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Benford and Johnson both had QB ratings of 90 or less when thrown at. Bishop, Rapp, Hamlin, Lewis, and Douglas all had QB ratings well over 100 when thrown at. Interesting note is that Ingram only gave up a QB rating of 51.6 when thrown at in his limited playing time.

There are very distinct draft camps. There are groups of people who want to draft a WR first round every year no matter what. A group that want to draft a pass rusher every year no matter what. Then a group that thinks whatever position we need just draft the guy with the fastest 40 time and we'll be all set. Finally there is a group that actually sees nuance and in game production and weights needs and skills with draft position to come up with some pretty interesting scenarios. In the end there are so many takes. I'd probably be no better at picking someone to draft for us than I would actually drafting players. Part of the fun is seeing how things turn out after time.

Maybe ........... just maybe they signed Awuzie for the veteran minimum and got a similar player for less money. Maybe it had nothing to do with the Ravens "telling him to leave" and was simply they saved some cap space and White signed here.

Much like I've said all along. He had a bad start in LA. Played some really tough teams right back from injury and in a new defense. He played fine with the Ravens. They never asked him to leave. They played him a majority of the snaps in the playoffs for that matter. From a Ravens web site: Down the stretch of the regular season and into the playoffs, White played regular snaps at cornerback and had a few notable pass breakups. More importantly, he generally did not give up big plays in the backend. https://www.baltimorebeatdown.com/2025/4/18/24410934/former-ravens-cb-tredavious-white-signs-one-year-deal-with-buffalo-bills-baltimore-cornerback

So the two teams that paid him to come play for them post injury didn't see anything they liked but asked him to join the team anyway?

My hot take is I like Knox at TE more than Kincaid. Maybe he's not the better route runner on film but after that I like every part of his game more than Kincaids. If we need a jump ball TD in the end zone I'd rather have Knox going up to get it. If we need someone to truck a guy and get a first down I'd rather have Knox trying to run someone over. If we need a block to spring the RB I'd rather have Knox blocking. He got overpaid but that said I'm glad he's on the roster and frequently I'd rather have him out there over Kincaid. Logically anyone could argue Kincaid should be better and I'd probably agree. I don't dislike Kincaid. I just don't think his game is physical enough and I don't think he has had the pass catching effect he was drafted for (yet).

Also White played 20 or more snaps in all but two games with Baltimore and 30 plus snaps in his playoff game against us where he gave up a 70 rating when thrown at. Snap counts for each game are here: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WhitTr01/gamelog/2024/ ps interesting note is that White played special teams for the Rams while he was there. He had 20 special teams snaps with them.

Went out to a Mexican restaurant and had a few too many margaritas yesterday. Looking back at it his first 3 games were bad but they were also in a new defense and 2 of the games were vs Detroit and SF. After the first 3 games he settled in fairly well or at least enough to hope he's still got something left. In case someone else hasn't posted it already. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WhitTr01/gamelog/2024/advanced/

If you look at White's advanced defense stats he started the year off in LA with three bad games but then was fairly solid the rest of the season. He's further removed from injury and younger than Bradbury. Trying to be positive. I always liked White hopefully he has something left.

Not necessarily sure he's on the Bills radar but probably a late day 3 or even UDFA guy who could help a team would be Lan Larison. His 40 time aside he ran for almost 1,500 yards, had 850 yards recieving, and scored 23 TD's. Threw some passes, made a few tackles, what else could you ask for?

Kinda surprised Stevie Johnson gets no love. Not that he'd be my pick but he was good at getting open. I'm going to have to go Moulds on this one.

Last year my sleeper pick was Jalen Coker. Thought he was a poor mans Keon Coleman. Probably more or less true. This year for sleeper I'd go David Walker Edge. I'm getting Terrell Suggs vibes. Sometimes I think this WR class could be sneaky better than people think. There's no Harrison Jr or Nabers but 2nd tier to 2nd tier there's some guys you wouldn't mind having on your roster.

