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Not dismissing Von’s career. He admittedly had a very good distinguished career. He was just never one of my favorite players. Never was wowed by him is all. We all have our guys we loved to watch play. Von will be in the HOF. I just love the physicality of how Bosa plays when he is healthy.

I think Fields is just lousy. And looks scared on the field. He has not improved one bit since his rookie season. The narrative that this guy should be a starting QB in the NFL is just false. This is year 5. And he misses guys all over the place and is super tentative. He doesn’t elevate the guys around him. Never has. Hard to win with that as your starting QB. The Jets should have signed Jameis Winston over Fields for the half the money. Certainly a better investment. At least Jameis gives you a chance every week. And doesn’t play scared.

Disagree. Bosa is way more of a physical presence than Von ever was as a Bill. He is 5 years younger too. At their best Bosa as a player overall is better than Von as well. Let’s just hope Bosa stays healthy. The man is a big dude playing w a lot of attitude. Hopefully Epenesa and Rousseau can learn a lot about playing DE from Bosa.

It’s time for Jimmy Ciarlo. Enough w the Buffalo Joe talk. Ciarlo is a much better athlete.

I agree with you about Cleveland this weekend. They played a feisty game against the Bengals and should have won but for their rookie kicker. I think the Ravens defense is overrated. If we were not so conservative with our play calling in the first half after the first drive we would have been a lot closer late in the game. When they let Josh play like an all timer, the Ravens could not stop him. That needs to be our offensive MO every week. Conversely, what in the name of good defense is wrong with the Bills run defense every single year? Is it the scheme, the players, or a brutal combo of the two? This game was certainly not an outlier of our run defense the past few years. It has happened numerous times. I certainly hope that Jordan Hancock is active this week. Give the kid some opportunities. He at least looked to have some athleticism in the preseason. I can't believe he would not be an upgrade from what we saw out of Rapp and Bishop. And do NOT go back to Tre White. Keep Strong starting. And then when Hairston is ready go with a combo of those two opposite Benford. No way Tre can keep up with the speed of today's NFL offenses. Just not happening.

The TD catch off of the Knox deflection took a lot of focus and awareness. Pretty nice catch. I see a big season from him this year. A game like Sunday's has to give him a lot of confidence. Same with Kincaid. He had some jump out there as well. And lets not forget Knox. I have been somewhat hard on him at times. But I thought he was a presence for us all game long.

Yes he certainly was. He had those pads on his forearms I seem to recall. Like a Junior Gene Upshaw who always had the casts. I believe Smith got a bad staff infection after his knee surgery.

Your avatar is a riot. Hamilton is a freak on the back end. And McDuffie is pretty dam good also. Elam never panned out for us. He got beat on the long pass against the Eagles. But I did not follow him the entire game. I hope for his sake he becomes a solid NFL player. He doesn't seem to have a lot of twitchiness. You watch him, and then you watch Duron Bland or Christian Benford, and they just look a whole lot more athletic. I see Elam's high end as a poor man's Leodis McKelvin. But I liked McKelvin's game more than a lot of peoples.

I thought about just that when you wrote your Leonard Smith post after the game. LOL

We actually have some good receivers on our roster this year. And everyone talks about Lamar Lamar Lamar, but Josh is a beast to tackle when he gets out of the pocket. And is great at throwing downfield on the run. The Ravens defense was not great last night. #14 Hamilton is special. But the Bills moved the ball most of the game, especially in the 4th qtr. The Ravens are good, but we are not anointing them champions yet. Harbaugh is not a great coach. I think he showed that last night.

Our play calling on the second and third drives were terrible. On the second drive, Cook gets almost 8 yards on 1st down, and then 2 straight runs for no gain. The third drive 3 quick out passes that got a total of 6 yards. And on defense, we may have had the worst safety combination starting in the NFL last night. They can't tackle, they take terrible angles when they try and tackle, and they are out of position a lot. And neither is particularly fast. But Ed Oliver certainly came to play. And Strong at CB showed some potential, so that's good. Lets just hope that Joe Brady and his conservative play calling is put on the shelf for the rest of the season. You see what Josh Allen can do when given the keys to the sports car instead of an old station wagon. The boy can put up 350 plus yards every game.

That's a great post. Cracking me up. Leonard Smith was a bad ass.

Jared Goff has always been good. He was the first pick in the 2016 draft. He was good with the Rams, before McVay threw him under the bus. He wasn't made by Ben Johnson. The guy has always had talent. He just can't move much. Sure Ben Johnson has been a very good OC (remains to be seen how good of a HC he will be) but I think that's a false narrative that Ben Johnson made Jared Goff into a good QB.

He plays like a poor man's Leodis McKelvin.

His kicks are like a screw ball pitcher. He is the Fernando Valenzuela of the Bills. Too bad he doesn't dominate like Fernando once did. But Prater is solid.