Ya Digg?

You did say they could have taken Woolen in the 2nd round, and both Seymour and Wildgoose are listed as 3rd stringers on their current teams. The only point I'm trying to make is that the hindsight game is useless. Not to mention your plan had the Bills first round pick sitting his entire first season with pretty much no chance of playing outside of injury. So a MLB stuck on the bench, then a 3rd round CB battling a 6th round CB to start opposite a previous 7th round pick - that doesn't sound great to me

But this is part of the problem with playing the hypothetical game. You have this completely different idea, but don't actually have a solution. Now you suggest taking a corner in the second (not in the third), but that obviously costs the Bills Cook, and you just throw out well I'm sure they would have found some guy

Who's the 3rd round corner you're drafting last year? Or would any corner have been fine?

It's crazy right? The overall prevailing theme before/after Edmunds signed with the Bears was that he wasn't that important and that the defense did so well in spite of him. Now there is a mediocre at best MLB in the defense, which many thought would be fine....yet many are freaking out about it? Gotta love this place!

What has Shorter shown at this point that A) makes another team want to sign him and B) makes him so indispensable that you don’t want to cut him? There are 4,5,6 rounds picks as well as 2nd and 3rd year guys all over the league that are going to get cut…I don’t think Shorter will be in as high demand as you think

Not sure how I feel about this take. i like at the end you mentioned the part about self control, everything else I’m not on board with. I don’t agree that guys have to be angry, in your face, yelling, etc to show they are competitive. Tim Duncan is said to be one of the most competitive basketball players ever but you never really knew it on the court. Same with Jerry Rice-SUPER competitive but just went about his business. it’s professional football, they are all ultra competitive, but getting into fights is just stupid. All things like this do during a game is gets a penalty against your team and the player might get ejected. Don’t take this as an attack on your post, that’s not the intention, but I see this said a lot and I don’t agree with it, that’s all

So you need more information but have no problem completely throwing him under the bus? Sounds like you are contradicting yourself there

This happens every year, and this year Shorter seems to be the guy. Teams aren’t lining up to get a guy drafted in the 5th round and immediately sign them to their team. There are 5th, 6th, 7th round guys, guys in their 2nd/3rd years fighting to make teams, and I can pretty much guarantee most if not all on here wouldn’t be able to name those guys, just like we couldn’t name those teams guys. The point I’m trying to make is every team has these types of guys that they want in their prestige squad, and they don’t have time to watch tape on how lower end receivers from other teams are doing

This is being pretty nitpicky wouldn’t you say? It would be more of a story if they played well-there’s a reason why they are so low in the depth chart

And at this point not even a good one. At least make an effort to try and piss people off. Even by your already low standards, your trolling isn’t amusing/entertaining/fun/annoying any more. It’s really sad

But now looking back and seeing the mismatches Kincaid will cause, is Addison the better pick? At best he is battling Davis for #2 duties and based on everything said about Davis during training camp he would not have won that battle. So there would be 50 threads on how bad Addison is

You can’t honestly believe this right? They didn’t do these things because they couldn’t. To think that older owners (by the way, there’s still a bunch of them who have owned teams for a while now) wouldn’t have done this is incredibly naive thinking

Oh they’re definitely rigged, I can just picture it now: Goodell and his henchmen meet with the refs in a dark alley. Goodell throws down his cigarette and tells the refs to make sure certain calls are made. The refs say “that’s sounds like a really good plan boss” take their briefcase of money and walk away. For the really egregious calls, they put the new guy on those because they know there will be death threats. Then after the game Goodell and his cronies go into the losing team’s locker room, rough up a couple of the players, and tell them they “ain’t see nuthin” then walk out it’s almost too easy

That’s the culture of most fans though. People are fans of teams, not players. Fans have problems with players making money, but not the billionaire owners making even more. I love the “you signed a contract so honor it” but then in the next post will say “that guy needs to be cut, he’s not worth the money they are paying him!” I’m sure it has nothing to do with the science that shows that how practices used to be run weren’t as beneficial as to how things are run now-it’s just that 100% of these players are softer now than they used to be

22 passing touchdowns is not insane (yes he had 13 rushing touchdowns). Josh has put up stats that no other player in the history of the league has put up, and he has done it multiple seasons. He did make a huge leap from year 2 to year 3 (just like another QB we all know) but for people to think he’s the 3rd best player in the league is quite the stretch.

Does that mean Dak would be #3 on the top 100 list next year?!

I don’t think this is in any players head at all. The other stuff I can agree with, but this is a complete non-factor in players heads

So just go off the gut test. In your gut do you think Hurts is the 3rd best player in the league? He did improve, sure, not arguing that, but he didn’t improve to 3rd best in the league. If he played in the AFC, he wouldn’t even be in the top 3QBs in the AFC

Hurts at #3?? Hill above Josh??? That’s a bad top 10

It was also mentioned because of the reaction by his teammates. Honestly seeing that reaction definitely showed that perhaps maybe (gasp) fans and media blew that whole Diggs thing out of proportion

I was at practice today-this was actually really funny! All the guys and even Diggs himself were giving the thumbs down. Josh lobbed the next one to him, he caught it, got a really loud ovation! Safe to say there’s no issues with Diggs and Josh

Can you give examples of this?

Not calling you out specifically but someone needs to explain this line of thinking. What about their coaching staff puts them in such high regard? This is the same coaching staff that put Tua back out on the field when he clearly had a concussion then had him play 3 days later and he got destroyed! That alone to me makes them not even in the top half of coaching staffs. The same thing was said here repeatedly about Flores and his staff too and I just don’t get it. Perhaps it’s just the Bills homer in me but I don’t get the love the dolphins coaching staffs have gotten over the last couple of years

Every time I see anything about Cam Lewis I cringe-his play last year gives me major PTSD

I don’t get the love for Fangio-honestly what has he done that makes him this amazing def. Coordinator? One that automatically makes him the top guy in the division. Admittedly I had to look up the guy’s name, but the Jets guy has been there for a couple of years and they do (unfortunately have a great defense) and you are just ranking Fangio above McDermott and Belichik. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I don’t understand what Fangio has done that makes him this amazing coordinator