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I wish they had posted the team O-Line stats that they mention in the article. I'd be curious to see where the Bills fall.

Of course he's also played 1 less game (which, given the fact that he got hurt again, is obviously another thing that detracts from Sammy's value). He's played very well this year though, whereas Zay has pretty much sucked.

Very fuzzy, but you get the idea. I don't know why uploading the picture after I numbered it made it even fuzzier. 11 is the kicker and he's outside the shot of the camera but he's right over by that spot. They actually stayed in their lanes for most of the play, but once Wycheck started making his cut to the right, everyone chased him at that point. Also, just for the record, I know people will hate me for saying it, but I think it was always pretty obvious that it was in fact a backwards pass.

Haha I was waiting for this. He's certainly off to a good start.

For what it’s worth, all four of the guys at TheDraftNetwork.com have Metcalf ranked as their #1 WR in the draft.

He also went ahead of: Juju Smith-Schuster Taywan Taylor Chris Godwin Kenny Golladay Dede Westbrook Ryan Switzer All guys that are easily better than Zay.

It was mostly screen passes and drag routes, which require pretty much zero technical skill.

Just some thoughts in no particular order: The season is basically going as I expected it too, though the win over the Vikings was surprising to me. The defense was worse than I expected to start the season but appears to be settling in the past couple weeks. I still think it likely shakes out as an average defense by the end of the year, which paired with the putrid offense, should put Buffalo firmly in the discussion of a top 5 pick. I'm pretty pleased with the flashes of good play that we've seen from Tremaine Edmunds. He's been inconsistent, and at times, an outright liability, but I think that was more or less to be expected given how young and raw he still is. I think a lot of people were placing unfair expectations on him coming into the season; it's okay that he's likely a downgrade from Preston Brown in the short-term. I'm a little disappointed with the play of Josh Allen to be honest. I've been high on him for two years now, and I knew he had some flaws that would likely be present once he hit the field, but I was hoping to see more progress out of him than I've seen to this point. He still has the same mechanical issues throwing to his left that he had in Wyoming and doesn't appear to have made many strides overall. I still believe that with his toughness, desire, and physical tools, he'll ultimately develop into a very good QB, but I was hoping for more than I've seen so far. The offense in general is so incredibly devoid of talent right now. Kelvin Benjamin seems to have gotten worse as he's gotten healthy for some reason. Zay Jones continues to be a pretty terrible football player. The other WRs have been as bad as one would expect. The offensive line has probably been slightly better than I expected to be honest, but is still quite bad. Chris Ivory has definitely been better than I expected him to be, but I still think it was a pretty poor move given his contract and given how deep the rookie class was this year. I also still desperately want this team to acquire a receiving threat out of the backfield. Guys like Nyheim Hines were there for the taking but for whatever reason, the Bills don't seem to value having playmakers out of the backfield. Needless to say this side of the ball needs a massive infusion of talent in the offseason. Unfortunately, there aren't really any top-notch free agents to be unless they decide to release McCoy and bring in a new highly-paid RB like LeVeon Bell. To me, the plan for the WR position has to be to acquire two veterans and then also draft a WR early. Something like Randall Cobb, Chris Conley, and N'Keal Harry would be great IMO. I also like Tyre Brady as a Day 3 sleeper candidate. I still question Brandon Beane's ability to properly utilize the assets that he's helped to create, but I think we pretty much have to give him the shot. Buffalo hired him knowing that this was always the plan so I don't really see a good reason to deviate from that now.

To be clear, he's not eligible for this year's draft. He'd be a 2020 draft candidate.

I don't know if it's kosher to post this stuff here or not, but I do have access to it. To be on the safe side, the big movers in the top 32 are: DT Derrick Brown from 12 to 8. DT Jeffery Simmons from unranked to 12. CB DeAndre Baker from 17 to 14. DT Raekwon Davis from 8 to 15. QB Justin Herbert from unranked to 16. DE Montez Sweat from 22 to 18. WR D.K. Metcalf from unranked to 19. QB Ryan Finley from 16 to 20. QB Drew Lock from unranked to 21. RB Bryce Love from 14 to 23. RT David Edwards from 20 to 24. WR Hollywood Brown from 30 to 25. S Johnathan Abram from 21 to 26. QB Jarrett Stidham from unranked to 27. LT Trey Adams from 15 to 28. C Elgton Jenkins from 25 to 29. RB Damien Harris from 24 to 30. S Marvell Tell III from 27 to 31. WR Deebo Samuel from 28 to 32.

