Breaking down the log jam of names in the Buffalo Bill's passing game.

That's what we're going to talk about in today's episode of stealing thing in shorts.

I'm Ben Gretsch.

You can find my newsletter at Ben Gresh.com. Come with me as always is Sean seagull you can find all of his great work over at brod of his let's jump into the discussion the bills as well i i am curious your thoughts on on curtis samuel and on obviously on keon coleman we know that you are really into dalton Kincaid. And I agree. I think Kincaid's the guy that if you look at their offseason moves, we often talk about teams kind of tell you what they think. The fact that they're willing to get rid of Stefan Diggs and Gabe Davis when only three players in their passing game had more than like 55 targets. And that fourth player was James Cook, running back three downfield players had more than i don't know i you know i already said earlier

calil shakir didn't have very much volume i'm going to pull it up while i'm filibustering here but yeah

calil shakir ended up being the fourth downfield weapon he was at 45 targets doss Dawson Knox had 36. Right. Gabe Davis, Diggs, and Kincade all had 80 plus. If you're willing to get rid of Gabe, Gabe Davis and Diggs and not really add a ton, not go crazy spending, it was surprising they had so many day three picks and they didn't add additional wide receivers in the draft. They brought Curtis Samuel they brought in some other veterans like chase claypool and marcus valde's

scantling um and obviously they did draft keon coleman in the earlier rounds but if you're going

to do all of that i think you're saying that dalton can kane's 91 targets is likely to expand

that's the one guy that was in the offense last year that actually did pretty well late

in the season with Joe Brady.

Everyone's talked about the coordinator splits now.

Kincaid was solid in the second half.

And you got to figure his 91 targets are going forward.

That's going to be a staple, particularly early in the year when

the other guys are all kind of fitting into this new offense. But how do you see, you know,

Shakir has the 45 targets? Can that rise? I'm skeptical because from a targets per outrun

perspective, I don't feel like we've seen a lot of that. Keon Coleman, some question marks in his

profile. Curtis Samuel has been a pretty good target owner. So he's a guy that when I look at this group, I feel like he's got to have a role here. I feel like he's got to have a pretty stable role. And I feel like he's got to get 100-ish targets as well and be a, you know, a pretty key part of this. But how do you see the bills sort of working together?

I've seen some recent quotes as well where I can't remember who said it,

but someone was talking about one of the advantages to their offenses is that everyone

has a turn to shine, sort of, sort of similar to what I was just describing with the Seahawks,

where they're kind of anticipating in early practices, the ball getting spread around a decent amount.

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