Ed_Formerly_of_Roch
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So I now live down in North Carolina for close to about 17 years now. After the 2015 season, the Bills were pretty much losing every year so decided in 2016 I'll maybe start following the local team the Panthers. They're on TV every week, in the local papers to some level, not like in western NY and they just finished 15-1 and lost in the SB. I wasn't going to ignore the Bills, but wouldn't bother trying to find a way to watch a Bills game when had the Panthers on local TV and newspapers.
They went from SB lose to 6-10, finished in last place and started the season 1-5. After that start I kind of gave up on them and went back to the Bills who actually finished wit ha better record in Rex's last year here. Haven't wavered since
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9 hours ago, Augie said:
I’m with you here! Solomon has that quick bendy, twitchy edge rush we otherwise lack. I’ve been intrigued by the guy, and the stats in red above are eye opening. I hope with a full NFL offseason he can hold up against the run and earn more snaps to get after the QB.
He had good college stats, many sacks. Granted it wasn't against Alabama and Ohio St, but neither did Andre Reed play them regularly.
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12 hours ago, atlbillsfan1975 said:
Beane has done a fabulous job with FA signings and the draft. We have guys in the pipeline ready to step up.
Kromer has done an excellent job developing guys and deserves a ton of credit.But wait, I read all these other threads how his drafts are suspect??
Actually does make you wonder is it the players he drafted or is it the coaching and they got a good one there in Kromer?
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12 minutes ago, skibum said:
Shenault is going to bust out as the return specialist, because for some reason I think every non-star on the team should have at least some reason to be considered in this thread.
Not certain of the star ranking, but I think he makes the roster which in itself would be somewhat of a surprise as could come down to him and Conddington fighting for the return job. In the secondary, they have guys like Lewis, Hancock and think I'm forgetting a 3rd player who can line up in multiple places, safety, slot, CB. For Shenault no one has his speed so he'd bring a unique skill to WR as the 6th guy there
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I'll go with Solomon and Carter. Carter was improving until injured.
After posting this just read this about Solomon in the BN
Solomon created eight quarterback hurries in 89 pass-rush snaps, compared with Epenesa’s nine hurries in 356 snaps, according to PFF. Solomon, a rookie fifth-round draft pick in 2024, had two sacks and six quarterback hits while playing just 15% of the Bills’ defensive snaps during the regular season.
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15 hours ago, PoundingDog said:
In the context of the discussion here, we want Oliver to be THE guy not the guys freed up by him. Chris Jones type is a beast WITHOUT surrounding cast. Oliver looks to be a guy that can make plays when there is a Chris Jones next to him.
when the suspension of others are over and someone is able to prove that he's able to do the same as Jones with much more upside.
The reason I say September is if you keep him until Oct, then his entire salary for year is paid. so then why bother to get rid of him? Once the first game is played vets with maybe 3 or 4 years in the league get their entire salary paid to them if cut. If it weren't for that yeah I'd agree with October.
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I think a better question will be is Daquan Jones on the roster in September.
Oliver isn't one to be a game changer, think if he had more consistent help inside next to him, he'd look much better too. Has he lived up to his draft pick level, no, but not terrible either
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18 hours ago, CoudyBills said:
A fool and his money...
Are teams not required to withhold taxes?
Likely yes, but also likely if he had $100 mil some of it's in places not subject to withholding, but are taxable, dividends, real estate transactions, other sales, etc. Those he'd need to claim as income and then pay the taxes.
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On 6/25/2025 at 9:25 PM, Mike in Horseheads said:
Well after taxes he pry "only" had 60m to spend. 🙄
You're assuming he paid the taxes??
Also people need to understand, $100 mil isn't what it used to be!!
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3 hours ago, Gregg said:
Justin Fields
Fields doesn't qualify as only signed to a 2 year contract. I think what the OP is after is guys who've signed 2nd or 3rd contracts and are paid way more than they are worth and most importantly being paid like a top level QB, but don't play like one.
Daniel Jones contact with Giants may have been borderline, though wasn't getting top $$
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1 minute ago, Goin Breakdown said:
To quote Diggs. "Ya sure?"
After last season, yeah I'm sure
1 minute ago, uticaclub said:If the Jets draft Allen, McDermott is a defensive coordinator
And if the Bills had traded up and drafted Big Ben Tomlin probably wouldn't be on the list either.
This list is all about SB wins, but many won quite a number of years ago.
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31 minutes ago, henry jones said:
While it's not completely his fault, he is a "defensive coach" and his defenses in the playoffs have given up the most PPG in NFL history.
True but he's still won more games lately both in playoff and regular season than many of the names listed above him.
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On 6/21/2025 at 5:27 AM, GunnerBill said:
We will go 5-1. Lose week 18 to the Jets in a dead rubber.
I was kind of thinking the same , lose the last game as it doesn't matter. Then saw it was the Jets and they may be so bad that even playing subs the Bills still win.
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2 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:
Yeah saying that "everyone" was down on Spencer Brown and then clarifying the reason.......that it's because they are just stupid......is the very definition of a shout down.
