dave mcbride

Pretty good write-up on Davis v. Williams from a Ravens fan: http://www.baltimorebeatdown.com/2017/3/29/15097148/comparing-mike-williams-and-corey-davis-who-is-the-better-prospect-baltimore-ravens-nfl-draft-2017 .

I think this is a pretty fair take. Kind of a bizarre comparable, however. http://www.nfl.com/draft/2017/profiles/corey-davis?id=2557848

I think his floor is more like Demariyus Thomas, who I think is overrated and drops too many passes (he's still pretty good--don't get me wrong). His ceiling is Julio Jones.

I respect your opinion, but to my eyes he looks so much better than Jordan Matthews. No comparison, really, at least to me. And he freaking produced. W. Michigan was genuinely good last year, beating a couple of big ten teams, blowing out the competition in their own league that they were obligated to play, and giving a very strong Wisconsin team a tough game in the Cotton Bowl. I think Denver likes Siemian more than some here suspect. I could be wrong. I think he looks alright and has a future. Jay Fiedler comes to mind, and that's not a criticism. In his first four years with Miami, the Dolphins went 35-17 when Fiedler started.

Despite his flaws, Tyrod Taylor is a much better player than Foles at this point. I mean, is this even debatable?

Williams nearly broke his neck a couple of season ago! Durability doesn't simply mean "healthy at draft time." All of these guys get injured at some point. Davis's injury, which is genuinely minor, just happened at a different time than Williams's more serious one.

Really? Davis looks amazing to me. I think he'll be a star if he stays healthy. He sometimes looks like Randy Moss out there.

Corey Davis is my preferred pick.

Agree completely. The reasons why certain races excel in certain sports has a lot more to do with sociological sorting than anything else. Interestingly, in a piece that deals with genetics, the piece doesn't mention that McCaffrey's grandfather was the fastest sprinter in the world in the latter half of the 1950s. The pats are all about exploiting weaknesses in a system that others haven't caught on to (moneyball, basically). If other teams wrongly believe in a stereotype when selecting players for certain positions, it stands to reason that other talented players who don't fit the stereotype get overlooked, and that is to the Pats benefit. There aren't many receivers in the league who have Edelman's short-area quickness, after all. It works both ways, of course -- just look at the schools that began to start black players in college basketball (and football) in the 1940s-50s and destroyed longtime powerhouses like Kentucky, which remained a white team.

Then don't make blanket statements like the one you issued above. You do agree that swimming is an actual sport that involves athletic talent and that it's quite popular globally, no?

Swimming was a major world athletic sport last i checked. Michael phelps is a better athlete than anyone playing in the nfl. The post i responded to said that blacks were better athletes than whites based, seemingly, on watching football and maybe basketball/sprinting and not much else. The world of athletics is a lot bigger than the world of the nfl corneback.

Tell that to all of the white swimmers and the massive number of white guys throwing 95+ mph fastballs.

Frodo Fumagali!

According to PFF, they were 10th and Buffalo 11th. Close in any event, and the Bills were upper half. https://www.profootballfocus.com/pro-ranking-all-32-nfl-offensive-lines-this-season/

No tasteless Erin Moran jokes yet. I'm surprised.

Casserly was fired regardless of what the piece says. Feel free to keep litigating this, but heading to television wasn't Casserley's preferred choice.

See above. Charley Casserly's May 2006 firing in Houston is a well known recent example.

It's more complicated than that. They really wanted OSU CB Ahmad Plummer, who was drafted by SF right before Flowers. Plummer looked fantastic early on but had bad injury issues that cut his career short. Butler, Adams, and AJ Smith were also all in on safety Mike Brown, a great player who the Bears took in round 2. Their next choice was safety Deon Grant (a good player who actually played in the 2012 Giants-Pats SB for the victorious Giants), who was drafted by Carolina immediately before the Bills picked. Travares Tillman was the last credible safety left when it came time for the Bills to pick in that round, and the Bills drafted for need (they really did need a safety at the time). But they were praying for Brown. It didn't happen, but it's not as if they mailed it in. It was a bad draft, but they had bad luck too. Interesting fact about Deon Grant: he missed his entire rookie season because of a back injury, but played in 16 games every season from 2001 to his last season, in 2011.

It's very comparable, actually, given that they both had the same job title and both were fired immediately after a draft. The fact that he didn't have control simply points to how crappy his situation was. Whaley doesn't appear to have control over the roster anymore now himself. Anyway, I could go on. Here's a more famous example. http://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=2440274

This is an excellent post. I agree that the Shanahans were unfairly maligned. Some people thought Kyle was a nobody who got his job through nepotism. Nepotism surely played a role, but he's a hell of an OC.

Not saying it's normal, but I found a pretty recent example on the previous page if you go back and look.

Definitely not unpredented. There are other cases. http://www.denverpost.com/2012/05/07/broncos-gm-brian-xanders-agree-to-part-ways-after-four-years-in-denver/

It doesn't, and if the scouts go so does Whaley. No way he survives in this scenario. No freaking way.

They're not picking.

My guy says he's gone, but who knows? We'll know within a week or so. Too many signals pointing to him being on the outs in practically every possible way. He didn't want to keep Taylor, and they did (I am 99 percent certain of this0. He can't even talk to the media, and he doesn't have control over the picks. How can someone like that continue to serve as GM? For his own sake, it's better to be fired and start anew at a position he's better suited for (pro personnel). He's just not GM caliber. He is good at some things, but fell victim to the Peter Principle.