Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

To me this is the same as every April when the schedule first comes out, people start projecting records and what are easy and hard games. Like last year, LA and Tenn were considered tough ones. But every year there are teams that are expected to do well who do much worse (see 2023 Bills) and teams that unexpectedly do much better. To me it's the same with guessing # of wins needed. There will always be unexpected losses. Most years 9-7 mad the playoffs, some years even 8-8, think I even recall a couple of 7-9 teams making it. Think adding a 7th team would lower the number of wins needed too?? So IMO 10 is definitely enough based on history, if the poll had been if 9 wins would make it, would be a tougher call.

Yes, the Bills had a total of 3 second round picks that year, one from the Mahomes trade, one from Sammy Watkins trade, plus their own. They then used 2 of the second round picks plus their own 1st round #12 which only became #12 after the swap with the Bengals to move up to #7 overall and grabbed Allen. They then used their last second rounder plus their own #22 pick to trade up to believe it was #16 to pick Edmunds.

Agree Bengals were a train wreck for a long time, worse even the the Bills. Actually didn't Buffalo trade one of their tackles to the Bengals and allowed them to move up in draft. Was one of the picks indirectly used to get Allen. My post wasn't just referring to in season trades. I was more implying they may have traded off players for more picks to rebuild.

The other thing that hurt the Bills is they were never quite the train wreck that the Bengals were. Going back to 2010 the Bills never won less than 6 games a year meanwhile the Bengals never won more than 6 games going back to 2015 so they had better draft picks for a few years prior. Prior to that the Bengals had a few good years so wouldn't also surprise me that they had made some "fire sale" trades in 2016 and 17 once they realized they sucked and acquired more draft picks. Chargers too were more up and down so had some better draft picks some years too.

Keep in mind too this is television so in some ways could look better to show a shot of Allen sitting there seemingly lost all by himself, than intently reviewing things with Brady or someone else. They may be waiting to get shots of him alone.

I've seen Brady sitting next to him many times or sometime K Allen. I'm curious as to how you apparently know what is just out of the viewpoint of the camera? How do you know that Brady isn't sitting maybe 12 inches away from him and the camera just zoomed in on Allen. I don't think the producers care about showing Brady, but they do want to show Allen. So we're all watching the same feed, but you my friend are assuming what may or may not be of the camera view.

Sounds good except no idea if any of it's true. What happened the first 6 games of the season doesn't mean it will continue when Knox returns. Early on Kincaid struggled and still does though has seemed to improved with blocking compared to Knox so made sense to play Knox more early on. If Hockenson is so great, how come he got traded? The Lions received a 2nd and 3rd, but gave up a 4th and 5th in the deal, not exactly the return I'd expect for a "great" player. I looked this up recently, I believe every TE drafted prior to Knox that season has either been traded or cut. Hockenson is playing better than Knox, but he also was 1st round pick so should be. Knox it the 9th highest paid TE, by next season likely will drop further. Hockenson is #2 BTW making more than Kittle, Kelce, and Andrews

Yeah think with Kincaid being the #1 TE Knox will become more of the blocking TE and chips out on blocks. Early in the season Kincaid wasn't doing much, but now with the way he's playing, defenses will need to cover him good so could mean more opportunities for Knox slipping out of backfield. Think the Bills ran it back one year too much. But can understand why they took the chance. Last three seasons were one of 4 last teams standing, then final 8 but without 13 seconds should again have been final 4 with AFc title game in Buffalo, then again final 8, but with many things happened through the year (shooting, Kim P, 2 blizzards, and then Hamlin) so can understand why they took the chance made some moves to improve and for the most part ran it back. Prior to the injuries on defense it appeared to be working. Last year Poyer was looking a bit old, but could attribute some of that to missing his running mate Hyde. In hindsight, that wasn't entirely the issue. To answer the original question, get rid or don't resign; White, Poyer, Hyde, Morse, Hines, Murray, Ford, Settle, Phillips, Davis, Norman, Jackson, Klein, Matakavich, & Shaq to name most. I'd then try ans sign extensions with Douglas, Rapp, Jones, and AJ though not sure they will be able to afford him. Get younger and cheaper, take a year to rebuild, by then Rodgers will likely be gone and Bengals, Ravens, Jets and Dolphins will all be in cap trouble.

