Billz4ever

Some people just go through life thinking the rules don't apply to them. Rice appears to be one of them and 30 days in the clink still might not be enough to teach him that they do in fact apply to him too. Truth be told, anybody one of us on TBD does what he did in his car, and we're going away for awhile. He got off easy and sometimes that's a big part of the problem.

200 posts in 24 hours? Good lord, man.

Yeah, seems like that's going right along with Beane saying that because we're paying Josh Allen, that limits them, which many have already thrown the BS flag on. Other teams have QB's who make a lot of money and they still have cap space and can make aggressive moves if they chose to. As Mike Catalana said, the Bills cap issues are more to do with Josh Palmer than Josh Allen (paraphrasing here). Stop throwing big contracts at guys that have never really earned that kind of contract to begin with and who then don't live up to expectations.

They won games they had no business winning simply because of him. I remember so many games where the Sabres were dominated in shots on goal and they were somehow still able to win.

I think they should at least have competition in camp. Going into a new season with a guy who missed an entire year with injury, it should be understood that there's no guarantee he comes back 100% and is the same guy he was beforehand. To me, using a later round day 2 pick on a talented kicker still makes sense. I think with the trend moving to these big legged kickers, you may see more kickers going in the draft due to the increased emphasis we've seen.

With kickers out there now that can kick 60 yards+ with relative ease, that opens up opportunities that never really existed before and truly shortens the field for an offense knowing that if you can just pick up 25-30 yards on a drive, you are still in position to come away with points, which can completely alter the course of a game. I expect the teams that aren't already in possession of such talent to be doing their research on kickers coming out of college or who might not be kicking in American football to be getting a ton of interest. At this point, any team that's not doing this is already behind the curve.

Still a tough pill to swallow the Sabres couldn't hoist Lord Stanley's Cup with this guy between the pipes. Glad he was eventually able to even if it wasn't in Buffalo. What an incredible career and life story.

I thought that was for in-person? Either way, I would think that by now, it wouldn't have already been made clear through back-channels if he was interested or not. I think he's staying put or taking the Raiders job since he'd have much more control there than what he'd have had here from what I've heard. Other possibility could be the Bills were worried about losing him to the Raiders? His second interview with them was yesterday, but I have to assume the Bills had already decided at that point.

I thought they could conduct a virtual over this bye week?

They started throwing the ball downfield more once Cooks arrived, so it's a matter of having the personnel to do it IMO.

You have no evidence he even wanted to come here. In fact, the fact they hadn't scheduled an interview with him this week tells us that's it's likely the Bills already heard through back channels he wasn't interested.

The way Tom Brady was talking during the broadcast the other night, I was wondering if he was going to slip up and announce the Raiders were hiring Kubiak. I think Kubiak is either taking the Raiders job or staying put.

Which one of them has a lot of experience?

That's a lot on the plate for a brand new HC. Beane said this would be a CEO-type hire, so I'm not so sure Brady will also be the playcaller. This is the perfect opportunity to bring in a guy like Webb who's a familiar face in the building and who already has a relationship with Josh.

Yeah, I knew he used to be here, just hadn't really kept track of him since. I honestly think Webb would be a great choice for OC, especially to take the playcalling responsibilities off of Brady's plate. And on defense, they clearly need a new philosophy and if he's able to get the Bills D to play more like Denver's with some influx of new talent, he makes sense to me.