Inigo Montoya
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I expect to get some heat for this opinion, but the pick I'm most excited about is Tyler Bass. It looks like he has the potential to be an elite NFL kicker. I've watched a video of him kick a fifty yard field goal standing stationary and just swinging his leg. He hammered a 60 yarder with one step. He says he hit a 71 yarder with a bit of a tailwind a couple weeks ago. He was the consensus best kicker coming out of the college ranks this year.
After the QB, the place kicker is the one player on a football team who is most likely to win or lose a game for the team. A team with an iffy kicking game is in a very bad place, you see it every week in the League. We all remember Hauschka's mid season slump last year. Playing in New Era Field with the winds and weather makes the kicking game even more dicey. If Tyler Bass is as good as the draftniks say he is, he will likely have a bigger impact on the future of this franchise than any other player Beane drafted last week.
Imagine the luxury of having a Justin Tucker on our team or a Vinatieri or Gostkowski in their prime? Tucker has a cannon for a leg and Harbaugh in Baltimore has no qualms sending Tucker out for 60+ yard field goals. He's just about automatic. In today's NFL with shoddy kicking all over the place, having a great place kicker is literally a game changer.
Beane grabbing Bass with the 188th pick in the 6th round could turn out to be the most important Bill's pick of this year's draft.
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Everyone knows that Josh Allen needs to take another big step forward this year. It is his third year in the same offense, he should enjoy better O-Line play, and he will have more weapons to get the ball to this year. If he isn't able to take a step forward this year, then we are probably looking at his ceiling and I don't think we win a Super Bowl with him under center.
The same thing can be said about Brian Daboll. The offense has been the anchor around the neck of this franchise the last couple seasons. Not all of it is Daboll's fault, the offensive cupboard was pretty bare when Daboll arrived. That's not the case anymore. With the offensive continuity and the players that Beane has given him, the pressure is squarely on Daboll to produce a much better offense. He is out of excuses this year, just like Josh Allen.
I think Daboll's biggest problem is that he just seems to outsmart himself at times. This year there should be no excuses for Lee "False Start" Smith being on the field, or DiMarco running routes 20+ yards down field, or Singletary disappearing for huge stretches of games when he is running effectively, or Cole Beasley disappearing for entire halves of games.
Daboll needs to find his groove this year and this offense needs to finally start scoring some points. Barring catastrophic injuries, he has no more excuses, the cupboard is full of talent. Now Daboll needs to get that talent to execute. I don't think Beane and McDermott bring him back for a year four if he doesn't get the job done this year.
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2 hours ago, Ethan in Portland said:
I’m ok with bringing back Dawkins as long as it is reasonable money. Maybe 7 or 8th highest LT. If he wants more let him walk. As for Milano I say draft two edge players this week and let Milano test the market.
I suspect Beane and McDermott would disagree with your ambivalence towards Milano.
Look at how the Bills' defense as a whole suffered in 2018 after Milano went out with his broken leg during the second half of the season. His skill set is essential to McDermott and Frazier's defensive scheme.
LBs who are are strong against the run as well as being athletic enough to drop back into coverage and blanket TEs and RBs out of the backfield don't grow on trees. We need to lock up Milano for the next 4-5 years and keep him and Edmunds together. They have a real shot at being the best LB pairing in the League.
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What you can't tell from the pictures is that Beane's draft room is actually 500 feet underground in a nuclear bomb proof bunker similar to NORAD HQ in Cheyenne Mountain.
Beane is ready for anything...
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3 minutes ago, Iamkrgr said:
Carlos Hyde would be a solid add of cheap. Ideally we’d go in to camp with 3 solid RBs. Someone always gets hurt throughout the year and it would be nice to not have to rely on a Taiwan Jones or TJ Yeldon to take snaps.
Singletary
Hyde
Akers/Moss
Would be a pretty solid group.
