Bleeding Bills Blue

Evans is 3rd all time in catches and yards - maybe stevie over him i guess? Cowart over Talley is strange. Gimme Fred Jackson over McGahee.

More football? 6 game weekend of playoff games...? YES PLEASE!

Yeah in a condensed goal line situation sure, but when you have the end zone the field gets shorter in general and you see more condensed zone stuff. Giving Singletary space to operate he may only have to beat one guy, and hes pretty good at beating one guy. I also hate rushing directly into a heavy defense. Gimme mckenzie in motion and zone read with allen and singletary. Make the LBs and Safeties think.

Not going to be easy - gotta win at least 4 in the East. None of them are particular cupcake games - although i do think gase stinks as a coach. 3 home games of LA, LA and Seattle traveling cross country. They need to win 2 of those. And 3 of Pitt, Arizona, Denver, LV, Tenn. I like the idea of our fans traveling well to Vegas the most of our away games. 4 away games in zona, vegas, denver, SF - brutal slate. That would get them to 9 - with assumed losses to SF and KC. I don't think its particularly far-fetched to get to 9. If Allen progresses and improves - my prediction would be 10 wins. 4 wins in division - Home wins over LAC, LAR, Pitt. Away wins over Denver, LV, Tennessee. Assuming its even a full season.

Crazy that less than 2 years ago - they just outright dumped KB and Holmes midseason and just played foster and mckenzie. And since then we now have 3 WRs starting ahead of them both, and the leading receiver Jones is gone too. Just massive upgrades at WR in 2 offseasons.

Basically anyone with a medical concern coming in or out of the combine is a huge question. Not getting to host workouts isn't great either. That's where you get some significant time to get to know a player, see what they do on a whiteboard, watch film, in addition to your doctor's checking them out. I feel like that helps move players up or down your board a bit.

I'm sure players will get drafted there, and I'm sure most will be good. It's a position with a very low bust potential. However I think the difference between a "superstar" running back and a good one is a small margin. The best rushing attack in the NFL (that didn't have lamar jackson) had Mostert, Breida, and Tevin Coleman. You don't need a superstar to have an effective rushing attack - you can do it by improving the offensive line and going 3-4 deep at the position. I thought Singletarys quick feet would benefit the offense in the red zone, but they ended up utilizing Allen considerably more in that area. I wonder if that changes in 2020.

Mock drafts create this consensus that they are right, and that the player values are the same for them as other teams. They aren't. There are guys projected in rounds 4 and 5 that will go undrafted. Adding on the fact that pro-days and meetings are basically cancelled? This is going to be a cluster of a draft IMO. Over 100 touches - a good RB might rush for 4.5 YPC, and a bad one 3.5. That's 100 yards over 100 touches. A good punter over the course of a season might punt say 50 times and the league leader in net avg was 44.5, ours was 38.2. That's a difference of 315 yards over the course of 50 "touches". Obviously this is a vast oversimplification of value - RBs have value in the passing game/pass protection, punters can be evaluated on other factors like Fair Catches and IN20 vs. TB% etc.

If you think that in year 2 or 3 they an be a featured player in the offense and become a weapon, i'm all for it.

Its a deep WR draft, and the talent available in round 2 of this draft could be comparable to round 1 of other years. Rookie WR's tend not to contribute much anyway, and our depth chart would keep less pressure on him to contribute right away. It's a bold style move - completely avoiding the need piece and just looking at finding talent. Yeah - he wont get the big splash plays, but his ability to turn 2-4 yards into 10-20 yards is legit.

I'm not advocating reaching by any means - i hate that. If a 1st round rated player is on the board at 54 pick them 100 times out of 100. I'm all for adding talent - if they push out someone else? So be it. I'm hoping one of the WRs slips - higgins or shenault or something. That'd be neat for the offense. Higgins has more upside than a duke williams, and shenault could be a useful gadget player while he earns playing time.

I know its a 1A/1B style running back league... but we just drafted a guy last year at 74 who looks like a stud. Now we're using more draft capital than last year at the same de-valued position?

He's limited for sure - I'm not sure how you build an offense around him. Its basically a lamar jackson style offense, with a less dynamic runner and a less confident passer. He probably has a better arm than LJ but he's unwilling to unload the RPOs so that part of the game isn't going to be as effective.

But he sure does love getting sacked ?

Watkins played well in the playoffs for the Chiefs last year... but his regular season numbers are pretty rough for a guy drafted where he was, and getting paid like he is on contract 2. Woods has back to back 1000 yard seasons and has basically made brandin cooks expendable (goff might have made cooks expendable). Goodwins going to be 30 and has had 1 good season... i think it was more likely that was a fluke, than that buffalo underutilized him.

I would - Allen is better than Brown. He's a big dude, makes his money in the middle of the field and gets open a ton. He has a higher catch rate. He's 2 years younger.

Some back alley deal to do the trade with detroit... i could see it.

I mean at the end of the day - 3 1sts is great and all, but if you have a chance to fix QB you should probably do it. If you have Tua as a prospect in the vein of a can't miss starter with all-pro upside... you should draft him.

I think they'll have to lax a bit on like - contact between coaches and players since they can't meet in person. Make sure ur guys are getting workouts in. Same will go with full contact practices, 2 a days, etc. Give coaches the freedom to try and get them ready.

There's always the chance that Washington takes Tua and deals haskins on draft day too... He didn't have a great year 1 (rookies rarely do) - but a 2nd year QB on a 3 year 5 mil (Total) contract with an option for another say... 25 - is a pretty affordable contract for a team. He'd still get you some solid compensation. And i totally believe they should do that if you think Tua is a better prospect than Haskins.

The biggest problem everyone had with him was leaving plays on the field because of indecision. His atheticism bailed him out a lot, and he limits turnovers, but it also resulted in a lot of sacks. I think Lynn is smart - and will incorporate TT into the run game with Jackson and Ekeler. The only issue is how they utilize Allen and Henry with a QB who is reluctant to throw contested passes, or over the middle in general. The improvements to the oline have been good - turner and bulaga will be helpful assuming bulaga can stay healthy. I think they're somewhere between 8-8 (8-9?) and 10-6 with Tyrod. Bosa, Ingram, Harris, James, joseph - its a pretty solid group on defense when healthy. I'm not sure why Cam isn't an option there.. Winston would be a hard sell, but i think he might be a better fit for the offensive group. Or go all in on a Tua. Can probably wait til post draft to evaluate, but there's no way i go into the season with TT as my only option. Not after he flamed out so badly in Cleveland.

QBs should have confidence.. even if they aren't really like chosen as "the guy". In any case - going to be tough sledding for the chargers, they really don't have any fans in LA. Their defense is pretty solid, and they have playmakers... but the offensive line will remain an issue. They also have one of the best timing route over the middle WRs in the NFL, and a QB who stinks at that. Same - overpay on the trade and worry about it later. Need something to advertise to the potential fans.

Nothing about signing a player prohibits them from drafting a player. I think 54 is early though - considering they drafted the starter last year at 74. Bring in a talented player... at whatever position at 54.

Their defense isn't terrible. They also really haven't improved at all and im not a big fan of their coaching staff. We both had the luxury of an easier schedule a year ago. They just had a horribly inefficient offense. They had 3 weeks in a row where they scored 34 points. They followed that up with 6 against the bengals. They lost midseason to miami and got beat down by the jags.

He played alright last year. He's the least of their problems.