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Insightful as always, thank you. The WR room is the most talked about subject, and everyone has made their particular stance clear by this point. It's an unfortunate place to be with Josh Allen in his prime, retooling the roster or not. The Bass situation is the one that for sure will lose you games. They can't wait till next year to fix it.

I don't care who drafts me, I'm demanding a trade to Buffalo. If they won't listen, Tampa Bay or the Raiders, because pirates are cool.

This is all correct, but don't put any money on fans being rational about this, or much of anything else, for that matter.

Nice summation. It ought not to be that hard to see.

Why would you intentionally limit your potential that way? It's almost as dim as taking Bryce Young over C.J. Stroud.

Yeah, I'm just making a broader point, because there is a fair amount of argument over how one should interpret that particular throw and who is to blame. I think it's a lot of energy devoted to a relatively unimportant play. I agree that Allen at QB likely results in an easy TD.

It was a bad throw, but quibbling over how bad is not significant to the future success of the team. The lack of reliable outside speed is and has been an obvious deficit from before the draft. Beane seems to have had a solid draft (it's promising, at least), but neglecting a crucial facet of the WR room is just not good, and it accentuates the fear that he is simply always going to follow a Carolina paradigm that undervalues the position. That's absolutely criminal when your QB is Josh Allen.

I think it would be foolish to trade Knox. More likely, I think, as some have already suggested, they might only keep 5 WRs, and 4 TEs.

There's definitely a double standard at work when you compare with Kimes, but folks who want to deny it will simply say Kimes is the more talented and valuable asset, which is also true.

Aiyuk is going to sign a contract with SF tomorrow after this.

I dunno, I sort of feel that way all the time, too.

To be fair, I can't imagine any woman wanting to advertise herself as a zero.

Are you sure you aren't High Negative?

Rushing yardage and turnovers are significantly different.

They surrounded him with a superlative WR room. Imagine that.

If we're status quo with not very good, it's a massive fail. I'll be pleased to be wrong, but I'm not at all confident about the offense. Brady will have to turn out to be a superlative OC, imo, and I don't think there's significant evidence of that. I am comfortable saying the "quietly got better" line is whistling in the dark. Outside of Brady being top shelf as an OC, I think the keys are the oline playing very well and Kincaid taking over as a legit primary weapon. Shakir and Samuel are the best receivers. We are largely selling a movie with a solid cast of supporting actors and no stars, unless Kincaid adds depth to his routes and becomes a force. I don't count on Coleman contributing a lot, though he should be a red zone target.

Provocateur with an agenda, which is wrong, but it's gotten six pages and by typing this I contributed to it. I guess I'll have to say a half dozen Hail Marys.

I think we have the best uniforms in the league, though I favor the throwback standing buffalo. Usually these attempts at novelty are pretty awful, but this is quite good, imo.

I have no idea, and I don't really care. Either way, it appears fortuitous insofar as Elam's play is definitely pointing up, and that is a very good thing for the cb depth overall.

Happy Birthday, good man.

It's the wind confusion room.

If you only knew how to extrapolate, you could have been a player.

No one actually knows how they will perform in a role until they are placed in a position that demands the performance of that role. This is nearly a tautology. Short of personal knowledge, the best anyone can do is surmise on the basis of public achievement. I think her persistence over time, and through injuries, is admirable. Further, her experience admits some existential awareness of the life of an athlete. It's your prerogative to consider all that relatively trivial, but then I suppose there's just not enough to offer a basis for conversation.

If the strength of our WR room is depth, with question marks at best at the top, and the OC turns out to be mediocre and lacking innovative qualities, it's going to be a long year. Folks want hope, so they're not going to buy this narrative. I sure hope you are wrong.