DrMaxPower

To me, it's about probabilities and bust rate. The highest we could reasonably trade would be fringe top 10. There's no sure things there. If we trade 3 picks for 1 bust it'll really hurt. I also think you have better odds of finding an elite player with 3 bites in the top 60 than 1 bite in the top 13 or whatever.

He may not be. He had a slow recovery on the knee, maybe the same is true on the Achilles. Worth a shot. My guess is the 'up to' is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

I like the the move. If he can be 80% of what he was we've got a decent cb room pre-draft. Hopefully now 2 years out from achilles he's closer to his old self. Took him 2 years to get over the knee. Worried he's cooked though. Didn't see a lot last year but what I did wasn't good. Worth the risk.

There are very good reasons there are zero players anywhere near this big in the league. It isn't because there aren't any.

They both look totally out of their depth but I think ownership is a contributing factor. They've should have been rebuilding but were stuck trying to be competitive to save their jobs.

I agree but that makes signing 2 vet qbs all the more wierd. Either they have no plan or can't get anyone to take their money. Tanking for Manning doesn't work for Schoen or Daboll who will be out on their a$$ with another rough year.

This is the wrong year to try and trade a RB. I read Daniel Jeremiah say it's the best RB class he can remember. You'll be able to pluck very good players in the 4th and 5th rd. Nobody is giving up a pick for the privilege of paying him 15 per. You'll be able to draft people 90% as good for 5% of the cost. Most likely scenario is he plays out the season and either moves on or is tagged.

If Pegula will sign the checks. It's tiresome to listen to people endlessly blow Roseman. He's an excellent GM but it doesn't take a genius to add 4 void years to every deal. It takes an owner willing to spend more than the others. Their success is about Lurie as much as it is Roseman.

It's still very good. I played oline for 12 years. I can tell you that in some ways it's harder to block for somebody who is constantly moving. What may be a safe redirection angle on 1 play puts your man in his lap the next. There are probably as many instances of Josh creating his own pressure with happy feet in clean pockets as there are times he bails them out making free rushers miss.

For YEARS, the big complaint was the oline. 'Build a dominant line', 'Keep Josh upright', 'Fix the line and everything takes care of itself'. They did. We are paying 2 blue chip tackles. We just wrapped a season in which we probably had the best, most consistent offense in the league. And yet the 'Josh does it with no help, we need to invest in the offense, get him weapons' narrative thrives. I don't get it.

This account has been outed many times as a no-source fraud that just makes crap up for engagement. FYI

Beane's comments made it sound like they were already not on the same page with Benford on value. This pretty much ends any likelihood of an extension IMO. They'll draft a corner early and go from there. If he gives them confidence over the course of the season he can be a CB1 I think they'll move Benford. If not, they'll tag him and reconsider after another year. A couple months ago Benford was my 1st priority to resign. Then he took back to back concussions to close the season with the 2nd one of the scary variety. Add that to him apparently chasing top dollar and I think he's now a guy you let someone else pay if you have a reasonable replacement.

I would have thought Benford was 1st priority of the potential extensions. Now I'm wondering if the 2nd concussion has scared them off. I wouldn't be shocked to see them wait and see how the season goes and revisit half way through.

If we can get him at a compensation level ($ and draft picks) that doesn't compromise fixing the defense, great. He'd fill the biggest question mark on O. That said, I'll never understand this idea that we need to prioritize resources to the offense. It's like a person over-complicating weight gain/loss. Calories in VS calories out. Points for VS points against. It's exponentially more difficult for a top 2 offense to add 5 ppg than a bottom 10 defence to reduce 5 ppg. All the complaints about previous defense investment are the very definition of sunk cost fallacy and irrelevant. It's still the area that most needs attention and the area most likely to hold us back.

This is the one to target if we want an end. Garrett is going to come with the 'offer they can't refuse' price as they don't want to move him in the 1st place. Guys like Bosa and Mack are a big risk. Hendrickson is about as much a sure thing as you're going to get.

You keep saying this, as if it's just a choice that Beane can make. It comes down to Pegula writing the checks. If he isn't willing to spend like Lurie, Beane can't stack a roster like Roseman.

I'd have to dig up the rule to read the definition but as I recall, neither are technically allowed. Maybe my memory is bad but I feel like it changed much more recently than the 90s.

They don't even really need to ban it. Just start enforcing the rule on assisting a runner. For most of the history of the game it was illegal to push a ball carrier like that. For some reason they stopped penalizing it unless a guy was pulling vs pushing.

He rarely speaks publicly about any player this way. They are obviously pissed. The only thing that pushes him to this is when a player is lacking 'Bills DNA' and needs a wake up call. We are going to start hearing chatter about how he wasn't being a 'pro' and needs to take things more seriously. Hopefully he responds accordingly.

Putin has serious kompromat on Trump. His only core beliefs are self preservation and personal enrichment; this isn't some ethical stand. The pee tapes are real.

If you asked in the 1st half of the year people would be saying it was an excellent draft. If you ask in the 2nd half, you'd say it was terrible. We'll see in a year. Truth will probably be somewhere in the middle.

Maybe, I dunno, wait for the season to end before whining about not bringing in players. Little details, like free agency not even beginning for more than a month yet.

We consistently had one of the best pass defenses in the league when he was here.

The choice in the offseason was Babich or Butler but Babich isn't who I'm referring to here. I liked Babich and agree, he helped develop talent in prior years. Choosing Babich as DC led Butler to leave and created a hole to be filled. Jahmille Addae - CB coach. Scott Booker - Nickel coach. Joe Danna - Safeties. Are these the right guys? That's my question. Re: Bishop, I've said elsewhere that he did improve a bit and that he flashed a couple times in the game. That said, is anybody satisfied with what we got out of our RD 2 Safety this year? He was a disappointment overall.

I'm not a fire everybody, blame the coaches guy. I'm typically more patient than most. I'm also a Jimmies and Joes over X's and O's guy. I started a thread saying this loss was more on players coming up small than coaching. I'm just not convinced we've got the right people in the DB room. It was likely the worst season of DB performance under McD.