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McDermott needs to be concerned about putting an offense on the field this year that is good and can score points thru 4 qtrs of every game. All the rest is immaterial. I bet a lot of the players barely know who the Pegulas even are. I liked Ralph better because he cared about football. It was his life and his passion. The Pegulas have done a great job giving the Bills the money to spend and be competitive. But as far as being old blood NFL football owners, Nah. Guy seems like an uncool nerd to me. Has no presence. When I think of the leader of the team, I think of Brandon Beane, not Terry or Kim Pegula.

Right there with you about loving Michigan and hating Ohio State. Class of 87 bro. But I agree on Dobbins. He is excellent. We need him or Taylor in the 2nd round. Then trade back up for Uche and also DPJ. He has a very high ceiling, and his best football is ahead of him. (watch the TD catch against Indiana last year. Amazing) Big 10 does not get enuf respect. But they play hard nose tough football. Getting RB, WR and Edge from up North would be a tremendous haul.. We win the draft if we get Taylor or Dobbins, DPJ and Uche. Bring in a kicker late if we have that 7th. Otherwise as an UFA, and we are golden for 2020. And yes Winfield was excellent. And Clements was very good also. Big mistake letting Winfield at Pat Williams go in free agency years ago!

Finally someone who thinks that we need more offensive talent. McDermott has done a good job turning around the team. But he seems a little tone deaf and dim when it comes to where the NFL is and is heading in the next few years. How does another Safety or Corner make us a better contender for the Super Bowl in the next two years? We have more then enuf talent in the secondary to compete for a Super Bowl. We NEED offensive weapons. Jonathan Taylor is an amazing RB. Go watch his film while at Wisconsin. Why do we even need Dugger when we have Taron Johnson and a whole bunch of other guys? Our roster is not THAT good, especially on offense where we should not get the best WR or RB available with our first pick wherever that may be!!

My son plays DE at Georgia Southern. Has two more years of eligibility after a bad knee injury last season in the LSU game. He has rehabbed very well after surgery. And will be good to go for this season. (one thing I have learned is who does your surgery makes ALL the difference in the world. I know many orthos in the Atlanta area, and I got him with one who was much better then the team Ortho) Hopefully he balls out for two years and can be at least a mid round draft pick. I apologize for the digression. My point is that my son staying w me while school is shut down took a wonderlic on Saturday for the heck of it. He got a 45. Don't know how long it took him. But he said it was easy as can be. He is smart but not a genius. (Had not much idea how to do his accounting work on line last nite) Makes me wonder how anyone can get a 13. That is poor. If Burrow got a 34 and Stanley got a 40, wth is Tua doing? Just something to think about.

Do you guys not watch the Big 10? Jonathan Taylor and JK Dobbins had close to 4000 yards between them. Singletary is a nice player. But he is not a big time stud. Get me a big time RB w our first pick and watch the offense improve dramatically. What other needs are more important then another RB? And what about another WR? Donavan Peoples Jones has tremendous upside. Put him in the mix with Brown Beasley and Diggs, and Wow!! We still need playmakers on offense. Defense is fine. But taking a guy like Dugger. How does that improve the team? Or an edge rusher who is not ready to contribute this year. Makes no sense. We need about 3 more pieces on offense. RB, WR, and another TE or ROT, and the team will be ready to compete for a Super Bowl as long as Josh Allen plays like he is supposed to. But a "Big Nickel from a D2 school is not going to change our chances of winning the Super Bowl in today's NFL. Beane and McDermott better know that.

Disagree about Feliciano. Thought he played pretty well. And he also was playing w only one good arm.. (shoulder surgery after the season) Morse was pretty good, but needs to be better. Spain is solid. I agree w you about Dawkins. He is average at best. Not sure where all the love comes for him. Can't see paying him 15 mill per year or anything close to that. He plays soft like a Frosty Snowman blowup doll. Feliciano is a tough guy. That is an important in the trenches. We have Spain Long Feliciano Boehm Ford and Boettger competing for 2 starting Guard positions. The cream should rise to the top. At tackle we need Dawkins to step his game up. He doesn't suck. But he needs to be at least good. If Darryl Williams can find his game, we will be good there as well. And maybe Ford finds some quickness that will let him compete outside. And don't forget Nseke. There are enuf decent players that our O line should be above average. Very few great O lines. Need some first round talent for that. Not sure what doesn't excite you about our free agents. Jefferson and Butler are beasts. Addison can still play. And AJ Klein is a player as well. We lost Alexander Phillips and Lawson. Decent players but not superstars. I see more upside with the new guys. And Josh Norman has something to prove. He brings some toughness as well. We brought in some good players. The season is going to ride on our QB. He has to be a lot better throwing the ball. Good teams have good QB's. Always have always will. I can only think of a few championship type teams that did not have dominant QB's. 85 Bears (although McMahon was pretty good) 2000 Ravens w Trent Dilfer and the 2002 Bucs w Brad Johnson. And the 2007 Giants. (I am not an Eli fan. But he played well in some big games I must admit-but NO to the HOF!!)

