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For that to be true it would mean he basically just publicly kind of took a shot at Davis. Implies who ever is coming in is a big upgrade to Davis to the point teams need 2 number 1 corners now. I’m skeptical he would say that if it meant someone is coming in to upstage Davis. The WR group is a close knit group, doesn’t seem like McK to say something that could be seen as a slight to his boy Davis.

How can you look at what he did this year with scrubs and honestly say he is on the decline? He was on pace for 120 catches and 1400 yards catching passes from Murray for a few games and scrubs the rest. And on a bad overall team too with bad coaching.

D Hop is a better WR than Deebo who is a hybrid WR. But WR to WR, in terms of receiving skills, D Hop is better and just about any GM or player in the NFL would affirm that. And I’m a big fan of Deebos too, but he isn’t as good as Hopkins at being a WR. And he is not on a decline, you just stating that doesn’t make it true. He was as good as ever this year. His per game averages out him at 120 catches and 1400 yards catching passes from mostly bad quarterbacks. Anytime someone says he is on the decline I immediately know they really didn’t pay attention to him this year. He was as good as ever.

None of this addresses what I said in my post to you. No disrespect, but I’d abandon this take, it’s not gonna go where you want it too because it’s so ridiculous. Davis couldn’t hold Hopkins jock right now. Davis is not remotely close to the level of player Hopkins is today still. And he is not ancient, he is only 6 months older than Diggs.

You can’t be serious with this post. Come on lol. PS: You immediately lost credibility of your post out the gate when you talked about games played since 2020 to imply he has injury issues. He has had ONE injury in his whole career were missed more than 1 game, and that was 2021. He only missed a total of 2 games the rest of his career. His suspension that cost him games this year was related to his recovery for that injury in 2021. He does NOT have reliability issues. And the funniest part is that you compared a whole season for Davis to half a season to Hopkins, yet Hopkins put up nearly the same totals in half the time despite Davis playing on the most pass happy offense in the league with a top 2 QB. Hopkins played with a lesser Murray and scrub backups. And you calling Hopkins ancient is hilarious when I guess that makes Diggs ancient too since he is only 6 months older than Diggs. No disrespect, but man this is quite honestly just an all around terrible thread, assessment and comparison. You’d be much better off deleting it than letting more people read this TBH. Hopkins is a top 5 WR in the NFL, Davis isn’t even a top 5 WR in his 4 team division.

Hahaha that’s fair, although I did check his Twitter before I posted. The ones I was calling out were the ones people posted that were not even pretending to be an insider and tweeting clear gibberish. But thanks to all the TSW peeps who dove deeper into it. Deleted the thread too

Yeah I checked the Twitter profile and seemed relatively legit at first glance. This was someone putting in a lot of effort to appear legit in terms of what they put out. Thanks to the TSW sleuths who looked deeper. Already deleted the thread with it too.

I don’t think that changes anything with his dead cap hits.

Ah I didn’t go that deep. But his posts looked normal to me and clean and the link went to the athletic. He seems to just be a local bengals coverage guy, might be why low followers, could also be new. Hard to tell sometimes though, so could be a fake account that is being less obvious about being fake too. With any unconfirmed news, just take with a grain of salt until we see something more official

Why do you say that? I checked before posting, seemed legit to me

Funny, we kept hearing for a while around here was that Vander Esche was so much better than Edmunds. Vander Esche signed for 2 years, $11M to stay with Dallas as no market at all developed for him. Edmunds signed early day 1 for 4 years, $72M. Seems the NFL GMs value them quite differently than TSW pundits.

Funny, we kept hearing for a while around here was that Vander Esche was so much better than Edmunds. Vander Esche signed for 2 years, $11M to stay with Dallas as no market at all developed for him. Edmunds signed early day 1 for 4 years, $72M. Seems the NFL GMs value them quite differently than TSW pundits.

