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Not at all. You don't draft a RB in the rd thinking he's gonna be pro-bowl back - you do it because you think that RB is gonna be a good complement to the game plan, rather than a focal point. Moss and Singletary - with better blocking - would have perfectly fulfilled that role. You draft a RB in the 1st round because you view that guy as someone who's going to be one of your top 2 weapons to use in your game plan. That's why drafting ETN is legit. The Bills, for all their fireworks, don't have a great #2 weapon right now. Emmanuel Sanders is a risk because of age, while Gabe Davis is a risk because you're not sure what you'll get with him in year 2, while neither RB - as noted above - is there to be a real weapon. I'm not sure about trading up to get a RB as a position in general, but I do agree with trading up to grab a legit weapon. Whether that be ETN (because of his ability to change the game as a pass catcher) or that kid from Florida or perhaps even Rashod Bateman. You could also see a corner if you see Farley or Newsom sitting there. Not gonna trade up for these edge defenders

There's got to be a testing protocol for those under 16. Otherwise that's a huge impact on families.

Children?

That's a fair point with regards to the children. If that doesn't become available till late summer or something, you can't really say they've had access, and it would be fair to request either a vaccine or test if that were the case With regards to efficacy, all 3 of the vaccines are 100% effective in preventing even hospitalization, much less death - and I should note that I'm perfectly ok with organizations asking people to mask when using their facilities. As for my empathy comment, that was specifically targeted to those people who have access to the vaccine, and refuse to take it. I certainly have a ton of empathy for those who can not access a vaccine, and would do my best to protect them. That's why even though I'll be vaccinated by mid April, I plan on masking and social distancing in public through the rest of the year.

Since we're down this rathole, I'm not sure this is at all necessary. I think the only business that would need a vaccination are flights - domestic or international, and that's because you don't know where people are coming from before they get on a plane, and you're messing around with variants from around the world. We don't need to ADD to the at risk population. What's the purpose of requiring vaccination proof to get into a stadium? Who are we protecting? People who refuse to get a vaccine? My leading identifier is that of empathy. I believe empathy to be the most powerful force on Earth. I don't have empathy for those who choose not to get vaccinated. I hold no ill will towards them as they have free will on whether or not to get vaccinated, but I don't have empathy for them if they refuse to get vaccinated, and then get sick. After the year we as a society, and me personally, have been through, I just can't. If you want to walk into a stadium unvaccinated, be it on your own head. Btw, this is also why I'm fully supportive of Josh Allen. He doesn't want to get a vaccine, and at this point that's not something that will harm society, The man followed all COVID protocols and masked etc, that's all we can ask of him. Let him make his own choice based on his own beliefs. But at the same time that choice shouldn't inform decisions on community activities.

I think what the Rangers are allowing is batcrap crazy and wildly irresponsible. The vaccine hasn't remotely gotten enough chance to get to enough people. This is all about risk to the community. Without accesible vaccine, big gathering are a huge, unneccesary, risk. With vaccine coverage, the risk to the community is mostly gone. If I'm vaccinated, and my family and loved ones are vaccinated. What do I care if you are or aren't vaccinated? Then it really is down to personal choice. You're not a risk to me and mine whether or not you have COVID. In Sept/October, I would hope all sports in the US have full crowds.

Heres the thing, by Sept everyone in America will have had an opportunity to get the vaccine, and if they haven't we'd know about it. By that point, if you're not protected, that's on you. What the Rangers are doing NOW is crazy, but if they waited till Sept? No problems

I hate it

Until the Bills get a 2nd viable TE, and they barely have 1, that's a moot point. Getting Friermuth would enable that, but hoping for one particular player in a draft isn't a great strategy. The way the Bills loaded up on WRs, my feeling is they'll continue to go 11 and 10 personnel, and look the either EDGE or Corner in the draft

Been a Bills fan for about 35 years now. Wilikens has a grade of almost 70 from pff. He's a pretty good player, and still young. As for Tua, I'd be fine with him as he's only started 6-7 games and is coming off a pretty serious injury. From what I've seen of him at college and here with the Dolphins, there's definitely something there to work with, which is all you want to see from a Rookie. I still think he's got Jared Goff potential. I'm not GUARANTEEING that the Dolphins are a future Juggernaught...just that they have a pathway there

