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Bills top 5 in 4DC percentage too.

Meh, a slight decrease from 158 to 157 doesn’t change much. Still an elite number.

On the business side? No. on the operations side, you have a point. Look at the NBA for example. Their organizations are FILLED with MIT type guys. Daryl Morey, Sam Hinkie (RIP). Guys that are pioneers in pushing the envelopment from an analytical standpoint. The gold standard for analytics in the NFL for the last 20 years is a guy who went to Wesleyan College and got paid 25 bucks a week to be a coaching assistant.

I follow you around? You engaged me lmao. persecution complex again. It’s gotten old.

What narrative? I made the comment that he played lots of snaps last year. You chimed in that they decreased in the second half, they did, but my point was that he played lots of snaps. Not that they did or did not decrease in the second half of the year. My narrative, the entire time, was that he played lots of snaps. Which is what I said. This persecution complex is absurd lol. I’m not out to get you or make you look stupid with every post, that’s just a bonus most of the time.

His snaps decreased in the second half of the year. He still played lots of snaps. So it doesn’t really matter that they mildly decreased in the second half lol.

What horses should we get

We have had a top 10 defense the last 3 seasons. It clearly has NOT cut it lol. Ah yes, all those elite defensive players we acquired this off-season.

all we need is the best defense in football putting together a dominant postseason run. Got it. Good plan.

He had a higher percentage of snaps in 2023 than he did in 2022. the only game he had less than 60% of offensive snaps was the barrage against Dallas.

How are Shakir and Samuel getting 90 targets each? Is Shakir starting on the boundary? Is Dawson Knox not playing? The analogy doesn’t work because when we rotate DT’s or CB’s it’s between 2-3 guys. Not 4-5.

Because someone else is getting taken off the field. Shakir had 5 targets through week 6 last year. Week 7 was Knox’s last game before going on IR. Shakir had 2+ targets every game until Knox came back week 14. The math doesn’t work. The Bills are not gonna successfully rotate in players and target them exclusively when they are on the field. You are basically saying sub in Coleman on this drive and throw him the ball 4 times then take him off and put in MVS and target him 3 times. That won’t happen unless someone gets hurt. Diggs got a ton of targets and force fed at points. But he also got a ton of targets by virtue of almost always being on the field in passing situations. You can’t do that for WR4-6.

You may know more about Josh Allen than a random NFL exec, but do you know more about the NFL QB’s at large? Probably not. I don’t care about the rankings really because they are meaningless. But if you are gonna have any objective opinion on QB rankings across the league, watching every throw of Josh Allen, then watching highlights or redzone of the rest of the NFL is going to completely ruin that. It’s fine to have Bills blinders on to consume your entertainment. But you gotta recognize that. Daboll pulling up PFR rankings on his phone was legendary television for me.

I never really liked him after the whole Rihanna thing.

I love this thread. I voted yes. But imo, you can tell the story of the NFL without Fitz. If he had a single playoff run, I think he actually gets in. His crowning achievement is missing the playoffs with the Jets. That’s tough.

Correct take. I actually didn’t like Coleman predraft. But I’m no scout. If they walked away with Coleman and Franklin or Corley or whatever, I would say hey, at least they recognize the problem. To come out of the deepest WR draft in years with WR as our biggest need is a failure. And them not recognizing that is an even bigger problem.

If Beane wasn’t that worried about the grade difference of Coleman and say McConkey or Legette, that kinda works against “Coleman was their guy,” to me.

Good point. Actually.

That’s all fine and a logical possibility. But then the “Coleman was our guy all along” propaganda is just that. My posts have exactly 0.0% to do with if the Bills succeed or fail. I enjoy discussing them at an intellectual level when it comes to teambullding and overarching strategy because it’s the most fun part of the off-season and you can learn a lot from other posters and exchange/debate ideas. I’ll be cheering for Coleman to be the best WR in NFL history every Sunday. But if that’s what you’re looking for from here, it’s not gonna happen. It’s no fun to say “Aw shucks I hope he’s great, Beane knows best.” Talk about absolutely ***** boring.

I don’t need to think that. I just know I’m smarter than you lol

It’s crazy that Hard Knocks had so much footage of them loving Malik Nabers predraft that they released long after they drafted him. Talk about a lucky coincidence! “Hey you guys aren’t gonna take Coleman if we trade back, right? I’ll take you at your word if you all say you won’t touch him” - Beane to all 31 other GMs, mid phone call with the Chiefs to trade back, in the mind of @oldmanfan

Oh you have proof of this? Oh wait, no of course not, you’re just another rando on the internet. “Get over yourself” indeed lmao.

The reality is he had the 28 pick, then traded back to the 32nd pick, then traded to the 33rd pick, to draft his “priority” weapon. It doesn’t sound as convincing as the “he used his first pick on him!” take.

He knows a lot more than me. He couldn’t know if anyone else would’ve taken Coleman. It’s impossible. I’m sorry this hurts your feelings. There’s a reason no one can predict the draft with 100% accuracy. It’s impossible.

No one could “know” that. It’s impossible. He may have strongly suspected that. He may have said “there’s only a small chance we miss our guy, let’s do the trade back.” But that still means he was willing to risk losing Coleman to make that trade. Even if he thought it was a small risk. It’s quite the opposite of “prioritizing.”