colin

im confused as to why they made the trade for the so few slots move. im sure there is a reason, i just can't figure it out. based on what is happening here, i think we draft a safety in 2nd or 3rd, and for some reason i think from the big 10. i keep whining that we have a schematic issue w our d, and that our stats are sort of better than our play on d (certainly with respect to how we perform in big games vs tough teams), but it's pretty clear our FO values D above all else except QB. the resources dropped into DL and D overall on this team over the past 3 years, when our D was good to start with kinda shows me how they are running this thing. i expect us to be more aggressive on D next season, perhaps by a big amount.

so many of these linemen have insane talent but are just like giant fat lazy drunk bears. there should be some kind of cookie avoiding wonderlick to test to see if these guy will balloon up. holti ngata, vince wilfork, or this guy or a mike williams. gotta roll the dice, would be nice to know if you are drafting a thicc champion or a sloppy guts grump on his way to a bust off career and an early heart attack.

loool, i love hearing pitlovers spaz out and say "it's the owners, not the breed!!". like, what if i kept a lion, could i be a good and loving owner and just not every worry that my fur baby wouldn't hurt a fly? well, the difference between a lion and a dog is only it's genes, which is the difference between a pit and a lab. i see this kind of trash all over and it's absolutely disgusting! lol

i think there is some truth to the criticism that josh doesn't always get the ball out "on time", but to me that's as much of a scheme/system issue as it is on individual players. watching sf you really see how the ball just pops out on a beat, but if a single solitary thing went wrong in the process up to that point the play looks like a soup sandwich: just spilling all over the joint. im hoping w kromer back and some more emphasis on the protections and run game that instead of just having josh go be super man all the time, we kinda run the O with more easy plays.

i think you can come up w a great team just using former bills. 11x bruce (or cornelious) on D 11x jason peters on O bear front w 6 bruce's on the line, disguising where the rush is coming from. jason peters on O means you can block up anyone obv. i think both of these guys are such freaks that they could gain or lose some size and be more impactful at other positions. bruce could get down to like 225-230 to play DB. peters was a TE, if he could diet down to around 250, he could be RB, qb ( assuming he can throw, if not not a big deal) and so on. he'd really just have to get small enough to play rb, two or three rb sized peters behind 8-9 full sized peters would be kinda funny since no one touches anyone until some big blocks are laid and a convoy is in motion. if this could be done right it would make for a funny breaking madden type thing.

i think we get a corner in the 1st or 2nd (and maybe later in the draft if we like one) and him and dane start while trey recovers. after trey recovers, it's trey and dane, until it's painfully obvious the rookie is better (which is what mcd always does, err on the side of the vet starting).

chip is the only bit i'd be excited for in the nfl. the rest are totally fine for another league, needs to be different than the nfl.

good data, i kinda think you only have to spend really top picks on qbs (because everyone needs one so overpaying isn't that bad) and pass rushers (because you need a crazy combo of skill and insane attributes). im a bit less sure, but i think the same might apply to CBs too.

isn't trading away edmunds an issue w the cap?

im guessing we put more resources into huge RAS guys this year. that's been a theme w beene, and it seems to be accelerating. the wr and that lb mentioned on this thread, there are a couple of safeties who score huge on the RAS, all could be need positions.

so, i'm presuming dk metcalf was just behind this guy on the total athletic index score (i could be wrong). How is this guy getting talked about in the 1st and dk fell to the second? and we missed him for fatty fat fat ford! im guessing the issue there is that metcalf obv shoulda been higher, not that this watson kid should be much lower. looking at the top 4 ranked athletic guys, they were all super producers. Matt jones is the exception, but if i recall correctly, he was a drug addict who couldn't hack being a pro athlete. he still went from qb to wr and made some shocking one handed catches for TDs for the short time he played.

to me there are too big changes from last year's OL to now 1: edge control. houghs could rip up the pitch and get almost sacks like no one's biz, but outside of his outside foot was often pretty free country against us. adding shaq who really was the best edge setter we had for a while, and miller in place of houghs gives an actual fundamental improvement in our DL play that can stop big screens and runs. 2: big drive pass rush. we got lots of sacks vs trash teams who were falling apart, but we tended to not get sacks vs good teams when we really really coulda used em. how man times was mahomes open to get tackles and you see some bills player flailing around just missing him in the play offs? if miller can shut down a drive in each play off game with a solid sack, that frankly mighta been super bowl victory for us last year (it certainly was for the rams). so it doesn't really matter how the d looks right away (barring total melt down of course), or what the pff stat rankings for whatever are at whatever point. we had the number 1 d in the nfl, and lead in like 4 different categories, and it wasn't good enough and we knew it wasn't good enough. stats don't always tell the story, we'll know prolly by mid season if we built this d up to be where we want them.

maybe the process was the friends we made long the way.

