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I don’t for a second underestimate this team’s ability to go into the season opener with multiple key injuries, especially on defense.

If Josh Allen is going to throw interceptions, I’d just as soon he do it against the Bills…

I agree, but it’s a lot of $ to have tied up in one position group. I expect them to try to replace Dawkins next year with a cost-controlled player…doesn’t mean they will, but I think they would probably like to. The entire O-line has basically been injury-free for three seasons in a row…it’s pretty remarkable.

And if Vea signs elsewhere after this season, we get a comp pick…

Another reason to do it is that he’s otherwise likely to end up with the Pats or the Chargers, both of whom have plenty of cap space and a need at DT.

And we already have Austin Corbett, the first pick in the second round of the 2018 draft (by the Browns).

The Bucs selected Vea with the 12th pick in the first round of the 2018 draft—the first round pick they received from Buffalo in exchange for the 7th overall pick that year. Vea could team with Bradley Chubb, whom the Broncos selected 5th overall in 2018 instead of a certain QB from the Rocky Mountain region…and DJ Moore, who went 24th overall in 2018, to Carolina, after the Bills passed on him for a teenage off-ball LB…

Insufferable…

There’s a different Paul Anka song that might be even more appropriate…

You can say that again…

In 1973, the Bills had zero passing game to take the pressure off OJ. Rookie QB Joe Ferguson started all 14 games and threw for a grand total of 939 yards for the season, completing less than 5 passes per game. If I’m not mistaken, in addition to OJ’s exploits, Jim Braxton ran for 1000 yards that season…

That’s just not true. Cooks absolutely baked the DB, and he clearly had to slow down to catch it. It was more than a hair underthrown, and I disagree that you want to err on the side of under throwing it. That just gives the DB a chance to pick it, which is exactly what happened. You want to throw it deep enough that only your receiver can can make a play on it.

I would never say that Josh Allen isn’t clutch, but the throw to Cooks was not very good. Ball was definitely underthrown, and the only reason the DB was able to make a play was because Cooks had to slow down.

Look what the Bills rolled with on defense last year…Bosa, Daquon Jones, Shaq Thompson, Poyer, Taylor Rapp, and Tre White were all starters last year…. all were allowed or forced to walk, and not one of them has been signed by another team. And there are a few other key contributors I could add to this list. Taron Johnson was allowed to walk and was signed to a modest deal elsewhere.

Diggs had 1000 yards for them last year and he’s gone now..is AJ Brown likely to exceed that? Seems like a push…