Two tears ago we had an offense bereft of talent. Fast forward to today and we have arguably the best WR trio in the League. With Singletary, Hyde, and Akers we would have a upper tier RB room too.
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I’d be happy to see OBJ out of the AFC.
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36 minutes ago, MJS said:
That guy's name is Devin Singletary. We need a backup running back.
It's getting pretty ridiculous with what fans are expecting out of a backup player. No, we don't need to spend a high draft pick and no, we don't need to bring in a starting caliber running back. We need a change of pace back.
Singletary got hurt last season in Week 2 after a grand total of 10 rushing attempts and after being targeted in the passing game 6 times. So in Week 2 after a grand total of 16 touches on the season Singletary pulled his hammy and was out for 4 weeks including our home game against the Patriots, which was an important game that we lost by one score. We had no one in the backfield that the Pats defense had to worry about in that game. Gore had a good game vs the Pats, but our offense only scored 10 points. Gore is a grinder but he was not a dynamic back by any measure last year. We missed Singletary a lot in that game. Why allow yourself to be put in that situation again?
The era of the Bell Cow back is over. Smart teams have a 1A and 1b RB. Drafting an elite RB that who will actually get on the field this year and be there to spell Singletary and compliment him is more valuable to this team than a backup DB or lineman who is probably only going to be depth this year.
We may disagree on this, but that's how I see it.
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If Beane is sitting there at #54 in the 2nd round and one of the top three RBs has fallen to him, that needs to be the pick. Lock up a stud RB on a cheap rookie contract for the next four years. Better than drafting the 5th best EDGE or 4th best DB. There will be great WR talent in the 3rd.
A free agent RB would be more expensive and on a short contract. You're just kicking the hole in the roster can down the road a bit. There is almost no learning curve for collegiate running backs moving to the pros. I say draft a stud RB at #54. Get an elite talent to pair with Singletary.
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20 minutes ago, BigBillsFan said:
Jackson went from 58 to 66% in completion percentage. Yards per game went up. Yards per attempt differential was higher than Allen. In almost every passing category he improved over the other guys.
Rushing: Yards per carry and yards per game went up, Allen's went down.
This isn't close. Jackson by far is the most improved runner and passer. Allen did improve but Jackson wins by a landslide.
We may have to agree to disagree. The stats don't tell the entire story. Lamar Jackson was a top 5 QB at the end of his rookie year and he was top 5 QB his second year. He is a phenom like Mahomes.
Josh Allen showed promise his rookie year, but his play was erratic. Did some things that were great and followed it up with a boneheaded play that was inexplicable. He couldn't throw short or intermediate passes to save his life. He would make one read and then tuck the ball and run. He finished the year 5-7. Year two Allen looked like a real QB. He only threw 9 picks the entire year, he only threw 2 picks after week 5 of the season. He became one of the most accurate short and intermediate range passers in the NFL. He finished the year 10-6 and he would have finished 11-5 if they had let him and the starters play in the regular season finale against the Jets.
Was Jackson the better QB? Hell yes. Did Allen improve more year one to year two? Hell yes
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7 minutes ago, jletha said:
Uhhh, except for the guy you put as #1.
I think its Jackson #1 and then Darnold/Allen/Mayfield are all tied for 2nd at this point in terms of ability to play QB. The Bills are just a much more complete team/organization than the Jets and Browns. Year three will show the trend, does Allen continue to rise and Baker continue to fall? We shall see.
Jackson didn't improve much from year one to year two because he just continued playing at the same incredibly high level he played his rookie year. Jackson started the last seven games for the Ravens his rookie year and went 6-1. The only loss in his rookie year was a 3 point loss playing on the road in KC against Mahomes, 27-24.
I'll stand by my assertion that Allen improved the most.
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9 minutes ago, MJS said:
I have a good life and literally nothing to complain about, so don't feel bad for me. Just some mild pain and discomfort every once in awhile. Doesn't prevent me from doing anything.
