MarlinTheMagician
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I have always kind of liked MVS and thought he had untapped upside - but how many of these guys can we collect? Going to be an interesting training camp.
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Please - no one over 26 years old. Save our money and develop our guys. Josh has so many weapons - can't just look in the WR room. I'd rather get a good corner than another wideout, if we had to make a move. Our problem last year was defense.
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15 hours ago, Sestak4ever said:
Contracts coming up include Lawrence, Prescott, Love and Tua! So glad we got Josh taken care of when we did. Go Bills!!🏈🍻
I think Beane gets under-rated here sometimes - his long-term lock-ups have pretty much all been spot-on, marred only by injury (Tre White). But Josh, Milano, Dawkins, Power and Hyde in their prime, Oliver (a surprise to me) -- all great moves that have provided a ton of value and kept us competitive year-after-year-after-year (plus Josh's greatness, which he gets fair credit for projecting). And making hard choices on beloved players were all good calls as well (Singletary, Edmunds, Diggs, Horrible Harry). I think he is in a small handful of the very best GMs.
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6 hours ago, transplantbillsfan said:
Anyone complaining about CAP space next year...
Overthecap projects us at $14m next season.
If Buffalo rolls over the Tre White extension without doing anything with it next month minus paying the rookie class we get about $9m.
Plus everyone thinks we're cutting Von next offseason... if we do we get $8.5m in CAP savings.
Over $31m in CAP space right there.
Plus... could still easily restructure Oliver, Taron and Josh for a lot more money.
And as far as FA go... the big one is really only Spencer Brown.
Beane has set this team up for the future!
You're right on. I think this is one of his most impressive years. He got us much younger, and out of cap hell.
People are fearful because there is change, but here is an optimistic view on the "slash and burn" -- Diggs gave us literally nothing for 2/3rds of a year and removing his persona hints at addition by subtraction; love Po, always, but Po looked slow; Feel so bad for Hyde, hope he retires before injured, but probably not worth his contract rate last year; Morse was one concussion away from being a cap albatross and always had trouble anchoring, and he always had trouble anchoring; Tre White was an all-time favorite for me, but performance year 1 after an achilles is typically poor; Gabe Davis - love the human, the player added little and contributed a lot to Josh's interceptions by not being "on the same page" with Josh; Jordan Phillips and Shaq Lawson - it was time.
All along the past 2-3 years, we have injected impressive young talent. Cook, Torrence, Kincaid, Bernard, Benford and Brown. I was very skeptical at the time, but locking up Oliver was genius.
I think we are a much better team right now than last year. It may take a bit to gel, but we are younger, stronger, faster, healthier and cheaper. This is a golden age of team management - probably the best ever - as well as on field performance. Judge me now, but save the post -- the on-field team in 2024 will be better than 2023 and 2022 teams (that 2021 team could have really won it though). I think we need one more year of reloading to optimize the roster, but we are a strong competitor for the Super Bowl right now. Staying healthy, rookie contributions and Von's hoped-for recovery will all be key. But give us a couple breaks and we can win it.
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On 5/6/2024 at 3:08 PM, sunshynman said:
Bills projected to get a 4th and 5th round pick.
Boy, we stand to be so loaded with picks next year. Can even do a Douglas-type deal at the deadline to get some of what we need this if Beane wants with one of our fourth's (I know, NFL may screw us again).
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10 hours ago, zow2 said:
I hope Coleman can remain the happy-go-lucky guy throughout his career.
It's not too long ago when Tre White showed up with his big fun personality. Then he got injured, and his fun side got injured as well. I'm not saying it wouldn't have destroyed me either, but Tre was never the same after the first injury. He rarely did media stuff after that. Mentally it must've been hell.
Miss Tre' a lot - and have since the ACL save three games last year. Hope he comes back and kills it for LA, and works his way back to Buffalo to finish up at the end, sound and healthy.
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6 hours ago, Kirby Jackson said:
Agree to disagree I guess
I don’t think that he’s very good. He won a lot on a team that almost broke the record for most drafted players in a single draft. They had 13 guys selected (UGA has the record at 15). The team was loaded. They won with him WAY more than because of him. In the right situation, maybe he becomes an effective game manager (like Brock Purdy). Personally, I think that he was overdrafted as an over correction to Purdy falling to last.
All good here. Entirely reasonable for two fans to see a player differently. Go Bills!
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11 minutes ago, BADOLBILZ said:
Zay Jones is a meager career 10 yards per reception possession receiver who lead NFL WR in drop % rate(10.7%) in 2022 and has a career 57% catch rate. That's the kind of catch rate you expect from someone with about 50% more yards per reception.
Drop-zone Jones is the very definition of "Juiceless and Useless".
