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I’ll take a clone of Randy Moss, thank you very much and don’t mind if I do.

I get being upset about things. I’m pissed about the WR situation. But for everyone raging about this move, what else did you want them to do with the PS spot that opened up when they signed Phillips to the 53? Do you want them to only make meaningful moves and leave the practice squad empty? They did a standard Tuesday tryout (teams do these all the time) and chose the least bad option. This dude could be cut tomorrow if a better option presents itself.

They bottomed out for two straight years and hit on two drafts. Got the QB and spent wisely in FA this year. A rebuild should only take two years, but you have to get the cap completely reset (no paying for Myles Garrett with no QB) and you have to really suck for two years. And you need to get the QB right. The Bills never did any of this for almost 20 years of mediocrity. They were talking about this on NFL Radio today. The way the Browns structured that deal. he only has 25 million cap hits for the next two seasons. If the Browns were blown away, they could accelerate a rebuild by trading him. It does seem unlikely, though.

They might be. They have the cap space and there would be nothing Beane could do to stop that. Although people here would still blame him, somehow.

You guys are hilarious. Everyone: “Stop resigning old Bills for the practice squad, McClappy and Beane! Bring in new, young guys!!! [Bills sign developmental DT to PS] Everyone: Never heard of him! Beane sucks!

Maybe. But they also know if the Bills lose because they can’t get the passing game going they’ll be desperate and willing to overpay for marginal assets.

I expect most teams with a prime tradable asset to take it down to the wire and wait until a week from now to pull the trigger. I know the Bills are in a hurry, but why would a team like the Saints or Giants care if another week passes?

You say that now, but wait until the Bills trade a 3rd for Shaheed while the Pats trade a 5th for Meyers.

It's really strange. He was on the 49ers and got hurt and then placed on IR. That much is on the 49ers' transaction wire. But he's not listed on their roster as being on IR and their transaction wire never mentions a release: https://www.49ers.com/team/transactions/ . Then I see on the Internet that the Steelers signed him, but the transaction is not mentioned on their website nor is it on their transaction wire: https://www.steelers.com/team/transactions/ .

The Bills are going to have to outbid another team, because Shaheed might the only WR on the market if you assume Meyers is on his way to New England. So, get ready. Either this place blows it lid because he goes elsewhere, or it blows its lid because Beane "overpaid." Those are the only two possible outcomes.

Gabe is still on IR.

I just went and watched a few plays from the 3rd, and you're correct. He started to click on some throws there. One on a bootleg to Keon and another when he steps up and hits Hawes on 3-7 in the RZ. I think this didn't leave the impression that it could have because the Bills pulled Josh for the entire 4th.

The issue is that there is nothing akin to a "prospect" to trade because the NFL doesn't have a minor league structure. So all that can be traded are picks, which have incredible value because a) unlike in MLB and hockey, rookies play right away in the NFL, and b) rookie salaries are controlled in a capped league. But the Rams traded for OBJ and Von midseason and won a Super Bowl, and the 49ers traded for CMC, so things are changing.

I didn't think that was as concerning as you do. Josh has lulls that we tend to forget as he starts to play his best down the stretch. In my own look at the All-22 (and I'm sure Marino talks about this in his paid service), I saw two things: Josh is spooked by INTs: Before last year, a lot of Josh Allen's INTs were on passes where he failed to see a trailing DB waiting to jump a route. He cleaned that up last year, and I thought this was behind him. But then he threw two of those very same INTs in back-to-back games (NO and NE), and he has hesitated to pull the trigger ever since. You saw this in the Atlanta game. Then, he threw another one of these in the second quarter of this game (the LB dropped it, but it hit him in the hands), and he started refusing to throw the ball down the field into any type of coverage. On the play that everyone keeps breaking down (the incompletion to Davis), the read appears to be a fake screen and then a shot downfield to Shavers. Shavers was sort of open and Josh starts to throw him the ball and decides against taking the risk. A confident Josh Allen guns that one in there, but he's not trusting what he's seeing. Josh needs to be given the leeway to make mistakes so that he can take some risks again. Josh isn't setting his feet and stepping into throws: I think this is related to the first point. He's coming to checkdowns so late in the play that he rushes the throws and doesn't set his feet. These tend to be upper-body throws where he whips his torso around and is almost falling away from the target. These throws often go wide for obvious reasons. I think some of this is that he doesn't trust his receivers. We need to make a trade and get Palmer back and Kincaid fully healthy. Finally, I don't think any of us would be having this conversation if Moore and/or Shakir could get a second foot in-bounds. It's not college, boys! Drag that trailing foot!

