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The examples I gave you regarding how few teams pass more than run and the vast difference between them and FSU are hardly "gee wiz explanations". They are proof of the concept of what a "run first" team actually looks like on the stat sheet in a power 5 conference. To take offense to them AFTER you've insisted I was wrong.......c'mon man. And I read your explanation about why you kept the phony stats in the thread. There is no good reason for that. Coleman wasn't even on FSU in 2022. It's a total throw-away. All it does is confuse readers. You've been around long enough that you should know that people half-read things and run with it. "56%?! I've seen enough. Eastport was right after all!"

Is that 6 posts by you now with no actual takes about the subject matter of the thread yet? It's bad enough that you are just trolling for attention.......but could you not be so boring about it?

Surprisingly, no mention of their great "depth". And for those who hate on PFF..........they had the Bills as having had the 9th best WR group last year. They haven't quietly gotten better...........they've rather loudly gotten suspect in the eyes of outside observers. This is the point that the rational have tried to make............this WR group looks weak as f#ck.

https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-2024-receiving-corps-rankings-bears-texans 27. BUFFALO BILLS The Bills' losses of Stefon Diggs and Gabe Davis (much more Diggs than Davis) make it difficult to place them any higher on this list. Keon Coleman, Khalil Shakir and Curtis Samuel could be a nice trio in the long-term, but that's outside of our scope here. Buffalo's tight end room does give the receiving corps a boost, headlined by Dalton Kincaid and Dawson Knox. Running back James Cook didn’t grade well as a receiver last season (54.3 grade), but he does have good ability in that area.

Why is it that trolls like you and @Royale with Cheese or @eballwho jump in to threads to add nothing to the conversation are so thin skinned? A) "Flooding is a fact of life in Horseheads" https://townofhorseheads.org/166/Flood B) I was referring to things like 14 straight losing seasons. Making the playoffs twice in 28 years. The 2018 team that was the second worst MLB team since WWII and finished 61 games back. It's been a long 40 years for you sh!tbirds fans. Meanwhile those Yankees are on their way to a 32nd straight winning season.

Sh!t runs downhill. You should know that living in a flood plain and being an Orioles fan. Blame the rank source material provided by the OP @JerseyBills.

Yes, you are wrong. And yet, for some reason you keep your wrong numbers in the post even though you know it. And you were compelled to jump into the argument because @Eastport bills made it sound legit with his conviction and refusal to admit that his stats/facts were false. But the footnote at the bottom is more acknowledgement than @Eastport bills gave for all his bullsh!t, fabricated stats so I guess you get a participation trophy. There is no place for intentional lying about stats in sport discussion. Even the lowest forms of professional sports talk.........ESPN afternoon TV shows and talk radio.........DO NOT CREATE FALSE STATS to make their arguments. Save that vile sh!t for the political board.

Your calculation is wrong. 33 rush attempts per game to 31 pass attempts is 52% rushing. Not 56.3%. And no, 52% is definitely not a "run heavy approach" at the CFB level. Teams run the ball more than pass the ball in CFB. Only one team in the entire ACC passed the ball more often than they ran it (Pittsburgh). FSU was the top offense but ran the ball the second least amount of times per game in the ACC. And mind you, @Eastport bills is the one who started in on ACC stats. Run heavy would be like Syracuse.........who averaged 24 pass attempts and 40 rush attempts (63%). Just 3 of 14 teams passed the ball more than they ran it in the SEC. Alabama was the most "run heavy" at 23 pass attempts and 40 rush attempts (64%). Run heavy teams run the ball about 60% of the time. FSU was far short of that.

Can @eball bring his flask into the play area?

I wouldn't call it rent free. It's not like @Royale with Cheese ex-wife living rent free in the house he bought (and then getting a cut of his pay check every Friday to boot). It's not THAT funny. But I am always delighted to see you show up and promptly step in every pile of sh!t possible. I don't know how you do it but keep doing it.

Sorry @Eastport bills but you are wrong again. The Seminoles had the second lowest amount of rushes per game in the 14 team ACC with 33.1. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/conferences/acc/2023-team-offense.html Only Pitt had fewer(29.7). The point you either miss or are selectively ignoring? Teams run the ball A LOT in college football. Having more rush attempts than pass attempts is not an indicator that you are conservative.