There is no rationale other than de-humanizing the opinions you don't like. The same way slurs are used to totally discount opinions.
A literal shout down.
Now if I said that the value of your opinion on the temperature of the fan base regarding certain players is not of import because you couldn't make it professionally in WNY and had to move away..........that would also be a shout down.
While I may think that reflects poorly on you or your intellect that is not my response to the subject.
But you telling ME what Bills fans think when I literally interact with them all day in public 6-12 hours every day and not just on a message board heavily populated by out-of-towners is the literal equivalent of you claiming Bills fans can't have knowledge about the future outlook of players and only those around them can.
Anyway I gotta' pull an Alphadawg here and give you a peace-out. This is the most discussion traffic I've ever seen one of your takes get and and I would just hope you can see why. ✌️
Wow, you must really be interested to see how much discussion my take has got here and compared it to others. And actually most of the discussion has been solely by you.
Seems like I hit a nerve here with you accusing other posters of being clueless WRT player evaluations. For someone to be so upset about my take on this, I guess I hit too close to home.
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On 6/19/2025 at 11:02 PM, BADOLBILZ said:
Yep you ridiculously exaggerated the amount of criticism Brown had received in an attempt to shout down this Coleman discussion.
Even in the Spencer Brown criticism thread that I quoted there weren't that many people other than the OP that were particularly critical of Spencer Brown.
But sure enough, as I suspected........you were there in that thread to offer your contrary opinion.
You read the title of one thread......applied unnecessary gravity to it.......disagreed........and ran with it.
I'm not trying to shout anything down. For all I know Coleman could be a bust, like I said the odds are against him as they are pretty much against everyone.
I'm just pointing out the stupidity of all the posters here who think they can tell when a player is going to be a bust or be great, as the reality is we all know very little. There's too many people here who think they are the smartest guy in the room when it comes to player evaluations. I know I'm not as are almost everyone else here.
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On 6/20/2025 at 11:08 AM, billsfan714 said:
As you and promo pointed out, AI says the Bills will be on nationally at least 9 games, Im in the AFC central market so I wont get as many as promo. But it shows the ridiculousness of the pricing. 375 bucks for the other 8 Bills games, is 46.87 for each of the other 8 Bills games. I love football, I'll watch the three games on Sunday, the Monday nighter and Thursday. I dont give a crap that you get every game, I cant watch them all. I dont care if the Jets are playing Carolina or the Giants are playing Seattle, etc. It would be like buying a new car and having to pay for a bunch of options you dont want. I also hate when companies treat their existing customers worse than new customers. Heck even the phone companies have been moving away from that. I just retired, Im so glad teachers and professors who probably make more than me will be paying less. Im truly torn, but Im leaning without any discount I'll record the Bills replay when it comes on NFL network during the week. At this point it's a matter of principle at balking at the 375 price.
Yeah I'll watch off an illegal stream as never had any issues with them. I've actually seed the quality better there than on legal streams. Or spoof IP address to Buffalo. Haven't tried that in a couple of years.
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On 6/17/2025 at 10:46 AM, billsfan714 said:
It is approaching a level I don't want to pay. I'm probably like a lot of people who do Sunday ticket, a out of towner ex Buffalo person, I want it just to watch the Bills. In a 17 game season, if the Bills are on national tv 6 games, that basically means I'm paying 375 for 11 Bills games which is over 34 bucks a game. That's getting pretty steep in my book, almost approaching a ppv fight. I do fantasy football, but i don't need to see every score in real time so I don't care about redzone, the crawl on the bottom of the tv will pretty much update you in real time on who scored. Maybe these gambling addicts need a 4 box screen to keep a real time eye on all their bets, but I don't think that's the average fan.
If there are 4 games on Sunday, one on Monday and one on Thursday, there isn't a lot of other premium games I want to watch.
Just my humble opinion, but the greed is getting out of control. Lastly as a returning subscriber who's not in one of the discount groups, well, that sucks too.
By my account there are 9 games either night or 4:25 start that would be on national TV, plus may get a couple of 1:00 games shown in your area, so probably paying for more like 5 games. I'm in same boat. I'm in the same boat, besides the Bills games, there was maybe a handful of other games I watched, but if they weren't available and didn't see them, wouldn't be a big difference so not going to likely pay for it to watch so few games. Give me the discount like you're giving new subs or at least $100 off and I'll likely take it.
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4 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:
There are always going to be some zealots on here who make ridiculously broad claims like @Ed_Formerly_of_Roch did about everyone wanting to run Brown out of town.
I saw another guy who posts about 10x per day here recently claim that everyone "had it in" for Kincaid when he was drafted.
These are NOT true statements. They are nonsensical hyperbole or, in most cases, just outright lies by people who can't handle criticism.
As for @Einstein claim about it being very rare for a RT to make huge improvement............I totally disagree with that. Most RT's don't have LT feet. They gotta' learn to work with what they have. Lot's of them struggle early and become much better.
