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11 hours ago, Billzgobowlin said:
Any thoughts on why this guy lasted till the 5th? Strong Center with 2 national championships. Let's face it Georgia really doesn't have many players fly under the radar.
He's a short armed center only ... And he sometimes uses bad technique to try and make up for his short arms
Can improve his core strength
he has very little chance of beating out a grown professional starter in mcgovern this year .. who has starting NFL experience... And is now one of the bigger stronger centers in the league
You groom him for a year or two while bulking him up and work on his technique
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7 hours ago, KDIGGZ said:
Not trying to be difficult just responding to the post. These combine links keep getting posted as evidence that he's not slow. I think we need to compare in game speeds and not drills. But all you have to do is watch his film to see that he has defenders on him every play. Maybe the ACC has amazing db's and he will have better luck in the NFL but I highly doubt that
All you need to know about MHJ is his jacket size for Canton
That is super premature LOL
He is very talented but super overrated... Sammy Watkins was a better prospect coming out and we all know how that turned out
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7 hours ago, HappyDays said:
This quote from Beane defines the entire draft strategy:
He is giving it to us straight. The Bills are in a rebuild year. So he went for all team captains. Guys that interviewed well. Guys that he believes set a new foundation of leadership in the building. He hunted for short term needs that fit the singular character profile he and McDermott feel comfortable with, at the expense of talent at premium positions. And he is telling the fanbase to temper our expectations without coming right out and saying it.
I'm not gonna grade a draft until we see how all the players turn out, but the overall philosophy shown this weekend is deflating and uninspiring.
Transition is way different than rebuilding
It's closer to reloading...
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With so many draft eligible wide receivers.. it's kind of hard to always get a grasp on how you feel for scheme fit and how they fit in
24 hours later... I'm getting pretty pumped.. we're getting a dual sport athlete... He played basketball and football at Michigan State... Could have played basketball and football at Kansas
Do you know how hard it is to get Kansas to let you play basketball there?
You have to be phenomenal athlete...
He's smooth... A hands catcher... Runs better routes than Gabe Davis
And he's pushing 6'3 220 lb with a 38 inch vertical
Hes closer to Keenan Allen or Vincent Jackson then he is James Hardy
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2 hours ago, Victory Formation said:
Why is he limited to Center? Isn’t OG easier to play?
No center is physically the easiest to play... It's mentally rougher
They have the least amount of 1on1 blocks and there aren't a lot of pure 0 techs giving them hell 80% of snaps
They are mostly combo blocking and getting to second level
Guards need to be bigger and better blockers now
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1 hour ago, djp14150 said:
His father signed here in part because his son was starting college career here
What do you mean his father signed here because his son was starting his college career here?
Frank Gore Jr went to Southern Miss
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2 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
Haha he's like a big kid. That will be infectious and I imagine it will mesh well with Josh.
Well to be fair he's only 20...
Can't even drink in America legally... He is a big kid
Love his personality
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1 hour ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:
Bills love getting these Pittsburgh-area DBs. I wonder if they have a scout tied to the area. Dane Jackson, Damar, and now Hardy.
Well Penn State is hundreds of miles from Pittsburgh so they're really not the same area
And Terry Smith has been the cornerbacks coach at Penn State for years now
Respected guy.. he runs a disciplined system... We're looking for scheme fits late in the draft at defensive back
Penn State and Pittsburgh run DB friendly systems that translate to our system
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53 minutes ago, TheyCallMeAndy said:
Bills are listing him as a C/G
Could he compete with Edwards at LG and groom at Center?
Certainly possible... He's going to have to improve his technique to have significant reps at guard and his core strength will be tested alot more at guard
You can mask it a bit at center but you're going to have very tough matchups at guard 1on1... And he doesn't have the greatest Length mass or core strength for the spot
He certainly can become a starting center with some seasoning... And It won't hurt to see how he can play at guard but his Length and habit of sometimes reaching would have to be corrected as well as getting a stronger core and bulking a bit
With his lack of length.. and not the biggest size... He certainly is built for center but it wouldn't hurt to see
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26 minutes ago, Bermuda Triangle said:
Sanctions were announced in 2015, and took effect starting with the 2015-16 season.