Say what you will, but Gabe is BY FAR the best offensive weapon sitting on any team's practice squad. I know because I looked at them all during the bye. So, if the Bills don't sign him to the 53 the second he comes off PS IR, some other team will.

We used to say this about Darcy Regier all the time, but I don't think this is true of Brandon Beane. He probably overpaid for both Amari Cooper and Rasul Douglas, and he definitely overpaid for Diggs and Hines. I have my problems with Beane (resigning marginal players he drafted. and not giving us anything fun to watch) but this is not one of them. And yet most contenders wheel and deal during the season. The Chiefs added Hopkins during the season last year, and the Eagles are always making moves. But you always have to pay more in-season. That much is true in every sport.

He been doing that for 2.5 seasons now. Can’t call em all if you commit the same foul on every snap.

This is what happens when there are 7 playoff spots per conference and overall parity. There are not enough truly bad teams to be sellers. Also, the NFL doesn't have the practice of bad teams selling off all their assets for prospects, picks, and cap space like the other North American sports leagues. Finally, no other sport has anything approaching the level of scheme that football has. It's not as easy to slot new players in mid-season as it is in baseball or basketball. So needing to adjust the roster in major ways mid-season is less than ideal for any NFL team, and it's especially hard this year.

And they know if they wait until the actual deadline (a week from Wednesday), some team will panic and give them what they want. Meyers is the only WR that we know for a fact is on the block, and at least three teams want to make an addition at the position. The price will be sky high.

Demand is high and supply is low so teams have to pay more at the deadline. That's why it's stupid that it ever got to this point.

Happens every year in that division. There is no way that the Ravens will beat the Browns again and beat Cincinnati and Pittsburgh twice. Ravens and Steelers play in Pittsburgh in week 18. Might be a HUGE game.

The Ravens and Steelers haven't even played yet. The Ravens have only beaten the Steelers twice in a season once during the Lamar Jackson era, and that was his 2019 MVP season. Somehow, the Steelers find a way to beat the Ravens at least once a season even when they have Kenny Pickett and the Ravens have a healthy Lamar. They were trash last year too, and still beat a healthy Baltimore team 18-16 in Pittsburgh. AFC North division games are a different animal. Even the Browns in their lowest years pull off upsets.

Thanks for these. On the first one, the rusher doesn't allow Josh to set his feet to throw. He sees both Knox and Keon, but he can't throw across his body because he has to evade the rusher. On the second one, he doesn't read short to long. The play called seems to have been a screen. He comes off of that and then almost throws to Shavers deep. But he's not trusting what he sees and is spooked about throwing picks. He then makes a good read to a WIDE open Davis but doesn't set his feet and throws the ball with his upper body. I just watched some more missed passing plays and the general trend is that, for some reason, Josh Allen isn't stepping into his missed throws even when he has the time and space to do so.

That may be true for the Bills, but the trading team has every incentive to hold out until the deadline to let the Pats, Steelers, and Bills bid the price up. In fact, a team like the Saints probably thinks (correctly, BTW) that the Bills will be more likely to give up more after a loss to the Chiefs makes them desperate.

I agree with all of that. The passing game looks pretty lost right now. That being said, I had no problem with them running a lot yesterday. It felt like that Cowboys game a few years ago. If a team is giving up 6-8 yards every time you run a pitch to the RB, you gotta keep running that play until they stop it. I'll also add that I like the switch to more man coverage, but we'll all have to live with them giving up the occasional big play.