GunnerBill

It's spelt craic.... It's a Gaelic word. But yea Dublin is a cool city. Best pub city in the world IMO. It's expensive (even for someone used to London prices) but it's worth it. The Guinness is like velvet in liquid form.

Well, quite... that isn't a drop but it is certainly a ball that not only could but should have been a catch. It was probably a TD too if he caught it. It was a good call and a fine throw. Keon just has to get his head round. There was green grass for days between the split safeties if he caught it.

PFR assigns him four drops, PFF credits him with five. I get there is some subjectivity but true drops I think it is that range. But he caught 50.9% of his targets, and some of that is exactly what I said about his college film - for a guy who does not separate and therefore ends up with a lot of contested balls he is not good enough in contested catch scenarios.

He played once and I think he played the Will from memory (might have that wrong) and I think it was v the Jets.... he was not good. To be honest he was not having a great camp when he got hurt in 2023 (Dodson was ahead in the competition at the time, but played himself out of the job with pre-season struggles). He was a really pleasant surprise when the season started and he came out of the gate hot. I don't think he has quite sustained the heights of those first 8 games of 2023.... but he is still an above average starter at the spot.

Yea although in fairness JSN had a slightly disappointing rookie year too. I just think he always was and is more talented than Coleman. On the speed thing Brandon Beane says it every single year in his end of season presser. And yet other than Elam (who ended up a bust) he has never followed through by prioritising it with his picks.

I think 1T, CB and S are racing certainties because I expect Jones, Hamlin and Douglas to be gone. WR and DE however are the two biggest impact spots where we need more.

Palmer at that price is a better option than Slayton at $13-15m AAV. His numbers without Chase are excellent though. I see the Chase thing the other way. He depresses Higgins' numbers because he hogs targets. I agree. No way am I moving Benford.

Yea Mooney was the guy I wanted last spring. I value Slayton lower than him. Spotrac has him at $15.8m AAV. There is zero point zero per cent chance I am in at that number!

I like him less becaus I the ceiling is lower. Though the floor is probably higher. I dunno. Whenever I watch him play he leaves me a bit cold. I suspect he will get more than I am comfortable paying, but who knows?

Yea there was a lot of buzz, a year ahead, at the 2017 Combine about the 2018 Quarterback class and particularly Allen and Darnold. He'd have been a first round pick in '17.

I think he meant as in he decided to go back to school in 2017. At one point he was rumoured to be considering declaring for the 2017 draft instead.

I've mentioned him in this thread..... and he played primarily wide this season (67%). He is small but he is not primarily a slot guy. For me it is Hollywood or take a punt on Atwell or Dyami Brown.

Spencer was a top 3 right tackle in 2024. I need to see him back up that level of play before I call him overall top 5 but if you are just going on the past season he was unquestionably top 5 at his spot. And you are right on Dion, in terms of consistency, reliability and longevity his resume definitely belongs in the top 5. Then it is the age - old question about how you value that against the guys who might have a higher ceiling in their best years but have not been as consistent, or are always hurt - I'm thinking the likes of Ronnie Stanley, Terron Armstead, Rashawn Slater etc, or guys who've been in the league less time, or played left tackle less time like Tristan Wifrs or Charles Cross.

Yep. It came down to a few plays, sure. We weren't good enough to make them.

Yep. The answer is not this dynamic kick off gimmick. The NFL needs to pick a side between safety and entertainment on kick offs. This middling it does not work.

You can't blame them, in terms of being the main reason for the defeat, no. But when you have an elite QB and two years in a row that happens you have to consider as part of your fix why that is. Simply shrugging and saying "defense" is misguided. The Bills have to find a way to win the high leverage moments vs Kansas City in the playoffs. That is mainly, but not exclusively, on defense. They have made those plays in their regular season wins (particularly the last 3) but they just haven't been able to in the playoffs.

Yea it is a fair point on 2021. I suppose I kind of feel like that was a team that just underperformed itself most of the year, partly cos the oline really struggled. When that clicked down the stretch the team improved to its potential. The thing about 2022 is the first 7 or 8 weeks the Bills were without question the best team in football.

I think you might be onto something there. With Tre, Po, Micah and Taron you could be limited but fundamentally sound and be a serviceable 5th wheel. With no safeties to help.... it is definitely harder.

Yea for sure. I think Lincoln Riley was good for him but that only mattered because of who Hurts is. His work ethic is incredibly impressive.

I think the 2021 and 2022 teams were better than the 2024 team.

Taron Johnson, Ed Oliver, Christian Benford and Conor McGovern are all top 15 at their positions. Shakir is top 15 if you simply deliniate slot receivers and Bernard would be there are thereabout at MLB. The Bills problem isn't lack of guys top 15 at their positions. It is lack of top 5 guys at their positions.

They are not great or elite, agreed. Milano was I think for a period pre-injuries and I think Benford and Brown are trending that way, but right now the only elite player on the Bills is Josh Allen. I am not sure that is quite the same as "just Josh and a bunch of guys" though which was your original statement.

I don't think the Denver team that beat Carolina was even a top 5 team in the NFL that season. Everyone else on that list was within the top 4 or 5 the year they won. But they aren't always "the best." The reality is normally among the top 4 or 5 teams in any one season the margins are very slim and they could all beat each other.

Probably a bit of both. Him setting some parameters before they hit the road and then him adding a layer of analytic analysis to their reports when they come back.

Especially how he looked in 2024. If he is healthier a further year removed from the achillies, fine, but yea it is voluntarily downgrading at Quarterback without any obvious play for how you then upgrade again. I said the same when the Raiders did it with Carr... it is never a good idea. If you can get someone broadly equivalent for cheaper, fine. If you plan to tank, fine (this Rams team is way too good for that). But just willfully going from a tier B Quarteback to a tier C guy for no good reason? Yea that's odd.