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  1. 4 minutes ago, K-9 said:

    Interesting stat. Where can we find them for every QB in the league?

    Yeah, this.  It's a meaningless stat unless you compare to league averages.  I'm guessing there are QB's who haven't thrown a pass that's travelled 30 yards in the air over the last two years.  Maybe it also means that we shouldn't be trying to throw passes that travel 30 yards in the air.  Also, does this include Hail Marys?  What is the league average on completing Hail Marys?

  2. A mock I saw today had Bills trading down with Miami (to #13) so Miami could pick a QB.  Would you trade down with a division rival?  If you thought that the division rival was going to reach and pick a QB who isn't worth the #9 spot, I guess the answer is yes.  FYI, they had us picking Rashan Gary followed by the Falcons picking Oliver.  If we pick up a second, I could live with #13.

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  3. Not that it would have changed the team's destiny (not in a QB dominated league and we didn't have one then or for years after) but I always have wondered what would have happened to the team's fortunes if we had picked Ngata instead of Whitner.  The horrendousness of the Whitner pick manifested itself immediately because - in need of a big defensive tackle (hence why everyone but everyone assumed the first pick would be Ngata) - we moved back into the first round to pick (wait for it) John McCargo!!  Can you imagine if we had picked Ngata and then have been smart enough to move back into the first round to pick Nick Mangold?  Would have had rock solid foundations in the middle of the O-Line and the D-Line for the next decade.  Twas not to be, cheri.

  4. 1 hour ago, N.Y. Orangeman said:

    Your tank is impressive....beautiful.  It brings a tear to my eye.

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    I don't post in SabreSpace, so I have to take this opportunity to say, "Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you the WORST general manager in the history of Buffalo professional sports (including the Braves and the guy who decided to draft John Hummer instead of Calvin Murphy)!!

  5. Absolutely, it's a factor.  Maybe not a huge factor but certainly one.  How many times has NE advanced from a #3 or #4 seed to the Super Bowl?  They live or die on being the #1 or #2 seed.  If Houston doesn't lose to Philly this year, NE is #3 seed - no bye week for Brady, most likely two games on the road.  Do they make it to the Super Bowl?   Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a great team and Belichek is clearly the best head coach of all time, but being in a division with three weak sisters for 20 years (!) has certainly helped.

  6. Tasker was just tremendous in that game.  If Tasker is the third wide receiver in Super Bowl XXV instead of Al Edwards we win that game.  He could have been Welker or Edelman before Welker and Edelman.  Derek Holmes was fantastic as well.  Really thought he would be something special.  Thought the same thing about Karlos Williams.  Oh well.

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  7. All of the comments on the Chargers defensive game plan are spot on.  Don't play soft zone.  Play press man to man.  If Brady can beat you deep, so be it.  I agree that the game was over on the Pat's second TD.  The other interesting thing is that Bosa and Ingraham did nothing.  The passes were so quick they weren't going to get pressure on the edge.  Again, if you're going to hope to slow down NE offense, you have to get pressure up the middle. 

  8. Given all the revisionist history, I went back and looked at a couple of 2017 mock drafts.  Two had the Bills picking Lattimore and one had them picking Watson.  Mahones was #13 in two and #15 in one.  If the Bills had stayed put and drafted Lattimore and Mahones had been picked #11 or #12, would this board feel better or worse?  Instead of Lattimore, we ended up with a player at the same position with basically same upside plus a first round pick.  Pretty good right?  I think what this shows is how perfectly KC played this.  They spotted a QB they really liked, knew where he would likely go in the draft, made a move up 17(!) spots to get him and only gave up a future first, had the luxury of letting him sit a year and surrounded him with offensive talent.  Hope somebody can say the same about Allen in a year or two.

  9. 2 minutes ago, Maine-iac said:

    Kelsay in particular everyone seemed to like but the guy couldn't set the edge, he couldn't pass rush, and they paid him like he was great.  Him and Denny both were the picture of mediocre and the stuck around for years.

    At least he was a half-way respectable DE.  Remember when they tried to turn him into a 3-4 OLB?  Hilariously bad.

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