WhitewalkerInPhilly

Ok but what about Pickens

I will say that the way DaQuan's contract is set up, if whoever they see at 1T is way ahead of him or he is just washed, he is one of the few players who a June 1st cut makes sense for

I'll be honest: so far Bishop has not proven to me that he's a starter. I expect major battles up and down the depth chart and some decent players are going to be gone on cutdown day

I mean I *am* that addicted but I've been cord cutting. What has been great is that I sprung for NFL+ Premium for $100 a year. So not only did I get Red Zone and radio streams as an out of town fan I got all the replay. I think I want to rewatch the San Fran snow game, that was a fun one

Yep I don't think we are going to have an elite receiving group. We don't yet have a guy that DCs lose sleep wondering how to cover. What I think the Bills do have is a lot of average to good (some very good) players, and the variety to scheme up an attack week to week based on that teams weaknesses. Are they bad against the run/inclement weather? Break out the jumbo sets and pound it. Do they play heavy zone? Shakir is devastating against zone Do they play heavy man? Well now we have Palmer and Moore (hopefully Keon) as man beaters. I think that a 11 formation of Moore/Palmer at X, Coleman at Y, Shakir in the slot and Kincaid/Knox at TE and Cook/Davis/Ty is a replicable base offense to attack from

I do think there's a spot for him on the team simply because he can separate so well. What I'm liking is that we are overlaying strengths for redundency. I agree at the whole "positionless" framework. Right now the WR room is Vertical burner: Palmer & Moore (Kincaid to an extent) Red zone Power: Kincaid & Coleman & Knox Middle of the field: Shakir & Samuel, Coleman, Knox Screens: Shakir & Samuel Depending on what the opposing D likes to do, you can find all sorts of ways to stress them

Low risk high reward. We should have a better WR room purely on development and return from injury but this sounds like a Hollins level replacment

I'm thankful he's no longer in the division

I agree that the boom/bust nature is likely why he made it to the 4th round. Heck I'm even ok with a redshirt year if he needs to rehab because of the talent flashed but with a 4th it's no skin off Beane's nose if things don't pan out

Not trying to blow smoke but I've wondered it as well. What are you using Hoecht for? Why was he a priority signing when his calling card is positional flexibility? At the time I dug up this article about a 4-3 under https://weeklyspiral.com/2021/10/04/4-3-under/#google_vignette Basically the advantge is that you'd give the 3 tech (Oliver, Carter, Sanders) a cleaner shot at penetration by shifting the attack to the weakside but the things you need: -a 3 tech who can penetrate -a weakside LB who you have to trust as play flows to them (Milano) -a strongside LB who effectively plays as a 5th down lineman but who can fall back into coverage (Hoecht) that I would assume would be the 9 tech DE on nickel packages or swap to single S with Taron out playing Is this going to happen? I have no idea. Do think it would be reasonable to at least have that as a subpackage for bringing pressure against, say, a run heavy team *cough Ravens* while keeping coverage options open? I'd say so. Would it explain chasing Hoecht and ignoring Safety (if you plan on just using 1 a lot of the time)? To my deluded brain it just might.

Yeah if the idea is to run stunts, and constantly switch up fronts to the get natural overloads or simulated pressures with 4 rushers I am not mad about that Edit: that would actually be the perfect thing to use Hoect for if that's the plan

Traditional 0-tech NT (Ted Washington era) isn't looked to for pass rush. They are "two gappers" , in charge of defending two rushing lanes and effectively are trying to get double teamed every down so the other linemen are all 1 on 1. Now that has fallen out of favor as pass rushing becomes a priority over run defense but typically a 1-tech attacks the gap between Center and Guard and typically gets the double team by virtue of the fact that they have the shortest path to QB and collapse the pocket What I've heard from people who've crunched take is that Walker tends to do a little slide to pick the gap he likes. I don't think that's intrinsically bad but it means that he's not dedicated to clogging lanes to help the others

Keon Coleman is so slow he just got to the draft podiun

At this point, take Bond. What do you have to lose?

Beane trying to corner the market