Rocky Landing
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4 minutes ago, ngbills said:
Not complaining. Solid addition to the room. We still need to hit on our WR in the first round.
I would bet money that our first round pick will be defense.
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1 hour ago, Mat68 said:
Get Mitchell or Worthy at 28 and the offense will have the best weapons for Allen in his career.
I would bet money that our first draft pick goes to defense.
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I think LB is the only defensive position in which we aren’t terribly thin, but that’s only because we’re base nickel.
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2 hours ago, BillsPride12 said:
This guy didn't even come remotely close to living up to all of the hype he got when we signed him
If we re-signed him, he would be the third-best DT on the active roster.
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Just now, MPL said:
Are we just going to sit here and not even acknowledge that he has two first names?!
Three if you consider that he is now a Bill.
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Just now, Aussie Joe said:
It’s a large margin until you have confidence Miller can get by one more year …which you won’t know by the draftHonestly, I’m just assuming he can’t. Be that as it may, there are currently two DTs on the active roster (Oliver. Jones) three DEs (AJ, KJ, and Groot), and Von.
After that, it’s a collection of JAGs on futures and PS. Of course it’s early. The sky ain’t falling or anything. But that’s as thin as I ever remember it being.
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35 minutes ago, Aussie Joe said:
Whats Fiske going to do ? Play 25 percent of the snaps behind Oliver ?More of a need at Edge in my view …
I agree, but it’s not by a large margin. McDermott’s signature defensive line rotation is nowhere to be seen at the moment.
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Come to think of it, I suppose one of the “competitions to watch” going into TC (at least from a fan perspective) might end up being Mack Hollins vs Tyrell Shavers?
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6 minutes ago, Einstein said:
I should have been more clear - I was talking about contested catch rate. Because contested catches is what Gabe really struggled with. If anyone touched him in any way, he would drop it.
Samuel is similar.
He has a 45% career contested catch rate. Gabe is 42%. For comparison sake, Diggs is 13 percentage points higher.
Is there not a fair amount of context missing from that stat comparison? Josh Allen is far more accurate, with far better ball placement than anyone who ever threw a pass to Samuel. Not all contested passes are created equal.
And, of course, Samuel gets much more separation than Davis.
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I always liked Siran Neal. Solid depth piece who, while not spectacular at any one defensive position, had an enormous amount of versatility, and played with a fierceness. And he was an ace gunner.
good for him getting a gig in Miami. I suspect the Fish aren’t going to do very well this coming season, and their games are likely to mean less and less as the season progresses. But the weather’s nice. This could be the NFL equivalent to becoming a Walmart greeter after retirement.
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5 minutes ago, ColoradoBills said:
Suddenly Hollins is fighting for one of the last WR slots. After a drafted WR and assuming the Bills keep 6.
I think the notion of Hollins as Siran Neal’s’ replacement increases the likelihood of that (as well as Hollins’ chances at the 53).
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1 hour ago, Aussie Joe said:
He is probably getting around $1.7m with $400k guaranteed ( my guess) so expectations should be low … he even might actually play to that value levelBut he wasn’t the guy I had in mind for my FA Wide Receiver signing this off-season … when they only have Diggs, Shakir and Shorter on the roster so far …
Bet you feel a lot better now tho, eh?
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This move makes me feel a lot more comfortable with the inevitability of Beane/McDermott drafting a defensive player in the first (and let’s face it… probably the second) round.
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28 minutes ago, Matt_In_NH said:
This guy has some nice quotes
“I don't like soft people. I don't even like people who eat with utensils. Eat with your hands, that's what they're there for." - Mack Hollins
“If you can’t eat it with your hands, you shouldn’t be eating it.”
When a reporter inquired about soup, he said, “Shouldn’t be eating soup. You’ve never seen a lion eat soup. You’ve never seen a gorilla eat soup. You’ve never seen anything savage eat soup.”
“I hate cats. Cats will steal your soul. Never trust a cat. The small ones? No. Never look them in the eye.”
Big cats, like lions, he likes. Hollins said his father owned a lion when he was growing up in Ohio.
“It wasn’t one of those TLC hang-in-the-house lions. It was in a big cage. Killed a deer and ate it.”
“If I cut the roots out of a tree, it wouldn’t make very much sense. If this is how I feel the ground, this is how I connect to everything around me, why would I cover it?” he asked, moving his feet back and forth. “Nobody is wearing mittens here, but everyone has shoes on. Feet and hands are the exact same when you’re a baby and then all of a sudden they put shoes on, and they stop feeling (the ground).”
