Maine-iac

I'm not sure how big anyone thought Diggs was but he'd have to put on 20 pounds and still run a 4.4 to be the same size and speed Moore is.

Had to go with Milano because when healthy LB was never a problems spot and when not healthy it was touch and go at times. I'd like to mention Daquan Jones as an honorable mention though. He's another one that when he was healthy he had stretches where he was one of the best on the field and the only guy who remotely resembled a 1 tech although still could pressure a QB at times. 2023 in the first 4 games he had 2.5 sacks and 5 QB hits before he got injured in game 5. Just never seemed to put it all together for a whole season.

With a possible exception of Solomon the Beane era has been nothing but penetrating 3 tech DT's and pocket collapsing DE's. We essentially have only one type of guy out there on the D Line and that's guys that can set an edge or play a one gap penetrating style. Be it End or Tackle we draft them both to be good enough to pressure a QB but probably not chase down the athletic ones. They can set an edge or disrupt a run play but it's not uncommon for them to lose when double teamed or get moved by better running teams. Landon Jackson is just another one of these guys. A good athlete but good at the same stuff everyone else is good at. Don't get me wrong the better QB's like Lamar or Mahommes escape from a lot defenses and make plays. The are smart and shifty and I get it, it happens. The amount it has happened to us makes me ill. Maybe I'm completely wrong but I'd be interested to see (but too lazy to research) where our pressure to sack ratio falls in relation to other teams. We just don't seem to bring QB's down. Jackson could be anything from an Epenesa to a Rousseau (mediocre to good) and it still wouldn't add anything to the defense we don't already have except maybe some depth and some cap savings. Give me a quick bendy pass rusher that can hand fight or one fat guy who looks like a greased redwood tree stump in the middle of the field. Give me a difference maker.

Really hope he does something this season.

I liked your picks. I was late to watching the NBA for those Celtics teams. Bird was lying on the sidelines all season with his back injury. McHale was getting older as was Parrish and Ainge was gone. Otherwise I think I would have loved those Celtics. Secondly that Syracuse team was great but again I was just late for it I do remeber teams with Coleman, Owens, and later Moten.

If it's just my favorite then I'd go with: 88 to 93 Bills Allen era Bills Drexler era TrailBlazers Garnett era Celtics

I raised both fists thinking we'd won that game. If you were in your living room watching that kick took off like all kicks do. Any other day that ball would have hooked back in. It just never came back in and seconds after jumping up thinking we did it I was watching the Giants celebrate. Leonard Smith would have made the difference. Even back then we were one starter short in the secondary.

How many games was Andre Reed lined up as a slot WR? Reed and Lofton were both bigger than DJ Moore and better. Not just for one season but for whole careers. Maybe Moore will come here and add to his career which is pretty good (but not Reed or Lofton good). Add 4 or 5 more years of top level production to Moore's career and maybe you could mention him with Reed or Lofton. You can't compare Reed and Shakir. Shakir is a product of another era. There were a few Run n shoot teams but Beebe was the closest thing to a slot WR we had then. I also certainly wouldn't compare a WR who hasn't even taken an NFL snap to any of them and I love Bell as a prospect. If you were around back then you would also realize it was also Brooks for a while after Lofton. Who was pretty good as a Colt but never as good as Lofton. My first memories of the Bills are from the late 80's and it was their defense bringing them to the edge of making the SB. Kelly and Reed were tough SOB's and the offense was gritty before it was good. Lofton and Thomas coming in and emerging was the SB era.

If you have a couple of 7 sack guys you might have an OK scheme with OK players but you don't have a guy that's a problem. Teams can scheme your scheme. Sometimes there's just nothing they can do about a guy who is always a problem. I want a guy on defense who is a problem. If you have a guy who has 20 plus sacks it means even when accounted for he's still getting to the QB.

...... and we kicked a FG before they scored that TD (when White went out injured) and again we kicked a FG after they scored that TD. In both cases we should have had TD's and won the game. Didn't get it done in OT either. A lot of blame being laid at the feet of the defense.

Not sure why it took so long. Love it or hate it, a good watch either way.

Not a McDermott apologist but I do wonder how Beane hung on and he got canned. Most years we got bounced it really comes down to a play or two and this year we're looking at Dane getting beat one of the two plays he was in the game. Cooks not hanging on to a game winning pass. People complain about soft defense but every year we're playing back ups in the secondary or at LB and Denver was an example of not playing soft. I'm fine throwing blame on McDermott but I'm still surprised Beane is still here. I'm still holding out hope he learned something but here we are again drafting nothing but undersized DT's, pocket collapsing bull rush DE's, and a CB probably not on most peoples radar to go where he did. I'm hoping Leonard has a plan for all of them and they are great but I don't see a double digit sack guy currently on the roster and the turnover in the secondary means a new system and new players will have something to prove. I hope I'm as convinced it was all McDermott and nothing else as others are. For now I still feel like Beane has something to prove.

I've always thought that Rex got a lot of credit for Mike Pettine's work with the Jets. Here Pettine (3-4 defense) actually took over for a mediocre Wahnstedt (4-3 defense) and did well enough Cleveland hired him. That's when Schwartz came in and we switched again to a 4 - 3.

I'd rather have Moore plus Bell and Parker and their cost controlled contracts then have Waddle and his contract.