Glad you like my user name. Paup had two amazing years in 95 and 96 before injuring his groin pretty badly if I recall. He and Bruce were a deadly combo on the pass rush. (I have his 95 jersey and still wear it on occasion) I do remember when Ricky Williams ran wild against us for over 220 yards. But I think we did win that game. I believe that may have been Bledsoe's first year. I went to the Bills-Dolphins playoff game in Miami after the 98 season. (Flutie got sacked by Trace Armstrong to end the game inside their 10 yard line) I believe Moulds had 240 receiving yards that day. At the time it was an NFL playoff record. Not sure if it still stands. He caught a bomb down the sideline on our first drive. Exciting game. Disappointing ending. I remember talking with Chris Mortinson at the Ft Lauderdale airport after the game. Oh the memories!!

Bobby Fisher, what a reference! (never thought I would see him mentioned on a football message board) He was a weird guy from what I have heard. I agree. Lets hope Diggs is everything we are hoping he will be and then some. Dam it has been a LONG time since we had a big time WR. Sammy never got there. Stevie J was good, but not quite a top 5-10 guy. Lee Evans was great on the go route, and not much else. I am thinking it has been since Eric Moulds in his prime from 1998 and 2002. That is a LONG TIME ago.

So what if he is a douche. The guy is a great player. Not everyone falls in line like little toy soldiers. I have never heard his teammates bad mouth him. If you had to catch passes from Eli Manning late in his career, you would probably be pretty cranky also. And playing under Freddie Kitchens was probably like playing for that pee wee coach who had no idea how to coach and was half drunk at every game. The Bills can use a little more edge and douchiness on their team. Good old Richie Incognito provided some of that. Jerry Hughes has some edge. And some of that edge from Diggs will be good for the offense. Let's not forget its football, not chess club.

Don't sleep on Darryl Williams. If healthy he could be our guy at RT. Beane isn't signing guys just to give them Wings and Fries at Duffs. There is a method to everything he does.

We have A running back. Singletary is a nice player. But he is small and not overly fast or explosive. He is shifty and tough. Getting one of the top RB's would really improve our offense. If Dobbins, Swift or Taylor start falling in the 2nd round, Beane needs to grab one of them. We did NOT win the Super Bowl last year. We went 10-6 against a pretty soft schedule. Our roster is pretty good. But we still need more offensive weapons to get to the next level. Diggs is a big upgrade. But I sincerely hope we add at least two potentially big time play makers in this draft at WR and RB.

What are you talking about? Today is April 13th. The NFL season is not scheduled to start for over 4 an a half months. Why such gloom and doom? You really think there is going to be much of a shutdown past the next month in most places? I just don't see it. The panic among some is unbelievable. The reports I watch are that things are getting better. People are going to demand to go back to work. Life for most of us has to go on. The mindset outside of the Northeast and probably the West Coast is probably different on most things. And this seems no different. The liberal media paints a picture that is absolutely catastrophic. Here in Atlanta there is major social distancing. But by next month things will get moving again. What is there approx 23,000 dead from Covid 19? Do you know how many people die on avg in our country every day? Almost 7,700. Why aren't we in a panic every single day? I think while serious, the response has been absolutely over the top in many places. And then other places like Kentucky, they are holding big time Easter church services. I don't think that is appropriate. But to think that people are going to accept having their lives completely turned upside down for a whole lot longer is absolutely preposterous. What Corona is going to be remembered as is a bad virus that killed a lot of elderly and a lot of poor people. And why the poor, because many of them unfortunately have a whole lot of co morbidies (which means preexisting underlying health problems) and are not healthy to begin with. Sure there are outliers. But that is the overwhelming majority of who is dying. And those people would likely be still dying (maybe not as rapidly) even if there wasn't Covid-19. (I know. My business has centered around lower income people for a quarter century. I know how they live and what they do and don't do. And what happens to them) We live in such an age of political correctness, that if anyone is not in absolute panic overdrive mode about anything that kills even the smallest amount of people, they are chastised to the extreme. Do you think 40 years ago there would be this much hysteria over Covid-19? Absolutely not. And according to CNN and most of the media it has to all be Trump's fault. I want football. Its bad enuf this time of year with no sports to watch. (I was just becoming a Nascar fan this year when the virus hit) Imagine what the weekends will be like in the fall with no football. I don't even want to fathom that. You all stay safe. And keep thinking positive. The draft is almost here!!

