dave mcbride

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

Terrell Davis had 1140 rushing yards in 8 postseason games, which prorates to over 2280 rushing yards in a 16-game season (and he did it against the best competition). The postseason absolutely should factor into evaluations, and he is the greatest rusher in postseason history. He also won a SB MVP, of course.

Yet he had another strong postseason game. In has last four postseason games, he has 423 yards.

He had the flu in the previous game and was out because of that.

The Marlins experience colors my view of Miami fans. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-marlins/fl-sp-marlins-cardinals-separate-wed-20190613-fm3wy2jbnvgppfrmct5erak35a-story.html

I think Arrowhead and New Era (1973) are basically the same age.

I used to feel this way. Not anymore. Miami has a weak fan base. I don't blame people from there; I just think that settlement patterns in the South (more spread out) plus such a large portion of elderly people makes a difference. Also, society in Miami is pretty atomized - a constant in-flow of transients/new arrivals. Agreed - forgot to include Charlotte. I meant to.

One thing I'll say about Georgia: man, is youth baseball big there. Like, really big, and it's something I know a lot about. It's partly because of Perfect Game, youth baseball's biggest tournament franchise, which has its home base there. I spent a week at a Perfect Game tournament in Atlanta between my son's junior and senior HS years, and my god, what an eye opener. Hundreds of teams from all over the country, plus MLB scouts everywhere. After that, I began to investigate, and I noticed that Georgia-based players are HEAVILY over-represented on MLB rosters. It is unbelievable how many MLB players that state pumps out. The Braves do reasonably well: https://www.ajc.com/sports/baseball/how-braves-attendance-measured-2019/xQLIFZHfwx78yp3E6LKSZM/

I feel this way about every team in SEC territory except the Saints. Fan bases in Nashville, Carolina, Jax, TB, and ATL are all very, very soft. I'll throw Miami in there too. The Dolphins' stadium always looks half empty (and let's not forget the Marlins and the Rays).

I never judge RBs solely on rushing; pass catching is huge too in the modern NFL (and frankly has been since the days of Lydell Mitchell). He was a good receiver that year on a team with no receivers. Seriously, look at that group of receivers again. Just a joke.

I wouldn't call his 2017 season "disappointing" at all. He was a good receiver that year - 59 catches for 448 yards (7.6 ypr) and had 1600 yards total yards from scrimmage. Indeed, he was 4th in the league in yards from scrimmage! Sure, his ypc was down, but a ton of that had to do with the fact that the Bills had ZERO decent WRs and arguably their worst ' OC of the modern era calling plays.

Blank is clear in saying that he's not necessarily advocating expansion. This is obviously a shot across the bow - i.e., WNY needs to wake up because the option you thought was dead - a move to Toronto - ain't dead. Note that a) Blank is saying this right after Goodell made his comments, and b) Goodell is a mouthpiece not for himself, but for the owners who employ him.

And off we go! Expect a lot more of this. Just to clarify for people who somehow haven’t figured this out yet, but the owners are driving this, not Goodell. https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/01/30/arthur-blank-mentions-expansion-when-asked-about-toronto/ “I think it’s a question of just trying to understand expansion and the implications — having it balanced,” [Arthur] Blank said. “You don’t want an odd number of teams; you’d want an even number of teams. How that would fall out [is crucial]. “I don’t think anyone questions the size of the Toronto market or the potential of the market. It’s a great market and a great sports city — a great sports city.” Asked to clarify that expansion would be a consideration, Blank said yes. “It could be, but I don’t think it has to be,” he said. “I do think the city could definitely support a team.”

I brought up that 1984 SB with a colleague at work earlier today when he asked my thoughts on the game! Worth noting that Garrapolo has a lot of SB prep experience too. He didn't play, of course, but he's been to a couple of them and you know BB had him ready if duty had called.

This.

"Poor man's Cam Newton" isn't a suggestion that he's bad. It's a suggestion that his game resembles Newton's -- which it does -- and that he's not as good as prime-era Newton. Which is also undeniably true.

You are right about 4.2 being middling. In my sampling, I seemed to randomly pick the teams below them at a disproportionate rate. I do disagree about the ypp being higher for bad teams because the bad teams - i.e., the Bengals, Redskins, etc. -- had such bad ypa numbers that it dramatically affects averages w/regard to yards per play. TB had an explosive offense that put up a ton of yards, and that happened in games they won and lost. https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/yards-per-pass-attempt Interestingly, Chicago was worst in the league. They spent a second overall pick on Trubisky with Mahomes (KC finished second) and Watson (Houston finished 12th) on the board. My word. I won't call him a bust yet because he has talent and is still young, but the early returns are not good.