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He didn't even bring up sack rate. His sack rate pre injury and post is the most night and day stat

LaFleur's got the best shot to be successful - as he has Rodgers. Who is better than Murray and Dalton/whomever. McCarthy was really holding that offense back, so just even remotely good playcalling should get that team to be pretty good. Zona has a pretty rough roster, thats gonna be tough. Buys himself a year with the new QB maybe? Especially after they were awful back to back years. Cincy started 4-1/5-3 last year before like everyone got hurt. Their Defense is really slow and their offense will now officially be without Eifert/Kroft. They're worse than they were a year ago, and they weren't great.

Traded a 6 that can become a 5. I assume if it becomes a 5 - they probably end up netting a comp pick in 2021 anyway. So they'd push picks back a year - and if they give up the 5th they're getting a year of value out of a former pro bowl running back (while paying him 2 million) and then letting him take his chances in free agency.

I mnean - QB coach for 3 years, O coordinator for 3 years, Asst. HC for 3 years. 3 years as Parcells Assistant - who i assume gave him a positive recommendation. Zach Taylor was O coordinator for 1 year in 2015 with Miami after they fired someone. And they hired him simply because he worked under McVay. Kingsbury has at least coached some teams - he was a head coach for 6 years at Texas Tech.... He also got fired from that job. LaFleurs bounced around a bit, but he was again hired as a mcVay guy. Thats 3 new HC's who are all hired to try and find the next McVay - i think thats what he's pointing to. And i think he's probably right that most of these guys flame out.

Then Sanders got the job at OSU... and ran for 2600 yards and 37 TDs... in 11 games. Gordon came close to the record but it took 14 games. Same with Ball and 33 TDs - took 14 games.

Also in that article he mentioned how helpful Sabres management and ownership was. However he also had no interest at all in returning to Buffalo.

Yeah - just hop on twitter if u want to see it. A large portion of our fanbase is incredibly negative, and just generally quick triggered. It's like that in every market, but it just seems like its more prevalent in ours. I get it, you aren't happy with the product and you want to voice your opinion. But mentioning someone in a tweet and directly telling them that they suck is pretty rough. Do I think they should fire housley? Yeah - i thought he sucked last year and he sucked again this year. He's not a good coach. However he also doesn't have a talented team to work with. Team also plays with no fire and just generally soft every game - i put that on the coach. Do I think they should fire Botterill? Probably not. The o'reilly trade was awful, but the guy basically antonio brown'd it out of here. He also was left with a mess of a roster - poor drafts and band-aids all over the place. People ask why certain players played in the minors while the nhl team could use their help - and IMO it comes down to development. Botterill has a plan to develop players a certain way - and I don't think it'd be fair/smart to pull the plug 2 years into a full rebuild.

Yeah - and anyone along the defensive line is essentially paid/drafted around getting to the QB. Wilkins is tough to read too, as he played on a super talented d-line.

He won't ever get the all-pro 10+ sack numbers from interior. But he's got a really nice motor and is always around the ball.

Peterson and Tomlinson were both pretty damn good in the last 20 years. Last 2 RBs to win league MVP, the others in the 2000s were Faulk and Alexander - who really just had a short prime.

He's a sneaky good player and a good running back who fits any scheme, and he's also an excellent fantasy player due to high volume. But how much is a product of that offense? 1946 yards on 396 touches - 11 TDs ---- Bell in 2017 1925 yards on 352 touches - 16 TDs ---- Conner/Samuels in 2018

I did... way too early too. I had to use him in the playoffs though after sanders got hurt and he was actually pretty good. Something like 14-15 per game.

Yeah - he's still only 24. I wonder what was done differently in years 1/2. Sometimes those YPC stats get a little bloated with long rushes. Look at Jay Ajayi year 2 - averaged 4.9 per carry. How much of that was boosted from 3 200 yard games that all featured long runs. Long runs aren't always like - the RB made amazing moves. Its often that the LB or safety did something dumb. That bills defense in 2016... did a lot of dumb stuff ?.

1100 yard average, 8 TD average, and we'll say about 150-200 in the air. And he's on a rookie contract in year 4. So he's incredibly cheap... For a conditional 6th... in 2020. Thats like a late 6th this year in value. Yeesh - why even trade him at that point?

I think its tough to fire either at this point. They broke the drought with a pretty weak roster - dumped a fair amount of talent that year and still got to the playoffs with a bad offense. Year 2 had a rookie QB, and just generally felt like a team that was rebuilding from the ground up. Year 3 should show some improvement, only way i don't see improvement is if there are a ton of injuries. I think 4 years is the minimum u would give them at this point. McD also showed he's willing to part ways with ineffective staff members - Castillo, Crossman, Dennison etc. This to me shows that he's not loyal to a fault like some coaches who would never fire a friend. Beane and McD appear to work well together so you couldn't fire one without the other.

If they put it where Conway park is - you can build a garage on the one side, and utilize casino garage for overflow (maybe split the parking rate 50/50 - ). Rip out the perry projects and move a few businesses and you probably have sufficient parking. Could even do foot bridges from the riverworks side if you needed more space. Logistically that would need to be improved though to get cars in and out. The toughest part will be how to get 70,000 people in and out of downtown with 1 highway there going north/south and a ton of side streets. Right now the stadium sits between 219 and 90 - so you have a way north/south whether you turn right or turn left. There would probably be an uptick in shuttles and Uber/Lyft - but it would definitely be helpful for some of the businesses down there. Riverworks and the Casino would get some major cash on game days.

Bodine has a 200k workout bonus - so they would theoretically want to dump him before that triggers. Not for cap reasons so much as - who wants to pay a guy 200 grand to never suit up for the team again.

I wouldn't be surprised if dimarco was also not here week 1.

Trading up in the first costs a lot of ammo - i'm not sure its worth it. Wilkins or Oliver likely makes it to 9 - and we still have our 2nd and 3rd to address DE and/or Oline/TE.

Yeah - likely the same skill set and less tread. Wouldn't pay someone just for a name.

Love the depth at corner, and along the oline. Corner i think they noticed how hard it was to replace people when others went down with injuries. A couple cheap contracts like johnson and gaines go a long way in fixing that depth. Oline was a disaster but they have brought in a ton of competition with guys like feliciano and long. I think the LBs could improve depth wise - not sure where alexander and bush both factor in.

Can't figure out how to edit it - the amount would be about 12.3 million based on the average of the average annual value of the contracts ranked 3-25 on sportrac.

It's a gamble either way - pick it up and he gets hurt, you're stuck with him. If you don't pick it up and he has a career year, you have to pay him more. The 3rd option is pick it up - and if he doesn't get hurt, you have the flexibility to cut him with no cap ramifications, or keep him and pay him the contract. Lot of different ways this could play out - but assuming we're carrying a healthy amount of space over into 2020 (we have 75 million currently available in 2020 without carrying anything over, and we have 33 currently available in the top 51 that would carry over), I'd be open to the risk I think. We only have a couple of higher profile free agents in Hughes, Lorax, Phillips, and McCoy - so no major extensions looming for 2020 specifically. Assuming Lorax/McCoy are gone and replaced with younger players that would just leave Hughes/Phillips as the only real candidates to extend.

somewhere around top 25 money. the 3rd-25th highest Prior Year Salaries for the player’s position will be used.

Decision is needed by May 3rd - What say you Two bills drive?! I voted yes - mostly because cap space isn't at a premium for next year, and you can cancel it for any reason other than injury.