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You really need to have a draft process and stick to it if you want to be consistently good in the draft.......but hey, 1/4 of the league turns over it's staff/schemes every year.........so drafting for need and making exceptions are common mistakes..........which is why very few teams are anything more than average at drafting. I wouldn't take a RB in round 1 ever for reasons already mentioned but regarding him being an "exception"........Robinson lacks the HR speed of Saquon Barkley.........who would run a 4.3-4.35 on the new Indy surface.......so they aren't really comps, IMO. Doesn't mean he can't be great........Arian Foster had a similar style and was a 4.68 speed then (about 4.6 by on todays tracks most likely) and averaged over 1400 yards rushing in a 3 year stretch as the best RB in the NFL at the time. But Arian Foster was undrafted. It's just not that hard to find RB production.

Thanks chongli........I added this list to the OP...........If people want to start separate threads for individual lists that is fine with me I am just trying to create a good one stop for the links on UFA at least. If other people find them just add and I will put in the OP when I see them.

It works both ways. It's money that could have been used elsewhere..........but at the same time the funds were contested and won in court. Just saying it's $1B all coming from taxpayers has the OBVIOUS inference that it's coming directly out of taxpayer's pockets. Which it is NOT. It's coming from a general fund and a significant portion of which was sourced from Indian land owned casino profits.

The Athletic top 150 free agents: https://theathletic.com/4242104/2023/02/27/nfl-free-agent-rankings-list/

I was with you until the part about taxpayers kicking in $1B............$800K of that is diverted from casino tax that was won in court. Not that rich casino owners aren't taxpayers but the taxpayers you mean already spent that money on entertainment.

That his reconstructed knee hurts? That maybe 800 touches in just 3 seasons in college took a toll? The 2022 Jets finished 7-10. Since the Steelers repeated as SB champs in 1979-1980 only the 1983 Raiders(Marcus Allen), Emmitt Smith Cowboys and 2000 Ravens(Jamal Lewis) have won SB's with a RB they selected in round 1 playing a starring role for them that season. So yeah, drafting them in round 1 has been ridiculously ill advised since the rules changes of 2010............and obviously bad business for multiple decades now.........the track record extends all the way back to the early 80's. Your thinking is about 5 decades past it's expiration date.

The more important question is does it give the team the best chance to go into the 2030's and 2040's with a facility that helps them be as competitive as possible.........on the field and financially. Personally, I think the in-facility spending by fans will eventually surpass the cost of entry..........and getting people off of their wallets when they are out in the heat of late summer or the inclement weather of fall/winter is not going to be as easy as it is for teams with controlled environments. This stadium in Buffalo might be the last new "uncovered" stadium built for the NFL.

Mavs blow a 27 point lead at home. Only one win with both Luka and Kyrie Irving on court together since they traded for that screwball. The fomerly banished Ryan L Bilz who now goes by that screen name with the bald headed John Malkovich in the red track suit as his avatar........he's gotta' be sick about that trade. 😂

The Titans actually did a pretty good job at times using Henry in the RPO this year...........but yeah, he's proven to be best lined up deep behind a QB who is under center and that traditional play action allows him to get 2-3 steps going downhill. Top QB's nowadays want to be in the shotgun. Playing under center all the time is for try hard system QB's.

Terrel Buckley for Orlando might be the first XFL coach fired in-season. 😂 It's hilarious listening to the sideline interactions.

Like I said........he's a hard read. But if you do want to be in SB contention and play with one of the top 3 QB's in the league.........your options are very limited. If you want to expand that field with top QB's but with bad defense's, losing culture's or run-first offense's.........that opens up the field. My guess is he re-signs for 5 years with Tampa before UFA so they can get his cap figure down and he goes back to winning 6-7 games per season over the next 3 years.......like pre-Brady.......and calls it a career as a Buc.

Volpe lead the way in 9-5 win at Blue Jays today. Also won 7-0 versus Braves in the other game. Also........the Blue Jays broadcast seemed super pervy........is this a normal thing with Blue Jays broadcasts?

It's a disadvantage in UFA but I think it's easier to get a team focused on football in a market with less distractions. As a born and raised Miami Hurricanes fan I can tell you that football and paradise aren't great natural fits for a variety of reasons.

I'd say if he doesn't get a new contract before UFA opens in a few weeks..........that would be a red flag about his desire to play a lot longer. 29 year old 1,000 yard receivers don't go into walk years anymore. They know their value. The Bucs are in a massive salary crunch between the debt and the free agent talent............it should be a no brainer to extend him for 5 more years and push that debt down the road.

