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100% Ravens I will fear Lamar in the playoffs when he doesn't inexplicably become terrible. I will always fear Burrow/Chase/Higgins to potentially light up the opposition.

He has played 350 snaps and has 111 yards and a paltry 4.2 YPT. I’m pretty confident that may be the worst yardage total by any WR in the NFL with > 350 snaps. So sure. He’s a good blocker. He may be the most useless actual receiver in the NFL.

Great topic. We have all watched a bad franchise stay bad in a division for 20 years. The secret? Make sure your rivals don't find the guy at QB. When Brady was the class of the AFCE, he had to face a laundry list of BUMS at QB in Buffalo. Tyrod, Fitz, Losman, Edwards, EJ, Tuel, Thad Lewis etc etc etc. The biggest reason our star started rising because we found Josh Allen. From a law of averages, every year the other 3 teams don't take a QB, our chances of owning the division gets higher. I don't know who the Jets will find, but they have wasted 2 years on Rodgers. Every year they don't take a QB is good for us. The Dolphins are locked into Tua and have been. When it comes to challenging the Bills for the AFCE, they would have been better off with him being a total bust. Drake Maye is the biggest threat imo. If he ends up sucking, maybe Mayo starts another garbage Tyrod/Fitz QB for a year or two before he drafts another one. That would be excellent.

The only person that will dictate if Rasul gets another contract is Benford’s availability, imo.

This is probably my least favorite take of all takes. 100% yes. Imo there is no way we don’t go CB high. @GunnerBill is correct. Unless something catastrophic happens, Douglas will walk, they will bring in a solid FA and draft a guy high. Elam will up odd man out, his option will be declined and will be cut or moved after TC.

This is the intentional reverse jinx right lol Like when you say the Bills are gonna lose the Dolphins on the main board

Of course JP wants to come back. He wants to get paid.

I think a random practice squad UDFA is better at this point. he may honestly be the worst CB in the nfl. Very sad. That 2017 class was elite.

McDaniels spit in the Colts face basically and still got the Raiders job a few years later.

Ben won’t go imo. He has passed on better jobs. It’s not who would get first dibs. It’s who would go.

Don’t forget the $5M for Lae’l Collins to show up to camp.

Hey man, you always play for OT when Mahomes is 13 for 13 on third down lol

LaFleur had a 4 time MVP at QB and got mortified by Jimmy G and Brock Purdy in the playoffs. If he couldn’t win then, when can he?

Bowles is consistently one of the worst game decision HC’s in the league. Horrific in NY. Horrific now. Just garbage.

Fire LaFleur?

Shoot I forgot. So it would be 5 on that 2021 team. Yeah I take the 21 team still. But we will get Milano back at some point hopefully and see what happens. The back 7 will really need him and Bernard playing at a high level come postseason. I will say this. IMO, Josh Allen is playing the best ball of his career. He has never done this much with less. Having the game he had yesterday was incredible. And when your generational QB plays the best ball of their career (even if the raw numbers don’t support it) you can win the SB. Just ask the 2022 Chiefs.

No. I think if Amari turns on and Coleman continues elevating, this could be one of the better offenses. I think the talent disparity of the defense is too much to ignore. The 2021 team had a lot of talent. Hyde and Poyer were AP. White was AP the year before. Milano was AP the year after. I don't think we have 4 guys on the defense that will ever make an AP team, personally.

The argument against Shakir is that the WR market is so insane, the money he will be commanding is not going to be "worth" his play as an excellent slot-only guy. And Shakir has been EXCELLENT. He may be up there with the best slots in the game, and he's still quite young. For reference, when Cole Beasley signed with Buffalo in 2019, he was the 38th highest paid WR. He probably wasn't as good as Shakir will be when he's an FA, but that was the money he commanded. He was making $7.25M AAV. The top 10 were all making around $9-$10M more AAV. The 38th highest paid WR in the NFL currently is our own Curtis Samuel for reference. Shakir ain't signing $8M per. The top 23 are all making $12M to $27M more. Khalil is going to dictate top 20 ish money which will push him to around $20M a year imo. And that's right around where I would say they should let him walk. I don't think they will. The WR room will hopefully have another rookie scale guy playing a significant role along with Coleman, and they will use their low contracts to justify paying Shakir as the only true vet producer in the room. Not sure its a good idea, but they will almost certainly pay him unless he asks for ASB money imo.

McDaniel hasn't been patient the entire time he's been the Dolphins coach. It was honestly his best playcalling night vs us in a while. Remember when they were up 7 week 18 last year ALL GAME and we still outrushed them by like 16 attempts? If McDaniels yesterday was calling that week 18 game, they win the division, imo.

Oh my god. Do you even remember what you said 6 hours ago? I played YOUR game.

I don’t have him top 3. What I’m saying is I think he has a shot at at least a PB this season and may even be AP2. Combine that with his age and contract, and I think you’d be hard pressed to find 8 CB’s more valuable on the trade market, let alone 45! That’s absurd.

But that’s not a unique situation. They constantly start the year underperformed and behind the 8 ball. Not defending McD here, but Burrow and Zac Taylor are running a LOT of mileage out of that single SB run 4 years ago.

Here’s my case. if the Niners called us up and said Ward for Benford, we also laugh and say no. Ward is 28. Benford is 24. Ward has an $18M cap hit this season. Benford has a $1M cap hit this season (and is under contract next year to boot). So yeah. If you wanna go by trade value, I think Benny clears Ward by far.

Are we sure Cincinnati is gonna make the playoffs? I’m kinda over this regime. But McD doesn’t let the team sleepwalk to third in their division like every year.