thebandit27

Your reasoning is that “he’s a loser”? That’s stupid. Look at production across the league for players making $7M AAV and tell me that he’s not right where he should be...then explain to me why it makes sense to try to recoup cap space you don’t need by cutting a productive player at a position where you have only 2 experienced players under contract. C’mon...I’m not asking for much. Just think.

Yes, they can improve—why cut Murphy?

I had him at 5/82/52 FWIW

More along the lines of—we plan to reduce your snaps this year, so we’re asking you to take a salary adjustment. In exchange, we’ll bump your guaranteed money up significantly. We’re doing this because we don’t want to let you go or have you be unhappy. I highly doubt that Shaq takes 8. And as I said, Murphy is performing right in line with what you expect from a DE making $7M AAV. Yes, you could ask him to take a reduction, but he’s already being paid as a rotational guy.

Meh, he’s 1 inch shorter and 6 lbs lighter than what Tyreek is listed.

I think it’s more along the lines of the team is converting non-guaranteed money into guaranteed as an investment in the player for the upcoming season. Vis a vis: we shall reward you now for what we expect will be another great season of service (disirregardlessly of whether he was actually great in the past).

I usually don’t worry about motivation when players get a bump in guaranteed money.

I’m sorry Yolo, but I can’t stop laughing at the idea that an NFL story wasn’t on your radar until it includes cheesecake ?

Good teams are constantly bringing in competition for their specialists. There’s no better use of a day 3 pick than on a quality kicker or punter—they’re the most likely players to make your 53 from day 3.

Right now, they’re my 3 and 5b, respectively. Between them I have Jefferson as 4 and Hamler as 5a. I firmly believe that Hamler would be a top-10 pick if he were 3 inches taller.

Why. Would. You. Cut. Murphy. He makes an average of $7M, which is peanuts for a DE, and he was productive last year. Don't cut good players just because.

I’ll take one of each please

Shouldn't be drafting for need regardless. Draft for superstars at premium positions and take care of needs in FA.

Brutal straw man argument. If the answer is that the “good” team always wins and the “bad” team always loses, then who’s the better team: KC or Houston? You're the person that claimed that the team isn’t close. Apparently what you really mean is that they didn’t win (since by your description of events a team is either good and wins or is bad and isn’t close regardless of the score or flow of the game).

In order: He wasn’t as good then Probably No, not a drop per the definition on PFR Yes And like I’ve said, the key number to me is On-Target percentage, which was 73.2 (21st). Not good enough, but hardly terrible.

The team had 31 drops. They dropped 7.3 percent of passes that weren’t spiked or thrown away. That’s absolutely atrocious. If they were even average (5.5%) his completion percentage would rise to above 63%. No offense, but posts like the above are why this discussion drags on and on. If sub 60 isn’t acceptable, then get some WRs and TEs that catch the ***** ball.

Hardly. To recap here: you claimed that the WC game somehow proved that Buffalo wasn’t close to beating a good team. I pointed out that they could’ve won by making any of a dozen plays—by any sane person’s definition, that’s bloody close. You then decided that they somehow weren’t close because they only scored 16 points, which makes no sense since they did indeed come close to winning. When challenged on that point, you decided to point out their record against winning teams...as though it proves that they aren’t close to beating any of them despite the fact that each of those losses (of which there were only 5 on the year including the playoff game by the way) save Philly was a one-score game. So once again I’ll say, as I have consistently since my first response to you: yes, the team is quite close to being able to beat good teams. Now, I’ll kindly ask you to stay consistent and show me why you believe that either the Houston game (or any other loss this year) indicates that they aren’t close to being able to beat good teams. Thanks in advance.

And what was the margin of defeat in each of those losses? Yeah, you’re continuing to shift the argument.

They’ve been together almost 4 years.

And that has exactly what to do with how close the Bills are to beating good teams? You’re already a fair distance away from your original statement

You know that same team beat KC on the road, right? Your post was illogical and inaccurate.

If you do the same exercise for On-Target throw percentage—which is objectively a better indicator of accuracy—you get a mean of 75.14 and a SD of 3.57. Since Allen’s figure was 73.2, that puts him a little more than half a SD behind the mean.

Right now, I have a top 3 of Jeudy/Lamb/Ruggs. Then a big gap. The next group is, in order: Jefferson Aiyuk Hamler Reagor Shenault Then another gap before we get to the group of Higgins, T. Johnson, and a few others. Some possible day 3 guys I like include: John “Juice” Hightower Jauan Jennings Quartney Davis Isaiah Hodgins

Yeah that 3-point loss in an OT game where Buffalo could’ve won by making any one of a dozen plays is really a testament to how far from being competitive they really are ?

No...just not entirely clear. I’m saying that if people knew how hard actual NFL AQC personnel worked just to try to understand one guy’s assignment on one play, they’d know beyond all doubt that a writer with zero football experience half a world away is just guessing at best.