Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

The Bills can certainly contend for the SB in the next couple of years, next year in particular with a somewhat easier schedule could be their best shot. I've seen it written more than once that TE is one of the hardest positions for a rookie to come in and excel at. Having said that, I think the likelihood of drafting a guy in the 2nd round, (unless we make a trade late 2nd round) and play better than Knox is playing right now is very low. To find that guy would be more dumb luck than a well thought out plan as if he's that good, he's not lasting to close to pick #60. In addition we have Sweeney, so would be concerned with having a TE group led by the guy many want to replace and two others that have no NFL game experience. Kroft is a FA, could see them trying to replace him with another experienced guy on the long end of career, like last season Olson. In addition with this offense how many targets is the TE really going to get? Allen is completing 69.1% of his passes, realistically how much better can that number get, the top QB in the entire league on completion percent is only 1.6% better. Mahomes who has Kelce is 66.3%, almost 3% lower. If you add up the top 3 receiving options on KC and Buffalo, the 3 from KC including Kelce have a total of about 200 more yards than the top 3 of the Bills, Diggs, Beasley, Davis. Earlier in the season saw that the Bills run 4 WR 28% of the time (think it' still close to that number) so how much are you really going to utilize the TE? There are a number of good TE's in the league admittedly currently playing better than Knox; Andrews, Gesicki, Hockenson, Henry, Engram to name a couple but not really sure better than when the Bills go with 4 WR's. While those guys are good, there's only three really great TE's in the league, Gronk, Kittle, and Kelce, so unless you get very lucky and find that guy, I doubt you're overall improving the offense or changing the overall receptions, yards, etc, you're just changing who is making the catches. Overall my take is would rather use their draft picks on CB, O-line likely only two of the trio of Morse, Feleciano, and Williams will be on the team next year and LB either way if they resign Milano or not, and even an edge rusher before I'd worry about TE. I'd prefer giving Knox and Sweeney one more year, Knox to prove he's a capable starter and Sweeney to prove he can be the #2 guy, if not then next year 2022 draft or sign a FA to replace that guy.

Damm.... if Jeremy was a Thoroughbred, he'd be worth alot of money!

I think they assume that if they play their starters, then so will we and likely we'd beat Miami so doesn't gain them much and Big Ben could use the rest more. Think Cleveland still has some folks out with Covid so no guarantee Steelers don't still win. Yeah, but that was at point in season when Pitt was playing better and Ravens and Jackson worse. Allen may have better road numbers only because many of the road games were played in warmer weather, 2 in Az, Vegas, Miami. He has played two cold weather games of late at Denver and NE and was OK against Pitt, though contribute his drop off that game more to Steelers having great defense than weather. Wasn't the Seattle game around 70 degrees too, or was that the 1st NE game?

Give it some time, may still happen. Did they announce any close contacts yet? Even if is close contact, Tua could still be back by Sunday if 2 negative tests

Except Cleveland is in somewhat if a mess with Covid, so wouldn't say it's a cake walk for Browns. If Cleveland was 100% I'd feel much better about resting players.

Read one article today that talked about the Bills having momentum and you don't want to lose that with a loss. Certainly is some truth to that, does it out weigh the injury risk or having to play the following week on the road, tough to say. I do know with a Bills loss and a drop to 3rd seed a better chance they could end up with a 1st round matchup with the Ravens which IMO is the team I'd least like to play. They have a strong defense and they are probably the one other team as hot as the Bills are right now. Overall think I'd like to see them play the starters, blow the game open by half time, then sit everyone. Oh course then Fitz will come in and all bets are off!

Don't confuse me with facts.

Well according to other new thread, sounds like Kenny Stills!

Oh yeah, Read the beginning of 2nd line and end of 3rd to come up with Vita waived! LOL

But what if they tie Miami? You left that one out! Not too crazy about either option. Hate to play Miami two weeks in a row. Would have liked it much more if Pitt had lost as then we'd basically have a pre-season game plan, while Miami would needed to play full out. Now though if we play to win, we show Miami alot, if we don't worry much about game and lose, then end up playing Baltimore which not too crazy about either. So I just went thru "playoff machine" scenarios, I'm assuming both Tenn and Indy win as they're both playing weak teams. If Bills and Pitt both win, Bills still #2 seed and play Miami, Cleveland out of playoffs If Bills and Pitt both lose, Bills still #2 seed and play Cleveland, Indy out of playoffs If Bills win and Pitt loses, Bills still #2 seed and play Indy, Miami out of playoffs If Bills lose and Pitt wins, Bills then #3 seed and play Balt, Cleveland out of playoffs The last option is the one I like the least So it appears in the scenarios above they are assuming Pitt is winning their last game as those are the only way their favored options work out.

So of all the picks they got, the highest one, the 12th is the one player since waived! Kind of funny in that respect.

Well that's true, usually you only hear about it when the coach decides to walk. Hey it could be worse, they could be bringing in new guys to interview!

Seems to happen quite a bit, usually give the coach the option to keep coaching or quit effective immediately. Thought they did that with Rex and he decided to leave. Seems I've heard about it other times too.

I'd feel much better if we were to get Rex and his wife to take care of that.

I'm a fan, but I don't blindly believe they will be great just because I'm a fan. I also don't bash them as much when bad as many here do. Even the local writers on BN, D&C, Syracuse, Athletic didn't predict more than think around 11 wins from what I recall. But yet to the fanatics here like yourself, again what do they know. You certainly know more!

No few realistically is correct as few polls by unbiased people predicted the Bills to win more than 10 games. I just looked at about 5 or 6 polls from ESPN, CBS, USA Today, SI and a couple others. Most I saw were 10 wins. Even NFL.com did a mid season when the Bills were 7-2 and predicted 11 wins. Yes many here were talking 12-4, etc but they were all talking with their hearts. You really want to replace the word with Bills fans wearing rose colored glasses.

Must have been awful lucky all the other times you were drunk! LOL

I'd consider the Bills over achiever as few realistically thought they'd go 12-4 or even 13-3 with the schedule we had. Don't think I'd call the Rams O either, maybe more W as the only question was what version of Goff would we see, rest of team was good. Had to call Seattle a team that likely will win 12 games a U either maybe more a W. I'd probably give NE a U as most didn't think they'd be this bad either, though they were hurt more than most by opt outs too. That may have helped Bills as really no teams in NFC or AFC west were in the O category as that was half the Bills schedule.

Will be interesting to see who the announcers are. Nance was commenting yesterday in the Pitt Indy game that he thought he and Romo would be in Buffalo. He swore to Romo,he didn't know, just a hunch but that's where he thought they were going. It may also have been he thought that game was getting flexed to 4:30 also?

Thought it was more than one year they did it for, but maybe not?

The WFT- Phl is probably the one game where you know Washington has to play to win. Put the Bills on Sunday night, if Pitt loses earlier, Bills can rest starters Reverse it game can become meaningless for Pitt if Bills win. Even Cleveland, think if either Indy, Balt, or Miami were to lose, then Cleveland is in regardless. Arz- Rams game also may be still critical for both teams? So guess can't argue with their logic.

agree!

$50 max bet is my understanding too.

Could see Amazon picking it but but not Prime only in that you're talking about a package that was costing $300 to $400 full price, now to include that in Prime membership for $130 a year. I'd be thrilled if they did as currently have Prime, but can't see it being part of Prime. On the other hand with all the illegal but readily available free streams, can't see people spending much with Amazon for it either. Maybe $100 Bills package only, or $200 for the entire package could sell it. A friend has told me the quality of the illegal streams has got quite good too with few if any interruptions.

First time ever, NFL games were played every day of the week.