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Peter Schrager asked Bill Parcells "If you had the chance to start your NFL team with any player you've ever seen, coached, coached against who would be that one player in NFL history you'd start your team with?" Parcells response: "There are priority positions in this game, quarterback is one of those, so I consider that," Parcells began. "But if you're pinning me down -- I'm a little prejudiced -- I think I'd take Lawrence Taylor." Coach Billicheat: "I would just say I wouldn't put anybody ahead of Lawrence Taylor, period," said Belichick. "Maybe I'm prejudiced, he continued. "but I saw that guy every day for over a decade and he tilted the field for a decade. Until somebody does that, and there's a lot of great players. I'm not taking anything away from anybody else. There's a lot of great players that have been in this league, that are in this league, but personally, I'm not putting anybody ahead of Lawrence Taylor. Not yet."

“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry”. Sadly, after watching the WRs go at the Combine this came right into my mind (Thomas appears to be the delineated drop off point and we ain’t sniffing his used Combine unitard … that said, the history of the league is littered with so many alleged instances of bad prognostication).

Just make sure you do it after he trades Sheppard for Hughes. 😉

But AJ has a nicer couch to wait on for the come in and cover Kelce phone call.

For us that means a nice juicy 6th rounder (so Beane can move up two spots in the 5th!).

Thanks, Jrb, I hope it works out that way. I can still remember all of the excitement before we landed Mario Williams. It’s fun to be in the fight to land a big fish that can change the season (please no one bring up Von “DV” Miller).

I’m still wondering about leaving $13 million that we desperately needed this year on the table by not taking full advantage of reworking Josh’s contract to the max benefit—even those talking heads we all hate but who do know a bit more than us were also confused by that move. That $13 million or part thereof could have landed us a one year prove it WR (aside from Ridley or “Hollywood”) Check Spotrac: https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/free-agents/wide-receiver/. And, another one year prove it defensive player (in round three of FA).

5th round (since we get one round less than expected).

Too bad he’ll never be able to steal the one man he needs … and on a serious note he should have actually traded us for Bates addresses multiple positions of dire need for NYG OL as starter and/or depth and NYG has the cap room and draft capital. NYG 4th / 106 (80) for our 4th /127 (45) and one of our three 5ths and one of our three 6ths (don’t think they’ll be as useful as the player we’d get to jump 21 picks in the 4th).

I think he’s just reacting to the events of the past few days like many of us have been except he’s losing some of his oldest and closest friends. I think he’s also saying he wants to stay in Buffalo. He’s invested in the community, after all he was our Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee for the second year in a row for his work in Buffalo. I think he’s sincere, a bit of an open book who appears to wear his emotions on his sleeves (which isn’t the best thing to do).

I did some more due diligence and found this interesting article, supports your optimism and gives me some confidence about McGovern: https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-connor-mcgovern-buffalo-bills-comparison-offensive-line-blocking-criticism-mike-mccarthy Now I’m done for the day. But, this “exchange” with you is why I really love TBD. Thanks.

I guess all of us Bills’ fans have all felt that way over the years. ☮️ brother, we’re all in this together.

I hope you’re right. I just get very nervous about having a OL that can protect Josh and last year’s did. The sting of losing Morse is the only move that I haven’t liked. But, you’re right. Kromer has done a great job with the OL so he must have seen something in both McGovern and Edwards. He’s the expert, I’m just a frustrated fan.

Thanks that’s the purpose of this forum, a free and open forum of discussion for fans. I don’t take it personally. And, I’m venting. Sorry if you missed that.

Don't worry our generational talented QB has a new Center who played 100 snaps at Center while in Dallas. Allen is in great hands. And, don’t tell me there wasn’t anyway Beane could have found a way to keep a team Captain who said as he cleaned out his locker that he wanted to come back. Makes you wonder what he’d have taken. Especially when you throw Trubisky a nice back-up QB contract—maybe we’re planning for an OL breakdown next season.

Derrick Henry will surely take $4 million or 40 cents on the dollar (using Spotrac’s pretty accurate mkt value indicator: https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/tennessee-titans/derrick-henry-18994/market-value/) on one of his last chances for a nice pay day … unless there’s a sealed indictment coming down on him.

We’ve had such great success with our DL picks and DL FA signings how could we not pick a DL.

The gift that keeps on giving!

His last contract was 2022-2024 for 3 years at $30 million. Unless they get a “cap friendly” number—I’d rather go with Jones for a team friendly two year deal which should be about $2 million less per year then a “realistic” (to) Fatusaki pay cut, don’t see Fatusaki taking a $4 million pay cut to $6 million with no injury discount and that’s where Spotrac has Jones). Then for the obvious, getting younger and cheaper, draft Jones’ replacement this year who they can develop for two years with Jones in-house and then the rookie would hopefully be a nice starter on a two year rookie contract freeing up cap space for those two years to use elsewhere after Jones leaves.

I know how many feel about PFF but found an article, “One 'secret superstar' for all 32 NFL teams entering the 2022 season”. Fatukasi was the pick for Jax. “In today’s pass-happy league, the best way to ensure you fly under the radar is to be a run-stuffing specialist. Being one coming off a below-average year will only magnify that. Fatukasi has been one of the best run stuffers in the league since he came into the NFL, with back-to-back PFF run-defense grades of at least 86.0 before last season’s drop-off. If he can bounce back to that previous level in Jacksonville, he will be an important and unheralded cog of a defense looking to take a big step forward in 2022.” Here’s a link to the PFF (non-subscriber) bio info page on Fatukasi: https://www.pff.com/nfl/players/folorunso-fatukasi/38558

The Hughes trade was a great one, nine years out of him!

Move over Darrius Heyward-Bey!

Not sure who the answer is this year for that role but kudos to Latavius Murray who deserves a lot of credit for last year because whenever he came in it was pretty clear what he was doing—blocking, grinding out those hard to get 2 yards the D knew was coming and he also caught some timely passes—just looked up his rushing stats 79 atts/300 yds/4 TDs and he converted 27 first downs on those 79 carries (very good ratio for someone who earned them like he did). True professional (analysts always seemed to note his value). Wish him well.

This has to be a joke. What’s next? They going to turn Buffalo Wings into Kansas City Wings. But, what I really can’t wait for is Araiza “sniffing” around Taylor Swift!!! 😈 PS. I wouldn’t mind them taking former Carolina Panthers’ players (or how about taking Von Miller for Chris Jones 😂).

It seems pretty unanimous—two WRs, a DL and a S in first four rounds aside from any Beane specials at DL snd S in FA. Need some low cost four year rookie contracts at S and DL who can hopefully take over for the one to two year FA vets. That’ll free up cap space which is what everyone agrees is the name of the game. And, from what I’ve heard here and elsewhere there are DL and S who can be had in the top four rounds and could give us that two year cushion (their 3rd and 4th years). Gets us younger…