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Carter was an alcoholic. Quitting the booze was the key to turning his career around, not trying harder. I haven't heard anything like that about Claypool. I think apathy is his issue.

The NFL is a matchup league. A well designed offense helps but if you don't have matchup winners NFL DC's will figure out very quickly how to force you to play to your weaknesses.

The Bills haven't started a season with a wide receiving corps without one player who had produced at least a 900 yard season once in their career since the 1980's. And that didn't end well despite having a 27 year old Jim Kelly at QB..........and was also an era when the run game was more important than the pass game. You could envision getting by with less at WR then than you can now. But the Bills are back there. Nobody that's proven that they are more than a complementary piece in an NFL WR corps. Additionally, the bar has been raised. There has been a huge influx of WR talent in the drafts over the past 5-6. The Bills don't match up well to other contending WR corps.

IMO..........the last great, violent NFL game. https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/340119026/49ers-seahawks The rules had drastically changed 4 years earlier and the old-school games became gradually fewer and far between until this one closed the era. This game brought great satisfaction to watch.

Oh I'm in for $36. We gonna' have to get a TBD NIL collective together to help Beane. Where's that Seminole guy that posts all the draft stuff? I think he's part of the collective at Food Stamp U that got Keon to go there maybe he can give us some tips. I nominate @HOUSE as treasurer.

Oh Sh!t! @Kirby Jackson going Leonard Smith on these plan B free agents.

Josh Gordon is still available! Let's f'ing go Beane! https://www.si.com/fannation/ufl/news/seattle-sea-dragons-nfl-josh-gordon-not-join-ufl-rumors

Anyone know if Dawuane is any relation to Capn' Fred Smoot of the Minnesota Vikings sex boat? She was a fine vessel.

Yeah I got your point but the context is that Allen has actually already been down this particular road before. The only thing we can say is "well, he was a rookie then". But still, it's not new territory for this regime. They've just come full circle back to 2017 with this corps. It's definitely a bottom 10 group on paper and that might be being generous. The concept that the Chiefs have shown and proved that you don't need quality is flawed by the fact that they've been trying hard to not let their WR corps diminish. They've picked a WR in the 1st or 2nd round each of the past 3 drafts and traded day 2 capital for Toney as well. They've been trying hard to be better. It wasn't their strategy.

Actually in Allen's rookie season his top three targeted wide receivers were between 6'2" and 6'5". And the other targets included that 6'4" stiff Andre Holmes and of course Charles Clay. Lil' Dummy McKenzie was the only smurf and he got like 30 targets. That strategy began in 2017 signing Holmes, trading for 6'3" Jordan Matthews and 6.5" Kelvin Benjamin. It proved to be disastrous to their passing attack so they pivoted in 2019 and 2020 to smaller, quicker receivers. Beane lamented the error of their ways trying to build around big catch radius guys instead of guys who got open.

I do wonder if his basketball experience actually has anything to do with his lack of separation on routes. Basketball is largely played in close quarters and plays made against contested defense get a lot more "likes" from observers. It's not even close. I would often slow down on a breakaway to make the defender try hard and look personally defeated at the basket. It's part of the fun of that game. I can't relate to "posterizing" an opponent but uncontested dunks aren't sh!t compared to dunking ON an opponent. Even if the reality is that the opponent was totally out-leveraged and was just compelled to go thru the motion of attempting to stop the play.

Kaiir was all that initially too. https://www.buffalobills.com/video/exclusive-behind-the-scenes-look-at-kaiir-elam-s-first-day-with-the-buffalo-bill

See......like I said.........I knew you were trending in the right direction. The truth will set you free. The funny thing about that last period where the Bills started a season with nobody in the WR corps who had proven at any point that they could produce 900-1,000 yards in the NFL is that at that time they had a player in Chris Burkett who had lead the entire NFL in yards per reception with a ridiculous 22.99 and had put up over 700 yards in the process in JK's first Bills season in 1986. It was presumed Burkett was going to just become a force. Strong parallel to the Shakir situation. Burkett's game didn't scale up to more usage/attention. It happens a lot. The Bills passing offense took a step back and didn't really take off until 3 years later. The game was very different then. It's different than it was 5 years ago in that WR corps around the league are MUCH deeper. The Diggs/Beasley/Brown/Davis 2020 room that was for sure top 3 in the league wouldn't rank anywhere near that high now. Teams are trying to stack 3 WR1's if they can.

