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I’d have liked to see Brown make better plays. The first pass was just a little late and while that made it more difficult, it was still a pass that could’ve been caught in bounds. I have no idea why Brown jumped. It wasn’t necessary and it pretty well eliminated his chance to stay in bounds. The throw wasn’t perfect, but it certainly was good enough so that one was on Brown IMO. On the second one Josh was way late. Brown was expecting the ball as he came across and neared the sideline. He tried to stop and stay in bounds, but couldn’t. I’ve seen broken plays where WRs come across and catch the ball right before they go OOB and I’ve seen them stop near the sideline to catch the ball. Either way, if the ball had gotten to Brown on the cross it almost certainly would have been a catch. I think that one was probably more on Josh.

Anyone hear the guaranteed amount of the contract? The Raiders were hush hush about Chuckie’s guarantees. He got some, but not nearly the whole 10 year deal - which was also rumored to be back loaded somewhat.

I rewatched the game and I agree. Allen seemed to lose it after he lost the fumble. Up until then he’d played very well overall, but after he was a mess. He was in the biggest game of his life and at then at the end things ramped up and he had real issues. He reverted to hero ball and hesitated on throws rather than get through his progressions. Some missed blocks and JJ Watt being JJ Watt certainly exacerbated the situation, but Josh made a mistake of some kind on most of the plays from the fumble on. Meanwhile Watson had ice in his veins. I’m sure that this wouldn’t be news to him and that he knows that he needs to grow from this. Let’s hope he does because he’s our QB moving forward.

Exactly. When a good (or great) player has a down year I always wonder if it’s because they’re significantly dinged up. This makes a lot of sense.

You play to win the game

Just to clarify my above comments: I think that Cleveland really wants McDaniels and that he’d love to go home and return the team he grew up rooting for to glory, but that it’s far from certain that he’ll take the job. There’s obviously a lot of concerns walking into an organization that’s been such a crap show. His contract runs out after the season ends.

Tre will get a top corner contract from Buffalo - as he should. The only question is timing. Normally I’d say pick his 5th year option up and start negotiating after his fourth year. But there’s a new CBA on the horizon and we might see a nice jump up. I wouldn’t be opposed to getting it done early. Tre would see big money sooner and the Bills could save a few bucks. Either way he’s gonna get paid.

His contract is up in Philly. There’s definitely a connection with McDaniels through Belichick. I know some people in Cleveland who are close to the team and they think that this is what is happening (though they don’t have anything concrete). It also makes you wonder about Daboll as OC. While I’m sure he’d want to stay close to family, I’m not sure where he stands with the Bills and he definitely has ties to McDaniels.

I’d have been good with that. I won’t fault a GM for going with a well regarded big ugly at the top of the second though. I’d have taken Ford too. But as Metcalf fell to the bottom of the second round I’d have been happy to see them go get him. Heck, that’s a 3rd and 4th (or less). Not that I don’t like Singletary. I really do. Edit: When he fell so far I assumed it was due to his medicals (neck). Apparently that wasn’t the issue.

Yeah, everyone knows that. What kind of loser calls heads? You call tails, and you call it LOUDLY. If you bring that weak ass under the breath tails shite you just give the refs a chance to Jerome Bettis you. Be a pro.

Pick 22 fun fact: Most likely slot for Cleveland to overdraft a ***** QB prospect.

I agree. Maybe McCarthy has grown in the last year, but I can’t help but think he’ll have the same issues as in GB. Also it feels a little like it’ll be Back to the Future for Dallas as I’m not sure he’ll modernize his offense to today’s NFL.

Didn’t someone just post that she grew (up) from the last Twitter fiasco? Based on this I’d say that it sure doesn’t seem like it.

Ugh. Poyer is a good starting safety, but he’s no Micah Hyde. I’d have no problem with a fair contract extension, but I wouldn’t want to overpay him just because we have a lot of cap room and he demanded it. Let’s hope they can work out a fair deal without theatrics.

That’s pretty effed up.

I’d argue that he is a fine WR with potential to be a game changer, but that you’re overstating his impact to date. He wasn’t even the most productive receiver on his team (though he had a very good season for a rookie). And it doesn’t change the risk-reward factor. High upside WRs who have big questions about their games generally fall out of the first round. Sometimes you get Juju Smith Schuster and sometimes you get Zay Jones - and more often than not it’s the latter. That why you don’t take prospects like that 9th overall, you take them later. I’m just going to leave it there.

Oh, then I misunderstood. That’s my bad. Apologies.

His neck injuries were definitely a concern to those of us without access to his medicals as you note. Even if that checked out I can’t believe that you’d consider him a safe pick. Elite speed and ability to outmuscle corners, yes. In spades. But coupled with suspect hands, terrible lateral agility and inexperience as a route runner he definitely carried a fair bit of risk. If we’d have flipped 74 and 96 for a late 2nd round pick and taken him, I’d have applauded it. But at 9, hell no. Incidentally, if he would’ve been our pick at 9 I don’t think we’d be looking at him nearly as favorably. A top 10 pick at WR should be a lock to be a dominant, game changing player. A quality WR, sure, but I don’t see top 10 pick. Incidentally Oliver was the best prospect I thought we’d have a chance to get at 9. The Simmons injury really put getting a top DT in jeopardy. I was ecstatic we got Oliver at 9. I had a clump if players rated similarly if he’d have gone at 8 and we couldn’t move back.

The ability of fans to delude themselves is unreal. Now you’re adding this pretend slight to the list? Wow.

I mentioned this in another thread. Specials rocked on Saturday. They were stellar.

That’s fair. My concern is that the Bills only beat one team with a winning record this season - the Titians. Notably the Titans were still starting Marcus Mariota at the time. He went 2-4 in games started and then was benched for Tannehill. So were we 10-6 good? We were probably at that level or at least close to it. The Bills were a little above average, but definitely not well above. That fits with 10 wins and a competitive first round playoff exit. We’re going to have a tougher schedule next season so we’re going to need to improve just to stay at that record. It’s very possible with our resources to even do better than that. A lot will come down to Allen’s development though.

Yes. Really. Metcalf was a risky pick not because he didn’t have a high ceiling, but because of the very real possibility that he would fail. People can play the hindsight game all they want, but he was who he was as a prospect. He was a supremely big, fast WR who lacked lateral agility and was very raw technically. You do not take such a player in the top 10 because the bust rate for that kind of player is high. Day 2? Have at it. To his credit he has worked very hard and has improved his route running a great deal.

It’s worth mentioning that people were arguing whether to take Metcalf with our 9th overall pick. That was nuts. Many of us who didn’t want to see that would’ve been happy to have the Bills trade up into the back of the second round to grab him.

I agree. Plus Specials shouldn’t be forgotten. Our third side of the ball had a tremendous game. As for Watson’s big play at the end of the game, he’s a top 10 QB in the league. Sometimes a player like that is going to make a Wow! play. The game should have been over in regulation - and it would’ve been if the offense had done its job.

Excellent article. Thanks for posting.