Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Sounds like Dawkins is there to work on his tackle eligible play! Looking at that photo in the article, take the Bills jersey away, would think it's some high school throwing the ball as JA looks like he's about 16. A real baby face if there ever was one.

Backwards when watching the replays when sitting on the wrong side of stadium Drove me nuts at a stadium sitting on the side opposite the camera angle, watching all the replays in the opposite direction. Give me the good old days with no replay screens to screw you up!

Stop bragging!

Heard an interesting take from Stephen A the other day on this subject. His big issue is people with no NFL experience getting HC jobs over people with many years NFL experience at lower levels. (He singled out Kingsbury as an example on what's wrong with the system in his eyes) He suggested putting in a rule that requires all HC must first be a coordinator, his reasoning is many minorities get those jobs but never move any higher. By requiring coordinator experience first would improve the chance for them. He'd do a similar thing with front office positions too. His argument is you can't go to college without first graduating HS. For that matter for all practical purposes you can't play in the NFL without first playing college or being out of HS for three years.

The part about a "friendly schedule" kind of surprised me.

No I don't disagree with you at all there. But I also think at this point, we're way too far from no risk. And agree about the economy can't stay shut down forever, but on the other hand live sporting events, concerts, etc. are way down on the priority list of things needed. Does that mean stadium workers are out of jobs, yes, but overall they are a small number if you can keep things safer overall.

Logic, Where is yours? Last time I checked excluding rare situations ER personnel won't OD themselves from treating an OD victim. I'm not concerned with the time and resources but more them themselves getting sick and dying. In the last 50 years I don't recall ever hearing about as many medical personal getting sick and dying from treating people with the same disease. Maybe before we had a Polio vaccine there may have been similar things, but that was before my time, but from what I'd read, don't think that was as easily spread as this. Or maybe before people had much understanding of things. Texas has certainly opened up things, how'd there numbers look this weekend? But what the hell alot of people spent money in the economy, like the Lt. governor stated a month or so ago, if some people have to die to keep the economy going, he's fine with it. And that's fine until people start dying who didn't ask for that. So where's the data on the ground that says there's no risk my friend?

Maybe they do know the answer. And the answer is there is a very high likelihood there will still be plenty of people around with the virus. Think it's easier to double back in 2 or 3 months and say OK things are better than we thought, you can have fans in the stands than go the other way. So prepare and plan for the worst from a league standpoint. Yes you can get the virus by going to an event. It's your right to choose to expose yourself. But are you and all the others out there who want their rights to do as they please willing to say if I get sick, I won't seek any medical care as don't want to expose myself to medical professionals. Would you be OK if every doctor, nurse and whomever stated effective June 1st with the exception of maybe nursing homes, police and special situations; any one who gets sick,we're exercising our rights to refuse to treat them as they exposed themselves when it could have been avoided? PS I'm 100% NOT in any way connected to the health industry nor do I have any relatives that are.

I didn't know it was possible to have an illegal gun in Texas? What's that saying about idle hands.... Guess he needs something to keep him busy.

A friend told me there were some pretty reliable ones last season.

It's the insult mindset. Don't anyone say anything bad about Buffalo. There's another whole thread talking about a NE writer who claims Fromm will start. If some national writer picks the Bills to win 12 games, he's a genius, but the one who says we go 6-10 is an idiot. Basically it's "If you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything!"

I'm on the opposite side root for Bill and let Brady look bad. To me he's the brains behind the operation and made Brady look good. Plus at least one 4:45 at Vegas start which means most of country will be watching. Admittedly could be the secondary game that time slot, but good chance not. Likely too if the Denver game doesn't get moved to Saturday, will still be either a 4:05 regional or 4:25 national game.

Can you explain what the increase in danger is by flying to Arizona vs NE? or Pitt? And don't say going to San Fran is more dangerous due to more cases as while that's true, if the Bills aren't playing there, then some other team instead is going there. I'd be more worried about flying to NYC and NE than say Denver

Not sure Polian had the temperament to deal with free agency era as well either. Yes he had success in Indy and Carolina, but not as good as in Bufflalo. He seems like the type that would take it personally if a player were t o sign elsewhere.

With all the west coast games they have this year, I think they also will have a couple more 4:25 double header games too ( as opposed to a 4:05 regional west coast game)

Another one Vinny Testarverdi (sp) He never lived up to his billing when drafted in Tampa, but had a long career, wouldn't call him a franchise QB, but certainly did better than he looked the first few years. That was before FA started too in his initial years.

Not sure if I'd call Mitch a bust, but he was a bust only based on where he was selected. If he were a 4th round selection, no one would be talking about how terrible he is. He may join the likes of many 1sr round stars who become career back-ups at lower cost contracts.

Personally I'd go one step further and expand the active roster to maybe 60 players and bump the salary cap up too for 1 year.

Could have been the thought to was that Epenesa would never have been their at 54, so if we can get Dugger great! But agree thinking may have changed once they saw who they still could take. That is the one position too the team needs to get younger at, so having him, Oliver and Phillips helps there quite a bit. That allows you to sign some short term older pass rushing specialist at the other end

I'm in favor of this happening too, but not sure if the can get away with cutting him and another team not grabbing him before he gets to the PS. Will have to give him terrible situations in pre-season to make him look bad But everyone said the same last year about Duke Williams last year after the "amazing" pre-season he had and look how many others jumped at him. A 5th rounder with his pedigree might be hard to stash though.

Based on the signings they've made, I'll be surprised if there's not an extra defensive lineman too, so that could take the 2nd extra roster spot instead.

Every word in this sentence is a massive exaggeration. While the line is not top 10, Dawkins is better than middling, Morse is better that somewhat above average, and the other three are better than average. And Ford is far, far fro ma massive liability, and was a rookie on top of all that asked to juggle between two positions a good part of the season. On top of that 4 of the 5 guys weren't even with the team the year prior so there was little continuity. Add in that Morse missed all of the off season which then caused both Feliciano and Ford to switch positions (until Feliciano also got hurt) which again throughout training camp, limited reps together. The first time all five got to play in their "normal" positions was opening day.

Your post stated that they neglected the TE for years. Signing 4 TE's last year isn't neglected. Knox looked like a rookie because he was a rookie. Yes he had drops, but also made plays some that very others have the skill set to make. And yes is too early to tell, but if you sign another TE to take over as the #1, then you'll never know what Knox can do.

They signed 4 TE's last year, I wouldn't call that neglected. The one thing I do know if no one knows how good Know could be including you.

Was thinking the same, all those who knew Beane's tendencies, kind of went out the window. Other years were different and had more picks to play with.