Nephilim17

Thanks! The left-handed golf ball is brilliant. I don't find the Cuban fight with the ref all that amusing, however. The best pranks have some ingenuity to them. The Plimpton article is pretty fun as well.

Now's a deep draft for receiver. Considering the Bills should be competitive most years and picking in the mid to low 20s (hopefully 32 some years)... if now now, when? We have an aging number 1. No proven young boundary receivers. When should we wait to draft a potential number 1 to replace Steph? Not every year will be loaded at WR like this. Look at last year.

I'm hopijng for Thomas or Mitchell with Legette as my consolation prize. I have no illusions that I can predict who the Bills will take but I do guarantee this: If the Chiefs take a WR in the first, no matter who they take, half of this board will go into a panic and lose their minds.

And when we have one of the three best pass-catching tight ends of all time.

Tre is a good guy and I wish him the best. But Beane did the right things this year to clear cap. Yes, we lost some core players, but players who aren't what they used to be. It was needed. We weren't gonna run it back with the same aging guys. Kudos to Beane doing this. It avoids a massive rebuild in a year or two.

I hope he helps the team win big this year but he should feel the heat. We have a generational talent at QB and have been to and lost one conference championship game. Not enough. Maybe he'll win it all and turn around the narrative. Not counting on it but I'd love to be wrong.

What's the point? That a high TD to overall receptions ratio is indicative of a good "scoring" player? Look at the top 10-TD scoring wide receivers in 2023. https://www.nfl.com/stats/player-stats/category/receiving/2023/REG/all/receivingtouchdowns/DESC The averages are all over the place. To me Gabe Davis having a high ratio is more an indictment of his non-red-zone receptions than it is some indictment that other Bills players can't score touchdowns. Devante Adams had 103 receptions and 8 TDs, both more than Gabe ever had. Yet that average is "only" 1 TD one every 13 receptions. That's worse than Diggs who you point out as being the next closest to Davis but you say it's "not even close" when it comes to other Bills players scoring TDs. What does that metric mean? Would you rather have Davis than Adams? Really? Your "efficiency" just proves Davis is really, really not a factor between the 20s. Once again, you say this: "There isn't a player on our roster, during McD's entire tenure, that even approaches Davis' ability to score TDs. The best we have is Diggs and he's averaged a TD every 12 catches." I'll take Diggs poor TD-to-reception ratio and 1,183 yards and 8 TDs in 2023 over Davis' 746 yards and 7 TDs despite Davis' way higher TD to reception ration. In fact, I'll take any of Digg's years over any of Davis despite Davis having a higher TD-to-reception ratio. Who wouldn't? Davis has scored 27 TDS the last 4 years and DIggs has scored 37 TDs in the same span. Yet because of "efficiency" you make this claim: "There isn't a player on our roster, during McD's entire tenure, that even approaches Davis' ability to score TDs. Nonsense. A TD is a TD and Diggs has scored a lot more than Davis. And he has had a lot more yards between the 20s than Davis. I don't give a flying f*** about "efficiency."

Not so. Gabe Davis has scored 7, 6, 7 and 7 TDs in his four years here. We have a couple players with extended stretches that match or exceed this: Dawson Knox: 2021: 9 TDs 2022: 6 TDs Stephon Diggs: 2020: 8 TDs 2021: 10 TDs 2022: 11 TDs 2023: 8 TDs

If, for example, they love Legette, and they're confident they can get him (and KC won't) by trading back a handful of spots, OK. But I wouldn't get cute if they really like a guy and he's available at 28. If they don't really like a guy, sure.

We can revisit it quarterly if you like. I'm not shy about that. And I won't be shy about apologizing if I, and many others, are wrong. Unless he gets hurt, he will regularly outperform Davis. He's just way more versatile and explosive and won't have as many drops. I don't think that's a ridiculous take. If anything, your take is the outlier. Could you be right? It's possible. But I don't think it's likely.

Samuel will be far more consistent as than Davis. Book it.

Thanks for your superior English take!

If the BIlls want him, do you prefer trading out of the first, or taking someone else in the first and trading up in the second, or taking him at 28 in the first?

