dave mcbride

He’s literally UNDERAGE! Fessin’ up would ID him as a scofflaw. He doesn’t like soup!

As someone who is soup-skeptical (although I don't hate it), I fully approve of KC's opinion on the matter! Relatedly, here's a passage from a legal historian's book that I published a few years back: 'Despite his efforts to present himself as a man of the people, Nixon mistrusted the public and preferred secrecy to sunshine. Aspiring to become royalty, he went so far as to outfit White House security as elaborately as Buckingham Palace guards. Like LBJ, he saw the press, eastern elites and the “Georgetown crowd” as enemies. Like Johnson, too, he proved dogged in his persistence: Nixon was someone who courted his future wife by driving her to dates with other men. But in contrast to his predecessor, the new President was solitary. So uncomfortable did the Republican become at state dinners that he pressed aides to cut them down to 58 minutes. (As part of his effort, he banished the soup course on the theory that “men don’t really like soup.”)'

This is comic gold.

Opelousas, Louisiana, Coleman's hometown, has a population of 16K but it has produced Devery Henderson, Ceedee Lamb, and now Coleman over the past couple of decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opelousas,_Louisiana As for food, Paul Prudhomme is from there! Also, Clifton Chenier, maybe the most famous zydeco musician ever. Surprised KC doesn't like gumbo, but maybe he's sick of it.

Dalton Kincaid begs to differ So much of this is dependent on who the qb is who is throwing to you. I’d love to see the split between MSU and FSU. Travis was FSU’s best qb by far, but that doesn’t mean he was/is actually good.

This is a really great interview - very informative. Thanks for posting.

Good points but professional coaching can do a lot for a smart player. The Bills are very good at developing secondary players. Yeah, I was thinking about that w/regard to Elam. Maybe the light goes on finally this season. It'd be an Eric Moulds-like trajectory. Both were/are very talented physically and maybe (like Moulds) Elam just needs time to adjust to the pro game.

A good comp: the 2018 Pats (who had a very productive offense). They had no one over 850 and five guys over 530 yards plus a couple of guys near 300: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/nwe/2018.htm

Josh wanted Dalton Kincaid too. He's a smart QB so I'm not opposed to deferring to him.

I was responding to a debate about Brady specifically.

It is my understanding that 12 carries for 72 yards and two TDs should be factored into any evaluation. He was great in that game. Also, bringing up the defense is irrelevant because it's not the subject of the discussion. Regardless, leaving out the most important games because of some arbitrary threshold doesn't really make sense.

I think it might be more the fact that they were 1980s QBs and it's time to transition to more recent ones. Simms is 68 and Esiason is 63. The Fox team is bad but their schtick is a bit more backslap-y and less analytical, which is why it continues to roll. Jimmy and Terry are also more akin to football folk heroes in a way that Boomer and Simms clearly aren't.

If you're going to evaluate the Bills offense under Brady and not include the two playoff games, you're doing it wrong, simply put. They HAVE to be included for the simple reason that they're the most important games! And they're against playoff teams! Allen had 7 total TDs and zero turnovers in those two games and the Bills averaged 368 yards and 27.5 points yards despite the kicker missing 3 FGs.

I think this is doubtful because just like last year, when they took Kincaid, they took the guy that Josh Allen specifically identified as the one he wanted. They are clearly listening to Allen, and given Kincaid's performance last year and his obvious ability, they're probably wise to do so. Totally. If he loved him, he would absolutely have taken him at 24. I think they were looking o-line all the way.

Brady struck me as a very good OC last year--leagues beyond Dorsey in terms of game-to-game adaptation and what I call responsible creativity. I think we may have a really good one. He was great at LSU and had a terrible roster in Carolina. Plus he trained under Sean Payton, who annoys me but who is also an amazing offensive coach. I mean, just look at this roster in 2021, the year he was fired: DJ Moore and nothing else. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/car/2021.htm Note that after he was fired on December 5, they went 0-5 the rest of the way. It's kinda like the mirror image of what happened to the Bills after they fired Dorsey and handed the keys to Brady. In his final game as coordinator for Carolina, the corpse of Cam Newton was 5-21 for 92 yards and two INTs before being replaced by PJ Walker. And the coordinator takes the fall. Sheesh. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/202111280mia.htm

Which Coleman will be able to do. People aren’t talking enough about his ridiculous hands. Shakhir and Kincaid have good hands too. In fact, the last three receiving prospects they have drafted all have good hands. Something they prioritize, clearly.