You got your opinion I got mine - except you got no vision bro. Just a bowl of vitriol, a cup of vinegar where there should be sweetness, negativity that. drips. That ain't got no swag at all. You a one trick pony - and the trick is to pee on all the other ponies.
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Would not hate getting Zay back at all. He is a professional wideout. I don't know if he fits the "process" - if Beane/McDermott concludes he does he would be a nice add, IMHO. I don't really hold the hotel dash against him - he was obviously going through some sh**. If he has his head right, he could be interesting add of a vet presence.
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1 minute ago, Kirby Jackson said:
I was hoping that the Jets would take him just like it was a good thing when the Pats took Mac or the Jets took Zach Wilson. You’re at least going to give him 2-3 seasons of failure before moving on. Tyrod is a very good backup and with that Jets roster will be at least .500 if he has to play 6 games. McCarthy, imo, could have been 1-5.
He’s AJ McCarron
Nah man, you don't want him on the Jets. He can win if he has a top D. Be happy bruh.
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Coleman going to be all that! I would not bet my house, but I would bet a lot.
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He ain't like Mac Jones. Couldn't be much different. Jones has a noodle. McCarthy does not. And whether or not he is good, McCarthy got the dog in him, ex-hockey playing with a bit of nasty. Mac Jones = tennis player.
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13 minutes ago, Kirby Jackson said:
This isn’t shocking. McCarthy isn’t very good. He was the guy, this year, that everyone used as the smokescreen. He was the guy that people kept hearing “would go higher than expected” and “possibly top 3.” In the end he was the 5th QB drafted.
People believed that the Pats might take him at 3 and that the Vikings, Giants and even Chargers, might trade up for him. In the end the Vikings offered 3 firsts for Maye over just taking McCarthy. The Patriots turned down 3 firsts and just took Maye. The Charger (wisely) stayed put, selected Alt, and kept Herbert. The Giants took the stud receiver. The Vikings waited and eventually got McCarthy. I wonder though if they would have actually taken Penix instead had he been there at 11?
Maybe you're right, but I think he is good. No one really knows. But I remain glad the Jets didn't take him! When Rogers breaks they can roll with Tyrod instead of McCarthy. I'll take that!
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I don't dislike RGIII at all. Seems like a good dude. But I thought it was so funny that RGIII was trying to bond with Coleman over being from Louisiana and Coleman was not having it. "Nah, you got all that French stuff - we a little more country out in Appaloosa, but we got some stuff too,." RGIII: I'll show you, you can get the best Poh Boy at a gas station. Coleman: Nah, our gas station got two pumps." 🤣
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11 hours ago, NORWOODS FOOT said:
I’m a big Ohio State fan so I had my eye on McCarthy all year. He has good character and athleticism.Do you feel that he has the arm talent to make it in the NFL? Maybe he just didn’t get to throw it enough in that offense, but I just don’t see the evidence of an NFL caliber passer. Especially when compared with some of the other top guys.
What do I know really, but the reviews I have read say he has a very powerful arm. That was on display in the games I watched. The criticism I read is that he throws everything hard, and sometimes lacks the desired touch.
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3 hours ago, NORWOODS FOOT said:
Yeah, most surprising to me is McCarthy. I like him. Seems like a good dude with tenacity. But nothing that I saw at Michigan screamed franchise QB to me other than his grit. I have a hard time seeing his ceiling as anything higher than “game manager with occasional flashes”. Maybe O’Connell can scheme up ways to help him over achieve.
I have no take on Maye. Never really watched him.
Jets should have went hard for McCarthy. He was there for them. Instead they took a tackle to keep the Rogers dream alive. But McCarthy is probably good enough right now to win behind that defense. I watched him a lot at Michigan because I had a daughter there. Jets would have been like Michigan all over - very strong defense, do enough on offense to not screw it up and maybe even make some plays. Glad they took the tackle.
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All this sturm and drang over a pick that Beane, Josh Allen and our scouts were obviously comfortable with from a bunch of arm-chair experts is exhausting. Give the man a chance. For me, he is the best wide-receiver drafted until he gives me reason to give up the dream. By definition, he has not yet done so.
Let's go baby 20-0!
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7 hours ago, fergie's ire said:
I don't know the drill...and don't really watch combine stuff. However, I think I understand what the poster's concern is about not jogging and running out of bounds. It would be the equivalent to timing baseball players to see how fast they could steal second. They would be clocked from 1st to 2nd. Most would slide or slow up before getting to second so they don't go past the bag. If one player just ran full out and blew by the bag, he would have the fastest time, but he did the drill wrong. It's supposed to simulate stealing a base and if you just run past it, you'd be out in a game. The poster is saying that in the drill Coleman ran the point is to not go out of bounds (so players slow up to prevent from doing so) but by Coleman blowing past the sidelines he gets a faster time but does not accomplish the goal of the drill.
