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Thank you for sharing this Alpha. Made my day.

If they can get even average LT play from Simmons that would be a substantial improvement, and that more than makes up for fall off at a less important position. But who knows how Simmons will perform? Even elite prospects sometimes don't work out, especially in year one. If he doesn't improve on what they had last year then yeah there's a good chance their OL will be worse.

Yes that is impressive, it ranked 17th in the NFL last year (minimum 50 routes run). As a point of reference Ja'Marr Chase had 2.5 yards per route run. Maybe you're thinking of per target efficiency... This is talking about every single route including ones where the player isn't targeted.

Depends on how quickly Josh Simmons recovers from his knee injury. He was an elite prospect that only fell because of that injury. Early reports from OTAs said he was already working in with the 1s and looked fine. If he can step in and immediately be the answer at LT that automatically makes them better than last year IMO. And then you have Rashee Rice coming back. Good reason to think their offense will be significantly better than it was last year.

The ol' Buddy Nix gambit!

Not overly confident in this but I'll go with DeWayne Carter. He has apparently transformed his body this offseason to be a more natural 1T in our scheme, and that is a spot that has no other obvious candidate behind DaQuan Jones. Fully recovered from injury and fully committed to doing what the team asks him, I could see him having a bigger impact than expected.

The counterargument is Aaron Donald, another undersized DT with short arms who still managed to produce at a Hall of Fame level for entire seasons. I don't know how well known this is but Donald had an all-time work ethic. He retired somewhat early specifically because he didn't want to put in the grueling work required for his body type anymore. I'm not going to say Oliver is lazy, but I also don't think he is committing quite as much as he could to reaching his full potential.

2019 in general was by far his worst draft though when you factor in opportunity cost. That was likely the last time in the Allen era that we will have a top 10 pick, in every round at that. With that capital we took Oliver over the myriad of better defensive players taken after him, Cody Ford over AJ Brown and DK Metcalf, and Singletary over Terry McLaurin. Maxx Crosby was taken after we drafted Knox. So we had multiple opportunities to draft all-time franchise players and instead got decent players or busts. It is what it is.

I didn't expect Cook to make it, good for him. Tua making it on the list feels pretty silly especially after another year where he missed significant time after an injury.

If you were an attorney and the person your client sued was about to sign a multimillion dollar contract, would you advise your client to file before or after the contract was signed?

This is beyond parody. Really the perfect summation of discourse in the social media era. Brazen ignorance is not a badge of honor, contrary to now popular belief.

This is equally as bad as people assuming Hairston is guilty.

Having Tre White in the 13 seconds game very well could have been the difference in that game, Levi Wallace messed up his coverage on the fateful drive that got them into FG range. And having Benford on the field this past AFCCG may have made a difference on one of those drives where Elam was completely hapless in his coverage responsibility. CB is not as critical as pass rusher, but it is still absolutely a difference making position. Especially in playoff games where the margins are thin.

This presupposes that if an accuser loses their case, that definitively means they lied. That isn't true at all. Sometimes the best thing the courts can decide is that they don't know what happened which means no one is held liable and everybody has to just move on. I think the reason that these discussions get so polarizing is because most people are unable to accept such an unsatisfactory conclusion and want somebody in the story to be the bad guy. The world of course doesn't work that way.

Oh sure I think anybody assuming anything about this case is nuts. It is a pure he said/she said from 4 years ago. But I am already seeing some takes online, including in this thread, about how Bills fans are hypocrites if we criticize Browns or Chiefs players, and I just want to be clear that every case should be looked at separately on its own merits.