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Those investments needed to be done regardless of the OC. We simply couldn’t continue to sign FAs to fill those rolls for cap and talent reasons. This move is to address a short coming in the offense for a team on it’s way back to the playoffs in a piss poor division. This was Beane saying he believes in this team and wants to give them the weapons it needs to succeed. This is also Beane trying to fix his offseason WR FA mistakes in Samuel and MVS.

Salary and cap hit play a huge part of NFL trade compensation. Take two similar players, the one with the cheaper cap hit will always get the higher trade value.

Don't be so sure.

Even Rodgers admitted it was a BS call.

LOL, 1/2 a good pick for a 4th rd pick who gave us 2730 receiving yards in 4 seasons with 27 TDs. You do realize he is 8th in his receiver class in yards and 3rd in TDs. Not bad for the 17th receiver taken in his draft class. McCloud was also a very good pick. He was the 22nd WR chosen overall. He is 8th in game played in his WR draft class and 16th in yards. The truth is we could use him here right now, but he is currently playing well for Atlanta. Right now I'd take him over Hollins and MVS. So that's 3 hits at WR out of 7 late round WR draft picks. That's an excellent draft record for late round picks. Hodgins isn't a bad pick either. https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2022-04-21/nfl-draft-picks-career-games-played-average-position The average career of a 4th rd WR is 34.3 games - Davis is at 69 and counting. The average career of a 5th rd WR is 40.89 games - Shakir is in his 3rd season and is already at 35 games and counting. The average career of a 6th rd WR is 24.04 games - McCloud is at 82 and counting; Hodgins is at 29 games and counting. I honestly think Shakir is on his way to being a star in the NFL, but Davis, McCloud and even Hodgins are good to excellent picks given their draft status. I get that you and nearly everyone else (including me) thinks he should have investment more draft capital, especially early in the draft, on WR and other weapons for Josh. I agree, but it's not accurate to say he has drafted poorly on WRs. That simply isn't true.

If you want to criticize Beane for not using premium picks on WRs, I’m in full agreement, but he has drafted WRs and has found capable players like Davis and Shakir. He has made 7 WR picks before Coleman, all in the 4-7 rounds. He took Davis in the 4th, Shakir in the 5th, and Ray-Ray McLoud and Hodgins in the 6th. That’s actually very good late round WR drafting. He also brought in Diggs, Brown, Beasley and Sanders. Like I’ve said, much more good than bad. I’m sorry but your argument about WR evaluation doesn’t hold up. The best that can be said is that he hasn’t invested enough in WR through his tenure and that’s an argument I can accept and agree with. When you have Josh why did it take so long to use a top 2 round pick on a WR (he’d argue he spent a 1st on Diggs)? I honestly don’t understand it either.

Beane is fine. Other than Polian he is by far the best GM we have had. His drafting is fine. It’s BS that he doesn’t draft offense or weapons for Josh. Since he has been in Buffalo he has drafted 28 players for the offense but only 25 for the defense. His premium picks (rounds 1-3) are nearly evenly split with 10 on O and 11 on D. In the last 3 years he has used 1st and 2nd rd picks on Kincaid, Coleman and Cook. In fact of his last 6 1st and 2nd rd picks 4 have been on offense. If you want criticize his drafting, he used, in his early drafts, many premium picks along the DL with some bad misses like Boogie Basham and even Epenesa. He also recently missed on Elam in the first. Of his 21 top 3 round picks only Ford and Basham are true busts with Elam trending in that direction. However he has made up for it with Davis, Shakir, Benford, Taron Johnson among others. Does Beane make other mistakes? Absolutely. His cap management hasn’t been great. Some of his FA signings have been questionable. However he also has some huge wins in trade and FAs. Guys like Diggs, Morse, Beasley, Douglas, Hyde and Poyer come to mind. Overall he’s done a very good to excellent job and our W/L records is the proof.

Besides trading for Adams or Hopkins etc…., what adjustments can Brady to make the offense more affective until Shakir returns? The obvious answer is Curtis Samuel needs to step up. That said, the best depth we have is the RB room. All 3 RBs can run and catch. Maybe the solution starts there. So what about more two back sets? Put Davis/Johnson and Cook in the backfield and then split one out as a receiver. UGA did this often with Cook. I’d even go big and utilize Gilliam as a fullback to add more power running behind Gilliam and Alec Anderson/Knox. This also would force teams into single coverage and you might be able to hit some passes to Coleman and even MVS. Sometimes old school works. Other ideas?