Great take on Collinsworth Mister D. I can see him just gushing over Dak Prescott Eli Manning and Patrick Mahomes as I write this. I remember watching the season opener between Green Bay and Chicago and Collinsworth was saying how good David Bakhatiari was at left tackle protecting Aaron Rodgers (who Collinsworth absolutely reveres.) and thinking Bakhtiari is playing lousy. And the next play he gave up a sack. LOL Michaels isn't horrible. But he looks like he should be on the Adams Family. I have no problem with Dan Fouts. He never bothered me.

I always thought Dan Fouts was fine. Not great. But didn't bother me. Took me back to my younger years as an NFL fan. Air Coryell and the Greatest Show on Turf. The early 80's Chargers and the Kurt Warner led Rams. Best passing teams of my lifetime. I can't stand Chris Collinsworth and Al Michaels. They just try and be too fancy. Its a football game. Call it as such. Its not a discertation of Shakespeare. I think Kevin Harlon is excellent. Favorite announcer in sports has to be Gus Johnson. Period. But Charles Davis does an excellent job as well.

Well I hope Dawkins comes out this year and plays like the dominant left tackle a lot of you think he is. If so, he should be paid as such. I would just not jump the gun on him is all. We can always wait til after next season before free agency starts in 2021. I know he could test the mkt, but with such a big contract at stake, I am not sure you rush into it. Want to see a dominant year out of him. Then you can pull up the Brinks truck.

Hopkins is a good receiver. But he is not unstoppable. Although I did not like the way Tre White covered him in the second half of our playoff game. Gave him way too much cushion. Needed to be in his jock right at the line of scrimmage. Diggs is faster and more elusive. Cooks is fast but small and has had his bell rung several times. He will not be as effective without Woods and Kupp on the field with him. Everyone on here thinks they are a GM.

I agree Gunner. We had a pretty loaded roster in 2018. Then we give up 63 points in Columbus with a total meltdown in the second half. And a month later get smoked by Florida in the Chik Fil A Bowl. I wanted him fired then. But he is still in Ann Arbor because our AD is in love w him for some disturbing reason. Harbaugh is no Bo Schembechler (who he played under) and no Lloyd Carr either.

Interesting reference. Blade Runner came out a long time ago. Don't really remember it well. But Rutger Hauer was a good actor. Didn't he die not too long ago? I remember him as the bad guy in a movie w Sly Stallone in the early 80's called Nitehawks. He played a good villain. Had a classic sort of creepiness to him. Good actor.

Harbaugh has been a big disappointment. We didn't hire him to beat Maryland and Northwestern. Team does not play with a lot of confidence against good teams. Hopefully things get better this year with Shae Patterson gone. Need a big time QB to be a big time program. Our best QB under Harbaugh was Jake Ruddock in 2015 who came in as a 5th year grad transfer from Iowa. Hopefully McCaffrey or Milton raise the team to a higher level.

I would be very happy with Edge, WR as our top two picks in the draft. As a big Michigan fan I would be ecstatic if we draft Donovan Peoples Jones and Josh Uche in rounds 2 and 3 somehow. Both are very talented players and excellent athletes. They were certainly not the reason that Michigan has underwhelmed the past few years. Blame that on a QB named Shae and a Head Coach named Jim. I think both have a lot of upside (especially DPJ). And their best football should be ahead of them. Go Blue! Go Bills. DPJ is also good at returning punts if he doesn't let the ball just bounce by him, which happened several times at Michigan.

Thanks man. Who is Roy Batty btw?

Why draft a guy who just had surgery? Especially if its a Sports Hernia type procedure. (remember the legendary Kolbe Listenbee from TCU-that never worked out) And especially with the shortened off season team activities. There are many other good skill players that will be available that are healthy going into the draft. And you really can't be serious when you say that Foster Duke and McKenzie are a solid back end of the WR group. Foster has a whole lot to prove. The guy caught 3 passes last season. He looked lost on the field. Duke isn't bad but he has a lot of work to do to be part of the mix on a regular basis. And I like McKenzie as a gadget guy, but not a true WR. I am not sure how much upside any of the 3 really have. But we can always hope. And explain to me why so many are gung ho about the "Big Nickel" player on our defense. Do other teams use this so called player? I don't think that is what has been missing from our team under McDermott. How is Dugger or Chinn going to make us a better Super Bowl Contender? I think offense has been missing a whole lot more.

Agree about Spielman. Disagree about Herbstreit. He is a legend in his own mind if you ask me. Soon he won't be able to fit into his suits as he keeps getting puffier and puffier. I like a lot of the secondary college football announcing pairings on ESPN that don't get the 8pm Saturday games. But are very entertaining nonetheless. And lets not forget about Charles Davis. Another great analyst.

That is a riot Yolo. Thanks for sharing. Spielman is a nut. Who is the chick? His daughter or his girlfriend? I went to Michigan when he was at Ohio State. But I still respect the hell out of him.