CrazyPsycho
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If he was healthy do you think hes signing for the minimum plus incentives?
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If he was healthy do you think hes signing for the minimum plus incentives?
SundherDome
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Who else is offering a starting job?
I feel like Bb and Cam's personalities will clash a bit but this makes NE a contender again.
TalkingProuder
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If you think he's not healthy Vegas just moved NE into the favorite spot...
There's your opportunity to take the house down.
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I’d put “potential” in front of every positional category with the exception of CB / Trey White. Until those positional units meet those standards consistently, I think it should be caveated. Agree they are possibly as well- rounded as the SB years, but parity due to Free Agency has really narrowed the gap.
While my heart shares your optimism, my wallet/betting mindset does not.
I wouldn't bet against NE/BB no matter who they have at QB.
I don't like this talk of having the Bills as overwhelming favourites it makes me a little uneasy.
But make no mistake I think Newton is done. Hasn't he lost something like 8 straight starts?
There's a reason why Carolina dumped him for Teddy B. Nothing against Teddy - but if Newton is even showing glimpses of returning to his best form - they don't make that move.
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I don't buy that. New coach who wants to be the big dog..new coaches want their own QB. Bridgewater is a stop gap.
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Plus, Cam was entering the last year of his deal with Carolina and was demanding an extension.
With the new coach and Cam being injured most of last year, him getting cut wasn't surprising.
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With Covid skyrocketing, hitting new record highs every day now, I’m starting to feel like all the talk of football (and other sports) coming back this year may be a pipe dream. I don’t see how they can possibly do it safely with the situation raging so out of control. Regardless of what the leagues are saying publicly right now. Things are getting worse, not better, with no end in sight. It certainly won’t be under control a few months from now.
Would somehow be a pretty Billsy outcome, to assemble the strongest roster and highest expectations in decades, only to lose the season to a once-in-a-century pandemic. But I’m starting to have significant doubts that there will be a season this year.
Would somehow be a pretty Billsy outcome, to assemble the strongest roster and highest expectations in decades, only to lose the season to a once-in-a-century pandemic. But I’m starting to have significant doubts that there will be a season this year.
I really think the NFL will plow through, pandemic or no pandemic.
I also think we will learn a lot from the baseball restart. If they close up shop during their shortened season, then I’ll change my mind about the season. I don’t see how you have an NFL season (way more players and staff) if the MLB can’t even do it.
CrazyPsycho
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Would be quite the sight when teams get to their 5th QB
Theres just so many people involved its a logistics nightmare. Even travel to games is just asking for it
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I may be very high on the 2020 Bills and very optimistic but I don't think I overstated any of those positions in terms of their overall talent/likely production.
You agreed upon White...that is definitely a fact that he is a superstar CB and is at worst the 1B CB in the league tied with Gilmore.
Tremaine Edmunds though is absolutely an all pro caliber MLBer. The guy just turned 22 and is already entering his 3rd season as a captain with TWO 100+ Tackle seasons under his belt. Remember, MLBs do not accumulate big sack #s. Two of the best MLBers in the last 25 years were Derrick Brooks and Brian Urlacher. In 224 career games Derrick Brooks had 13.5 career sacks. Urlacher had 41.5 in 182 games but actually had a whopping 9 sacks in his last 7 seasons.9 sacks his last 93 games. Urlacher actually played safety in college and OLB. He was not drafted as a MLB and was not placed as the MLB right away until injuries and circumstance pushed him into being the MLB. I had read a few scouting reports that have said Edmunds had Urlacher level potential. We did not get the pressure from the DEs in Edmunds first 2 seasons that he needed in order to rack up some sacks. With Addison in place who is a consistent 9+ sack guy, and with Hughes hopefully rebounding and Murphy and Epenesa also in place along with our other UFA DL additions this is the year I think our DL will produce enough to allow the Edmunds and Milanos to accumulate the sacks. Especially with how good our CBs can/will be making it more likely opposing QBs will have to hold onto the ball and take the coverage sack.
In Edmunds first 31 games, he has compiled 3.5 sacks, 3 picks, 236 tackles, 15 TFL,21 PD and 2 FF all by the age of 21. The fact that he has put up those numbers being the leader of the defense wearing the headset all while being at an age where 99% of all college players are still R-SO or R-Jrs at age 21 that just absolutely amazes me. I truly think Oliver-Edmunds-White will end up being the best DL-LB-CB trio in the entire league as soon as 2021. White is the "old man" of the three and he is going to be just 25 during the entire 2020 season. Edmunds is going to be 22 the entire 2020 season and so will Oliver. Just with those 3 guys locked in place for the next 5-6 years we will always have a top 10 defense IMO.