Don't know why I didn't see this earlier. Plus side notes, your weaknesses include him playing lighter than at the combine but with that said he ran a good 40 at the combine with more weight. He might be fine packing on a little more muscle. That also plays into the knee injury part, he seems to be moving fine. I also definitely saw some nice fight after the catch on the video I posted. Smith even commented he needs to fight less and go down or he'll get popped in the NFL. I try not to get to hyped about any one pick but I'm really hoping Buffalo calls his name.

Kelly had the same career TD percentage on throws versus Marino. Higher completion percentage and higher yards per attempt. He played 160 games vs 240 but percentage wise on the same throws he had more completions, as many TD's, and more yards than Marino. Elway isn't even close. If Elway hadn't finished his career with a couple of SB seasons it wouldn't even be suggested he was near Kelly. Elway had about as much to do with Denver's SB wins as Manning did with the 2015 Broncos. He was good for maybe one good game in each playoff run. Bubby Brister went 4 and 0 with that 98 Broncos team.

Listened to this on repeat after beating Baltimore. Then we lost to the Chiefs but I still like the song.

Thought I already posted in here but must have been a different thread. I've stayed in downtown Buffalo and enjoyed the hotel and the area and just got tickets for Rally bus service to the game. They pick you up in downtown, bring your gear to tail gate, and they drive you to game. Leave your tail gate gear with the bus and after the game they take you back to downtown. No traffic, no fuss, no muss and you can drink all you want because you are not driving.

Totally living up to the hot takes title. Some crazy takes in here. My hot take is some people commenting here didn't live through the Kelly years to see how dominant that team was and Kelly was the leader. Best hypothetical I can think of is if Allen had taken us to four straight SB's the last 4 years and 25 years from now an NFL season has 18 games, they've made rule changes to help passing, and QB's are throwing for 6,000 yards and 50 TD's and some one tells you Allen wasn't very good. Mahommes is good because he won a couple SB's but not Allen.

Still a mid round guy but he's going to climb draft boards. Has been one of my favorites because of where we could get him but that might be changing.

Don't usually do trades. This is what I came up with this run.

Wallace was a little taller but also on the lighter side. Wallace in all his starts with us never gave up more than 3 TD's in a season. Jones gave up 8 TD's last season when given significant playing time. That might be some to do with the team he's on. I'm not crazy about him but I'm not crazy about getting Dane back either. Not that I want our plan to be starting Ingram at corner but I'm interested in what his ceiling is. If he listed at CB and he's played fairly well when given a chance how come there's not some talk about him seeing more playing time.

He seems like you'd be drafting another Rousseau but one that isn't great against the run. Definitely lots of potential but kind of a project at the same time.

Best thing I could say about him is he did have 16 passes defensed. After that the other teams threw at him almost 90 times and he gave up 8 TDs and a 98 QB rating. He also missed almost 18 percent of his tackles. That and 5'11" and 175 pounds doesn't sound like a CB in the McDermott mold.

I like Jordan Phillips more than Lott or Farmer but late 2nd seems too early. I guess Bond it is then. Honestly I'm more worried about our coverage issues than run stopping. Not that I wouldn't want a good DT but if this is how it fell I'd have to hope Jones has another year left in him.

Versus the Baltimore Ravens Allen was 16 of 22 for 127 yards with no passing TDs. He played fine but not superhuman. Defense got 3 turnovers and we won. Philly held the Chiefs to 12 first downs and the Chiefs punted 6 times and destroyed them. We're giving up on average over 30 points to the Chiefs every time we play them in the playoffs (we lose) and an average of right around 20 ppg in the regular season (we win). Maybe ................ maybe what we need to get Josh is a defense.

For what it's worth. The Bills have 52 pass plays of 20 or more yards, which is tied with Detroit for second in the NFL Last season, the Bills had 49 such passes in 17 games, which ranked 19th in the league. (Explosive pass plays are down a small percentage leaguewide this year.) https://buffalonews.com/sports/professional/nfl/bills/buffalo-bills-passing-game-joe-brady/article_850ccc26-bc96-11ef-b620-b34a05ec2150.html