BUFFALO BILLS
A perfect-10 quarterback — one of the only perfect dawg grades I gave any player — dragging a team that otherwise grades like a very respectable track club. The offense hit 98 almost entirely on his shoulders and a top-three line's. The defense is league-middle at every level, the history column is thin, and the new staff has no NFL fingerprint to read, so that grade is my flagged guess. The quarterback is a Rottweiler. The organization is still auditioning.
The Four Factors
Each factor is normalized 0–100 across the league — 100 is first, 0 is dead last — then weighted into the 54.7. Weights are the same for all 32 teams: defense 35, offense 30, history 20, coaching 15.
DEFENSE
× 35%League-middle. The unit grades below split the difference: some rooms hunt, some rooms watch.
OFFENSE
× 30%A perfect-10 quarterback with a QB weight bump, a top-three line, and honest skill grades. This column is one man's want-to, priced accordingly.
HISTORY
× 20%Mid-pack. Under a steep table and a 6-year half-life, half this league rounds toward zero; this file floats on its vibes read.
COACHING
× 15%Bottom third. Fourth-and-short is treated as a threat instead of an invitation. First-year head coach — no NFL fingerprint exists yet, so this grade is my educated guess, and I flag my guesses.
The Unit Room
The raw grades behind the factors — my dawg read on each unit group, 1 to 10, with its weight inside the defense factor and where it ranks among the 32. Defense is graded by unit group this season, not player-by-player — per-player cap-hit weighting arrives when the final 2026 cap tables settle. Said loudly on the main board, said loudly here.
The Roster Sheet
Every Bill on the frozen ADP board — the market's price next to my dawg read. The two numbers were never allowed to meet: I scored the player blind, then ADP told me how much of the offense rides on him. That firewall is the whole method. Every name links to that player's dawg file; the PROP FILE chip goes to his page in the prop room. Anyone rated after the board froze sits at the bottom as UNPRICED — same blind grade, no market number.
| ADP | PLAYER | POS | DAWG |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13.8 | James Cook IIIPROP FILE → | RB | 6.5 / 10 |
| 28.8 | Josh AllenPROP FILE → | QB | 10.0 / 10 |
| 66.8 | DJ MoorePROP FILE → | WR | 7.5 / 10 |
| 100.9 | Khalil Shakir | WR | 7.0 / 10 |
| 133.0 | Dalton Kincaid | TE | 5.5 / 10 |
Josh Allen (10.0/10) is the alpha grade on this sheet.
Where the Paper Rides
The season-long ledger lives on the main board and grades itself all year. Here is the Bills' part in it, breed against breed.
BILLS VS THE LADDER
| OPPONENT'S BREED | ROTTWEILER | GOLDEN RETR. | GREYHOUND | COCKER SPAN. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE PLAY | 2 UNITS · OPPONENT | 1 UNIT · OPPONENT | NO PLAY | 1 UNIT · BUF |
Greyhound games split three ways: the paper rides against the Bills when a bigger breed shows up, rides with them against the Spaniels, and sits out the all-track-team matchups. Locked all year, graded in public. If the finesse label is wrong, the count will say so — I don't re-grade. I watch.