Luxy312

If there's no injury issue, you don't at this point bench Allen. This is not a season where I had any personal expectations of wins/losses. That would stink of E.J. Manuel all over again.

There is zero evidence to support the notion that playing a quarterback early ruins their development. You let him struggle. You let him play. If he doesn't turn the corner at some point during the season, you draft another quarterback next year. So many people want to make this more complicated than it needs to be.

So the difference between the Bills and the Patriots is just about WR's. That's good to know. I guess having a HOF quarterback that can make chumps look like champs really doesn't make any difference at all. Just asinine.

That is fantastic.

He said this after Peterman responded to the media that all of the quarterbacks were working together to get better and not against each other. He, quite frankly, said what he should have said. I'm glad he was the #1 QB on the Bills board for the draft. I'll be the other clowns egos get in the way of their success in lieu of actually helping them.

They might not regress as far as passing production is concerned, but clearly have the potential to regress from the perspective of offensive turnovers. The Bills were 4th in the NFL in turnovers with only 16. I'm 100% with you that they're not going to be even more anemic moving the ball downfield. I'm glad that Captain Checkdown is wearing orange this season.

That was one of Nate's greatest plays as a Bill. In lieu of making the tackle, he just took the ball away like a parent taking a toy from a child.

Peterman: "None of those 5 were really my fault" McCarron/Allen thought bubbles: "WTF is he smoking"?

Backup for Lotulelei. That's it.

The defense can only be very good if the offense improves dramatically from where they were last year. There were a lot of games last year where we watched the defense simply wear down as the game progressed, as we watched the offense go three and out multiple times in a row. I would be really interested in the statistics that show the historical relationship between the best defense and the offense on that same team. I haven't done it, but would surmise that we won't see "dominant" defenses with offenses that are near last in the NFL in performance.

According to many fools, he should have been wearing an honorary stripes uniform or perhaps something in orange.

I don't think Julio has any leverage really. Is he going to forfeit $10.5m in salary when he has 3 years left on his current deal? I doubt it. Showing up to camp really isn't that big of a deal for all pro's. The Falcons biggest problem is that they're already bumping up against the cap. They only have about $5m in available cap space. Reworking his deal next year makes a lot more sense. Trading him certainly does not.

Hey Einstein. Evidence against McCoy. There is nothing. His attorney has said there's nothing. McCoy has said there's nothing. You fabricating stuff doesn't create facts or evidence. Try reading a newspaper (electronic or otherwise) .

Committed and reported with no evidence. There's nothing to pursue legally without a minimum of some facts. Money changing hands, etc. To get a conviction, police would need to catch the guy that did it and have a direct connection to McCoy. At this point, that seems highly unlikely. If evidence were actually building, my opinion could be different.

I keep coming back to the same question. What exactly is the conduct that he would be suspended for? What evidence has been produced supporting the conduct that gets him suspended. After all, this is the NFL Conduct Policy that we're talking about. It's not the NFL Suspicion Without and Evidence Policy. Dante Fowler just suspended for "off the field issues". 3 in 17 months.

What is the conduct that he would be suspended for? Thus far there is NO CONDUCT. The NFL would get crushed in a lawsuit. You trying to create facts when none exist is idiotic. There has and never will be an NFL suspension without actual conduct that can be deemed harmful to the NFL. In every case, there is conduct / action by a player that drives the suspension. It may not be criminal, but it's still something.

His conduct was observed and evidence gathered. There doesn't need to be formal charges. For McCoy's "issue", there hasn't been a single drop of evidence produced / gathered.

From what I've been able to gather so far, my understanding is that Daboll's offense is going to be different week to week and focused on match-ups rather than schemes. Basically it's not trying to take the players that the Bills have and fit them into a system, so much as it's running plays based on the skills players have, and who's covering defensively. This is essentially what the Patriots do. They'll use a dozen different formations and essentially run the same play out of all of them, trying to work the weak links on defense.

This is the same as the "step-by-step" thread and probably can be merged to that by a moderator.

I don't know why this concept is so foreign to fans. The front office has been explicit in wanting to build a culture of winning; and of confidence. If they can win some games early, there's no reason to believe that they can't be a playoff team again this year. It hinges on QB play and the ability of the defense to improve from last year.

Your opinion is consistent with the Vegas line of 6.5 games. Your perception of "lack of offensive talent" is couched in last years offense led by an inept QB that was unwilling to throw the ball. Right or wrong, I believe that the talent on offense is there and simply dependent on whether we have a QB that is willing to go downfield. None the less, I'm happy to make a gentleman's bet with you for $100 that the Bills offense is better than 29th in the NFL in offensive yards. In a nutshell, I think two things. 1 - Daboll is going to be more aggressive and more dynamic of a play caller than Dennison. Heck, I don't think there's any OC out there that's more conservative than Dennison was. 2 - Whomever is QB is going to be asked to throw the football. As far as the wins and losses are concerned, I wouldn't bet the over or the under, as I think it's a 50-50 proposition.

Sure, he threw only 4 interceptions. How many touchdowns did he have in the air again? OK, so you don't have to look it up, only 14. He was right there with Jacoby Brisett. He was lousy. Terrible. When he needed to execute drives, he couldn't. For the defense, they did have 25 turnovers. Regardless, that wasn't world breaking. That ranked them 9th in the NFL overall. To boot, they didn't score points off of turnovers last season. They were near dead last in the NFL at 2.2 points per turnover. The Patriots by comparison were #1 at 6.0 points per turnover. I don't think that the Bills QB (whomever it is) needs to be "lights out". They need to simply be average. The defense, provided they stay healthy, should be better than last year. Don't forget that they ranked 26th in yards and 18th in points. That's despite all of those turnovers. Except for turnovers, the defense wasn't that good either.

I thought he just promised everyone that he recognized that Peterman was nothing more than a backup and would never start again. Seems like an easy fix.

My brain got in the way of my fingers. LOL.

How about Jacksonville just this last year in the playoffs. Taylor rolls right, runs, runs, runs.....doesn't see 3 wide open receivers and then goes out of bounds. Mind numbing ineffectiveness.