he thinks is wrong and what he intends to do going forward. It seems to me that he's acting pretty immature.

Davis and Shakir both had an unacceptable drop percentage. I'm not on the "dump Davis" bandwagon but drops need to be addressed and fixed.

And Colin Cowherd didn't think the Bills did enough on the offensive line. My feeling is the Bills did about as well as they could given the realities of the cap, to strengthen areas of the tea that needed upgrading. They could have reallocated resources a bit differently, but it is only a guess as to what the Bills could have done better. They could have thrown more money at WR, but it would have cost them elsewhere. I just want to see what the results are with what we've got.

Click bait.

Houston and Indianapolis are among the weakest teams in the league at the moment. Tennessee is better than that, and might provide some competition for the Jags, but the Jags are arguably division favorites. I I don't see them going to the Super Bowl though.

It's true that the Bills offensive line has underperformed the needs of the offense for several seasons. It makes the Bills easy to criticize. Any media observer has the right to be critical, and certainly the Bills have earned it based on the inadequate attention paid to addressing the offensive line. As far as the coming season is concerned, nobody really knows whether or not the most recent off season moves will fix the problems.

I absolutely agree, but Buffalo didn't throw $15 million per year at any free agents on the offensive line, so in the minds of some pundits they didn't do anything meaningful.

I think there are some pundits who believe if you don't throw a boatload of money at a player or players to fix an area of the team, you didn't do anything. Buffalo was restricted in what they could do this off season. I think they did more than most of us thought they could. They didn't throw out big contracts on the offensive line, but they did sign some players who are pretty well respected and have lots of starting experience. I think the offensive line will be better than last season. With improvements at running back and a new weapon at tight end, that might be enough to reduce pressure on Josh Allen.

Happy Birthday Kim. I hope the day comes quickly that your health crisis becomes a fading memory.

I don't think they expect Dantzler to win a starting job. If he does, the Bills' CBs as a group are a lot worse than I think they are.

What can he do to get faster? His straight line speed is average to below average for a linebacker, and he's a defensive back. He's smart and instinctive. That allows him to play faster than his timed speed, but he could be better if he could improve his speed.

The more I hear, the more it seems as if the Bills wanted to move on from Leslie Frasier and the year off was a way to allow him to save face and perhaps avoid the negative impact on future employment possibilities that firing him would have. The only questions with that scenario are why the Bills waited so long to announce the year "sabbatical." If they had, they could have hired a defensive coordinator right away rather than Sean McDermott having to do two jobs. If that's what happened, perhaps it is a clue that Sean McDermott was itching to do the defensive coordinator job himself for a while.