thebandit27

I think the complaint with Ford is that the upside simply didn’t match the investment. The other names that you hear mentioned like AJ & DK offered much greater upside at that point.

Expressed methods or not—this team lacks superstars in every way. And they don’t have time to draft and develop all of them before they have to (hopefully) start paying premium dollars to big-money positions like OT, CB, and QB. My question about which being more responsible is $35M on 4 role players vs $35M on 2 superstars; is one more “responsible” than the other? The same comment about bottom-of-the-roster quantity applies to last year’s total as well. The less-than-40 included no-name guys that won’t make the 53 like Cam Phillips and Lafayette Pitts. Their roster situation is massively different from last year at this time.

Nope. Last year they had $80M in cap space with less than 40 players under contract. This year, assuming a cap of $199M, they have almost $90M in cap space with an entire regular season roster (53) under contract. HUGE difference. Let me ask this: suppose instead of signing Morse at 11, Brown at 9, Beasley at 7, and Nsekhe at 6.5 (total of 33.5), they sign, say, Ngakoue at 18 and AJ Green at 15.5–same dollars; is one more “responsible” than the other? Why?

Oh now you all love Matt Judon. Where were y’all back in 2016?!?! For real though: imagine if we drafted all of Bandit’s draft crushes in 2016 when we had the chance. It could’ve looked like: Myles Jack Kamalei Correa Robby Anderson Geronimo Allison Matt Judon Elandon Roberts Ok, too many LBs, but they’d have been good LBs!

“Responsibly” doesn’t necessarily mean “inexpensively”. They gave a center with a concussion history $11M AAV last offseason; they’ll spend when they need to...and this year, they need to. I think folks are really underestimating the amount of cap space this team has. They could sign 3 different $15M/year guys and still have plenty of room for draft picks and in-season transactions. And with Star potentially coming off the books next year, they still would have $60M to spend on extensions for Tre/Milano/Dawkins. There is absolutely no reason to pinch pennies here.

Guessing that you didn’t see the 2013 draft then? ? Seriously though, OTs always get overdrafted due to need. Otherwise how do guys like Caleb McGary end up 1st round picks?

Appreciate the sentiment for sure. The Gaine-O’Brien power struggle was at least partially related to Clowney. I believe Gaine has a good relationship with him.

Just about everything here is wrong. They are a team with an inside track if anything—Gaine is the Houston GM that pushed for a Clowney extension and got fired over it. Yes, they have holes to fill on offense. Do both. They have a TON of cap space. How many games has he actually missed in the last 4 years?

Ruggs = fat and slow

You need to re-read my last post

I like Aiyuk a LOT. Not sure if he’s going to come away with a R1 grade from me, but I think he’s a great fit for Buffalo.

Definitely. At a minimum, WR1, premier EDGE rusher and RB1a should be addressed in FA. OL as well if Spain is allowed to walk since they’ll need either a LG (if Ford stays at RT) or a RT (if Ford moves to LG—I love Nsekhe but he’s 35 and banged up). I’d love to see a value signing at CB like Troy Hill or Trae Waynes if KJ doesn’t re-sign.

You are misremembering. Sammy grew up a Bills’ fan.

I think that the more pertinent point here is that it’s irresponsible for a team at the onset of their proverbial “window” to go into the draft in desperate need of anything, let alone something as critical to the development of their young QB as a bona fide WR1. Better get one in FA or via trade. Same with EDGE. You could also make an argument for OT and CB, though they’re nowhere near as desperate at those spots. Have to draft for future value; can’t pick based on need.

Let me put it this way: if he mocks someone to a team like Baltimore or NYG—where he’s got a connection to the GM—you can more or less take it to the bank.

Top 10 by what metric? And the answer is “it depends”...on what you ask? Many factors like pass attempts, YAC, PA pass attempts, air yards attempted vs YAC, etc

I’ll be shocked if he’s not one of the first 3 WRs off the board. To me, there’s a clear top 3 of Lamb/Jeudy/Ruggs. Not that the next tier isn’t quality—just those 3 are legit game-breakers. Reagor should be a round 1 guy. He’s got speed to burn and he competes like nobody. A guy without great size that just dominates contested catch situations.

Um, yes, what better indicator is there of a “pass happy” league than pass attempts? Also, it appears that you’re saying that it’s about efficiency and not going all pass-happy? Then I guess we’re in agreement.

It isn’t just his speed; he’s got tremendous hands and runs crisp routes. He’s a lot like Cooks was coming out of Oregon State, but (and this is scary) with another gear.

I have no idea how KC plans to stop that running attack. Maybe they get lucky and Coleman can’t go, which takes another speed back out of the rotation and leaves SF relying heavily on Mostert with Brieda/Wilson spelling him. Maybe Reggie Ragland ends up playing more snaps and Clark/Jones/Nnadi show that their more than just good pass rushers. Even if that happens, can KC pass protect against a SF front that’s 5 first-round picks deep and backed by 3 speedy LBs and a secondary that features Sherman/Ward/Tartt? That’s a darn tall order. To say that I’m a Mahomes guy is an all-time understatement; in fact I might be known as The Mahomes Guy ‘round these parts. But man, he’s going to have to be heroic to pull this off.

Oh really? Cherry picking huh? The best 2 teams in the NFL this season were Baltimore and SF. What do they have in common? Each lead their respective conference in rushing attempts. Moreover, if you look at the NFL landscape, you notice that 10 of the top 13 teams in total rushing attempts made the playoffs. The anomalies are the pass-happy teams; only 2 of the top 10 teams in pass attempts made the playoffs. What you believe to be a pass-happy league is merely an overreaction to the relative success of teams like KC and LAR. And even then, that overreaction ignores the fact that the Rams ranked 8th in rushing attempts in 2018. If you look at even the last 10 seasons, the teams that run the ball the most tend to make the playoffs quite reliably. Nobody said that a team doesn’t need a “strong QB” to win a Super Bowl. But you’re kidding yourself if you believe that pass-pass-pass is somehow the new model for sustained success. Though I suppose it’s possible that KC will pull a rabbit and beat SF throwing the ball all over the field...looking at the matchup, however, I doubt it.

Hmmm...if only we had one of his former offensive coaches that knew how to take advantage of such a situation and a QB that can run a no-huddle, up-tempo offense ?

Yes. Get me Green and Ruggs and watch Belichick ? himself trying to defend a quartet of those two plus Smoke and Beasley. Wanna go small and fast against me? Fine. I’ll put Hooper and Knox out there with Green and knock your block off. Wanna go big? Great. I’m lining up with Smoke, Ruggs, Beasley, and McKenzie.

I know Ozzie doesn’t run the show anymore, but he checks all the boxes of an Ozzie signing: young veteran, big play ability, stolen from a rival AFC contender, doesn’t count against the comp pick formula, can probably be had at below market value.

Who did that? It’s pretty obvious that Allen is the closest thing on this offense to a “key” that defenses need to stop. It’s also plainly obvious that that has to change in order to take a big step in scoring. Add AJ Green (even if he’s 80% of what he used to be), Austin Hooper, and Carlos Hyde to the skill positions and I’ll guarantee you that opposing DCs have to change their game plan.