MJS doing the Triple Lindy!!!
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With two years under their belts, it's reasonable to look back at the top six QBs taken in the 2018 Draft. I listed the pertinent stats for the first two seasons, where I think they’re ranked with each other, and where I think they are heading into year three.
Draft Rd - Overall pick # Game Starts Record
1-1 Baker Mayfield 29 12-19
1-3 Sam Darnold 26 11-15
1-7 Josh Allen 27 15-12
1-10 Josh Rosen 16 3-13
1-32 Lamar Jackson 22 19-3
3-76 Mason Rudolph 8 5-3
TD/INT '18 '19 Comp % '18 '19
Mayfield 27/14 22/21 63.8 59.4
Darnold 17/15 19/13 57.7 61.9
Allen 10/12 20/9 52.8 58.8
Rosen 11/14 1/5 55.2 53.2
Jackson 6/3 36/6 58.2 66.1
Rudolph * 13/9 * 62.2
Pass Attempts / Yds '18 '19
Mayfield 486 / 3725 534 / 3827
Darnold 414 / 2865 441 / 3024
Allen 320 / 2074 461 / 3089
Rosen 217 / 2278 58 / 567
Jackson 170 / 1201 401 / 3127
Rudolph * 283 / 1765
Rush Attempts /Yds/TD '18 '19
Mayfield 39 /131/ 0 28 /141/ 3
Darnold 44 / 138 / 1 3 /62/ 2
Allen 89 / 631 / 8 109 /510/9
Rosen 23 / 138 / 0 3 / 13 / 0
Jackson . 147/ 695/ 5 176/1206 /7
Rudolph * 21 / 2 / 0
1.) JACKSON No argument, Lamar Jackson has been the steal of the 2018 draft and is the best QB in the draft class so far. People who say he is just a running QB haven't watched that guy play. He can sling the rock and has the highest completion percentage at a fat 66.1%. The only concern I have is the same one everyone else has, how many seasons can the guy rush 150+ times without eventually getting hammered. On most plays Jackson is able to dictate the contact at the end of the run. He rarely takes a hard shot, he's too shifty or he gets out of bounds. It's a law of averages thing though. He is not only exposed to the dangers every QB has back in the pocket, but he also has all the extra exposure to hits when he runs. He's not 6'5" and 230 lbs like Allen is. You need to have an elite defense to contain Jackson and there aren't too many of them around the League. I'm sure defenses around the NFL will get better at defending him and he won't be as much of a video game going forward, but no one can deny the guy is a hell of QB and he is with a franchise that is smart enough to maximize his abilities.
2.) ALLEN Josh Allen is the 2nd best QB in the class and (I hope) has not reached his ceiling yet. Allen took a step forward in nearly every statistical category. Looking at all the statistics, Allen clearly made the biggest jump from his rookie year to his second year of any QB on the list. Year three is huge, fingers crossed. I'm not going to beat a dead horse about Allen here. We all know Josh's strengths and weaknesses, in year three he needs to improve his long ball, protect the ball better when he runs, and be able to identify the blitz and hit the hot route. If he can get better at those three things, then we are in good shape for a decade here. I'm happy Josh Allen is a Buffalo Bill.
3.) MAYFIELD Baker Mayfield is an NFL quality starting QB who I think is near his ceiling. He took a step backwards in year two. He went backwards in almost every statistical category. He should play better this year without Kitchens there, but I think his 2018 season is about as good as it will get. His emotional immaturity will offset his undeniable physical talent. You have to be even keeled to be a QB in the NFL. There is simply too much pressure involved week to week. His personality is anything but even keeled. He doesn't have the maturity it takes to lead an NFL locker room or franchise to long term success.