I've been tracking Allen and Edmunds the best that I can, but you have to pay like $150 for the game-by-game scores and I just pay for the cheapest PFF subscription. The scores appear to be adjusted each week, so it makes it difficult to track. For example, players are scored on a 0-100 scale, but after Week 3, to get to Tremaine Edmunds' updated rating, he would have needed to have a negative score in Week 2, so therefore his score from Week 1 must have been adjusted after the fact (PFF had publicly posted their Week 1 and Week 3 grade, so I could piece together what the Week 2 grade should have been based on that).

Looking at NextGenStats.com: Ivory ranks #1 in efficiency (basically measures how much of a north-south runner you are). He faces 8+ men in the box on 38.71% of his carries, which is the 3rd highest in the league. I imagine those two things help. He's rated the 9th best rusher by PFF and the 13th best receiver out of the backfield. The Chargers game is weighing him down big time right now. He's still not playing very well from game to game, but that Chargers game I think he received the lowest possible grade from PFF, so I imagine his grade will likely improve as the season goes on and that game hopefully becomes a blip on the radar.

His deep ball wasn't very good at Wyoming either. It was never supposed to be the one thing he had. Deep ball accuracy is much different than arm strength. His arm strength allows him to make small window throws that other QBs cannot. That and his mobility are his two calling cards. I won't link all the tweets because there's a ton of them, but YardsPerPass was going through the All-22 of Allen this week and it's just absolutely brutal to watch. It's not all on him but I would say the majority of it was this week. https://twitter.com/YardsPerPass

I still have faith in Allen and I've been high on him for a couple years now, but Mahomes, to me, was the best QB prospect we've seen since probably Andrew Luck. It killed me when we traded out of that spot. My personal rankings since the Andrew Luck draft: 1. Mahomes 2. Jameis 3. Mariota 4. Lamar Jackson 5. Sam Darnold 6. Josh Allen 7. Carson Wentz 8. Baker Mayfield 9. DeShaun Watson 10. Mitch Trubisky

Update after Week 4 (underlined names are names that were added this week): Josh Allen - 46.9 (32 out of 34, only ahead of Tyrod and Bradford, who have been benched) Top 5 Offense: Chris Ivory - 76.0 (5 out of 57) Dion Dawkins - 66.3 (30 out of 70) LeSean McCoy - 65.0 (31 out of 58) Jordan Mills - 62.0 (45 out of 70) John Miller - 60.2 (40 out of 70) Bottom 5 Offense (1 being the lowest): Ryan Groy - 42.3 (36 out of 36) Josh Allen - 46.9 (32 out of 34) Robert Foster - 50.1 (108 out of 113) Kelvin Benjamin - 51.7 (105 out of 113) Andre Holmes - 53.2 (101 out of 113) Top 5 Defense: Lorenzo Alexander - 89.8 (4 out of 97) Micah Hyde 77.7 (14 out of 83) Ryan Lewis - 76.1 (12 out of 108) Jerry Hughes - 75.5 (18 out of 97) Matt Milano - 71.0 (17 out of 82) Bottom 5 Defense: Tremaine Edmunds - 53.0 (58 out of 82) Rafael Bush - 58.1 (65 out of 83) Star Lotulelei - 60.4 (79 out of 105) Phillip Gaines - 60.5 (69 out of 108) Trent Murphy - 61.3 (64 out of 97)

I like Tyre Brady from Marshall as a sleeper. He's #8 in the video below.

Yeah, that was pretty freakin brutal. Though it ended up not really mattering...Cleveland got the ball back shortly thereafter and scored immediately.

Seattle just spent a 1st round pick on a RB. I highly doubt they trade for Bell.

Bryant is still technically a Clemson student so he can return if he wants.

Just in case it wasn't already posted:

I believe the Titans run a lot of 1 and 2 WR sets. For example, Tajae Sharp is their #2 WR in terms of snaps this season, and even he has only been on the field for a little over half the offensive snaps. Add on top of that the fact that their QB play has been pathetic and they only attempt 27 passes per game, you have all the makings of an underutilized WR.

He had Darnold graded as a 2nd round pick and Mayfield as a mid-1st round pick. He had Rosen as the only early 1st round graded QB. https://thedraftnetwork.com/2018/04/20/ledyards-final-2018-nfl-draft-positional-rankings-quarterbacks/

I think he meant that as a compliment honestly. I think his point was that he was higher on Allen than most of the other analytics based people out there. Most of his contemporaries that work for his site/work for PFF graded him as a late Day 3 prospect.

Daboll is wrong too