Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

I remember that quote, I've used it a number of times myself over the years when talking football.

Higgins may be a bit better than price, but yeah if a team signs him to be their #1 and doesn't have a top 10 QB, agree he likely will drop way off in numbers

I think what gets missed is great QB's create great WR's not the other way around, but don't let any WR's hear that. They will insist it's the other way. (Diggs... you sure about that?) This kind of becomes this never ending cycle. Say Higgins was a FA last off-season. A team like the Giants may have gone after him thinking that will solve all of Jones's problems. It may be helpful in the early years for a QB, did Diggs initially help Allen, yes, but once the QB ascends to top level, they can make any WR looks good. Recall 20+ years ago, think it was when Bledsoe was QB he had Moulds and P Price. Price had this great year, went to Atlanta and stunk up the place. The other thing too is having better weapons just means the existing ones will get less receptions/yards. If the Bills signed Higgins, doubtful nor would it be good overall if Allen threw for an extra 1000 yards. There's only one ball to go around. Do the Bills need better play at WR, yes, but not exponentially better. Teams don't need better WR's they need better QB play overall.

Could do a wait and see, if no teams sign him by early July, means nobody wants him. I'd then sign him then with understanding, he's likely going to get cut and placed on PS (with a higher than required salary, but not too high either). Keep him there as insurance in case someone got hurt. Also would be good opportunity to evaluate how he looks in camp. Wouldn't play him in pre-season at all either so other teams can't get a look at how he's doing. If he doesn't look good, then wouldn't even bother with PS option. I say this, but do think he's strong enough that some team will sign him well prior, but if they don't, then here's plan B

Reading how well the Bill's strength staff was rated by NFLPA, there's got to be something that happened behind the scenes that lead to him being fired, likely something HR related?? Unless it's so big it becomes a law suit probably never hear.

More than a coach, could see where a person in that position gets too close to the players and allows them to miss goals and maybe even covers for them?

Thought I'd read Ferguson is a FA and isn't there a 4th QB under contract? He was on IR all year, and seems his wife is the chief social organizer of the team? And isn't there also a 3rd punter? They signed on in Dec or so and didn't I read they just signed another within the past week?? So with as few potential roster openings it does bode well for the idea of trading some pics for high quality player or two. I often read posts, the Bills need to draft 3 WR or 3 DL, (whatever) well for that idea to work, you actually have to have an open roster spot for these new players.

Benford and Shakir would be the first two

The year I was talking about was the year we beat NE out by one game. So I suppose it's also McD 's fault that he coached them to 13-3 this year too then? If you want to talk regular season record, then it's all on McD that we have the 2nd best overall record over the past 5 years or so?

Really? The Bills have won the AFCE 5 years in a row. How many seasons did they clinch with 6 weeks left to go besides this year? Two years was one game and 2 years was 3 games so wouldn't count on that too much.

Because Bills fans look around and see all the failures every single season of new coaches brought in. Granted these other teams don't have Allen at QB so understand that does make a difference, but there's much more room to go down than up. Are they going to bring in a re-tread or some up and coming assistant? Both have risks, the re-tread probably has more risk, he be the next Andy Reid or the next Doug Pederson who has a SB win on his resume and had a good QB in Jax. Or they bring in a new guy, could be the next Greg Williams. Most coaches all have their own scheme that they want to play and often the players on the team don't fit that scheme so needs to be wholesale changes on at least one side of the ball. That's easier to do when in a rebuild mode as you probably aren't close to the cap and often have one or two star players that you can trade away for more draft picks. A team like the Bills doesn't have that so you better hope the next coach that comes in says I can win with this roster make up which would be rare to find. Tomlin and Harbaugh have coached longer with their teams but since McD came to town have done worse overall. Do they get a pass because they won one SB 17 and 12 years ago? Since 2012 the year they won the SB Harbaugh has only one one division round playoff game and that was when he was the #1 overall seed. His only other wins were in the wild card but he's still coaching. It's not easy to find a better coach

How is this different than what was announced last week?

