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I don't think it's as "in the middle" as you think. He didn't actually take a step up in year 2.........any inroads he made due to experience were offset by the tentativeness that set in and the lack of plays made. The guy simply doesn't make plays. You can't deny it. Amazing stat: Tremaine Edmunds hasn't forced or recovered a single fumble in his last 41 regular season games! And it's not like he raises his game in the playoffs.........which might indicate untapped potential.........he's actually a worse player in big games.

MLB and NBA are still very relevant to the majority of sports fans.........the numbers and tv $ back it up. (Hockey is mostly irrevelevant though) Basketball is the world's #2 sport and organized youth baseball participation has grown exponentially over the last decade so the narrative that the fanbases of those sports are dying is not correct. But nobody in the US can match up to football.........it's king for viewership...........they just don't play enough games to marginalize baseball and hoops. The only thing people watch "live" on TV anymore is sports and you can tune into your favorite MLB team every night for 6 months and every other night in the case of hoops.

It's a story of greed. When they were bringing in $320M with a payroll of $240M back in 2004 the profits were great.............fast forward to 2019 and the revenue is $900M and the payroll was closer to $200M. The profit margin got insane and it magnified the greed and lessened the need to win. They will likely end up over .500 for the 29th straight season but Hal Steinbrenner needs an attitude correction. I was glad the woeful Mets actually got a competitive owner..........maybe Hal will feel some pressure to perform going forward.

Marv wasn't a chain smoker and his wife didn't adopt the native cat eye look(plus 10 pounds of other makeup)........so the people of 1970's Montreal never really accepted him as one of their own. He outlasted them. Congrats Marv!

First of all........his evaluation has nothing to do with Mahomes......his critics cited the same issues for 3 seasons now.......well before the Chiefs games. What does he do that is "special"? I don't want to invoke the old London Fletcher "all he does is tackle guys 10 yards downfield" mantra but the only thing Edmunds is really good at is tackling ball carriers from the side........which is often to say "after" the offensive play call has at least achieved it's minimum desired result. He simply doesn't make plays. Last season he had 0 interceptions, 3 passes defensed and 4 TFL. That is woeful. He hasn't even forced or recovered a fumble since his rookie year! If he were in the NFC he wouldn't be sniffing a pro bowl and without those nods he would be under a lot more scrutiny for not making plays.

They are but they wouldn't have to exercise a franchise tag until next offseason.........giving them another full year to evaluate him for at most a couple million more. The 5th year option becomes fully guaranteed on May 3 of this year. 5th year options used to be only guaranteed for injury when first picked up...........you could cut that player if they had a bad year 4 but were healthy........now you are stuck with them. Having a $11M-$12M fully guaranteed 2022 salary also doesn't help you sign him to a reasonable long term deal if he doesn't play lights out next year. Let's say you want to sign him for 3 years and $30M with $15M gtd.........he already HAS almost that much gtd in just 1 year. Better off dangling the carrot, IMO..........then if he continues to be just a modest producer and they still want to keep him they aren't competing against their own 5th year option #.

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It would be a mistake to pick it up. The franchise tag is only like $2M more and then you don't have the full guarantee permanently fixed on your cap in the event that he suffers an injury and misses the 2023 season altogether.

I loved the pick. Hated him being moved to MLB. I'm not swayed by the fact that he gets 100+ tackles. "Pedestrian Preston" Brown lead the NFL in tackles as the MLB in McD's defense in 2017. The system provides a lot of opportunity.......which makes Edmunds' modest production after 6 years as a college and pro LB rather discouraging.

He turns 23 soon after the draft. I remember when Houston selected 19 year old DT Amobi Okoye in 2007 and he put up 5.5 sacks as a rookie...........a record for 20 year and younger DT's! He started for 4 years.......signed with Chicago as a free agent and flamed out at 24. The common thread with Edmunds is that his best year as a playmaker was his rookie year.......and that he just leveled off and was adequate(and young) but didn't improve. The AFC is pretty weak at MLB........which helps Edmunds with the pro bowl nods.........but even so, Edmunds is still graded on a curve with the assumption that there is a lot more there as a MLB. If he had been a 3rd round pick at age 21-22 like a Preston Brown, they'd be looking for an upgrade on Edmunds because he's not been instinctive and doesn't make game changing plays at MLB.

True. The reason why these sports league's keep getting crazy money is because people actually still watch sports live..........and therefore actually watch the commercials........so it's still a good investment for advertisers.

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There are a lot of counterfeit football players in this draft............you can tell a mediocre draft by the amount of bad tape/low producing guys with big track times and measurements that are getting mocked in the first two rounds. Marshall isn't one of those guys. He may end up between good and great.........but he's a high floor and high ceiling player who would give the Bills another dimension in the pass game. X, Y, Z........he can play them all........he has the size and real, legit speed.......and he's a physical blocker. @DCOrange mentioned Toney perhaps replacing Beasley.........as Allen matures they may decide they want to go big slot.......call it 11.5 personnel.

A list made by combining a bunch of arbitrarily selected measurements. His tape is just not good.

Nobody wants to pay him $8M.........and he has no leverage to get an extension coming off a bad season......nor does he have incentive to lower his cap #.

