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1 hour ago, boyst said:
Do you not know what this term means? Wow
"Golden boy" has a long history as a description of someone fortune has smiled on. For example, in Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller describes Achilles as a golden boy. The OP used in a more narrow sense, as someone growing up privileged in California. That usage might be in vogue, but I'm still not sure if stunned disbelief is warranted.
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1 hour ago, hondo in seattle said:
Mup, the kid isn't lazy per se. But he is hot-tempered and emotionally immature. There's an article on Yahoo that I think presents a fair and balanced version of Claypool's NFL journey up to the time he was with the Bears (link below).
He reminds me of Diggs - a talented, hard-working guy who hates losing and sometimes lets his emotions make him a bad teammate. Like Diggs, he hates when teammates get comfortable with losing. And like Diggs, some of his complaints have been valid. But that doesn't mean it's good for the team to air them out. And if Claypool is Diggs II, he's been an inferior copy: less production, more problems.
Claypool has good qualities too - as an athlete and a human. I'm hoping he's smart enough to see how his bad temper and immaturity have derailed his career - and decides to make amends. Last season must have been a huge punch in the gut for him - hopefully an eye-opening one.
I'm also hoping Buffalo's strong culture and leadership bring out the best in him. Whatever you may think of McD, he's not a milquetoast. And a lot of players seem to like Brady and appreciate his communication skills. Buffalo just might be what Claypool has been searching for at the time he was finally ready to find it. As a Bills fan, my fingers are crossed.
sports.yahoo.com/bears-chase-claypool-saga-happened-003109392.html
The last thing the Bills needs is another diva wide receiver who blows up regularly because he "hates losing."
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On 5/25/2024 at 10:31 PM, Billl said:
The USC QBs who have flamed out have all been golden boys. Caleb’s not in that mold.
What do you mean by golden boys?
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On 5/9/2024 at 8:31 AM, JerseyBills said:
https://www.si.com/nfl/bills/buffalo-bills-ray-davis-impact
Always thought Fowler provided good if not great coverage and insight on a variety of nfl subjects, so I was happy to see this write up on our 4th round RB.
Also had no clue he was only the 3rd 4th round pick Beane has made here, with the 2 others being Taron and Gabe, some great value for the 4th round. Will Ray Ray continue the trend?
So ironic he twice traded away the fourth pick to move up in the first. The fourth round for him is like everyone else's first round. He'd do better to trade his first for another team's fourth, confuse everyone and come out ahead. 😀
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3 hours ago, Shaw66 said:
It continues to amaze me that with almost every pick Beane got a player who has a seriously good chance of playing more than token snaps in his rookie season.
Yeah, but that may as much about the team's lack of depth as it does the players' abilities.
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13 minutes ago, Mat68 said:
Vegas has been more optimistic about Allen and the team since 2020 than the majority of the fan base. The best qb in the AFC east is Allen by a wide margin.
It seems highly unlikely that a team that has been very good for years will suddenly be mediocre. They'll win some and lose some, as always, and get to the playoffs. The big question is how they will perform there, The faults of every team are magnified if they don't go all the way, while those of the team that does win the championship are forgotten. The Chiefs were not championship caliber on offense last year. But they had near-perfect health and a terrific defense. That was just enough to beat the Bills, who almost won with a MASH unit of a defense and a washed-out prima donna WR.
The Bills could easily--easily--have won the Super Bowl the past three years. If the Chiefs are injured instead of them, if Damar Hamlin doesn't get hurt, or if the coaches had not played a soft zone with 13 seconds left, the Bills would have three trophies. There's no mystery, no secret ingredient KC has that the Bills don't. It's just happenstance. I wouldn't be surprised if the Bills won three of the next five SBs.
In short, KC is way overrated and the Bills are way overrated. That's just how bias works. People assume winning is magic. It's not. Any of the top six teams can win it; all it takes is luck.
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14 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
He builds great staffs. There is zero doubt. Some of that is the Pegulas money too, but Gaine, Shoen, Morgan have already been taken to be GMs off Beane's staff. TG is a definite candidate for jobs too. Beane is not himself an elite talent evaluator, but he knows how to spot and hire one. He is a great builder of a FO staff.
I would be curious to hear their process described, particularly the retrospective, "Where did we go wrong?" analysis several years out. How they missed on Boogie Basham and (evidently) Elam, for instance, or how, like everyone else, they overlooked Puca Nacua. Drafting players has to be fertile grounds for all sorts of cognitive biases. Even if you're totally objective, which is pretty much impossible, how do you account for one player, like Diggs or Nacua, being fantastic, when dozens of other players with pretty much exactly the same measurables, pedigree, work ethic, and temperament, are either busts or JAGs?