Better question is why trade something for a top RB when there are about 20 starting RB's in UFA this year. A first round pick on a RB is just foolishness. That's a chip that should be targeted to become a $20M-$30M aav value player in year 3........players at positions who rarely make it to UFA and when they do, cap strapped teams can't afford. RB's are cheap, easy to replace product. The "best player on the board" justification is nonsense. If there is a perceived future HOF kicker or punter available you still don't use a first round pick on them..........and largely for the same reason..........because smarter teams will pick very good one's late in the draft when there aren't those valuable edge/island players available and beat you in the personnel game. People look at Pacheco like the Chiefs got early round value........in reality they just got RB value..........which is always day 3. Bills weren't positioned to make a steal like that because they already shot their shot with James Cook in round 2 and had 2 other 3rd rounders on the roster already. Yes, the RB's that are picked earlier tend to have better individual careers......for various reasons.........but the teams that pick them early fair poorer for doing it.

Last game aside..........I suspect McDermott was MUCH happier working with Dorsey in 2022 than the wicky-wacky version of Daboll in 2021. It was a more consistently productive offense despite having both a less talented OL and WR corps. The Bills didn't lose any 9-6 games against the worst team in the NFL this time around and won 13 of 16 as opposed to 11 of 17.

I'm more leery of last years combine numbers than anything prior. The NFL clearly wants the combine to be must see TV and having pro day numbers be better than combine numbers was bad for participation. So they went to a new fast track surface for the 40 and it wouldn't surprise me if they changed some of the ways they measured/recorded things to produce better numbers. I'm not saying it's necessarily a 39.5 yard dash now but let's face it.......results that look large in testing can be evened out with a fraction of a second slower start by the auto timer.........and a vertical leap can be altered by the launch surface etc.. Any tricks used at pro days will get used by the NFL going forward. There is no financial disadvantage for teams to fudge numbers and make players look more amazing to the viewers.

I don't know about that. He is a different dude. I suspect if he got traded he'd want to see how the season went before he committed to an area. I'm not sure playing with a great QB is even a priority for him. He's not a diva but I watched a lot of his games this year and he seemed disinterested at times despite having Tom Brady throwing passes to him. I wouldn't be surprised if he put up another 1,000 yards somewhere but then just retired after next season.

And while Daryl Williams was just average when moved to RG in 2021..........he was way better than Saffold was at LG in 2022..........and they cut Williams and paid all of the cap savings to Saffold who was then one of the worst performing starting OL in the entire league in 2022. Yeah, Williams overall cap figure was too high but the savings wasn't worth cutting him for RS and moving Bates off of LG.

Some came around.........and others who vehemently denied the need, like eball and Logic, just totally left or avoid the subject altogether now. We really didn't start hearing the pundits saying the Bills weapons weren't very good until midseason this year.

Tortoise with a HR and 2B in first two at bats. Link to the daily live box score for the team and it's affiliates below and at top of OP' https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/affiliates?teamId=147

Yep. There are a lot of people on this board who think Creed Humphrey was a brilliant pick...........I actually think it was sort of an admission by the Chiefs that they didn't think there were many second round values so they took a sure thing at a position they don't really value. The center position has never been easier to play with all these wide set defensive fronts and teams being terrified to blitz. 350# NT's are barely a thing anymore and Humphrey could play with one thumb up hisass on most passing downs and not even have the opportunity to miss a block. I can't see them paying him the All Pro rate to block occasionally on passing downs. But someone will. And the Chiefs will probably plug in a 5th rounder or something and it won't look like a problem unless the LT and G's aren't good.

I agree that they certainly won't take a second or third round center with 2 years left on his deal.......but do you think they are going to pay Humphrey the $20M going rate after the 2024 season?

Yeah I've used the Erik Pears example.........similar 6'8" or so frame.........not very good but a durable player at RT.......but Bills had some other young players(I think Seantrel, Kujo and Hairston) that they wanted to try at RT........so they moved him inside and he was brutal. I think the expectations people have for RT's are very odd. There are only a handful of very good ones. Unless they are basically a LT playing out of position like Lane Johnson they usually don't get extended. Teams with bad RT's can still have good OL's. So why do some people think that it makes sense to use a first round pick on one?

I think center is the least of the worries with Bates in place to succeed Morse when the time comes.........but RT is probably the second least. I figured they would only get about 7 years out of Dawkins at LT because he is such a sloppy bodied player........and they will be lucky to get that one more season out of him. The guard spots are more important than RT and both are in flux..........hopefully they sign a good guard, get a new LT prospect in round 1 and Dawkins can be moved inside and Brown does what all the free agent RT's on the market did(evolve from terrible to solid).