Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

I 've always said I could get open on an NFL CB if you give the QB enough time as I, the WR know where I'm going and the DB doesn't. BTW I'll be 70 this year!

Once a year sounds too high, maybe every other year or two out of three years. Think it won't happen till they go to 18 games and add a second bye. That would make it easier. Two team every year report to camp a week early to play in the HOF game. They could add two more teams to report a week early and have those two teams face off someplace on Labor day weekend, then give them the next week off??

The one thing that worries me in 2025 maybe more than anything, can they sustain the TO numbers battle like they did this year.. There's a lot of luck involved there, being in the right place at the right time. It's kind of like winning one score games, think it was 3 years ago, the Bills lost only like one one score game all season, the following year lost a few of them.

So which side does Crosby play? That was one of the issues the past couple of years, whenever Miller came in, Groot would be forced to switch to other side and he didn't ever seem to be as good from the other side. Don't want to repeat that again. Or include Groot in the trade, but then the overall improvement of the team drops off considerably in even making the trade. Or maybe Crosby is good from both sides?

Agree, Another way to look at it would be, based on last Sundays game if there were 17 others just like it,, would you award him the MVP off that performance, in fact would he even have been a finalist, probably not. He played well, but was more than just a poor first drive overall. It certainly wasn't one of his top 10 performances of the year.

There's a long list of players that posters wanted to run out of town starting with Brown, Knox, and Bass. Folks wanted to cut Bass by October of his rookie year, then by year 2 loved him everyone said great pick, this year back to getting rid of him. What's it all mean, basically that posters here are all clueless and overly emotional.

See Rogers, Jets!

Actually you are as fully qualified as most GM's or owners in the league is . The reason I say that is if they were more qualified, there's wouldn't be all the failures in the hires that happen regularly. That was kind of the point of @oldmanfan the odds of getting anyone better when you consider all the failures is very low and no one knows who will be a success. The Bills were lucky that they made a good choice in McD. To the OP's point @Ramza86 that a 15 YO could get the team to the wild card. then how come Mayfield failed in Cleveland (and Carolina) and now looks great? While not as long of a track record of success, but Darnold in Minn looked pretty darn good this year after years of failure. Sis they all of a sudden figure things out or is it the coaching? Yeah it's easy to say anyone can win in this league when you have a great superstar QB, but really not as easy as many think.

So it also tells us that Elam is one of the 25% best CBs in the league!!

Looking at these scores I can't even figure out of a lower number is better or worse!! Which in itself, could be a reason for concern!!

Well the one other concern I'd have with a vertical threat is for whatever reason Allen seems to throw a rather inaccurate long ball. If I were a DC going up against the Bills and lets assume they had selected Worthy, I wouldn't worry all that much about him and a deep ball as figure we have to take a chance someplace and until Allen can show he can complete that pass fairly often, lets worry more about stopping him elsewhere.

So what do you want to do cut him?? LOL that's not happening. As you even stated he's be back as the 6th WR, but that likely won't be the case as they've only carried 5, so he'll be back as the #5 WR. That won't change regardless of what Steve Smith says. Regardless of how good or bad he is, he's not getting cut and not to say he can't improve. Posters here have a very bad track record of evaluating players off one or two seasons of play. (see Knox, Brown for starters)

Yeah I'd have no issue with cutting Samuel as didn't show very much, not sure if they WANT to do that from a cap standpoint?? Maybe they can get him to take a big pay cut?? Based on his performance this year, doubtful he'd get big money anywhere else. Agree too both TE's are assets, but seemed like we never really went with that concept very much. It would seem that since the WR group is one of the weakest areas and not having tons of cap space using 2 TE's more would be a good strategy money wise.

Well if you want WR to open up downfield, to me that's very risky as for whatever reason Allen seems terrible with accuracy in throwing long passes. Not just this year, but multiple seasons, rarely does he hit someone on target. If you want the offense to thrive on long passes, may need a different QB. Why can't they make KC punt more than twice, you state we've never done that, but also state we struggled going downfield. So yes, you can develop a mindset of not punting, but as I mention, Allen and long passes aren't a good fit, or just as easily could go in the direction of making the defense better. Either works, it doesn't have to be one or the other. I do recall in Davis's rookie year Allen was routinely throwing 20 yard passes to him on the sideline and Davis would make these amazing tiptoe catches. Not sure where either the throw or for Davis, the catches went?