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9 hours ago, boater said:
I started to watch and it was interesting, but I wish there were a transcript to skim over.
I don't do podcasts or videos--I am a reader.
Same. Podcasts take forever to listen to, and if you skip around you end up missing important moments.
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2 hours ago, Steve Billieve said:
We haven't had a qb good/long enough to really consider besides Allen. Plus we know he would probably have like 20 carries a game if he was calling the plays.
And shots at the end zone every third play.
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19 minutes ago, fergie's ire said:
And there is not only culturally based intelligence but, as I think you are suggesting, there is football smarts which is its own thing. Jim Kelly got a 15 on the Wonderlic. At the time, my impression of him was that he was not a very bright guy. However, I heard a teammate talk about him and say that they were able to run the K-Gun the way they did because Kelly was super smart. He wasn't book smart...or probably even street smart...but football smart is its own thing.
Makes me wonder why Allen--or pretty much any QB since Kelly--isn't allowed to call plays beyond the occasional audible. I get it that the OC has eyes on the field and has resources spread out in front of him, but, as with Kelly and the K-Gun, letting Allen, say, suddenly go hurry up for a series and call his own plays could really put a defense on its heels.
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3 hours ago, hondo in seattle said:
Finn, I hear you...
I was kind of riffing off of "Debi Downer." I have a wife and two daughters - one of whom is entering med school, something I certainly didn't have the grades to do. Each of them is better than me in many ways. If anyone in my family has monopolized stupidity, it's me.
Thanks for your gracious reply. Didn't mean to jump on you. I have a daughter, too, certainly brighter and more capable than I am, and I might be oversensitive to signs the world won't give her a fair shake.
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Why Debi? Why not Tom from Tonawanda or Leo from Lancaster? Did you choose a female name deliberately, or were you unconsciously channeling our culture's poor view of woman when looking for a name that would evoke sneers?
Women don't have a monopoly on stupidity, believe me.
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On 4/29/2024 at 8:39 AM, HaldimandBills said:
I dont like this logic. We built fantastic depth in this draft which is what we needed to do instead of dishing out 4 to 5 million $ to rotational linebackers, dlineman, and secondary.
Coleman replaces Gabe Davis. Nothing more. Nothing less. He grades to be better than Davis. Diggs isn't replaceable. Bills are gonna sling the ball all over the field rather than force feed one guy. Let's see how this works out. Shakir, Samuel, Kincaid, Coleman, Knox, Cook, Ray Davis is so much better than people are giving credit. This group is light years better than
Diggs, Mckenzie, Davis, Singletary
Diggs, Beasley, Brown, Singletary
Diggs, Davis, barely used Shakir and Kincaid until last few games, Cook coming out party near the end.
Our RB room has never been better. Oline is better than any season outside last under Allen.
Bills have never had elite talent at receiver besides Diggs. This group is better than any receiver the Bills have had besides Diggs and Beasley in 2021.
Cole Bishop replaces Poyer and I love this pick. Starter day one.
Bills are absolutely flushed with cap space and draft picks for 2025. We will have 7 picks in the top 150 next year. (1) 1st (2) 2nds (1) 3rd (4) 4ths. You can't go all in every year.
This is what made the Chiefs Super Bowl this season so special for them. 2023 was clearly a transition year for the Chiefs and they still won anyways.
Dolphins and Jets are about to enter cap hell after this season and the Patriots are a long way a way. For now I'll enjoy 2024 and see how the young defense develops and how the post Diggs offense runs.
Great take. Beane played a bad hand impressively. Diggs was washed. Between force-feeding him another year and hope for better results, Beane leveraged what is likely to be a high second-round pick next year. Between sticking with a WR 2 who had every chance to step up and didn't, he drafted a much more talented replacement. Morse is a loss, but he might have hit the wall, too, and they needed the cap space, and it looks like Beane found a capable replacement. He added depth everywhere. People forget lack of depth killed us the past two years, when the starting roster was good enough to go all the way. They still need a starting-quality free safety and another dependable pass rusher, but I agree with the OP that this WR group can get the job done.
Put it this way: Add a veteran FS, and this team already looks better than the injured teams the Bills fielded the past two years. Ironically, they might go all the way when those other teams couldn't.
