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1 minute ago, GoBills808 said:
Honestly don't know about this. IMO by far and away the best TE last season was Kittle in SF- they had a mediocre offense albeit one decimated by injuries. Kelce is great and played in a great offense, but Ertz is also great and played in a mediocre one. Ebron is a good TE and played in a good offense, but Cook is also a good TE and played in a bad offense. Rams, Saints, Steelers- all top offenses that manage just fine without a top quality TE. I don't think it's a position of importance any moreso than RB to tell the truth, when you look at the distribution of the best tight ends in the league there isn't a ton of correlation between the quality of your offense and the quality of your TE.
I just want out team to have 2 really good pass catchers. TEs are glorified WRs these days, that's how Gronk and Ertz and Kelce are used. So I don't care if we draft a WR or a TE in the first 2 rounds but one way or another we need players that can get open and catch the ball. That is far and away our biggest need.
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On 2/1/2019 at 10:51 AM, thebandit27 said:
I'm not a big trade-down guy, especially when you're in the top 10 in a draft that is loaded with top-5 type talent at a position as critical as pass rusher (be it interior or EDGE).
I'm of the opinion that the team has enough picks, and that what they really need is to stock the roster elite prospects whenever possible.
I would always happily trade down. Elite prospects don't always work out. The more chances you give yourself the better. I consider our biggest needs OL, WR, and TE. The sweet spot of those positions in this draft is between picks 15 and 50. Anything we can do to get extra picks in that sweet spot is a better opportunity to fill needs. I'd much rather take two top 40 offensive prospects than one top 10 defensive line prospect. JMO. If we do stay at 9 I agree the BPA will almost certainly be defense. The last thing I want to see is any more trade ups. Just draft more players. We have too many needs to take chances like that.
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13 hours ago, LSHMEAB said:
I'm still not interested in a 35 year old linebacker who plays the same spot as Matt Milano,
He's played all 3 LB positions. He wouldn't be a full time starter, he would be a versatile rotational player who brings more leadership to the locker room. When Milano went down his backups were terrible, same with Edmunds for the one game he missed. Davis immediately improves our depth this year and he already knows McDermott's system. His age just means we would get him for cheap.
13 hours ago, LSHMEAB said:If it weren't for Lorax, it would make more sense. He already serves the role as veteran "mentor."
This I definitely don't agree with. There is only room for one veteran mentor on the team? More leadership is always a good thing. Davis has actually played MLB and could teach Edmunds a lot. I would absolutely love this signing.
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28 minutes ago, End The Drought said:
Good. Crazy to see mock drafts with us taking him. Obviously the people doing the mock drafts know nothing about the current Bills FO. He will probably end up on the Redskins or Bengals
I wouldn't have a problem drafting Simmons because the incident happened when he was in high school and he's been a model citizen since then. You'd put him on a short leash with off the field issues but it's not like he has a long history of domestic violence. He made one big mistake as a teenager.
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10 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:
Oh by the way.......neither run defense was particularly good.
The Carolina rush defense went from 3rd in total yards to 15th, 10th in YPA to 25th, and 5th in DVOA to 18th. So no, neither run defense was "particularly good" but one improved significantly and the other got significantly worse. Of course Star alone didn't cause that big swing, but he played a role.
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11 minutes ago, Seoul_panther said:
As a Panther fan, I can tell you that the fanbase went off Star towards the end of his time in Carolina. It was thought by many that we upgraded with Dontari Poe.
This season our run D took a significant backward step.
Right and no one is saying Star alone caused your run defense to get a lot worse and ours to get a lot better. But some Bills fans think he was a terrible signing and the stats don't back that up at all.
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11 minutes ago, LSHMEAB said:
The run defense was AWFUL for a 3 game stretch after Dareus was cut, so the improvement isn't nearly as impressive as it's made out to be
This is classic cherry picking. Sure if we remove the 3 worst games our run defense had in 2017, suddenly the improvement doesn't look as good. Are we allowed to do the same thing for 2018? Can we eliminate the games where Edmunds looked way in over his head?
Slice it however you want. We went from 29th in total rush yards to 16th, 23rd in rush YPA to 9th, and 30th in rush defense DVOA to 14th. What caused that improvement in your opinion? You think a 3 game stretch in a 16 game season had that much of an effect? I would argue that Edmunds in his rookie season was significantly worse against the run than Preston Brown. And nothing else on our defense changed except the addition of Star. Seems to me like he did his job. It doesn't mean he's elite. He holds gaps and keeps the opponent's rush in check. It was not an awful signing by any stretch of the imagination.
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24 minutes ago, BADOLBILZ said:
My point in mentioning Poyer was that he was having to make far too many tackles in the run game. Some of that was on the LB's but Star was absolutely no "star".
So you weren't criticizing Poyer, you were making a convoluted point about Star when you said Poyer struggled to tackle RBs? Alright, my bad I guess.
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1 minute ago, LSHMEAB said:
It was an exaggeration, but people make a lot of excuses for Star based on what they're told by the Bills and a few nice comments by teammates. Lorax is a process guy so of course he's gonna give a shoutout to the Bills prized 2018 FA. Star has regressed quite a bit from his early days and that's reflected in his poor PFF grade. He didn't make a ton of plays early in his career, but he was graded much higher because he was more effective. It wasn't a very good signing.
None of this has anything to do with him criticizing Poyer's contract. That's just nonsense. I get that there are Bills homers, but some posters do the opposite thing where they criticize every move we make past the point of reason.