Really?? Because you say so? They haven't done that the past few years so yes Coleman will be kept as one of the 5 so then as you stated added Shakir and Samuel and if they resign Hollins which many hope for, that leaves one spot. Unless they decide to break the trend they've gone with, it is NOT likely you will get 2 more, sorry to disappoint you.

So the Bills keep 5 WR's on their roster and to add more means cutting short another position, not likely to happen and for legit reasons. Shakir and Coleman are pretty certain to be back, would cost a fair amount of cap hit to cut Samuel, so likely he's back. I think and hope they resign Hollins and think he may take a little less money to return here as seems to like it here. So unless they don't resign Hollins or cut Samuel, that leaves one roster spot. Maybe they will decide to abandon the two TE concept and decide to try and trade either Knox or Kincaid which then could open another WR spot, but would be surprised if they do . For all the talk of how the Bills need WR help the offense was number one two in the league in most overall categories so think this WR need is being over blown. All season the" Everyone eats" was talked about as a good thing and understand the two things aren't mutually exclusive but also need to be careful of tinkering with what did work. The biggest issue this team had was getting to the QB and getting of the field on 3rd down.

Hmm So I guess you're smarter than 50% of the GM's out there then.

So the crazy part of the College All Star game was you had players who'd already been drafted by some NFL team, maybe even the team they are playing against in this game and they are playing for the All stars, then after this game, would report to their NFL team training camp. Can anyone imagine that today? Wow this is even crazier, Bills could play the Argonauts!! During most of its run, the College All-Star Game was not particularly unique, since NFL teams frequently played exhibition games against non-NFL competition in its early decades. However, by the 1970s, the NFL was withdrawing from competition against teams that were not members of the league. Following the end of preseason games against teams from the Eastern Conference of the Canadian Football League in 1961, the NFL played only three games against non-NFL teams

You sure, no history of that. And was the league champ who played in it and Steelers never won championship prior to 1975 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Charities_College_All-Star_Game

Well your not much younger than me, I was 11 in 1966. But it was strictly an NFL thing, I lived in NYC area so had Jets but also Giants. If you were in Buffalo area and only followed AFL can see why you missed it So which was worse, this or College All Star game?? LOL

Not exactly a new idea. You must be younger than I thought! LOL Actually I was bit surprised when I looked it up as thought it went back before 1960, but do recall the last few. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playoff_Bowl

I guess there's 32 suckers in the league as seems like most years at least 75% of the teams use the 5th year option and it's not the same 75% every year, the GM's all use it more often than not. 2nd best overall record in the league over the past 5 years. Without the elite WR they still either led the league or were in 2nd in most offense categories. That's how Beane did it.

Agree with pretty much all your comments except for two and for the same reason, money. It's been stated many places would cost more to cut Milano this year than keep him. He's here for 12025. Plus as he got more games back his play did improve, certainly saw more improvement from him than we did when Miller first came back. Groot is on 5th year option, have thee choices, let him play on 5th year option at cost of just under $14 mil Cut him and take $14 mil cap hit Sign him to new contract at much lower hit for the next couple of years, maybe add void years so could get rid of him then if needed. I also think if he can keep playing on his best side and not have to switch for Miller, he'd be better and also be better if had a better pass rusher on other side.

I'm really not certain if joking or not. Well if it were up to me, they'd be no need to trade for him as I think he should be fired. First off the biggest knock on McD applies to Tomlin, he's also a defensive minded coach. But I think at this point he's a defensive minded coach who had success 10 to 15 years ago, when you could get away with that more as few great QB's in league so could just run the ball and win with great defense.

Of course, because posters here are all fans and see everything through rose colored glasses. But many in the media who, while not 100% are looking at things more objectively and see they players who were gone. In hind sight the moves on offense worked out, but not so much in the secondary. For the past two season, there was post prior to the beginning of the season stating how they liked the overall WR group better than the year prior, how'd that work out, particularly last year with Hardy and the other guy, can't recall his name. My point, folks here for the most part are clueless. Overall the Bills overachieved, but once you get to the final 4 and you're so close, add to that beat KC in regular season and KC doesn't look as good as in the past, it hurts even more to lose. Reality is they were playing with house money by the end.