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It is extremely difficult to evaluate college players. So many variables - level of competition, do they have a lot or very little talent around them, do they have room to grow or are they maxed out physically, what is their work ethic, are they football smart, can any observed deficiencies be “coached up”, do they have any injuries that could hinder them, how much do they really want to play, do they fit the drafting team’s system, are they drafted into a stable system or will coaching changes cause them to not fit new system… Even the best evaluators miss on players, including the scouts employed by NFL teams. Every draft shows that talent evaluation is not an exact science. It’s great fun to discuss all of this and have our favorites for whom the Bills should draft, but let’s remember that we can be wrong on some of these guys - recent example is Terrel Bernard.

Yeah people sounded like they thought FSU asked him to do a lot at FSU so he's already got a good understanding of the route tree. More than that from his interviews the guy seems very smart and having transferred he's already got experience learning a new system. If I had to guess what the big thing developing with him along the way will be it'll be technique. I just get the feeling he could really improve quickly.

I didn’t call you a racist, go ahead and report me. I am accusing you of pot-stirring.

Brady is a system QB, Belichick made him! He’d be nothing without Belichick - Brady haters in 2012, who also no longer exist.

Free agency is loaded down with great vet backs. I think he will have to settle for less. But I agree wouldn't pay him that much a year knowing he wouldn't be rb1 in our system.

My point is right around draft time all sorts of things come out. It’s comical that you don’t think a lot of these kids make absolutely stupid mistakes. Like every single one of them. Yet only certain ones make headlines. anyone remember that Josh is racist? end of the day, I want good football players. I don’t care about mild character concerns over drunk driving or something like that. and yes, we absolutely need a 1T. Can’t spend resources on a other guy that can’t stop the run.

Our Revolutionary Times COMMENTARY By Victor Davis Hanson Sometimes unexpected but dramatic events tear off the thin veneer of respectability and convention. What follows is the exposure and repudiation of long-existing but previously covered-up pathologies. Events like the destruction of the southern border over the last three years, the October 7 massacre and ensuing Gaza war, the campus protests, the COVID-19 epidemic and lockdown, and the systematic efforts to weaponize our bureaucracies and courts have all led to radical reappraisals of American culture and civilization. Since the 1960s, universities have always been hotbeds of left-wing protests, sometimes violently so. But the post-October 7 campus eruptions marked a watershed difference. Masked left-wing protesters were unashamedly and virulently antisemitic. Students on elite campuses especially showed contempt for both middle-class police officers tasked with preventing their violence and vandalism as well as the maintenance workers who had to clean up their garbage. Mobs took over buildings, assaulted Jewish students, called for the destruction of Israel, and defaced American monuments and commentaries. When pressed by journalists to explain their protests, most students knew nothing of the politics or geography of Palestine, for which they were protesting. The public concluded that the more elite the campus, the more ignorant, arrogant, and hateful the students seemed. The Biden administration destroyed the southern border. Ten million illegal aliens swarmed into the U.S. without audit. Almost daily, news accounts detail violent acts committed by illegal aliens or their surreal demands for more free lodging and support. {snip} Americans are also reappraising their attitudes toward time-honored bureaucracies, the courts, and government agencies. The public still cannot digest the truth that the once respected FBI partnered with social media to suppress news stories, to surveil parents at school board meetings, and to conduct performance art swat raids on the homes of supposed political opponents. After the attempts of the Department of Justice to go easy on the miscreant Hunter Biden but to hound ex-president Donald Trump for supposedly removing files illegally in the same fashion as current President Joe Biden, the public lost confidence not just in Attorney General Merrick Garland but in American jurisprudence itself. The shenanigans of prosecutors like Fani Willis, Letitia James, and Alvin Bragg, along with overtly biased judges like Juan Merchant and Arthur Engoron, only reinforced the reality that the American legal system has descended into third-world-like tit-for-tat vendettas. Finally, we are witnessing a radical inversion in our two political parties. The old populist Democratic Party that championed lunch-bucket workers has turned into a shrill union of the very rich and subsidized poor. Its support of open borders, illegal immigration, the war on fossil fuels, transgenderism, critical legal and race theories, and the woke agenda are causing the party to lose support. The Republican Party is likewise rebranding itself from a once-stereotyped brand of aristocratic and corporate grandees to one anchored in the middle class. Even more radically, the new populist Republicans are beginning to appeal to voters on shared class and cultural concerns rather than on racial and tribal interests. The results of all these revolutions will shake up the U.S. for decades to come. More at the link: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/05/31/our_revolutionary_times_151029.html .

