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RBs have the must touches of the ball and thus have the most contact you can older backs if they hadn’t been used much as backups. You drsfted st 24, first 2 yrs little play, thrn you play 25-28 similar to others who may be 21-24 yr olds. RBs tired out after they pass Y touches st whatever sge it occurs. WRs don’t take as much hard contact. They usually encounter DBs. It’s usually nota heavy hit.

Disagree. He’s only getting better. His contract is going to be a bargain for the next 5 years is my guess. He’ll be 29 in year 5.

I believe he meant 11 on 11 drills.

RIP Way too young. Got caught in some nasty tide waters on vacation, apparently. (For those who hate to click.)

The iron friggin law.

This is too much work for me. Tired.

A friend of mine kept a chart someone did 2 years ago using PFF rankings on players declining by age. Here is how to read the table. Take RBs age 26.1 under Top 10 90th Percentile column; that says among top 10 running backs, on average only 1 is of age 26.1 or older (90% will be younger). RBs age 25.2 under column Top 10 80th Percentile; that says among top 10 running backs, on average only 2 are of age of 25.2 (80% will be younger). RBs age 27 under Top 20 85th Percentile; that says among top 20 running backs, on average only 3 players will be of age 27 or older (85% will be younger). Of course it's a statistics analysis, and there are debates on the different standards in ranking the players by position. I'd say last year it definitely broke the norm for running backs where both Barkley (age 27) and Henry (31) should be in top 10. But this is the kind of things teams may look at to counter the agents in contract negotiations. Allen (29) has a lot of years left based on this chart. Dawkins (31) is getting there. James Cook (26 in September) is an interesting case - maybe why he wants the money now. I don't know how many other Bills players can be considered top 20 in their position. Now look at the Chiefs, Kelce is going to be 36 in early Oct. Chris Jones is 31. We are hoping they follows the statistic norms, but luck may be that both Kelce and Jones are THE ONE in top 90th Percentile in their respective position group.

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This - and IMO the credit goes to McDermott for getting the most out of average talent. Beane has not distinguished himself as a personnel executive. No impact players on defense. No small school finds like the Rams. No big uglies along the LOS like the Eagles. I'll add insult to injury when I say that the defenses of the decade of fail were better (Jerry Hughes, Kyle Williams, Aaron Schobel, Jabari Greer, Lorax, Stefon Gilmore). Paying retail for Kelvin Benjamin, Stefon Diggs and Von Miller involves nothing more than writing cheques. If the results are the same, this time next year I will be among those calling for Beane's departure.

Blood on the highway I've gotta get my gun The war it ain't over 'Til all the killings done

As you may have realized, I prefer to at least give the bright side a chance. Let’s give due to those who have earned it. ….and crap on the rest. Oh, I kid, mostly.

The wrong Cosby died. Wtf

Trubisky had a couple good games in 2018. He is terrible and would have trouble starting on a lot of top 25 college teams at this point. He can’t throw an accurate pass more than 10 yards down the field. The Bills should have drafted Joe Milton a couple years ago. The guy at least has some talent. I agree Mike White is nothing special either. The Bills should have kept Anthony Brown last season. Has more talent than any of the backups. I guess McDermott likes to keep the QB room very snowy if you catch my drift.

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I will save it for a rainy day 😊. I do remember one asking about nightmare college professor stories posters had here

So weird this trend coincides entirely with the Auto Pen administration Thank you for sharing!!

Why do you like what we have better? Knox has minimal athleticism. And Kincaid has been a pretty big disappointment so far. Let’s hope he shows a whole lot more this season. I think all things being equal Fant has more talent than Knox. But the Bills have always loved the low ceiling Knox and gave him much too big of a contract extension. Not sure why when his upside has never been anything special. But he can block and make the occasional big play like the catch he had at Detroit.

An interesting thread idea would be have you had any really memorable teachers, good or bad, and why? Just planting a seed I don’t think I’ve seen before. I have a few in mind, and some teachers in the family. What an amazing way to touch a lot of lives.

Wait, that tweet wasn’t Joe??

And the Chiefs. And the Browns. And the Patriots.

Who says Shakir is overrated ? The Bills didn’t use him correctly for much of last year throwing the behind the line of scrimmage screen pass to him continuously. Garrett Wilson is good. Never said he wasn’t. Just don’t think he is as special as you do. And he is a pouter/complainer. Watch what happens when Fields is afraid to throw the ball and looks like a deer in headlights, as he has for much of his career. Wilson will lose his mind. Lol

I am saying the fans of both teams are biased towards their own guy. I agree Allen is the better passer, and I’ll stand on the soap box all day that Lamar is a far better long ball passer, he has touch that Allen simply does not. Allen misses a LOT of deep shots, so much so that that basically took it out of the playbook. That doesn’t mean he can’t throw a 35 yard dime into and impossible window from his back foot and a guy hanging in his waste, he absolutely can. But given a chance to throw the nice arching bomb to a spot down field for a WR to catch in stride, he’s not very good at all. He’s unquestionably the worst of the best QBs at it. He’s great, but touch is still not his best attribute. Lamar, for all his lesser abilities in the passing game throws a much better deep ball. I think you are confusing “big time throws” with deep ball. Not the same thing.