Eichenberg is a good enough technician to excel at LG and bump out to LT and be good immediately if needed, IMO. I also think Feliciano is a solid center. In the power game he was absolutely better than Morse. Ryan Bates is a decent, full sized C prospect that they've been cultivating for some time now as well. I would never use a first round pick on someone who projects long term as an interior OL. A simple rule to follow is if you take that player...........and they play up to first round expectations..........can you easily justify giving them a second contract? This is why you tend to see All Pro quality interior lineman hit free agency but that is almost never the case with the key positions..........QB/PassRush/LT/WR1/CB1........when they do they are usually replete with red flags. I've seen the "just use the 1st round pick on a RB and use him up and let him walk in 4-5 years" takes and I am sure some will use the same logic with inside OL..........but that's not a good way to approach it, IMO. Needs change FAST. Dawkins could blow out a knee........we could find out that Tre White has had stingers because he has a narrowing of the spine and has to retire........you just don't know.........so IMO you should use that first rounder(and preferably the second as well) on key, big money positions that are hard to fill..........and let the scouts do what they are paid for and find you interior OL and RB's and off-ball LB's etc.. on day 3.

I look at something like this the same way I looked at the Buffalo Sabres having a top ranked farm system in the mid-2010's. The easiest time to look like you are making hay in the NFL is when you have a QB on a rookie contract and lot's of money and tons of starting jobs to hand out to your draft picks.............just as it's easy to have a great looking farm system in the NHL when you are picking in the lottery year after year. The measure of a front office is winning big on your QB's rookie deal and THEN continuing to excel when your payroll gets bloated and you don't have the margin for personnel errors any longer. That's why the gold standard organizations are like New England, Pittsburgh, and more recently, KC in the AFC..........they all cashed in during the easiest part of the deal and won SB's with QB's on their rookie deal........but they also won before and after that. If the measure of a front office is only 3-4 years of work and doesn't require titles and is just being efficient with personnel decisions, building a loaded roster and remaining cap flexible so you can sustain it..........then maybe the Colts would rank #1. They have a loaded roster and still tons of cap space going forward.

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The first time Edelman was an unrestricted free agent in 2013 the Bills were absolutely receiver desperate and Edelman was just floating out there to be had.......all the guy needed were snaps. He was blocked by Welker for 4 years......who was putting up 110 catches and 1300 yards per year.........I couldn't believe the Bills wouldn't take a flyer on him. The Pats moved on from Welker......played it cool and got Edelman back for 1 year and $700K. He broke out with Welker gone.......and tormented the Bills for years.........glad he is finally gone.

Yeah perhaps better stated is that you can only control certain things. In order of easiest to control: 1) Your mindset and or strategy 2) Your calls 3) Your execution I thought that the Bills mindset changed in the second half.........that's the most controllable aspect of all variables.........hence why I put it as the key factor. You can't control officiating. You can influence it for or against you.......Ford influenced it against him with the unnecessary aspects of his block. But people who don't accept that you can't control officiating and let go of the need to feel otherwise are doomed to be irrationally outraged and miserable. When you don't get the benefit of a call or 3 you still have a whopping 140-160 other plays that you can control.

I get that Paye is much more in the Charles Johnson/Mario Addison range as an athlete......... and that worked for a long time in the McDefense.......and I've seen the Shaq Lawson comparisons and I think he has more pass rush potential than Shaq......but I think the Greg Hardy physical type was actually the ideal, they just couldn't find another after he blew up his career.

1) Possibly, yes. There is no reason to think that the Texans wouldn't have put up 24 second half points if they needed to. O'Brien actually coached the Bills back into the game at the end. 2) The penalty on Ford was legit......it had been called that way all season in 2019. It was an unnecessary, dumb play by a player who had been prone to mental mistakes that season. Saying something is "a reason" but not "the reason" is trying to have it both ways. EVERY play and coaching decision is a FACTOR in deciding the outcome of a close game. The Bills made a lot more bad plays/decisions than the officials. They played a terrible half of football. And it's a statistical fact that the home team gets more calls. It wasn't unique to this matchup. The Bills weren't the home team because they didn't take care of business in their two games against a very vulnerable Patriots team. Honestly, I thought we as a fanbase should have learned the lessons from 2019. The Bills didn't play well enough that day, or that season, to earn the win in Houston. Play to win not just to get a lead and hang on.......win your division or expect to have to be significantly better than your opponents in the playoffs. The Bills benefitted greatly from being more consistently aggressive in second halves in the second half of 2020.........and they reaped the benefits in the playoffs when they actually won their WC round game this year against a team that outplayed them.

Farley would be great if his back checks out. I think Paye lacks the length and stride of an elite edge rusher...........he fancies himself as a Myles Garrett type but his arms are like 2.5" shorter.........and I don't see the feet of a more productive short, stocky rusher like Carl Lawson either. Also I do have some concern that we haven't seen many(any?) of these African born lineman really become great yet. If he had all of the measurables and production it wouldn't matter but when you are trying to rationalize going against what you see on the stat sheet and the tape in favor of some other athletic measures........ I do wonder about the importance of growing up feeling that football was important and having community pressure to succeed in players pushing themselves to greatness in the pros.

The Bills blew a 16 point lead and lost the game because they lost their urgency on offense in the second half. Not because of officiating. They had the Texans on their heels but once Houston realized they didn't have to worry about the Bills scoring again and had plenty of time to run the ball at the Bills soft interior DL the Bills were in trouble. I was actually surprised they managed to keep the score tied in regulation as poorly as they played. They played a similar style early this past season until it cost them the Arizona game...........after that they stopped taking their foot off the pedal and were rewarded for their aggression.