Ethan in Cleveland

Picking up his option is about keeping control of the player and giving the team more time to see if he blossoms into the top 4 player we all want him to be. Of course he has played well enough to start. And he is young enough and shown enough promise (especially the second half of 2019) to want to pick up his option. I advocated for picking up his option. Seemed like an easy decision. However, if you think it is nonsense for me saying his run defense is poor then you simply have not watched the games.

We watch the games too. No Bills fan thinks he deserved a ProBowl nod last year.

Edmunds only does one of those listed skills well. He covers ground. He plays the run poorly at best and his ability to diagnose plays quickly seems quite lacking. I have no idea what memory has to do with playing MLB. I hope he plays to an All-pro level this year. Nothing would make me happier. But the tape shows he played poorly last year. None of us know if that was injury related or not. He had no surgery in the off-season so it would be easy to surmise that whatever the injury was it healed at some point. It may have hampered him all season long. We will never know. He appears to be a guy that has all the tools to be a truly great player. There are many guys that are physically gifted that never reach their potential. I'm going into 2021 with an open mind when evaluating his play.

Seattle paid Wilson and Wagner. They can pay for both. The cap will go back up. That said my feelings on Edmunds are well documented. He has been given a pass for his bad play because of his age and injury. No excuses this year. He has to play much better to earn an extension.

Tyreek Hill is a great WR I just don't think he is as complete a WR as Hopkins, Diggs, and Adams. Still incredibly dangerous but I'm not sure he is a true #1. He benefits from having Kelce drawing double teams where those other three are the guy drawing the double teams.

Career Stats: LJ: 68 TD 18 INT 7085 yards, 64.0% comp, Passer rating of 102.6 JA: 67 TD 31 INT 9707 Yards, 61.8% comp, passer rating of 90.4 So what part of Lamar Jackson's game and stats makes him not a passer? JA has 2700 more yards but that is on 400 more attempts. Please enlighten the board with how you have determined LJ is "just not a passer".

Please don't post facts on this board. They often interfere with the prevailing narrative Old, slow and injured. No thanks. I didn't like many of the DL FA signings last year but Beane cut/restructured nicely this off-season and got younger. Hopefully they have the nice mix of youth and experience to generate a consistent pass rush

Half this board wanted to draft a new QB last year. Now Allen is a HOF candidate after one great year? Lot's of players have one great year. There is no reason to suggest he will regress as he has improved every year. But nobody knows. Let's just wait and see what happens.

I think it means the Bills O-line does not run block well

Thanks for reminding me about Smith and Matakevich. I forgot how many special teams snaps they got. I don't really know if they are any good at STs but they are not guys that you can count on to play significant snaps on defense. With that said, you are correct they did make some free agent signings that may improve the quality of the depth. I generally feel the Bills overvalue special teams but with that said they are unlikely to give a ton of reps to the rookie DL guys. So I think Gilliam still makes the roster though I can easily see them going with 3 TEs so they can carry an extra linemen. Same way as hope they only go with two QBs

I think they will cut Johnson and the back-up linebackers are mostly terrible, so I think Gilliam stays for his ST's snaps.

He's done now. It was the wrong decision to cut him in favor of Gore but it is the wrong decision to think he can come back now and be productive.

Bills are a national team. It's not people from Buffalo that travel to away games. It is people that grew up and left the area that go to those games. There is a reason why there is a Bills bar in many towns and not a Browns or Jets bar.

This is a reasonable approach. I think it is just a difference in assessing past performance and predicting future performance. As for how you assess Alexander, I think the same can be said for White, he has had one truly elite season and the others have been very good. All of this is nit-picking as White is a true #1 corner. Does it really matter if he is top 3 or top 5 or top 7? No. He is the Bills top corner and if all remain healthy, the Bills secondary is an elite unit. You apparently don't watch many of his games https://theramswire.usatoday.com/2021/01/13/rams-jalen-ramsey-stats-coverage-top-wrs/

Why do you think that? A lot would depend on if Daboll wants to call his own plays if he gets a HC job. If he wants to install the same offense but let someone else call plays, why wouldn't he want to bring someone with him that he is familiar.

It is important. But those are just two stats. Very important stats but not the only ones. Adams scored 18 TDs compared to Diggs 8 scores. Adams played 14 games compared to Diggs 16, which resulted in Adams having more yards and catches per game than Diggs. Diggs, Hopkins, and Adams are all superstars. I think a legit argument can be made for any of the three as top WR in the league.

If you are comparing "body of work" then Gilmore has been better. I'm talking about going into 2021. You didn't include Alexander from Green Bay who many consider to be top DB in the league. White is no doubt in the discussion but in my mind he is just a notch below top 3.

Edmunds still wouldn't be able to tell it is a run....lol It's mid-July. Just kidding around folks. Or ....

Tre is very very good but he is not a top 3 CB. He's not even the best CB in the division. Howard is. Tre has surpassed Gilmore. He's a solid top 10 and he deserved to get paid.

Agree with this ranking. Ask me after the season and DK Metcalf may move into the top 3

Weighted AP or IB classes earn more than 4.0 for an A

LB depth is awful. Kleine was good for 6 games last year. If he can play at the level hid did at the end of the year they could have some interesting 4-3 looks. Edmunds got some snaps over the OT with Klein at MLB very late in the year. . Everyone else on the team is awful. Safety depth is a worry. LT could be a big problem if Dawkins got hurt.

I would not be shocked at all. He had a terrible rookie year and he had a few nice plays before getting hurt. He made his mark at Stanford by making plays behind the LOS. He has never seemed like a good fit in this defense.

I think people have missed out on his greatest achievement. He was instrumental in negotiating revenue sharing between the franchises. That is his greatest legacy.

Seriously? Fromm won't even make the team. Trubisky is a low end starter for some teams. Fromm has no value and hurts the team by taking up a roster spot they can and should use to carry an extra lineman.