What you say about baseball is true in your baseball example. But it is not analogous or instructive here. If Coleman's gauntlet time was aided by the fact that he mistakenly went out of bounds, they would have thrown out the time and made him do it over. Like a false start in the 40 yard dash. Going out of bounds did not help his Gauntlet time. And the original poster did not suggest that it did - he was just deriding Coleman for making a mistake. The time he ran is his time. The mistake was perhaps a dumb mistake, but it didn't, couldn't, aid his time. They would never allow him to compare favorably to other prospects based on an inadvertent "cheat" like running full speed past second base even if it was an ineffective baseball move (because the runner would be out at second). They posted the combine time that Coleman earned, and that happened to be the fastest. There is no way around that.
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Man, I have come full circle on this pick. Just watched the full interview the poster put up earlier. That kind of easy confidence from a 20 year-old strongly suggests to me he is going to be a star. Confidence like that comes from past performance and knowing what you can do. Focused, but not a care in the world. I think he is going to be a great pro, putting my stake in the ground today. And I hated the pick - maybe I was right then and wrong now, but I think he is a star in the league.
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7 minutes ago, Cray51 said:
The overhead of that video potentially showed a reason why Franklin dropped to the 4th round. He was zig zagging all over the place
I think he also ran last in that or another drill.
I love our Hardy pick - my daughter goes to Penn State so I watched him a lot. He runs a 4.38, I believe. Hits like a truck too. But I don't think the 5'9" Hardy would enjoy covering Coleman. Different courses for different horses -- seems people don't accept that.
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3 minutes ago, nedboy7 said:
Keenan Allen ran a 4.71? Gross.
Wow. Didn't know that. Thanks for posting!
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3 minutes ago, harmonkillebrew said:
Guys are focused on catching the ball, not running fast. Coleman ran so fast he was out of bounds by the last ball.
Don't be such a grumpy old man.
Bills still need a boundary WR (or two) and maybe a new GM/HC
This is a self-defeating argument my man. Guys that slow down to catch the ball are not as fast as their 40 time where the ain't gotta catch no nothing. Poster was not being a grumpy old man. As a grumpy old man I take some offense to that!
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1 minute ago, bills742 said:
Other than Nacua, I'm curious what history says about gauntlet speed and NFL success.
Cooper Kupp
1 hour ago, MarlinTheMagician said:I am sure most of you know he also ran the second fastest time in the "Gauntlet" at the combine, which many say simulates game speed better than the 40-yard dash. They are supposed to run it straight across the yardline. Many can't. Coleman's straight as an arrow, and his receiving form looks A+ to me. The video is worth a 10 second watch.
Correction of my self - THE fastest gauntlet time in two years. Second fastest go route. No one jogs in the gauntlet - speed is a core point of the drill.
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3 minutes ago, JohnBonhamRocks said:
Interestingly, two of those fastest 40 guys are currently on our roster with one projected to start, one of them recently started for us, and two remain FAs today.Exactly. See my immediately prior post. Samuel is juxtaposed with Coleman in our scheme. We have a true speedster there, and Shakir is a 4.4 player. Adding Coleman allows us to not be bullied by press corners in the playoffs (something that consistently happened to Diggs). As corners get smaller to keep up with the speed of guys like Worthy, Coleman becomes more valuable -- in general and to us in particular. We didn't have that big, physical wideout before.
1 minute ago, davspo said:I must say that I initially did not like this pick. I had watched some YouTube film on him and didn't see him as being able to separate, which to me is that top skill a receiver needs. Josh is not the best at ball placement, so separation is even more important. I have watched every combine over the last 10 years. Cooper Kupp was by far the best gauntlet runner I've ever seen and he worked out pretty well. I went back and looked at Coleman's two gauntlet runs and they were very impressive. I then watched a bit more film and saw more separation then was displayed in the original film I watched. I also saw him run receiver screens very efficiently, something that the Bill currently lack. Bottom line is he's young dude with all the measurements and more skills that translate to football going his way than a 40 time. Time will tell, but I think Bean and company have earned the benefit of the doubt. If you look at the starters on this current rooster, all but 5 are draft picks and they have the second highest win rate in the NFL over the last 2 years. You can be pissed, but they are getting results.
Same here, I was so bummed when we took Coleman. A cooling off period and rational examination of facts and video has made me more than happy to give the young man a chance with an open mind and a hopeful heart! Go Keon!
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RD 5, Pick 150: WR Justin Shorter, Florida
in The Stadium Wall
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The board has the least faith in Shorter since Bernard. As I said with Bernard - let's see what happens! He has traits, he has challenges, none of us know how hard he worked (or not) to develop his game for the past year.