HardyBoy

What's odd is you have an opinion about someone's child in any capacity. Not appropriate.

Just read an article about Carr being released by the Raiders. His stats and especially that of his defense in big games should probably give people pause on the screw defense, only offense approach so many are clamoring for.

You speak so confidently about Edmunds not meeting a first round grade as a player, offer no evidence, and people who have deep football knowledge disagree with that take. Dunning Krueger?

Like a record player?

I thought this was confirmed already right after the season? Did he get it checked again or something?

I was trying to troll the Pats fan...he didn't fall for it sadly, but still was fun hoping he'd take the bait!

Tom Brady is a system qb and was hugely overrated.

Hard to know the consistency without knowing what he was asked to do. I'm not even saying it's a situation where he does his job and someone else doesn't, it could be by design to limit the right play being called against a defense. Thinking something like he might be asked to penetrate and cause a running back to commit to a gap in a defense designed to take away a pass play the other team likes to call, in case the offense does run. The defense's play call might be something where they are conceding a five yard gain as long as Oliver forces the rb to hit that gap, but would give up a 25 yard+ run if Oliver isn't able to funnel the runner. I don't have the stats, but if you looked at % of plays where the opponent got behind the chains, Oliver would have a really large % of either being directly involved or the player closest to the offensive player when he cut and ran into the final defender.

So I largely agree with your point, but I do think there are bad gms out there who see the draft position like an I've heard of him type thing. Also, good gms might see a player and think they were playing out of scheme or were not being coached well and see the high pick physical traits and think they can get the value out of the player at a higher contract more in line with their draft position. It's not so much because of their draft position, but the traits that got them drafted that high in the first place. I know it was a trade, but kind of like Darius trade. Marone thought he could get the value from Darius at that contract...he was wrong because it sounded like Darius hit a finish line with that contract (I'm not judging him, everyone is driven by different things), but he had the ability skill wise to reach that contract, his priorities changed though.

Yes! That's the one!

I'm definitely thinking of someone else then!

Didn't he have a season with Tampa Bay where he flashed for a bit? Am I crazy for remembering that? Maybe it was a game or a few, but I thought he did well at one point for a hot minute?

Gabe Davis before Oliver I think and use the pick on a wr. I think Oliver is massively underrated though. That's why losing Hodgins was so frustrating to me at the time and now. You had at worst a 4th receiver type depth guy that was a high level red zone threat and that would not cost much to extend after next season. Could of been the bridge to your next crop of receivers at worst and it's looking a lot like he already raised the floor well above that to being a #3 at worst. I wouldn't trade Oliver for a 3rd though, they'll get that back in a couple of years with a comp pick and they should re-sign him imo. Players should be on the trading block though and they should do a mini rebuild. I think the decision at d cord will drive the decisions a lot based on scheme. What's a Milano trade look like for example and would you even consider that if they shift to more of a 4-3 base d?

When does the contract for Frazier expire? If he gets hired as a head coach, would they still get a comp pick?

Yes, those ones are my favorite!

Remember the 2nd dolphins game McDaniels when asked why they didn't keep running and he said something along the lines of you need to be careful falling into a trap of a defense getting you out of your identity by making things seem easy? Feels a bit like Allen fell into that trap yesterday. The dolphins knew the only real chance they had was blitz and not necessarily sack Allen, but hope he'd try and take deep shots and they could get lucky on a string of incompletions, which is what happened. Singletary likely has a 60 yard catch and run for a td if Allen looked off the first read there for a second.

I always say Go Bills to anyone wearing Pats gear and chuckle, going back about three years. Does that count?

I went to high school and college in Rochester. Crazy how much you don't really notice the lack of sun in high school (at least I didn't) compared to when you're on college. High school you're basically inside all day and then it's dark. College you have a bunch of free time and can just stare at how cloudy it is. Something about the structure of the days made it very different. Maybe it's that in high school there was always someone to talk to either in class or I'm the hallway or whatever. College you are alone a lot more even if you have a lot of friends. Also, if you go right by the lakes it tends to be a lot more sunny iirc. We used to go to Webster Park in Rochester a lot on Sunday mornings before Bills games to go sledding or walk on the trails/by the lake and it was always sunny and I don't think it was because we'd only go on sunny days. The warm air comes off the lake and it takes a few miles for it to cool down and turn into clouds. Anyway, I lived in Boston after college and it was pretty cloudy there too in the winter. Then I moved to Ft Lauderdale and if it was cloudy for two days straight I'd start getting depressed because that's how much sun you get there. Live in Raleigh now and it's pretty much the same...so much sunnier in the winter!

more than a few have said they wouldn’t let their kids play though.

Mounds isn’t drought era though is he?

What do you say, "get off my lawn!" probably! Now if you were commenting on people saying expecially instead of especially I'm with you. Every generation does things with pronunciations and such, you just notice it because you're not talking that way because you are no longer cool my man (don't worry, neither am I).

That's what people don't get about the Dan Le Batard show...it's a parody of basically skip bayless and way to serious sports talk by people who most likely never even watched the game they are talking about.

I think it probably was about him researching the offensive coordinator more than the fact they drafted a qb even.

The td tre gave up was scheme. He wasn't beat after the snap, they beat the entire defense before the snap. Really hard to make huge sweeping judgments on a drive and a half, especially where the defense has taken a couple drives to lock down consistently. That said, I have eyes, I see what it looks like as well. Just saying I'm sure there was a plan to scheme Tre into being effective and it certainly wasn't to have him playing with outside leverage and no inside help on that td.

Haha, it was something that was more nuanced than how I put it for sure.