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Julio Hopkins

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  1. 50 minutes ago, Groin said:

     

    If memory serves, and maybe I'm getting old, but many people hated Watkins immediately upon having been drafted.  Same with Manuel.  Actually, same with Dareus now that I think about it.  I have never exactly gotten the player hate aspect, but I do get the frustration around a team who for decades kept trying to punch its own dick off before any actual games were played.

     

    Plenty of fans hated Gilmore immediately when he was drafted because he wasn't smiling.  

  2. 4 hours ago, Lurker said:

     

    This is my last post on this, but I think the combine does show character.   

     

    Sure, it's about test scores.   But it's also about how players go about the testing.  How do they interact with one another?     Do they want to excel?    Do they want to beat their competition?   Do they take a chance and put themselves on the line?    Or do they say I'm not good enough today, check back in a few weeks when I'm in a familiar and comfortable setting and can bring my binky with me?

     

    Players can choose to compete or they can choose to sit.    Sure, there are plenty of examples of guys who DNP'd the combine and had careers in the NFL.     But I think the Bills need competitors, not transactional players...

     

    God, if only the college football players played games before hand to give scouts that exact information.  

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  3. Just now, Buffalo716 said:

    Yea comparing any rookie prospect to a HoFr is totally off base

     

    And his grade doesn't even reflect that. I'm pretty sure Warner would be 8.0 perfect prospect or atleast 7.4 perennial all pro

     

    Burrow reminds me of a more athletic Matt Ryan with less arm strength.  Comparing any prospect to a HoFr is ridiculous,  unless it's a John Elway prospect

     

    Which he isnt

     

    I hate making comparisons, but the guy you're using as a scouting report is comparing him to Kurt Warner.  I disagree with those weaknesses, I also disagree with you saying Burrow isn't a John Elway prospect.  

  4. Just now, Aussie Joe said:

     

    Explain the relavance for 2020 by looking at Offense stats from 2018 when the Line was Mills, Ducasse, Miller and Bodine, and the best WR on the team was Zay Jones...

     

    Because they built that roster, unless you want to say the 2017 off-season was Whaley rather than Beane with no influence from McDermott.  They've struggled to put together a talented successful offense so far.  Will that predict the quality of this off-season?  Nobody knows for sure, but it absolutely matters when judging them.  

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  5. 6 minutes ago, Aussie Joe said:

     

    Why is what happened in 2017 or even 2018 relevant to what is going to happen in 2020?

     

    How many new players on the team since then?

     

    I think what happened in 2019 is more relevant to what will happen next year as the majority of players on the team last year will be there in 2020...

     

     

     

    Ignoring the past is an interesting viewpoint.  

  6. 55 minutes ago, njbuff said:

     

    Tyrod was so bad in 2017 that the Bills thrust Nathan Peterman out there.

     

    Which means a talented kid like Mahomes would have been starting the 3rd or 4th week of the season when he wasn't ready and would have gotten killed on the Bills 2017 offense.

     

    Mahomes would have been playing in 2017 and his career would be hanging on by a thread right now.

     

    No Kelce's, no Hill's, no Hunts (when Mahomes first started) on that 2017 Bills team.

     

    Tyrod was 9-6 as the starter in 2017, and even at his worst he was still better than Peterman.  There was no need to bench him if they had a promising back up they wanted to keep away from starting.  

     

    They were looking to bench him, which was obvious throughout the offseason/season.

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  7. 8 minutes ago, Bermuda Triangle said:

    He put up good numbers but played far from "well", IMO

     

    I personally thought the Ravens coaching staff were a much bigger decider in that game.  Roman abandoned their successful style of play way too early despite plenty of time.  Harbaugh's obsession to go for fourth and shorts, granted hindsight though.  

     

    I think it's fair to say Jackson didn't play well though, but he definitely didn't play like crap.  

  8. 2 minutes ago, CincyBillsFan said:

     

    Allen was a better pick for the Bills then Jackson would have been.  And IMO 5 years from now the this will be considered conventional knowledge.  The Bills were not going to hire Roman at OC and were not going to build an offense to fit Jackson's strengths. 

     

     

     

     

    This isn't putting the Bills' coaching staff in a positive light.  If McDermott can't hire an OC who can build around Mahomes or Jackson, then he isn't a good head coach.  

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