GunnerBill

This list, other than the concussions, actually makes me feel a little better about it. I don't see anything there that is a chronic issue. He needs a bit better luck but other than the head stuff there isn't an accident waiting to happen there and I'm sure the Bills plan is for him to play no more than about 55% of the snaps in any event. The concern to me is more whether the cumulative effect of these injuries has taken something away from his game when he IS on the field. At times it has looked like that to me. It's a swing on him staying healthy, sure, but the bigger swing IMO is on what's left.

Yea. Staying on the field has been his issue. Pre all the injuries he was a top 5 left tackle. At his best he was better than Dion. I don't think he is still that guy anymore after all the injuries and surgeries but he is still a top 32 tackle. And while I wouldn't put Roger Rosengarten in the top 32 or anything at this point he had a darn good rookie year for the Ravens too. He made the all rookie team and deservedly so. The Chiefs is more of a mess. They don't have a top 32 guy. I am not totally sure they have a top 64 guy in terms of proven NFL talent. Never been a Jawaan Taylor fan right back to him coming out of the draft and Jaylon Moore is a career backup to this point. I think long term they might be in good shape. Josh Simmons was a slam dunk of a draft pick for them, but right now in terms of proven talent, sure the Cheifs are as deficient at tackle as the Bills are at receiver, probably evem moreso.

You are right about the ways Coleman's skillset are best applied in the NFL. I said this as long ago as February 2024. Way before he was a Bill. Can he be Michael Thomas? I have my doubts on that. Three reasons: Reason 1 - Thomas's understanding of leverage and route pacing was way in advance of what we have seen so far from Keon, he can develop it but right now that gap is still significant; Reason 2 - Josh Allen ain't Drew Brees who probably threw the slant and the slot seam better than any other QB I have seen in my 25 years watching the sport. There is obviously a ton Josh does better than Drew, but those two routes and the Saints success with Big Slots - from Colston to Graham to Thomas - was as much about the Quarterback as it was about the receivers; and Reason 3 - the Bills have a logjam in the slot. The only receiver on their roster I would say is outside first, slot second is Josh Palmer. I think Keon should be a big slot first, outside guy in certain packages but to get snaps in the slot the queue includes Khalil Shakir (the Bills didn't just pay him to play him less) Dalton Kincaid, a former first round pick who they have to take a big decision on next spring, Curtis Samuel, Elijah Moore and even Dawson Knox and James Cook in certain looks. I just don't think he will get sufficient opportunity to break out there to the maximum. If Keon can get to 800 yards and double his touchdown production to 8 by being a redzone weapon that will be a really solid year. Anything more would be above my expectations.

McDermott said he injured it end of last week.

Thing is the OTA schedule is so truncated now that if he is out for 2 weeks that is basically out until training camp. A grade 1 calf strain is 1 to 3 weeks.

The whole thing makes me howl with laughter every time I read it (about once every 2/3 years). It's brilliantly observed.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/bryson-s-america-congratulations-you-are-about-to-be-driven-insane-1129608.html

Equally once they lost to West Ham Arsenal dropped league points resting guys for the Champions League. This is not a vintage Liverpool team and they are not vintage champions.

Yea but they only got 84. That would have won 1 of the last 12 titles before this one.

This should have been our year. But every single bit of bad luck that could have gone against us did. The injuries in particular were brutal. This Arsenal team will win the Premier League in the next two years though. Too good not to.

He has been a Bill 3 years, not 5. He was 21 when we drafted him. But it wasn't just the man vs zone thing. It was his transitions. I said it at the time and Brandon said it in the day 1 presser after the pick. I always thought it was an odd pick and I don't believe it was a "good bet."

Yep. Saw the Kaiser Chiefs do that in a pub in Leeds when I was a student. 20 odd years ago. It flunked the first time they released it. But then they had a hit with one of their others... maybe Every Day I Love You Less and Less... and when they re-released I predict a riot it went big.

Leeeedddss, Leeds are falling apart, again!

Oh he can totally play the Z and run the WR screens, the slants and the quick hitches. The issue is you can't be a Z receiver only running those 3 routes. Whereas you can still run those routes from the slot and, as with your other routes, you will get a lot of free releases off the line. That aids Keon's route running because when he gets to dicatate his spacing he is better than when it is contested when he has the tendency to play to contact.

Liverpool are the Packers. 100%. That is the easiest EPL - NFL comparison there is.

Baker is similar to Goff IMO. People got an idea in their heads about him and no amount of proving it is shaking that perception for some

Oh Vita Vea is over 30 too. Missed him. Yea it's a garbage list.

Yea a lot of that list I disagree with tbh. Khalil Mack has been a better football player than Mike Evans for precisely zero days of their respective NFL careers. No place at all for Taylor Decker? Seriously? He is better than all but about 6 or 7 of those guys. Geno is on the list but Dak Prescott isn't? Come on man. No Jalen Ramsey in the top 30? Behave. It's an atrocious list. If what they mean is "the 30 players over 30 with the highest PFF grades in 2024" they should... you know.... say that! Oh and from a Bills perspective.... no Dion Dawkins??? Like there is a world where I could look at a list of 30, maybe, and not see Dion and understand it. But when Jake Matthews (who I like) and Grant Bolles (horribly overrated) both make it and Dion is better than both.... I can't understand it. Makes zero sense. I am generally a PFF defender and I subscribe to their advanced stats. But this is just horrible click bait designed to make fans foam at the mouth. It worked.

And teams have just got so much more used to it. The last few have been dull. The Raiders in 2019 was the last interesting one and that was almost entirely because of AB's antics. The Bills don't have an Antonio Brown. Before that you are probably going back to the Bengals series and that is well over 10 years ago.

I use the app and the youtube page. I very rarely visit the website.

I look back with quite a lot of nostalgia now at the drought. An era when every regular season win felt like a massive achievement. Especially if we beat anyone half decent. Now the regular season games often feel very routine and I kinda miss that jeopardy. Having a great team with a superstar Quarterback is definitely better, don't get me wrong.

And the answer was not Joe Brady. It is all on Keon.

Why didn't Keon get open in college then if it's all Brady's fault?

No your theory is McDermott is instructing Beane to pick him. Beane makes the picks. But the coaches are a part of their evaluation process, especially on round 1 guys in terms of how they fit and would/could be used. Beane has explained this many times.

I think at this point he is so mentally scrambled I'd be surprised if he panned out in Dallas. I don't think coaching was the issue per se. But I always felt it was an odd pick for the scheme. And both personnel and coaching deserve criticism for that because there is no way Beane picked him without McDermott and Frazier (at the time) being confident they could use him. Had he gone to a better scheme fit out of the gate could his career have been different? Maybe. At this point tho I think he will just meakly flame out of the league.