4.) DARNOLD Darnold looks like an NFL QB to me too. I think that Darnold overall is probably a better QB than Mayfield, but being on the Jets is a huge anchor hanging around Darnold's neck. So while I'd like to have him the 3rd QB in the rankings ahead of Mayfield, Darnold is a victim of circumstance and falls to 4th. Darnold was not snake bit to the extent that Rosen was, but Darnold is trapped in a dysfunctional franchise with Adam Gase at the helm. He has played behind the #25th and #28th ranked O-Lines his first two years and has had limited skill players around him. Darnold still managed to get better in most statistical categories from year one to year two despite the horrible supporting cast. The Jets new GM, Joe Douglas, is an Ozzie Newsome protege and is trying to right the ship, but that roster needs big help. If Darnold went to a different team in the Draft, even to Buffalo, I think Darnold could be a real franchise QB. Darnold and Rosen are great examples of how important the situation a QB steps into is for their future success. In my mind, Darnold's chances of future success hang on how long it takes for Douglas to rebuild that roster and fire Adam Gase.
5.) RUDOLPH Rudolph? Too little data to say. He played well when he had a chance. I don't suspect that he will be the "answer" when Big Ben finally hangs it up. He will probably hang on in the NFL holding a clip board for a few years, but I suspect that at the end of his career, Mason Rudolph will be best remembered as the guy who Myles Garrett clobbered in the head with a helmet.
6.) ROSEN Love him or hate him, the guy never had a real shot to succeed and probably never will. He'll hold a clipboard for a few more years and he'll be out of the League and probably ends up depressed, bitter, and a frequent flyer on TMZ.
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If Ford is facing the Texan's sideline then he is PERPENDICULAR to his goal line.
] Ford facing Texan's sideline
_______ Goal line
The rule is to stop a player on offense from running back towards their own goal line (facing their own goal line, parallel to it) and de-cleating a defender moving up the field in pursuit of the play. We've all seen these bad hits before. A defender is running after the ball carrier who is ahead of him and gets drilled by a offensive player who had peeled back (the offensive player facing his own goal line) and de-cleats the defender who never saw it coming.
THESE are blind side blocks. The offensive player is facing his goal line (parallel to it) and hammers the defender
Give it up ScottLaw, you're simply wrong here.
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13 minutes ago, ScottLaw said:
Was Ford parallel to his own goal line when he made the block?
Your problem is with the rule. Not the call.
Actually, ScottLaw, Ford is not parallel to his own goal line when he blocks the defender. Hell, the picture above shows him squaring up on the defender. Ford is parallel to the sidelines on that block. The defender is facing the sidelines and Ford hits him face to face. Don't take my word for it though, watch the video. Go to the 2:55 mark of the video and see for yourself and then come back and argue with me some more...
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37 minutes ago, ScottLaw said:
For the love of god. Just read the ***** rules. The illegal block WAS AN ILLEGAL BLOCK.
Give me a break ScottLaw. Watch the video. Ford blocks him face to face, Josh Allen is maybe two yards away from the defender, the defender is still actively in the play trying to tackle the QB, Ford does't de-cleat the defender or hammer him. It's a horrendous call. Period. If Ford's block is a penalty then there is a personal foul on every other running play that goes around the edge.
And if you want to play the, "just read the ***** rules" game, just go ahead and read the rule on giving yourself up when receiving a kickoff, and then tell me why that wasn't a Bills touchdown to start the second half.
I don't know how you can possibly defend that penalty call on Ford. It makes sense that you would though, all you do here is troll. I bet you have six fingers on your right hand...
ScottLaw's Hand
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My take on that game was that the Bills and the Texans were teams with that were pretty evenly matched talent wise. The game was going to be a coin toss from the start. Looking at the game there were multiple factors that swung the game to the Texans. Every bad call in the game went against the Bills. Change a single one of those bad calls and the Bills win. Here are the refs "Greatest Hits" of the game. There wasn't a single bad call against the Texans. I'm not claiming there was a conspiracy by the refs, just horrendous officiating.
