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What lineman would you keep on the 53? We kept 9 a year ago so assuming the same it would be Dawkins, Spain, Morse, Ford, Nseshke - with 4 backups Long as a swing g/c, feliciano, waddle as a backup swing tackle, and maybe teller as a younger project.

I don't get the Adam Gase love. Without Peyton Manning he's never really had a good offense. People talk about him like he's magic with QBs... which ones? The Hall of famer who was basically calling plays and protections at the lines? He certainly didn't work any magic with Cutler and Tannehill.

I'm definitely in the minority but I don't hate the Gettleman moves- The Jones draft pick was... bad. Moving on from Vernon wasn't bad though. As for losing ODB - they never won anything with him - and I think the comp they got was appropriate considering the brown trade before. Letting Collins walk sucks too. However........... They replaced ODB jr. with Tate (net loss, but they at least replaced him with a solid vet), Jones gets to sit a year behind Manning (overdrafted, but doesn't mean he can't be successful with the right coaching), Collins got replaced in the ODB trade (peppers is a nice throw-in player), and the trade helped them up front on offense. They're honestly probably about the same as they were a year ago, and better set up for the future. They now have a top-3 nfl running back, a QB of the future, and some pieces to improve a mediocre old defense. They drafted beal with a 3rd round supplemental in 2018, and drafted Baker in the 1st this year which should ideally give them some corners to build around. Lawrence should anchor the d-line. The previous structured team with beckham made the playoffs in 1 of 5 years - the 1 year their defense didn't suck.

I believe its an attempt to set up a more play action style offensive approach - both in the red zone and in general. As for red zone rushing - The average was massively boosted by Josh Allen scrambles and draws, as well as some gimmick stuff with McKenzie. So basically Buffalo was incapable of rushing the ball in the red zone. That's likely also a symptom of a problem at 3rd and 4th and short in general. The improvements to the line help - but the tight end group has been pretty bad for a while. Clay never provided anywhere near the value of his contract.

I think the red zone and short yardage game could use some improvement. I also think Buffalo wants to play more under center this year than last year. Helps having a competent extra blocker in some of those play action situations. Also allows some flex to use the backs more in the passing game.

I love it - I can't even complain when he does it. He's like never fumbled handling the ball like that.

Agree! He gets to play CB2 there behind ward. They also have a solid pass rush with vernon, richardson, garrett - and bring in a solid offense. He's set up to have a good rookie year.

Ever thus to deadbeats Lebowski

The pre-injury josh allen games weren't pretty. But a full camp would do wonders for him - he had to split reps 3 ways last year in camp. Ravens disaster. Chargers beatdown. Shutout by the packers. The bears and colts games were just... comic fails. The patriots one reads as a blowout but it was what 12-6 entering the 4th quarter? I like the performance of the defense overall. But a few games really got away from them - and that needs to get cleaned up for them to be a contender. 3 times teams ran for 200+ on us. That doesn't happen if they're elite. As for the offense - 8 games sub 300 yards of offense, 2 games sub 200! 7 games with 3 or more turnovers. We didn't win a game when we turned it over more than once.

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.