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3 hours ago, RobbRiddick said:
They're already praying he catches the winning TD against us in the playoffs so the narrative goes full circle
It's such a juicy narrative--"Bills hand Mahomes AND Worthy to Chiefs!" that it will prevail unless things develop dramatically the other direction, like Coleman is the ROY and--"and," mind you--Worthy is an obvious bust. That's not likely to happen, so get ready for the storyline to be trotted out for the next several years.
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The reporters had the "Worthy impresses in first day of camp" headline ready to go before practice began and didn't bother to change it after he promptly dropped his first pass and then got injured.
Welcome to the world of preformed narratives.
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On 5/3/2024 at 11:24 PM, BigDingus said:
I don't hate Mahomes the person... I was too huge a fan in college to just start hating him like I hated Brady.
He's a good dude, even Josh likes him. The most I feel is hatred while the Bills are playing against him, but any other gripes I have come from the people surrounding him.
I thought he was a good dude, too, and I'm still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, but his hissy fit over the Gronk throwback, and his trash talk after the KC victory over the Bills in the playoffs (crowing over Dawkins' comment about how hard it is to play in Buffalo) showed no class. It wouldn't have been hard to commend the Bills, comment over how close the game was despite the extreme number of Bills' injuries, his rivalry with Allen played, etc. Instead, it was all about how great he and the Chiefs were. Same after the SB. Compare to how gracious Allen has been after losing, which is tenfold harder.
It's not easy to be adulated as deity. But I don't think he's handling his fame particularly well.
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I have hopes for Ingram as our fourth and high hopes for Elam to battle for a starting job if the new DB coach can reach him. He was a first-rounder for a reason. I wonder if it's time to let Hamlin go, maybe trade him to the Steelers for a sixth-round pick. He hits hard, but he always seems to be in the wrong place, at least when I saw him play before last year.
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It would be all I can do not to spit on the ground if I saw him in person. He's a lying, cheating narcissist with no class, wit, or grace.
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26 minutes ago, Brand J said:
We all will definitely be assessing Coleman vs
Worthy
Legette
Mitchell
McConkey
and even Franklin, since so many of us wanted him in the 3rd.
And we'll also be assessing Harrison, Nabors, Odonze, and Pearsall, all of whom Coleman may outperform. Scoff if you want, but people here and elsewhere last year would have laughed at the idea of Puka Nacua outperforming all the receivers drafted before him. We just don't know, not for sure.
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On 5/3/2024 at 10:52 AM, Sweats said:
Wait till the 1st time Worthy gets hit by a LB and then tell me how good he is again.
That contributed to Diggs' effectiveness last year, I'd say. The Eagles hit him after the whistle a few times, and other teams, like the Steelers, figured out he's soft. I hope the Bills lay the lumber on him when the Bills play Houston.
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6 minutes ago, 90sBills said:
Good for 13mil a year apparently.Fool's gold.
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5 hours ago, Warriorspikes51 said:
or maybe they want WR's that can win vs physical press in the playoffs?
Like all of us, Brady and McDermott saw Diggs being tossed around like a ragdoll.
Davis was bigger, but of course he couldn't get open or catch, so what good is that?
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On 4/30/2024 at 12:45 PM, Buffalo03 said:
This dude is getting right by 300 pound dudes lol
I could never be a draft evaluator. The guy looks like a young Von Miller. I'd think he was a first-round pick. I mean, what else does he have to do? I realize this is a highlight reel, and evidently he's a liability against the run, but still, he looks like a first-rate pass rusher to my inexpert eyes.
50 minutes ago, TheyCallMeAndy said:Beane does cook in the 5th round!
Yeah, maybe he should trade down from all the earlier rounds and up from all the later rounds. Pick like 20 players in the fifth round. If he hits on just seven, he'll have the best draft in the league. Revolutionary!
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27 minutes ago, SoonerBillsFan said:
Yes, it is possible. Shakir and Samuel are fast as well.
Our WR room is better than many fans think.
I think so, too. It's lacking only name recognition. Shakir was better than Diggs last year, at least in the second half of the season; Samuels has produced despite never having a top-twenty quarterback; Coleman looks terrific; Hollins should be a solid, Kumerow-type 4th. Remember, they have a QB that produced big time with no more than Beasley, Brown, and loose change.
But let's not kid ourselves. Hamler, Shavers, Isabella, and Shorter are all long shots. Maybe lightning will strike. More likely, they'll go the way of Deonte Hardy, Tanner Gentry, Isaiah Hodgins, Marquez Stephenson, Tavon Austin, and Jamison Crowder.
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Caleb Williams is off to a rough rookie start
in The Stadium Wall
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"Road scholar"? Must be thinking of Jack Kerouac.