I think it was either @HappyDays or @Kirby Jackson who recently posted about how little draft capital the Bills had used on the WR position with Josh Allen at QB(using the weighted trade chart value numbers). You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. But even if Allen has some say in who they bring in at WR..........what matters is the results of those acquisitions. LeBron left his beloved hometown twice because they just didn't nail their personnel decisions. Some of those who disappointed were players he wanted them to acquire(like Kevin Love). This is the way it can go down with superstar athletes. Could Allen choose to remain with a defensive minded HC and a rotating cast of OC's and ineffective WR's? In a conference loaded with elite QB's blocking his path? Sure. But if you are the Bills you don't want to f#ck around and find out.

What a dumba$$ response. The point is simple.........appreciate when you have a great thing. People act like Allen is tied to a 40 year lease or something. Dude is from CA, he owns a house in LA, would golf every day if he could and his significant other happens to be a busy actress there. Are you dumb enough to not realize that it's crossed his mind that he could live AND play where he wants to? It's not like he'd be walking away from a great organization. And McVay has been to 2 SB's and so has Shanahan. He could easily be up there on a podium a couple years from now saying how tough a decision it was but he had to do what was right for him. Job #1 of any organization with an elite QB is to make that QB look as good as he can. They aren't doing that. To think he doesn't ealize that is to think he is an idiot.

Yeah it's bad enough he's saddled with a defensive minded HC and is then dealing with the constant threat of coordinator and system changes. And to be stuck in a conference with Mahomes and Burrow and their HC situations. But to not make putting WR talent around him a top priority? You can't expect the QB to tolerate all of those handicaps when the defense then keeps falling apart in the playoffs year-after-year. They are giving him a lot of reason to think about the naturally greener pastures........which just so happen to be where he was born and raised.........or currently makes his home and where his girlfriend works etc. etc.. They can't keep him here if he doesn't feel this is the best place for his career. I doubt anyone in the Buffalo media even dares asking him this summer if he foresees finishing his career in Buffalo. I'd suspect a much more measured answer at this point than 4 years ago.

It doesn't live up to the real-life drama of you writing the Bills organization a strongly worded letter to inform them that you were dropping your 26 year season tickets because they replaced Rex Ryan with this McDermott guy. And of course........then........subsequently crying and begging on TSW in January of 2021 trying to get tickets to the first home playoff game since 1995. Futilely, I might add. That was real drama. And really, truly f#cking hilarious.

Whatever gets him motivated. Literally. I don't even want to know. Maybe it's how mad he got the night that he and his 220# of a$$ stripper baby mama got into a wrasslin' match and she called the cops on him. Just do it. Don't want to hear about the labor pains after all the big talk last offseason and then the subsequent dumpster fire of a season he had. False. He was excellent in the 2022 season for Buffalo. Highly productive and clutch. Did they overpay? Yes but they paid for his production and his championship pedigree in the locker room. He was literally the best player on one of the few teams to win a SB primarily because of defense since the rules changes 15 years ago. The plan was working. Unfortunately, narrow is the path at his age and the gait he just couldn't keep straight.

Yep. And even though he likes going out there and being violent.........when he breaks his collar bone struggling for extra yards on a critical 4th and something play because his weapons aren't good enough to keep the chains moving..........and ends up watching half the season from the sideline.........those pending QB vacancies for QB-friendly HC's in his home state of California may start looking a lot more interesting. People don't realize it........but the reason that Aaron Rodgers didn't finish his career as a Packer is that the Packers played this same game with him for a decade. Don't think that Allen's buddies Brady and Rodgers haven't told him not to trust that the organization has his best interest in mind and will eventually give him the weapons he needs. They both got boned for their loyalty. Brady got left hanging with no weapons and was pushed out the door by Belichick and Rodgers got his replacement drafted in round 1 after 13 straight years of defensive first round picks. I'm sure their advice is don't wait until you are 36 to be where you aren't taken for granted.