Is the problem Gabe can't get open, or for whatever reason Allen rarely looks his way, or the way the plays are drawn up by Dorsey makes it tough for Davis to ever be open? Last week he was involved a lot, this week, not.

Not sure about a lot. I'm guessing on 1st downs and obvious running plays Joseph plays.

Roster link https://twitter.com/BuffaloBillsPR/status/1721313968445137074/photo/1 Joseph and Douglas are playing

The OP first states he's bringing his wife to the game, then he talks about hand warmers. It did make me wonder where he was going with this?

I can't figure out if he had work done or just looks old. If he did have work done, I think I'd ask for a refund.

Yeah but the one thing RW was known for was not paying high $$ for coaches sop that hurt the team overall.

Agree. At this point the Bills want/need someone better than a rookie backup to Allen. Likely they've done the past couple of seasons had an experienced vet there. So the rookie would be the #3 QB likely cut and assigned to the PS and also likely someone another team would poach very quickly. Maybe a 7th rounder who hasn't done a whole lot has a chance of sticking or a guy who's been around the block a few times and other teams have little interest in.

Pretty amazing that a involving the Giants and Raiders would have such a small viewing area. But that is what those teams have become right now.

Who every team plays home and away has nothing to do with a scheduler. That is predetermined years in advance and based on what place they finish in. Yes the exact order does have more manual intervention, but as the commercial states, it's still mostly done by computer As for the late bye, recall reading the Bills requested that. They could have had it after returning from London, but instead requested it for later. They also requested to play their overseas game sometime either this year or next as didn't want to lose a home game once the new stadium opened. The only real thing they got screwed on was that Jax got to stay in London the week prior.

While I agree I also don't like the shotgun snaps from the goal line I do wonder if; prior to the NE game, G Davis commented that they needed to run more plays the felt more comfortable with. Josh has stated he prefers being in shotgun. So do wonder if they are running those plays at Josh's request, that it's not really a Dorsey thing? If is the case, understand Dorsey could over rule him but do wonder if that could be behind it ?

Any injuries this week on the O-line, blame it on Joe B in the Athletic! He just gave us the kiss of death! It’s helped that the Bills have stayed healthy on the offensive line

So was the asking price too high for what the Bears wanted or did they talk about what this guy wanted to sign a long term deal and that was too high? As the Bills were not interested in basically giving up draft picks for a rental??

Good chance he's traded in the off season. More moves tend to happen then anyway. Or maybe it just takes him awhile to get it and will become good. There's a fairly good size list of players who everyone here wanted to be cut/traded but turned out to be a decent player. Oliver comes to mind at the top of the list along with AJ.

No Bills were fined from their week 7 game!! That'sa first! Wait, that's right, Ed Oliver didn't play

If they made the 1st down on 4th and one, game over. If they get stopped about the same amount of time left as clock stopps on change of possession and would need to go another 7 or 8 yards further. Having said that, tend to agree may have been smarter to go for it.

I suspect he'll sign for much more than the normal PS salary so any team wanting to poach him will need to pay more than he's getting. Plus if a team wanted him, they could have signed him right now just like the Bills apparently have. I've also read that when a player on a teams PS is potentially being poached the agent gives the team who he is currently on the PS for first dibs to match and sign him to their own 53.

Yeah I'm sure if D Jones were still playing Williams/Dodson/Poyer would look much better at LB. Think an improvement at DT would be the biggest help both in stopping the run and pressuring the QB, not letting him step up. One thing you can on every year is the Ravens looking good in Sept and Oct.