So maybe Coach “hold the” Mayo would rather talk about racism than his crappy football team. …..and If he dumps his 3 QB’s it sure ain’t because they’re white.

Agree. And I feel we have seen that potential with Kincaid. Year 2 I think he'll not only take steps forward, but Brady will have a much better idea of how to implement him and help him grow in his system. He had a very big 1st year by rookie TE standards. I expect a breakout if health hold up

https://defector.com/o-j-simpson-was-always-more-than-polarizing By Ray Ratto . . . . That's where Simpson lives in America's head, as the obviously guilty man who was acquitted, the celebrity of celebrities whose lawyers made names for themselves by dismantling the Los Angeles police and legal establishment. He blew our own views of the legal system to smithereens and reminded any Americans who thought otherwise that race remains the foundation upon which all other things in this country are laid. And then, because that wasn't sufficient, he capitalized on all of it for the final decades of his life, the embodiment of bulletproof celebrity, police incompetence and/or racism, a finger in the country's eye and a punchline all at once. We shed him of his surname so that he could become just plain O.J., The Guy Who Got Away With It. He is among the most influential Americans of the last 75 years (we aren't getting into a quibble over Franklin Roosevelt or Steve Jobs) because of all of it. The football star with the warming smile and the electric running style who transformed into a game analyst and then a comedic movie star, and then in one night the avatar for all the unattended sins in our nation's subconscious. Mostly, he laughed at us for our anger, and wore the overcoat of celebrity villainy with the same seeming ease that he had the cloak of national hero. He became the mirror for our sublimated cultural and political pathologies, and even if we didn't reference him in everyday conversations like we once did, he'd still pop up on this podcast or that from time to time to remind us who he was and what happened. He all but said why in a book entitled If I Did It, and owned the entire bizarre whirlwind of his work as though the new goal of his life was to agitate the nation. At that point nothing could come as a surprise, including spending nine years in prison after being convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas over sports memorabilia he claimed was his own. He even framed how we go about handling celebrities' passages through the spotlight. Now no one exists as an unqualified hero in the way O.J. did before the trial, no matter how hard their handlers try. O.J. taught us things about ourselves we didn't want to know and yet now embrace because we can't pretend any longer. This is O.J. Simpson's legacy as the Most Outsized American Ever, whether we are willing to own it or not.

If we get an FA rather than go with a rookie, I hope the FA is no more than about 26 years old and can play a good 5 years in the system. And hopefully not cost top dollar. Possible? If so, who?

Makes you wonder. Sweden, Poland, Finland, Japan, Korea...these are all countries that are our Allies and could perform Nuclear breakouts in a short length of time. Russia has done the Lord's work in convincing Europe that it is a credible threat, and that Europe needs to re-arm and re-evaluate its security decisions. If strategic mastermind Donald Trump wins the election and pulls us out of NATO. Or curtails our participation in NATO to such a degree no one trusts us, you'd have to think that Nuclear non-proliferation takes it right up the ass. No nuclear armed country has ever been invaded. If Poland doesn't trust us to get nuked to defend Warsaw, then the only way to defend Warsaw is with Polish nukes. Additional Nuclear powers don't add up to a safer human race, even if they do mean safer countries.

Bobo was a udfa and wicks was a 5th rounder. I was just mentioning guys that showed something in year 1. It will be interesting as more data points get added to your metrcis system if it holds. Its certainly off to a good start.

Hope he never has to work a day in his life. Race baiters both on TV and amongst us are literally the worst.

The problem with a system like this is that the different colors are not exclusive enough. Someone can be good and an age/injury concern at the same time. Someone can be young and unproven and also good.

This is both hilarious and sad. It's like a young adult saying, "I don't believe in gravity." Also an indictment of the athlete-scholarship system where total idiots not only get into a school but often emerge with a university degree.

