GunnerBill

Oh and guess what.... ARod think his receivers were to blame. Awful human.

The Jets really do find ways to lose.

Colts still alive for the playoffs. They are such a bad 6 win team.

Gonzalez was the best draft pick Bill made in years. Unfortunately for him, he got no more of a handful of games from it.

Put a fork in Cincy.

That should be Penix time in the ATL.

They should do it now.

There's the jinx.

Doug Pederson is hopeless.

Man the stadium looks nothing like playable!!

And I don't trust the Steelers to win out or anything close. Let them win today and finally kill off the Bengals.

Yes I was asked specifically about if that play was today.

Yes. We are trying to make the game safer.

I am the ultimate, keep your composure let the zebras deal with it... but that was disgusting and totally intentional. I'd have lost my cool there.

Bengals defense is funny. Like funny, funny, funny bad.

Not only should he be ejected he should be suspended the rest of the season.

I don't blame the Jags for going mad there. That was disgusting.

God this Hawks - Jets game is weird. Kick return TDs. Kick return fumbles. Pick 6. Missed XP. Hahaha.

ARod pick SIX

Jets winning games when they are dead to hurt their draft spot is nice.

Bengals D can't stop anyone.

Forbes doesn't fit our scheme. I quite liked him coming out because he had a pretty unique skillset. Fair to say the Commanders scheme change has hurt but similar to Elam he is someone who has value in man coverage in a league that every year seems to lean more and more into zone heavy coverage. Also worth saying that in that class I thought Witherspoon, Gonzalez and Porter were bona fide studs and should have been the first 3 corners off the board and all have been great. The rest all had question marks - Forbes (was my CB4), Banks (my CB5) and then Cam Smith (my CB7), DJ Turner (my CB9), JuJu Brents (my CB12), Tyrique Stevenson (my CB10).... that entire "second tier" has struggled. You have to do down to Garrett Williams (my CB14) who went early 3rd - but I had a late 3rd grade - on to the Cardinals to find the next "success" certainly as an outside guy. My CB6 was Clark Phillips III and he has been good for the Falcons but as a slot only whereas I thought despite his size you might get a bit of outside flex with him.

This is plain wrong IMO. The disrespect Benford gets is because he is a 6th round pick, but he is super talented and going to get paid. He isn't the best corner in the NFL, that's true. But by almost any metric he has been a top 10 boundary corner in the league this year and some of that is him flat out making plays, like that exceptional pass breakup to Hopkins against the Chiefs. It is more than just "he knows the scheme and is always in the right position." People presume because he was a 6th round pick he is just another Levi Wallace or Dane Jackson redux. He isn't, talent wise he is much closer to Tre White (not quite as talented as Tre but close) than he is to those other guys. He is going to get PAID either this offseason by the Bills or next offseason as a free agent.

Benford flat beat him out in camp last summer. Even before Elam was hurt. He lost that competition fair and square and that was coming into it with a lead after ending their rookie years the stronger of the two - as you say. Elam's biggest issue in a zone defense is still what it was coming out. His transitions are clunky and at this stage I gotta imagine the Bills have done whatever they can to tidy the technique up.. but his transitions still just aren't as good as Tre White, Benford, Douglas even Dane Jackson. And in a heavy zone scheme that is just hard to overcome despite all the things Elam can offer that some of those other guys can't.

I think there as a risk of Josh failing and it was that a team either: a) tried to hide his weaknesses in the development phase and didn't expose him to things. As you say the Bills did not do that; or b) they tired of the mistakes and pulled the plug on the development right before the break out happened. I think a) was the bigger of the two risks and it is why I give Daboll credit. I don't think he is responsible for Josh Allen or anything like that... Josh's talent is responsible... but Daboll developed a guy like Josh absolutely the right way. No stabilisers. There is a world IMO where a team tried the alternative approach of hiding him early, then got frustrated because the ceiling appeared lower and gave up only to see him succeed somewhere else. I think that is sort of what happened with Baker in Cleveland. They installed an offense to try and prop him up rather than truly develop him and as a result they never got the ceiling version of Baker that Tampa are now enjoying. Josh is better and more talented than Baker, no question, but the risk of a similar career arc was there IMO. It seems to me that of the two Schoen is the one more likely on the hotseat. They should either keep them both or fire them both though. Mismatching regimes rarely works.