Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

And lose the LA market for the Chargers!! Are you serious?? LOL My take on flex games is the league doesn't like to move them unless the scheduled game is really terrible and there's a much much better game to takes it's place. Having said that I think Minn is good enough that they'd like to keep on Sunday night, and not sure Buffalo Pitt is that attractive to take it's slot. Don't know what the 4:00 games are, may be take the spot of one of them??

Sure coaches make mistakes, but even then they are basing it on actual information so it's what I'd call an informed mistake as opposed to fans who base it off seeing practically nothing compared to the coaches and it's based about 90% on emotion.

Agree certainly fans posting on a message board who don't view practice, game film, are sitting in on meetings know much more than the coaches. Maybe Williams will be active this week, maybe not. But do think the coaches are in a better position than a bunch of fanatics obsessed with a player.

Actually Sporting News Vinny Iyer OK lets try and link this. It's from Vinny Iyer Sporting News https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/will-an-nfl-team-sign-colin-kaepernick-here-are-the-most-likely-scenarios-following-the-qbs-workout/ar-BBWTNKz?li=BBnb7Kz

Sorry, you're all wrong, just read in an article that Allen has shown very little improvement and the Bills should consider signing Kap in the off-season.

Part of the reason he's taken lumps is likely due to him being yanking back and forth between two positions all training camp and even in couple of regular season games. I'm sure this is somewhat true for the entire line as Morse (and a 2nd person, can't recall who) being hurt in pre-season created alot of juggling. I'm OK with moving him to guard IF that's the permanent plan. At this point, not likely that's the plan so leave him there. I wouldn't be upset if during the off-season they decide not to resign Spain, move Ford to guard, and draft a true tackle, either right or left.

Do you actually know where the home and away's will be or are you just speculating? I had already thought about this but have no idea what is home and away. actually I just went and looked it up, they are playing at San Fran and Arizona, depending when they play Arizona, may only be a 2 hour time difference. For the AFC, they play at Vegas and Denver which also is only 2 hour difference. Often when having multiple west coast trips they will try to schedule two back to back to the team can stay out west in between. If you want to feel sorry for teams having to travel alot, you should feel worse for the teams in the NFC west as they will be making a minimum of 3 trips to the east coast, many 4, and five trips at least as far east as Dallas or further. with all that being said, one thing I've learned trying to predict what teams are going to be good and bad a year in advance is useless. Too much changes and even teams by August predicted to be real good or bad, there will be a couple of surprises.

I think the question will be can he stay healthy with all the running. That's true of Allen too, but do think with Jackson his running sets up his passes more so even that with Allen. Assuming Allen continues to improve just a little bit more on his accuracy, I could see him being a good QB that lasts quite awhile in the league even if his running ability was taken away due to injuries. I'm not sure that would be true of Jackson. When compared to Vick, Vick had six really good seasons, that could be what becomes of Jackson too. We shall see. Interesting stat too when looking at all the QB's take in 2018, Jackson and Mayfield were the only two that played more than two full seasons in college. Basically by the end of this season guy's like Darnold and Allen will have played more games in the NFL than they did in college. Jackson and Mayfield will need another full seaosn before that can be said. Wouldn't shock me to realize that makes a much bigger difference than many think.

Most tend to agree that Ford has played better at guard than tackle. So if they had any thought at all of doing that instead of platooning Ford and Ty, why not have already moved Feliciano to RT with Ty and played Ford at guard in his place?

He's putting up #1 like number this season. But to remove the "borderline" reference, needs to happen more than one season. Having said that I'd be fine with them signing another Brown like talented player and have two borderline #1 guys out there. Based on where the team is right now overall, think I'd rather see them bring in an experienced guy to start next year as a legit #2 and draft a guy too, but maybe in the 2nd or 3rd. Receivers like Brown are usually available as FA. IMO a bigger need than a WR is a pass rushing DE in the 1st round and likely a offensive tackle in the 2nd.

Bill won because I wore my white Bills shirt I've had since 1991. 4-1 in that shirt this year. Hate to wear it as it's so old, but it works.