Really?? Lets say they lose a couple more regular season games and end up as the 6th or 7th seed. Those seeds rarely make it past the first round. Look at the Steelers records in the last nine times they've made the playoffs, 7 of those 9 seasons, they got knocked out in first game played and a good reason for those loses was because they were a low seed playing on the road. I agree the defense needs improvement and can McD get us there I'll agree I don't know. But I also know there's much more rom for getting worse both in regular season and in playoffs

Well first you have to win in the regular season before worrying about KC in the playoffs. Lets say a new coach loses 2 more games and was the 6th or 7th seed. How many 6 or 7 seeds win the SB or even make it past the first round?

Because there's a very high probability that if a new coach comes in, the team will get worse, maybe not irrelevant, but worse. The new coach of the Jets or Jax could come in and win 5 more games than last year. That won't happen in Buffalo, extremely unlikely he'd win 4 more or even 3 more as only been done twice in think I read last 50 years to go 16-1. There's many more opportunities to get worse compared to improved. Sorry but statistically that's just the reality of it.

Here's a challenge to someone with good IT skills, or maybe these days AI skills Take that commercial for Progressive Ins. where the kid asks what is the economy and change it to what is the salary cap. The rest of the script would all be valid. The trouble teams get into with creating void years and moving to the back end is the team signs a guy who they think will be their savior but it doesn't work out short term(see Aaron Rodgers) or in the case of the Bills didn't they sign Trent Edwards to an extension or was it Losman or Johnson I'm remembering?? The team kind of knows eventually you're going to be bad once your star or stars retire, but you do if that point is a long ways out in the future. You also do it when you feel you're one or two stars away, see Diggs and Miller. The Bills took their lumps early enough with Diggs and probably will this year with Miller. The trouble is often instead of this being a future issue all of a sudden it's an issue next season.

Yes; 2 vets + 2 rookies = 4 with a downgrade in overall play. If you think having two rookies as your backups will improve play overall, I got a bridge to sell you too! If you want to put these guys on the PS, then you better not draft them higher than the 6th round else they will be grabbed up by another team and the Bills will then have 2 + 0 = 2 But the good news is their interior D line would likely be better around the 2027 season if they follow your strategy. I will grant you that.

Yeah I understand BPA, but do you understand roster numbers? Do you actually think having 3 rookie D lineman will make the team better in 2025?? Sounds like Tasker doesn't understand it anymore than you do! Make he got hit in the head one to many times.

I read something online today that Josh gave the all time best MVP acceptance speech and this was from a national writer, not someone with ties to western NY

Good point, hadn't thought about that! But he's worth every penny!

Way back when (think it was the 1990's) the NFL use to start Labor Day weekend The fact that they abandoned Labor Day weekend tells me the NFL doesn't agree with the idea of that being a good weekend to start. From what I've read their plan is to move the SB to Presidents weekend. I'd guess they go with Presidents day weekend for SB rather than starting the season Labor day weekend. Add to that College football has kind of taken that weekend over now too. Guess the Daytona 500 and NBA All-Star game will need to find new dates!

This healthy scratch argument is way over blown! He was a scratch because he didn't play ST. CB's play most of the game unless they get hurt, so need the backups for ST's play. When the starter did get hurt, who was brought in, Elam!

So time for Elam to get tagged!! When the go to 18 games and SB gets bumped back a week, I wonder will everything else also bump back a week? I'd guess yes? Something to note the 2026 and 2027 Super Bowls have specific dates assigned, for 2028, it lists date TBD! Does that mean something??

Yeah I agree overall, the injuries hurt. A healthy White and Benford would have been very good pair and would have a few years left together. Likely would have made Poyer and Hyde look better overall too. Add to that we'd have had another 3rd round pick as wouldn't have made the trade for Douglas.

Was White and Wallace really better than Benford and Douglas in 2023?? This past year 2024 admittedly Douglas dropped off some. Do agree that a healthily White and Benford would have been the best combo