Not me man, i can't take losing all of them myself.

id love to see it, but it might blind me it would be so surprising. he's pretty awful.

he's not fast, so i don't like that part, but josh allen with a screen game, and some kind of threat of a run is a freaking nightmare. doing what we did vs kc in the playoffs early, where we put in the runs and short plays as body blows to set up the big hitters, is a lot easier if you have your wr's running deep and the RB running a good route underneath with some space.

he played really well but got bounced off of his prior team too. spain seemed to have an issue like that too. a lot of big guys get a contract and lose motivation. i dunno if it's just the feeling of being a giant ogre of a person, or entering the smash gauntlet every single day and getting tired of it. Smith, the guy who made all pro as a DE and DT in the same season was the 4th overall pick by cincy, but basically didnt' give a crap there and left for SF where he went from a decent player to a monster in a human skin suit.

i like where your head is at, but is that star cut in the cards? honest inquiry, i've read that it is possible, and that it doesn't make sense. to me, Star was not available enough and while he has a ton of God given talent, he's just not into being the best football player he can be, so i could get used to him walking. also, i SUPPOSE the upside of having all these JAG DL we had at high prices means we can sort of upgrade or stay even at the position while saving money. i still think we need chandler, but i could see the front office believing there is enough upside for AJ and basham and groot that they sort of don't get him, but i think that would be a mistake.

im still torn on this, but leaning more no. the contracts we are seeing this off season tell me that we over pay our line backers and under pay our WRs.

i think we need to get faster, both on O and D, not sure getting landry does that for us. i think mcK does that tho. he's faster than his 40 time. i think we need one more fast guy on O, and a solid pass rusher, and we are as close to golden as we can be. i really think kromer and the new OC, along w year over year improvements on the OL are gonna mix in a running element that was not as consistent as it needed to be, and instead of needing JA17 to be super man, we are gonna lower the level of difficulty for him and the super man stuff will be the icing on top.

as said above, williams is not a kromer guy (gets off balance, misses reads sometimes and blocks the hash mark, while being a fairly talented veteran), this guy is. kromer likes em nasty and agile, morse it think is just an overall solid pro, bates is really cheap vs his quality at G, our LT is a good one. i think the giant rookie we have at RT (2nd year next) is a kromer guy because he's raw and coachable but freakishly athletic. i kinda hope ford is too, but he just seems like a total dud.

its was said above, but i'll repeat it because that's what it do: there is a big change w cap'n lawnchair (i like him, it's just too funny of a story to let up on). he has a strong idea, knows what results he wants, and likely has the confidence that he can coach guys up to get them where he wants them to be. dabol's upside is his creativity, his downside is he doesn't have a solid "bread and butter" (another term i have beaten half to death). i think w a younger/newer OC and veteran coaches under him and above him, we got a more standardized approach. i think that fits us best since JA17 is the king of off script playmaking, no need to write in too many tricks into your fight plan when you have a heavy weight who can throw 1-2's from 30 different angles at blinding speed.

the more moves i see the more i am convinced that we need chandler jones, and we need our draft to come up gangbusters. by the end of the season, we want to get a starter at some combo of IOL/DT/CB/TE/WR (Wr assumed we have a beaze cut and starter can mean our 3rd wr getting some burn). i figure our 1st and some kind of trade up in the 2nd or 3rd should get our IOL and WR, and either CB or DT, whomever presents the best value.

the arm on that boy is shocking!

i remember back in the day when baseball salaries outstripped other sports, people would talk about how an all star getting whatever was ok, but a left handed 2nd baseman w .209 batting and 6/23 HR and RBIs getting 2mil a year (which was a lot of money at the time) makes no sense is why payrolls blew up. Cousins is the transubstantiation of the generic just above average guy cashing out like a maniac. he's good at somethings, not good at others, and doesn't have the upside of the young guns which really puts him right at like 16 of 32 starters. from a football fan perspective, he's as dull as a rainy day in the north of england, but as a statistically interested person, he's the perfect player! broooo, imagine if we let him walk? he'd have gotten an aaron rogers contract, but longer. i wrote my above before seeing this, and i think you might be bang on here. the legend of cousins carries on unabated!