Before everyone starts the what about Allen, what about Daboll, what about the second half defense arguments, if anyone of these calls goes the other way, the Bills win the game. Once again, not saying there was a conspiracy, just the the Bills had four horrible calls go against them in the game, each one a critical call that screwed the Bills and had a clear effect on the outcome of the game.
The first bad call was the officials disregarding the letter of the rule to apply "common sense" to the touch back / non touch back at the beginning of the second half. It reminds me of all those plays where the showboating player drops the ball at the one yard line when he starts to celebrate his TD too early and the officials just give him the TD anyways because he meant to score a TD. Wait a minute... It's the first time since I've been watching football for decades that I have ever seen an officiating crew decide to ignore a rule as written because the player didn't mean to violate the rule. Watch for yourself, the player moves backwards with his arms at waste level behind him. That is apparently the new signal for a touch back in the NFL. Does anyone think that if he had instead run the ball out of the end zone on that play the ref would have called a penalty on him? The end zone official, the one 10 feet from the player ruled that he never gave himself up. The video shows the play and goes in to detail on the touch back rule and how it was ignored in this instance.
The second bad call is the non call delay of game on the 3rd and 18 in overtime that the Texans end up converting... https://larrybrownsports.com/football/referees-miss-delay-of-game-penalty-texans/531492 The link discusses this in greater detail.
The third bad call is Zach Cunningham's egregious helmet to helmet on Josh Allen in OT. That missed call would have put the Bills inside the Texans 30 with a 1st down...
The fourth bad call, and the grand daddy of them all, was the "illegal crack back / blindside block by Cody Ford. Unlike the second half kick off non-touch back where the refs intuit the intent of the player, here the officials decide to apply the literal interpretation of the rule meticulously even though this is clearly not the type of "blind side" hit the rule was written to prevent. If this is a "blind side" hit then there is one of these "blind side' hits on just about every running play in the game. Here is a link to a video that shows the play from every angle. There is also the cross field angle which truly shows just how horrible the call was. I recommend watching the entire video or you can just fast forward to the 1:30 mark to see the cross field angle. I guess Ford was just supposed to stand there an let the DE run past him to tackle Allen.. It still makes me sick. This would play have put the bills in field goal range in OT again.
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4 hours ago, Billl said:
He’s won 4 division titles in 5 years. Probably best for Bills fans not to feel sorry for the Texans.
I don't feel sorry for the Texans at all. BOB has single handedly wrecked the team that beat us in the playoffs last year. I'll buy the guy a steak dinner. It's time for BOB to move on and jack up another one of our Conference rivals. Hello Gang Green!
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Bill O'Brien continues to stagger around the League punch drunk making one questionable personnel move after another. When the Hopkins trade went down I went to the Houston Texans version of TBD and read a bunch of the fan's comments flaming BOB for the horrific Hopkins' trade. I think out of all of them my favorite post was the very succinct;
"Bill O'Brien is to coaches, what Bill O'Brien is to GMs"
He had already managed to win the Triple Crown of Incompetence even before his trade yesterday for Cooks.
The first jewel of BOB's Triple Crown was the the Jadeveon Clowney trade to the Seattle Seahawks for a 2020 3rd round pick. The Texans also received Barkevious Mingo who the Seahawks were going to cut, and Jacob Martin a rotational DT. The trade is even more egregious when BOB could look at what the same Seatttle Seahawks got from the Chiefs when the Seahawks traded Frank Clark to them earlier that same year. The Seahawks traded Frank Clark for the Chiefs' 2019 1st round pick and their 2020 2nd round pick.
