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Apparently, Williams is threatening to stay in school if the Cardinals tank for him...unlike some guys in the past, that is a threat with some teeth behind it...thanks to NIL, Williams could make more than $5 million by staying another year at USC...

So Bosa won't be playing for the Jets on Monday night after all?

Literally none of the "experts" is picking the Bills to win the AFC East and most of the ones I've heard are picking the Bills to miss the playoffs entirely. Usually, the explanation is that the the Phins and Jets got better, but the Bills did not, which of course is laughable. I love it. I think this is exactly where we want to be entering the season--underrated, with a chip on our shoulder. As I've pointed out in other threads though, despite the experts' negativity, Vegas still likes the Bills to win the AFCE, and to beat the Jests Monday night...so there's that.

I know you're not the OP, but how is it off topic? I thought this was a Bills/NFL message board...

And why is the OP referring to an offensive tackle?

It’s now KC -4.5

Not only that, they're adding games deep into January, when weather conditions in places like Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago and New England are likely to be marginal, at best. Absolutely no reason not to be playing this weekend...

The first week of NCAA football is garbage, except for a few games between good teams, like TCU-Colorado. (I suspect Colorado isn't going to catch anyone else unawares this year, by the way.) Most of what we get is Cupcake U showing up at a Power Five school for a payday and boring beatdown.

Anyone else think it's ridiculous that the NFL season no longer starts on Labor Day weekend? Makes no sense whatsoever...

Yeah, that was unforgivable, but at least Elway squeezed a first round pick out of the Dolphins for Chubb, who is JAG…

I don’t think it hurts anyone but the Browns. Smart teams won’t do what they’ve done.

For all the talking heads picking the Fins or Jets to win the division, Vegas is firmly behind the Bills…by far the lowest odds to win the division and third lowest odds to win the Super Bowl, ahead of both Niners and Bengals. And -2.5 at NYJ on Monday Night.

I know it wasn’t Beane’s work (allegedly) but the Bills 2017 draft was pretty elite, if you can forgive handing Pat Mahomes to KC…six picks, three pro bowlers and all six still in the league, although Peterman and Vallejo are hanging on by their fingernails. And we acquired a 2018 pick later used to trade up for Josh Allen and/or Tremaine Edmunds.

Gabe Davis was pretty good value in round 4 too.

Agreed. Marino nailed his Bills 53-man Roster predictions too. Good balance between Bills fandom and knowledgeable objective football analysis.

That was before he forgot how to play football. In his last year in Philly, he was the worst starter in the league, and he’s never recovered. As an added bonus, he’s apparently never been popular in the locker room either… I’m also old enough to remember a very good 1998 Bills team losing to Ryan Leaf in his NFL debut. That didn’t make Leaf a good quarterback.

Wentz sucks at football. There is no reason to even consider him. It is insane that two teams traded high draft picks for him after his flameout in Philly. Just shows how incompetent some teams are, as if we needed more evidence. At least Corral is an unknown and has some potential upside.

Gonna cost at least two firsts, and of course whatever Bosa’s contract demands are…

There were reports that Basham had a really good camp, so some people perhaps hoped he had turned a corner and was going to play up to his draft position…but alas, it appears he was going to be cut.

Let’s hope he doesn’t resign, at least not mid-season. It’s probably more likely that he will re-sign.

College football gets by without preseason games, so why not the NFL? (I know a lot of power five programs open up against Cupcake U, but not always; every year there are some big games scheduled for the first week of the college season...I think the Big 10 now prohibits its teams from playing games against 1-AA schools.)

I think we are headed down a slippery slope. I believe the decision to postpone/cancel the Hamlin game was correct, but that was truly a unique situation--a player possibly dying on the field. Nevertheless, a precedent of sorts was established and I think that's why these pre-season games were cancelled. No one wants to be called out for being "insensitive", so the standard for postponing or canceling a game will become lower and lower. That's just how our society works these days. I fully expect another regular season game to be cancelled this year due to a situation that is less serious than the Hamlin incident.

Man, Deshaun Watson looks bulked up and slower than I remembered…wonder if he’s medicating…

If a smart team spent three first round picks on a guy, what does that say about his raw talent level? See how that works?

We need to get used to this....every talking head is going to be picking the Jets in the opener and this is exactly what we should want. It's been a while since we were considered an underdog in a divisional game, or really any game. I think it's what this team needs.