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I Lombardied your post but this deserves a special shout out. Spectacular.

Nope. No RB is worth a first much less a first and a huge contract. Plus there’s his suspension history which could impact his availability. Article on why RBs do not have high value

Gotta think this is happening.

It is a recent article, but the OBJ quotes about the trade were all old. It’s just a writer trying to get clicks by making it seem like they’re still feuding. OBJ said some nice stuff about Baker and Eli said some nice stuff about OBJ. Other than that it’s old news.

Yikes!

I’d say it’s a long way from clear he’ll get there. A lot of QBs who posses the physical tools to play the game and are smart and coachable don’t make it. Those players often flash at times too. I’m hoping for a great ride watching Allen develop - and I’ve seen encouraging things from him, but it’s definitely not a sure thing at this point. ?

I will tell you this: I’d trade any record this season to have Allen show he’s a franchise QB. He definitely has plays where he looks like he is. If he can develop and make that the norm, then I’m more than happy. That would make finishing the team build so much easier. Players would WANT to come here.

Thats sounds like exactly the kind of LB that fits Greggg’s defense.

Unconditionally

Correct

I really don’t mean to pee in your Cheerios. I do like the direction of the team, but I don’t think they’re there yet. It’s a process.

Do not read much into preseason games.

I combed through several sites and looked in all of the areas where I wanted to sit and picked the most reasonable. After fees I still got boned pretty hard. Sigh.

I just paid the high premium. Not much else to be done if you want to go - unless you think they’ll tank early and prices will drop.

I agree with that. It’s certainly the best course of action.

I will be at this one. Already have tickets.

I will be there. I already have tickets.

Not semantics at all. Overstating the position of an opponent so they seem unreasonable is a cheap and lazy way to argue. I was just pointing out that that was what you were doing and that my position was very different than what you stated. I am happy to argue honestly if you have any interest in that.

I never said he was a garbage WR. You should probably read my posts. One further stat to go with those. He was 26th in targets among WRs. He was 49th in receiving yards and 40th in receptions among WRs. Certainly not garbage, but not really impressive as our top WR either. WR Stats

Pretty much. You mention a good point that I read in his predraft evaluation - he is a possession WR who excels at finding soft spots in zone especially underneath, but he isn’t great against man and doesn’t separate well deep. Honestly he’d probably be great with Brady in that offense, but he doesn’t seem to fit with Allen and our vertical offense except maybe as a slot (which is Beasley’s job).

He was also the best WR on the team over the course of the whole season (ugh) and got more targets by far than any other WR. Again, he’s serviceable and he may yet develop into a solid WR. Let’s see what he does this season and go from there.

He ranked 61st in receiving yards last season. There are some TEs and RBs ahead of him so that improves his position a bit. He’s serviceable, yes. The Bills should not trade him because they don’t have that good of a WR corps and he makes the team better. But he is a WR that - barring significant improvement - a good team would want to upgrade.

NFL WR Corps If you scroll down a bit you can see a chart with all of the expected starting NFL WR corps. It’s close to current. There are some very, very bad groups out there.

Probably this. Who’s WR corps is Zay making better at this point? (Okay, maybe ours.) I’m pretty sure that teams would rather use that roster spot on a player who might reasonably develop rather than a third year player who hasn’t yet. Shady might have some trade value from the right team in the right situation, but that probably won’t be until the season is under way and some contending team loses its feature back and wants a veteran.