Bleeding Bills Blue

GB has been doing this with jones and dillon. Its one of the few things that tends to work for them too. He had a nice camp before the foot injury.

The steelers always just throw tons of crap to the sidelines. Stop the run, tackle and watch them punt or screw up on 3rd and long.

They traded for Diggs 2020. Drafted Davis and Hodgins in 2020. Drafted Stevenson 2021. Drafted Shakir 2022. They've used picks on a WR every year for the last 3 years. How is that 0 attention? You get 1 first round pick every year and most of the time buffalo will be picking after pick 25 - the best WRs will be gone by then. They let go of Beasley because he wasn't effective anymore, especially at the price point. I can see arguments around offensive line - especially the basham pick being a bit of a luxury pick. Cook was brought in as they wanted a pass catching back with speed. He has been here 4 games and everyone has already written him off.

I'd probably go with 2nd round. In 2022 this was an extra 1.5M in cap space vs original round, that shouldn't be too hard to find and keeps us deep at an important position.

It does not matter who the back is - teams stack the line and they push our linemen back. Wasn't our last offensive play this week a QB sneak? The problem on 4th and 1 is a drop is a turnover. So passing is always a bit riskier. I don't have faith in the offensive lines ability to run block literally any type of run call. Seems like crack tosses have worked, and some pin and pull type of stuff. But thats not usualy what you want to do when you need a yard. Add jet motion, hand some balls to mckenzie going laterally and get them questioning it so they aren't just pushing our guys back. Add a hard count.

What i was trying to say is - we wanted to make a move at WR and it didn't happen in FA because of cap space and it didn't happen in the draft because of where we picked in each round. They missed on kirk, ended up with crowder. Missed on Mckissic, ended up with Duke and selected Cook. Deebo did have an amazing play, and is generally an amazing player. So is Diggs. So i'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

The offensive line is bad at run blocking - at least so far. I don't know how you can have watched the first 4 games and think anything other than this.

They attempted to get kirk - were priced out. I'm certain they were lookin at WR in 1 and 2, but they flew off the board. Shakir is a solid consolation prize. Davis is in year 3, and was slated to become #2. crowder and mckenzie were to upgrade the beasley snaps/targets, but also adding cook was supposed to add an element that was missing. They have just been using singletary to accomplish it so far, but they wanted to get the backs more involved in the passing game. He's probably injured again.

There's some real cap savings next year - this year you would save like 800K which gets you... i dunno another Moss. I'm disappointed with the run game in general, but he makes a play and were to take it out of his yardage total?

The Giants should have drafted at least 3 more QBs just in case this happened.

He ran a 4.61. He's slow but yeesh thats some disrespect - he's also on the PS for a reason (and its not his hands, which are very good). This isn't a multi-year contract commitment, its dressing for a game or two and maybe playing a few snaps.

This is the truth. When dotson and burks were both gone and williams went far earlier than expected despite likely redshirting this year, it wasn't in the cards. In the 2nd my only wish is we had just gone with offensive line help in the interior. Seeing Doubs succeed with Rodgers makes me hopeful in a way - but at the same time they aren't a very good passing team right now. He's getting more playing time with Watkins out, Watson struggling, and making the most of it too. Hopefully Shakir can do the same as he eases into the offense replacing crowder.

When did Henne win a game with Mahomes out? The playoff game? He had the ball for 3 possessions and they scored 3 points - they were in FG range when he came in btw and he threw a pick. I guess the 4th down play was pretty ballsy with a backup QB but lets not act like the offense was some unstoppable juggernaut with Henne in. 13 WRs taken before cook - and 6 taken before our 1st round pick. We would have been able to get Christian watson in the first, or maybe Pickens? In the 2nd we would have had the choice of these guys: Velus Jones Jr. Jalen Tolbert David Bell Danny Gray Erik Ezukanma Romeo Doubs Calvin Austin Khalil Shakir I suppose we could have moved up in the 2nd - but Skyy Moore is sort of a slot WR anyway and similar to Shakir. Same with Metchie. Tyquan thornton has burner speed but he can't see the field in NE so i can't imagine much of a contribution with buffalo.

I question coverage stats - a LOT. The advanced defense numbers say poyer has allowed 4 completions on 5 targets with a TD for 80% comp% and a 101.7 rating allowed. Yet he somehow has 4 interceptions?

I honestly could see benford moving to safety down the line, or they need to move Dane Jackson (RFA so in line for a raise/offer sheet). It's likely to keep him on the field more as both of our safeties are in their 30s and on the end of contracts. Poyer has no contract for next year (neither does johnson for that matter) and Hyde's on his final year of his deal. Benford's not "too slow" to play cornerback - but he's a good tackler, knows how to make plays on the ball in zone, and has the size to play there. I think Jacksons possibly a little too small for that switch, and elam was brought in with excellent speed to improve our ability to play more man coverage.

Any time passes are deflected its sort of hard to react, and it seemed to get deflected just past his hands instead of into him for whatever reason. He had a clutch catch in the 4th quarter so... i think we can forgive him 🙂

I assume they IR crowder today and make some kind of roster move - we already needed to make room for Tre. Stevenson on IR probably means he's next man up to active roster.

Can we not confuse fantasy stats with real life? The "already has 15 receptions and 27 targets" is not a good stat for actual football. It's good for fantasy though - he gets targets meaning PPR. However, he's a running back securing 55% of targets, where 90% of them occur at the LOS. He has 5 recorded drops in 4 games, and also lost a fumble. Let's not act like we wouldn't be frustrated as hell with all of that. I'm sure he's played fine - just not sure he is the answer to all that ails this team.

I'm not trading for Beasley. He was drama when he was here a year ago, and he wasn't even good. I'd rather just role with shakir and mckenzie in the slot. Add Hodgins for a week or two as boundary depth if kumerow can't go.

We're banged up - but thats why you have practice squad players. Davis Kumerow and McKenzie will all play this season - we don't need to trade picks for players at this point. Stevenson is eligible to come back at some point which adds a vertical element that the offense doesn't have, and they have hodgins and austin on the PS if needed at any point. One guy is gone for the year at this point - and he was probably our least productive one so far.

Result was never in doubt - I got drunk and watched the Mighty ducks on saturday night. Never say die.

I think the difference with a vet like Tre is when he reads the play and gets the turnover. The stars see things on film everyone else does, and know how to freelance correctly to make a big play. You want flexibility to play man and blitz at times as well.

I'd say its a symptom of our issues along the interior offensive line. Saffold hasn't been good. Morse isn't a good run blocker. Bates hasn't been good, and isn't a good run blocker. Inside zone is not hard to do out of any formation for a back - its either follow, cut, bounce. That is it. I'm not seeing the backs doing the wrong thing here. I'm seeing them never even get to plant their foot in the grass to make a decision.

Kumerow is fine - he has pretty good hands, is huge, pretty athletic and is a good blocker. Find a team who's #6 WR is a polished dynamic superstar... One is probably a PS add - I'm curious who they add to the actual 53 when they IR crowder.

When is Stevenson potentially back?