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I can't imagine spring football was getting a TON of eyeballs in the 18-25 year old tv market, male or female. The ones that did were probably sports betting young adults who have no interest in joining the military. You probably either recruited them in high school, or with ads on social media.

Yep - or you'd see deebo go further off the LOS in lateral motion to fake the handoff but then turn back towards the LOS well before the snap. In those scenarios, the league is now going to expect you to either stay further off the LOS and continue laterally, or require you to come back to a stop if you are moving forward.

Honestly - different styles but similar WR rooms with regards to proven talent. Brown and Samuel are pretty similar. Rice and Shakir as primary slot options. Skyy moore was in shakirs draft class and seems to have been replaced by Rice in the lineup. Coleman and worthy - same draft class, but different play styles Watson and Hollins - Big dudes who also play special teams Moore/Toney/Hardman vs. Claypool/Hamler/MVS

Maybe bump yourself up to the 16 ounce curls? Yeah - i think Bernard missed most of camp with a hamstring. He must have showed something in film study for them to comfortably give him that job. Bishops a rookie vs. a 2nd year guy so i'm sure that affects things a bit though.

A lot of what Milton does well - Single reads, structured plays, 1x1s - are the first things installed in training camp. So i wouldn't read too much into anything. The controlled environment of camp vs. a game is... so different. A game shows the wrinkles. Rookies usually get exposed. Slow eyes between targets that results in pressure and sacks. College open vs. NFL open and ball placement and precision become that much more important. The lack of pocket Prescence resulting in phantom pressures and pocket bailing. Teams blitz rookies a lot, especially when they struggle against it. A team game-planning to stop you is a LOT different than a scout team defense trying to install... their own defense.

It's also about having enough safeties to practice with a 90 man roster.

Well he got abused on the press, and was insanely off balance and within a yard or two of the LOS. I don't even think the guy hit him that hard, no helmet to helmet, just looks worse because he was leaning forward so much to try and get momentum.

Devonta smith is also pretty trim, listed at 170. Rumor is that he's put on some muscle mass though.

Harty never seemed to grasp the offense, and Sherfield never seemed to grasp... the ball. I felt like he was constantly mugged and they never called anything. Buffalo doesn't make the playoffs if they don't score TDs against Miami though 🙂

Mahomes Lamar Tyreek Trent Williams Garrett Kelce CMC Chris Jones Sewell Crosby? I dunno i'm just looking at the all-pro teams and looking for players i didn't see.

Endzone flag is basically a touchdown with buffalo's QB sneak game too.

A lot of teams are fairly tapped out, and already gave out deals with cap hits pushing to the future. There aren't a ton of spots left, let alone for a vet on a contender.

I'll say this though, an UDFA WR has a better chance of making this team this season than they have in the past 3 or 4 years. 2nd year guy (Shavers) who was on the PS all of last season, and would be considered a likely solid special teams contributor (he blocked 3 punts in 2 seasons in college) VS. 3 former 2nd round picks on their 3rd and 4th teams, fairly 1-dimensional speed player with inconsistent hands who doesn't contribute on special teams, and a 4th round pick in the same 2023 draft class who was injured last season. Odds are still very long for him to make the 53, but there's always a chance The high pick pedigree kind of goes away when you didn't draft them, being a former 2nd-round pick doesn't really matter anymore. MVS contract isn't so big that they couldn't walk away quite easily People can get injured

Right - and a bad practice could be.. hey line up over here i wanna try something. And it doesn't work the first 3 times. Doesn't mean it will never work, just trying stuff.

And its like - he struggled in some drills per some guy on twitter and 3/4 passes went incomplete. OK, so... thats a coaching opportunity. What did you do wrong, how can you avoid getting caught like that? Etc. It was like the people tallying the stats between EJ, Tyrod, and Cassel. This isn't how you judge someone in a practice setting.

I tend to ignore anyone's football opinion when both the name and username include the word "fantasy". Great numbers people who look at things like separation and usage, target share, all that stuff to try and project their production at the next level. But football is... more than that stuff, and film shows more than numbers.

I googled it and saw he had his ankle taped... then returned to practice.

And they struggle on the road in general because its loud and you can't time all the motion and snap counts as well. They also struggle in poor weather where speed isn't as much of a factor.

I'd have to agree. He's a plus athlete, with a solid arm. Has started 57 games in the NFL. Completion percentage is right around 64%, averages about 180 yards passing a gaem, his TD and INT%'s aren't terrible. I honestly thought he'd be a better fit with Pittsburgh when he signed there, but they had probably the worst play caller in the NFL and problems up front. You can do a LOT worse than this guy.

That December run is tough - @Jags, Bye, Miami, @KC, Baltimore, @tenn (in january). Gonna need two, ideally three wins. @Dal (say what you want they were 8-0 at home last year), Det, Buf, @NYJ , @GB on there too. Couple hiccups and they could be in some must win games down that final stretch.

They have a strong offensive line which tends to translate to wins over the length of a season.

I'd have to go through schedules game by game, they've added pieces this year to an offense that seems very SF/Miami though and their defense is still a pretty good unit. Dell coming back will help them continue to stretch field, diggs gives them a great route running option who can play inside and out. Not a huge joe mixon fan, and i think teams are going to force them to run the ball more this year. Their offensive line should allow them to continue to have success there. Defensively they mostly treaded water - Lost Greenard, Rankins, Cashman - brought in Hunter, Autry, Al-Shaair. I dunno - they're a good team, the team "most likely" to miss the playoffs after winning the division last year is probably buffalo because of all the turnover, or maybe Dallas with all their drama. Houstons just my pick because like jax the year before, everyone would not shut up about how they're going to take a step and they have the best coach, and their QB during weeks 13-16 or whatever was the best QB in history, and they added Diggs to the WR room. I hate trendy picks 🙂

They're a good team, and there is a lot of young talent there. But the reasons I see them missing the playoffs? The first place schedule is humbling - @Dal, @KC, Baltimore are the uncommon opponents. They go 0-3 in those games and now one of those NYJ, Buf, Mia games becomes must win to even make the playoffs. Last year the uncommons were NYJ, Den, and Arizona. They play kc and baltimore in 2 of the last 3 weeks. They're hunted not hunters. Nobody is going to be shocked going into games against the Texans offense. The Jaguars are better than their record a year ago indicated. The colts went 9-8 with Minshew last year. If Richardson is healthy they could be a tougher out than people think. Strouds indoor/outdoor splits - 2-3 in 5 outdoor games against Balt, Jax, Carolina, NYJ, and Cinci (Unfortunately buffalo will be on the road against them this year). Their outdoor games this year are NE, GB, NYJ, Jax, KC, Tenn.

I think that its a camp rotation until it isn't. I assume they'd like coleman to take the majority of snaps opposite samuel, but he's going to have to work for it. Hollins and MVS have super bowl rings, are in probably the twilight of their NFL careers, and are coming to try and earn playing time. I don't think either is going to get these tremendous snap counts at the end of the year. Last year Diggs and Davis each had about 950 snaps, shakir had about 600, sherfield about 400 and hardy about 150. I assume shakir will trend up to say 800. Samuel assuming healthy should have 800+. Still leaves like 1500 snaps - some will go to to kincaid, others will be split amongst depth and some breather plays, and coleman probably takes the majority.

I think he probably could have moved from his spot prior to throwing.