Right, but that;s why I said 2-3 years. As for their recent picks: 2020: 1st - Tua - looks he can be the guy, potentially 1st - Austin Jackson LT. Hit in his rookie year 1st - Noah Igbinoghene CB. Stuggled some in his rookie year but shows potential 2nd - Robert Hunt RT. Solid if not spectacular, will get better 2nd - Raekwon Davis. DT. Solid, shows good potential 3rd - Brandon Jones. SF. Struggled, may not have it 4th - Solomon Kindley G. Was one of the steals of the draft 2019: 1st - Christian Wilikens . DT. Stud 3rd - Deiter. G. Not a starter, but still is a valuable depth piece for them 2018: 2nd - Mike Gesicki, TE: Stud 3rd: Jerome Baker, LB: stud To be clear, as a Bills fan - this isn't something I worry about. I have full faith that Beane will continue to put out a powerful team around Josh Allen, but it's kinda fun to see some quality competition going forward, that's not the Pats

They're going to end up with a roster that's going to approach 65% being top 3 round talent. Uncle Rico could take that kind of roster to the playoffs, while Trent Dilfer would win a Super Bowl with it. Tua, if hes even just Jared Goff, will be enough to build a true power.

Fish have a legit pathway to a juggernaught in 2-3 years

If he's there in the 2nd round, hard to pass that up considering the lack of breakaway speed on the Bills offense

1) Next Spring, post F/A, pre draft 2) 5 years 3) 15M (His 5th year option, if he makes the Pro Bowl this year which I think he will, would be ~ 15M) 4) 50 - 60% BONUS) 10M signing Bonus, cap friendly out year in 2025 New TV Deal should massively hike up the salary cap.

I actually don't think this will be as difficult of a decision as fans imagine. My guess this is pretty straight forward, and an extension gets done without much difficulty

There's been literally no corroboration to Isiah Humphries story. PSU's locker room IS NOT a perfect place. Like everyone, they have some real bad eggs in there, some prima donnas, and some drug problems. My point here, is that Micah is one of the good guys. No one is that universally loved by a football program and community and still have an awful story like Isiah Humphries be true. And here's the thing, there problem is something to Humphries experience at PSU that was pretty terrible. And I'd imagine it involved a player or two, but his story on Micah just doesn't fit any other corroborative knoweldge, nor of Franklin who he claimed told him to keep it quiet or get booted from the program. That doesn't fit his style/persona. As for specifically this question, no way would I support drafting Micah. He's not THAT much better than Edmunds, and putting that much investment into LB isn't worth it IMO. Maybe if Milano had left. He's got elite potential as a pass rusher. He was a DE in HS and a 5* as a pass rusher. He just had a higher/gamer changing impact at Linebacker.

He did not. That was alleged by an angry player who left the program after a year, in a suit that never went anywhere Not like I'm trying to brush this over either, because I'm a Penn Stater. We've had to kick out players because we should never have recruited them in the first place. Franklin has made mistakes. But at the same time he's learned from them and kicked kids out/refused to recruit some kids inspite of high rankings. Christian Barmore is an example of that, as he's from Philly, even though he seemed be a perfectly good kid at Bama.

This is bull####. I'm a Penn stater, I've been following his career since he's been in 10th grade. At PSU he was a 3.0 kid, graduated in 3 years, and been an awesome member of both team and community. Not only did his teammates love him, but he was constantly at other PSU events such as wrestling meets and publicly supported other woman's sports. He NEVER had any issues with the law or any off field issues. He got suspended for a single half due to a team issue. Any such rumors are pure character assassinations, or people who only read that report from a former PSU player who transferred out after a single year and then filed a suit against PSU, and charging them with bullying, specifically citing Parsons and a few other player - a suit that completely failed because of a total lack of corroboration.

The stats don't neccesarily disagree , Trubisky;s 61.3 QBR from last season would have ranked 2nd among the AFC East starters (Fitz had a higher one). It's not actually that close either. Tua was 3rd with a 52

Sort of. In those 5 games Dane flashed at a level that Levi hasn't really shown in this 3 years here - in my opinion of course. Only thing holding Dane back is experience and probably an off-season of acclimation to the NFL.

Ahh I thought it was Pelissero who broke it, my bad

An hour before the Sanders news broke: EDIT: I was wrong about this, it came 15 minutes AFTER Dan Fetes broke the news. Apologies

While both these dudes are upgraded over what the Bills have at TE, this isn’t Kelce and Kittle coming at you. The Pats don’t have a hole where they have a below average player at a skill position, and at the same time they don’t have a single top 10 player, with the exception of Hunter Henry. They built an offense that is going to be perfectly above average When you look at the Bills offense they have elite talent at Z, Slot, QB and LT. The Pats have elite talent at the following positions:

They also played OSU about as well as anyone, and really shut down that passing attack