Seems less than ideal… Trump supporters try to doxx jurors and post violent threats after his conviction “The posts, which have been reviewed by NBC News, appear on many of the same websites used by Trump supporters to organize for violence ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. These forums were hotbeds of threats inspired by Trump’s lies about the 2020 election, which he lost, and that the voting system was “rigged” against him. They now feature new threats echoing Trump’s rhetoric and false claims about the hush money trial, including that the judicial system is now “rigged” against him. “Dox the Jurors. Dox them now,” one user wrote after Trump’s conviction on a website formerly known as “The Donald,” which was popular among participants in the Capitol attack. (That post appears to have been quickly removed by moderators.) “We need to identify each juror. Then make them miserable. Maybe even suicidal,” wrote another user on the same forum. “1,000,000 men (armed) need to go to washington and hang everyone. That’s the only solution,” wrote another user. “This s--- is out of control.” “I hope every juror is doxxed and they pay for what they have done,” another user wrote on Trump’s Truth Social platform Thursday. “May God strike them dead. We will on November 5th and they will pay!”

A real walkaway. Nebraska State Sen. Mike McDonnell (R-5) announced he is fleeing the Democrat party to become a Republican, giving the GOP what U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) calls a “filibuster-proof majority” in Nebraska’s unicameral legislature. McDonnell’s party change bears major implications for local and national politics as the state is on the verge of moving to a winner-take-all electoral vote allocation system for presidential elections. The state currently has a split electoral vote awarding system that gives “two electoral votes to the state popular vote winner, and then one electoral vote to the popular vote winner in each congressional district,” as Newsweek’s Natalie Venegas pointed out. https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/04/03/nebraska-gop-gains-filibuster-proof-majority-unicameral-legislature-after-democrat-switches-parties/ .

The best economy ever is a farce that needs to spend a trillion in borrowed every quarter of life support money to keep the system running. Its like my big-shot brother-in-law that always has the latest and greatest of everything and new cars in the driveway every year without a cent in the bank or any investmemts. The king of the consumption lifestyle without a pot to piss in. Like the robust US economy. A big illusion

Meanwhile, the US media that would jump on this story in a millisecond of it was somebody else besides Biden (can you imagine the 24/7 non-stop coverage if it involved Trump?), will ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist. They and the corrupt politicians and system they protect are forcing us to live in their alternative reality where mental patients run the country. Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?

No cops can restrain this without fear if something happens, they are all racists (even if 2 of the arresting officers are black. Confront this man you’re at risk of getting shot. For nothing. Absolutely nothing. These clips and worse are happening daily in deep blue ***t holes. Flyover country starting to see it to. Society in free fall. Legalize all drugs tho. And take away my right to defend myself and family if lunatics like this just confront you for no reason. Its going to get so bad

Weird? No, this makes complete sense. Many of these kids come from poverty stricken homes. Now, some are racing around in Porsches with 100 grand in their pockets, and access to hot women, alcohol, and legalized weed (and God knows what else). I'm not insulting these kids. I'm not at all sure that if I was young, in a college with thousands of hot girls, with a cool million dollars that my behavior would be all that reasoned and mature. In fact, I would bet against it. My guess is that owners (if they are smart) will allocate more resources to investigate, and even spy on some of these kids. Jmo.

This should put the rest what the rest of the league actually values him at Certainly a talented player I would never call him a top five corner in the league right now... He's over valued and the Chiefs are cashing in He is a strict scheme fit not a guy who will excel in any system

I will be happy to elaborate. After I have done so if you would do me the favor of pointing out where I have invalidated the actions of 65,000 people I would appreciate it. Don’t spend all day looking for it though. That would be a waste. Those 65,000 people are doing **TRIGGER WARNING** God’s work. I honor and respect what they are doing. Your contribution on the other hand, is to label people as racist that disagree with your view of the border situation. A situation that even your party leadership will now admit is an all out disaster.

This is the path to keeping both Hardy and Ingram IMO. We currently only have 3 boundary corners that are locks (Kaiir, Rasul, Christian). I think with Hardy likely in the mix on specials, and allowing Lewis to be a bit of a Swiss Army knife, Damar becomes expendable. They’ve kept Ingram around for the past few seasons, and much like Lewis, must like him in their system. The only curveball here is if we get a late addition, a la Micah Hyde, who could come in and shake things up.