Turf Toe for Samuel, eh?

Oooof.

That shit WR room just got Shit-ererer.

I just read the entire post for the first time.

Thanks for the reminder!

Holy shit who do they have left at WR?

We're going to trade them Skyy Moore, aren't we? It's really going to happen.

Shakir, Mack Hollins, and Coleman (who does not look pro ready at all).

He’d bring a championship culture to their locker room that they desperately need.

Curtis Samuel has turf toe? That's probably the one WR on that team that is feel good about going into the season.

And turf toe, for a short area/stop-start player, could be really nasty and bother him most of the season.

Betting they try to shoot it up but if they don't give that capsule joint time to rest and recover, he'll fight that all year. And sooner or later it'll just swell up enough that it's gonna impact his gait.

That could easily be a 3-4 week injury for a guy that plays like he does.

The Bills take the AFC this seasom
 

Remember that Milano was doing pushups after his injury and was initially conveyed as a minor injury that turned out to actually essentially end his season. Definitely wouldn’t rule out his turf toe being more severe or lingering than they seem to imply with a week to week designation.

Cracks me up that they just cannot cut Hamlin despite the guy being fringe NFL caliber before he collapsed.

You know they'd love to move on from him but just will not take the PR hit. That guy was baaaaaaaaad.

The Bills are going to lose their first game to the Cardinals all because one team got a game changing receiver and the other got a can’t separate project receiver to go with their other limited WR. It’s going to be hilarious.

Links! We need links!

Agreed. It's low key a brutal injury to an already weak WR room right before the season starts. I'm avoiding Allen in fantasy this year, as he's still going QB1 in most drafts.

Here's a good one I just read.

Is this a true week to week? Or an Andy “Hobo Spirit” week to week?

That Samuel injury is pretty bad for them. They're going to be giving snaps to some really marginal players now.

Let’s trade them Skyy, and Toney. Burt can sell person of Hispanic heritage on having 3 WR with multiple SB rings for their stable.

I think this is the year Allen's reckless playing style starts landing him on the sidelines for a couple of games.

Better cancel all the bills games and just let them play in the AFCCG, for equality or something.

I was thinking about that. What the Bills do when the offense struggles is lean more on Allen as a runner, especially for the fullback style runs.

That type of thing takes a toll on guys physically. Could this be the year it bites him a little bit? I think so.

Is this guy serious? I admit that I didn't watch a lot of Bills games but still, Rice is a lot better than Shakir. And I don't think Shakir is bad, he's just limited to a role. Brown, when healthy is better than Samuel.

Cook is a good RB, though.

If they're smart, they get really heavy into ground and pound inside the 10 yard line.

Allen just never has had the ball placement to operate well in the gold zone. I don't believe he truly got a ton better in that regard - Dabol just worked around it. Ball placement has always been a weakness for him and it surfaces most in short areas where you have higher risk and lower reward.

Now put that in an enclosed space like G2G scenarios and your windows are all the smaller and the arm strength doesn't play up anymore.

They need to stop playing like I do in Madden when I'm trying to build up a young QBs stats. Just hand the damn ball off and finish your drives. You have a solid RB. Take the mileage of your QB (and stop asking him to do something he's not good at with the short area throws) and use the expendable legs/back of your RB.

You're talking about fans who sincerely believe Josh Allen is equal to or better than Mahomes.

He is, but Brady seems to see him like Kamara and doesn't view him as a goalline type back (though honestly it seems like they could make a lot of hay running zone read triple-option looks with Allen, Cook, and Kincaid... the play the Chiefs used to burn the 49ers/Bosa in the Super Bowl for some of those big runs).

Allen isn't as crafty or decisive or instinctive as Mahomes, but he also is a physical sledgehammer who can bulldoze straight ahead for 3-5 yards. Kincaid, like Kelce, is not a physically dominant, move-your-ass-out-of-the-way in-line blocker, but he is effective enough to work in that action, where if he gets a solid piece of a guy it's enough to give Allen space or let Cook get to the opposite side or, if the blocker ignores him, slide to the flat as a pass option.

But hopefully he continues to try to use Allen down there like he used Drew Brees. That won't work and will minimize his effectiveness.

I dont think they watch Chiefs games, or they're coping.

"They're both rookies, and our rookie was pretty good. There's NO WAY Rice could be much better."

just twisting the ****ing knife lol

They need to. Then they would have a WR room with multiple SB winning players who both caught TDs in the SB.