6 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:There are a number of people who "do this" or have done this for a living that don't believe in Coleman. Some of them are literally why he was on the board at #33. It's not just the "posters here". Their professional opinions don't mean that much either. Half of first round picks fail to even warrant a 5th year extension. So the pro's aren't exactly nailing it. Your scope is very limited if you don't realize these facts. And perhaps that's why you are so outraged. Just because you don't think you can be as informed as a professional doesn't mean you shouldn't learn how the systems work, at the very least.
Yes I was exaggerating when I stated everyone wants him gone. But there were certainly a number of threads about him and seemed as soon as one thread would fall off the first page or so, a new one would start up. The point is still valid in that a large number of posters think their evaluation of a player after one or two years is gospel and they are smarter about these things than the people who do this for a living.
This isn't about criticism, this is about people who here all think they are the smartest guy in the room when in reality we're all pretty stupid about these things, but some will go to great lengths to prove they are right.
And yes I totally agree with you about half of first round picks don't get a 2nd contract so if you claim every player sucks, you'd be right much more than being wrong. So it's easy to look smart and say this play won't succeed. Does that mean the front office folks are dumber than the posters here. And if they don't know, then how can anyone here know more?
Reading your responses here and how much you seem to be taking issue with this, I can't help but think of that quote from very long ago :
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
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4 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:
Yeah @Ed_Formerly_of_Roch is very wrong saying that "everyone" wanted to dump Spencer Brown. There was a vocal minority and if you over-value TSW takes just because they were started by moderators then perhaps you might think that way about Brown.
The big difference is that RT isn't a premium position. You can always cover your RT up with a TE or slide protections or a quick passing game. Teams reach SB's with terrible RT's. It happens.
Much less likely to reach a SB without a couple excellent receiving threats. Coleman entered the NFL raw and inexperienced with great athletic upside much like Brown but the stakes are higher with a 33rd overall pick at a premium position like WR than they are with a late 3rd round RT.
And there's a vocal minority that wants to write off Coleman too, or maybe it's a majority. The point of my post is that whether you're the 1st overall pick or the 256 pick, people here think they know much more than they do. And regardless of if you're the long snapper or the QB, again posters here for the most part know very little compared to people who do this for a living and are quick to jump on someone as a bust or the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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On 6/15/2025 at 2:57 PM, stevestojan said:
This is his year to put up or literally shut up.
Yup just like Brown's 2nd year and wasn't very good. Need to dump him everyone here said. What a mistake by Beane. Oh wait!
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5 hours ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
Robbins was possibly the worst Punter in the League in 2023. Camarda was picked in Round 4 of 2022 (which is like the Punter equivelant of going 1st overall). He was very good in 2022 and 2023, winning Special Teams Player of the Week honors as a Rookie and Special Teams Player of the Month in 2023. He was cut in 2024 after a new Special Teams coordinator came in and after a little bit of a slump. Most fans felt it was an odd release as after 2 solid years, they booted him after a bad month and a half.
I think Camarda is the clear favorite and the more talented Punter. His performance that led to his release was still better than Robbins' 2023. Robbins' might have a better story, but Camarda has thus far proven to be the better Punter.
Don't disagree with you but Camarda also only had a 35.5-yard net average last season on punts, 2nd worst in the league. Maybe that was fluke last year., who knows??
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After reading this article in todays BN, I'm rooting for Robbins to win the job. I kind of like his story better and he may have more upside IMO
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3 hours ago, Alphadawg7 said:
I mean you can say that about any of the guys on the team playing the softball game every year where they can get hurt as well, or these guys just working out in the offseason, or any extra curricular activity that other guys on the team do, including Josh, over each offseason.
Yeah ask the RB (can't recall the name ) who tore his ACL on a jet ski 2 summers ago. And if I remember right he wasn't even moving at the time?
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35 minutes ago, Paup 1995MVP said:
Those are some very interesting numbers Ed. Makes you stop and think that maybe the expectations of a lot of us fans are out of wack at times.
Tell me why do a lot of people call Greg Rousseau Groot? What is that about?
Rousseau and AJ have been solid to good a lot of the time. But neither has been special. And you know not many NFL guys are special players. Tre White was special before his knee and achilles injuries. Matt Milano was special in 2022 until injuries derailed his career in London 2023. Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer were a special safety combo together in their prime, although I don't think each on their own was quite on that special level. But both were very good players. Kyle Williams was a special player for most of his career.
Lets hope that both Rousseau and AJ can raise their games some this season to a very good level most weeks. I think most Bills fans would take that with a big tooth grin.
I guess it's just taking the G in Greg and adding it to the first few letters of his last name pronounced as Roo Put them together, you have Groot and where the "T" at the end comes from, not sure??
First time I read it, I wondered who they were talking about too.
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If I had moved 30 or 40 years ago from Western NY to NC, I probably would have more given up on Bills as much harder back then to follow an out of market team. Today doesn't make a huge difference whether you live in Orchard Park or SE Asia, can pretty much follow just as well from anywhere. Just takes a little more money with subscriptions to things not needed as much if local.