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My thoughts are he's no stranger to this position. He started 12 games for us last season. And many felt last year that we were better off with Williams starting than Milano. I don't know that there's really much difference between them as far as quality of play from the OLB position at this point. There's things I feel that Milano is better at than Williams and things I trust Williams with over Milano, at this point. You see a flash play here or there like the one you mentioned. But the consistency is gone. Wear and tear, age, and constantly being behind the 8 ball because he's coming off of an injury - just to get injured again, has all but assured that. We haven't seen anything close to the Matt Milano we had in 2022 since. And at this point, I don't think we really will. I think you IR him, bring up Jenkins from the Practice Squad, and hope for the best with Williams and Jenkins. If it's a minor Pec injury, bring back Milano after the bye and once again let him ease his way back into the lineup. If it's a Tear, that's probably pretty much the end of the line for him in Buffalo. Bc those take months. Maybe he comes back at the end of the year, but I wouldn't expect much from him if he were able to. And with his unreliability and age, I wouldn't expect us to bring him back next season. As for Nickel, Jordan Hancock was a full participant. Neither Taron or Lewis were a DNP. Just Limited. I'd bet one or both will be able to go and if one of them misses the game, Hancock will be active for his first game. I haven't heard that the expectation is that Taron will miss any time though.

So far he's been as advertised. A replacement and an upgrade from Quintin Morris as the 3rd Blocking Tight End. He's caught a single pass in each game. I don't think his role really changes going forward. He will continue to be used often as a Blocker and a ball may be thrown his way every once in a while. More than Morris. But he's not going to make Knox expendable. They're completely different players. Hawes isn't going to be running nearly as many routes. And he shouldn't. You want to take advantage of his Elite blocking skills. When the time comes to replace Knox, they'll bring in another Tight End that's more of a route runner, separator, and pass catcher.

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I think that's part of why he's looked so good. Not only is he healthy, he's loving the Buffalo culture and the locker room. He's part of something he knows is great and feels it. I think that's giving him a little bit extra. He and Josh Palmer both haven't played for a team like ours and their enthusiasm is showing: We'll see how he much he really likes it here come Winter 😄

Making this post after 1 week against the most high powered offense in Football and doing it right at the start of the game rather than waiting to see how it went first was a choice.

That's taking a take from slightly hot to absolutely ludicrous. The crux of the discussion was that Bosa looked better in this game than in any game Von was a Bill. You're now taking it from that to Bosa at his best was a better player than Miller at their best. The former discussion is at least debatable. But I'm sorry, that's a ridiculous take. Von at his best was easily the best Defensive End in Football. He's a future Hall of Famer that heavily contributed to two Super Bowl wins with two different teams - being named Super Bowl MVP for one of them. Again, I love what I've seen from Bosa. Bosa is the now and we're all behind him. I get being excited about him, I am too. But you can do that without rewriting history for the guy with the Bills logo on his helmet now and dismissing the career legacy of the guy who isn't here anymore. Which you're definitely doing here.

That's the crux of the post. If it were 'Bosa looked better in that game than the majority of Von's tenure" or "Bosa looked better in that game than Von did in any game in 2023 or 2024" - no question. That's not even up for debate. But to say "ever"? That's definitely up for debate. But Bosa is the now and boy does he look great! If he can stay healthy, we've finally got a pass rush that can disrupt QB's.

More than solid. He had 8 sacks in 10 games. With the game on the line against the Chiefs in KC, he closed out the game by taking down Mahomes - which is what we brought him in for. Again, I love what I'm seeing out of Bosa. We all know that Miller was never the same guy after the ACL tear and we only got 10 games of true Von in 3 years. But I think saying he looked better than Von "ever" did for us is revisionist history - focusing on the end sum result of his signing and the present, while misconstruing the past. That said, Bosa has the chance to be more of an impact player for this team that Von was for us in 3 years if he can stay healthy all season. But this game up against Von's best game is, at best, heavily debatable.

I'm loving what I'm seeing out of Bosa. But "ever" is pushing it. Miller was a force of nature that first 10 games for us before he got the ACL tear.

He has been getting consistent pass rush on drop backs. Even against Lamar. He's made an immediate impact. Of course, we all worry about his health. It's pretty clear the Bills aren't though. They even had him out there deep into the 4th and I was like "I don't think he needs to be out there right now". If he can stay healthy all season, he's going to be a force. Makes me want to buy his Rivalries jersey, but he's only under contract for this season.

Bosa is a monster.

Stone hand Knox game.

If they did that to Josh, the Jets Safety would have been flagged and arrested. Got away with one on that.

My fear is he's now a no-trick pony. As he didn't look great in Training Camp or the Pre-Season. He wasn't given many reps in Week 1 (seemed to be all Cook and Johnson, Davis had one carry). He's not picking up the tough yards anymore and he doesn't have the finesse skill set or the speed to be the kind of back he'd like to be. Really baffling decision by him. He had a good thing going as a change of pace power back.

I'd love to be wrong, but I have zero faith in Ray Davis this season. I cannot believe he decided to drop mass this off-season. The whole reason he was brought in was to be the heavy to James Cook's finesse. I was in shock listening to him say "I cut weight bc last year I was just being used for tough yardage and I want to be more of a complete back". It doesn't shock me at all that he only had one carry last week and the team seems to be completely focusing on just Cook and Johnson.

Agreed. We don't generally go with 5 active at DT. That's why we didn't bring anyone up when Carter went down. Carter would have been inactive so it didn't change much. What I do find interesting though is Logue is thought of as a 1T. So I assumed they'd bring up Phillips to step in at 3T alongside Sanders. My guess is that since Walker is like Phillips in that he plays more like a 3T in a 1T body that he'll be used more as a 3T this week. With Sanders and Walker at 3 and Jones and Logue at 1 - with some mixing and matching due to flexibility amongst some of the guys, depending on the situation. It'll be interesting to see who gets more snaps this week between Sanders and Walker, with Oliver down. Walker along side Jones would provide some serious beef up front for the Jets rushing attack.

It'll be T.J. Sanders and Jordan Phillips at 3T if Big Ed misses this week.

So.... what?

To this day, I can't tell if this is a real New York Jets fan coming here to talk trash or a Bills fan with a Jersey parody account... It's hilarious either way.

I mean, it's not like being on the Ed Oliver train at that point is some sort of bragging right or required an extraordinary following of College Football or of Ed himself. He was on the cover of Sports Illustrated and considered perhaps the best player in all of College Football going into that year.

I def want one but idk which i'd get. Josh is the safest one to get, but the only other current Nike jersey I have is Josh. Bosa would be cool, but he's only under a 1 Year Deal so that's a gamble. Maybe Cook or Coleman? Wish they made an Ed Oliver one. Is the shield on the Josh the standard shield, or are they selling his jerseys with the Gold Shield?

I've been on the Ed Oliver train since his Junior year at Houston. I was thrilled when he fell to us at 9. One of of my favorite Bills. Hope he's a Bill until he retires.