Yeah I could see him getting 135 carries. Not sure you can roll back that odometer though. 850 touches is a sh!t-ton for a rookie NFL RB to enter the NFL with today. I've just always been skeptical of the high mileage picks and in recent years Etienne and Hall immediately blew knees out after toting the rock a ton during the season and then competing in the draft process all offseason.

Yeah Cook is just so-so as a decision maker after the handoff. It's hit and miss. That's instinct to me but also a function of intelligence/preparedness. He's not CJ Spiller level unprepared.......CJ appeared to just make a random decision where to run the ball at the handoff rather than know the play call, read the defense and know ahead of time where the hole should be. He was a complete dunce. Fred Jackson was the opposite and that made him a decisive runner. Cook's game is speed/quickness and not a lot else. Lousy in pass pro too.

I highly doubt this is the way he will be beating Sauce Gardner.........if he ever does. Sauce is a leaper, has a longer frame and is much quicker/faster than Keon. He will have to out physical a guy like Gardner. I like the Davante Adams comp as a ceiling for Coleman but there is a lot of nuance to attain to get to that point.

Yeah these 1st rounders are usually engaging/endearing with their attitude when they arrive. But as they fail to reach expectations they talk to the media less and blend back into the woodwork. Oliver, Rousseau, Elam.........people were gushing about these guys. Ed started getting chatty again once his play improved and he got extended. Hopefully Rousseau and Elam break out this year and get back to being those engaging personalities with feel-good stories they were right after the draft.

That's not really the case.......Gabe Davis was one of the league's most effective deep threats since he came into the league. His air yards per target and yards per catch were massive and it lead to impressive TD stats. He just didn't offer anything else so defense's adjusted and the Bills gradually got diminishing returns from his role in the passing game.

I can't see that happening. I can see a team putting a good CB on him and calling it a win. That shuts down most TE's if teams are so unthreatened by your WR that they can afford to do that. First time I really saw it was Wade putting Antoine Winfield on Tony Gonzales and shutting him down. The tactic basically ruined Jimmy Grahams career when he went to Seattle and all they had were guys like Baldwin and Kearse outside. Kelce was a real exception as a guy who isn't very impactful inline but still tears up whoever he gets in coverage. Not sure Kincaid is going to become as much of a physical presence as Kelce. He's pretty finesse.

The Bills appear to be holding their breath that this is the case. Hopefully they are bluffing and acquire DK Metcalf in June and we can stop this KJ Hamler/Andy Isabella nonsense.

Beane is gradually getting better at not wasting draft capital on RB's. Hopefully next time it will be a 5th rounder, then the next a 6th etc.. I think Davis is more than capable of being good in a Josh Allen offense that leaves defense's susceptible to the run. Wouldn't be a stretch for him to be better than James Cook whose instincts, toughness and hands leave a lot to be desired. But generally speaking these guys like Davis with 700-800 touches already coming into the league tend to be due for injury problems due to wear and tear. See Breece Hall and Etienne for higher profile recent picks who immediately blew a tire after heavy-use NCAAF careers.

Yeah the upside is that he's built for playoff football (like Rashee Rice) and is young and athletic so he has a lot of room to improve. The downside is that he is raw as hell and not exceptionally fast. I heard a Davante Adams comp to Coleman a while back...........and that kinda' resonated with me. Adams isn't really fast but is a tremendously smooth, physical athlete with great hands and leaping ability like Coleman. Adams really struggled his first 2 seasons.......despite immense success in college and playing with an All Pro QB in Aaron Rodgers. Wouldn't surprise me if it took Coleman a few years to translate his skills into being able to get open at the NFL level. I could easily see him having a longer career and play better than a number of the guys drafted before him but I could also see him looking like a bust compared to them early on. And that's the tough part.........they need him to perform NOW. Hopefully Brady can unlock him early in his career. Maybe play mostly condensed sets like the Rams did with Nacua last year so the X is basically almost a slot receiver. Manufacture some easy-open throws and RAC yards etc.. If they just line him up outside and hope he wins I expect it could be a long wait for that to happen.

A player who sucks and is always injured once the pads come on.........tends to continue to suck and be always injured once the pads come on.