How did Boeheim get kids to commit to - and stay with - Syracuse, such that they were able to make a FF run in '16 and have first round picks in '16 and '17? There was no recruiting bump after the '16 FF?
We lost three scholarships a year from 15-16 , 16-17, 17-18, 18-19
That is a lot of scholarships that slowly started to effect the team ... And also recruiting
Some of those teams from the late 2000s early 2010s we're playing 9 10 guys... Really good guys... Boeheim could bench the entire 5 and put in a brand new five and they could ball and win
We had top five pick Dion waiters on bench
The sanctions put us down to six playable guys... Six talented guys
We had Frank Howard and tyus battle and O'Shea brissett playing entire games
There was no 7th 8th or 9th man... The depth of the team was gone
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8 minutes ago, Bermuda Triangle said:
And whose fault were the sanctions?
No Top 15 picks in the 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 drafts? Forget about the top 15 of the draft - Syracuse has only had 1 player selected in the NBA draft after 2017 (Hughes in 2020). Just last season, schools like UCF, Santa Clara and Belmont had kids drafted in the first round. The year before that, Santa Clara (again), Colorado State and Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Even with any lingering effects of recruiting sanctions (which ended after the 2018-2019 season), Syracuse can't compete with the recruiting of these types of programs?
Syracuse basketball from 2008-2017 went 9 out of 10 years with a first round pick
Only Duke and Kentucky had a better streak... Then sanctions
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Mcgovern played center in college.. and has NFL starting experience on the line
It's going to be next to impossible.. for him to beat him out this year.. unless they want McGovern back at guard
He's a great option to groom
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11 minutes ago, Bermuda Triangle said:
11 years ago. Boeheim got lazy, and recruiting fell off of a cliff.
Did you forget the serious sanctions? We lost three scholarships a year... Which is insane in basketball
Sanctions only ended in 2020... And it still takes a couple of seasons to recover
Syracuse went from getting top 80 recruits, with a top 20 guy every other year
To top 350 recruits... That is a massive difference
The players Syracuse normally recruit didn't want to come here under sanctions...
We literally have the 6th ranked player in the country coming in... The best power forward in the country... And one of the best guards from New York City
Syracuse recruiting is back.. it just takes a couple cycles to build a team
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9 hours ago, Bermuda Triangle said:
Who was the last SU player picked in the top 15?
1 hour ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:
my guess is Michael Carter-Williams?And he would be correct with Michael Carter-Williams
Who is a tall slashing point guard like Richmond
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7 hours ago, Beck Water said:
Um....if Josh's contract is up, he does not have to ask for a trade. If a player's contract is up, they are a free agent.
I don't think outworking Darnold, Mayfield, and Rosen (he's out of football, right?) is the standard we want our hoped-for Champion QB to aspire to.
But I understand your point about work ethic
Baker Mayfield was also a college walk on...
And was known for a world-class work ethic... You don't go from walk on at Texas tech
To Heisman trophy winner at Oklahoma, without busting your ass
Did he keep that work ethic in the pros? Maybe not
But it's clear that Josh has kept that same work ethic to me... Because if you're not progressing in the NFL... Your regressing
And Josh I think is still a player on the ascent
They're just aren't cameras in his face for every single workout
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6 hours ago, Low Positive said:
If there was a TBD hall of fame, this post would be a first-ballot inductee.
Appreciate it
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2 hours ago, Brand J said:
Surprised Owens ran a 4.63 at the combine, because he claimed “I can still run a 4.4” when he was in his 40s trying to get back in the league. There’s also a video out there where he runs a 4.38. Not sure how he could get .25 faster than his combine time, that’s a MAJOR difference.
