dave mcbride

The thing is, I never compared them to the Bills! That's a complete red herring. The Jets were not good. That is all I am saying.

Percy Harvin was plenty dynamic and specialized in what McKenzie gets called upon to do. I don't know at all if Shenault is that guy, but I'd take a healthy and happy version of Percy Harvin 8 days a week at the #22 slot. How much was he hampered by injury in '19?

He was very good his first three seasons and one of the best and most dangerous players in the league in his third season despite truly awful quarterbacking (Ponder and a decrepit McNabb). He was also good in his fourth season, and if he had been healthy in that Seattle SB season, he probably would have racked up massive numbers. I'd take that. Again, though, let's wait to see how Shenault measures out in his 40, 20, and shuttle times. Harvin was elite in those areas.

Just thinking out loud, but the idea would not be to get a replacement gimmick player, but a Percy Harvin-type player (who was absolutely sensational when healthy early on and worth the early 20s pick that he ended up being). Of course, Harvin ran a 4.41, so it's going to come down to how Shenault tests out.

A decent overview: https://www.dynastynerds.com/draft-profile-laviska-shenault-jr/ One thing to consider given the Bills offense: he represents a big upgrade over McKenzie, who plays an important role in Daboll's scheme. Shenault is kinda tailor-made to play that position.

See my additions to the post. I added a lot. Also, he ran a 4.59 coming out of HS. Maybe he's a lot faster now with training, weight management, etc., but that's a lot of ground to make up: http://www.espn.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/player/combine/_/id/218609/laviska-shenault-jr

Lofton's drops in his final season with the Bills were both abundant and alarming. My best friend in Buffalo lost good money because Lofton dropped the easiest of TD throws right in his hands in the last minute or so of the 1992 season SB that would have made the score 59-24. (He was playing squares and had 9 and 4.)

Here's his HS recruiting profile: https://247sports.com/Player/Laviska-Shenault-85906/high-school-150761/. No red flags that I see. He was a 3-star recruit, which is pretty good considering he started late. Curious as to why he chose Colorado (lately a weak program) over a place like Texas, but as it happens Colorado went 10-4 (8-1 in the Pac-12) and finished the season ranked 17th the year he committed. He was also the 117th ranked receiver coming out, so Colorado was a solid match. Ruggs was number 1. https://247sports.com/Season/2017-Football/RecruitRankings/?InstitutionGroup=HighSchool&Position=WR Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, and Arizona State also had recruiting interest in him. Not going to Alabama was very wise given that Alabama got Ruggs, the #1 guy in the country. Update: the recruiter who first noticed him and showed interest was at Texas Tech (when Mahomes was there!) before moving to Colorado. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2852683-meet-the-colorado-wr-who-has-the-nfl-drooling-hes-julio-jones-only-bigger Key passage: 'He was lost at a position that has been minimized in most college offenses, was a 3-star recruit and was ignored by a majority of major schools. Darrin Chiaverini, then a wide receivers coach at Texas Tech, found him at DeSoto and told him he wanted to make him a wide receiver. Chiaverini begged Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury to offer Shenault, and when Chiaverini left to become offensive coordinator at CU, his first priority was to sign Shenault. By that time, Alabama had found tape of him and had zeroed in on adding him to a freshman class that already included receivers Jerry Jeudy, DeVonta Smith and Henry Ruggs III. The very thought of Shenault at Alabama with that receiver class is frightening. Fortunately for CU, Shenault got bad vibes from his visit to Tuscaloosa—"it just didn't feel right"—and he and Nixon both signed with the Buffs. "When he signed," Chiaverini says, "I immediately thought, 'It won't be long until he's the best player on this team.' --- Anyway, the comp to Patterson vis-a-vis the processing power minimum standard seems pretty off base here. He seems to be solid enough on that front.

You gotta trademark this phrase. So true!

A few things here: first, the Jets were 1-7, not 6-2 in the first half. Secondly, the Bills would have annihilated them in the last game if it had mattered. The Jets were horrible in that game against our backups. Finally, their final 8 opponents were, in sequence, the Giants, the Redskins, the Raiders, the Bengals, the Dolphins (who were totally screwed by an BS overturned no-PI call that cost them the game), Baltimore, a Pittsburgh team with no offense by the end of the season, and a Bills team resting its most important starters. All of those teams were bad save for the Ravens, who destroyed them. (The Bills were bad because they were playing backups.)

