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The point of them keeping them would be because they have some confidence in their abilities to play. It’s not like Ingram is getting a Jamarr Chase matchup either

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How many UB players are we expected to roster? The team can barely compete in the MAC. Are we expected to believe inviting double digit UB Bulls to camp is the key to Super Bowl success?

Just to be clear, you aren’t including in the average the years they didn’t have firsts but you are including the firsts they traded for from other teams? The Eagles only picked 13th in 2022 because they had previously acquired the Dolphins 15th pick and traded up from there. Just feels like you are holding a savvy trade against them. Anyway, since 17, it sounds like there basically hasn’t been a drafting gap between the two teams, but one team has played in 3 SBs and won two of them.

It’s better than average because I doubt everyone considers AJE a good pick

Buffalo Joe made it again

Beane and McD have been here longer than 5 years.

Things we know for sure. Nobody in the NFL wanted to pay Damar Hamlin more than the 63rd highest safety salary to add them to their roster. You can do with that information what you will when it comes to his reputation around the league.

I don’t know Bryan Cook as well, but if someone wants to argue he’s also not a good player, i won’t disagree.

He doesn't belong in the starting lineup. But he has been because we have had no one better. In 2022, he allowed a 144 rating when targeted. He’s not good. You can have a good defense with a player who doesn’t belong in the starting lineup. We have managed around Hamlin fine. But none of that makes him “average” or “solid,” he’s just not good. And the less he plays, the better the defense will be.

He commanded the 63rd highest safety salary in FA this offseason. The NFL told you what they think of him. 63rd best safety in a league where there’s only 64 starters He’s making the same salary as Siran Neal playing ST. The debate is over

no man. if Hamlin is the weakest link on the 2024 defense and “average,” the defense wouldn’t have been mediocre in most stats and terrible in a couple. Despite having 2 INTs, he allowed a 103 rating in coverage. Despite playing nearly every snap last year, he crawled back to the Bills for a near vet minimum deal. He is the 63rd highest paid S in the league in an FA market. He’s bottom of the barrel. He’s not average.

The defense was such a mess last year, we spent a whole offseason trying to fix it.

He is not average. He is bad and slow. But he is the best we have.

Shenault did not shine. He was an easy cut to me. the Shenault love or thought he had made the roster always had me thinking I was taking crazy pills. I did not see it, at all.

Well when Larry O is on the books for the next 3 seasons, I don’t want to hear complaining that there’s no cap space. We make our choices to roll 5 deep at DT and have to live with them.

You said we got lied to by Larry O and that’s why we are in this position. its not true. we knew he was going to be suspended for 6 weeks and signed him anyway. As far as him being signed because our DT depth sucked. #1 are we 100% sure he makes the roster #2 that DT depth included Jordan Phillips, who we are bringing back presumably because he has something to add to DT depth

I would like to test this theory asap by winning the first one, but I can’t agree. I think a small minority of folks would grumble about multiple rings. The large majority would be quite pleased.

Somewhere on a Minnesota fan forum, someone is saying “hey come on, we won 14 games last year, and we made the playoffs 2/3 years, what is there to complain about?”

I am not. Beanie renegotiated his offer to Larry O after the suspension came down. Because he was not signed.

Um i thought he got a larger portion guaranteed for injury at signing

We knew Ogunjobi was going to be suspended before he signed.

I’m sure there’s some Elam threads that we (and Beane) all look pretty bad in

The ratings aren’t getting worse though. They are improving across the board. Is it possible to increase the ratings but in reality slowly march to a tipping point where it all reverses and goes to hell and people turn it off? I suppose. But what do you even do about that? You don’t even know what the reason could be. It’s like planning for a doomsday scenario without knowing what will do it. May as well print money as well as the printing is good. Especially for these 80 year old owners, they don’t care about 20 years from now.

It’s a sign of a quality NFL franchise to basically write off scouting UB. The drought era probably had the GM watching Naaman Roosevelt practice far too much. Does anyone think that the Steelers are dedicating scouts to Duquesne University? Does anyone think the Bucs are scouting university of Tampa?