Maine-iac

.... and the win.

Brady is going miss that NE defense real quick. Beating up on teams that can't move the ball against Belichick is a lot different than playing from behind every single game.

Did TT's long ball tank or did Watkins, Woods, Hogan, and Goodwin all leave and get replaced Zay "Brick Hands" Jones and Kelvin "One Good Leg" Benjamin. Dennison also might have been the worst OC to come to Buffalo in the last decade and that's saying something. The current coaching staff never had any plans of TT being in Buffalo as anything more than a transition QB. We were going to get a "franchise" QB come hell or high water. Allen looks pretty good. What he throws away with mistakes and bonehead plays (hopefully correctable) he makes up for with that "it" factor he seems to bring at crunch time in the 4th quarter. ps Cleveland's kicker doesn't suck and Taylor is 2 and 0 with wins over the Steelers and Saints going into the Jets game where Mayfield came in and then (giving him the Jets win) lost 5 of the next 7. Cleveland is just a bad place to be a QB.

Late coming to this party but living in Pats territory I've seen enough of Stidham to throw in my two cents. I'd have to say he's Matt Cassel with Nathan Peterman tendencies. His arm may turn out better than Cassel and in the right system and a decent off season maybe they'll coach the Peterman tendencies out of him but the kid loves to throw on schedule covered or not and it didn't seem that hard to trick him. No Brady there to coach him up I wouldn't be surprised to see him throw too many picks for Belichick's liking and that's when we'll see Hoyer.

The year we lost to the Steelers back ups (Willie Parker's coming out party) and missed the playoffs was pretty disappointing. Starting 5 and 2 and beating the Pats and then falling on our faces was right up there for modern era futility also. Going back (as far as I personally can remember), when Harmon dropped the TD pass vs the Browns was a let down but I was still happy with that season. Just was hoping to keep going in the playoffs that year.

Who cares what he runs the 40 yard dash in? As long as he can get our of his stance and move 10 feet in either direction and put his hands on someone when he gets there. I'd care about his first step more than his foot speed. Hopefully he can play.

At the place we are picking I would seriously doubt any WR would compare to Diggs. Even if they developed into a comparable receiver it often takes more than one season. Diggs could very well plug right into the system and run everything (and more) that Brown was running last year and have Brown playing across from him in case they play coverage to Diggs side. Brown might get even better looks this year. What might pan out well is if we pick a WR after round 1 to develop as Brown and Diggs play out there contracts.

LOL ............ you win. You clearly need the win. Made a lot of assumptions here about my comparison. I'll start and end by saying I think Boykins might turn out to be a great receiver and let you figure out the rest (because I'm lazy).

Miles Boykins 2.0

If he was going on day one I would feel your argument a lot stronger but if he doesn't go until the later rounds he's got plenty of talent.

Claypool made me think of the guy that the Ravens drafted from Notre Dame. I was surprised Boykins didn't have a bigger impact but, it was his rookie year

Remember how nice a change of pace Karlos Williams was his rookie year? Dillon would be a nice addition on day two. It also wouldn't hurt (no offense to Singletary) to have a back who can pass block when you need a blitz pick up.

He had a better record than Mayfield and lets face it that tie was on the kicker/OL. Mayfield throws for more yardage and god knows everybody just LOVES 300 yard games. Mahomes might be the only QB that doesn't need a defense. The rest of the league needs a QB that plays decent turnover free football and a defense that doesn''t suck. For years we gave Taylor a defense that sucked and asked him to take lemons and make lemonade. Not saying he's any teams next "franchise" QB and the guy for the next 5 years but he's a decent QB that could start on a lot of teams.

Baltimore's pass catchers (outside of Brown's circus catch) have been dropping a bunch.

As good as some of those catches were it's entirely possible to fault the recievers and all their drops and tips leading to interceptions for helping the Titans have the ball as much as they have.

That's how you put down a third and long. No running to the sticks there.

Jordan Howard or Brieda might be guys with something to prove that don't need a huge contract but could carry the ball enough to keep Singletary healthy. If Ty Montgomery ends up looking for a job he's an interesting prospect also.

The number 1 receiver argument is almost as good as the "franchise" QB argument. Speaking of which when are we going to dust that off again? Make more plays than the other team and win games. Just because Brown doesn't out muscle guys like Hopkins doesn't mean he isn't a play maker. Give him that ball 10 times and he'll catch it and get his feet in 9 times out of ten. Give this defense a 3rd and 18 and they'll stop them 9 times out of ten. Put Milano and a DB in the backfield and we should have the sack 9 times out of 10. There were too many plays that were made most of the year that weren't made Saturday. Brown will be back making plays next year and probably put up even bigger numbers next year ......... whatever you want to call him.

8 or those top 10 were not even in the playoffs. I guess the Saints with Brees and Thomas scored one more point than us and that's something.

We don't NEED better receivers per se any more than we need a better QB. What we need are a few less mistakes per game and we got that most of the season and then in the playoff game we had more mistakes than usual (offense and defense) and it bit us in the a#@. We need Allen and the WR's to be a little more surgical and hopefully that is just a matter of time. We need the OL and RB's to get better at blocking things up and Allen at recognizing pressure pre snap. There is no reason to think that the exact same unit we fielded this year couldn't put up more points next year just by Allen having another years experience.

Buffalo emerged as a defensive team in the seasons before that. We started winning as a defensive team. Then Thurman emerged (88 or 89) and then Lofton and Beebe came along. We started winning as a defensive team and were still a very good defensive team. The offense was the icing on the cake and certainly a large part of going from playoff contender to SB team but that said argue all you want, we started as a defensive team.

Probably most of those are losses also. First time in the playoffs I'm not down on Allen or his play in general but we could have won. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/01/09/nfl-qbs-making-their-first-playoff-starts-have-mostly-stumbled-will-patrick-mahomes/?arc404=true

The Jennings TD that wins it for the Giants started with Bradham missing a tackle at the LOS. PS I thought about all the Tyrod haters as I watched this video and realized what I already knew and that is he wasn't that bad. When Rex was here Billsy was a weekly thing. Won't let me embed the video (thanks NFL) but just one of the many painful self inflicted losses we had during those years. https://youtu.be/mZjmEE1RQjU

Peters just olay'd some DL for the Seahawks. Always thought that for all the physical talent that guy took plays off and I wasn't sad to see him go.

Can't agree with this. The 4 SB teams rose from Smerlas, Smith, Bennett, Conlan, Kelso, Odomes ect ect. In the SB years the offense came around and gets the credit for those SB's but it started with defense. We are starting with defense and i certainly can't argue that we should stand pat with the offense but I have always and will always say play good defense and find a way to score points. Having a top 10 offense certainly wouldn't hurt my feelings but I'd settle for scoring 23 or 24 ppg which shouldn't be unthinkable next year.