dave mcbride

Oh please. Frankly, you sound like a typical bitter Bills fan who turns on former players the second they leave. I have no beef with Watkins and hope he does well. I wish he was still here because frankly, he's 5 times better than any of the receivers currently on the roster.

I see his production in his first two seasons as pretty damn strong. He was injured in his third season, and last year he played in an offense that was ridiculously multiple (and effective). He still hauled in 8 TDs and averaged over 15 ypc despite missing all of training camp.

Um, he was injured in 2016 - Lisfranc. More importantly, contracts are based on projection, not past performance. Teams don't pay players for past performance; they pay them for projected performance. The Chiefs, who are 53-27 the last five seasons and are clearly good at roster building, project him to be an elite receiver. You clearly don't, but I'm gonna go with the Chiefs' opinion on this one.

You really should start focusing on the talent he clearly possesses rather than just rattling off numbers. He's far more talented than Woods, and I like Woods. It's amazing to me how easily Bills fans turn on players who are traded or leave. Christ: he was a very productive player for the Bills his first two seasons, and he was injured during his third.

I fully expect Watkins to have a monster season assuming he stays healthy. That's a good offense for him. Irrespective of the numbers, his immense physical talent is crushingly obvious, and it's amazing that people here look past it. He's still quite young - he just turned 25.

I think the little guy decided that diving high over the pile was the best way to crack the end zone line. The big guy has other ideas.

Yeah, but I really like the fact that he appears as if he's going to continue to play past the whistle. Definite mean streak.

And the NFL's message has gotten through to this player -- he does not lead with his head. https://deadspin.com/the-sports-highlight-of-the-day-is-this-cats-perfect-ta-1827924376?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

6-26 in the SEC the last 4 years. Regardless, I like Tua and he looks like an elite prospect to me.

First off, I think the scramble was nice, *and I like the player*. More importantly, though, the throw just wasn't that difficult. It was an easy loft, the game was out of hand, and the WR was WIDE OPEN. All I'm saying is that I don't think that play was all that impressive. He was accurate and did make the play, but as an elite prospect, he *should* make that play. All decent qbs should be able to make that throw. But even an inferior player like Jalen Hurts can make that play 7 times out 10 (assuming he scrambles successfully) too given how wide open the player was. As to your point above, I'd like to see him make that throw against a team with a better secondary defender who hadn't been left in the dust on a play at the tail end of a blowout.

You're sorta straw-manning me (a tendency of yours, I believe). I was talking about one play and one play only, and I wasn't talking about the Georgia game at all. I also said I liked the player a lot.

That comparison means nothing to me. I like the player a lot, but it was a 45-0 game against a doormat with substandard defensive talent. Do it against a competent team in a competitive situation and I'll give him his praise.

I think he's good, but this play is not "amazing" outside of the scramble (which was admittedly good but happens all of the time). The throw was to a *wide* open receiver in an elite program who is probably ten times better than the chump from a perennial SEC doormat (6-26 in the last four seasons in conference play) who is covering him in a 45-0 game.

I think the OP's point is that if there are a couple-few highly regarded qbs (there always seem to be) and the Bills are in a position to draft one, they almost certainly *will* be able to find a partner. I was thinking about this other day myself, and I think it's a good thread. For argument's sake: trading down from, say, 3, and picking up, say, a second and a third plus a mid-first round pick (16-20 range) would allow the Bills to get a top-rated interior lineman, a new elite RB (rd 2 is historically good for such a player), and a TE in round 3. They can sign a WR and solid LB in FA with all of their cap space too. The organization has a long term plan that stretches beyond this year, so it's probably a good idea for us to think along these lines too.

I agree 100 percent.

Hey - as it applies to the Bills, this is the NFL we're talking about here. Not the actual legal system!

For those in need of a laugh, look at the cover we gave to this Oxford Handbook edited by McCann (I wasn't the editor!). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-american-sports-law-9780190465957?q=mccann&lang=en&cc=us

1) It establishes a motive. 2) If she turned them off, it's not good for her. But we have no idea whether she did. We don't know enough at the moment. Look: trouble has a habit of following the guy, and he appears to be a blockhead. We'll see what happens, but it's way too soon to draft him for your fantasy team.

So anyway, the big takeaway seems to be that that we're watching an idiots edition the game Clue being played in which the players are analogues of Jeff Gillooly, Shawn Eckhardt, LaVona Golden, and Tonja Harding. I'm not sure there's a Nancy Kerrigan analogue (yet), however ...

I never said he wouldn't get off! I just think that it's ridiculous to conclude that he's out of the woods because of a couple of murky tweets involving lawyer statements.

It appears that McCoy was an intermediary for the jewelry loan, which is pretty suggestive. I'm not saying that'll get him convicted or anything like that, but he's hardly out of the woods. Who turned off the cameras? We haven't found that out yet either. If she didn't, it's also suggestive.

I wouldn't say that at all. There's a fair bit of conflicting info out there, now, but some definitely points to McCoy. None of us know yet.

I feel like everyone here needs to watch "I, Tonja." We are in the process of living that movie (vicariously!) right now, I suspect.

Oh please. Your opinion of her character is irrelevant anyway. The only thing that matters is that the place she was living in was invaded, and she got the crap beaten out of her.

She probably should have done that, but no one deserves to be terrorized and pistol-whipped in the middle of the night because they didn't give it back. Look: no one here looks like an Einstein, yet that shouldn't matter. Too many people here are leaping to conclusions because they don't think the parties - particularly her - seem all that intelligent. (Also, news flash: Shady got an 11 on the Wonderlic.)