The second jewel of BOB's Triple Crown came just a few days later when he traded with the Miami Dolphins for rookie LT Laremy Tunsil. What did BOB give up to get his new LT with two years left on his contract? Two 1st round picks and a 2nd round pick. I should add that the Dolphins also threw in Kenny Stills because the Dolphin's GM was suffering some major Catholic guilt over how badly he was raping BOB. Now lets compound BOB's GM incompetence with what is currently happening in Houston. Tunsil has already rejected an offer of $18 million a year from the Texans. Tunsill wants to be the highest pain O-Lineman in the League and he will gouge the Texans for at least $20 million a year. BOB gave Tunsil all the leverage, he can't let Tunsil walk after giving up two 1st's and a 2nd to get him to Houston. He basically handed Tunsil and his agent a blank check. Strong work BOB!
But the third jewel, the crown jewel of BOB's Triple Crown, was the so stupid is should have been illegal, Deandre Hopkins trade. In exchange for a generational WR talent and a 4th round pick, BOB received a 2nd round pick this year and a 4th next year, and the oft injured RB David Johnson who comes with a $10.2 million dollar cap hit this year and who also has a guaranteed $2.1 million for the 2021 season. What makes this move all the more baffling is that the Cards had already tagged Kenyan Drake and Johnson was going to be released by the Cardinals before the season started and the Cards were just going to eat Johnson's cap hit. BOB to the rescue! Of course his malfeasance was only magnified and highlighted when the Bills gave up a 2020 1st, 5th, 6th, and a 2021 4th for Diggs.
There needs to be an intervention in Houston. I have no idea what the owner is doing there. I have never witnessed so much incompetence crammed into such a small window. Even the Browns front office never reached this level of dysfunction. All I know is that someone needs to fire BOB before the end of the season so that he can replace Adam Gase next year as the new head coach of the New York Football Jets.
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I remember watching the videos the Bills released after last year's Draft showing their Draft room. It's going to be quite a challenge to be able to manage all that information efficiently. Taking calls to trade up or down, making calls to trade up or down. It seems like they are always talking to several teams at the same time about possible moves. Keeping track of every team's draft picks and their likely positions of need remaining after each selection. Lots of moving parts. The League might want to give an extra minute or two for each selection.
Here's a link to that video...
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Below are the career stats for the WRs the year Diggs was drafted. Drafting WR is a total crap shoot. The first two numbers after the year "2015" is the draft round and overall draft number. The last three numbers in the columns are : Catches / Yards Receiving / TDs