The training nowadays is vastly superior to 25-30 years ago
A guy like to who is a workout warrior... It makes sense he can hit a 4.44 forty , even at an older age because it's more about explosion and acceleration
Not pure top end speed
With how good of shape he is In.. with modern work out techniques he still has great burst and acceleration in a track setting
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1 minute ago, transplantbillsfan said:
Not only this, Sal Capaccio reported on his podcast tonight that Josh was on a retreat somewhere with the WRs and TEs. So it's already happening... and it's likely always been happening more than people think... and people are idiots.
People think a quarterback who went from a small school with little experience... Turned into an all pro quarterback with a crappy work ethic lol
I'll tell you what... He definitely works a lot harder than Sam darnold and Baker Mayfield and Josh Rosen
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On 4/21/2024 at 4:16 PM, SoTier said:
That's definitely a WNY, especially Southern Tier, thing. I've heard people refer to the village of Silver Creek as Silver Crik.
One thing that I've noticed recently on tv is some actors seem to add an extra syllable to some words, most notably on words that end in ing. Examples:
go-ing becomes go-ing-ga or com-ing becomes com-ing-ga.
Idk why but I am born and raised Buffalo
And I always say crik... I say Cayuga Crik instead of Cayuga Creek
I don't know
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2 hours ago, Virgil said:
This would make sense. Maybe falling so far will humble him a bit. I don’t know how you can’t love football when you play through college.
If he’s there when we pick, I’d still take a flyer on him
You don't understand how you can't love football playing through college?
As someone who played division 1 football... I can tell you easily
It is the only way out for so many people.. so many people only have football or basketball as an outlet... Keeping them off the streets... It's the way out for a lot of people...
It's not a passion it's a job or a burden since the time they were 13... They don't play football because they love it
They play football because they're 6'3 215 lb receivers .. can run a 4.5 with a 40 inch vertical
It's not about the passion.. it's about what football can do for them
Which is perfectly reasonable... Your talents should help you out in life... But when you thought of football as a job since you were 12
You lose the passion for football... Division 1 football is basically professional football... It's AAA to the MLB
And it's a grind like AAA baseball... It will also take the Love of the game out of a lot of people
It's not easy to wake up at 6:00 every morning.. to go to positional meetings.. then go to class at 8am... Then go to the weight room at 12:00... Then have a team meeting at 2... And practice at 3:30
Every single day... Some do it for what the game of football can do for them.. and some do It for the Love of football
20 minutes with a kid with some smart questions and you can figure out what kind of guy they are
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38 minutes ago, Chicken Boo said:
Good comparison. Vincent Jackson comes to mind as well.
If he's Vincent Jackson look out world
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6 minutes ago, Beck Water said:
I would believe it. Watch him run the gauntlet - I don't have "scout's eyes" for estimating speed by sight like @Buffalo716, but it's marked enough that I can see the difference between his speed in the gauntlet when catching footballs is the order of business, -vs- the 40 yd dash where he was trying to run fast.
Someone said he reached 21 mph in the gauntlet
He did and he is a fluid athlete for his size... I think he definitely plays faster than a 4.6
At 21 mph he certainly can run a fast 100 time... I thought he was a 4.55 guy who who runs smooth
I can see a Keenan Allen type.. I think they are both smooth bigger guys who are deceptive
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6 minutes ago, Ralonzo said:
Nobody in Buffalo has understood how to run a screen for at least 20 years, so...
Did you forget all the nice smoke screens.. that the bills would run to smoke Brown
He busted a few of them...
We also ran a good screen game with Chan gailey
Do we excel at it now? Not really... But we were running some nice wide receiver screens with daboll
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17 minutes ago, FireChans said:
Yeah yeah and all we heard was that Devonta’s frame was gonna keep him out of the top ten and he wasn’t gonna be able to stay healthy lol
I certainly never said that...
And how much college ball do you watch? If you watch a lot and you honestly think they are comparable players I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn... Devonte is as smooth as they come... A bevy of release moves to defeat press with immaculate hands
Worthy struggles catching the football... Which is a major component of a wide receiver... Struggles to get off college press and cannot win contested catches
He has a lot to even become an average starter in the NFL
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Syracuse Basketball 2023-24
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William Patterson also left!!
Damn he's 7'2 and I had high hopes