He's including UCLA.

All he says is that "he has talent" - nothing more, nothing less. The thing is, he is talented. He throws a beautiful ball, is accurate, is technically sound, and has good size. That might not translate into good in the NFL because so much else goes into it, but he is without question talented.

He's gotta crank out a couple of pieces a day, it seems. Mistakes happen. Not really a biggie. He's a Josh Allen fan and interviewed before the 2019 season.

Nice find. Thanks! (might want to update the original post to prevent angry responses directed at Breer!)

He doesn't actually say Rosen is good; he says he hasn't had a chance and has had 5 coordinators in 5 seasons. Which is true. This comment from Breer is absolutely true, and it's why the Bills need to think about upgrading: Backup quarterbacks matter. You know the story of Tannehill. He bailed out a team that was ready to win in so many places, but also on course to pay for missing on a QB taken second overall five years ago. You probably haven’t heard as much on Matt Moore, who the Chiefs lured from a scouting job with the Dolphins when Chad Henne got hurt. Moore went 2-1 in place of Mahomes, if you include the game where Mahomes dislocated his kneecap. And you can argue his ability to lead a game-winning drive against a stout Vikings defense in Week 9 helped Kansas City win the Super Bowl. If the Chiefs didn't win that one, they wouldn't have gotten the bye, and they would've had to play the Titans in the wild-card round and go to Foxborough to play the Patriots in the divisional round. I’m not saying they wouldn’t have won it all anyway. But it would’ve been a lot tougher. And on the flip side, the Steelers’ mess of a backup quarterback situation felled a season in which they finally found a way to fix a defense that’s been wobbly for close to a decade, only to lose Ben Roethlisberger early on. Which makes me think…

Actually, Breer, who I read every week, is in my opinion the best columnist in the business. This is probably just a mistake.

He's going to go into the Eagles HOF. If they want him, he's likely to stay. You do realize the irony in offering Peters the RT spot, right?

The interesting thing about Hill is that he skews this entire conversation. He's probably the most remarkable and dangerous athlete playing at the WR position in the past decade or so. He has a 40.5 inch vertical (which is incredible) to go with 4.2+ speed and second-to-none short area quickness. Julio Jones would be the number 2 WR on that team.

I'm not opposed to getting Perriman, but while he ran his 40 a nanosecond faster than Hill, he is not the threat Hill is. Hill's short-area quickness and dime-cutting ability are off-the-charts great. Plus, height is one thing, but vertical is another and just as important. Hill's leaping ability is completely insane. Perriman's vertical is 36.5, and Hill's is an unbelievable 40.5. Basically, he plays taller than Perriman because he can jump way higher. http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-gameday/0ap3000001065506/Next-Gen-Stats-Measuring-Tyreek-Hill-s-vertical-leap-on-46-yard-TD-grab

If you go further back in the thread, in the televised interview with him after the SB ended, he basically said he was joking.

I don't know about that. I don't have the answer for who he really is as a player, but the physical talent is so patently obvious that I keep thinking that one of these years, he's going to bust it open and put up huge numbers. It probably won't happen on KC because Hill is a complete physical freak and basically uncoverable. That said, Watkins would be the most talented receiver on probably 25 teams in the NFL. He's more talented by far than any receiver in the AFC East, with Devante Parker a distant second. But maybe he never pulls it off. He is still pretty young, though.

It bears repeating that in his four last postseason games, Watkins has 416 yards and is averaging 21.9 yards per touch.

Reason #4,105 why people shouldn't gamble: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-liv-patrick-mahomes-kneel-downs-at-end-of-game-result-in-bad-beat-for-bettors/

The most Josh Allen play of the day was when Jimmy G Josh Allened that bomb to Sanders, who was wide open and set to score an easy TD.

Interesting video comparison, and Revis's comment about Sherman turns out to have been prescient (and let's not forget that Watkins absolutely owned Revis in the 2015 season finale): https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/ny-sammy-watkins-richard-sherman-super-bowl-davante-adams-20200203-y34lmnkdcfgtzn6yyil7hnmerq-story.html