I think that's basically what they started doing after they fired their first OC last season. Allen rushed for 15 TDs in 2023, up 8 rushing TDs from the previous season, 6 more than in 2021. Yeah, after checking out PFR, Allen was averaging about 8 rushing TDs/season, then last season he nearly doubled that number.


They're letting Josh off the leash and letting him run whenever he feels like it.

Still strikes me as the height of hubris.

"Oh not OUR guy. Our guy can take as many hits from LBs as we need him to. OUR guy will be just fine, even if every single QB who came before him that played like that ended up ground to a fine powder by the time they were 29..."

Okay Buffalo - keep on keepin' on. Working okay for you in the regular season.

We'll see how it turns out...

Agreed. I like Shakir, but Rice is pretty clearly better. Worthy is better than Coleman. There's really not much ambiguity here.

Their game plan against us in the playoffs was using Allen as Tim Tebow 2.0

For what it's worth, I completely agree. The idea that they can just have Josh cure their RZ ills by running and taking a bunch of hits over 18 weeks seems . . . irrational. But I guess they're in a cap corner, and don't have much of a choice? Of course their draft/offseason moves didn't help them much in that regard either.

I still think they'll get to the playoffs, but I doubt they'll be nearly as dominant over their Division.

Right. There's a reason Mahomes isn't used heavily as a runner in the regular season. The Chiefs save most of the QB run stuff for playoff games.

We'll see how long Allen can hold up under the type of rushing load the Bills put on him last year.

Last season Josh actually ran about 12 fewer times than he did in the previous two seasons 111 vs. 124/122). But I think it's when/where they had him run, which looks like a lot in the RZ. Lot of bodies in a small space. Probably going to take a lot of hits trying to cross the EZ line.

Hand. It. Off.

You have this guy who's job it is to run with the football. The name immediately escapes me but I'm fairly certain 'run' is somewhere in the job description.

Give THAT dude the ball. They're cheap and disposable. You break him and find another one just like him. Nobody really expects you to pay him and everyone knows that this is a transactional relationship.

"You run the ball, destroy your body, and we'll give you like $5 million bucks over the course of 3-4 years. Cool?"

And everyone is seemingly okay with this. So do THAT.

Don't take the guy you're giving $50 million/season to and who's face is on your media guides and expose him to unnecessary punishment.

"Hey, who needs a hammer to drive this nail? I have my laptop sitting here and it weighs about the same amount. And so long as every time I hit a nail with it I hit it at juuuuust the right angle, it'll kinda drive the nail and probably won't break the screen. Oh that hammer in my pocket? Eh - I'm saving it to smash ants with so I don't wanna use it to drive nails..."

It's just so very, very dumb.

Well, yeah, you'd think. Apparently though, they weren't having the success they wanted/needed just by handing it off. Or, I guess maybe Josh just decided he was going to run it himself around the mid-way point of the season? Whatever. If Allen runs it a ton in the RZ, he's going to get beat up, that much we know.

Run him into the teeth of the defense to your hearts content in the post-season.

And I guess they made the playoffs by the skin of their teeth last year so maybe the standings dictated their usage of him.

When they essentially needed to win out to get to the playoffs, 4 of their 5 wins were be a score or less. Average margin of victory in those games was 4.5 points and Allen ran for 5 scores in those 4 games.

So they needed everything he had to offer.

But when they beat Washington 37-3, why does he have a rushing TD? Miami 48-20? Dallas 31-10?

If it's situational use, why not save it for when you need it? And I guess the response is "Hey, he ran for 8 TDs in the last 6 games of the regular season when every score counted..." but fellas, this is gonna come back to get you sooner or later.

You probably wanna avoid starting 6-6 this year.

Them running the ball more and their winning streak last year was more than coincidental.

They’ve been a stat padding team for years. It’s why their point differential has no predictive value on how good they actually are in the postseason.

Yah. It's all over their stats. Diggs' targets and yds/gm dropped significantly (yds/gm nearly in half), Allen's rushing TDs doubled, Allen's rushing yds before contact cut nearly in half, etc. Their interim OC basically said, 'screw it, in the RZ, Josh run whenever it seems like you can.'

There’s a reason why no running QB (and by running I mean lots of designed runs) has won a SB since Young (I believe). Those hits take their toll and while those QBs might have a good season or two, ultimately they don’t sustain success.

I get playing in an era of greatness, but since KC drafted Mahomes and Buffalo drafted Allen I can think of only one season where Buffalo legitimately could have won the SB and that was the :13 second year.

