Cash

I need to see more - really over a few weeks - before I share this level of confidence. But I agree that there’s upside on this team right now. How much of it will they reach? I have no idea, but I think it’s mostly up to them. I’m hoping we haven’t seen this team’s best game yet. Sky is still the limit.

Me too! Now, I think the absolute last chance for him would be this offseason. But if he spends the rest of the year useless (which includes being a healthy scratch), an offseason turnaround would be close to miraculous. Right now, we’re in the much more pedestrian territory of “young player struggles with the professionalism the NFL requires.”

Hey, guy who’s too busy checking in. I haven’t had a chance to watch any games yet, or do much more than read the headlines. For those who have been watching, how do they look? How optimistic or pessimistic are you?

I broadly agree with this. Only note I’d have is that IMO Waddle is maybe a 1.5 at best, maybe just a 2 at this point. His last 3 years have been underwhelming. I’d still want a guy like Waddle or Addison, but only at a reasonable price and not a blockbuster price. If we’re giving up more than a first and a third, I think Olave or AJ Brown are about the minimum acceptable quality of target. Even those would be pushing it unless there are competing offers. Olave’s concussion history and Brown’s combo of attitude and age ding them both as assets.

Shakir isn’t injured. He’s listed because he didn’t practice, but that’s due to personal reasons. Not injury related.

Yeah. Like, the long TD runs we've given up this year are bad, there's no debating that. But as failures go, giving up a long TD run isn't as damaging as giving up a series of 5-15 yard runs that ends in a TD. The long run can be demoralizing, but getting wrecked over and over on a long TD drive is also demoralizing. I'm not *happy* about where the run D is this year by any stretch. But I'm *less worried* than most.

Thanks for posting! This is the content I crave.

No, it was just this past week when they signed Hardman to the 53.

Please do!

If Davis Mills starts, we should absolutely win. I'm hoping we can build on the positives from last week, while cutting out the turnovers. Allen's first INT was caused by bad blocking - Edwards blocked nobody while a blitzer came untouched through the spot where Edwards started the play. The second INT was more of a great recovery by the defender, but Allen could've been better there. The Hardman fumble was just a poor decision not to fair catch it, with 2 Bucs bearing down on him and no blockers. And the other fumble (Ty Johnson I think?) that we recovered wasn't great, but also more of a good play by Lavonte David than it was a glaring error on our part.

Josh Allen had a bad game. That's it, that's the whole point. The INT was the most glaring part of it, which is why I highlighted the INT when responding to a post about how Allen had a bad game. Hope that clears it up for you.

The pick in the end zone was BRUTAL. I don’t care how bad the receivers were. Still brutal.

I suspect Beane felt similarly about Shaheed. I also suspect (based on the quotes from his presser) that he was trying to make a bigger move - Olave or Waddle most likely.

The all-whites are nice; I slightly prefer them vs white-over-blue. The all-blues are okay but never my preference. I think they look a little better for day games than night games. The all-red Union Suit look is ONLY acceptable during a heavy snow game. Otherwise they just look like they're playing in their jammies. Might as well put a buttflap on the red pants at this point.

Our best unis! This bodes well for a W this Sunday.

Also, I just want to point out that the reporter said “a first and more”, not just a first. Sounds like the “and more” was probably like a high third or second or something. Given how low our picks are expected to be, I don’t think it’s crazy to assume that we’d have need to give our top 2 picks next year. If so, would I still have done that? Maybe. It would be an overpay for sure, and I’ll never feel good about that. But overpaying for quality can still work out.

I had a tinfoil hat thought the other day along these lines. There’s been more injuries showing up in practice this year than any year I can remember. What if some of those are just the player deciding he can keep playing hurt/hiding the injury? What I mean is that a player is playing through injury for weeks, but hiding it from team officials so he doesn’t have to be listed on the injury report. At some point, he realizes it’s not getting better, so he “gets hurt” in the next practice, and all of a sudden is missing games. Note: I don’t actually believe this. But I also can’t disprove it, and at this level of competition I wouldn’t put anything past these players.

If we broadly keep playing like that, the 1 seed is highly probable.

When the checkdown goes for 11, take the checkdown all day.

Not sure who you’re thinking of, but Corey Moore was a 3rd rounder.

Does anyone in particular come to mind?

Feels pretty safe to say that Shaq Thompson won't play this week. Getting Palmer back would be nice but I'm guessing he winds up as Questionable and doesn't play.

Multiple K injuries in one year. I’m not sure that’s happened to the Bills in my history as a fan.

Oh, you just meant least cap space right now? Sure, no argument there. Sorry to have misunderstood. Usually saying worst cap situation takes into account the overall picture, not just today. There’s no NFL coach or exec who would trade our cap situation for the Saints’.

The bolded is comically inaccurate. The Saints have the worst cap situation in league history.