Following Promo's note, I think we often just point to other GM's hits and think that that GM is better (or drafts better than Beane), without looking at their overall drafts and comparing them in totality. Or comparing total hits and misses, etc. We know all about other team's hits because those guys are playing, but we don't remember all of their busts, or players that washed out, or were cut. And we don't always take into context things like draft position, team needs, etc. We are way more critical of Beane than we are of other GMs (not surprising, as we are Bills fans and focus our attention on the Bills). For instance, whenever we talk about this, we will say things like "well, besides Josh." Almost as if we aren't giving Beane credit for Josh. When a fan of another team looks at Beane, they may be saying, why can't our GM find a franchise QB, or hit a home run like that guy did (but we almost discount it). It's said all of the time that a GM's most important job is finding his QB. And, stuff like, over the last three years, the Eagles' average draft position has been pick 113, the Bills' average draft position has been pick 140. That makes a difference. Now, I'm not totally disagreeing with WeckMonster, in that I think most Bills fans would agree that Beane has not hit many home runs at the top of the draft and it would be a big boost for the team if he found more impact players in the first two rounds. But I also realize there is context to it and no GM hits home runs on every round 1 and 2 pick. Your standard of every 2nd round pick being a year one starter and every 3rd round pick being a starter by year two is incredibly high. I think if you look around the league, you will be hard pressed to find a GM that does that year in and year out. Plus, how stacked is your team? It's a lot harder for a 2nd or 3rd rounder to get playing time on a Super Bowl contender than on a team in rebuild mode. Plus, a lot of the true impact players are gone by say picks 26-28, and those that are left are obviously not guarantees (or they would be drafted higher), so you're trying to pick that special guy out of say 15 other guys who all tested well and had great college stats. Could Beane be doing better at the top of his drafts, Yes, of course. But, overall, he has done pretty darn good by this organization and built a very good and very deep team (not every team has the depth that we do). Another factor is fans being impatient with the development of players. When I was young, we understood that outside of the guys at the top of the first round, most players took 2-3 years to develop. Yes, it would be great if your rookies had an impact in the playoffs their first year, but just because they didn't in year one doesn't mean that they won't in year two or year three. That is why we don't evaluate drafts for 3 years out (like the OP looking at the 2022 draft now). And I'd actually say that Cook did have a pretty big impact in the playoffs (278 yards, 3 TDs, 5.1 per carry), oh and Bernard (21 tackles, 1 TFL, 1 FF, 2 FR, 2 PD), oh and Torrence (starting OG), Kincaid didn't have big stats (71 yds and 1 TD)...but he was starting. As far as the rookies, you have to weigh in how the injuries impacted the trajectory of Coleman's and Carter's seasons, and Cole just wasn't ready yet. I mean, if you are even writing off Beane's good picks (Cook, Bernard, Torence...at least), of course he will pale in comparison to other GMs. Interesting to note about if we went with Mel Kiper's picks: Kiper's picks for the Bills: last three years (I could only find his first round mocks---so 2nd rounders not included) 2022: Kaiir Elam 2023: Jordan Addison (he was selected two picks before the Bills picked that year) 2024: Brian Thomas, Jr. (he was selected 5 spots ahead of Buffalo's pick last year) So, maybe if Mel was GM, he would have traded up for one of those receivers (that is if he could find a partner, which is not a guarantee). But, if Mel didn't trade up, and picked the next best available pick on his board (slightly leaning to the position he was selecting for the Bills), his picks would have looked like this: 2022: Kaiir Elam 2023: Dalton Kincaid 2024: Xavier Worthy So, the only difference would be Worthy over Coleman*. Again, you could knock Beane for not trying to trade up for one of those receivers, but then again, maybe he did try and there were no takers or the price was too high...we don't know. [*And due to the trade, it is not actually just Worthy for Coleman, it is Worthy/Jaden Hicks(DB)/C.J. Hanson (OG) for Coleman/DeWayne Carter/Travis Clayton (OT).]

One camp QB injury and he can play saviour again. There's no way Rodgers, Flacco or Stafford make it through 17 games.

I went to school in fairport, his name was Mr Thering. He also walked around with his lightning wand of knowledge haha