dave mcbride

I get it, but what I'm talking about is a player the team truly believes will be that guy. Of course, personnel guys are wrong all the time, but if they DO believe -- like the believed in Kincaid last year (who I was all in on) -- you have to have the courage of your convictions and go get that guy. They loved Jordan Addison last year, and they were right about him.

Plays to scrubs can be stopped with 10 men if you're looking for it. And they appeared to be.

The call wasn't fine. If I'm KC, my view would be this: the Buffalo punter has already demonstrated that he's a liability, and if they're ever going to run a fake, it's going to be in a somewhat desperate situation when they're fielding an unreliable kicker. And KC was of course ready for it. Also, giving it to a scrub who needed to get five yards? If you're going for it, give it to Josh Allen.

CeeDee Lamb was 17th. Justin Jefferson was 22nd. Brandon Aiyuk was 25th. Jordan Addison was 22nd. Jaxon Smith-Njigba was 20th. Zay Flowers was 22nd. DJ Moore was 24th. Calvin Ridley was 26th. ALL of those slots come before 28. If they see a guy from 15 onward who can help take their space alien QB's passing game to the next level, they gotta do to what they need to do to get him. It's what's holding the Bills back now more than anything else. Obviously, it goes without saying that they shouldn't be reaching for the next Jaelon Rheagor or DeVante Parker.

Good post. With regard to WR, I am of the mind that if THAT guy is there at, say the 15-17 slot, trading up and use a bunch of capital to do it has to be done at this point. They need to give an Allen elite option who can win regularly win one-on-one NOW.

They faced a fourth down with 8+ minutes to go in the fourth. They punted.

9.3 yards per pass -- 215 yards on 23 attempts.

Yep. Bills saved by the dumbest rule in the NFL.

Shakir was wide open too.

From the BN: “Defensive tackle Ed Oliver had his lunch handed to him by Chiefs guard Joe Thuney. According to Next Gen Stats, Oliver had 10 one-on-one matchups against Thuney and failed to create a single pressure. Oliver and DaQuan Jones were held without a pressure on a combined 38 pass rushes.”

Again, February stats should be included here.

Mahomes has a lot if TDs in February. Just sayin’.

https://micahhyde.com/my-story/ "In Micah’s junior year, he earned northern Ohio first-team honors as a quarterback, defensive back, and place kicker. In addition, he was named honorable mention as a punter."

Well, they're 75-24 in the regular season in the Mahomes era, so the 8-2 mark matches pretty closely with the broader ratio: 7.5-2.4, which rounded is 8-2.

The son of a football referee?

I also think he was seriously injured this year. He had surgery on the ankle, right?

https://www.profootballnetwork.com/kaiir-elam-florida-cb-nfl-draft-scouting-report-2022/ check out this scouting report. Not so accurate in retrospect!

Regularly all game. He was playing off a lot and couldn't time his closing, so the separation was generally pretty substantial. He almost had a second pick, but that was a busted play because the receiver fell down. Still, he made a nice play on that one. He's just not very trustworthy on a regular basis. He gets spun around a lot.

Yeah, but Tomlin was never in a position to exert that type of authority over the draft. That's not how Pittsburgh operates.

They could, but that’s not something that Tomlin handles, and he’s the subject of your thread.

The bills got allen because they had a ridiculous amount of draft capital going into the 2018 draft after the cordy glenn trade, the tyrod taylor trade, and the 2017 kc trade that landed kc’s first rounder in 2018. That’s the only reason they got Allen, and that had nothing to do with coaching.

Respond to the ACTUAL field-level view video of Allen that demonstrably proves you’re wrong rather than trying to shift the topic to this red herring.

But it WASN’T a fake slide. The best view, again:

Davis brings far more to the table than Andy Isabella. Let’s not get carried away here.

Walking boot, not air cast.