Granted, I live in Brooklyn, so I’m biased, but I just discovered that Curtis Samuel went to Erasmus High School. Check out the graduates of Erasmus HS!!! Click on the “notable alumni” tab and scroll down: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Hall_High_School

Curtis Samuel is a good receiver who has probably played with the worst set of QBs of any receiver in the league over his seven-year career.

There are a LOT of bad safeties and bad team safety situations in the NFL. The Eagles are another one. They were so desperate at the position that they traded for kevin byard mid-season (early 5th, early 6th, and terrell edmunds), although that was a failure and he’s no longer on the team. Let’s wait and see. Maybe the Bills thought their o-line room was pretty set. Do you think Kyle Dugger was a bad value pick? He was 37th overall.

I usually agree with you, but I just don’t see spending the 60th pick on a player the team thinks will be an elite safety is bad value. The Bills D in this era, for all of its flaws, has been REALLY good at preventing points and limiting yards, and that’s because their secondary, which is built as much around safeties as it is around corners, has been fantastic at preventing big plays. The safety play has been a crucial element of this, and if they think Bishop is someone who can come in quickly become field director out there, then the pick becomes a lot more understandable from a value perspective. Just look at a team like Washington: so, so many high picks spent on the d-line - and for good players too! - but they can’t stop anyone because their secondary is so goddamn bad. In particular, their safeties are horrible: Cameron Kurl (7th rounder) and Percy Butler (4th rounder). Then look at the Patriots. Yeah, they were bad last season because of their offense, but their defense remained excellent despite an incredible rash of injuries. The reason? Well, a big one was that their second round safety (Kyle Dugger) was one of the most impactful secondary players in the league and because Julius Peppers was a well-above average player last season. Their safeties, along with Christian Barmore, are what made that defense such a challenge to face. Anyway, I think you might want to rethink your valuation of safeties. They are not the defensive equivalent of RBs (LBs are); they’re more the equivalent, value-wise, of tight ends because like TEs, they have be effective in both the run and pass games. They also need to be smarter than the average defensive player, generally speaking (like TEs on the other side).

I said the following in another thread and this video seems to confirm my thinking: ”My new pet theory about why Josh wanted him so much: Allen has so many off-schedule, improvisational plays given his uncanny ability to escape the rush, and having a guy you can throw it to downfield after everything breaks down and expect that he’ll snag it over whatever DB is covering him is a huge asset to his game (and to the Bills’ offense). He has vice-like hands (watch the cover one analysis) and is incredible above the rim, so to speak.” Coleman talks at length about the scramble drill and the importance of being an absolute dog when the play breaks down. That is something the Bills really did NOT have (Davis was not good at it, and Diggs’ effort on such plays was clearly declining), so I can absolutely see Allen wanting a receiver who excels in that sort of situation. And let’s face it: when Josh Allen is the qb, the improvised, off-schedule play is one of the Bills’ most common plays.

Huh? The chiefs made the bills better, not the other way around. They were going to end up with worthy regardless and we were going to end up with coleman regardless, but the bills got a highly rated DT out of the trade that they otherwise wouldn’t have gotten.

My new pet theory about why Josh wanted him so much: Allen has so many off-schedule, improvisational plays given his uncanny ability to escape the rush, and having a guy you can throw it to downfield after everything breaks down and expect that he’ll snag it over whatever DB is covering him is a huge asset to his game (and to the Bills’ offense). He has vice-like hands (watch the cover one analysis) and is incredible above the rim, so to speak. He is also very shifty for his size, unlike all of the other comps being mentioned.

You really should watch the cover one link above. KC is nothing like those players beyond being tall. He is an INCREDIBLE athlete. As a number of people have said, you don’t make Tom Izzo’s team as a guard without being an elite athlete (leaping ability, strong hands, short area explosiveness, basketball moves). Kelvin Benjamin was never gonna make Michigan State’s basketball team. Devin Funchess literally played tight end his first two seasons at Michigan before transitioning to WR his final year there.

How are the bills getting a 4th for gabe davis when edmunds and his monster contract got them only a 4th? Davis’s 3 years / $39 million deal is really not that much, and given the Samuel signing (3/24), I honestly expect a 5th at best and maybe even a sixth.