Haven't heard much about Legette lately. Is he now firmly seen as a 2nd rounder? If so, top of the second round or where? If we still want him, is the better strategy to take someone else in the first and 28 and trade up for him in the 2nd? Or trade down from the first and get another second and extra picks? I guess it depends if there's a D-lineman we really like in the first, or perhaps a center?

Why am I not upset by a billionaire's greed here? Because after 3 recent championships I don't give a $*** how much fans of that team suffer.

According to @Beck Water, a poster who rarely lies, Kincaid had 46% of his yards after catch. I would guess that's the best on the team.

A little shocked to see the OP was very critical of Dalton. I thought he had a great rookie year. Is he a tackle-busting machine? No, not yet. And maybe he will never be. But he gets open and gets YAC. The YAC should not be forgotten given how little we've seen it here from all receivers. After a record-setting year — yes, the bar for TEs in Buffalo is low, but he was only a rookie — I have expectations that he will be a top 7 or 8 TE this year and a top-5 TE by year 3.

Brady: Hey Dawson, remember everything we said about 12 personnel? Knox: Sure do, coach! That was a really great idea. I'm stoked to do it this season! Two tight ends on the field at once. Me and the kid. Killer plan. Brady: Forget it. Knox: Huh. Long awkward pause. Brady. Forget it. Literally.

Frankly, I don't know what a Chief Operating Officer does. Many people here are upset I asked a simple question and many have said it has nothing to do with football so my comment about getting a "football" guy is totally wrong. Mea culpa. I didn't know what the role entailed but I took a crazy leap of faith that if you're a Chief any kind of Officer that it's likely that a good knowledge of the industry you're in is a good thing. I thought that industry is football and not running a stadium or whatever it is. I'm still confused. I didn't know you could do this job well and not know football .

Is there any successful precedent for one guy being COO of two separate pro sports teams? I don't follow other sports like football and have not idea but it seems odd to me. Why not get a football guy to focus on football?

I thought he was going to be a post-June 1 cut? Can you cut someone now but designate it as post June 1 and that player can sign with another team?

I think the idea is that the rookie may need a year to acclimate and to actually become a number 1 WR. In 2023, only 1 rookie WR had over 1,000 years. In 2022, only 2. So don't expect a rookie in 2025 to produce like a number 1. It's possible but not lilkely.

Well, if that's the case I take back a lot of my negative reaction to this. I'm not a fan of the "watever" comment but it was the supposedly recent Twitter bio change to the wave goodbye that was the last straw. So I apologize and the media has done a shameful job here with reporting false statements.

I'm going off of recent (last day or so) media reports that Diggs changed his Twitter bio pic to the wave goodbye. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bills-stefon-diggs-gives-another-indication-he-wants-out-of-buffalo-with-cryptic-post/ "To make things even more interesting, Diggs changed his Twitter bio to a picture of him waving goodbye -- which could indicate his last time playing for the Bills. Diggs." https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/stefon_diggs_posts_cryptic_tweet_hinting_at_bills_exit/s1_17150_40116012 "Diggs recently took to his X account to post “ready for watever” while also changing his bio to a photo of him waving. Goodbye to the Bills, perhaps?" https://lastwordonsports.com/nfl/2024/03/16/stefon-diggs-trade-rumors-ready-for-whatever/ "In his latest posts, Stefon Diggs hinted at his desire for a trade by tweeting out “ready for whatever” and changing his Twitter header to what appears to be him waving goodbye to Buffalo. This could all just be a cry for attention, but there are some on-field reasons to believe this could be the end of the road." IF this has been up for months, since the games were being played, then I take back what I said and I was wrong. And if so shame on the CBS, and other news outlets for reporting something that is months old as a recent development. I don't follow Twitter and can't speak to the recency of the wave goodbye twitter bio pic. My interpretation is that he posted the wave goodbye pic in the past but only recently changed his bio pic to this. IF this is the pic he only recently updated for a bio pic, then that is 100% an intentional statement/trolling by Diggs. And it's 100% unneeded and counter-productive to the BIlls as a team. Can anyone confirm or deny?

I'm hoping, maybe after Diggs leaves, whenever that is, that Josh steps up his leadership that way. I remember when Peyton Manning had his leadership in the lockerroom questioned ("Stupid kicker")... He later stepped it up.