The point of continuing with it was to prevent you from spreading false stats to the readers of this forum. Each of which was more absurdly false than the next. That's just weird, creepy, self-serving, fraudulent behavior. Unless you saw those same stats posted here by some other ahole. Which is quite possible. In which case, you should thank me for pointing out facts that you could have searched for accuracy in a manner of seconds instead of just buying it as fact and subsequently looking the fool for it. We don't all know that in 2023 Florida State was a run-first team.........because they clearly WERE NOT............but what we do all know is that if you say it on the internet a lot of people will believe it and might very well parrot those lies.

Why would we know this? Florida State was 11th of 14 teams in the ACC in rushing yards per game. They were 3rd in passing yardage in the ACC. You are literally just making sh!t up out of thin air.

And likewise I think you may be the most football ignorant. Where a receiver ranks in the pecking order determines his matchups. Obviously. You want a WR1 who can win matchups against good CB1's. The Bills don't have that. If the Bills didn't have a good QB you'd be making a case for why they don't need one. That's what you are, an apologist. That's fine, but you will get called out for spreading that ignorance.

You are just wildly hyperbolizing Keon Coleman's accomplishments. "His production in 12 games was tops in the ACC." Coleman's ACC receiving ranks: 12th in receptions. (50 when the leader had 110) 14th in receiving yards. (a paltry 658 yards when the leader had 1426) 19th in yards per catch (13.2 when the leader had 18.5) The only thing Coleman lead the ACC in was TD receptions. I like Coleman's physical traits but he did not produce at a high level in college. He is a projection. The root of projection is project. We aren't talking about a guy like Greg Rousseau who put up huge sack numbers in one season. Coleman did not have a single 800 yard season in college even. Being honest and realistic about what he's accomplished is not "killing the kid".

Looks like a lot of good-to-great takes. Thank you for digging those up. I liked Curtis Samuel back in 2021. Would I have liked to bring him in instead of Emmanuel Sanders? Absolutely. His star was rising. Would it have been nice to have a player like that so that they didn't have to extend Diggs early? Definitely. That was a great take by me. Their problems with Diggs started when they extended him. I accurately predicted that the only reason that he wasn't a pain in the a$$ was his lack of contract leverage. I like Samuel now too.........but not as WR1. In an offense where your TE Kincaid is the top target getter.......your X is a WR1 like DK Metcalf.......and your slot is Shakir........yeah I think Samuel at flanker is fine. Keep in mind.......in that offense Shakir or Samuel are off the field somewhere between 20% and 50% of the snaps. 12 is the second most run personnel combination at 19% league wide. And yeah, I hated that 2017 WR group. I've made that clear and I did think that was the worst WR group they'd taken into a season in my lifetime. But where this 2024 group ranks, relative to the rest of the league, is arguably as bad or worse. I don't care if the 5th WR is better. You judge a WR corps by their numbers. Just because I was spot-on about Matthews being over-rated doesn't mean he hadn't been effective. 6'3" 236 with a 4.46 40 time as a second round pick in 2014. You had to have watched him to know that those numbers don't translate(same with Clayfool). That's not by any means to compare offense's. They have Josh Allen and Kincaid/Knox now. As for MVS.........he and Gabe were neck and neck as low-efficiency big ypc guys with bad hands for a few years but MVS is entering his age 30 season and Gabe will be 25 this season. That's a big age gap. MVS being much older washed ashore last season.

So you are pro-rating Coleman's college stats to the NFL? And where did you see that Coleman was better than 50% on contested catches?

Clayfool. Dude is an idiot. If he took coaching and put in a decent effort after the Bears acquired him he could have signed a new contract that offseason with tens of millions in guarantees. Poles and the Bears were basically all-in on his dog-a$$. Then he could have feigned an injury going into 2023 and retired to social media forever. Instead he's f#cking around trying to trick McBeane into guaranteeing him one last $1.2M pay day before vanishing when the bullets start flying for real like Percy Harvin reeling in Doug Whaley.

I've seen all of the Bills WR's on the field. A ton. This is not a cast of unknowns. I watched Coleman have just two 100 yard games and average just 55 yards per game in 12 games at FSU. I watched MVS play terribly and have by far his worst season as a pro. I watched Clayfool end the Dolphins season with a terrible route that Taylor Rapp intercepted. They are what they are at this point. So you don't think the NFL is a "matchup league" after all? Interesting. Is the value of the QB position overblown as well?