1 2015 1 4 Amari Cooper WR 21 OAK 2015 2019 0 4 5 39 77 72 8 27 0 357 5097 33 Alabama College Stats 2 2015 1 7 Kevin White WR 23 CHI 2016 2018 0 0 0 2 14 5 1 9 0 25 285 0 West Virginia College Stats 3 2015 1 14 DeVante Parker WR 22 MIA 2015 2019 0 0 3 23 70 45 235 3419 18 Louisville College Stats 4 2015 1 20 Nelson Agholor WR 22 PHI 2015 2019 0 0 5 21 71 62 11 60 0 224 2515 18 USC College Stats 5 2015 1 26 Breshad Perriman WR 21 BAL 2016 2019 0 0 0 11 51 10 7 20 0 95 1561 11 Central Florida College Stats 6 2015 1 29 Phillip Dorsett WR 22 IND 2015 2019 0 0 0 14 71 15 13 84 0 124 1634 11 Miami (FL) College Stats 7 2015 2 37 Devin Smith WR 23 NYJ 2015 2019 0 0 0 2 18 5 15 248 2 Ohio St. College Stats 8 2015 2 40 Dorial Green-Beckham WR 22 TEN 2015 2016 0 0 0 7 31 12 68 941 6 Oklahoma College Stats 9 2015 3 69 Tyler Lockett WR 22 SEA 2015 2019 1 1 4 37 79 55 38 256 1 276 3838 27 Kansas St. College Stats 10 2015 3 70 Jaelen Strong WR 21 HOU 2015 2017 0 0 0 2 20 3 31 330 4 Arizona St. College Stats 11 2015 3 76 Chris Conley WR 22 KAN 2015 2019 0 0 3 18 69 48 151 2013 11 Georgia College Stats 12 2015 3 87 Sammie Coates WR 22 PIT 2015 2018 0 0 0 4 45 6 4 14 0 29 528 2 Auburn College Stats 13 2015 3 94 Ty Montgomery WR 22 GNB 2015 2019 0 0 0 15 58 16 224 1035 7 120 982 3 Stanford College Stats 14 2015 4 105 Jamison Crowder WR 22 WAS 2015 2019 0 0 2 25 72 40 16 68 0 299 3461 20 Duke College Stats 15 2015 4 107 Justin Hardy WR 23 ATL 2015 2019 0 0 0 8 73 6 95 946 9 East Carolina College Stats 16 2015 4 123 Vince Mayle WR 24 CLE 2015 2017 0 0 0 0 23 0 2 2 1 Washington St. College Stats 17 2015 4 132 DeAndre Smelter WR 23 SFO 2016 2016 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 23 0 Georgia Tech 18 2015 5 139 Rashad Greene WR 22 JAX 2015 2018 0 0 0 2 25 1 30 185 2 Florida St. College Stats 19 2015 5 146 Stefon Diggs WR 21 MIN 2015 2019 0 0 5 40 70 63 29 159 0 365 4623 30 Maryland College Stats 20 2015 5 156 Tony Lippett WR 23 MIA 2015 2018 0 0 1 6 28 13 Michigan St. College Stats 21 2015 5 159 JJ Nelson WR 23 ARI 2015 2019 0 0 0 12 58 16 12 120 1 85 1475 11 Ala-Birmingham 22 2015 5 162 Kenny Bell WR 23 TAM 0 0 0 Nebraska College Stats 23 2015 5 175 Keith Mumphery WR 23 HOU 2015 2016 0 0 0 2 27 6 24 198 0 Michigan St. 24 2015 6 184 Kaelin Clay WR 23 TAM 2015 2018 0 0 0 3 22 2 3 27 0 6 85 0 Utah College Stats 25 2015 6 186 Geremy Davis WR 23 NYG 2015 2019 0 0 0 0 36 1 5 59 0 Connecticut College Stats 26 2015 6 187 Evan Spencer WR 22 WAS 2015 2015 0 0 0 0 1 0 Ohio St. College Stats 27 2015 6 201 Bud Sasser WR STL 0 0 0 Missouri College Stats 28 2015 6 204 Darren Waller WR 22 BAL -
3 hours ago, CommonCents said:
John I knew where this was headed and what your opinion would be just from the title and your love of all things Bills.
I liked Diggs before he entered the NFL, i still like him. He is a good player, he wasn’t even thought of the first few days of the draft. With so many highly touted guys coming out it’s almost a certainty that one will be as good or better. What’s that matter though?
Would he have been there at 22? Would the Bills have picked him? The real question, when will he reach Digg’s level? Not anytime soon would be my guess.
The Bills need an impact guy now so they can improve the O and equally as important so they can evaluate Allen.
The trade made sense and the only way it won’t work out is if Diggs acts up and stresses an otherwise amazing locker room.
Nice post. Couldn't agree more. Here is a link to all the WRs taken in the 2015 NFL Draft. Spoiler, Diggs didn't get selected until the 5th round. He was the 19th WR selected in the Draft. Look at all the WR who went before him. Some good, some not so good. Many are just now hitting their stride. The only two WRs in that draft class who are in the same conversation as Diggs are Amari Cooper (1st WR drafted) and Tyler Lockett (9th WR drafted). The Draft is always a roll of the dice. Diggs is a known commodity WR1 who is on a team friendly deal. I would rather take Diggs now than what's behind curtain #2.
