Bleeding Bills Blue

Miami had a large net loss of free agents - they don't know who their QB will be (which affects everyone as we saw last year - reps are important in camp for young QBs especially). Parker, stills, wilson sounds good on paper - then you watch them play and none of them ever seems to do anything that amazing. Oline had net losses. Drake i like - but i also find it strange that he gets outcarried by others every year. Wilkins fits right in - but no wake means they'll have no pass rush. They have solid safeties but i expect teams to carve them up. There's nothing to fear on that team from a defensive perspective, and while fitz is capable of good games and putting the team on his back - the turnovers will always doom him. As for rosen, its not a good situation to be starting for another team that isn't crazy strong up front, doesn't have a strong run game, and was a bottom 5 offense with Tannehill. They didn't really bring in anyone to improve that bottom 5 offense either so... it's not looking promising. I would also not be surprised to see them move on from a WR during camp or pre-deadline.

I think there are teams who have recognized when they have a good thing - they're consistently competitive, and have had multiple Head coaches under their tenure. Spielman would be a good example with Minnesota, Telesco with the chargers, Pace with Chicago, Dimitroff in Atlanta. Snead was a good example of a hiring where you gave them the keys to a complete overhaul, same with schneider in Seattle. Not all crazy amounts of success - but they have all been around for a while and have had some misses/bad years.

Yup... here's a few others who played at smaller schools and have had NFL impact. Level of competition isn't always going to dictate success at the NFL level. Tarik Cohen (North Carolina A&T), Rashad Penny (San Diego State), Marlon Mack (South Florida), Aaron Jones (UTEP), David Johnson (Northern Iowa)

Interesting to hear about shady - showing up to camp after all that drama - then having injury issues throughout the year. Just a rough year all around and I'm sure he wants to put it behind him.

Why is adam gase a QB guru? Manning, cutler, and tannehill. And Manning was probably more the playcaller than Gase was.

He'll play some - He was under 50% of defensive snaps as the starter so... who knows how much he plays in a 4-3.

Whats notable is we were always up against the cap based off of free agent acquisitions. Which usually doesn't equate to wins.

I like it - Duke Williams seems like he could worst case contribute on special teams.

yeah - his pursuit was the thing i noticed the most. Seemed even slower in the NFL. He's been fine though, just never developed into much of a pass rusher.

Yeah - i just looked at that board and felt like - top 10 talent with injury issues... or someone at 19 who might go in the 2nd any other year.

Yeah - not having the 5th year option makes him more tradeable.

Wow - wonder if its because he plays RT or they think they can replace him.

I liked jaylon smith or myles jack there IIRC. Just felt like - these guys would be stud players. Neither has turned out to be incredible or anything - smith's a nice MLB tho.

I mean... washington's a FA, Raglands a starting LB for a... lets say "evolving" KC defense, and Shaq's a rotational piece on our D-line. I think what you have to evaluate on Whaley's drafting was need vs. BPA - and his trades. Moving up for Ragland - a need - got us Cardale instead of Dak - assuming you still wanted to go QB in the 4th. Supposedly ragland was 1st round talent - but only fit in a certain scheme

Yup - Shaq's basically Kelsay. Shouldn't be a primary option for any team in the league honestly. Depth rotation piece. Okafor got 3yrs 18 - anything more than that for Shaq would be a surprise to me (beyond the slight YoY increase in cap%). If he has a good year maybe he could hit the Henry Anderson mark - 3yr 25 mil. But 13 mil for a year, guaranteed or not is still very high for the player as he stands currently.

I would think fisher could fill the lead blocker role too. The issue is if you like sills or williams or anyone else as a future contributor - putting them on the PS exposes them. Same goes for carrying a 5th end etc. Does a FB get you anymore wins this year? If the answer is no - you may have to sacrifice him to ensure you're keeping someone you value a lot. We didn't really replace bush with another big nickel safety so it's hard to say we dont need him. He played in about 40% of snaps last year. We carried 9 oline last year - and the number looks the same here. If dawkins or ford moves interior i could see moving on from one - likely teller due to financial commitment and the fact that i don't see him outplaying Spain for the LG starting spot.

Love that we're carrying 2 Oline from 2018 into 2019. 9 Oline is awesome too - especially with ford/dawkins having some positionally flexibility. Long active game days as a backup Center unless he can win a job. Spain and feliciano coming in trying to earn playing time too. I could see cutting dimarco and carrying another WR. Or same with Fisher. Dimarco brings some special teams value and I'm not sure Fisher would bring the same value there. Either way - lose dimarco and you can probably bring fisher in as a FB in goal line work. I think it all depends on how Jackson plays in the preseason. If he looks terrible we can probably leave him on the practice squad. If he's lighting it up it may be more of an issue on how we could keep him. As for Dimarco - i wrote it above... no need for him and fisher. If we're only using dimarco in goalline work that should be easy enough to get fisher up to speed. If we're planning to use him more (doubtful) i would just cut fisher.

I saw another where they at least explained it as - super bowl odds in reverse. Teams QBs will get hurt - those teams will suffer. Other teams will benefit with wins that were chalked as losses earlier. This is also just incredibly lazy in general. Theres still free agency - trades - etc. You have no idea how teams are going to approach 2020 anyway.

Yeah - I'm with you. Don't bet on your team.

So I'm a bowling ball.... niceeeeeeeee. Yeah, i like how when people tackle him he doesnt like run into their tackle, he like absorbs the energy backwards and accelerates on a dime.

Hughes had 0 unnecessary roughness, and 0 unsportsmanlike conduct penalties in 2018.

5 are probably top 100ish again though.

Beyond even the front-end like lost yards, auto first downs etc. I feel like we had quite a few nice plays come off the board for stupid stuff beyond holding like illegal shifts, or not lining up on the LOS.

10 sacks in 3 years. Gotta do more than set the edge in a defense where we rarely blitz. I guess I'd pick it up since we're probably not going to be on the hook for the deal if he doesn't pick up his play. Kind of a gamble if he suffers an injury and can't pass a physical - but i like gambling so I'm in.

When we do the online franchise i'll grab a stud DE. Torch the computer for tons of sacks. When you play on all-madden they complete everything anyway, so the only way to stop them is to sack them. I sacked russell wilson 10 times in a game with mario williams ?