Literally what I thought it meant, but still thought I was wrong haha. Thanks for confirming it was what I thought haha

I was talking about Hopkins not Renfrow when I posted about not being injury prone

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This! It’s also absurd to say he’s injury prone when he had one real injury in his whole career in 2021. Prior to that he missed 2 games his whole career.

Karma is a...

Has anything else come out other than that initial tweet reporting some interest? With us losing Edmunds, and now seeing some other LB's land else where, there are not a lot of great options remaining. I have a feeling Beane is letting the market shake out, but I just hope we don't wait too long given how important of a position it is in McD's defense. My first choice was Al-Shaair, but he is going to the Titans. My second choice is David, so hope we see some movement on this soon.

Agree, but I don't trust Dorsey to use him enough to validate his expense. And I still worry about us not being physical enough in moving the chains, the redzone, and bad weather. I would much rather spend the money like you said on OL and WR and then get a guy like Jamaal Williams to compliment Cook and Hines. That being said, I would still be quite excited about Ekeler if we got him, he is a dynamic player. Just think spreading the money elsewhere and getting a physical back to compliment our guys here already moves the needle more overall for this team.

Im just waiting for the story to break that Aaron Rodgers was never going to go to the Jets and he really just started his own agency and his first clients are Lazard, Cobb, Lewis and other current or former Packers and he has just been using the allure of himself to get them paid more than they should be by the Jets.

Damn, I really was hoping we would be in on him.

I agree with this, however, the two lingering questions for me is how effective can he be in the bad weather in Buffalo and what is the money he is seeking that is making LAC make him available in the first place. Speed and agility gets neutralized to a degree in those snowy or wet games. We really struggled with chewing clock, extending drives, short yardage, redzone, and bad weather games when it came to running the ball. We can't just keep relying on Allen to take the physical pounding to shoulder the majority of that load. So while Ekeler would be a major weapon for sure for this offense, I would still be concerned we won't be physical enough of a team. And I watched a lot of Chargers games here, their lack of physicality hurt them frequently, and they didn't even have the cold weather issue. With our bad weather, I would only be concerned about remaining too much of a high octane finesse team. Don't get me wrong, Ekeler in this offense would be an exciting add I would not complain about. But I would be lying if I said I wouldn't still be worried about being too much of a high octane finesse team while playing in a stadium at home whose weather often neutralizes those aspects of a team.

That is just it...there have been VERY FEW real rumors for the most part. People keep reading tweets by nobody's saying he would be a good fit, or I bet the Bills would be or should be calling...and then coming onto the boards and falsely associating that as "rumors" the Bills are interested. I would say at best, like 1 out of every 10-15 rumors I have seen yesterday and today regarding the Bills interest in a player at any position have actually been from a credible source reporting Bills interest on a player. The rest are coming from fake posts, or falsely thinking some randos comment on twitter is somehow a rumor linking the Bills to said player. Its mind blowing how many people here keep regurgitating nonsense as rumor. A few were legitimately fooled by fake accounts posting fake info, but most see any dumb tweet as a rumor.

Yeah he has a good deal today, it’s just that he wants a bigger deal making him available despite being such a valuable piece to the Chargers. If we got him, or any of them on a reasonable deal great. But just seems to backfire when teams pay RBs $10M+ a year.

It’s official, Chargers granted permission for him to seek a trade. That means there is a RB trade market that potentially includes Austin Ekeler, Dalvin Cook, Nick Chubb, and Derrick Henry. That’s like the first half of a fantasy football draft lol. Just goes to show how tough it is to pay a RB big money. Teams are faced with having to decide to trade them rather than give them a big deal, or trade because they gave them a big deal. Be interesting to see if any, or even all, of these RB's get moved and what they go for. Given how cheap Waller just got traded for, curious to see what kind of offers teams are going to get for a RB. Some good options already in FA that won’t require draft capital. Be interesting to see which domino falls first in both trade and free agency. As for the Bills, given Beane has explored previous RB trades, it wouldn't surprise me if we are linked to any of these guys.