DrMaxPower

I'm pissed too but this thread is hilarious. A perfect microcosm of this bipolar fan base. A horrible 20 min and it's like the 1st 3 games completely disappeared from people's memories.

Brady is football Tom Cruise. Great at what he does and a psycho totally focused on perfection. Also the ultimate phony 'good guy', right down to the smile.

I think you sell Spector short. He's a good athlete who seems to generally make the right read. I think people are too tied to his draft slot VS his actual play on the field. If anything, I'm more worried about Wiliiams, whose play is still pretty frenetic. I'm comfortable letting things ride, as long as Bernard is back in the next few weeks.

If we didn't pluck an absolute stud out of the 6th round at the same position I expect he'd be starting and doing at least 'OK'. Benford being a revelation changed the plan. Trading him now is selling at his absolute lowest value. I still expect him to get his chance next year to start. I don't think they'll pay Douglas and they'll slide Elam in to replace him. I think the strength of his camp gives them confidence in his future. If he has a decent year, he might be a cheap re-sign.

Can't be... didn't PFF give our whole OL 40s and 50s last week? They've been dictating the style and pace of games. It bodes well for the future. I think there's less variability week-to-week when your strong up front.

I really hope Taron is back for this game. Obviously winning is the priority but I would love to see Douglas/Benford/Taron erase this jerkoff. That will be almost as good.

If this was the week 7 depth chart, go ahead and draw conclusions. Freaking out over the 1st depth chart of the season is crazy. It means SFA. Let's wait and see who plays how many snaps and in what roles/situations.

Beane thought he could buy Diggs' compliance. One of his biggest mistakes. Money just makes makes you more of who you are. I'm sure he'll be on his best behavior after getting his desired new start and being on a 1 year deal. No matter how he performs in Houston, it was tight to move on. He'd never replicate it here again and would would have just continued to be the rotten apple in the barrel, spoiling the bunch.

Most of the people making a stink seem to be overlooking the fact that they are starting with the plays from Brady's install for the week. They aren't picking random plays out and getting the coach to run them. I seriously don't get the negativity about this. People think players are robots. They do everything equally well and always perform at 100% effectiveness. In reality, every player has things they do well or struggle with. Quarterbacks have routes they are more comfortable throwing. Receivers have routes they think they can get open on. If the guard doesn't think he can make his reach block, or cut off a flowing backer on a play, I want to know before I call the play and get blown up. That's before you get to the buy-in it creates. When the coach calls your play, you better make it. This is not unusual. Lots of coaches have similar practices.

Groot has 10's of millions of dollars at stake. Career year incoming. AJE has been consistent - 6ish sacks at 35ish% snaps. He should push double digits in a larger snap share. Miller, we'll see. Boom or bust. He'll either play fairly well or be largely useless. Over.

I do not think he's the 'slot only' guy a lot of people peg him as. I think offences are gradually moving away from the 'prototypes'. Teams are finally starting to use motion to it's potential. That, combined with bunch formations can get different styles of receivers a free release. I think he winds up being the 2nd leading receiver behind Kincaid. 800+ yards.

I think the biggest thing that is creating division in opinions of the weaponry is the TE position. Not everyone places the same value on TEs. Knox and Kincaid are a really strong duo. Not sure there is a better pair in the league. I could honestly see 1500 yards from them next year if they stay healthy.

I think there may be something to the overall theory but I think you're getting ahead of yourself a bit. Paying $25-60 million for WR 1/2 severely handicaps your ability to build the rest of your team. Doubly so if you're already paying a QB. It seems like almost every draft the last few years has been a 'strong' class. What, 4 of the last 5 years at this point? People are already talking about next year's WRs. The college game has changed and they are churning out WR talent like crazy. Eventually it becomes the new norm that you can re-fill your WR room through the draft and spend elsewhere. It isn't there yet, but I would not be surprised if in 5 years this is what the 'smart' teams are doing. Everybody is looking for the next advantage to exploit, the next opportunity to be the forward thinker on the cutting edge. I could see it happening at WR with the explosion of both salaries and new talent.

They haven't been able to get passed the best team in the league. That doesn't mean the whole operation is a failure. If not for some truly rotten injury luck I think they would have done so a couple times.

This place has been miserable AF since the draft. The worst it's been since 'Wrong Josh'. Everyone wanted a Playstation for Christmas but when they came downstairs, there was a bike with socks and underwear. Instead of realizing that there's nothing wrong with a bike and we really needed new socks and gotch, it's tantrum time. Are we going to have to endure this endless whining for the next 6 months? Sounds like a fun way to be a fan... Last off-season people were losing their minds because they intended to run Spencer Brown back out there and they didn't sign a MLB. They said their guys were in house and they believed in their development. Seems to have worked out OK. That's what good teams do. Can we not take a breath and wait and see? 2nd best record in the league over the last 5 years says they deserve at least a bit of confidence. They aren't the morons people want to make them out to be.

I'm not convinced that teams were giving him much attention. He saw a lot of single coverage that he wouldn't break. I say wouldn't intentionally; I think it was a result of attitude/effort rather than deteriorating physical ability. I think teams saw the uninterested malcontent and treated him accordingly. He certainly wasn't seeing the coverage he did a couple years ago. I think there's a difference in perspective; I see it as needing to replace what we had on the field to end last year, not the guy who racked up 1400 yards. I think there's enough secondary options to chew into that gap in production. I still think we're going to see lots of 2 TE this year.

Haha me speak english good. More polished*, better

I like the comments on Kincaid VS Bowers. Everyone has been pumping up Bowers as the uber-prospect for 2 years but at least some people see Kincaid as the more polished, better receiver.

It's a net negative if Diggs was who he was supposed to be. Instead he was a petulant baby that quit mid season. People keep talking about the WR position with the memory of Diggs, not the guy who was actually on the field the last 10 games. The Diggs/Davis we got down the stretch will not be hard to replicate, if not surpass.

This draft was about replenishing the depth of the roster. Given the turnover and the cap situation, they needed to fill a lot of holes. They weren't wasting picks on guys iffy to make the team. I think they add a vet wr still and that's why they only picked 1. Coleman wouldn't have been my choice. Would have gone McConkey or Legette. We'll see. Pretty happy with the rest though. I could honestly see everyone (the Brit on PR) making the team, which is crazy with that many picks. Also shows how much less established the roster is vs the last few years.

Maybe you misheard... He was 1 of 15 kids. He doesnt have 15 kids.

The amount of times they failed to adjust to obviously bad alignments/formations/playcalls is really frustrating. If I can see that we're about to get blown up pre-snap from the couch without even knowing the call, Josh and/or Morse should be able to see and react. Pre-snap reads are an area Josh could still really improve.

Not sure why you keep trotting out this 'Diggs' numbers were down because he was in the slot' narrative. Slot is easier. They put him there because he couldn't get off a jam to save his life.

I think we are going to see an extremely motivated Josh Allen... He's said all the right things re: Diggs drama. Now it's time to show people who's the top dog.

Thanks for everything Stef but had to be done. The guys attitude and behavior was a black cloud hanging over the org. I figured they were stuck 1 more year due to contract. I think the fact they moved now shows how toxic things had gotten.