I think it's what you were saying earlier, they think he's Superman and that he won't break. He will, sooner or later.

I really enjoy the position the Chiefs are in. Puts a smile on my face to see things like this being said.....

Kansas City DB's Holding

That site it painful without an ad blocker on mobile.

Could have just stopped there.

KC was one of the most penalized teams in the league last season. Rival fans will not be happy unless KC is penalized on every single play. And of course their team should never be penalized for anything.

I just brush off those “favoritism” complaints. Every fan base thinks the other team gets away with murder while thinking their team played an immaculate game.

This seasom live close to you?

"Because we have a guy with the talent to be a top 10 QB of all time and it means precisely ****-all because Patrick Mahomes continues to rip his throat out when it matters...."

I mean how hard can this answer possibly be?

That place is us before Mahomes, except we never had a QB as good as Allen to feel that extra little bit of pain knowing he’s being wasted. LMAO

Nah, those guys are pussies who would get offended by our board. Especially the pre Mahomes era. I’ve learned there’s not many places like this place on the internet.

Literally every rival board’s members call our board a cesspool lol

I love it.

If they were in th NFC...they likely would have already made it to a SB...only be beaten by Mahomes.

Eternal payback for knocking Montana out of the AFCCG.

My personal favorite was calling this board Mos Eisley.

The Bills are going to win 9 games.

**** those losers.

Yankee hillbillies be making cranberry moonshine to cry in

In November they'll be bleating out is "no one wants to face us josh allen in the postseason, trust me!"

Write this in stone and throw away the hammer. The Buffalo Bills 2024 seasom will end with no playoff appearance.

The Kansas City Chiefs accept your endorsement.

Philip Rivers would miss the playoffs in years when the Chargers needed to rebuild and reset. Happened to him quite often for being this magic future HOF QB everybody claims he is.

I think we're gonna see the same thing from Allen. Until they hire a great GM capable of consistently stocking the cupboard, Allen will also miss the playoffs from time to time.

Lol watching the Steve McNair documentary on Netflix had forgot the Music City Miracle was against the Bills. Between the music city miracle, 13 seconds, Mahomes rolling em in their place last year, 4 straight SB losses...not sure how you can still be a fan of that franchise.

They don't throw themselves on to burning tables because it's cool, you know.

One more playoff loss to Mahomes and.....

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Don't forget Wide Right 1.0

I have them in the playoffs barring a Joshy injury

Don’t forget the annual 20 feet of snow in the winter. I don’t see how people live there.

I'll admit when the seeding was set in stone last year and it was apparent we'd be heading to Buffalo in the divisional round I was worried. I wasnt concerned with the Bills or Josh Allen. I was concerned because I knew that was going to be one of the most hostile environments in NFL history. Similar to New England @ KC in 2018 for the AFCCG. Their fans freaking HATE the Chiefs and Mahomes. They had YEARS and YEARS of demons to exercise that night. It was their time. That night I learned no moment or stage is EVER to big for Mahomes/Reid/Kelce. They freaking relished and lived for that moment.

And don’t forget they’re suffering goes back to 4straight Super Bowl appearances and losses, starting off with “wide right“.

Didn’t the Chargers miss the playoffs a year they were the number 1 offense, and defense?

https://www.twobillsdrive.com/commun...-camp/page/18/

Now Bass has issues 1st year into his new contract.

If they cut him it's 4.3 mil hit this year and 3 next. LMAO

I love the Buffalo bills

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The crowd when it slices......

Agreed. I was looking at their schedule the other day and I’d imagine they can get to 10-7ish.

Split with the Jets and Dolphins to be safe. They should sweep the Patriots.

They should be favored against the Cardinals, Jaguars, Seahawks, Titans, and Colts.

Ravens, Texans, Chiefs, 49ers and Lions will be tough. If they can win at least two of those they should be OK.

Rams are a sneaky one - toughest to call on paper.

Yeah, I don't know about that one. Miami is going to take the East, and the Jets are a wild card with everything resting on Rodgers' last hurrah (and I feel it'll be his last season).

I could see them winning 10 games and not making it as a wild card team just because the AFC is so damned stacked.

It just feeds my soul.

That's not quite as good as watching the Mets fans react as Hosmer slides into home in Game 5, but it's in that realm.

Watching it again, it's on the holder.

That ball wasn't placed vertically, rather leaning to the right, it went right where it was aimed.

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