I will talk about the other positions which I gave lofty praise to later when I am not typing this on my phone while stuck in traffic. And with Newton signing with the Pats and Vegas most likely going to make them the favorites yet again for the division you may want to rethink your betting mindset and take the Bills..you are clearly an intelligent person. And hell, anyone who bet big on the over on the Bills last year would have booked quite the win!
If we were still cursed with the near 20 year drought and didn't have a damn good coach/GM duo who got us to the post season 2 of the last 3 seasons then of course I would not be so high on this team. But its time to take this team real serious. We have added some MAJOR talent the last couple years and the scary thing is the vast majority of them are all young and in their 20s still. This team is set up to be a perennial contender for the next 5-6 years. In the mid-late 90s when we were making playoff appearances we were very old at the time wringing out the very last bit of high end performance from aging star players. But this iteration of the Bills is the opposite, we are getting wins and have compiled a deep and talented roster based on youth. I take the 2020 Bills over ANY Bills team from 95-99. And after this upcoming season depending how much Allen progresses and Diggs clicks with him then we could be comparing them to one of the squads from 90-94.
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Thanks to Texas, California, Arizona and Florida the NFL season is really in doubt - we're a month away from training camps, there is no way teams in those states can hold training camps there - the NFL must be working on plans on what to do with teams who are in hot zones.
SundherDome
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Lawmakers should have just been told, Make your people wear facemasks or there is no football.
CrazyPsycho
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No fans will be allowed to attend Buffalo Bills games during COVID
Guess it depends how strictly they follow these guidelines and what 'during the Covid-19 pandemic' means to them. Worst case it could mean until there is a vaccine or assumed herd immunity but who knows.
Guess it depends how strictly they follow these guidelines and what 'during the Covid-19 pandemic' means to them. Worst case it could mean until there is a vaccine or assumed herd immunity but who knows.
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buffalowing88
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Not super related to strictly Bills talk but just wanna throw in my two cents. I worked local news for Charlotte for several years and with Cam in particular and he is the most confounding human being on the planet. He has no sense of being a “man of the people” in that he lives in a bubble. Literally, he is the most manufactured and polished athlete I’ve ever interviewed. Nothing he says is sincere unless he is in front of a camera and when those moments happen, he’s a robot.
With that said, he’s an absolute warrior of a player and someone who can certainly drag New England to sweeps of MIA and NYJ if he wants to and is on.
As a fan, from going to every home game they’ve had for the past few years and seeing him up close, he’s done. The sentiment in the locker room in Carolina for over a year has been that he’s done. He is going to throw for a lot of yards if he starts from day one in NE, but he has f***ed up his footwork and lost his own confidence in himself to make every throw and once that happens, you’re done. I loved seeing him play but considering his mentality and his mechanics, I suspect Stidham will be starting before mid-season.
but that’s just my two cents. Who knows. As a Bills fan, though, I’m not the least bit worried.
With that said, he’s an absolute warrior of a player and someone who can certainly drag New England to sweeps of MIA and NYJ if he wants to and is on.
As a fan, from going to every home game they’ve had for the past few years and seeing him up close, he’s done. The sentiment in the locker room in Carolina for over a year has been that he’s done. He is going to throw for a lot of yards if he starts from day one in NE, but he has f***ed up his footwork and lost his own confidence in himself to make every throw and once that happens, you’re done. I loved seeing him play but considering his mentality and his mechanics, I suspect Stidham will be starting before mid-season.
but that’s just my two cents. Who knows. As a Bills fan, though, I’m not the least bit worried.
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If the Dolphins come to Buffalo, are they even allowed to play? Don't they need to quarentine for 14 days?
It's a long time from now until September. Traveling teams are essentially quarantined, well at least until they start banging helmets on the field. Whether they fly day of the game and go from plane to bus to stadium to bus to plane or the day before and go plane to bus to hotel to bus to stadium to bus to plane their interaction with the public is limited. The NFL may have some type of team bubble in place where players and their families are supposed to stay home except if at the team facility. 8-10 weeks is an eternity in covid time so who knows what late August/early September will bring.
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Husko
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I want the national anthem completely removed sports altogether because it's a stupid tradition and forced patriotic/military propaganda has no place in professional sports, but we can't all get what we want.
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