And I don't care about PFF grades. I'm biased because I wanted Star well before we signed him, but he's doing exactly what we brought him here to do. Our run defense went from worst in the league to slightly above average and he was the only change we made on the defensive line to make that happen. Yeah we overpaid him somewhat. That's what free agency is. Pretty much everyone gets overpaid when they switch teams. You have to pick your shots, and I'll take a big jump for the run defense for a couple extra million per year. On the whole they have managed the cap space very well.
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1 hour ago, BADOLBILZ said:
but we don't have to pretend that things like paying Star Lotulelei $1M per tackle and then watching Jordan Poyer wear himself out tackling RB's was money well spent.........it wasn't.
Yeah this is why people don't take you seriously. How far do you have to stretch to criticize Poyer's contract?
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22 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:
He's not Sammy good, yet he might be Robert Woods good with a little more speed.
Woods is better than Sammy. But I dont think Williams is better than either of them. There is a lot of depth at the receiver position in the draft this year so I wouldn't overpay him. I would overpay for an offensive line and go for a true #1 WR in the 1st or 2nd round.
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I could definitely see Metcalf being the pick. It would be a surprise to most people but it makes sense. He has elite physical traits and that's the type of player McDermott and Beane look for in the 1st round. He has the most upside potential of any offensive player in the draft. Biggest concern is the neck injury. If he's fully recovered from that I expect him to blow up the combine and I doubt he makes it out of the top 10.
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Eh he wasn't someone I wanted. I expected him to get overpaid, that is actually a pretty fair deal for what he offers but I wouldn't have paid more than that.
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He isn't predicting wins. He's predicting every team's over/under betting line. This is the kind of article you write in the dead week before the Super Bowl.
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Josh Jacobs but I don't want him in the 1st. My new draft crush for the Bills is TJ Hockenson. Did some research on him last night and I would love him as early as pick 9. TEs are just as important as receivers in the passing game, and with his blocking skills he'd be a big help to our run game too. I know we need receivers but I expect a good WR to be there at our 2nd pick, and Foster and Zay are at least some semblance of a receiving core. At TE we don't have a single starting talent and there isn't much available in free agency. Hockenson fills that need and he would be a huge target for Allen. He's a good blocker, good hands, and very competitive. A little raw but very athletic. I could see McDermott and Beane falling in love with him too. Going off of last year they like athletic freaks in the 1st round.
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I've read that Risner is technically very good but struggles with speed rushers. Very similar to Jonah Williams based on that description. I wouldn't take either in the 1st. If we trade down to the bottom of the 1st then I could see it. If not I just don't see the value of taking an OL at 9th overall.
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1 minute ago, Augie said:
The “deflator” actually let air out, but yes.
See that's how little the actual act mattered, I already forgot the whole thing. What I will always remember is the way he was sneaking around and working to cover up evidence of something so stupid. If he had just admitted it I dont think anyone would have cared. Beat the opponent on the field, not in the bathroom. It's the weirdest sports scandal ever. He should be embarrassed.
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A Patriots equipment manager snuck the football into the bathroom to pump air into it. Brady then destroyed his phone completely when confronted by the league. Sneaking around, giving memorabilia to complicit employees, destroying evidence. All for a little extra pressure in his football. Pretty pathetic stuff.
3 hours ago, RobbRiddick said:As much as I'd like to re-shoe my horse with his head, there comes a point when you just have to admit that he's amazing. It's just a fact. Years ago I insisted that Montana was better because he played against defences that were actually allowed to hit and bump receivers etc.
And while I still think that's true to an extent, you just can't deny his greatness.
He's a great QB who snuck around to have the ball fit to his exact liking and then threw a tantrum when the league stepped in. Inflated footballs didn't make him great. It's just really weird, and sad.
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I generally hate 1st round RBs. But I'd make an exception for Jacobs IF we trade down. Great attitude and love for the game, excellent blocking running and pass catching, and low mileage since he wasn't a feature back at Alabama. Our best Super Bowl window is on Allen's rookie deal so I would accept drafting a young RB in the 1st to give us some kind of rush offense for the next 4 years. I still wouldn't take any RB in the top 10 but if we trade down to 15 and draft him I'd accept that.
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This is pretty wild:
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1 hour ago, Chris66 said:
There have been bad calls since football started. I dont rember this much bitchin about refs in the 70, 80s, or 90s. We just accepted it and moved on.
You don't remember it because Patriots fans didn't exist before 2001.
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Refereeing should be done from a central office with numerous camera angles for each game. Reviews would be quicker that way. A central office would have watched the PI twice and immediately called the penalty. Challenges would also go faster. Watch the slow motion replay 3 or 4 times and make a call. Some guy staring into a booth on the sideline is the most inefficient way possible.
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12 hours ago, Chris66 said:
Brady has never taken full market value. He doesnt want to strap the team
His wife is worth twice as much as he is. Makes it a little bit easier to take a couple million less than market value, don't you think? That's very virtuous of him. If Mahomes is smart he'll find an international supermodel with a Kermit fetish.
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The salary cap goes up about $10 million per year. I would front load the contract, give him 6 years, and guarantee all of it at signing in exchange for a few million less per year. By year 3 it won't take up too much of the cap space anymore. It would be a risk but if your QB proves he is good enough to be your franchise QB for 15 years you take it. The Colts did it right. In 2021 Luck's cap hit is only $21 million. That leaves them negotiating power for his 2nd big contract.
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I hate both these teams. But I hate the Rams slightly less. So go Rams.