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Is Soleman doing anything ? They seemed to have a lot of praise surrounding his pick but to this point I've not heard much of him or does he play a different position ?

ed oliver, in a vacuum, is decent the context is that we've only gotten 30 career sacks out of an undersized penetrating 3T that we spent a top10 pick for. he's been horrific value for us

I mean, the current spread between the 20-year Treasure and 30-year Treasury is a couple basis points (4.68% vs. 4.70%) How much more would you think Banks would demand for a 50-year over a 30-year (when they know the average home ownership period is 7-10 years, which BTW makes a 30-year mortgage not smart but so be it)

You guys are all talking like Troy Franklin has been lighting up the league. He was considered a giant bust last year, when he only had 263 yards in 16 games. His success rate on targets was 35.8%. He's been better this year, but he has yet to have a 100-yard receiving game. He's getting a lot of targets the past few weeks as teams have doubled Sutton, but he still had 4 catches for 27 yards in Houston two weeks ago. I know there have been some highlights that you have seen, but overall, he's a JAG. In fact, Keon Coleman has more yards per target and a better catch percentage. This year! https://www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tiny/AqwZp

He does look like a troll.

I mean there are ways to more effectively utilize him, but if we aren't going to do it, we need to put someone else on the field that can play that role better. I don't disagree. Beane tends to pick more high floor, lower ceiling players than those teams who aim for the blue chip, boom or bust type players more. Although I think Kincaid, Hairston, Bishop and Walker have the potential to be those players in time and Cook has turned into one.

The only thing bad with this pick up at this point in the season is the amount of time he and Josh have to know each others tendency's, it was the same thing with Cooper last season they just didn't have enough time together to maximize their comfort level or trust with each other . I have always wondered why they didn't bring Cooper back, probably money but if given more time to jell I believe Cooper could have been much better than more than a few that are out there this season & as I said I feel this might be the same thing that could happen with Hardman I hope not but Josh has no idea how he runs routes and Hardman has no idea what Josh likes so at the very least it's gonna take a minute for any kind of chemistry to develop but his speed is definitely (as long as Brady uses it the right way) is needed to open the field up or at least the threat of it . I hope it happens sooner rather than later !!!

This shows how a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. The Marx quote the esteemed "Gnostic Death Cult" uses here is Marx quoting Goethe's Faust. (Yeah, as if you've read that) In context, Marx was using that to show how quickly, how easily the French Republic allowed itself to slide back into a kind of dictatorship. It is from the same pre-Communist Manifesto tract that included the famous line, "History repeats; the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." I have a feeling Marx would have said the same thing about Trump 1.0 vs. Trump 2.0. And he would have a point now just as he had then. The context (and it wouldn't kill you to read your Boogeyman Marx rather than "Gnostic Death Cults" stupid and ill-informed take on him): The constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and red republicans, the heroes of Africa, the thunder from the platform, the sheet lightning of the daily press, the entire literature, the political names and the intellectual reputations, the civil law and the penal code, liberté, egalité, fraternité, and the second Sunday in May, 1852 – all have vanished like a phantasmagoria before the spell of a man whom even his enemies do not make out to be a sorcerer. Universal suffrage seems to have survived only for the moment, so that with its own hand it may make its last will and testament before the eyes of all the world and declare in the name of the people itself: “All that exists deserves to perish.” [From Goethe’s Faust, Part One.] It is not enough to say, as the French do, that their nation was taken unawares. Nations and women are not forgiven the unguarded hour in which the first adventurer who came along could violate them. Such turns of speech do not solve the riddle but only formulate it differently. It remains to be explained how a nation of thirty-six millions can be surprised and delivered without resistance into captivity by three knights of industry.

I don’t pretend to understand all the acrobatics involved in managing the cap but I do hear Brandon Beane mention “mortgaging our future” at lease 8 times every single time he speaks publicly. With a once in a generation talent under center who will be turning 30 soon, what’s wrong with taking a bit of a risk and seeing if we might be able to stop a run or catch a pass for over 5 yds? I can’t imagine we’ll be so incredibly happy we held onto some pick way down the road that it will negate waisting Josh’s prime years with the atrocious roster we currently have stacked around him.

It won't. It will be the Ravens vs ?

I'd like to think it's not an ego thing, but it feels like Beane is sometimes trying to prove conventional wisdom wrong. Coleman is exactly what basically all major scouting reports said he was, yet Beane decided he knew better and that he was what this team needed. It's either than or this team's scouting and talent evaluation leave a lot to be desired.

Sure. A lot of teams that arent perennial Super Bowl contenders. But we're supposed to be in the tier with the KCs and Phillys who always seem to find the star "pure football" players. They just have a better eye for it than we do.

Think you mean Jeffrey Simmons. He fell because of red flags both health and off field. If he'd been clean he was a top 10 player. Burns was the guy I wanted if it wasn't Ed, I think that would have been a good pick. That said Ed has still been a really good player for the Bills.

Can we bench Sgt. Ski? He needs more time on the practice squad.

It isn't IMO. Coleman has regressed, and Palmer/Moore have not matched the impact of Hollins/cooper. Shakir has remained the same and Kincaid has improved. Another part of last seasons passing game that has been mysteriously absent this season are passes to Cook & Johnson. Johnson was particularly dangerous catching the ball down field last season. This season the only shot to him was the TD pass he dropped against the Ravens.

The traditional NFL magic is top tier coach plus top tier QB. Based on production, Maye is a top tier QB this season. Vrabel might very well be a top tier coach. It more common for a first year coach to make the super bowl for the first time than a ninth year coach (mostly because there many first year coaches, and not too many year nine coaches who never made the super bowl) for the first 80 votes, the majority think the Bills will have one loss outside of the NE game. A slim majority expects the Patriots to beat the Bills. The majority expects the Pats to lose one additional. If the polls are correct. The Bills end 12-5, the Patriots end 14-3. If the Bills beat the Patriots, both end up 13-4. Pretty big game. Added bonus. The majority expects the division winner to be the AFC #1 seed.

If the AFC ends up with 1. Patriots 2. Colts or vice versa That's pretty much dream scenario for a 7 seed. You cannot ask for better.

Don't gloat when you win. Don't whine when you lose.

I don’t put much stock into Hardman tbh. I think Moore is probably a better option that him due to being a better route runner, but what do I know.. Hardman ran a 4.33 40 Moore ran a 4.35

You could say that about a lot of teams.

I haven't listened to Joe Marino's All-22, but Sal Capacio on his podcast right after the game pointed out that reporters and beat writers after the game are always given a game book, which includes personell and the Dolphins played with 3 LBs on the field for the vast majority of the game. So yes.

This isn't Beane's best roster and injuries have hit our defense hard. But I don't think "it's over." I think we have an above-average HC, an MVP QB, and a decent - not elite - personnel department. And as long as Allen is healthy, we have a chance. We've got to hope Beane learns from his mistakes and does better going forward.

Damn. Relax. It’s a mid season divisional loss. I dropped 1K on them and I’m not even that upset. They’re not losing this week, btw.

Man that stings so much more! I appreciate McD and Beane, but we have to move on from them. They have proven that at best that draft second and third tier rate players that over achieve. There hasn't been one player that they drafted that is no longer on this team that is remotely any good, outside of Edmunds, who is decent, but no star player.

Yep 1000 percent this is the kind of offence he wanted. He hated Dabolls pass aggressive approach which is one of the reasons those guys didn't get along