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Tre'Davious White has two seasons under his belt and I don't think he has hit his ceiling yet. Lining up everyday against Diggs in practice has got to push his development. I think it's fair to say that on most Sundays, Tre' is not going to line up against wide receivers who are as good as Diggs. I think one of the under appreciated benefits of bringing Diggs in, is how it will help elevate the play of Tre' and the entire secondary. Conversely, Diggs will also have to elevate his game going against a top 3 NFL corner and elite secondary on the daily. Win - Win for the Bills.
The NFL makes $5 billion a year from the TV contracts and it is expected that that number will increase by 25-30% with this new deal. Some network execs say the broadcast rights could go up as much as 50% this time around. Those negotiations are underway right now with no clear time table for any announcement, but it is fully expected to happen this year. The current contract runs out in 2022. One interesting rumor is that the new contract will do away with exclusive Conference (AFC/NFC) affiliations, so AFC games will end up on multiple networks throughout the season. The new CBA gives the players 48 - 48.5% of the NFL's revenue starting in 2021. The majority of that is in the TV rights. The players currently get 47% and the new CBA is expected to increase the players cut by $5 billion over the course of the 10 year CBA.
As for these TV negotiations impacting Tre' White and the Bills, I'm hoping that after the NFL negotiates the new TV contracts, that Tre's agent will give the green light to start talking about a contract extension. I think it would be fiscal malpractice for Tre's agent to jump the gun on negotiations before he has an idea of how much money is going to be in the pot for teams to throw around with the new TV contracts. That may also be why there hasn't been a lot of movement on Dawkins and Milano too. Beane hinted at that in the presser today. He said it "takes two" to get a deal done. I suspect that there are a lot of players, agents, and GMs waiting to see those numbers and then we will likely see a bunch of deals getting done around the League pretty quickly. The Bills need to lock up Tre' ASAP.
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1 hour ago, stowellez said:
I don't see him breaking with his philosophy, and the philosophy that got us to this point. Motor did a fine job last year when asked to. I can't imagine using our first pick for what might amount to RB depth. If Beane doesn't keep looking far down the road we'll end up in cap hell again before we know it. And no Superbowls again...to show for it. My $.02
Fortunately we don't have many glaring holes but I could imagine Beane keeping the first picks on the Def side of the ball. A CB perhaps to stay young there, in case we can't resign White.
Go Bills!
I agree that to have sustained success you need to look at roster and salary cap management with the long view. I think you also need to take advantage of a situation when it presents itself to you, and I think we are in a legitimate window to bring a Super Bowl back to Buffalo in the next two years.
We have a QB on his rookie contract, most of the other "skill players" are also on reasonable contracts. We have an established offense and defense in a League where we will have a truncated off season placing those franchises with new head coaches (5) new D coordinators (11) and new O coordinators (10) at a serious competitive disadvantage. How many more teams will have a new QB under center? On top of that we are now sitting in a division where for the first time in 20 years we are favored to win and grab a home playoff game.
Everything is lining up this year for the Bills (if we have a season). This year is the best chance we've had to win a Lombardi since the Kelly Era. It's not the time for Beane to be timid, it's time for him to strike while the iron is hot. All I want is just one Super Bowl for the Bills in my lifetime, for these long suffering fans and our beleaguered city. That's all I ask for. My brothers and I buried our wonderful father last year in his favorite Buffalo Bills sweatshirt. He never got to see his Buffalo Bills, Braves, or Sabres win a championship.
It's f***ing time.
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Tyler Bass, kicker, might be Bills' best pick
in The Stadium Wall Archives
Posted · Edited by Inigo Montoya
I think that if we didn't draft him and he made it through the last two rounds without some other team selecting him, there is no way he signs with the Bills as an UDFA. No kicker in their right mind would chose to kick in New Era. They all want to kick in a dome. I'm sure a dozen different teams would have tried to sign him and bring him to camp to compete with their kicker and we would have lost out. Compared to another player who we could have gotten in the 6th round with this selection, I think Bass probably has the most potential to make the team and be a difference maker. He seems to have the tools. Let's hope he is the real deal.