Hm. Starting to like the guy. I hope he can ball.
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This is a frustrating part of the offseason when a certain number of fans will, once again, opine that depth players are a waste of money, and special teams don't matter. Every season proves both perspectives wrong, but here we go anyway.
After watching some footage of Hollins playing (what little I could find), and looking at his stats, I think he could be a good hire for the money. He's tall and strong, and plays the ST position of gunner well (which is a need, now that Siran has retired to the Dolphins...). Offensively, it looks like his strengths are exceptional run blocking, a decent catch radius, reliable hands, and decent contested-catch ability. His negatives are that he looks slow, doesn't get separation, and has surprisingly little YAC. He could be a good situational player in the run game, and also as a red-zone target. Even if he doesn't get many targets, opposing teams will absolutely have to account for a 6'4" target with reliable hands in the end zone. If he manages to actually earn the max $3M on his contract, we should all be pretty happy with the result.
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16 hours ago, Billl said:
Gabe Davis had 27 regular season TD receptions and 6 more in the postseason while earning a total of just under $4 million. How have so many convinced themselves that losing him is addition by subtraction?
The Jags just signed Davis to a three-year, $39M contract. If the Bills had decided to retain him, and pay him anywhere near that, I can well imagine this board would hit the ceiling. But nobody should mistake Hollins for Davis's replacement. He's likely a situational WR, and STer. If he makes the 53, and actually gets his max payment of $3M, it means he worked out.
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2 hours ago, SoonerBillsFan said:
And those reasons are? Right now we are worse off than last year and we hope an answer at WR comes in the draft.
You’re saying we’re worse off at WR because we lost Gabe Davis, Sherfield, and Harty? I must respectfully disagree.
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2 minutes ago, SoonerBillsFan said:
Best draft WR wise and odds are we are stuck with the 6th best of the lot. And you refer to Diggs, 1WR who has seemingly lost a lot.
I'm not going to argue any longer,you all won't get it.
Your philosophy on building a team seems to be that a team should spend a lot of money on a handful of "impact players," and let the rest of the team be minimum-salary *****. So, you can count me as one of those that "doesn't get it." In my opinion, depth matters.
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Reminds me of Kumerow. Tall, strong, and should play ST. Fairly reliable hands, Not a lot of separation, or YAC, though.
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This makes me sad.
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16 minutes ago, BuffaloBillyG said:
I do agree that he's always had a bit of an attitude issue. Aside from that however, the Patriots put on an absolute MASTER CLASS of what not to do with a young QB.
- Aging coach with old defensive mindset
- Lack of prioritizing getting weapons around him
-Lack of consistency on the OL
- Hiring Matt Patricia as an OC and doubling down with Joe freaking Judge as his QB coach (which is why I can't blame him for seeking answers outside the building)
- Job uncertainty with the switching between him and Zappe.
Now, I was never high on Jones and didn't think he would amount to much more than a low level starter. However he really wasn't given much of an opportunity or competent coaching either.
This is all mostly true, although I think you can only really point to the disastrous, ‘22 Matt Patricia experiment for bad coaching.
There are actually fans in NE* who believe Jones bears some responsibility for Belichick*’s downfall. Be that as it may, I think Belichick* made his feelings pretty clear when he dropped Mac & Cheese off the active roster for the last game of the season.
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1 minute ago, Blackbeard said:
Honestly as much as a Sally Mac may seem, I hope this pans out for him.
seems like the pats and Billy just did him wrong.
I disagree entirely. With going behind Belichick*’s back to the owners, all the dirty hits, the sideline tantrums, and his utter lack of support when Zappe was getting his reps— literally pouting and crying on the sideline, I’d say he did them wrong.
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Love what Beane has done so far this offseason— but this move I think is a mistake.
it’s not just that he’s a good center, and team leader. I also hate to lose the continuity.
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1 minute ago, SoCal Deek said:
Why does it feel like the Patriots are going through exactly what the Bills went through following the Kelly era? It’ll be interesting to see how long they wonder in the wilderness.
Interesting and fun!
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We are set at WR. Maybe we’ll grab one in Round 6.
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It’s an unpopular opinion, but I challenge anyone on here to take a gander at the active roster and find a position on defense other than LB (and only because we’re base nickel) that isn’t woefully thin.
https://www.buffalobills.com/team/players-roster/