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Except you've likely weakened the defense more than you strengthened the offense. As we saw this year the games Edmunds missed there was a significant drop off in play. Now you want to replace him with a rookie! One who assuming we win this weekend will be drafted no higher than 25. You can find rookies with good tackling skills and maybe also great speed, real ball hawks! But the one thing that separates Edmunds from most is his size and amount of ground he covers. And if you can find a rookie with size, he's still a rookie. It took Edmunds 4 seasons to look good.

Actually not painless as you now need to spend money to replace him. And not at all saying they should keep him. My point is Saffords money is likely going to his replacement. Same with Poyer or Edmunds. You can draft some of the replacements for some of these guys, but don't think that makes much sense to have a bunch of rookies starting and replacing key players when in a win now mode. Coming up with the money is the easy part. The question is where is it best spent, not so sure you want to spend it to have two WR's both being paid top $$. While I agree we need better play from WR position, based on past few years of what's happened around the league, think you could draft a rookie in 1st round, start him and get the improvement we need plus sign a mid tier guy for backup due to injury. Having a QB like Allen makes any WR look much better too so don't need top level as much. With limited money to use, think it's better spent on mid tier WR, IOL, and maybe S to start to fill holes.

Maybe that's why Hopkins wants out!

There's a simple solution to this Cut Josh Allen! Then likely will finish in 4th place while KC continues to dominate and win their division. Then will only face KC every 3rd year when we play the AFC West. Curious did you start a similar thread 10 years ago or so when we faced the Bengals and Jag's close to every year when we were all more often than not finishing in last place?

Why is it terrible when over a believe it's a 12 year period, every team plays almost every other team equal number of times home and away. Granted the one thing that can't be controlled is the two games each year, one home and one away based on where you finished in the standings. You can rip the NFL office all you want, but one thing I'm certain of is they have had a whole room for of people analyzing all different concepts and this likely for a number of reasons most here have never thought of, this is the best idea. If you spend 15 minutes thinking about it, yes may sound dumb, but if you spent 15 days looking at it, I'm sure there are many reason most never thought of. Things like this, they do get right, it's more the human element they struggle with.

Apparently you just woke up from the same coma as Dick Cheney above!

Like they often say, the coverup is usually worse than the initial lie. Also too the Bengals reps were probably thinking more clearly and maybe heard better everything that was being said. They were probablt more in a listening mode than the Bills were that night. Could more see McD and Beane having one ear on the discussion and the other in the locker room and a 3rd at the hospital. So may not have heard much of anything clearly. Bengals less preoccupied.

Just in case it ends up in Charlotte, I just booked a hotel room for Sunday night. Figured do it while prices are still low.

Agree, but still for the player they likely either come away realizing they just are not as good as they think they are, or they feel like they didn't get as much of a shot as they hoped for.

If he's not started his 21 day window by now, very doubtful. Look at what Bills have typically done, once players complete the 21 day period, they move them to active roster, but then kept them inactive a couple more games. Add all that up maybe could be ready to play in SB, but not likely prior and that's optimistic.

And covering receivers. Between Hyde being out, Poyer hurt to some degree and White not back to old form, they are hurting there. Now add loss of Hamlin on top of that, made the Pats look like Air Coryell.

Don't under estimate the egos of these guys. I'm sure Mitch felt he learned all this valuable help from Daboll and watching Allen and wasn't going to make the same mistakes again and would live up to being the #2 overall draft pick. May have seen himself as a Kurt Warner type career revitalization. Agree, but also wanted a fair shot to show what he had and not have to compete against a guy the team just traded a 1st round pick for either.

I do recall reading an in depth article last season that explained how all the games were slotted for when they'd play as far as NFC vrs AFC, based much on who and when the game the following week would be, etc. Example you don't want one team playing Saturday and their likely opponent the following week plays on Monday so has two days less to prepare. It dictated last year the Monday night game had to be an NFC game based on what would occur following week. Recall reading couple comments in explanation that made me think the would alternate each year so this year the Monday night game would be with AFC teams. So based on everything I recall the OP's guess at the game times sounds pretty good.

Reminds me a little bit of when the Bills Signed Flutie, then a month later traded for Johnson. Always wondered, if Flutie had known the Bills were going to trade for Johnson, would Flutie have signed. Same here if Mitch knew they planned to use a 1st round pick on a QB, would he have signed there. But he can join a long list of players who sign with a new team thinking they will be given a legit shot to be the starting QB for most of one season at least, only to be quickly replaced.

Agree a number of the passes he's dropped were not good throws. The first possession, they never showed a replay, but pass was low and behind him from what I recalled. Could he have got lucky and caught it sure. But he's being blamed for anything that comes close. Having said, he did drop at least two that he should have had today including the pass near the end in the end zone and recall one other he should have had. Over all do agree they need improvement next season at WR, but not sure making changes at this point is the best thing. Allen is also struggling with accuracy much more of late and had lead to many inaccurate passes. Maybe that's still due to the injury??

And that was the thing he was very impressive at doing as a rookie!

Well I'll agree with you on this one! LOL

Makes you wonder if there's more to that injury he suffered early on. Though bad ankle shouldn't explain dropped passes. But maybe something else going on??

Think AFC Special Teams player of the week is wrapped up!

Seems like Mc'd's thinking is sign the right CB with the proper skills and play him at safety and has had good success with doing that. But that player needs to be identified and more importantly be available.

It's interesting you mention bad feet as recall a number of times as rookie and last year, a number of catches he'd make along sidelines and always manage to stay in bounds. He was often praised for that, but seems to have forgot all that

Wel lyopu stated: "Seeing some negative articles now about how the Bills didn’t play Cinci on Wednesday or whatever" Someone else questions that too as they hadn't read anything to that point and then you post an article supposedly supporting that position that basically said the Bengal were confused that the Bills left town Monday night. As to your comment about "often doing things", do you mean like the way you always can find a negative slant on everything.

That's your proof??? Are you serious? LOL Other than a Bengals players complaining a little, where's the evidence of NFL players not on either team claiming the Bills should have played Wednesday?? Do the Bengals have a gripe about the way things played out, yes they did get the short end. Even there, they are complaining more about this coin flip idea if they lose today, not about not finishing the Bills game. Per your comments, would like to see some articles supporting your claim where players on other teams weren't happy with the Bills in this situation. OK so maybe no FA's on the Bengal will want to sign with Buffalo! Doomed!! Also the league made the decision about seedings, neutral field etc, not Buffalo.

McD was looking like he was a little bit worried after .about getting a penalty for delay or excess celebration, but do think the refs would give a break on that.

Have those articles quoted players? Not likely. Players don't like Thursday games as too short a week, so can't believe any player would think the Bills should have played Wednesday. As for the original post, I do agree with the theme that this could/should help in FA pursuit.