I'll go out on a limb here and say if the Bills knew they were going to draft Knox and Sweeney, they wouldn't have signed Kroft. Suppose you could argue the opposite then why draft a 2nd TE when you already had signed Kroft and Lee Smith. But Teams always "draft the BPA". I do think though based on what Knox has shown so far and Sweeney looked good in the pre-season, wouldn't shock me to see Kroft gone, or ideally traded. The only reason I see him back next year is they feel it's too big of a cap hit to let him go and also pay for a replacement player for him.

Agree, I wonder if you only looked at passes from say 8 to 20 yards how his completion percentage would compare.

I don't think it's party poopers as much as they were against drafting Allen, so the most important thing for them is to show everyone they were right. I tend to also think this accuracy is rather overblown. He's completing just over 60% of his passes. So how many more completions per game should he have to not have perceived accuracy issues. Five?? Assuming he averages 30 pass attempts per game adding 5 completions would put him in the 75% range. Two more per game and he'd about 67% and top 10, three more per game and in the top 5 rankings. Realistically two more passes per game would be enough and how many times are those two passes going to change the outcome of the game. Improve their WR group in the off season may easily get him there.

I do think the Bill's playbook needs to have a 2nd player trailing the primary ball carrier by a couple of yards on every play to be right there to jump on all the fumbles.

I tend to agree that Brown if not putting up true #1 numbers is certainly close enough that you don't need a to draft a player to become a #1. So if looking to fill a #2 WR slot, I'd tend to think you'd be better finding one as a FA. Those types of guys like Brown are available every year and tend to come relatively cheap and will be able to have an immediate impact. Drafting a guy in the 2nd or 3rd round likely would take at least a year before you'd expect big things from him. I'd still maybe draft a WR in the 3rd, but he's more coming of the bench in 2020.

I think if they know he's really still somewhat hurt, then they will bring him back next season. If he's 100% and this is as good as he is, then maybe not. Even then, may keep one more season as may not be worth the cap hit to cut him and bring in a replacement.

How many are actual drops vs un-catchable? Brown isn't a whole lot better, so to say he has a terrible % considering he's a 3rd round draft pick when compared against Brown, doesn't really look all that bad. But overall a meaningless stat without knowing how many were catchable.

I think another experienced strong #2 like Brown would also be fine and much cheaper. Haven't paid any attention to the Raiders, has Zay been playing or doing anything out there?

If he can throw very accurately in practice, but misses in the games, that to me is fixable. To me tat means he's panicking and then the mistakes come. As he gains experience, both in games and practice, the throws become second nature and the accuracy improves. Read someplace most of his accuracy issues occur when he moves to his right, again as he gain experience, that may go away.

Bears vs Rams was expected to be a very good game. It still is not a terrible choice either. LA was the home team, therefore it would have had to become a late game for CBS and they already had a good late game with NE-Phi. In fact moving the Rams game ot late Sunday would have likely diluted the viewership for the NE-Phi game as you'd have lost the LA and Chi market then.

So if the team had more better talent before McD arrived how come their record wasn't better? Agree that your list of outstanding players starts with Gilmore, but it also ends there too. Darius, Sammy, Woods wouldn't call them anything special.

I was more responding to the person who wanted to make him inactive already. My response was give to him some more time. Don't disagree with anything you say overall, haven't read the article yet, but saw a headline ripping the Bills overall for not running more. So agree problem may be more scheme than anything. But is possible at his age, he's hit a wall too.

That's why I added the word "technically" Agree, it was more a convenience thing based on Sweeney looklng pretty good, keep him around see if all of a sudden he improves or whatever they decide. You know the old expression "A happy wife is a happy like" Maybe it applies to daughters too!

I'd grade Knox higher, maybe B-. His blocking has been better than expect3d I think and he already has more catches than he did last season in college. I'd give Ford a C or even a C+ just for holding up as well as has with all the being jerked back and forth between two positions. For a rookie to even be serviceable with that much churn going on is still pretty good on it's own. And he has with a few exceptions done OK Beane moved up one spot to get him, so not much of a move. Croom was placed on IR so technically Sweeney didn't beat him out. But do like the kid from what little we've seen of him. Does make me wonder what will become of Croom next year, maybe just move to the owners box?