GunnerBill

Anyone still want to look back a few years and make the argument they should have given the prima donna a 1st round rookie receiver to not throw to the second he dropped a ball rather than select their Quarterback of the future? Was a silly argument then, even sillier now.

But I am confident they will get them. I don't think this is a plucky overachiever. I think they have very good talent at the premium positions in the modern NFL. Unless Stroud turns into a pumpkin (which I don't expect) the Texans win the South.

And you think he is better than Mitch?

Who?

It is a simple fact that we don't have anyone who is proven beyond #3 type production. I will leave Kincaid aside for a second because I was talking specifically about wide receivers. I am just not as optimistic as you are on either Keon or, to a lesser extent, Shakir who I do think can be very good but you have to be elite to be a difference maker at slot and I am not sure he is that. I think the Bills will have enough to move the ball. But they have objectively on paper one of the worst receiver groups in the league going into the season. It will come down to Josh and Joe to maximise what they have.

I'm not assuming he still runs everything he learned in New Orleans. I am sure he has developed as he has gone. But very few coaches completely abandon the stuff that helps them get their break. He did move Jefferson in to play big slot at LSU as well (was an inspired move). Wouldn't surprise me if they have essentially 4 wide formations where Coleman and Kincaid are in the slot either side with say a Samuel and a MVS outside in the playbook. I am not saying that us all they will run. But it wouldn't surprise me if Keon is trending around a third of his snaps inside by the end of the year. I also happen to think it is where his skillset is best suited.

They are also good at the premium positions. Stroud at QB, Diggs, Collins and Dell at WR, Tunsil at LT, Anderson and Hunter at EDGE, Stingley at CB. When you are good in those spots you win close games more often than not. I think they will win some of the games folks are marking as surefire losses on their schedule get to 10 or 11 wins and that will win a weak AFC South.

He did. And that Sean Payton version of the E-P was more of a spread scheme that has always classically valued size inside and then speed outside. I wouldn't be shocked as a result if Coleman (despite Beane's intention) ends up playing a fair amount of big slot.

Nah it pre-dated the Bengals. The Bengals game was in a period where they were barely speaking. One of the reasons I think you still see ex team mates speak relatively warmly of Stef is from what I was told it was not a split the locker room situation or anything like that. Most of their teammates didn't (and possibly still don't) know what it was that caused the fall out. I was told Dawson Knox knew but a lot of the others were in the dark. They just know somewhere in the middle of that season the relationship went sideways. Most of the coaches didn't know why either. I presume Sean and Brandon did but it wasn't something that was widely known. My suspicion (and I repeat this bit is speculation on my part and not based on anything anyone told me) is that the fallout did not originate on the football field. I think it was something off field that then spilled over onto the field.

I think the "conventional" combination is a bit of a holdover from the Daboll era. He liked that balance. Brady is gonna run some more spread and we saw some of that last year. But I am not sure I buy that that this group will separate better. I think the opposite.

I was out on Jax last year (indeed I said Houston could win that division). I am not out on Houston this year. They are built on stronger foundations than the Jags were.

Josh being Josh is baked into the calculation. But he will have an even harder job this year based on talent. If he can do it again and have them as a top 5 offense then Brady will have played a significant part in that IMO.

I am cheering for his return to form too, make no mistake. But he has a questionable association with the truth and my honest view is he is done. I'd be delighted to be wrong. Remember when even after the ACL scan he was telling fans he would be back within a couple of weeks. When he knew and the team knew the ligament was torn.

Whereas he was telling the team this time last year he would be good for week 1. Basically I don't believe a word Von says. All he has done since he got here ia spin bull####.

I trust my source 100%. The issues with Diggs way pre-date Brady. If he played a part it is a small part. As for the rest you are arguing things I have never said or believed.