Sammy Watkins' Rib

Maybe i put my foot in my mouth saying Foster had one good season. But if we are arguing who is better Foster vs. Zay, neither has had a good full season. Zay has two full seasons under his belt and hasn't even had a 5 or 6 game stretch in either of the two seasons where he looked good. Foster at least has. Even if it was a small sample size and only for 5 games or so. Touting Zay as some sort of leader of the Bills receiving core with totals of 650 yards and 55 receptions or whatever it is doesn't benefit Zay in a good way.

Player personnel could be a game by game basis. Even changing series to series. As long as he is on the team I won't be worried.

I don't know if he has a legit #1 guy type skill set. But he does have a skill set. He's might be similar to John Brown for instance. Decent player but not going to confuse him with a #1 WR. The bottom line is Brown and Foster are the only guys on the roster that can take the top off the defense. If Foster is cut all we have is Brown while presumably we would have Beasley, McCloud, McKenzie and Zay all with similar skill sets. I don't see Foster getting cut even if he running with the threes.

Cherry picking nothing. The numbers are what they are. Foster contributed at least as much value as Zay did on a per game basis. Doesn't matter if the yards would have come in even a single 41 yard catch per game. Zay caught 1.7 more receptions per game but was targeted with 3.5 more receptions per game. By that spread Zay should have caught far more than the 56 receptions he had on the season. People are usually done when they realize their argument, that Zay somehow has had a good season, is blown to bits.

Well you can't compare fairly completion percentages from the 80's to today's NFL though.

I'm also not making anything up. Foster averaged more yards per game than Zay. And all in his first year in the NFL which is typically a large learning curve for a receiver. Higher catch percentage on a far greater ypc. Maybe it is generous to say Foster had a good year last year. But Zay hasn't sniffed a good year in the NFL in two seasons either.

Not on a yards per game basis. Foster averaged more yards per game once he came back. Also had a higher reception average and catch percentage despite being asked to run deeper routes. At best we can make an argument for Zay that neither has had a good year in the NFL. But that isn't really a great argument since Zay has had more chances to prove himself.

It's possible that they want to get a better look at McKenzie and McCloud. That's the real battle right there. No way both make the team. They might see Foster as a lock and want to work both McCloud and McKenzie with the one's and two's to better judge them. At least that is what I hope is going on.

Foster has had one good season in the NFL. Zay has had 0. I don't see how we cut Foster who is the only QB on the roster with experience playing with Allen who also plays to Allen's strength's as a deep ball passer. If we cut Foster all we have is Brown. If Brown gets banged up and misses some games we have nobody. On the flip side if Beasley goes down we have either McCloud, Zay, or McKenzie that can fill the same role.

Cam Newton has alway been around a career 59.0% completion percentage guy. But last year he jumped to 68%. McCaffery also caught 107 balls out of the backfield. I'd be curious to find out the difference between Cam's average air yards per attempt from 2018 compared to his other seasons. Also Cam had an MVP season completing just under 60% of his passes. So we know a QB can still dominate with a low completion percentage. That said, 52% is probably not going to cut it unless Allen is unbelievable in other areas or the defense is ridiculously good. Hopefully we see him around 58-59% this year.

These rules always seem to be interrupted differently or changing so I have no idea. Zay is certainly defenseless. And the defender delivers a direct elbow to his head/neck area. Is it because Zay is going to the ground (making it difficult for the DB to anticipate the target zone) that no flag was thrown or did the refs just miss it?

True. But it's good news for this year at least.

Shaq Lawson looked good last night. He's still playing for a big deal correct? I think he can have a big year this year for us.

There was also the deep overthrow. I think to Zay. It was over thrown quite a bit. Probably close to 5 yards. And I hate those 11 yard sacks on the naked bootlegs. Remember seeing those at least a couple times last year. Drive killers and sometimes FG killers. I know you can't really put that at the feet of Josh Allen. But maybe we should consider blocking the outside linebacker. I'm worried about Haushka. He missed a 30 something yarder last night and is coming off a sub par year.

We have a QB that loves the deep ball and the only two receivers on our roster that are consistently capable of running those routes are Brown and Foster. If anything, Beasely, McCloud and Mekenzie are redundant. Not sure we have room for three receivers that bring the same thing to the table.

Need more tiers. Wentz at least belongs in the "Is what it is" group. Make a "has been" tier for Flacco and Eli.

Five years too late? What year did McGahee last play?

I see. Your post was confusing is all. You think more of the same in a good way from last year (which was the highest scoring FF QB in the final six games or whatever), yet you say you wouldn't chose him for Fantasy this year. If his running numbers tail off I would think/hope that would coincide with an uptick in his passing yards/TD's.

More of the same from last year? Well which half of the season? His first six starts or his last six starts? Because he was a completely different player in a good way in his last six starts. It is hard for me to imagine him regressing back to to his first six starts.

LOL. So did you take McCoy in the first last year? And where will you take him this year. I think he went late third or 4th round in the league I was in last year. I'll be honest I want Allen bad this year and since I play in a league with my brother who is also a Bills fan I know I am going to have to take him before the 6th round if I want to guarantee I get him.

Same here. But I didn't think he pulled a Sammy Watkins. I thought the DB just made a great play on the ball?

I think Brady plays to 45.So four more years. Whether or not his final years are with the Patriots or not could be another story. He'll want to finish ahead of Drew Brees in career passing yards and TD's so i think that makes him guaranteed to play another two years if this were to be Bree's last year which it probably isn't. He won't walk away at the top of his game and playing like a top 10 QB. He'll go the Peyton route and play till he clearly sucks and doesn't have it anymore. The one caveat being if he hits age 45 and is still playing at a high level then I could see him walking away before his skills fall off a cliff.

Not surprised. Probably how most of the other NFL fan bases view Allen right now. Well, except for Miami fans. I'm guessing the majority of them would love to have Allen. The funny thing is, if Josh does develop into a franchise QB, Elway will be pulling his hair out for passing on him. I totally get why they did pass on a QB and specifically Allen. They drafted two similar "big" QB's in Oz and Lynch that totally busted. No way they could take a chance on Allen even if they really liked him. And Allen is probably the exact prototype QB that Elway would fall in love with. But because of those two previous busts Denver couldn't even entertain the idea of drafting Allen with a straight face. I really hope he does but Dallas' defense is nasty.

Totals can also be single season. As some others have mentioned he's also nowhere near the single season leaders in TD's or yards. I do think longevity and injury history should play a factor in a players greatness too provided they played at an elite level for their entire career. Brady and Peyton are pretty good examples of this. And the fact that they hardly ever missed games or had nagging injuries helped their teams. Rodgers seems to play with a lot of injuries (like all of last season) and that doesn't bode well for helping his team win over the course of an entire season. He is going to have to prove more to me than just being the most efficient QB ever playing entirely in the pass friendly era.

You are greatly under rating the changes to the game that have made the passing game league wide much more efficient. These changes started to really take place somewhere around 2005-2007 and have only increased with the passing years. Rodgers might hold all the efficiency records when he retires yet in a passing league he won't hold a single totals record. That is a bit of a problem in putting him in the top four and doesn't even take into account his injury proneness and lack of postseason success.