I hate to dump our issues on offense on one player, but Samuel being MIA has been a major issue for the offense. I wasn’t expecting much from Hollins or MVS, but Samuel was the big offseason signing. He had experience with Brady and excellent speed. I gave him a pass for the 1st 3 weeks because of the turf toe, but this was his week to shine especially with Shakir out. So where is he? Does he lack chemistry with Josh? Are Brady’s plays for him not working? Can he not get open for the 1st time in his career? For this offense to work we need about 5 good targets. Cook and Shakir are doing their jobs. Keon is doing the rookie thing, sometimes great sometimes not so great. Kincaid has disappointed so far, but has shown sign of life. Now the question is who will be that 5th target? Samuel was hired to be that guy. The guy we moved around the formation who could go from safety valve on certain plays, to ball carrier on others to the occasional deep threat. I was expecting 2-5 catches a game with around 30-50 yards and an occasional big play. At this point we are getting nothing from Curtis. Without Shakir, DC’s only have to game plan for Cook and Kincaid. That’s not enough to make the offense go.

That was fun.

I learned a long time ago that college football tends to chaos except the top few teams and sometimes even them.

One thing about the transfer portal it is creating opportunity for new schools to make a dent in college football. TCU used the portal to build a team that got to the CFP final. The portal has (& good coaches) have turned around teams like GA Tech, Indiana and even Vandy. It has hurt the depth of the monster teams like GA, Bama and Clemson (who for reasons unknown does bring kids in from the portal). More parity in the Power 5? I’m also not sure what it’s doing to FCS schools. Their stars are moving up, but Power 5 kids searching for PT are moving down.

This aged well. In some ways, it was the best week of college football in years. Vandy over Bama. First win by Vandy over a top 5 team ever. Now 1-60. Top 11 teams Tenn, Mich, USC also lost to unranked teams. No. 9 Mizz got pounded by 25 TexA&M and ranked Louisville and UNLV also lost. Somehow Miami won very late when trailing by 10 with 2 minutes left. Also my Hoosiers are the first bowl eligible team in FBS going to 6-0 for the first time since 1967. The Dawgs have now pounded Auburn for 8th straight time. Turned out to be an amazing college football weekend.

Johnson is hurt I believe, which is why this wasn't done prior to the game. McD liked his inside combo of Oliver and Jones with Johnson and Carter subbing in, but Johnson got hurt.

He's a kid. So not nearly as experienced, but should help on specific run situations as he gets up to speed. His best attribute is that he is coachable and a very hard worker.

This is true. Phew! Another good Bulldawg. I was worried about the Bills having more UB Bulls on the roster (3) than UGA Bulldawgs (now 3+ - Cook, SVPG, Logue and Cine - PS). We are going to like Logue. He is a very solid run stuffing DT. He isn't spectacular, but is an upgrade over what we saw against the Ravens.

What do you think we can get for Allen and Cook? Maybe Houston will send us Diggs back. I admit I didn't post here much last season, but the meltdown around the board from this loss is very scary. It's one friggin loss to a good team on the road and that is a bad matchup for us. Ok, move on. Remember this is a very young team is spots with 3 key defenders out. We are getting 2 back soon. Things are going to be just fine. And by the way Josh hasn't lost a step. His own line stunk against the Ravens and he is protecting his injured hand.

I'm not either. They played tight formations with no motion. Is was like they tried to go mono a mono with Balt and took ourselves out of what we do best. Dumb!. PS: Nice win by Kentucky this week. (Unless UK stands for United Kingdom).

One positive is that Coleman after the first miss, made 3 good catches. The problem with the D isn't that it is not athletic. It's not a power group. It's not designed and has never been designed to beat you with one on one physical matchups. It's designed to make teams beat us by dinking and dunking until they make a mistake or we get pressure to the QB. Balt's physical attack and winning the lines on both sides of the ball, took away what we do best. Congrats to them. Now Brady, McD and Babich need to examine how they do things and see if they can adjust because other team will try to do what Balt did tonight. The good news is that Johnson and Bernard are on the mend and will be back soon, which should help on D. Also we could learn from Balt's offense about motion and misdirection.

We got your butts kicked and people are worried about Bass. LOL. His cap hit to cut him is about $7 mill. He isn't going anywhere.

This game was a joke from start to finish. Bad game plans on both sides of the ball. Bad execution of both sides of the ball. The O-line looked bad the entire game. We didn't pass the ball beyond 5 years most of the game. The play calling was predictable and Lamar and Henry carved us up on the running game like a Xmas ham. Balt was able to exploit our missing D. The strange thing was until the worst play call of the year that we were still kind of in the game. Now it's time to regroup, hopefully learn from this film, get Johnson and or Bernard back in the lineup and go beat two beatable teams in Houston and the NY Jets. Go 3-1 every month and this season will be a great success.

Outside of Allen, Kelly and Ferguson, the NFL Bills don’t have a single QB really worth discussing, except maybe Taylor in this offense. Since the merger all playoff appearances were directed by those three except Taylor one year and Flutie twice (except Rob Johnson had to start in 1999). The rest have all been a giant pile of bat guano.

Of course a group with Diggs is better, just ask him!

It's kind of sad that we got rid of the Clapp and then just turned around and got it back.

Need to give an answer to Hinds CC. We also had Harvard (Fitz) earlier.